🗓️ In Brussels Wednesday 25th? Join us in the European Parliament for the launch of @rosaluxeu.bsky.social + @communia.bsky.social's new study, “Reclaiming Steel: A Public Path for Europe’s Green Industrial Strategy”. Register👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📣 270+ organisations gathered. A ballroom prepared. And the Guest of Honour? She has declined the dance. 👀 It seems @vonderleyen only has eyes for her industrial suitors. 😱 The @EU_Commission has officially refused to meet the people. #AntwerpCounterSummit A scandal, truly.

Check our new #DeregulationWatch update which focuses on the #Chemicals Omnibus which threatens to: ⚠️ weaken chemicals labelling rules ⚠️ make it easier to keep carcinogens in cosmetics ⚠️ loosen fertiliser regulations corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

"A green hydrogen and ammonia project in Norway has been cancelled, with its developer now pivoting towards a data centre on the same site instead." - whatever pays the (electricity) bills. #hydrogensoufflé www.hydrogeninsight.com/production/g...

We are so much better at fighting corporate capture that we are at making videos! Still, we hope you have enjoyed this series of explainers. Should we continue to do it? If so, what topics should we talk about next? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

Such a pleasure to be in Paris and participate in the "European gathering of movements for struggle and social & ecological transformation" 🎊 Excellent strategising on challenges such as the rise of the far right, #austerity, growing #inequality, #deregulation and the dangerous power of #BigTech 💪

🚨 The EU’s Industrial Accelerator Act #IAA is finally out: 🚘 The result of heavy lobbying, led by the steel + car industries (Séjourné's door was always open) 🏭 Claims to promote the green transition, but really is about slashing permitting rules that protect people + nature. Expect ⬆️ pollution 💨

Thames Water is on the brink of collapse. As part of the deal they have put forward, Thames Water's creditors are asking to pollute illegally until 2040. We're in High Wycombe today to tell Environment Minister Emma Reynolds that she must reject this proposal. 1/2

JD Vance: "I think that we have to avoid overlearning the lessons of the past, Just because one president screwed up a military conflict doesn’t mean we can never engage in military conflict again." BRO TRUST US BRO. THIS TIME IS REALLY DIFFERENT BRO

Heatmap found a 26 point (!!!!!!) drop in public support for data centre development and the right-wing think-tanker they interviewed put it down to "a fear of bigness" 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

I need you to know that we're going to all be poorer because the US bombed Iran because Israel was about to, because of a Bible promise, and I think that is utterly insane and we need to vote the people who enable this out of office for all eternity www.thetimes.com/business/com...

Corporate lobbyists in Brussels have a playbook. 4 tactics they use to shape EU laws without us noticing: 1️⃣ Repeat until it sounds like consensus 2️⃣ Throw money at it 3️⃣ Blur the lines between regulator and regulated 4️⃣ Delay, distract, greenwash The more we know it, the less we fall for it!

The top 5 lobbyists on the EU’s flagship Clean Industrial Deal are: 🏭 EUROFER - 39 meetings 🏭 ArcelorMittal - 18 ☢️ EDF - 12 🏭 European Aluminium - 11 🏭 Cement Europe - 11 Big polluting industries, particularly metals and mining, dominate. Read more 📖: corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/c...

A response from CEO's @pascoesabido.bsky.social on the new findings on lobby meetings held on the Clean Industrial Deal and its related files in the year since it was announced. "Trade unions and NGOs have been sidelined" @epsu.bsky.social @etuc-ces.bsky.social @foeeurope.bsky.social

ExxonMobil is demanding $1bn+ from Cuba in "compensation" for its assets confiscated after the 1959 revolution. Exxon's case is backed by the Trump administration, and is another attempt to cripple the small socialist state whose very existence terrifies the US. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Reading Marx and drinking Guinness

The past year dirty industry has pushed for + won: 🔑 Increased access to EU decision-making ✂️ Cuts to workers rights + environmental protections 💶 More public subsidies ⚡ Speeding up dirty infrastructure permitting Ingredients for bigger corporate 💰, but a failed 🇪🇺 Time to fight back ✊

16 different departments were lobbied, but which Commissioner and their cabinet was the most welcoming? 🇫🇷 Stéphane Séjourné (DG GROW, 131 meetings) 🇳🇱 Wopke Hoekstra (DG CLIMA, 60) 🇪🇸 Teresa Ribera (DG COMP) co-coordinates the #CID with Séjourné + Hoekstra, but only had 20 meetings

The CID promised to introduce/alter/accelerate swathes of new + existing files, making it a key target for dirty industry lobbying. The files with most meetings: 🏭 CID: 162 🛃 CBAM: 145 ♻️ Circular Economy Act: 65 ⏩ Industrial Accelerator Act: 53 🚗 Automotive Action Plan: 45 #DirtyIndustrialDeal

Among lobby groups with 5 or more meetings on the CID and its related files, the metals & mining sector dominated: 🤝 41% of meetings 🏅 6 out of the top 10 most frequent visitors Next highest was energy (13%) and automotive (11%) #DirtyIndustrialDeal corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/c...

