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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 1h

If you're at the #ClimateArena of the @journalismarena.eu make sure you check our stand, but make sure you do it quickly before everything runs out!

Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 4h

🚫 Lately, Allied for Startups has lobbied for the so-called '28th regime', a set of weaker EU rules on taxation and labour rights - a social dumping disaster in the making.

EU policy-makers should close the door to Big Tech’s shady lobbying tactics

www.corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/s...

A social dumping disaster? EU’s ‘ 28th Regime’ plans could help corporations bypass member state rules | Corporate Europe Observatory

In the name of competitiveness, corporate lobby groups are promoting a radical plan to create an EU-level ‘28th regime’ of parallel, weaker rules. This could help corporations to avoid stricter member...

www.corporateeurope.org

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 4h

💵 While claiming to defend startups, Allied for Startups has received generous funding from Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft.

🔎 In a leaked lobby strategy document from 2020, Google mentions Allied for Startups as a key ally to echo its messages on the DSA and the DMA.

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 4h

⚠️For years, the Big Tech front group Allied for Startups has been underreporting its lobby budget.

👏 Following a complaint by CEO and @lobbycontrol.bsky.social, Allied for Startups has now been forced by the EU Transparency Register to correct its registration.

👉 corporateeurope.org/en/media/6430

Allied For Startups asbl datacard on lobbyfacts.eu

Check out all LobbyFacts data on Allied For Startups asbl as extracted from the EU lobby transparancy register. Allied For Startups is the policy voice of startups in the EU and worldwide. The organ...

www.lobbyfacts.eu

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 6h

If you're in Budapest at the #ClimateArena of the @journalismarena.eu , join us tomorrow at 11am in Auditorium A for the session "The quiet undoing of the EU: How to make sense of the Commission's mass deregulation agenda" with @elenasanchez.bsky.social and moderation by @jelena-prtoric.bsky.social

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 6h

We're very happy to take part in the #ClimateArena of the @journalismarena.eu !
Check out the whole programme 👉 climatearena.eu/climate-aren...

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 2d

💥🔎💰NEW INVESTIGATION: Across the Visegrád countries, politicians use paid social media ads to attack journalists, human rights activists, and NGOs – while Meta & Google profit from this #SponsoredHate. Such ads reach tens of thousands of users while evading platform moderation. @vsquare.bsky.social

Sponsored Hate: How Politicians Paid for Meta Ads to Attack Journalists - VSquare.org

Across the Visegrád countries, politicians have increasingly used paid social media ads to attack journalists, human rights activists, and civil society organizations.

vsquare.org

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 3d

As a citizen, you can add your voice to the call urging European leaders to commit to a toxic free Europe and make taking action against toxic chemicals in our nature, air, water and bodies an urgent priority

📝 action.wemove.eu/sign/2024-01...

@wemoveeurope.bsky.social #ToxicFreeFuture

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Pascoe Sabido @pascoesabido.bsky.social · 1d

I just signed this - you should too corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/t...

Tell the Commission: no weakening of rules on food and feed safety, pesticides | Corporate Europe Observatory

Yet another Omnibus proposal has been announced in a ‘call for evidence’ by the Commission, to “reduce unnecessary regulatory burdens while maintaining high standards”, and this time the target is foo...

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Nina Holland @nina-holland.bsky.social · 1d

📣 CALL TO ACTION! Tell the Commission: no weakening of rules on #food and #feed safety, #pesticides

Deadline is 14 October so please act fast.

Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 7d

📣 Yet another #Omnibus proposal has been announced and this time the target is food and feed safety, in particular #pesticides.
☠️ The pesticide industry wants to weaken current pesticide rules.
👉 Tell EU decision makers: No weakening pesticide laws!
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/t...

Tell the Commission: no weakening of rules on food and feed safety, pesticides | Corporate Europe Observatory

Yet another Omnibus proposal has been announced in a ‘call for evidence’ by the Commission, to “reduce unnecessary regulatory burdens while maintaining high standards”, and this time the target is foo...

corporateeurope.org

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GRAIN @grain.org · 1d

Nestle quits dairy industry pact that pledged to cut methane emissions. Guess this means that corporations are so powerful now they don't even care about greenwashing.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article... @iatp.bsky.social @1teresaanderson.bsky.social @publiceye.ch @corporateeurope.org

Nestle Bows Out of Initiative to Reduce Dairy’s Climate Impact

The food giant has left the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from herds of cattle.

www.bloomberg.com

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 1d

Let’s stop this toxic trade together!
👉 Sign the petitions:
www.foodwatch.org/en/stop-the-...
www.openpetition.eu/petition/onl...

