You can also read @kennethhaar.bsky.social 's oped in 🇵🇹, 🇪🇸, 🇬🇧 (below) "Precisamos do envolvimento cívico para livrar Bruxelas da mania da desregulamentação que domina a agenda actual, colocando as pessoas e o planeta em perigo", lê aqui o artigo em Pt no @publico.pt www.publico.pt/2025/09/18/a...

"Necesitamos la participación ciudadana para librar a Bruselas de la manía desreguladora que domina la agenda actual y pone en peligro a las personas y al planeta", puedes leer el artículo de @kennethhaar.bsky.social en @elsaltodiario.com en castellano. 👉 www.elsaltodiario.com/tribuna/no-c...

If your Czech, Portuguese and Castillian are rusty, you can also read it in English 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/n... We need civic involvement to rid Brussels of the deregulation mania that dominates the current agenda, putting people and planet in peril. Op ed by @kennethhaar.bsky.social .

Can you have both social justice and tackle climate change? Of course. But the European far right is spreading the myth that we have to choose (actually, they want neither). Great piece from VoxEurop @stellalevantesi.bsky.social with contributions from me/CEO. voxeurop.eu/en/climate-a...

Before 1 Aug. the EU has to do a trade deal with Trump to avoid steep tariffs on exports. Tough language is used, but the EU is actually giving big concessions. Understand what is going in from our latest podcast, and see examples below corporateeurope.org/en/2025/07/h...

The Trump camp have put unacceptable demands to the EU for him to cool the trade war: deregulate to please US corporations. Unfortunately, some of it fits hand in glove with the EUs own deregulation agenda. Hear me talk to my great colleagues Joana and Marcella about that in this podcast.

In Feb we & @lobbycontrol.bsky.social complained about likely under- & over-reporting in EU lobby register. Secretariat has now come back with outcome which shows €47 millions-worth of changes 💶 €2,450,000 added 💶 €23,145,000 taken off 💶 €22,150,000 removed corporateeurope.org/en/complaint...

Today it was announced that the far right group Patriots for Europe will be in charge of the European Parliament's negotiations on the 2040 climate targets. Well. What could possibly go wrong. Worth noting, that without the support from conservative EPP group, the far right would be check-mate.

On the wider #Chemicals Industry Action Plan, it seems clear that the toxics industry will be celebrating

1/2 We've made it to Strasbourg 🇫🇷🥖🧀 👔 Tomorrow @corporateeurope.org will be in the EU Parliament for a preview screening of our new documentary 🎥 The Scramble for Hydrogen in South Africa 🎥 See the teaser here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AATC... If you're in Strasbourg, join us! Deets below

There is a strong chance we will see severe cuts in welfare across the EU in the coming years. Many member states already in dire straits, and now comes a wave of rearmament spending The Danish EU Presidency began last week. They will not be of any help, for sure www.euractiv.com/section/econ...

New data on top recipients of EU research funding in recent years: Airbus, Thales, Safran, Leonardo. Holy smoke! Arms companies snatch the brunt! And in a blunt rephrasing of the report: the support is not efficient. It is crude handouts to big corporations.

🚨 NEW POLL: roughly TWICE as many people in France, Germany & Spain want the EU to break up Big Tech giants, as those who don't. @ec.europa.eu will soon decide whether to dismantle Google's toxic adtech monopoly. Will it listen to EU citizens and #BreakUpBigTech? peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...

A guide to deregulation in the EU under the new EU Commission. May not give the full picture - that would be a report of 100 pages, but it does give the essentials: how it works, what is targeted (almost everything), who is calling the shots. You may not know you need to know this, but you do! 🙃

Really important story on corporate lobbying on #PFAS and #TFA in @ftm.eu this morning: www.ftm.eu/articles/pol...

1/9 NEW! Check-out #3 in our FAQs on 🇪🇺's not so-Clean Industrial Deal, focussed on #Chemicals Find out how next week’s Commission announcements look set to pamper chemicals industry both via subsidies + weakened protections for environment & health corporateeurope.org/en/2025/06/f...

