Better Regulation for European Leadership

What is BREL?

BREL ASBL is a new European platform for policy review.

BREL’s purpose is to attract new thinking on how to unleash sustained and secure growth and better regulation in Europe

The platform aims to bring together the best brains in informal settings, virtual or in-person, to debate how Europe can best make the necessary policy trade-offs to move forward.

How BREL operates

BREL periodically convenes in high-level roundtable format current or former policymakers, academics and private interests, moderated each time by a recognised figure in the EU policy field.

BREL produces summary reports of deliberations and practical conclusions for action. The reports may, if all participants agree, be publicised and/or be submitted to decision-makers.

BREL publishes calls for papers elaborating on key themes emerging from the above deliberations.

Governance

The activities of the platform are financed entirely by voluntary donations from private individuals or entities which formally agree to the terms and conditions of the not-for-profit platform.

Who

Andrew Fielding

With more than 40 years’ experience working in and with the EU institutions, Brussels think tanks and big tech, Andrew is able to tackle client problem-solving as a matrix, taking in all levels of the decision-making process, civil society and media.

Prior to joining Acumen, Andrew was for nine years vice president of government relations for Samsung Electronics Europe and advisor to the president of the European Commission on single market and labour law. He has also been EC cabinet lead and EC spokesman for employment and social policy.

Earlier in his career he was a member of cabinet of the European Commissioner for the EU budget and, over eight years, developed a specialisation in EU state aid disciplines and procedure.

Pauline Camacho

Pauline Camacho was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1959 and lived and was educated in Zurich, Switzerland. Since the mid-1980s she has been a resident of Brussels, Belgium, where she founded a family and pursued a freelance career as a conference interpreter in the European Union institutions.

Pauline then trained and worked as a child therapist and invested her free time in volunteer work caring for hospitalised children. She continues to organise fundraising events for the non-profit organisation Mothersatrisk, of which she is a co-founder. She also serves as a volunteer in the palliative care unit of the St Elisabeth Clinic and as an elder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.