Another day, another Big Tech revolving door scandal. Former UK chancellor George Osborne is joining OpenAI. Great to see our research on Big Tech's lobby firepower being quoted though 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/b...

Ireland has one of the world's highest concentrations of data centers. The expansion has reshaped the grid & deepened fossil fuel use. As the EU pushes to triple data center capacity, Ireland offers a warning, writes Louis Boyd-Madsen. Read our investigation with @algorithmwatch.org.

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

Great to speak to @bramvranken.bsky.social about the AI Act and recent complaint to the European Ombudsman on the opacity of the AI standardisation process. Check it out here!

Corporate lobbying is heating up on the digital omnibus - a Commission proposal that'd axe our digital rights 🪓 Last week lobby groups published a letter calling for "meaningful deregulation". 🧐 But what seems like a letter from European industry, actually has Big Tech fingerprints all over it. 🧵

Bringing the disruption to Brussels: The European Commission encourages its managers to draft policy-making documents with AI, including "explaining/summarising legislative initiatives". According to a newly released Commission document, this will "boost your team's productivity". 🫢

Will the deregulation of our digital rights by the EU happen with the support of the far right? 🤨 That's what Meta seems to be aiming for, with 3 lobby meetings with far-right MEPs this week alone. VDL's deregulation agenda isn't just opening the door to Big Tech, it's inviting the far right in.

Today it's exactly 6 years ago that EU Commission President Von der Leyen announced the European Green Deal, which she called "Europe's Man on the Moon moment" 🎂 Von der Leyen's priority today? Acting on corporate demands for #deregulation, recklessly rolling back environment and health standards 😡

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...

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?...

AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.

🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘆 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗨’𝘀 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗳𝘆 (𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁) 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 With Investigate Europe & EUobserver, we track how EU transparency is being pushed back – from the new "Infosec" bill to Gaza, von der Leyen’s messages & pressure on Aarhus. Read it here: www.ftm.eu/newsletters/...

Trump's new National Security Strategy is a mask-off moment, it reads like it was written by a cartoon fascist. The US aims to save Europe from itself by [checks notes] backing far right parties in the EU and restoring our “civilizational self-confidence and Western identity”…. 1/

Lobbyonderzoeker Olivier Hoedeman (Corporate Europe Observatory): ‘Beleid moet over meer gaan dan alleen economie en het bedrijfsleven. Het dient ook om de samenleving en de ecologie te beschermen.’ www.mo.be/interview/be...

“The EU’s Quality Jobs Roadmap is testament to a growing European consensus on public procurement. The Commission acknowledges that promoting collective bargaining in public contracts can build quality jobs for workers across Europe,” said UNI Europa Regional Secretary Oliver Roethig.

The Atlas Network, founded in 1981, has 589 think tanks in 103 countries that finance the hatred and hoaxes of the extreme right. The objective: to protect the privileges of capital owners. Available in EN, ES, PT-BR, DE, FR, IT, TU and AR.

Must read article on how"the EU’s 'simplification' drive is turning into a bonanza for corporate lobbyists" #deregulation #corporatecapture www.euractiv.com/news/counter...

like big tobacco funding cancer research

📣 NEWS! Last week a key paper defending #glyphosate, ghostwritten by #Monsanto (now #Bayer), is retracted after undermining safety decisions for 25 years! 👉 This should lead to the EU to reconsider glyphosate's permit on the EU market. 😡 But EC and Big Polluters team up to weaken safety rules

Amazon exploits its workers, fuels AI warfare, and destroys the climate. To protect its problematic business practices, it is rapidly expanding its lobby power in Europe 🤜 The EU must listen to its workers and citizens and stand up to Amazon. Time to Make Amazon Pay euobserver.com/health-and-s...

✊ Today workers across Europe are taking action against Amazon. ❌ Amazon exploits its workers ❌ Has close ties with the Israeli military ❌ Is a monopolist As the company is under intense scrutiny, it has ramped up its lobby power in the EU 🧵 #MakeAmazonPay corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/w...

As Amazon workers and their allies strike and protest in over 35 countries today, UNI Europa Regional Secretary Oliver Roethig argues that Europe shouldn't submit to the deregulatory pressure from Amazon and Trump. #MakeAmazonPay

We have found a number of procedural shortcomings in how @ec.europa.eu prepared legislative proposals that it considered urgent. The proposals concerned: ☑️ Corporate sustainability (Omnibus I) ☑️ Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) ☑️ Countering migrant smuggling www.ombudsman.europa.eu/press-releas...

Is the EU giving away your personal data for AI?

BREAKING: EU Commission President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu says “We are not fighting fossil fuels, we are fighting the emissions from fossil fuels” She is parroting oil&gas industry lines, pushing unproven costly technologies like CCS + CO2 removals to keep using fossil fuels. #FossilFreePolitics

Last week Conservative & far right MEPs pushed through Omnibus package that weakens 3 corporate sustainability laws Omnibus decision-making was clear corporate capture ⚠️ Legal experts warn that Omnibus I may be illegal 💥 Read more on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎 www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

📰"The announced reform package is here, and the #EU Commission remains on a collision course: instead of simplifying data protection, it is eroding fundamental rights. Instead of helping European companies, it is accommodating #BigTech." (from German) 👉 netzpolitik.org/2025/digital...

