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Government relations in Austria and the EU

Relationships are built before the request, not during it.

Building and maintaining dependable contacts in ministries, authorities, parliament and institutions, independent of day to day business.

What it is about

The most expensive call is the first one made in a crisis. Anyone calling only then is negotiating the issue and their own credibility at the same time.

Government relations is routine work: regular conversations without a specific request, dependable answers to follow-up questions, technical information when it is needed. It is precisely that routine which makes being heard possible when it counts.

For companies without their own representation we take on that function permanently. For companies with an in-house team we add where access or capacity is missing, for example at provincial level or in Brussels.

The points that decide

  • Continuity

    Conversations without an occasion are the investment that carries when one arrives.

  • Reliability

    Anyone who gives wrong information once is not asked again.

  • Technical depth

    Administrations look for expertise, not opinion. Confusing the two costs access.

  • Discretion

    What stays in the room stays in the room. That is the basis of the business.

How we work on it

  • Stakeholder & Network

    Simply "knowing" people adds nothing. Robust relationships of trust with decision-makers do.

  • Professional Analysis & Monitoring

    Curated monitoring of initiatives, draft legislation and public debate - assessed against your business goals.

  • High-Level Strategy & Campaigning

    A business strategy becomes a communications programme that reaches its goals faster.

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Frequently asked

How often should contact be kept?

Often enough to be known, rarely enough not to be a nuisance. In practice that means one or two substantive conversations a year per relevant desk, plus reaction to concrete occasions such as consultations or staff changes.

What happens when a government changes?

The political level changes, the administration largely stays. That is exactly why contacts into the technical units carry across parliamentary terms, while purely party based contacts can become worthless with one election.

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