Now Ursula von der Leyen speaks openly about deregulation. The economic case is weak, to say the least. Not to mention the commitments in the treaties to protection of workers, consumers and the environment. ("we all agree we need simplification, we need deregulation”) ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

📣 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...

Who has the many speeches where Ursula swore simplification was not deregulation? Was not last time just a month ago for SotUE? Dropping the pretence, then, I see.

The mask is OFF 🎭 ! EU Commission President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu admits that "simplification" actually means "deregulation" (surprise surprise - we've been saying this for a long time). From her speech yesterday at the Copenhagen Competitiveness Summit ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Europe bans toxic pesticides… but exports them abroad ! Let’s stop this toxic trade together ! 👉 Share the video & tag @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @christophehansen.bsky.social @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu 👉 Sign the petitions www.foodwatch.org/en/stop-the-... www.openpetition.eu/petition/onl...

See Deregulation Watch updates as Environment Omnibus discussed today in "stakeholders meeting". corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat... This is just days after VDL admits that so-called 'simplification' is indeed deregulation. Defend our laws; we need rules to protect! ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

🚨 Important report published by @lobbycontrol.bsky.social today! Check it out 👇

🚨 ExxonMobil has been lobbying relentlessly to take down the EU’s CSDDD. Its playbook? - Lobbying - Funding think tanks - Media sponsorships ⚠️The EU cannot let those causing the climate crisis write the rules to get out of it. www.somo.nl/how-big-oil-kills-sustainability-and-climate-legislation/

The problem is that scripture is beyond criticism. The Draghi report should not be. Ten months into the Trump presidency it has not aged well, and the report should be debated, challenged, and improved — not treated as gospel, explains Michael Meyer-Resende.

The Draghi report "was commissioned directly by the commission president. And the commission didn't just commission the report — it was involved in writing it. Yet it now brandishes the Draghi report, which echoes many points of industrial lobbying, as independent expert validation of its agenda"

🇪🇺 wants to import 🔟 million tonnes of green hydrogen from the global south. These extractive projects will: 🛑 displace communities 🛑 overexploit water 🛑 undermine energy access Join us tonight for a docu screening & discussion on the scramble for hydrogen in South Africa to learn more.

NEW: Read-up on today's update on Deregulation Watch, this time on chemical policy developments: ⚠️ Environment omnibus, including threats to the Substances of Concern in Products database ⚠️ Environment "stress test" ⚠️ REACH revision corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

#COP30 is no place for #BigPolluters to make business deals! The Kick Big Polluters Out coalition demands: 📌 A polluter-free COP + presidency 📌 Stronger mechanisms to protect against conflicts of interest 📌 Protection of the Amazon rainforest Read more: www.climatechangenews.com/2025/10/01/c...

👏 Following our complaint, the @ombudsman.europa.eu has opened an inquiry into AI standard-setting - an incredibly opaque process dominated by Big Tech. Standards are crucial to the AI Act, but behind closed door, it is industry that is holding the pen. www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/news-docu...

More than 200 civil society organisations call on Brazil’s COP30 presidency to do more to protect the UN climate negotiations from the “unchecked” influence of the fossil fuel industry and other high-emitting businesses driving the climate crisis

As the #globalsumudflotilla approaches Gaz4, track their humanitarian mission at globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker Stay alert, witness brings protection. Follow their live feed here 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2... #BreakTheSiege

COP30 President: The UN climate talks will be a defining business opportunity Me: Like, a burning house is the perfect fire to roast marshmallows over? It's time to end #BigPolluters' stranglehold over the UN climate talks. We demand a polluter-free #COP30! kickbigpollutersout.org/Polluter-Fre...

Ah yes, nothing says "I'm a European company committed to Europe" like "Cut regulations or we we'll let Europe's economy tank". Such Europeans, brings tears to my eyes.

#GreenToGrey, a groundbreaking data journalism collaboration between Arena and 11 news teams across Europe, reveals the scale of nature and cropland loss across the continent. Check it out 👇

🚨Gaza and Gazans urgently need humanitarian aid. The Flotillas for Gaza is are civilian and humanitarian initiatives to support Gaza and to break the siege. They are in danger! ➡️ Email your government now to protect & support the Flotilla⛵️ app.sosha.ai/s/pwvmUDvF

We're pleased to support this important letter demanding a moratorium on #incineration. Take a look and join the Day of Action Against Incineration today! zerowasteeurope.eu/campaign/bet...

🎥 Film screening + debate 🎥 What: special preview screening of CEO's new doc on community resistance to the EU's green hydrogen drive. Followed by a debate + drinks 🍻 Where: Mundo Matonge, BXL When: 19h00 With: @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social @counter-balance.bsky.social @attacdeutschland.bsky.social

💚 We deserve a thriving future. Human rights and climate justice have always gone hand in hand. We must push the EU institutions to protect lives and the environment from climate change. Not just in the EU, but everywhere! Agree? Join Zia Ur Rehman today at Schuman at 18:30 💪

Parfois c’est ce qui nous est le plus proche que l’on met le plus de temps à voir. Pendant quinze ans j’ai cartographié les grandes fortunes mondiales, objectivé leurs techniques pour contourner l’impôt dans les paradis fiscaux, du Luxembourg aux îles vierges britanniques... 🧵

With unstoppable energy, the #BackToTheFuture march made it from Maastricht to Brussels. Against deregulation and for a future that protects people and planet, they were loud and clear 📣 and I was so happy to walk alongside them for the last bit, also with the wonderful @tillymetz.bsky.social

🚶‍♀️ EPSU joined the first stage of the #BackToTheFuture march from Maastricht to Brussels. The march arrives in Brussels on 23 Sept and finishes with a big protest outside the Commission - join us! Read the details here👇🏾 www.epsu.org/article/epsu...

