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

(Read the thread for 🇨🇿🇪🇸🇫🇷🇳🇱) 🚜Hoje, os agricultores saíram às ruas de Bruxelas para protestar. Lê tudo sobre como os grupos de pressão estão a tentar usar esta raiva como arma para os próprios fins no novo artigo de opinião de @nina-holland.bsky.social no @publico.pt www.publico.pt/2025/12/15/a...

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.

Opinion: Le lobby des #pesticides exploite la colère des agriculteurs Cette semaine les agriculteurs descendent dans les rues de Bruxelles pour manifester contre l'accord EU-MERCOSUR. Et les lobbyistes semblent vouloir exploiter cette colère à leurs propres fins. blogs.mediapart.fr/nina-holland...

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...

📣 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...

New report reveals that #tobacco #lobbyists continue to have access to the EU Commission’s trade department 🚬⚠️ Tobacco giant PMI pushed DG Trade to challenge public health policies in countries such as Mexico and Thailand, framing these policies as trade barriers 🚨 exposetobacco.org/campaigns/be...

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...

📦 Today we helped deliver 75 boxes of pesticides banned in the EU but authorised for export, back to the European Commission in Brussels. From Brazil to India, Indonesia to South Africa, citizens sent a clear message: toxic trade must stop. #ReturnToSender #BanToxicExports

🎁💸And here comes yet another gift to the biotech industry... Last night, the EU institutions made a deal to destroy safeguards for new GMOs. A gift for corporations, a punishment for consumers, farmers and nature. Our full reaction 👉 friendsoftheearth.eu/press-releas... #nonewGMOs #IchooseGMOfree

☠️ New GMOs: The result of last night comes down to a massive handout of our foodchain to pesticide firms like Bayer and BASF. This is a vast #deregulation: 🚨scrapping safety standards, 🚨scrapping consumer freedom to choose 🚨creating more dependence for farmers through patents

Crunchtime: tonight last planned negotiation on deregulation of new GM food (#NGTs): will negotiators Jessica Polfjard and Denmark allow for no safety, no consumer choice, but patented food? Save Our Seeds, FOEE, Solidagro and CEO handed over 500K signatures from citizens who want freedom of choice.

📣 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

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 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...

CEO joins 30+ organisations asking @socialistsanddemocrats.eu, @reneweurope.bsky.social, @greens-efa.eu and @left.eu to boycott the new scrutiny working group on NGOs in the European Parliament. corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/b...

🆕 #COP30 analysis: 531 carbon capture lobbyists 🐍 infiltrating the climate talks. ❗️#CCS lobbyists advancing their own fossil-fueled agenda at the expense of people & the planet❗️ Carbon capture is risky, costly & doesn’t work. ➡️People In ⚠️#PollutersOut Check out @ciel.org's thread for details...

🚜 500 paysannes et paysans, malades victimes des pesticides et leurs soutiens mettent à l'arrêt & réalisent une inspection surprise accablante sur un site de production de pesticides BASF en France 👉 http://confederationpaysanne.fr/actu.php?id=16134 ⚡️ […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

🐛✨ Meet tachypodoiulus niger – the millipede that keeps soil healthy! 🌿🌍 This millipede helps decompose dead plants by recycling nutrients into the soil. But the use of harmful #pesticides threatens these essential recyclers. #SaveOurInsects www.pan-europe.info/campaigns/pr...

Heard rumours about Bayer/Monsanto stepping out of #glyphosate? Don't celebrate too soon. The company just joined the European Commission to defend the weedkiller in the EU court. We challenge governments and chemical giants. Support us: www.pan-europe.info/great-glypho...

🌱 As Agri ministers meets today to debate the post-2027 EU farm subsidies policy, 30+ organisations — representing farmers, civil society & national coalitions — publish joint recommendations to #MakeCAPWork for farmers, people, nature & climate. ✍️👉 foodpolicycoalition.eu/wp-content/u...

Dieses Anliegen ist mir sehr wichtig – bitte unterschreiben & weiterleiten: act.campax.org/petitions/no...

IPEN and our global members have produced original scientific research, country-based data, and policy proposals to address the health and environmental threats from plastics. We’ve produced more than 135 publications in more than 85 countries, visualized in this map: ipen-plastic-map.vercel.app

The worst offenders were France, Sweden and Italy 🇫🇷 22 - with five from TotalEnergies, including its CEO 🇸🇪 18 - including senior execs from E.ON 🇮🇹 12 - including Edison, who's importing US LNG But others include 🇩🇰 (11), 🇵🇹 (8), 🇧🇪 (8), 🇫🇮 (2), 🇳🇱 (2), 🇬🇷 (1) @recommon.org

"Alla Cop30 il numero più alto di sempre dei lobbisti dei combustibili fossili: secondi solo alla delegazione del Brasile" via Il Fatto Quotidiano @recommon.org www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/11/14/c...

"Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all COP30 delegations except Brazil" - via @ninalakhani.bsky.social in @theguardian.com Time to kick them out? ⏰ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#KickBigPollutersOut press conference at #COP30. Larry Rousseau, Canadian Labour Congress, says "If we are serious about the Paris agreement, we must be serious about protecting these negotiations from the vested interests that profit from delay" #KickOuttheSuits

📣 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...

