Inside the EU Parliament, the “Seventh Transatlantic Summit” featured speakers who mocked trans people & opposed therapy bans. “Cruelly stripping human rights protections from trans people is the first phase of their global imperative to erase the LGBTQ+ community,” warned @wendyvia.bsky.social.

El lobby de la industria para descafeinar aún más la política sobre contaminación química está teniendo éxito, tal como revela el nuevo análisis de @corporateeurope.org sobre la influencia corporativa en Bruselas en torno al reglamento sobre productos químicos #REACH. ¿El @miteco.gob.es cómplice?

A former Meta director in charge of digital deregulation, how surprising 🤔 This perfectly echoes one of the strategies that we expose in the Big Tech Lobby Playbook: blurring the lines between regulator and regulated. www.somo.nl/big-tech-lob...

“Europe’s industrial strategy is aimed at saving incumbents, not fostering innovation. It’s all about giving industry what it wants, without asking much in return ... They say they’re ‘cutting red tape,’ but those rules exist to help and protect people.”

Corporate lobbyists push for deregulation while workers pay the price

Competitiveness has become the most abused word in Brussels. It is invoked to justify almost anything — except the one thing Europe actually needs: a strong industrial policy to build quality jobs, to safeguard and reinforce economic capacity in Europe and to achieve shared prosperity.

⚠️ Independent media @republik.ch are facing a lawsuit by Palantir after a 2-part investigation in Dec 25, based on FOI requests, showing how the company lobbied Swiss authorities. The case raises real concerns about freedom of the press. 1/ netzpolitik.org/2026/david-g...

Trump und Merz Ziehen an einem Strang. Dem Strang um unser aller Hals, der uns die Luft abwürgt.

This conservative group of leaders is not addressing real issues EU needs 1.2 trillion Euros each year of investment ... you would think eurobonds to be repaid by taxing the rich would be one the menu No.They discuss more deregulation. This is not industrial policy but ideology @epsu.bsky.social

🇪🇺 From the Antwerp Industrial Summit to yesterday’s informal European Council (EUCO), our message to EU leaders is clear: ❌ Deregulation is not the solution to Europe’s competitiveness challenge ❌ Check CAN Europe's full reaction 👉 caneurope.org/from-antwerp...

The EU #competitiveness debate is imprisoned by orthodoxy: deregulation to 'free' capital means a nationally fragmented market regime; hoping for private investment amid public austerity misses basic Keynesian points about liquidity preference and multiplier effects: euobserver.com/202873/two-s...

Las empresas tecnológicas, sobre todo Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon y Google, aumentan la presión sobre los europarlamentarios para lograr el ómnibus digital y desplazar los marcos legislativos según sus intereses elpais.com/proyecto-ten...

Too many people underestimate how evil Google is and how impactful its evil is. Yeah, the company that struck down its "don't be evil" maxim a while ago, because I guess it felt too constraining.

Well with the #Antwerp & #AldenBiesen meetings this week, it's been a pretty depressing picture coming out of 🇪🇺. But activists are fighting back on all sorts of issues; we are going to comment on / re-post various items for some cheer and to share some opportunities to take action and get involved.

Milieubeweging aan Europese top in Alden-Biesen: ‘Industriële toekomst bouw je niet op sociaal-ecologisch kerkhof’ www.mo.be/nieuws/milie...

Grootouders voerden vandaag actie in de EU-wijk van Brussel en in Alden Biesen. Dit filmpje werd gemaakt in Alden Biesen. Wegens de zware bewaking daar werd het een paar dagen geleden opgenomen.

Salla’s appointment as rapporteur for the Digital Omnibus is not just perplexing, it is highly misguided. While the EU needs to break away from Big Tech, Salla’s appointment shows what the Digital Omnibus really is: a massive hand-out to Big Tech firms. corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...

A former Meta lobbyist is now leading the EU's weakening of digital rules. That tells you everything you need to know about the EU's deregulation agenda and who is going to profit.

Don't you just love right-wing EU politicians?

How to break the never-ending cycle of capitalist accumulation/violence and organise production around socio-ecological priorities: - New financial architecture for public investments - Deliberative democracy to establish real people power - Corporate Reform Act to end corporate capture

➡️ Foresight Lab: Analysing the future impact of the Digital Omnibus on workers 🌐 How will the European Commission’s Digital Omnibus reshape #data protection and #AI safeguards in the workplace? 🗓️ Join the discussion on 5 March Explore the programme and register by 2 March ✍️ etui.org/4J4

Jim Ratcliffe is a British billionaire who resides abroad to avoid tax and has accumulated vast wealth off the back of international talent at Man Utd. His dangerous, divisive and hypocritical rhetoric must be resisted. We need a total economic reset and a wealth tax now.

#AldenBiesen 🚨

A classic Big Tech move to create an echo chamber and dominate debates undercover! See more of their aggressive lobbying strategies in the Big Tech Lobby Playbook, out today: www.somo.nl/presenting-t...

4/ Most #deregulation reforms discussed at today's 🇪🇺 summit are long-standing corporate #lobbying demands from CEFIC, the European Round Table for Industry (ERT) and BusinessEurope 🚨 BusinessEurope is currently lobbying for a 'social Omnibus' intended to weaken workers' rights 🤯 #CorporateCapture

3/ Today's 🇪🇺 leaders retreat in #AldenBiesen will discuss proposals from hard-right prime ministers #Merz & #Meloni for accelerating #deregulation: * ending "over-regulation" * Omnibus law to speed up permitting * getting an "emergency brake" on new 🇪🇺 legislation considered "too burdensome"

2/ Yesterday von der Leyen met with corporate leaders at the #Antwerp Summit, listening to industry lobby demands for further #deregulation She promised she would use today's 🇪🇺 summit in #AldenBiesen to "discuss with leaders how to match the pace you need. It is time to further accelerate" 🚨

🤯 The MEP Aura Salla, a former Meta lobbyist, will be leading the Digital Omnibus. The Digital Omnibus already closely mirrors Big Tech lobby demands. Now a former Meta lobbyist will be in charge of the largest roll-back of digital rights in the EU’s history 😳 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...

