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☠️ Pesticide lobby opportunism: using farmer protests in attempts to slash EU safety rules for #pesticides. #deregulation #omnibus
👉 But free trade deal #EU-Mercosur opposition shows farmers' and pesticide industry's interests do not align.

corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/p...
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An MEP presiding over a lobbying organisation for SMEs while leading European Parliament work on corporate sustainability and due diligence sounds like a conflict of interest to us.

That's why we've submitted another complaint on an MEP side job.

Read the full press release below: buff.ly/nZY9Vtb
Ten civil society organisations submit conflict-of-interest complaint on leading Omnibus MEP - Transparency International EU
Brussels, 15 December 2025 Transparency International EU (TI EU), alongside nine other civil society organisations, has today submitted a complaint to the European Parliament’s Advisory Committee on…
transparency.eu
December 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Corporate lobbying is heating up on the digital omnibus - a Commission proposal that'd axe our digital rights 🪓

Last week lobby groups published a letter calling for "meaningful deregulation".

🧐 But what seems like a letter from European industry, actually has Big Tech fingerprints all over it.

🧵
aichamber.eu
December 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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🚜Opinión| Protestas agrícolas y presión corporativa: el plan del lobby de los pesticidas para recortar la seguridad

✍️Nina Holland
Protestas agrícolas y presión corporativa: el plan del lobby de los pesticidas para recortar la seguridad
Los lobistas de pesticidas en el barrio europeo de Bruselas trabajan a destajo para debilitar aún más las evaluaciones de seguridad en la UE y proteger los beneficios de sus clientes.
www.elsaltodiario.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:02 AM
📣 Opinión: Protestas agrícolas y presión corporativa: el plan del lobby de los pesticidas para recortar la seguridad

⏰ Los lobistas de pesticidas trabajan a destajo para debilitar las evaluaciones de seguridad y proteger los beneficios de sus clientes.

www.elsaltodiario.com/agrotoxicos/...
Protestas agrícolas y presión corporativa: el plan del lobby de los pesticidas para recortar la seguridad
Los lobistas de pesticidas en el barrio europeo de Bruselas trabajan a destajo para debilitar aún más las evaluaciones de seguridad en la UE y proteger los beneficios de sus clientes.
www.elsaltodiario.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:42 AM
📣 New article out:

☠️ Pesticide lobby opportunism: using farmer protests in attempts to slash EU safety rules for #pesticides. #deregulation #omnibus
👉 But free trade deal #EU-Mercosur opposition shows farmers' and pesticide industry's interests do not align.

corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/p...
December 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
By 2050, climate change could push food prices up 20%].

Agriculture makes up 12% of EU emissions, yet agribusiness lobbyists block real climate action, like controlling harmful and dangerous levels of industrial animal production.

#FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness #EUAgriFoodDays
December 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
A handful of corporations control what we eat - and profit from it.

Seeds, pesticides, machinery, carbon credits, fertilisers, even poultry genetics. That’s not free choice - that’s corporate monopolies.

Food Security, anyone?

#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
December 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New report reveals that #tobacco #lobbyists continue to have access to the EU Commission’s trade department 🚬⚠️

Tobacco giant PMI pushed DG Trade to challenge public health policies in countries such as Mexico and Thailand, framing these policies as trade barriers 🚨
exposetobacco.org/campaigns/be...
How Big Tobacco’s Lobbying Influences the EU and Beyond - STOP
New FOI documents reveal the true impact of Big Tobacco's lobbying efforts on global politics. Read the report from Contre-Feu and STOP.
exposetobacco.org
December 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Corporate lobby groups are now pushing for a “social omnibus” to roll back workers’ rights 🚨

The Commission denies having plans for a labour market omnibus, but several EU governments are pushing for 'simplification'

With the EU in a state of total #deregulation obsession, nothing can be ruled out
Corporate lobby groups demand a “social omnibus” to roll back workers’ rights ⚠️

Lobby groups linked to BusinessEurope call for #deregulation of the pay transparency directive, posted workers directive, etc.

Read more in our new post on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎 www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
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...
www.corporateeurope.org
December 12, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Will the deregulation of our digital rights by the EU happen with the support of the far right? 🤨

That's what Meta seems to be aiming for, with 3 lobby meetings with far-right MEPs this week alone.

VDL's deregulation agenda isn't just opening the door to Big Tech, it's inviting the far right in.
December 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Latest #Deregulation Watch update on water policy...

⚠️ Water Framework Directive to be reviewed (weakened) to allow more mines in EU

✅ Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive will not be re-opened, despite intensive cosmetics and pharma lobbying

More here: corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
December 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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If you're in Vienna on 16 March, come and watch our new documentary, The Scramble for Hydrogen in South Africa. We're organising and screening and debate with @attac.at

Months away, I know, but you gotta book these things in early!

www.wuk.at/programm/the...
Filmabend von WUK und Attac im WUK Wien: "The Scramble of Hydrogen in South Africa"
Die Staats- und Regierungschef*innen der EU feiern grünen Wasserstoff als Lösung für das Klimaproblem und haben damit einen neuen globalen Goldrausch ausgelöst - mit Südafrika als wichtigstem Lieferan...
www.wuk.at
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Fossil-fuel billionaires bought up millions of shares after meeting with top Trump officials.

