🔴 A Climate Law for Polluters, Confirmed. Europe’s new 2040 #ClimateTarget locks in loopholes, not real climate action. Offsets, carbon removals, and review clauses won’t phase out fossil fuels — they just buy time for polluters. Read our statement 👇 www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/pr...

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...

👆 6/6 The Commission should stop listening to Big Polluters: industrial policy should put public health, labour rights and environmental protection before competitiveness. We need to transform our economy away from fossil fuels. Read more in our Dirty Deal FAQ: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/d...

5/6 The CID promises to create a market for “captured carbon” 🤪 which jeopardise real emissions cuts ✂️ and is unlikely to ever materialise. By putting the fossil fuel industry in the driving seat of industrial policy, the Commission is waving bye bye to a fossil fuel phase out 👇

4/6 It promises to rip away environmental rules around infrastructure permitting 🚷🛢️🏞️ Our health, land and seas are being jeopardised for vast CO2 and hydrogen infrastructure, which will lock-in fossil fuels👇

3/6 It locks in the shift from renewable to fossil hydrogen, a major win for dirty industry. The Dirty Deal mirrors industry’s language and embraces hydrogen made from fossil gas, with the fiction that its emissions will soon be captured 👇

2/5 The Dirty Deal is channelling more public money 💰💰💰 to big polluters 🏭🏭🏭 Carbon capture is dirty industry’s golden ticket to keep profiting from polluting👇

THREAD: 1/6 Part IV of our FAQs on the EU’s not-so-Clean Industrial Deal is out 🕵️‍♀️ taking a closer look at its support of two fossil fuel industry favourite false solutions: hydrogen and carbon capture👇 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/d...

Plus de détails dans l'éditorial ! Il est urgent que la population préoccupés par la santé et le bien-être agissent pour soutenir une interdiction complète des 🇪🇺 #PFAS. Et il est impératif que les politiciens les écoutent. action.wemove.eu/sign/2024-01...

Malgré les révélations faites en janvier par le projet #ForeverLobbying et @lemonde.fr sur les effets dévastateurs des #PFAS et sur la campagne d'influence des entreprises qui maintient ces substances nocives, peu de choses ont changé. Lisez notre éditorial ⬇️ www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

More detail in op ed! It's urgent that citizens concerned about health & well-being take action to support a comprehensive 🇪🇺 #PFAS ban. And it is imperative that politicians listen to them. action.wemove.eu/sign/2024-01...

While EU Commission continues to emphasise its commitment to tackling PFAS, its language around scope of proposed ban is increasingly focussed on ‘consumer uses’, which could allow countless other sources of PFAS contamination to continue, and would be a far cry from the “universal” ban promised.

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 issue should be investigated, because Miteni’s production, patents & machinery have been transferred to India should lead us to reflect ... on the power that multinationals have to relocate in countries where there is clearly a race to the bottom in terms of environmental protection.”

NEW on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎 Under pressure from the #Hydrogen lobby, EU Commission agrees to review its rules on producing #greenhydrogen 2 years earlier than planned. Industry wants sustainability criteria weakened... Expect more fossil gas consumption. corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

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🪚The EU Commission is aggressively cutting any rules that stand in the way of corporate profits. This is the political opportunity that Big Tech has been waiting for. ✊ It is time to fight back against the Commission's chainsaw politics and rein in Big Tech. corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

⚠️In the face of aggressive tech lobbying, the Commission will water down the AI Act in the upcoming digital omnibus. But while the Commission has done ‘reality checks’ with industry, it fails to listen to the reality of people targeted by biased and unfair AI systems.

From lobby firms to front groups, think tanks, and consultancies, financing third-parties is a keystone of Big Tech’s lobby playbook. 👥 Big Tech spends €9 million per year on lobby consultancies 🔊 Big Tech is funding an increasing number of think tanks to amplify its narratives

🫂 In the first half of 2025, Big Tech held 378 meetings with the EU Commission officials and MEPs. That's an average of 3 meetings per working day between Big Tech and EU policymakers. These numbers show Big Tech's sheer muscle power and access to the EU institutions.

🕴️The tech industry now employs 890 full-time lobbyists, up from 699 two years ago. 🤯There are now more tech lobbyists than there are Members of the European Parliament. corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/b...

The tech industry spends more than any other corporate sector. 📊 The top 10 digital companies spend three times more than the top 10 companies in the pharmaceutical, financial and automotive industries combined.

📈 The tech industry's lobby spending has increased with 55,6 percent in just four years. 💸 A large chunk of that money is concentrated with Big Tech with Meta spending an astronomical €10.000.000 on lobbying the EU.

📢 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

The European Ombudsman "has opened an inquiry into whether the European Commission acted secretively in its dealings with industry before launching a series of business-friendly initiatives". The Ombudsman was acting on a complaint by the Corporate Europe Observatory www.politico.eu/article/ombu...

