🤯 Just as Europe experienced a deadly heatwave, the Commission is poised to give in to Big Tech's lobbying to greenwash dirty data centres. 🚫 Member states should today revise the Commission's terrible proposal.

🚨 This is what corporate capture looks like While business interests already have unprecedented access, tech CEO's are now calling for direct access to Ursula von der Leyen. Their demand? To speed up the Commission's radical deregulation agenda. 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/w...

🚨 Corporate interests now don't only have a seat at the table, they have an office in the Berlaymont. The appointment of Siemens chairman as the EU's AI envoy is an extraordinary conflict of interest, and will allow industry to shape the EU's AI policies. Read our op-ed on @euobserver.com

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Specifically on #EUCO agenda today is 'One Europe, One Market' roadmap which contains multiple problematic deregulatory initiatives: - existing 10 Omnibus packages - proposal for new 'EU Inc.' company status - planned new Omnibus packages on energy and taxation corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...

Our new research, published with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social, also reveals that the biggest corporate lobby spenders hit a record €382 million, 50% more than in 2020 And as the EU's #deregulation agenda rolls on, it's clear that the lobbying is paying off corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...

EU leaders gather in Brussels for #EUCO meeting today They will discuss #competitiveness & #deregulation among other topics Check out how the biggest corporate lobbies are pushing this self-interested agenda, which cuts our social & environmental protections corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...

It's starting! Protest in Strasbourg in front of the European Parliament. No to the deregulation of new GMOs! No to patents on food! #NGTs

Famers calling out deregulation of new GMOs

Politico reports that the Orbán-backed thinktank MCC Brussels has been suspended from the EU lobby #transparency register The suspension comes after CEO (in spring 2025) lodged a complaint against MCC Brussels for failing to disclose its funding sources www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...

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The EU needs to urgently rethink its lobby rules to tackle dodgy register data & the corporate capture of its decision-making It’s time for: ⚠️ lobby firewalls ⛔ an end to privileged access 🔎 a legally-binding lobby register corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...

The reverse is also true. Our report includes examples of possible over-reporting of lobby expenditures too! It's ridiculous that 🇪🇺 lobby register does not deal speedily with inaccurate data The voluntary nature of register makes accountability much harder corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...

Our report also highlights examples of possible corporate under-reporting of their lobby expenditure. Too many corporate lobbyists with multiple lobby staff, a Brussels office, lobby consultancy contracts, membership fees… declare implausibly low budgets corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...

Highest declaring corporate sectors in our 2026 lobby league of those spending €1 million+ include: 1. 📱 Big Tech: €73 million 2. 💶 Banking & Finance: €67 million 3. 🏭 Energy: €52 million 4. 🧪 Chemicals & Agri-business: €47 million 5. 💼 Cross-sector: €33 million corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...

Yesterday we launched our EU Corporate Lobby League 2026 with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social 173 companies & trade associations which declare €1 million+ in EU lobby register: ➡️ Collectively spend €382 million annually on EU lobbying ➡️ That’s 50% more than in 2020 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...

📣 Join us next week in Strasbourg for a protest against the deregulation of GMOs, the scrapping of consumers right to know, and the threat to farmers from patents! 👇 Read it all here:

🪚 This appointment comes at a time when the von der Leyen Commission has embarked on an unprecedented assault on existing EU rules. Now it seems that corporate interests don't just have a seat at the table, they have an office in the Berlaymont. ‼️ Ursula, revoke this appointment immediately

Even though, Hagemann Snabe had to suspend his board membership in Google Cloud and C3 AI, he still owns: 🧐 $4 million of stocks in C3 AI 🤨 almost $400.000 of stocks in Bloom Energy, a company he's also still a board member of. ❌ Is a board member of Temasek that has investments in Big Tech

The appointment of Siemens chairman Hagemann Snabe as AI Envoy is an extraordinary conflict of interest. Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social , @thegoodlobby.wsocial.eu and @transparency-eu.bsky.social, we have written to Ursula von der Leyen to revoke this appointment. 👉 shorturl.at/EFAFU 🧵

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Cross-sector groups are at number 5 spot in 🇪🇺 corporate lobby league (of those spending €1 million+) with €33 million 📝 Has huge list of #deregulation demands: Omnibuses, 28th regime, single market reform 🤝 BusinessEurope has had most high-level Commission mtgs corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...

Chemicals & Agri-business is at number 4 spot in 🇪🇺 corporate lobby league (of those spending €1 million+) with €47 million 🏭 Sector has been big winner of 🇪🇺 #deregulation + omnibus agenda 👔 These Big Toxics enjoy easy access to 🇪🇺 & national decision-makers corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...