The anti-greenwash directive risks becoming the latest victim of the ever expanding EU #deregulation wave The Commission announced it would withdraw the directive - and then changed position. But rightwing governments, MEPs and industry lobbies now smell blood ➡️ corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

🔴 NEW 🔴 Corporate Lobbying Eroded Flagship EU Sustainability Rules – Report An 'unparalleled competitiveness hysteria' is at play, according to transparency campaigner @kennethhaar.bsky.social from @corporateeurope.org For @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/06/24/c...

🔴 NEW 🔴 Corporate Lobbying Eroded Flagship EU Sustainability Rules – Report An 'unparalleled competitiveness hysteria' is at play, according to transparency campaigner @kennethhaar.bsky.social @corporateeurope.org 📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/06/24/c...

An intense get-together og trade unions, green groups etc to learn and strategise against the deregulation campaign at EU level just ended w a strong message from the ETUCs Isabel Schömann. A great afternoon. Inspiring and energising despite low oxygen level #RulesToProtect conference

Encouraging. A room packed with tradeunionists, environmental activists and others. Together to discuss way to fight deregulation in Europe.

📣 It's today and it's more than fully booked! 👉 High-level conference for policy makers, media, trade unions & CSO about the real-life dangers of this Commission's deregulation wave. by @epsu.bsky.social @foeeurope.bsky.social @canclimateaction.bsky.social @eeb.org @eccjorg.bsky.social

Last week the Commission presented a package of deregulation measures to favour companies w less than 750 employees (small midcaps). Examples: F-gases, batteries, stock market rules, data privacy. They did it by asking the companies what they wanted. corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

What a jerk. And if I thought the EU's negotiators would just shrug, ignore his rants, and not concede on anything sensitive, I would think it ridiculous too. But it's not really where we are. See CEO's latest about how some risky offerings are mulled by the EU - on gas and taxation. Link below.

Kudos to ClientEarth for this. The Commission is pushing deregulation via Omnibuses frantically these days. Loads of concerns brushed aside, procedures skipped, looks like a European version of the shock therapy tactics in Project 2025.

The Commission’s #SingleMarket Strategy launched this week includes a large number of measures with a clear #deregulation agenda, endangering national level social and environmental protection ⚠️ Unions slammed the plans as “a ruthless blow on labour rights" www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

Today, the EU Commission put out a “Single-Minded Single Market Strategy”. They set out to weaken protective rules - consumer rights, environmental regulation, social rights etc. Main takeaways in our press release and below. #SingleMarket corporateeurope.org/en/2025/05/s...

Today, the European Commission launched what my organisation aptly calls a "Single-Minded Single Market Strategy". Quite a read. If you know their terminology, it is easy to see it is a package of deregulation from start to end. corporateeurope.org/en/2025/05/s...

Check out notificationtracker.eu This new tool exposes how corporations & lobby groups use the EU notification procedure to influence draft national laws The tool enables easy searching and ranking to find out which lobbies intervene to shape national level regulations via #SingleMarket complaints

📣 Check out our new post on Deregulation Watch, a one-stop-shop exposing the latest developments in the Commission's #deregulation agenda. This week's: “Simplification” #Omnibus for EU agriculture means deregulation and denies environmental urgency 🥵 corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

📻 New #podcast episode just dropped! 🤦‍♀️ You know the news are bad when you hear that the wet dream of the biotech industry has come true, right? Check it out as @nina-holland.bsky.social talks about the intense lobby battle they have been waging to get new GMOs excluded from European regulations.

On the day that EVP Séjourné attends @europarl.europa.eu ENVI committee, check out our new briefing: Persistent pollution: 10 reasons why a ban only on #PFAS in consumer products won’t cut it corporateeurope.org/en/2025/05/c... 10 reasons coming up ⬇️ with thanks to @cartoonralph.bsky.social

It may look as if the EU stands up to Trump in the trade war, but behind the scenes, some disturbing concessions are considered. The kind of concessions that would suit European corporations and the oil and gas industry pretty well. corporateeurope.org/en/2025/05/t...