Disastrous votes in European Parliament this morning including on #Omnibus1 changes to #DueDiligence rules: ⚠️Fewer companies reporting ⚠️Scrapping of mandatory climate transition plans This is just days after 100+ legal experts said Omnibus 1 could be illegal papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

💥 Bayer spends massively on lobbying: a total of €75 mln worldwide. 👉 Bayer’s self reported Brazilian lobby budget: € 1.5 mln in 2023. 🫣 Journalists from #OJoioeoTrigo and #FiquemSabendo wrote pesticide industry in Brazil had 752 lobby meetings with 🇧🇷 government from October 2022 to July 2024.

🇧🇷 👉 #Bayer in Brazil: how an agrochemical giant and related agribusinesses greenwash their pollution and climate change contribution at #COP30 ⚡ New research article by CEO and #CBG ‘Bayer in Brazil - big polluter, big lobby spender' 💥 Read here: tinyurl.com/2h3etjfv

Over one hundred legal experts have warned that the EU’s Omnibus I package, which cuts green and social reporting rules, breached EU law and was "likely to be annulled" if adopted.

🚨 DOCU SCREENING ALERT! The EU's "green" hydrogen dream is a nightmare for communities in the Global South. CEO’s powerful new docu reveals the truth. 🎬 Watch the trailer and catch the premiere of the Scramble for Hydrogen in South Africa! 🧵 👇

1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣➕ organisations wrote to EU Climate Commissioner @wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu before he takes off 🛫 for #COP30 in Belém 🇧🇷 We demand he: 🚫 Not bring any 🛢️ fossil fuel lobbyists to COP ✅ Supports tackling conflicts of interest at the UN and in the EU 🇪🇺 ✉️: fossilfreepolitics.org/news/cop30-l...

Despite January revelations of #ForeverLobbying Project @lemonde.fr about devastating impacts of forever chemicals #PFAS, & corporate influence campaign that keeps these harmful substances in our food, water, soil, & bodies, little has changed Read our op ed (in 🇫🇷) ⬇️ www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

This is Lula's last chance to protect nature and climate: action.eko.org/a/lula-s-las...

📢 As the EU's deregulation agenda rolls out the red carpet for corporate interests, our new study shows that the tech industry has ramped up its lobby power: 💰 Lobby spending hits a record €151 million 🕴 Almost 900 tech lobbyists 🤝 Big Tech has lobby 3 meetings a day @lobbycontrol.bsky.social

📣📨 138 organisations urge @ec.europa.eu - in the context of the simplification omnibus on Food and Feed Safety - to boost ambition and protect citizens and the environment from harmful #pesticides 👶🥕🍏🐝🐦🦋💧 👉 www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

Thousands of residents brought the southeastern coastal city of Gabès to a standstill on Wednesday, in one of Tunisia’s largest protests against President Kais Saied’s government. Their demands were not for abstract reforms. They simply want clean air.

The European Commission’s 2026 work programme, launched earlier this week, is the most deregulatory in EU history 🚨 Out of 47 planned initiatives, 25 are focused on “simplification” – a euphemism for #deregulation ⚠️ Read more on Deregulation Watch: corporateeurope.org/en/deregulation-watch

Leaked: The EU Commission Work Programme is titled EUROPE’s INDEPENDENCE MOMENT (!). How does @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu intend to attain independence? By essentially de-regulating the Union, what will prove self defeating as this is already building new and old dependency #euco

NEW: Basking in the destruction of America’s public health, anti-vaxxers are trying to bring Robert Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” anti-science agenda to Europe. www.importantcontext.news/p/anti-vaxxe...

📣 #NewGMOs: Consumer organisations call on EU to "defend the right of consumers to know what they eat and their freedom of choice." #NGTs Biotech industry pressure is massive. But European Parliament should uphold position that consumers have right to know! www.brusselstimes.com/opinions/179...

EU data laws are to become more business-friendly after 19 November, when the EU Commission unveils its "digital omnibus", amid privacy and security concerns.

Today is #WorldFoodDay ! It happens that EU bans toxic pesticides... but then still exports them to all corners of the world. And that is ⤴️ ever more: 120.000 tons in 2024, so we decided to send them back to the Commission. They have been waiting 5 years to act & stop this unethical double standard!

🌎 On World Food Day our colleagues from @paneurope.bsky.social publish a great report reminding us that a pesticide-free future is already possible, and happening! 🌾 👉 Farmers and public authorities across Europe are showing how. Beyond pesticides , read here : www.pan-europe.info/resources/re...

The EU’s #deregulation machine is running full-speed - and the Commission isn't keen on letting the public see how it works In less than a year the Commission had 605 meetings with lobbyists on ‘simplification’ but #transparency is deeply insufficient New post: corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

📣 CALL TO ACTION! Tell the Commission: no weakening of rules on #food and #feed safety, #pesticides Deadline is 14 October so please act fast.