Tobacco industry executives donated millions to a Trump super PAC two days before a meeting with Trump at his golf club in Jupiter, Florida. A week later the FDA reversed its ban on flavored vapes, which was enacted in light of evidence that they were driving an epidemic of youth vaping.

In years to come, our failure to create basic regulations and enforce the rule of law on unaccountable AI & big tech companies will be considered in the same way as big tobacco. @albomp.bsky.social - legislating after they burn the place down is too late.

✊ Help prevent Bayer and BASF from controlling the food chain even further! The EU is planning a major hand-out to big corporations by scrapping safety and transparency rules for risky new GMOs. MEPs vote in June, let them know what you think at the petition 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/t...

I'm trying to think of a technology that was so roundly hated and yet pushed so hard by the government-corporate complex

As the EU Chemicals Agency winds up its second public consultation on the proposed 🇪🇺 PFAS ban, the fluoropolymer industry is once again mobilising to criticise alternatives to their products. See our new blog post which updates on PFAS industry's lobby campaign: corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/p...

Trump and sons to be exempt from tax audits 'for ever' Their corruption knows no bounds And Slovenian PM Janša, English Farage and others in European far-right admire these guys They rob workers and all of us and undermine funding for health, social protection...

ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris. With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further degrade the web itself.

EU lawmakers accuse the commission of breaching public access to information rules - by amending a law actually intended to bring transparency to the rapidly-expanding data centre sector. call for data centre transparency after Investigate Europe revelations of Big Tech lobbying campaign

The EU thought it could do without experts for its deregulation crusade. Reality is proving it does. POLITICO takes you behind the scenes of the EU Council's anti red tape squad and what it means for EU norms that protect the environment and human health. www.politico.eu/article/eu-r...

A Regulation based on the wrong legal basis risks opening the door to regime shopping, letterbox companies & attacks on collective bargaining and board-level worker representation. Workers make Europe. Europe’s future must be built on quality jobs and democracy at work, not “EU Inc.” deregulation.

Billionaire Trump donor, private equity boss in line to make millions from Thames Water bid. Attempted to fund Robert Jenrick’s bid for Tory party leadership. Wants exemptions from sewage dumping fines. Will extract returns, customers will be fleeced. Privatisation of essentials has failed.

Not so different in the EU ❌️Public authorities at all levels give public contracts to those tax avoiders. Workers make those CEOs rich and companies big. And they betray us and worse That is why EU procurement review must address tax avoidance @epsu.bsky.social @eutaxobservatory.bsky.social

Europe's unions are gearing up for public services day 23 June as public service workers call out staffing shortages, lack of investments, impact of austerity Rising cost of living impacts nurses firefighters teachers care workers and demand higher pay and better conditions @epsu.bsky.social

This juxtaposition of headlines perfectly captures how MAGA oligarchic fascism really works. Trump loots our country to enrich himself, while persuading his paramilitary street thug wing that his corruption and self-dealing are in their interests, because they get a cut of the spoils.

Man hielt das Wählerpotenzial rechtsextremer Parteien lange bei maximal 15–20%. Gesellschaftliche, mediale und politische Normalisierung haben diese Grenze immer weiter verschoben. Umso absurder ist es, sich ausgerechnet von noch mehr Normalisierung im Umgang mit der AfD einen Umschwung zu erhoffen.

Irish officials at permanent representation to the EU are instructed to avoid meeting #lobbyists from Big #Tobacco 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 “Tobacco industry cannot be treated in the same way as other industries, as its products kill two out of three long-term users" + there's "a long history of industry interference"

Irish diplomats were warned about ‘approaches’ from Big Tobacco

Dear friends, what a month this has been From the EU's new hobby of ripping up permitting rules and funding dirty infrastructure, to us catching Microsoft literally ghostwriting EU law, we saw it all If you want to know more, subscribe to our newsletter & share it👉 corporateeurope.org/en/newsletter

🚨 Today 35 MEPs are writing to the Commission to scrap unlawful secrecy on data centres' environmental information. A month ago, @investigate-europe.eu revealed that the EU Commission copy-pasted a Microsoft amendment to keep crucial data under wraps. 💥 That secrecy is now being challenged

Strong public services are the backbone of democracy, equality and social justice. From healthcare to education, transport to firefighting: Europe works thanks to public service workers. To end the #PublicServiceEmergency, Europe needs investment, not austerity.

The key questions that will decide what EU Inc means for workers

🗨️ Marcus Meyer-Erdmann (ETUI) explained to Euractiv why his analysis of the legal proposal leads him to fear a scenario in which, for example, an EU Inc company registered in Bulgaria could employ a worker in France on the Bulgarian minimum wage of €3.74, rather than the French one of €12.02

The #28thRegime under scrutiny ⚖️ 🔍 ⚠️ The European Commission's recent #EUInc proposal for a new European company law framework could allow companies to circumvent a country's #labour rules by registering in a country with lighter ones 🔗 www.euractiv.com/news/the-key...

Crazy. Singer is the original vulture. He bought Argentinian debt for peanuts just so he could hound the country into default, even seizing a naval vessel as part of the blackmail 👇 www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/th... He offers nothing but pain while he sucks countries dry.

Don't let this man ANYWHERE NEAR control of Thames Water 👇⛔️ "Trump wants control over NHS drug prices, and his mega donor Singer wants control over our water. ‘Absolutely not’ should be the answer of any government that considers itself patriotic" www.theguardian.com/business/202...

