“The MCC festival, with its line-up of far-right propagandists, is a disturbing example of how the Orbán regime is working to promote its reactionary ideology" “Behind the hip image, the festival is organised by a think tank that attacks climate policy, civil society and gender rights”

By failing to sanction Israel, EU leaders are complicit in its crimes. They must act now | Josep Borrell

Good news. We've helped improve the EU lobby register - although major flaws remain of course!

🚨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...

🔎 Check out LobbyFacts (our data platform with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social) which has a lot more functionality than official register, incl. lobby archive: www.lobbyfacts.eu 🖊️ And if you like our work, join our newsletter list + support us with a donation. Thanks! corporateeurope.org/en/newsletter

In Feb we & @lobbycontrol.bsky.social complained about likely under- & over-reporting in EU lobby register. Secretariat has now come back with outcome which shows €47 millions-worth of changes 💶 €2,450,000 added 💶 €23,145,000 taken off 💶 €22,150,000 removed corporateeurope.org/en/complaint...

Romper relaciones con la banca, los fondos de pensiones privados y las universidades. Esto pide la relatora de la ONU a todos los países 

🚨 Urgent call to suspend the EU-Israel association agreement and end trade and cooperation with Israel, in light of the continuing genocide in Gaza and Israel’s long-standing violations of international law. Read it here 👉 europeantradejustice.org/open-letter-... @eurtradejustice.bsky.social

The parties that voted for her Commission on the basis that it would not be deregulation should withdraw their support and vote her down. ℹ️ For more info on deregulation: corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat... 2/3 👇

The most burning reason why VDL should resign is that she has unleashed an irresponsible & antidemocratic deregulation wave (resulting in unprecedented levels of corporate capture) & violated promises she made to the EP that it was only 'simplification'. ℹ️ corporateeurope.org/en/2025/07/c... 1/3 👇

It's been quite a week for the 🇪🇺 #deregulation agenda after the publication of the 6th #omnibus - this time on chemicals. The whole #chemicals package delivered a huge gain for the industry, with very few obligations in return. Read more on Deregulation Watch: corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

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

The meeting began w/ a special screening of our unreleased documentary, which tells the story from the ground through the testimonies of fisherfolk, farmers & indigenous leaders paying the true price of Europe’s so-called green transition 🎬Check out the teaser👇 ℹ️ corporateeurope.org/en/ScrambleF...

Great news! If your Dutch is as bad as half the people in CEO's team, you can now watch the excellent Dutch investigation by @zembla-bnnvara.bsky.social on how the pesticide industry influenced the approval of #glyphosate in English! 👉 youtu.be/KOkWahiUgQ4?...

🚨 Good news! The European Parliament’has decided to maintain the Amazon lobby ban 👏 Additionally, it rejected a closed-door hearing with Amazon representatives. It also committed to holding another hearing and organise a visit to Amazon warehouses. @uni-europa.bsky.social ✊ 👇

Although 🇪🇺 leaders praise green hydrogen as a climate solution, communities in 🇿🇦 are being displaced, silenced and polluted in its name. Today, for the first time, impacted communities had their voices heard by MEPs and the European Commission. Read more 🔗 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/07/h...

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 ✊🏼

@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 Correia says that the CTIP is responding to South Africa's coal dominated energy sector (80+%). Yet building vast quantities of renewable electricity to be used to produce green hydrogen, which is then exported, is NOT going to clean up the grid. Predictably disappointing.

DG TRADE's Dora Correia responds to comments on the #CTIP by saying very little of substance that's not already in existing documents. Avoids criticisms brought up by South Africa's communities or trade unionists. Says the EU is responding to a call by South Africa ("not our fault, gov"). 1/2

This clip is from our 'No Anglo' event with @ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social on 1 May bringing together communities affected by mining giant Anglo American from Chile, Zambia and Peru. You can read @corporateeurope.org's report 'The EU's dirty hydrogen push in South Africa - revealed' here:

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 EU leaders hail green hydrogen as a climate solution, communities in South Africa are being displaced, silenced and polluted in its name.Our doc tells the story from the ground –through the testimonies of those paying the true price of Europe’s so-called green transition 👉 youtu.be/AATCdoIQ1yU

🚨Live now the EU Parliament for a preview screening of our new documentary 🎥 The Scramble for Hydrogen in South Africa Follow it live here 👉 ep.interactio.eu/ccfy-x95-vvp...