Surely this is insider trading and corruption... or just another day under a Trump Presidency?

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Fossil-fuel billionaires bought up millions of shares after meeting with top Trump officials
Co-founders’ acquisition of Venture Global shares before key permit granted draws scrutiny as pair deny wrongdoing
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Israel's biggest defence firm #Elbit Systems has been barred from competing for new NATO tenders amid a massive corruption scandal. That's the same arms company whose targeted by Palestine Action in the UK. www.ftm.eu/articles/isr...
Israel’s biggest defence company suspended by NATO amid corruption probe
Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons firm, is implicated in a widening NATO corruption scandal. The military alliance’s procurement agency (NSPA) has suspended the company from bidding on new contr...
www.ftm.eu
December 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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🔴 NEW - Mapped: Pro-Trump Heartland Institute’s European Network

The U.S. climate science denial group is attempting to forge a global anti-green alliance.

📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
Mapped: Pro-Trump Heartland Institute’s European Network
A year ago, as the world convulsed from Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election, his allies were already identifying their next frontier. In December, the Heartland Institute hosted a...
www.desmog.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Swish... the #revolvingdoor spins again... Klaus Dieter-Borchard, who spent 20 years in the EU Commission before becoming a gas lobbyists, is BACK! His ex-employer has appointed him Coordinator for Central and South-East European energy interconnectivity... 🤨

energy.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eur...
New European coordinator appointed for the Central and South-East European energy interconnectivity
With the energy network in Central and South-Eastern Europe facing a number of particular challenges, the European Commission has appointed Klaus-Dieter Borchardt - as European Coordinator for the Cen...
energy.ec.europa.eu
December 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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DE-RISKING? The heavily-criticised #Hyphen project in Namibia, intended to export green hydrogen+ammonia to Europe, has secured a $10m loan from the African Development Bank to "de-risk" the project.

De-risk or bail out European capital/investors?

www.hydrogeninsight.com/production/h...
Hyphen secures $10m loan for 3GW green hydrogen and ammonia project in Namibia
African Development Bank cash will part-fund the technical design phase of the project
www.hydrogeninsight.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
📻 Our new podcast episode just dropped!

Listen to it to get all the tea behind the making of our new documentary "The scramble for hydrogen for South Africa" 🎧

👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/b...
December 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Food Security , anyone? Europe is losing its farmers.

5.3 MILLION farms have disappeared since 2005. Small-scale farmland is being eaten up by Big Agri corporations.

Big industrial farms make starting out nearly impossible.

#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
December 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Food Security, anyone? Industrial agriculture consumes most of our food, while millions go hungry in Europe.

Most EU farmland isn’t supporting people - it’s feeding factory farms.
That’s land we need to grow real food and nourish communities.
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This is a busy week for the Commission's deregulatory chainsaw ... and for our Deregulation Watch.

See our new post on the #EnvironmentOmnibus + earlier post on risk of a "Social Omnibus".

Rules protect us, and they need defending!
Stop #deregulation now!

corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
December 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Today it's exactly 6 years ago that EU Commission President Von der Leyen announced the European Green Deal, which she called "Europe's Man on the Moon moment" 🎂

Von der Leyen's priority today? Acting on corporate demands for #deregulation, recklessly rolling back environment and health standards 😡
December 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Russian oligarchs are launching massive challenges to EU sanctions in secretive tribunals

Our 🆕 joint analysis found🕴️28 cases or threats 💸 for a total of $62bn in claims

How a system built to “protect” investors is now undermining sanctions & Ukraine’s defence👉 friendsoftheearth.eu/press-releas...
How billion-dollar investor arbitrations undermine sanctions & Ukraine’s defense
An analysis of publicly-disclosed claims conducted by civil society organisations reveals that 28 investment arbitration cases (including threats) have been initiated by sanctioned oligarchs or compan...
friendsoftheearth.eu
December 9, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Ever heard of cheesing?* 🧀

It's the perfect way to describe the game that's played by decisionmakers to destroy environmental & human rights protections:

1. Cheap tricks
2. Unfair
3. Overly easy

Watch & let us know who you nominate for BIGGEST cheese⁉️

#Deregulator

youtu.be/IyWvUzR5y2M?...
The deregulator
YouTube video by Friends of the Earth Europe
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Corporate lobby groups demand a “social omnibus” to roll back workers’ rights ⚠️

Lobby groups linked to BusinessEurope call for #deregulation of the pay transparency directive, posted workers directive, etc.

Read more in our new post on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎 www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
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...
www.corporateeurope.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:10 AM