#StopToxicExport #EndDoubleStandards #PeopleBeforeProfits

Stop the export of toxic pesticides to African countries - Online petition

! If you don't have a zip code, please use the code 1234xx Some pesticides are carcinogenic, hormone-disrupting or impair fertility. Others are harmful to aquatic organisms, bees and pollinators or ha...

www.openpetition.eu

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 1d

The EU massively exported this Mancozeb, a fungicide, even though it has been banned for the use in the EU since 2020. Mancozeb is an endocrine disruptor and toxic to reproduction, it so negatively impacts the thyroid, fertility, pregnant women and babies.

Please share the video! #StopToxicTrade

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 1d

Europe bans toxic pesticides… but exports them abroad ! We decided to send them back to the European Commission !

This week, we are sending back to Ursula Von der Leyen and the Commission the third most exported banned substance from Europe to the rest of the world: #Mancozeb .

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 1d

We wrote to the EU Commission, @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu , EU Parliament, and the @eu2025dk.bsky.social , our message is simple: stop exporting pesticides banned in the EU.

👉 www.pan-europe.info/resources/le...

Renewed request for urgent action and meeting - End Toxic Pesticide Trade Coalition

Dear Commissioner Roswall, We, the undersigned organisations of the End Toxic Pesticide Trade Coalition, are writing to you once again to reiterate our call for the European Commission to fulfil its c...

www.pan-europe.info

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 1d

Three letters. One message.

🎥 Watch “Return to Sender”, our message to President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu : If they’re too dangerous for us, they’re too dangerous for anyone.
#Mancozeb

#StopToxicExport #EndDoubleStandards

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 1d

Read more at #DeregulationWatch where you can also take action to fight proposals in another Omnibus (this time on food and feed) which threaten to weaken rules on food, feed safety, and pesticides.

corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 1d

Specifically he says: “there is a high risk that proposed Omnibus package on chemicals ... may negatively impact human rights, including rights to health & a healthy environment, reversing recent improvements & creating legal uncertainty for businesses that have already invested in compliance.”

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 1d

This week #DeregulationWatch reports on the powerful intervention by UN Special Rapporteur on toxics & human rights Marcos Orellana criticising the EU's Chemicals omnibus saying “there is no compelling justification” for the proposed measures.

#Deregulation

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Deregulation Watch | Corporate Europe Observatory

Check out our new posts on Deregulation Watch which helps civil society monitor new developments in the deregulation agenda, assess what’s at stake, and organise in defence of strong social, environme...

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 2d

🗓️ Join us on October 13th at 4pm
It is free, but you have to register via [email protected]

👟This is a physical tour of the European Quarter in Brussels,& it will take about 90min

These great photos are from out tour last month on the same topic, and were taken by @marcellablues.bsky.social

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 2d

You have heard the EU bubble's new buzzword "deregulation" and you have no idea what it means?
Or even better, you know what it means and whant to know how to fight it?
That's why we joined forces with out friends at @lobbycontrol.bsky.social to create free lobby tour of Brussels about the D-word!👇

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 2d

Fossil fuel industry is behind the UK's CCS push, but while oil & gas firms are pro-CCS in public they're sceptical in private 😈 revealing the wider "strategy to lock in a policy model based primarily on incentives and subsidies without regulatory accountability or science-based emission reductions"

InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 2d

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

influencemap.org

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 3d

🚨 #PFAS pollution is not cheap, we pay the price with our health, environment and economy.

📣 Read our new manifesto: www.banpfasmanifesto.org/en/

@chemtrust.bsky.social
@eeb.org
@arnikaorg.bsky.social

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 3d

🐳 Evidence has linked #PFAS exposure to #ForeverChemicals with harmful impacts on #wildlife, which could be linked to overall biodiversity loss.

👉 banpfasmanifesto.org/en/

#BanPFAS #StopPFAS

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