6/ We need #RulestoProtect not #Deregulation. 🇪🇺 Commission needs to stop doing bidding of big business & get back to regulating in public interest. If you support our work to challenge this agenda, get our newsletter: corporateeurope.org/en/newsletter Thanks again to @cartoonralph.bsky.social

1/ The 🇪🇺 Commission is taking a political chainsaw to hard won social, environmental, and digital protections. We need #RulestoProtect not #Deregulation. Check out our new cartoons below by @cartoonralph.bsky.social and spread the word!

While Trump boasts and flexes his muscles with Tech Bros and other allies in Davos, EU governments are meeting to discuss how to respond to his plans to take over Greenland and his trade war. Will they rise to the challenge, or will they once again bow to Trump? Here’s what they should do:

EU's digital omnibus is an example of Commission being captured by corporate power. Its omnibus nothing to do with making EU better for workers and people. All to do with attacking rights and following US big tech agenda. @epsu.bsky.social joined warning for this Excellent🧵 @corporateeurope.org

It has been exactly one year since launch of #ForeverLobbying Project & our own Chemical Reaction report. Together we exposed access, strategies, & misleading messaging of prominent parts of #PFAS industry against proposed ban. ➡️ corporateeurope.org/en/chemical-... ➡️ foreverpollution.eu/lobbying/

Don’t be sheep 🐑 NGOs defend human rights, health, nature & refugees — that’s why conservatives&far right want to silence us Fake scandals. Funding cuts. Same old authoritarian playbook Democracy is like health: you only miss it when it’s gone Be a black sheep ✊ 2nd ep of our video series out now

More detail in op ed! It's urgent that citizens concerned about health & well-being take action to support a comprehensive 🇪🇺 #PFAS ban. And it is imperative that politicians listen to them. action.wemove.eu/sign/2024-01...

While EU Commission continues to emphasise its commitment to tackling PFAS, its language around scope of proposed ban is increasingly focussed on ‘consumer uses’, which could allow countless other sources of PFAS contamination to continue, and would be a far cry from the “universal” ban promised.

Despite January revelations of #ForeverLobbying Project @lemonde.fr about devastating impacts of forever chemicals #PFAS, & corporate influence campaign that keeps these harmful substances in our food, water, soil, & bodies, little has changed Read our op ed (in 🇫🇷) ⬇️ www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Plus de détails dans l'éditorial ! Il est urgent que la population préoccupés par la santé et le bien-être agissent pour soutenir une interdiction complète des 🇪🇺 #PFAS. Et il est impératif que les politiciens les écoutent. action.wemove.eu/sign/2024-01...

Malgré les révélations faites en janvier par le projet #ForeverLobbying et @lemonde.fr sur les effets dévastateurs des #PFAS et sur la campagne d'influence des entreprises qui maintient ces substances nocives, peu de choses ont changé. Lisez notre éditorial ⬇️ www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

📢 As the EU's deregulation agenda rolls out the red carpet for corporate interests, our new study shows that the tech industry has ramped up its lobby power: 💰 Lobby spending hits a record €151 million 🕴 Almost 900 tech lobbyists 🤝 Big Tech has lobby 3 meetings a day @lobbycontrol.bsky.social

💥New article 💥 Check out our new op-ed with @clienteartheur.bsky.social , which challenges the 🇪🇺 Commission to stop operating a politics of secrecy on chemical safety. euobserver.com/EU%20Politic... 🧵👇

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!👇

🌍 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...

💥 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...

VDL's proposals on Gaza welcomed by the Greens but slammed by the Left: “It’s been 700 days of genocide, and she’s only calling now for a partial suspension. But then there cannot be any partial measures to be taken against the genocide. You need full measures.” - @manonaubryfr.bsky.social #SOTEU

Tomorrow, von der Leyen will address the EU Parliament with her SOTEU speech. Today, civil society and trade unions delivered a very clear message in a statement signed by 470 organisations: we need rules to protect people and the environment! corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/o...

