Thick as mince and thick as thieves. A column about the absolute idiots European legislators have made of themselves over the naming of food, at the behest of meat lobbyists. You laugh and then you weep. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hetzelfde dreigt te gebeuren met privacy (AVG/GDPR) en AI regulering.

🚜 De nieuwe Europese Commissie dient onder het mom van vereenvoudiging, om “competitiever te worden”, het ene dereguleringsvoorstel na het andere in. Deze week werkt de Commissie aan een versoepeling van de pesticidenrichtlijn. apache.be/2025/12/20/e...

Dames en heren! Met trots presenteren wij u... *tromgeroffel* De 25 grootste belastingontwijkers van Nederland! www.ftm.nl/artikelen/gr...

Also helpful to point out to to MAGA who weirdly keep insisting that the EU is Socialist. All the 🇪🇺institutions have been in the control of the conservative EPP for 2 decades now. The last time we had a centre-left Commission President was 2004. EPP has been in charge of the EU ever since.

In Brussels, lobbyists don’t wait. Just before today’s EU leaders’ summit, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and António Costa, President of the European Council, made other heads of state wait while they met with Copa-Cogeca, the EU’s most powerful farming lobby.

And this deregulation drive is also reigning in the EU... Same rethoric about rules being too rigid etc. Workers, our communities, nature pay the price Only winners are corporatiins and the rich

Among the nominees just confirmed is Leo Brent Bozell III, a far-right activist and critic of the fight to end apartheid, who Collins just approved to be the United States AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH AFRICA. Vile and irredeemable. tinyurl.com/5fwv4dzc #MEpolitics

We found that: 🛑 Within 2 minutes, ChatGPT advised a simulated 13-year-old how to cut herself 🛑 Within 20, it created a dangerously restrictive diet Yet, AI architects are Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” – but are they really, if they’re failing to protect kids online?

‘De pesticidenlobby gebruikt boerenprotesten als dekmantel om Europese regels te versoepelen’ – Opinie Nina Holland (Corporate Europe Observatory) www.mo.be/opinie/de-pe...

Pesticide lobby use farmers’ protests as cover for slashing EU safety regulations, writes @ninaholland.bsky.social @corporateeurope.org in this op-ed: www.arc2020.eu/op-ed-pestic... #FarmersProtests #Pesticides

The @ec.europa.eu confirms its plan for open-ended approvals of certain #pesticides, ignoring scientists and society. It's a weak move in the wrong direction. We need real steps out of the toxic era towards a productive, healthy and biodiverse future. www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

AWO’s Algorithm Governance Roundup is out! This month we interviewed Bram Vranken @corporateeurope.org about mapping industry influence on the AI Act, the AI standardisation process which has "run into serious trouble" & its complaint to the EU Ombudsman.👇 eomail5.com/web-version?...

New report on the fossil fuel lobby in Czechia ☣️ Free download — link in comments ⬇️ We expose how the fossil lobby blocks climate action & justice. The report names Czech politicians incl. MEP Tomáš Zdechovský (EPP), Minister of Industry Karel Havlíček & Environment Minister Petr Macinka.

Trump’s primetime diatribe against immigrants is straight up unvarnished Nazi stuff

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

My message to Ursula von der Leyen in The Guardian this morning: America’s bet on AI is now so gigantic that every MAGA voter’s pension is bound to the bubble’s precarious survival. If she grabs Trump where it hurts, Europe will win this fight. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

💥On his flight to the EU summit, Viktor Orbán revealed what appears to be direct coordination with Vladimir Putin: Hungary would be spared Russian countermeasures if Orbán votes against the EU’s confiscation of frozen Russian assets: "So we Hungarians have protected ourselves."

⚠️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...

For weeks the Trump administration has been leaning on national leaders, most specifically Belgian PM Bart De Wever, to block the use of Russian frozen assets to fund Ukraine. Why? Because the US taking those assets is a central part of the 🇺🇸 'peace plan'.

Based in Spain with links to Russia, hardcore conservative campaign group CitizenGO’s accounts show it received over $7m of donations last year. It closed its UK arm in 2023 – but we’ve revealed that the organisation is actually expanding its operations on these shores. https://goodlaw.social/l1vd

🚨 @europarl.europa.eu just approved Omnibus I—gutting corporate accountability laws despite months of warnings from civil society & faith leaders on the impacts of deregulation. While climate disasters intensify, the EU lets big polluters off the hook. 🔗 www.cidse.org/2025/12/11/t...

It is imperative, that the EU/Europeans understand, this is a big tech lobbying strategy. This initiative came straight from the Apple, Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft lobbying playbook. This is not a winning US policy, it’s a big tech monopoly initiative. Act accordingly. #monopolytech #DMA #DSA

Clearly one of Von der Leyen II Commission most shameful weeks. Orban's man Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi unvealed the next #Omnibus, another sweeping case of #deregulation that will go at cost of people’s health and the environment we depend on.

