With regard to European chambers of commerce with obligatory membership, the paper examines mechanism to sustain and enhance governing capacity of interest groups and their interest articulation in multi-level governance. Against the background of current developments such as protest mobilization against obligatory membership, the internal pressure of big transnational corporations, and the impaired resource interdependency between interest group and the state, the paper focuses on new strategies to lobby in cooperative federal systems. Public conflict intensification, hidden allocation of administrative functions within the process of Europeanization, and a new intensive management of possible resolutions (weaving the carpet of resolutions) are to be scrutinized in particular.