Undemocratic, the #EUMercosur is toxic! We joined +40 civil society groups and farmers unions in braving the rain to make sure EU policymakers heard us loud and clear 📣 Why the adoption of the deal is a democratic hijack 👉 friendsoftheearth.eu/press-releas...

... And guess which political groups these MEPs belong to 👀

⚠️ Auto-deleting messages means that VDL's decisions can't be scrutinised by journalists and democracy advocates, as the messages cannot be obtained under the 🇪🇺’s freedom of information laws. Read more on @ftm.eu

We were thrilled to be invited to participate in Policy Lab's study trip to Brussels with a presentation by @kennethhaar.bsky.social on his book "A Europe of Capital". The programme is extensive and includes also great pannels by Kevin Le Merle, Eliaz Moreau, Sylvia Kay and Diego Marin. ✊ Hvala!

What a great example of international solidarity! 🇵🇸 The Genoese docker worker's threat is a one-off protest. USB blocked military ships in June and August. Read more on @novaramedia.com 👇 novaramedia.com/2025/09/02/i...

Almost 3 years after its first public event, MCC Brussels has now FINALLY disclosed budget size & income sources in the EU Transparency Register With a 2024 budget of over 6,3 million euro, Orbán-linked MCC Brussels is one of the wealthiest thinktanks in Brussels 😟 www.politico.eu/article/vikt...

🚨New video! Communities impacted by green hydrogen projects in South Africa finally had their voices heard by MEPs and the European Commission for the first time. 🤥 Incredibly disappointing: the Commission denied the EU was involved in any of the projects shown corporateeurope.org/en/2025/07/h...

Solidarity w Francesca Albanese who faces threats of US sanctions, right after the special rapporteur to the UN human rights council published a grim new report on companies profiting from genocide. Big Tech names like Palantir feature, along with ag & construction giants. #Gaza shorturl.at/MsIk7

And we're outta there! Hasta la vista Strasbourg 🇫🇷 Was an absolute privilege to be able to bring the voices of 🇿🇦 communities fighting #greenhydrogen into the heart of EU decision-making. Thanks to @udobullmann.bsky.social @tillymetz.bsky.social for making it happen 🙏🏼 This is just the first step ✊🏼

Claudia Azevedo from the Jacques Delors think tank (who used to work at DG TRADE) comments on the ongoing #CTIP negotiations. She calls for: - civil society + parliament involvement in negotiations - sustainability commitments to be included - explicit inclusion of free prior and informed consent

South Africa Trade Union Confederation COSATU's Tanya van Meelis warns against the EU-South Africa #CTIP and its push for green hydrogen leading to a new energy colonialism "it must not replicate the exploitative patterns of the past"

@groundworksa.bsky.social's Yegeshni Moodley to the European Parliament: "Green hydrogen has been marketed as a promised panacea for all our energy transition woes.... But there are critical flaws in this hypothesis – there is no empty land in my country, and energy is never free."

2/2 The Parliament's Delegation to South Africa 🇿🇦 will follow the 🎥 with a hearing on the #CTIP + #greenhydrogen, featuring the DG TRADE + @groundworksa.bsky.social Tomorrow marks the first time the voices of 🇿🇦's impacted communities are heard by EU decision makers - but definitely not the last 📢✊🏼

1/2 We've made it to Strasbourg 🇫🇷🥖🧀 👔 Tomorrow @corporateeurope.org will be in the EU Parliament for a preview screening of our new documentary 🎥 The Scramble for Hydrogen in South Africa 🎥 See the teaser here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AATC... If you're in Strasbourg, join us! Deets below

While Jeff Bezos held a lavish wedding in Venice, Amazon refused to send a high-level representative to testify in the European Parliament. This is an insult to its workers and our democratic institutions. We demand an end to Amazon's contracts with the European institutions.

