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  🚨 NEW: EU govts + the Commission brought 332 fossil fuel reps to the past three UN climate talks. We're calling on them to leave the lobbyists at home for #COP31. Thread 🧵👇 fossilfreepolitics.org/uncategorized/eu-governments-at-cop31-a-break-with-the-past-or-business-as-usual/ #FossilFreePolitics

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  📣 New research together with @lobbycontrol@bewegung.social reveals Big Tech's lobby campaign to kill data protection in Europe. As part of its deregulation agenda, the EU wants hand over our personal data to AI companies without any safeguards. ✊ But the EU Parliament can still stop this. 🧵👇 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/10/big-tech-campaign-kill-data-protection-europe

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  Trump + Musk + US ultraconservatives vs EU tech law. We mapped it. Plus: how the pesticide lobby co-wrote EU food safety rules. Word for word. This is what corporate capture looks like. Get it in your inbox 👇 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/newsletter

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  🔺 NEW INVESTIGATION: When the EU fined Elon Musk's X €120 million, Trump, Musk and a US ultraconservative Christian legal group closed ranks. All three were already campaigning against EU platform regulation, and they work together in many ways. We mapped it. We call it the Triangle of Madness. https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/10/triangle-madness 🧵👇

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  🚨 NEW REPORT: The pesticide industry didn't just lobby on the EU's Food & Feed Omnibus. More like they co-wrote it. This report shows how. https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/10/food-feed-omnibus-co-written-pesticide-lobby Using Freedom of Information requests, we traced demands from Bayer, BASF, CropLife Europe and Copa-Cogeca directly into the Commission's Omnibus proposal, and into amendments by EP co-rapporteurs Dorfmann (EPP) and Picaro (ECR). In some cases, the wordin...

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  🚨 Enough is enough! 👏 Workers from all over Europe came to Brussels to say no to the EU Inc/ 28th Regime proposal which will lead to undermining of workers and trade union rights. ✊ EU Inc is a symbol of the madness we are living in and it shall not pass! 👏 @etuc_ces@twitter-bridge.cryobyte.net 👏

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  ❌ WE SAY NO TO PALANTIR We and 120+ organisations and unions across Europe are calling on our governments and the European Commission to scrap all existing public sector contracts w/ Palantir Read the open letter 👉 https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Palantir-graphic-final-2026.png It’s time to: ✔️Terminate contracts w/ Palantir & say NO to future public contracts ​​✔️Develop alternatives that safeguard people from mass surveillance ✔️Protect democracy by investing in...

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  🗺️ The European Commission’s deregulation frenzy means attacks on labour rights, climate policies, nature protection, and public health. If you want to know more, join us on a free lobby tour of Brussels on 1st Oct at 5.30pm! ✊ We will explain the basic scheme behind this wave of destruction, the lobbying happening behind the scenes, what consequences it can have and how we can fight it. ✍ Sign in for free at: ceo@corporateeurope.org (until the day before at 5pm)

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  #SOTEU : while Europe faces social, environmental and geopolitical pressures, it's funny how the solution always happens to be exactly what corporate lobbyists have been asking for, and they already have more access to EU decision-making than anyone. Here's our take on AI, deregulation and climate👇

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  It's #SOTEU day in Brussels! 🎉 von der Leyen will tell MEPs "our democracy protects what matters", while the Commission has spent the past year churning out deregulation omnibuses that do exactly the opposite. As Orwell would say: 2 + 2 = 5. 🙃 🎥 Watch our take 👇

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  🚨 New report by Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research shows on how Big Tech company Palantir is managing to pay little to no taxes in EU. It shows how Palantir’s global tax structure drains funding for public services and infrastructure ✊ European Public Service Unions (EPSU) demands tougher rules on public contracts 👉 https://www.cictar.org/all-research/europe/palantir

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  This Summer we were kindly invited by the The Greens/EFA in the European Parliament to host a #PFAS -themed lobby tour of Brussels, with people from affected communities. It was a very timely initiative and it was a real joy for us to join the group. 📷 by Marcella Via If you want to know more about the tours and other CEO initiatives, subscribe to our newsletter! https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/newsletter

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  🎬 In Madrid, Valencia or Barcelona next week? Join us for a free screening of "The Scramble for Hydrogen in South Africa", a doc about EU green extractivism and the communities paying the price, followed by a conversation with activists on the ground. More info 👉 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/new-free-screenings-our-documentary

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  Politico reports that the Orbán-backed thinktank MCC Brussels has been suspended from the EU lobby #transparency register The suspension comes after CEO (in spring 2025) lodged a complaint against MCC Brussels for failing to disclose its funding sources https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-transparency-watchdog-suspends-viktor-orban-mcc/

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  🚨 We need your help The Food & Feed Omnibus - already a direct attack on EU pesticide rules - is being made WORSE by its rapporteurs, who are acting as loyal servants to Bayer and Syngenta They want: ☠️ Unlimited approval for pesticide active ingredients at EU and national level ⚠️Hazardous substances on the market for up to 15 years, based on "socio-economic and agro-economic assessment", not health concerns MEPs have days left to push back before the vote ✊Take action https://ww...