Trade war: European movements have fought off many US attempts to weaken protective rules over the years, think TTIP. A lot of it now comes back to haunt us. Reading official statements, the EU does not seem to budge, but don't be complascent. Some US demands fly well with EU corporate interests.

Former Vice President Al Gore rebuked the Trump administration in remarks at a climate crisis conference, comparing its "ongoing attacks on liberty" to Nazi Germany.

The Heritage Foundation is behind Project 2025 - the blueprint for Trump's first 100 days in office. Now DeSmog reports they are active in European elections - drawing up plans for Albania for the conservative candidate - hand in hand w German conservatives. Ouch www.desmog.com/2025/04/14/h...

Here's today's absurdity: a big majority in the Danish Parliament, including a leftish green party, voted to support a deal with the US to have 3 American military bases on Danish ground. Think Greenland. They pretended they had forgotten.

3 years ago observers wondered how much fracked gas would come to Europe through the back door with gas imports from the US began surging. Today - with EU plans to appease Trump w LNG purchases - the front door is opened. Addiction to gas is our climate achilles heel. www.dw.com/en/the-true-...

From now, the EU will be in swing to avoid a trade war w the US. But what will they offer him? He is bragging that everybody is calling him, "kissing my ass". Perhaps the EU may not do that. But there is a real risk that some of his demands, eg. a brake on a PFAS ban, will suit the Commission well

Nice quick overview to get a grip on the stakes if the EU would try to appease Trump.

The US is playing the TTIP-song all over again, with new text added. And it is awful.

The far right is increasingly present on the Brussels lobbying scene in various shapes and forms. MCC is an Órban-offspring, so it makes sense they would try to hide their funding sources.

Due to roll-back of sustainable reporting measures, 'Omnibus' is now an infamous term in the EU. In fact, there are already 4 more 'Omnibusses' in the pipeline: on investment, defence, reporting for mid-size companies, and renewable energy. Brace yourselves. corporateeurope.org/en/2025/03/d...

Yesterday the EU Parliament voted to postpone sustainable reporting requirements by 2-3 yrs. The numbers are chilling - only 69 of 530 voted against. So, most Greens and the S&D supported postponement. Don't tell me this is shrewd tactics We are in a mess www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

Trump has targeted islands only inhabited by penguins with high tariffs!! Expect a delegation of King Penguins in Washington. They may offer eggs to fend off the threat to trade - a powerful proposal considering low supply in the US. 🐧🐧🐧🐧🙄 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

More attacks on NGOs by the right-wing in the European Parliament. For months they have failed to prove that funding of green NGOs is maladministration, now they are going for an inquiry committee. Will the EP become a cest pool of conspiracy theories and fake news? www.politico.eu/newsletter/b...

A US anti-tax group has strengthened its position in Brussels in recent years - new office, invited to sit in a Commission advisory group. If you want to know about the Tax Foundation's corporate links and their funding, don't go to the EU register. Look here corporateeurope.org/en/2025/04/o...

Czech MEP earning €120,000 a year in 2nd job as an automotive consultant has been appointed rapporteur on a key EU climate policy dossier - this creates unacceptable conflicts of interest 🤯 “Giving Turek this role is a disaster for the integrity of EU climate policy” www.desmog.com/2025/03/31/c...

To anyone in the US who know about protests against Trump's campaign to annex Greenland, incl. his threats to use military force, do keep us posted! In DK demos have started. Anti-trumpism across the whole political spectrum. Cos' Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

The Denmarkification campaign to buy California for Denmark is about to take its next step: a strong delegation in on its way to establish deeper cultural, political and economic links to California The launch in Feb showed strong local support. It will happen! denmarkification.com/pituffik/?ut...