EU’s Digital Omnibus package threatens privacy and education by dismantling key protections. ETUCE calls this a dangerous deregulation agenda. Read more: t.ly/c3jRN #Education #DigitalRights #EU

EU Commission spokesperson on tech. The difficulty here is that the Commission sent X a provisional finding of breach of the Digital Services Act 16 months ago, and has done nothing since. So why take this expression of concern seriously?

In case you're wondering just how far corporate lobbyists have gone to get into COP30 to push the idea that AI will solve climate change (and never you mind about all the energy it guzzles)....

Today the European Commission unveiled its Digital Omnibus Package, reopening and weakening core parts of the EU’s digital rulebook, including crucial safeguards in the AI Act. This is a seriously concerning shift for rights and accountability in Europe. cdt.org/insights/cdt...

The European Commission seems to believe that rights are an obstacle to competitiveness and innovation, but real innovation means finding ways to make new technologies work for everyone’s benefit, writes Amnesty Tech's Joshua Franco.

🪚 The digital omnibus proposed by the Commission today is an unprecedented rollback of digital rights. In secretive meetings, the Commission has given privileged access to tech lobbyists to shape its proposals. 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/p...

🚨 Brussels, today 🚨Ursula! Stand up for Europe – not for Trump’s tech bros! As the EU unveils its “Digital Omnibus” today, we're rolling out billboards calling on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to stop bending to US and Big Tech pressure and enforce our digital laws #StandUpUrsula✊

According to a document we obtained, EU member states seem ready to give US law enforcement authorities direct access to European police and immigration databases. While some member states have concerns over specifics, none question the need for such an agreement. Read more: buff.ly/qGEDeGK

A cautionary tale about a European attempt to break free of US Big Tech which ended up being derailed by it. If you want to solve a problem of corporate power, don't give seats on your board to the companies creating that problem.

A major five-year effort to build a technology base for Europe free of US influence flopped amid conflicting national strategies and powerful corporate lobbying.

New wave of protests against Palestine Action ban set to be 'most widespread civil disobedience in modern British history' These actions will also, once again, be in solidarity with the people of Gaza and the West Bank. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/new-... Info: wedonotcomply.org

TACD warns: The European Commission’s Digital Omnibus reform could weaken major EU digital protections. Civil society groups in the United States and in Europe call on the Commission to halt these changes.

📣 BREAKING: One out of every 25 attendees walking around the #COP30 climate talks is a fossil fuel lobbyist. New research from #KickBigPollutersOut reveals there are more than 1,600 in the UN negotiations in Brazil. Here's a thread with the top findings 🧵 kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...

Our new mini-guide breaks down how soaring data centre demand, fuelled by AI, is straining energy systems and slowing the transition in Europe. At #COP30, governments and tech giants need to realise data centres growth needs new and extra renewables, and can’t come at our planet’s expense.

We joined 127 civil society organisations, trade unions and defenders of the public interest to express our alarm at the forthcoming EU Digital Omnibus proposals. These are part of a wide deregulation agenda @ec.europa.eu is threatening hard won protections Our letter ⬇️ edri.org/wp-content/u...

Turns out “don’t be evil” actually means “automate evil”

127 civil society groups, unions & BEP urge the EU to stop the Digital Omnibus—the biggest rollback of digital rights in EU history. Protect GDPR, AI Act & privacy. Full statement: https://balancedeconomy.pulse.ly/ipgvhvmauf #DigitalRights

🙌We are joining 127 organisations demanding the Commission to halt its highly damaging digital omnibus. The Commission's leaked proposal threatens to: ❌Pause the AI Act ❌Weaken the GDPR to enable AI companies to hoover up personal data This would be a major Big Tech win 👉 edri.org/wp-content/u...

We were promised that simplification was not going to lead to deregulation. Recent reports on the digital omnibus show otherwise. BEUC urged @michaelmcgratheu.bsky.social and @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social to keep protections under the GDPR and uphold the AI Act. Read our full letter: shorturl.at/zIfji

⚠️ 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...

Papagei der Tech-Bosse: Wissenschaftler, die zu Künstlicher Intelligenz forschen, widersprechen Ursula von der Leyen. Sie wiederhole nur „unwissenschaftliche Marketingaussagen“ von US-Konzernen netzpolitik.org/2025/kuenstl...

🧐 Curious about how Big Tech is lobbying to influence EU decision-making? 🍟 Join us on a lobby tour of the European Quarter in Brussels! When: Friday 14/11 10 o'clock We only have a few spots available, so be fast! Registration: ceo[at]corporateeurope.org

"Europe is hurtling toward digital vassalage. Under Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, EU laws to tackle tech giants have been either not applied or delayed, for fear of offending Donald Trump." - @johnnyryan.bsky.social and Georg Riekeles