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  Captured! Published today with European Environmental Bureau check out our new report and find out how industry captured the EU Commission’s Critical Chemicals Alliance, which is really bad news for action on chemicals & climate crises. Don’t worry if you’ve never heard of the Critical Chemicals Alliance – we’ve got you covered! https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/07/captured-critical-chemicals-alliance

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  🚨 This is what corporate capture looks like While business interests already have unprecedented access, tech CEO's are now calling for direct access to Ursula von der Leyen. Their demand? To speed up the Commission's radical deregulation agenda. https://www.politico.eu/article/european-tech-ceos-want-direct-line-to-craft-eu-policy/ Read our report 👉 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/what-corporate-capture-looks

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  Welcome to EU Corporate Lobby League 2026 where big money = big influence Today we will reveal: 🏭 Biggest corporate lobby sectors ✂️ Their lobby agenda to cut our protections 💪 What we can do about it By Corporate Europe Observatory & @lobbycontrol@bewegung.social https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/eu-corporate-lobby-league-2026

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  🚨 NEW REPORT: EU handing industry #Permission2Pollute 🚨 At the request of oil&gas, mining + BigTech lobbyists, the Commission is ripping up permitting rules to fast-track polluting projects like pipelines, mines + data centres. Read more https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/permission-pollute 👇 🧵 1/6

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  🛢️ The oil and gas lobby is pushing for fast-tracked approvals, weaker enviro assessments+new permitting loopholes for thousands of planned CO2 pipelines These projects may be labelled “strategic” or “public interest”, making it harder for communities to challenge them 🚷 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/permission-pollute

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  ✊ Help prevent Bayer and BASF from controlling the food chain even further! The EU is planning a major hand-out to big corporations by scrapping safety and transparency rules for risky new GMOs, and let corporations profit from patented GM crops. MEPs vote in June, let them know what you think at the petition 👉 https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/take-action-say-no-deregulation-gmo-food

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  A rejection from the @EU_Commission@respublicae.eu may be cold, but the response from the people is white-hot. We are now > 320 organisations strong. While @vonderleyen@respublicae.eu turns her back, we are growing. A ballroom this full doesn't stay quiet for long. Sign the Declaration! https://friendsoftheearth.eu/sign-the-declaration/

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  The EU is on an unprecedented deregulation track. The rules that protect us and our environment, and climate policies, social and digital rights, are being rolled back swiftly and systematically. The EU Commission, still dubs it “simplification”, but there is no denying it is deregulation.

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  Orbán's Brussels-based thinktank, MCC Brussels is part of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), that runs universities with hardline conservative politics in Hungary, Austria and Slovakia, with plans for further expansion. It declared a lobby spending of a whopping 6M+€ in 2024. https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2024/10/orbans-oil-funded-thinktank-murky-transparency

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  Sweden’s new Per Geijer iron ore & rare earth metals mine, owned by LKAB, is being fast-tracked thanks to its EU-granted 'strategic' status: but the indigenous Gabna Sameby community warns the project threatens their very way of life. #Permission2Pollute 👉 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/permission-pollute

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  Last week the EU Parliament and member states reached a deal on the AI Omnibus. This is only a first step in the EU's misguided plans to weaken the digital rulebook to please big business and the Trump administration. Read here how the AI Omnibus weakens digital rights and adds legal complexity 👇 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulation-watch

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  Breaking! Internal #EPP campaign video leaked! EPP president Manfred Weber leaked in a campaign video adopting far-right narratives on migration and green policy. The EPP increasingly votes with far-right parties, vowing to deregulate ecology, kill the Green Deal, and rebrand the party. Share it!

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  Thanks to everyone who joined us for a webinar on our report 'This is what corporate capture looks like!' by its main author, Kenneth Haar! If you didn't manage to, you can: watch the webinar 👉 https://www.youtu.be/Qs6nNIeAD9E check out the report 👉 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/what-corporate-capture-looks

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  “We can defeat them, the big tech industry has a playbook, but we also have a playbook” said Bram Vranken in conversation with Carole Cadwalladr, Margarida Silva and Natalia Viana, at #ijf26 conference. At the International Journalism Festival, Bram presented our recent research with AlgorithmWatch, published by Investigate Europe, revealing how the European Commission copied and pasted an amendment suggested by Microsoft and Digital Europe. 👉 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/copy-pa...

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  🚨BREAKING New research together with @algorithmwatch shows how the European Commission has copy-pasted a Microsoft amendment. The amendment will keep key information on energy-guzzling data centres hidden. 👏 Investigate Europe for covering https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/copy-paste-govern