Koreneef Public Affairs

Koreneef Public Affairs can support you in translating international political complexity into manageable strategies and activities that suit your business. In our ‘small world’, more issues are managed at an intergovernmental level. Issues that are debated in UN agencies, trade - and regional government organisations. Issues that impact your business directly or via your value chain. Intergovernmental organisations prefer dealing with issues through a framework type of legislation. Framework legislation usually entails top-line obligations, cross-overs into other treaties and most especially, generate areas for further work. For example, ‘climate change’ and ‘tobacco control’ treaties, EU directives or any international trade agreement require guidelines and secondary instruments to have effect on the ground at national level. And there is more to come. The complexity of intergovernmental policy-making can be baffling and far removed from your national politics. Dealing with international policy-making requires a long-term strategic approach to public affairs, ideally from the fabled first A4 onwards. An approach that suits your business, whether you are ‘big’ and have your in-house resources or are more reliant on cooperation within your sector. Please get in touch to see how we can work together.