💥 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.

📣 Doe mee! Nog 6 dagen te gaan om de EU te vertellen dat we geen afzwakking van regels rond voedselveiligheid en pesticiden willen. Lees dit artikel en schrijf mee! Deadline 14 oktober.

📣 We have launched a new #PFAS manifesto 👉 www.banpfasmanifesto.org/en/ 🧪 PFAS are a group of over 10,000 chemicals and due to their longevity, pose a serious threat to human health. 🚫 A strict phase-out of all PFAS is the only way to protect current & future generations. #BanPFAS #StopPFAS

Once released, genetically engineered wildlife can’t be recalled. Over 90 NGOs call for a global moratorium to protect biodiversity. 🌿 🤓 Learn more: www.engineeringnature.org 📢 Or sign here: www.saveourseeds.org/nature-is-no... #IUCNCongress2025 #MoratoriumNow #NatureIsNotALaboratory

5/5 💧📌 25 years after the first warnings, Europe must act: prevent further contamination, uphold the law, and protect public health and the right to safe water.

1/5 🧵🚨 Our new report exposes how major chemical companies have downplayed the toxicity of #TFA to mislead regulators and delay urgently needed action. TFA is an ultra-short #PFAS and a breakdown product of other PFAS, including PFAS #pesticides. www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

🌍 Europe bans toxic pesticides... but exports them abroad! ✊ Let’s stop this toxic trade together! #StopToxicTrade #EndDoubleStandards #PeopleBeforeProfits 🎥 Share the video from END TOXIC PESTICIDE TRADE COALITION &sign: 👉 www.foodwatch.org/en/stop-the-... 👉 www.openpetition.eu/petition/onl...

New on #DeregulationWatch: Is EU Commission President Von der Leyen getting worried about MEPs and governments not buying into her #deregulation agenda? In a speech last week, VDL rallied called upon lobby groups to get their "influence to the table" 🤔 ➡️ www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

What do Austrians think about #NewGMOs? 🇦🇹 A new survey shows: ✅ 76.6% say #NonGMO is key to buying decisions 🚨 79.7% fear the EU’s proposed NGT law threatens consumer rights 📢 85%+ want clear labelling & strict regulation of #NGTs www.enga.org/newsdetails/...

💥 Europe's Toxic Trade Alert ! ☠️ The EU banned dozens of pesticides because they are too dangerous for our health and too toxic for nature. But European companies still produce and export those banned chemicals. Shame on the #EuropeanCommission ! See new data: www.publiceye.ch/en/topics/pe...

SHAMEFUL: EU chemicals companies' profits are still being placed above people's health in poorer nations A major new investigation by @unearthednews.bsky.social & @publiceye.ch found the trade in banned pesticides has increased despite EU promises to end it unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/09/23/e...

Após 25 anos de acordos comerciais prejudiciais entre a UE e a América Latina, lançamos hoje uma campanha contra eles com +50 organizações de 17 países. Podes encontrar toda a informação sobre a campanha "Stop Toxic Trade!" através da ligação em comentário. #StopToxicTrade #StopEUMercosur

Dear Mr. Canfin, our agriculture also needs protection from unwanted contamination from new GMOs. Please stand up for stand up for the @europarl.europa.eu’s position in Trilogue

Such bad reporting on the speech, if you then hear what he means by "competitiveness"... unregulated tech companies, forever chemicals and combustion engines! Draghi is himself a fossil

We've taken another step in tackling industry interference at the UN climate talks ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾 Sustained campaigning from the #KickBigPollutersOut coalition means all non-govt participants heading to COP30 now have to declare who's funding their attendance. kickbigpollutersout.org/COP30-next-s...

Het lijkt erop dat het schenden van mensenrechten de gewoonste zaak van de wereld geworden is. Dit zijn de echte problemen met migratie. Het beschermen van mensenrechten. Dat is het begin van een liefdevolle samenleving. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/u...

4️⃣ Great to see VDL snubbing the far right in the EP during her SOTU. Let’s hope her EPP now: A. Stop doing deals with far right, B. Stop taking over their agenda like on migration and attacks on civil society and C. stop persuing economic policies that create fertile ground for fascists 2.0

3️⃣ VDL said her deregulation campaign is making life easier for businesses, saving them costs. Well, yesterday, 470 organisations showed her otherwise and denounced that people and planet will pick up the bill. Time to set the EU on a different path. #SOTEU corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/e...

Four thoughts on the #SOTEU2025 speech: 1️⃣ On the EU competitiveness agenda, VDL was shockingly misleading: VDL claimed that the Commission's so-called 'simplication' agenda is just about "less paperwork, less overlaps, less complex rules" and reducing "bureaucratic costs for European companies" 👇

Vandaag demonstreerden meer dan 1500 mensen in Londen met borden waarop stond 'I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action'. De 7 Nederlandse rebellen die er zijn werden gearresteerd op verdenking van het 'steunen van een terroristische organisatie'.

Tomorrow, von der Leyen will address the EU Parliament with her SOTEU speech. Today, civil society and trade unions delivered a very clear message in a statement signed by 470 organisations: we need rules to protect people and the environment! corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/o...

> 75,000 protesters take part in protest march in Brussels against Israeli violence in Gaza | VRT NWS: news https://www.byteseu.com/1107715/ At least 75,000 people took part in the demonstration, making it the largest demonstration in our capital since the climate march of 2019. This is where …

Blij dat onze WOO-documenten bij de ministeries van o.m. LNV&VWS zijn benut voor deze sterke Argos-uitzending. Conclusie is duidelijk: NL regering verkoopt de belangen van boeren, consumenten en veredelaars uit aan de multinationals. Risico's gezondheid milieu mag maatschappij oplossen.

⚠️Corporate lobby groups are promoting a radical plan to create an EU-level ‘28th regime’ of parallel, weaker rules for start-ups and ‘innovative’ companies This could enable social dumping and trigger a race to the bottom for social rights corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/s... #RulesToProtect

Climate change makes extreme weather more likely. Yep, we get that. But seeing the numbers is mind-blowing 🤯 🔥 It made the weather conditions behind 🇪🇸 + 🇵🇹's recent wildfires 40x more likely! 🥵 It made 🇪🇸's 10 day August heatwave 200x more likely! www.worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-fire...

The final EU-Mercosur deal does nothing to stop free-trade from harming neither small-scale farmers nor Indigenous Peoples threatened by the expansion of agribusiness. The splitting manoeuvre is an undemocratic hijacking of the long-standing opposition of several EU member states and parliaments.

📣 Unprecedented achievement by Czech journalism community: journalists from 66 newsrooms incl 23 editors-in-chief call on Czech authorities to take an action to support journalists in Gaza. 🖊️ Open letter is a translation of a call by 15 int press freedom groups. denikreferendum.cz/clanek/23780...

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📻 New #podcast episode just dropped! 🌶️ It's summer, so we decided to stay hot and talk about the trade tariffs the US will impose on the EU starting August 1st, and how that is linked to the EU Commission's deregulation wave 🎧 Teaser below + full epiode here 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/35PG...

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...

🚨New video! Communities impacted by green hydrogen projects in South Africa finally had their voices heard by MEPs and the European Commission for the first time. 🤥 Incredibly disappointing: the Commission denied the EU was involved in any of the projects shown corporateeurope.org/en/2025/07/h...

All eyes on Brussels today for the presentation of the new #MFF (EU budget 2028-2034) and plans for agricultural policy #CAP. It promises to be historic but not for the better. Check out our thread 🧵👇