The Heritage Foundation, the intellectual engine behind the 922-page blueprint that has become the key policy manual for Donald Trump’s second term, is partnering with a constellation of European nationalist far-right movements to export its playbook.

Fossil fuel companies attending U.N. climate talks in last four years responsible for nearly 60% of global oil and gas production in 2024 New research from Kick Big Polluters Out www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Europe bans toxic pesticides… but exports them abroad! The End Toxic Pesticide Trade Coalition decided to send them back to the European Commission! Watch all the videos here. 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/r...

What happens after Europe's NGOs are dismantled?

🔥 What happens after Europe’s NGOs are dismantled? Last week, @alemanno.bsky.social mapped how civic space in Europe is being suffocated – how NGOs die. This week, we asked the next question: what happens when they do? 🧵👇 euobserver.com/eu-political...

Very sorry to read that Eurocare will be closing its Brussels office. The EU alcohol industry is a lobbying juggernaut which has maintained its unjustified special treatment for decades. With no dedicated EU public health org working on alcohol, fixing this imbalance is now even more difficult :(

⚠️ Efforts to delegitimise, defund or restrict civil society are no longer isolated. They are appearing across Europe – including here in Brussels. Without an independent civil society, corporate lobbies will fill the void. Important protections will be rolled back in the name of “efficiency.”

EU-based companies continue to export thousands of tonnes of banned pesticides to Kenya and other countries, even though the food it helps produce is often then exported back to the EU, new research has confirmed.

Is democracy losing to demands from US big tech? The European Commission is moving. “A number of companies, including Facebook & Instagram owner Meta, have warned that the EU’s approach to regulating AI risks cutting the continent off from accessing cutting-edge services” www.ft.com/content/af6c...

⚠️ Press freedom under attack ⚠️ Asking an uncomfortable question can cost you your job if you are a journalist at Agenzia Nova. We stand in solidarity with @gabrielenunziati.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/11/04/j...

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📣 Happening today COP30 Brazil 🎬 World launch of documentary “Pesticides Without Borders: A Global Dilemma” 👉 Official trailer: lnkd.in/e6_JJwy2 ☠️ Pesticides banned in Europe continue to be produced and exported to the Global South. #Climate and #biodiversity crises are closely connected.

🔴 Earlier this year, 90 organisations warned that the EU’s #ClimateLaw risked becoming a law for polluters — built on loopholes and false solutions instead of a real fossil fuel phase-out. Now those warnings have been confirmed. Read all about it below and follow @realzeroeurope.bsky.social 👇

On Monday 10Nov at 13:30CET @jakubpat.bsky.social, journalist and editor-in-chief of @denikreferendum.cz will join @voxeurop.bsky.social to discuss (in Eng) the political situation in Czechia, which, at least on paper, is soon going to have the worst government in the EU. Join them to find out more!

🚨 DOCU SCREENING ALERT! The EU's "green" hydrogen dream is a nightmare for communities in the Global South. CEO’s powerful new docu reveals the truth. 🎬 Watch the trailer and catch the premiere of the Scramble for Hydrogen in South Africa! 🧵 👇

1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣➕ organisations wrote to EU Climate Commissioner @wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu before he takes off 🛫 for #COP30 in Belém 🇧🇷 We demand he: 🚫 Not bring any 🛢️ fossil fuel lobbyists to COP ✅ Supports tackling conflicts of interest at the UN and in the EU 🇪🇺 ✉️: fossilfreepolitics.org/news/cop30-l...

A letter signed by more than 100 organisations was sent to Hoekstra, asking not to bring fossil fuel lobbyists to COP30 🇧🇷 👍 Promisingly, there were no lobbyists in the official EU delegation last year 👎EU Member States still brought 113 lobbyists ✉️: fossilfreepolitics.org/news/cop30-l... #COP30

THREAD: 1/6 Part IV of our FAQs on the EU’s not-so-Clean Industrial Deal is out 🕵️‍♀️ taking a closer look at its support of two fossil fuel industry favourite false solutions: hydrogen and carbon capture👇 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/d...

‪This morning, EU environment ministers meet to agree a way forward for the Climate Law🌍 ...but leaked drafts show plans to weaken the 2040 target of slashing emissions by 90% if it is hurting industry "competitiveness" 🏭 Read more on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎 corporateeurope.org/en/deregulation-watch

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...

@eeb.org @ecos.ngo @healthandenv.bsky.social @chemtrust.bsky.social @ecologistasenaccion.org @arnikaorg.bsky.social @bblv.be @bund.net @ciel.org @umwelthilfe.bsky.social @foodwatch-int.bsky.social @generationsfutures.fr @hejsupport.bsky.social @chemsec.bsky.social @zerowasteeurope.eu

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...

How Google won friends and influenced people - while slowly gobbling up a quarter of all ad revenue on the internet. Here's my look at two decades of Google’s ruthless tactics to secure its dominance. www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...

Horrific case of exported #PFAS production and pollution #BanPFAS

🧟Tonight, get ready for the European farmers massacre 🔪In one decade, the EU lost 5 million small farmers, guess what happened to them? 🎵Music by Grace Jones #halloween #happyhalloween

Grandes tecnológicas nunca gastaram tanto com os seus lóbis na UE

🚨 NEW joint statement It's time: the EU’s credibility on human rights & climate is on the line. Ahead of the #Omnibus I vote, 140+ EU & non-EU CSOs urge MEPs to back a strong, fair deal that protects workers, communities & our planet, not corporate interests. corporatejustice.org/publications...

