The European Association of Political Consultants (EAPC), founded in 1996 in Vienna under the initiative of Michel Bongrand (France) and Sepp Hartinger (Austria), is a nonpartisan association of individuals [Page 215]who are actively involved in tasks of communication concerning the political as well as the public arena in Europe.

Founded as a branch of the International Association of Political Consultants (IAPC), the EAPC has developed its own strong identity but still keeps working side by side with the IAPC and maintains a close contact with its brother associations: the Latin American Association of Political Consultants (ALACOP), the American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC), and the Asia-Pacific Association of Political Consultants (APAPC).

Besides the exchange of experience and the improvement of contacts with the other associations, the EAPC ...