The 🇪🇺 met with ±500 different business groups and their reps. The top 5: 🏭 EUROFER - 39 meetings 🏭 ArcelorMittal - 18 ☢️ EDF - 12 🏭 European Aluminium - 11 🏭 Cement Europe - 11 These big polluting industries have all lobbied for #deregulation. Read more 📖: corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/c...

🗓️ In the year since the CID was released, top Commission staff have had 750+ lobby meetings on it, more than three per working day. 👔 90% w/ business interests 🔎 5.5% w/ NGOs 👷 1% w/ trade unions Corporate interests have engineered a #DirtyIndustrialDeal 👀 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/c...

🎂 For the 1st birthday of the Clean Industrial Deal (CID) 🎂 CEO exposes how dirty industry lobbyists have outgunned civil society in gaining access to the European Commission and influencing this #DirtyIndustrialDeal. Thread with key findings 🧵 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/c...

Jim Hansen and co. saying we're going to hit 2oC warming by 2030 rather than mid-century. So can all those saying "but we're on track" take a long hard look in the mirror and then go outside and tear down capitalism? jimehansen.substack.com/p/another-el...

The EU just signed its “Clean Trade and Investment Partnership” w/ South Africa. Clean transition — or green colonialism? Europe wants green hydrogen. South Africa bears the water, land & livelihood costs. 130+ groups are pushing back. Watch & sign the petition 👇 corporateeurope.org/en/gh2-petit...

1/ Revealed: industry’s lobby blitz to undermine chemicals policy reform. See our brand new analysis of the #REACH chemicals regulation lobby battle in Brussels: corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/r...

Big Tech spent €151 million lobbying the EU last year. That’s 890 lobbyists — more than elected MEPs. Now key digital rights like GDPR and the AI Act are being quietly rolled back. We looked at who’s really influencing EU tech rules — and what’s happening behind closed doors. 👇

1 Check out new ‘The Pollution Playbook: how industry blocks regulation of toxic chemicals’ briefing by @ciel.org and @corporateeurope.org on the deceptive tactics used by chemicals industry to keep producing & using their toxic products. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/p...

"3 mn litres of drinking water are lost every day through leaking pipes + not a single new major reservoir has been built since privatisation... "The public has paid through rising bills – now water companies must invest" ~ James Wallace of @riveractionuk.bsky.social www.itv.com/news/meridia...

Great new video about lobbying in Brussels - and because it can be quite confusing, we've got cats helping us unpack it all 😂 great job from CEO's media wizard, Marcella 🪄

Appalling that the government's new water white paper is about reassuring the shareholders who have ripped us all off 👇 Privatisation has failed since 1989, TAKE BACK OUR WATER

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!

REVEALED: heavy lobbying by the airline industries against Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), which is far from sustainable anyway. Who revealed it? The CEO of French oil and gas major TotalEnergies. Current market-led approaches for a just transition are failing. www.reuters.com/business/dav...

Oh the irony: The EU gets off Russian gas so it can't be weaponised (eg support for Ukraine), and gets onto US LNG. But now Trump looks like he's going to weaponise it to stop any reaction over Greenland. There was a moment just after Russia's invasion when the EU could have taken another path...

Glad to see TotalEnergies is coping well with the declining LNG and oil prices: It made up for the loss through selling off investments in renewables!!! Laugh? Cry? Courtesy of @politico.eu morning energy and climate newsletter totalenergies.com/system/files...

Just 32 companies? 🤯 A mere handful, but let's not forget we've an entire economic system based on coal oil & gas, with a myriad of polluting interests all lobbying for the climate-wrecking fuels. Dismantling fossil fuels means dismantling capitalism. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Wow, it was that easy to solve?! Makes you wanna live in the Czech Republic, doesn't it! Political efficiency at its best. We could all take a leaf out of the new Czech environment minister's book. brnodaily.com/2025/12/16/n...

A new report from @politico.eu on "Europe's Omnibus Fever" is damning in its criticism: "What the Commission frames as simplification is, in practice, a downward drift in regulatory reach that erodes the informational foundations of effective governance." #deregulation #omnibus #RuleToProtect

⚠️Defence as a justification for deregulation: the military caveat in the Climate Law🌍 Climate goals should not be pursued if seen as a “burden” on the EU’s military priorities 🪖says new Climate Law More 🛢️🛢️🏭🏭 in name of defence? Read more on 🔍Deregulation Watch🔎 corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

📣 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...

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?...

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...

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...

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...

"With this eighth so-called omnibus we can see the European Commission continues to prioritise the short-term interests of industry over the health and environmental concerns of citizens." #EnvironmentalOmnibus

EU Commission needs to focus on the real crises facing our communities, not the lobby demands of big business falsely complaining about over-regulation. Take action today to defend pesticide regulations! corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/t...

🔴 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

It's official: last year exceeding 1.5oC wasn't just a blip. According to the EU's Copernicus, the average for 2023-2025 is on track to exceed 1.5C for the first time. The chants of "1.5 to stay alive" from Pacific island communities at COP is ringing in my ears. www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

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...