A new Greenpeace report, “Amazon’s Toxic Web Services,” reveals for the first time how systematically AWS does business with companies that are criticized worldwide for serious environmental or human rights violations. #MakeAmazonPay www.greenpeace.de/pdf/Amazons_...

In the months before the Hungarian election, the Danube Institute, a government-funded think-tank, distributed hundreds of thousands of dollars in an attempt to build an international echo chamber and amplify Orban. @atlatszo.hu has some of the contracts english.atlatszo.hu/2026/05/14/j...

Are Europe’s #workersrights about to be thrown out the back door? We don’t want American corporate greed in #Europe - and that’s exactly what #EUinc. could be allowing. Decent pay, good conditions & social rights are the bare minimum. We won’t accept any “28th regime” that undermines #workers.

The EU’s anti-deforestation law (EUDR) survived another attack, for now. But leather is still at risk of being removed from the regulation through a new delegated act proposed by the European Commission.

EU rush to fix energy crisis risks stripping citizens and nature of legal protections

A renewed push to ditch fossil fuels is long overdue, but thanks to the influence of industry lobby groups, permitting exemptions intended for renewables are being used for new dirty energy projects, such as CO2 pipelines and fossil hydrogen.

OpenAI is increasing its lobbying in the EU regarding the AI Act, hoping to influence regulations that will shape AI's future while balancing innovation with safety concerns. https://time.com/6288245/openai-eu-lobbying-ai-act/

The richest man in the world gutted USAID and bragged about “feeding [it] into the wood chipper.” Remember who is responsible for this suffering. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...

Big Tech is now targeting EU permitting laws that could limit its data centre expansion plans. Google, for example, is pushing to limit communities’ ability to challenge new data centre projects. Rather than put up a fight, the EU has rolled out the red carpet 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/p...

1. Peter Thiel is pouring millions into a dystopian new start-up that seeks to discredit journalists reporting on wealthy people with a combination of retired intelligence operatives and a "jury" of AI models The company is even trying to pressure reporters to turn over the IDs of anonymous sources

Over the last 14 months, Jeff Bezos, the centibillionaire owner of the Washington Post, has remade the historic newspaper’s editorial board into a guard dog for the ultra-rich.

This is tantamount to MEPs obstructing a criminal investigation, once more suggesting they'd rather look out for themselves than ensure the just application of the law. Read our full statement here: buff.ly/AjHu883

The European Parliament has just voted against lifting EPP MEP Angelika Niebler's parliamentary immunity, meaning that the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) cannot properly investigate her alleged misuse of EU funds.

Das EU-Parlament blockiert die Arbeit der Europäischen Staatsanwaltschaft, dem Vorwurf der Veruntreuung von Steuergeldern nachzugehen. Diese Entscheidung wird Vorbehalte gegen die Politik wie Abgehobenheit oder Selbstbereicherung im Amt nur weiter befeuern www.spiegel.de/politik/ange...

Big Tech lobbying is driving weaker permitting rules + faster approvals for data centres in Ireland and the EU. In Ireland, data centres pay less for electricity than households (set to get worse), while new gas power plants are being built to power these “AI factories”. #Permission2Pollute

This is THEFT. There is no other word for it. They are stealing almost $1.8 BILLION dollars to pay Trump‘s allies, despite knowing that these people are not legally entitled to any money and be laughed out of court if they filed a lawsuit for money damages.

Read more in CEO's new report Permission to Pollute: corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/p...

The Commission’s #deregulation approach is exactly what Federico Sturzenegger, Argentina's minister for deregulation, recommends: “deregulate lots of provisions and sectors simultaneously. That thins any media campaigns, disorients your opposition, and flips the political economy.“

"In October Corporate Europe Observatory called for political groups in EU parliament to boycott the working group. That letter stated that “the EPP & far-right political groups have engaged in unfounded attacks on NGOs, creating an atmosphere of unwarranted suspicion toward civil society actors.”"

EU leaders met in Cyprus yesterday to discuss measures to deal with the ongoing energy price crisis put forward by the European Commission... But windfall taxes on oil and gas super profits were not included. Is the Commission too close to the oil and gas lobby? www.euractiv.com/news/big-oil...

🛢️The oil&gas lobby is pushing for fast-tracked approvals, weaker enviro assessments+new permitting loopholes for thousands of planned CO2 pipelines These projects may be labelled “strategic” or “public interest”, making it harder for communities 2 challenge them🚷 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/p...

No compromises on workers’ rights. The proposed 28th Company Regime cannot move forward in its current form. ETUC General Secretary @estherlynch.bsky.social was with @socialistsanddemocrats.eu this morning to stress that Europe’s competitiveness cannot be built on weaker worker protections.

#EUinc cannot become a backdoor to weaken workers’ rights. The proposed 28th Company Regime risks bypassing collective bargaining and national systems. Europe must put workers’ needs above corporate profits. @estherlynch.bsky.social was with @left.eu today to highlight the risks to workers.

‼️Excellent report by the @corporateeurope.org from 9/2025, but what happened since then to come to the letterbox and regime shopping proposal of @ec.europa.eu of 18/3/2026 ⁉️https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/social-dumping-disaster-eus-28th-regime

‼️ With the @etuc-ces.bsky.social and unions from all over Europe, we are most deeply concerned about this #letterboxInc proposal. What Europe needs less is a further weapon of mass deregulation‼️ linfo-csc.be/magazine/avi... www.efbww.eu/publications... www.uni-europa.org/news/eu-inc-...