The EU's 2040 climate targets have a loophole that could see CO2 removals included in its carbon market. CEO campaigner @belenbalanya.bsky.social labels it "carbon welfare", as it will funnel more public money to Big Polluters. Read more: www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/pr... #RealZeroEurope

🔴 The EU’s updated Climate Law falls short of delivering the real solutions needed to reach real zero. The new proposal rely on international carbon offsets and #CDR — approaches that undermine climate ambition and delay real emission cuts. Read more 👇 www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/pr...

☠️ Knowing about these 5 terms can help you decode the lingo flowing out of the EU-institutions. Put together, they show the outline of a terrifying plan. ✊But resistance is building up. Don’t feel intimidated, help us stop them. Get organised! 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/07/c...

5️⃣ Implementation dialogues To figure out what corporations want to change in EU laws via ‘stress-testing’, the Commission has gone for a simple option: to set up regular meetings to ask them what they want. 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/07/c... @effat.org @eurocities.bsky.social @eeb.org

4️⃣ Stress-testing Imagine wanting to go through all EU laws to make them more ‘simple’! That is what the European Commission wants to do. They call it ‘stress-testing’. If something appears too burdensome, it could be axed. 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/07/c... @caneurope.org @arbeiterkammer.at

3️⃣ Omnibus 🚍 So-called ‘omnibus laws’ are presented regularly by the European Commission. They are changes to several European laws in one go. Right now 8 omnibuses are tabled or planned. More to come. 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/07/c... @foeeurope.bsky.social @etuc-ces.bsky.social

2️⃣ Simplification While proposing to weaken one protective law after the other, the Commission keeps saying all they do is make things more ‘simple’. Well, there is already plenty of evidence to the contrary. Lots of damaging deregulation underway. 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/07/c...

1️⃣ Competitiveness The strongest word in the EU is ‘competitiveness’. Whenever corporate lobby groups claim they are losing out globally, decision-makers feel bound to act in their interests. We need to see this for what it is: myopic, short-termism. Don’t be impressed when they say ‘competitiveness’

🌊The EU deregulation wave: set to last for years, heavily influenced by corporate lobby groups, plenty of attacks on social rights, climate policies, environmental protection. How does that work? Knowing 5 terms will get you far 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/07/c... #deregulation #rulestoprotect

1/9 NEW! Check-out #3 in our FAQs on 🇪🇺's not so-Clean Industrial Deal, focussed on #Chemicals Find out how next week’s Commission announcements look set to pamper chemicals industry both via subsidies + weakened protections for environment & health corporateeurope.org/en/2025/06/f...

🚨Free lobby tour! 🗓️3rd July at 17h30 The deregulation wave means attacks on labour rights, climate policies, nature protection, & public health Do you want to know the lobbying happening behind the scenes, what consequences it can have & how we can fight it? 📝 [email protected] (until 2/07)

Amazon did not show up to a European Parliament hearing on working conditions inside its warehouses – for the third time since 2021.

‼️In the @europarl.europa.eu a hearing is taking place on labour practices at Amazon. Amazon refused the request to send senior management to the hearing. Amazon's non-show is yet another sign that it won't face democratic scrutiny on its labour practices. 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/06/l...

From getting Amazon’s lobbyists banned in the 🇪🇺 Parliament to driving transparency, accountability and climate justice, 2024 was a year of bold victories. Read our annual report here 👇 corporateeurope.org/sites/defaul...

Historic! 🍉 Yesterday, we were tens of thousands in Brussels to denounce the war crimes in Gaza. We formed a red tide to express our dissent. If politicians do not draw the red line, we will do so in the streets of our cities. 🇵🇸No one is free until Palestine is free.

It's not every day you stumble across what looks like an evil twin all dressed up in your clothes, plastered with your logo, and claiming to be 'fighting corruption' in Brussels. We took a look at the site BrusselsWatch which has recently turned up, and something smells pretty fishy. 1/

The EU wants to weaken its #methane rules to import more US LNG ⛴️ even if it raises energy bills 📈 This attack on regulations is enshrined in the EU's own Clean Industrial Deal, a dirty industry bible. Find out more in Part II of our #DirtyIndustrialDeal FAQs corporateeurope.org/en/2025/06/d...