NEW on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎 Under pressure from the #Hydrogen lobby, EU Commission agrees to review its rules on producing #greenhydrogen 2 years earlier than planned. Industry wants sustainability criteria weakened... Expect more fossil gas consumption. corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

Tech firms are spending more than ever on lobbying the European Union amid mounting opposition to the bloc’s digital rules, according to new analysis.

Contra esto luchamos: @corporateeurope.org‬ ha publicado un estudio que revela el poder sin precedentes del lobby de las BigTech en la UE. -151 millones anuales en influir sobre las instituciones europeas (un 55,6% más en 4 años) -900 lobistas a tiempo completo (más que eurodiputados)

❌ 151 millions de dépenses annuelles de lobbying ❌ 890 lobbyistes, plus que de députés européens ❌ 3 rendez-vous par jour au Parlement ou à la Commission @corporateeurope.org révèle les chiffres fous du lobbying de la Tech à Bruxelles ➡️ multinationales.org/fr/a-chaud/c...

EU-Digitalgesetze wie der Digital Services Act sollen Big Tech in Schach halten. Das macht Meta, Microsoft & Co. das Leben schwer. Mit einer mächtigen Lobby arbeiten sie dagegen. Das zeigt eine gemeinsame Analyse von @lobbycontrol.bsky.social und @corporateeurope.org netzpolitik.org/2025/gegen-r...

Tech companies now spend €151m a year on lobbying in Brussels — a 33-percent increase on 2023. With the backing of the US government, they hope to push the EU Commission while it's looking towards simplifying its digital regulations.

📢 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

The European Ombudsman "has opened an inquiry into whether the European Commission acted secretively in its dealings with industry before launching a series of business-friendly initiatives". The Ombudsman was acting on a complaint by the Corporate Europe Observatory www.politico.eu/article/ombu...

‼️Very enlightening presentation and dialogue with @oefse.at's @wernerraza.bsky.social, also with focus on insights of the #Draghi report for today & from a critical perspective, at today's TU & CSO strategy & action meeting in BXL - stop #deregulation & stop #austerity‼️urgentneedforalternatives

Big day in the almanac of European resistance to the deregulation wave. Strategy meeting in Brussels with scores of reps from TUs, civil society organisations in a plethora of areas. Challenge: how to work together to fight the deregulation wave. Several CEOers there, of course.

‼️Full house at this week's strategy & action meeting against #deregulation today in BXL with TU and CSO reps from all over #Europe - bright introduction by @etuc-ces.bsky.social Isabelle Schömann, very much focused on #Omnibus, #CSDDD & #CSRD, key files for or vs #PeoplePlanet‼️

🚨New polling across 🇮🇪, 🇬🇧, 🇪🇸, 🇨🇭, 🇩🇪 finds: 👉 76% of people believe new data centres should be powered with renewable energy. 👉73% want governments to set clear criteria for energy distribution. Renewables, transparency, & fairness are key for data centres. More: beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/10/27/e...

Great! And about time! firstpeoplesvic.org/news/histori...

Not just the Financial Transaction Tax - the EU has withdrawn multiple plans to regulate tax avoidance: 🐚 misuse of shell companies 🕴️ fiddling corporate income tax 📈 on transfer pricing Is this the inevitable outcome when we ask corporations what regulations are too "burdonesome"?

The European Commission’s 2026 work programme, launched earlier this week, is the most deregulatory in EU history 🚨 Out of 47 planned initiatives, 25 are focused on “simplification” – a euphemism for #deregulation ⚠️ Read more on Deregulation Watch: corporateeurope.org/en/deregulation-watch

4/ Thanks to years of hard work by the Kick Big Polluters Out campaign (which we're a member of), participants at this year's UN climate talks in Belém, Brazil, aka COP30, have to confirm if their participation is in "full alignment" with "the goal and principles of the Paris Agreement"

1/ 🤔 indulge us in an exercise of logic, spread over a few posts TL;DR? a new court ruling and a new disclosure mechanism should ban 🇫🇷 French oil & gas major ⛽ TotalEnergies from participating at COP30 in Brazil.

✊ Victoire pour le climat : Total vient d'être condamnée pour greenwashing ! A la veille de la COP30, cette décision crée un précédent juridique majeur contre la désinformation climatique des majors pétrolières. Notre communiqué 👇 www.amisdelaterre.org/communique-p...

🚨 BREAKING: courts find French 🇫🇷 oil & gas major TotalEnergies guilty of greenwashing, misleading customers in its advertising ❎ The case was brought by @amisdelaterre.org @greenpeace.fr @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social @clientearth.bsky.social More info 👇 www.clientearth.org/latest/press...

Read Tom Kucharz' analysis of the European Council meetings this week in @elsaltodiario.com : "The EU chainsaw at the service of fossil fuels". "The European Council summit, taking place Thursday and Friday, has deregulation among its top priorities." www.elsaltodiario.com/union-europe...

📢 Today, EU lawmakers listened to citizens and science and rubber-stamped the deal on the Soil Monitoring Law, the EU’s first-ever law on soil health, after months of negotiations 🪱 @eeb.org @ecos.ngo www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

The EU banned epoxiconazole, but still produces it to export to the Global South! It is a fungicide banned in2020, toxic to reproduction as it negatively impacts fertility, a healthy pregnancy, concerns to cause cancer, & very toxic to aquatic life, birds and wild animals. Let's return it to sender!

"The EU took the floor to lecture the world about rights and democracy while on a ruthless deregulation campaign, promoting trade agreements that only serve corporate interests. Stop siding with corporate lobbies and secure a strong #BindingTreaty." Sol Trumbo Vila @tninstitute.bsky.social