⚠️ 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...

2 years ago, we were in ground in Antwerp protesting the Clean Industrial Deal, the European Commission’s flagship policy. Surprising to no one, despite the name, it’s not so clean and definitely not green! It's worth watching it again and check out the thread for frequently asked questions on it 👇

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

1/ Revealed: industry’s lobby blitz to undermine chemicals policy reform. See our brand new analysis of the #REACH chemicals regulation lobby battle in Brussels: corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/r...

If you are in 🇧🇪 tomorrow night, check out - #PFAS, nos poisons éternels - showing on La 1, RTBF, Wednesday 11 Feb at 20.15, + Sunday 15 at 22.30. The film investigates the scale of PFAS contamination disaster in 🇪🇺 + 🇺🇸 and the urgency for collective European action against this global threat.

Great work @ecologistasenaccion.org Check out the origional English here: corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/p...

A broad alliance underlines similar points and warns how corporations and @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu are attacking protections for workers, communities and environment We need something different in the EU, an agenda that puts people and planet before profits An agenda for Quality Jobs, for 6/

“The U.S. has a long history of covert manipulation of politics across the globe. But to see it happen in Europe is new, and we should be worried,” said CEO's Kenneth Haar “Big Tech regulation is set to be the first testing ground of the new American way of imposing their will on Europe”

🚨 Tomorrow, von der Leyen meets corporate lobbyists just hours before EU leader retreat. Trade union and NGO coalition warns against an (E)U-turn on protections. We call for rules that protect democracy, people & planet - not polluters. 📄 Joint Declaration: corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/t...

Big Tech spent €151 million lobbying the EU last year. That’s 890 lobbyists — more than elected MEPs. Now key digital rights like GDPR and the AI Act are being quietly rolled back. We looked at who’s really influencing EU tech rules — and what’s happening behind closed doors. 👇

“Unsustainable economic activity and focus on #growth has been a driver of the decline of biodiversity and stands in way of transformative change,” warns report by IPBES. 🤔 Will EU leaders discuss this in Alden Biesen Castle on Thursday at #competitiveness summit? ipbes.canto.de/v/IPBES12Med...

The Commission is assessing whether #Mandelson's #Epstein contacts violated EU ethics rules 👏 Just a reminder that #Mandelson, as EU Trade Commissioner (2004–2008), operated an open-door policy for corporate #lobbyists & prioritised big business interests, as summarised in this cartoon from 2008 ⬇️

🤯When false solutions reach next level of falsehood. Instead of reducing pesticide use and restore ecosystems, let's go for CO2-loaded tech making food production dependent on dodgy tech providers! Good response from @beelifeeu.bsky.social at the very end.

We invite you to join the webinar "PFAS pesticides: Threatening health and the environment". 📅​24 February 2026 at 14:00 CET 📍​European Parliament & Online​ 👉 Register here: www.pan-europe.info/events/confe...

As the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Climate Change prepares for a major study on transforming food systems to protect human rights & prevent climate harm, IATP & @ips-dc.org submitted comments highlighting how policies protecting corporations are key barriers to progress. www.iatp.org/comments-int...

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

CEO published several investigations showing that Peter #Mandelson, as EU Trade Commissioner (2004–2008), operated an "open-door policy" for corporate #lobbyists, incl. BusinessEurope, prioritizing big business interests in the "Global Europe" strategy ➡️ archive.corporateeurope.org/docs/GlobalE...

The EU Commission has sacked Henrik Hololei, its former top transport official 👏 Hololei accepted free flights, gifts and hospitality from Qatar while negotiating a transport agreement with the Gulf state that benefited the country’s airline ⚠️ The Commission should learn a deeper lesson from this

Extreemrechtse conferentie in het Europees Parlement vandaag en morgen 🚨 Schokkend dat de N-VA (als lid van de ECR-fractie) dit mede organiseert 😯🤔

1 Check out new ‘The Pollution Playbook: how industry blocks regulation of toxic chemicals’ briefing by @ciel.org and @corporateeurope.org on the deceptive tactics used by chemicals industry to keep producing & using their toxic products. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/p...

Ook lachwekkend en triest: Lelystad Airport kan open met initieel 10.000 vliegbewegingen als het aan alle wettelijke vereisten voldoet, waaronder het beschikken over een natuurvergunning. Dat heet tegenwoordig Omgevingsvergunning en LA voldoet niet. schipholwatch.nl/2024/01/30/g...

Het nieuwe kabinet wil de waterkwaliteit verbeteren door de regels te versimpelen?!? Kan iemand hen uitleggen dat maatregelen om vervuiling tegen te gaan een stuk eenvoudiger én effectiever is. Voor de rest is het bestaand beleid en daarvan weten we dat het onvoldoende is.

Sommige mensen denken dat we de natuur kunnen redden met data of research infrastructuren. Maar wat nodig is, is herstel van de relatie tussen mens en natuur. Data en techniek hebben we genoeg. Het gaat om de juiste toepassing en om samenwerken. #overleven www.nd.nl/nieuws/klima...