Investor-State Dispute Settlement lets companies run away from the harm they cause and blocks a just fossil fuels phase-out. ⛔️ It allows foreign investors to sue governments when their actions are alleged to harm their investment. Here's a stark example of why governments must dismantle it: 🧵👇

Shell and ExxonMobil are suing the Dutch government for shutting down the Groningen gas field. They want billions to compensate for their lost profits. They want the public money that should be used to repair the damage they have caused. The ISDS system needs to end: www.somo.nl/aftershock-i...

🧵1/5 🚨CIEL sounds the alarm: New #EUClimateLaw’s 90% target is climate action in name only. It leans on #FalseSolutions including international offsets, which lets polluters evade responsibility. You can’t offset your way to a livable future!

🔴 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...

🔴 The EU's Climate Law must not be a lifeline for polluters! 79 NGOs from Europe & beyond call on the EU to reject international offsets & risky #CDR in the Climate Law! These false solutions delay #ClimateAction & harm vulnerable communities. Read more 👇 www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/st...

@eccjorg.bsky.social @epsu.bsky.social

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

🚨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)

Really important story on corporate lobbying on #PFAS and #TFA in @ftm.eu this morning: www.ftm.eu/articles/pol...

my report of @larawolters.bsky.social keynote in the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam yesterday she urged companies like Unilever and Philips to speak out against the wave of deregulation now rolling through Brussels under the banner of ‘simplification’.

This time some good news from Italy

Should have happened decades ago - a lot of Big Oil bosses and their lackeys, front groups, spin doctors, right wing think tanks and a chunk of the Tory party, GOP, MAGA, and Reform would likely be in jail for spreading climate denial and misinformation. Instead Europe boils under extreme heat

🔴 OUT NOW 📢 69 NGOs call on the EU to deliver a Climate Law that rejects international carbon offsetting & Carbon Dioxide Removals (#CDR), commits to a full fossil fuel phase-out, and reflects Europe’s fair share of climate responsibility! Read the statement👇 www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/st...

Always happy to see works of my colleagues @denikreferendum.cz published in English. Please, use this rare opportunity to read this brilliant reporting by my colleague @petunie.bsky.social published in @euobserver.com euobserver.com/health-and-s...

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change calls for a ban on fossil fuel lobbying. Each failed attempt to address climate change lays bear the damaging political influence of the coal, oil and gas lobby. It's time for #FossilFreePolitics. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

8/9 Check out our other FAQs on 🇪🇺's Dirty Industrial Deal: Part I on competitiveness Part II on energy prices & gas Further FAQs on promotion of false climate solutions & on impact of the Clean Industrial Deal on the global south will be published soon. corporateeurope.org/en/climate

7/9 No more #chemicals business as usual! We need: ✅ Urgent chemicals detoxification ✅ Real decarbonisation ✅ Zero pollution production ✅ Just transition for workers & communities ✅ Precautionary principle ✅ Polluter Pays principle corporateeurope.org/en/2025/06/f...

6/9 Commission policy-making on this is outrageous. ‘Strategic dialogues’ & ‘reality check’ workshops have seen massive outnumbering of public interest voices by 🏭 Legislation agreed over months & years looks set to be ripped up in a matter of weeks. corporateeurope.org/en/2025/06/f...

5/9 #Chemicals industry says it's struggling, but what about huge financial burden on public purse each year from its products? 🚑 #PFAS health costs: €52-84 billion 💦 PFAS environmental clean up: €100 billion 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Endocrine disrupting chemicals costs: €163 billion corporateeurope.org/en/2025/06/f...

4/9 On #deregulation, #Chemicals industry has long list of files on target list: ✂️ CLP chemicals labelling ✂️ Cosmetics ✂️ REACH ✂️ PFAS ✂️ Export ban ✂️ Sustainable taxonomy... 1st Chemicals Omnibus looks set to deliver some of this, with part 2 due later in 2025 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/06/f...