1/5 🧵🚨 Our new report exposes how major chemical companies have downplayed the toxicity of #TFA to mislead regulators and delay urgently needed action. TFA is an ultra-short #PFAS and a breakdown product of other PFAS, including PFAS #pesticides. www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

It was a pleasure to join @lobbycontrol.bsky.social 's anniversary,and here's to many more years! We've had so many great collaborations in the past decades, including our our work on Alter-EU, Lobbyfacts.eu, ENCO, and more recently our research into Big Tech and holding those companies accountable.

🌍 >10% of premature deaths in the EU are linked to environmental pollution. #WorldEnvironmentalHealthDay: protecting the environment = protecting people. Clean air, safe chemicals & less noise are health imperatives. 🔗 eea.europa.eu/.../environm... #ZeroPollution #PublicHealth

To use digital technologies and AI without feeding billionaires with public data and money, and for workers to have a say over their job, EU Apply AI strategy must include - EU public digital infrastructures - Artificial Intelligence at Work Act With @diegonaranjo.bsky.social @epsu.bsky.social

Europe’s digital future must put people before profit. Our op-ed in Social Europe argues for public ownership, democratic governance and strong worker involvement in #AI strategy. The future is too important to leave to the market. 🔗👉 www.socialeurope.eu/europes-digi...

📍 Thursday 25/09 at 17h at Schuman in #Brussels 🇪🇺 The European Commission still maintains close ties with an industry that’s complicit in the destruction of the living world and undermining a liveable future for all. 💪 Come to the trial of Ursula von der Leyen and the European Commission!

Pharma lobbyists cash in on Brussels red tape rampage

🌍 Europe bans toxic pesticides... but exports them abroad! ✊ Let’s stop this toxic trade together! #StopToxicTrade #EndDoubleStandards #PeopleBeforeProfits 🎥 Share the video from END TOXIC PESTICIDE TRADE COALITION &sign: 👉 www.foodwatch.org/en/stop-the-... 👉 www.openpetition.eu/petition/onl...

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☠️Bayer wants to undermine legal rights of US citizen to protect it’s profits😱 By buying Monsanto 7y ago, it also got more than 100,000 lawsuits on Roundup herbicide causing cancer. Bayer paid billions$ to victims in settlements and verdicts and now tries to stop litigation and to block future cases.

Want to know the truth about the EU's push for green hydrogen imports from the global South ❓ Join us for a lobby tour on 1st October of BXL. Hear from a Namibian activist fighting a mega-project on the ground and others 📆 1.10.25, 14h ✒️ Register at [email protected]

No European tax payers money for violating human rights!

🌍 UN chief warns: the 1.5°C climate goal is at risk of collapsing ❌ The Secretary-General has raised an alarm that global efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C are falling short. As the UN hosts Climate Week, the call is clear: urgent, collective action is needed to keep the 1.5°C target alive 🎯

UN report slams global corporate capture of food systems ! The report shows how a a few corporations control the global food system, with devastating consequences for food security and inflation, climate change, biodiversity, human rights and health. See: www.corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/u...

Historic! 🇵🇸 While Meloni stays silent, yesterday tens of thousands took to the streets in 🇮🇹 to strike in solidarity with Gaza. + 🍉 - 🍈 www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

💥 Europe's Toxic Trade Alert ! ☠️ The EU banned dozens of pesticides because they are too dangerous for our health and too toxic for nature. But European companies still produce and export those banned chemicals. Shame on the #EuropeanCommission ! See new data: www.publiceye.ch/en/topics/pe...

In her #SOTEU speech, @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu again stressed the need for a so-called “28th regime” for innovative companies. But a new @etui.bsky.social analysis confirms what we have been saying all along: the proposal is unnecessary and harmful.

Great article from CEO explains how the EU's new plan for a "28th Regime" could undermine social and labour rights across the continent, bypassing rules in the 27 member states. Chilling stuff 🥶 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/s...

New on #DeregulationWatch: Is EU Commission President Von der Leyen getting worried about MEPs and governments not buying into her #deregulation agenda? In a speech last week VDL called upon industry lobby groups to get their "influence to the table" 🤔 ➡️ www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

The #RightToTheFuture march has started! Check out Friends of the Earth Europe to find out when you can jump in the wagon, well... trail! We'll meet it in Brussels tomorrow!

New on #DeregulationWatch: Is EU Commission President Von der Leyen getting worried about MEPs and governments not buying into her #deregulation agenda? In a speech last week, VDL rallied called upon lobby groups to get their "influence to the table" 🤔 ➡️ www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

🔵 NEW: A pair of far-right European politicians flew 5,000 miles this summer to meet with prominent pro-Trump climate denial group in Tampa, Florida Feat reactions from @lenaats.bsky.social & @olivierhoedeman.bsky.social 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/09/19/p...

🔴 NEW 🔴 Pro-Trump Climate Denial Group Meets With Far-Right European Politicians in Florida 📝 @phoebecooke.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/09/19/p...

🇨🇿New op ed in Czech out now via @denikreferendum.cz EU nejedná tváří v tvář zásadním krizím — nerovnosti, klimatické, úbytku biodiverzity či nespoutané moci nadnárodních firem. Její představitele zachvátila posedlost deregulací. Občanská společnost se musí ozvat denikreferendum.cz/clanek/23791...