To get the low-down on #deregulation check out @corporateeurope.org's regular Deregulation Watch posts: corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat... And see this week's explainer on the new, and deeply problematic, 28th regime: corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...

EU is planning to weaken the pesticide law. The Food and Feed omnibus proposal would scrap the regular renewal process for pesticide authorisation for most substances, making it harder for new evidence of harm to be factored in at national level. Take action: corporateeurope.org/en/2026/03/s...

Energy is at number 3 spot in 🇪🇺 corporate lobby league (of those spending €1 million+) with €52 million 💶 Hydrogen Europe posted huge lobby spend increase of €2.25 million in 2026; 1186% increase since 2020 💥 Big Energy using Iran war & #deregulation to cash in corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...

Finance & banking sector is at number 2 spot in 🇪🇺 corporate lobby league (of those spending €1 million+) with €67 million 🏦 No sector has more entries in the league than this one: 37 🤝 VDL 2 Commission is delivering several finance deregulation initiatives corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...

Big Tech is again at number 1 spot in 🇪🇺 corporate lobby league (of those spending €1 million+) with €73 million 📱Is working to weaken 🇪🇺 digital rulebook, including on GDPR, AI, & ePrivacy 🇺🇸 Tech executives have weaponised Trump administration to target 🇪🇺 rules corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...

Watch this space for more analysis later today, including biggest spending corporate sectors... By the way, we’re small, independent, & not funded by big business or governments. Do subscribe to our newsletter – it is how we organise, analyse, and fight back! corporateeurope.org/en/newsletter

Some parts of 🇪🇺 decision-making are being steadily captured by corporate interests - at the expense of the public interest EU needs to urgently rethink its lobby rules It’s time for: ⚠️ lobby firewalls ⛔ end to privileged access 🔎 legally-binding lobby register corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...

These big spenders are coming after your rights. 🇪🇺 Commission is working alongside corporate lobbies to cut: 🔐 Digital rights ⚠️ Protections against harmful chemicals 🔬 Rules which decide if pesticides can be sold ... This is biggest ever 🇪🇺 #deregulation wave corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...

The highest declaring corporate sectors in our 2026 lobby league of those spending €1 million+ are: 1. 📱 Big Tech: €73 million 2. 💶 Banking & Finance: €67 million 3. 🏭 Energy: €52 million 4. 🧪 Chemicals & Agri-business: €47 million 5. 💼 Cross-sector: €33 million corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...

Our new analysis shows that big business is spending more than ever on EU lobbying 💶💶💶 The 173 companies & trade associations declaring €1 million+ in EU lobby register: ➡️ Collectively spend €382 million annually on EU lobbying ➡️ That’s 50% more than in 2020 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...

Welcome to EU Corporate Lobby League 2026 where big money = big influence Today we will reveal: 🏭 Biggest corporate lobby sectors ✂️ Their lobby agenda to cut our protections 💪 What we can do about it By Corporate Europe Observatory & @lobbycontrol.bsky.social corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...

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8. The risk of building a new company is likely to be shouldered by others. EU Inc. companies do not need to have any own-capital to begin with. That and other measures means employees and the public purse will suffer more.

7. It could boost the growth of letterbox companies used for tax evasion purposes. It will be so much easier to pretend a company has so low a profit it cannot be taxed. Takes only a few hours to set up a ‘company’ in a member state with low or no taxation of companies.

6. It will help companies to shirk employee participation and information rights. All a company has to do, is to register in a member state with few or no rights, and they can stick to that when operating in other member states.

5. The EU Inc. will help companies slip under the radar of authorities and trade unions through rules that allow companies to limit information it gives authorities and to registers. This can be very damaging to the fight against social dumping.

4. It will enable ‘regime shopping’ to attack collective agreements. This is how to do it: register the company in an EU member state with low salaries, tough working hours, and few benefits, and then apply that to the employees in other member states where the company operates.

3. It will lead to undermining of workers’ rights - the “country-of-origin principle” returns. An EU Inc. company can stick to rules in the country it is registered, not necessarily the rules in the host country. Heard that before? Some will know, this is the Bolkestein approach resurrected.

2. A new company can be registered in only 48 hours, which makes the EU Inc./28th regime an attractive tool for criminals. Public oversight in the first phase is so minimal, and there will be no time for proper scrutiny.

1. The EU Inc. project emerged from corporate lobbying EU Inc. is the name of the lobbygroup from the tech and finance sectors that pushed for the idea, and had most of their wishes fulfilled, and had the 28th regime proposal named after them.

The 28th regime explained in 8 points! Today, we published a primer on the 28th regime, aka "EU Inc.", the proposal to allow for snappy registration + light regulation of a new type of European companies. Could be disastrous, not least for workers rights. A quick walkthrough here, and a link.