Ping, something to the attention of the so called #Leaders of the EU - #Merz, #Macron, #Meloni & co - who are right now discussing #competitiveness at the informal #LeadersSummit in Alden Biesen Castle, Belgium. PS: There is no competitiveness on a dead planet! #HandsOffNature

Zu den Promis aus Epsteins Netzwerk gehören auch weltbekannte Ökonomen. Das zeigt das strukturelle Versagen einer ganzen Disziplin. www.surplusmagazin.de/epstein-file...

Stell dir vor, Meta könnte gleichzeitig dafür sorgen, dass Digitalregulierung im EU-Parlament aufgeweicht und dann in Irland nicht richtig durchgesetzt wird. Willkommen in der EU: Metas Marsch durch die EU-Institutionen. digitalrechte.de/news/metas-m...

1/ Commission President von der Leyen & EU government leaders meet today for a 'competitiveness' retreat in #AldenBiesen 🇧🇪 VDL, since her reappointment in 2024, has unleashed an aggressive #deregulation agenda Worryingly, she is now getting absolute backing from #Merz, #Meloni, #DeWever & others

Incoming 'EU Inc' reform plan is a "complete distraction" that won’t fix founders' real problems, @etuc-ces.bsky.social 's @estherlynch.bsky.social tells @euractiv.com www.euractiv.com/news/intervi...

The EU's national leaders have just started arriving at the former Teutonic Order castle of Alden Biesen, with 2 rival visions for how to save Europe: 🇩🇪🇪🇸#Merzoni are coming with a deregulation pact calling for less EU 🇫🇷🇪🇸#Manchez are calling for more EU with eurobonds & "made in Europe" preference

If the aim of European policy was wellbeing of the people rather than merely competing against others, conclusions and solutions would probably diverge a lot from more and more #deregulation, and more and more military spending www.ft.com/content/53df...

Antonio Costa was once a socialist, a shorthand for understanding capitalism first, and then reform/revolution. this deregulation push is nuts. it wont work, because we are not in the 1990s neoliberalism, but a world of heavy state intervention and transformative ambitions.

It is quite surprising that the #SPD in Germany can sign up to these deregulation demands directly challenging trade unions and civil society in general. Does Klingbeil want to push his party below 10%? www.politico.eu/wp-content/u... @ibarthes.bsky.social #AldenBiesen

So Europe should weaken carbon pricing to protect the climate? Well, hard to argue that convincingly. Better that #CEFIC and others are honest and just demand less ambitious climate policies. Then elected politicians have to decide. #Antwerp. antwerp-declaration.eu/the-antwerp-... #AldenBiesen

Check out our blog on tobacco industry lobbying in the EU - https://bit.ly/4ktfvhU

Trump’s latest rollback of US climate regulation is another reckless gift to Big Oil that ignores the costs of unchecked pollution. Learn more via @350.org 350.org/press-releas...

💡How is corporate lobbying reshaping EU rules on health, chemicals and deregulation? Learn more via @corporateeurope.org corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/r...

"Big Tech has gone too far, and EU legislation is on the way to give you more control over addictive features in social media apps. The bad news is, Big Tech has begun a full scale lobbying battle against this legislation."

On why it matters that the President of the EU Commission cozies up with lobbyists from polluting industries 1️⃣ day ahead of a major summit that will 1. bring all the EU leaders together 2. discuss getting rid of protections for our health and planet ⬇️ friendsoftheearth.eu/news/the-fut...

👎 As the biggest industrial players gather in #Antwerp, their message is clear: roll back climate & environmental rules in the name of competitiveness. ⛔ We strongly disagree. 🚨 The claim that climate policy is the main cause of Europe’s industrial difficulties does not stand up to scrutiny.

Morgen komen Europese leiders samen in Alden Biesen om onze industrie te redden. De Wever wil Europese regels afbreken en lidstaten meer macht geven. Dat verzwakt Europa net wanneer we sterk moeten staan tegenover China en Trump. Mijn opinie in Knack 👇 www.knack.be/nieuws/werel...

Morgen komen de Europese leiders samen in Alden Biesen. Context: de benarde situatie van de Europese industrie. De Wever en co misbruiken die situatie om te snijden in ons klimaatbeleid en Europa te versnipperen. Dat zal niks opleveren. Uiteraard bepleit de groene visie precies het omgekeerde 👇

Put down your phone - if you still can - and read @corporateeurope.org's report on how US corporate and executive 'diplomacy'/brinkmanship works to undermine the EU's digital legislation, using an army of lobbyists and a toolbox full of dirty tricks.

ICE violates Rule of Law and human rights, with deadly consequences in Minneapolis. As Europeans, we must be clear: Trump’s crackdowns are wrong. We must stand against far-right fake patriots who want similar policies here in Europe - our message today in the European Parliament

CEFIC, lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry, want Europe locked on oil and gas even as we stop burning them for energy Plastics, fertilisers, any petrochemicals to keep drilling and selling – and they have the ears of many powerful politicians today Damn the climate, damn people's health

Today in @contexte.com 👉 In Antwerp, nearly half a dozen EU leaders are attending the industry summit Macron, Merz, Belgian De Wever, Dutch Schoof & Austria's Stocker will participate. More could join. This is complicating Cefic's organisation ; it's been somewhat “overwhelmed”