UK / GLOBAL: TUC Aid: almost 40 years of international solidarity in action www.tuc.org.uk/blogs/tuc-ai...

The #ClimateArena event took place in Budapest and it was a fantastic opportunity to meet investigative journalists doing brilliant work at keeping big business into account. Great initiative, @journalismarena.eu , we're really looking forward to future events! Photos by Raul Duran Giro.

It was great to take part in the #ClimateArena of the @journalismarena.eu . We took part in the pannel on "How to make sense of the Commission's mass deregulation agenda", with @elenasanchez.bsky.social of @euobserver.com and facilitation by @jelena-prtoric.bsky.social Photos by Raul Duran Giro.

It's long overdue for 🇪🇺 politicians to confront the Big Toxics lobby. Take action for a Toxic-free Europe now 👇 action.wemove.eu/sign/2024-01...

This is in the context of the #REACH revision being fundamental to citizens' health AND that it is the target of ongoing lobbying by corporate interests wishing to weaken and deregulate chemicals rules.

We've had a 1000-day-long battle to get the Commission to publish key documents about its proposed REACH revision ⚠️ but it still refuses to release the unredacted impact assessment & opinion of its own regulatory advisors ⚠️ corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/w...

💥New article 💥 Check out our new op-ed with @clienteartheur.bsky.social , which challenges the 🇪🇺 Commission to stop operating a politics of secrecy on chemical safety. euobserver.com/EU%20Politic... 🧵👇

More background on how the previous Babis regime undermined democracy in this interview: corporateeurope.org/en/power-lob...

Andrej Babiš' - the "Czech Donald Trump" - has a history of repression and conflicts of interest over his agribusiness empire and EU farm subsidies. These interests are again under scrutiny - but will the EU act? www.euractiv.com/news/czech-p...

Alongside @corporateeurope.org, @lobbycontrol.bsky.social and @thegoodlobby.bsky.social, we've written to the presidents of the political groups at the European Parliament, requesting a committee of inquiry into allegations Hungary set up a spy network within the EU's walls. buff.ly/q8qji4r

Time to stand up to the chemical industry lobbies!

"High court claim says company knowingly sold product containing asbestos and ‘concealed’ risk to public." This is such an important case. But it's disappointing that it takes brave citizens, and not regulators, to take action and hold companies to account. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The minutes from meetings with corporate lobbyists on #deregulation that the EU Commission publishes on its website are often ultra brief, lacking real substance We've submitted a complaint to the European Ombudsman concerning the #secrecy around these meetings ➡️ corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

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...

Let's stop this toxic trade together, please share the video, and sign the petitions: www.foodwatch.org/en/stop-the-... www.openpetition.eu/petition/onl... #StopToxicTrade #StopToxicExport #EndDoubleStandards #PeopleBeforeProfits #FoodJustice #WorldFoodDay @actionaidfr.bsky.social

This week, we are sending back to @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu and the Commission the 4th most exported banned substance from 🇪🇺 to the rest of the world: Picoxystrobin. Banned in 2017, very toxic fungicide w/ severe ecotoxical effects on ecosystems, risks for consumers as its residues can be genotoxic

#WorldFoodDay : One of the big myths around food security is that we need these massive amounts of pesticides, of which too many are highly hazardous for health and the environment. Please share the video! 👉 Sign the petitions www.foodwatch.org/en/stop-the-... www.openpetition.eu/petition/onl...

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!

Interested in the EU lobby footprint of fertiliser companies? Check out LobbyFacts and see what Yara and others are spending & focussing on. #GlobalFertilizerDay www.lobbyfacts.eu/datacard/yar...

Synthetic fertilizers poison our food system, deplete our soil, and put food prices in the hands of a few corporations. Fertilizers poison our bodies, water, and air. They are linked to cancer, birth defects, and respiratory illness. Read more: bit.ly/4nYirn7 #GlobalFertilizerDay

⚠️ Big Ag has a dirty secret. More than half of fertilizers are made from fossil fuels. Industry claims we need fertilizers to feed the world — but we can feed the world without fossil fuels. 👉Read more in “Frack to Fork”https://bit.ly/4nYirn7 #GlobalFertilizerDay

Read more at #DeregulationWatch where you can also take action to fight proposals in another Omnibus (this time on food and feed) which threaten to weaken rules on food, feed safety, and pesticides. corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

Specifically he says: “there is a high risk that proposed Omnibus package on chemicals ... may negatively impact human rights, including rights to health & a healthy environment, reversing recent improvements & creating legal uncertainty for businesses that have already invested in compliance.”

This week #DeregulationWatch reports on the powerful intervention by UN Special Rapporteur on toxics & human rights Marcos Orellana criticising the EU's Chemicals omnibus saying “there is no compelling justification” for the proposed measures. #Deregulation corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...