Has your MEP voted for or against the Omnibus I dismantling corporate accountability? Please serve yourself #Omnibus #CSRD #CSDDD

LEAK on 9th #Omnibus: Commission is about to publish a massive betrayal to human health and the environment: ☠️ Giving unlimited approval for #pesticides! 😵‍💫 Who will pay that bill, Ursula? #EUAgriFoodDays 💀 Who will profit: Big Polluters like #Bayer & #BASF: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/p...

To better understand what made the Trump shock possible, and how to confront it in the future, we must turn to its roots, namely, to Project 2025 thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/p...

La semaine du lancement de l'Omnibus qui assouplira les règles régissant la sécurité des denrées alimentaires et des aliments pour animaux, les agriculteurs descendent dans les rues de Bruxelles pour manifester. Et les lobbyistes semblent vouloir exploiter cette colère à leurs propres fins.

👉 Farmers are gathering in Brussels and Liege to protest against low prices and EU-MERCOSUR; ☠️ The Commission pushes through EU-MERCOSUR + rolls back pesticide safety rules #Omnibus 🤯 Result: profits for the corporations, health costs for society will soar See: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/p...

🗑️💢 @europarl.europa.eu just cleared away the few remaining environmental safeguards in EU farming policy Two rushed rounds of so-called “simplifications” have gutted years of progress and handed #BigAgri exactly what it wanted: money to pollute with no strings attached ✂️ Here’s what we’ve lost ⬇️

Met in totaal 95 investeringsverdragen is Nederland na de VS het populairste land van waaruit claims worden ingediend. De meeste zaken tegen Oekraïne hebben te maken met de oorlog, blijkt uit recent onderzoek van Friends of the Earth Europe en een coalitie van ngo’s. www.ftm.nl/artikelen/ru...

#Tobacco lobbyists "sought the EU’s help in overturning nicotine product bans and altering vice taxes in 10 countries" 🚬 "On at least three occasions EU officials acted on behalf of the U.S.-based tobacco giant" Philip Morris 🤯 Scandalous 😡

EU officials had a series of undisclosed meetings with Philip Morris International, then took actions that favored the company, raising questions about whether the EU breached its commitment to a global anti-tobacco treaty. Read more: bit.ly/4oSZKkF

The third time in 2 months that the official DHS account has tweeted a Nazi term which means "ethnic cleansing" of all people of color from America and Europe.

⚖️As Ukraine fights a full-scale invasion, sanctioned Russian billionaires are demanding hundreds of millions in compensation – exploiting investment treaties to sue the war-torn state from courtrooms across Europe. Read the article: www.ftm.eu/articles/rus...

Elon Musk, de man die zich nu wil gaan moeien met de EU politiek. Zijn passage bij DOGE veroorzaakte enkel al door het afschaffen van USAID, voorlopig 600.000 doden waarvan 2/3 kinderen. Een les voor wie denkt dat de lobbying van dit soort volk bij onze regeringen iets positiefs opleveren.

👿 And the Commission's response? ⛔ This week they may launch the 9th deregulation #Omnibus ⛔ Under guise of "simplification", scrapping renewal assessments for pesticides, keeping toxic pesticides eternally on the market. ⛔ A gift to corporate profits, more harm to health, soils, ecosystems.

🤥 Pesticide lobby group Croplife EU launched an IPSOS survey among farmers but failed to include unfair competition - driven by free trade deals - in the calls for EU policy action. As it is not in their interests? ☠️ Also, numerous lobby meetings calling for roll back pesticide safety rules.

An MEP presiding over a lobbying organisation for SMEs while leading European Parliament work on corporate sustainability and due diligence sounds like a conflict of interest to us. That's why we've submitted another complaint on an MEP side job. Read the full press release below: buff.ly/nZY9Vtb

Another signatory, Startup Hungrary, has been co-founded by Google and is supported by Microsoft. The Digital Technology Employers Lewiatan has Microsoft, Meta, Google and Amazon as its board members.

The letter is signed by Consumer Choice Center Europe, a long-time big business front group. 💸 The organisation is 100 percent funded by Google and Meta. Its main EU lobbyist is a former Lithuanian deputy-minister www.lobbyfacts.eu/datacard/con...

Many of these groups have not signed up to EU Lobby Register further obscuring their close links to Big Tech. 🚫 Time to stop Big Tech from lobbying to roll back our digital rights through its obscure network of lobby organisations. corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/p...

The AI lobby shop the AI Chamber recently launched an AI Action Plan, a campaign supported by Amazon and Google. Others including Digital Poland Association, prg ai, Infobalt, and SAPIE all have Big Tech members or are being funded by Big Tech

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. 🧵

Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

📣 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...

The EU is preparing a gift for pesticide giants: toxic pesticides could stay on the market forever, with no safety tests at all. Yes, forever approvals. Yes, this is real. Sign now to stop it. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...