⏳ 3 days to #IPBES12! The 2019 IPBES#IPBES12#GlobalAssessment was covered by >10,500 media outlets in >170 countries in 50 languages. Help us make sure the upcoming #BizBiodiversity Report follows suit, with transformative data & tools for the global economy. 📍 Manchester, UK 📅 3-8 Feb 2026

They tried intimidation. Minnesota answered with people.

Look out for our briefing with @ciel.org Coming very soon!

My first remarks since being arrested last night.

Amazon just announced another round of 16,000 layoffs, months after it laid off 14,000 workers. Reminder that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raked in over $40M in 2024. And Amazon is spending at least $75 million producing and promoting the Melania documentary. The system is rigged.

Happening now or you can catch up with the recording afterwards: www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/events/chall...

#NatureCredits won’t save nature, they’ll commodify it. We can’t keep inviting markets to 'fix' what they helped destroy. The carbon credits fiasco is proof enough So why is the EU Commission pushing this? Read our 🆕 study with @rosaluxeu.bsky.social on the motivations & interest groups behind it👇

Really important story about how fossil fuels, plastics, and chemicals industry are desperately fighting to boost fossil fuel use via the deeply problematic chemical recycling and mass balance. A must read. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

On behalf of over 120 civil society groups, I've sent an open letter to @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @president.europarl.europa.eu @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu, urging EU leaders to resist Trump's fossil-fueled imperialism! oilchange.org/news/eu-phas... @tadziomueller.bsky.social

⛔ A majority of ENVI members in the EU Parliament today voted yes to deregulate new GMOs. This means to sell out consumer & farmer rights, health/env safety, the interests of independent seed companies.. to a handful of pesticide producers. 👉 The bulk is from Conservatives (PPE) and far right (PfE)

📣 You lead an independent institute investigating hundreds of substances incl asbestos, tobacco, #pesticides. Then you get fired for no reason. This is what just happened to researcher leading the Global #Glyphosate Study at the #Ramazzini Institute. careygillam.substack.com/p/top-scient...

Who lobbies the EU? Not just corporations — but a whole ecosystem of actors: NGOs and trade unions, but mostly corporate lobbyists, trade and industry groups, consultancies, law firms, and think tanks. 🔦It’s time to shine a light on their murky world! Watch the 3rd video of our new series.

1/ The 🇪🇺 Commission is taking a political chainsaw to hard won social, environmental, and digital protections. We need #RulestoProtect not #Deregulation. Check out our new cartoons below by @cartoonralph.bsky.social and spread the word!

It is important to acknowledge who is standing up and who is just trying to get by. Every day Americans are standing up while the powerful are mostly standing by. Why aren't law firms standing up and sending lawyers to Minneapolis. Why aren't the corporations speaking out? Why isn't the media?

While Trump boasts and flexes his muscles with Tech Bros and other allies in Davos, EU governments are meeting to discuss how to respond to his plans to take over Greenland and his trade war. Will they rise to the challenge, or will they once again bow to Trump? Here’s what they should do:

These are some of the steps that must be taken. All to stay in place until all threats and all measures to take over Greenland have stopped. Hands off Greenland! The future of Greenland is for the Greenlandic people to decide!

Don’t be sheep 🐑 NGOs defend human rights, health, nature & refugees — that’s why conservatives&far right want to silence us Fake scandals. Funding cuts. Same old authoritarian playbook Democracy is like health: you only miss it when it’s gone Be a black sheep ✊ 2nd ep of our video series out now

🎁 Just before the holidays, the EU Commission granted Big Tech its Christmas wish-list: an unprecedented attack on our digital rights. Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social we have mapped how the Digital Omnibus closely matches Big Tech lobby demands. 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...

The EU Commission launched 10 Omnibus packages in 2025, weakening regulatory standards in numerous areas 🚨 We’ve created an ‘Omnibus Tracker’ that provides an up-to-date overview of Omnibus proposals and what’s at stake 🔍 #deregulation #DeregulationWatch www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

Farmers are being betrayed. CropLife Europe, the von der Leyen Commission, the EPP and the far right are pushing the EU-MERCOSUR deal — devastating for farmers and the environment, while Bayer & BASF profit. Protests are being hijacked to weaken EU pesticide and health rules. Watch to find out more

📢⛔☠️ Today EU countries vote on EU-MERCOSUR free trade deal, that will cause massive harm to farmers. 🤥 Von der Leyen (EPP) first reduced farm subsidies, now offering some back in return for deal. 🤠 EPP crying victory over this empty shell, while 🤡 far right Meloni may shift to support the deal.

Let's stand together to fight corporate power in 2026! Wish you all peace, love and inspiration. In solidarity, The team at Corporate Europe Observatory

Good news:Bayer's immunity shield has been defeated! If approved, it would block citizens from taking pesticide producers to court when they suffer damage to their health after using their toxic products. Senate Republicans have agreed not to revisit the issue. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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...