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  🚨 New report by Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research shows on how Big Tech company Palantir is managing to pay little to no taxes in EU. It shows how Palantir’s global tax structure drains funding for public services and infrastructure ✊ European Public Service Unions (EPSU) demands tougher rules on public contracts 👉 https://www.cictar.org/all-research/europe/palantir

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  This Summer we were kindly invited by the The Greens/EFA in the European Parliament to host a #PFAS -themed lobby tour of Brussels, with people from affected communities. It was a very timely initiative and it was a real joy for us to join the group. 📷 by Marcella Via If you want to know more about the tours and other CEO initiatives, subscribe to our newsletter! https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/newsletter

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  🎬 In Madrid, Valencia or Barcelona next week? Join us for a free screening of "The Scramble for Hydrogen in South Africa", a doc about EU green extractivism and the communities paying the price, followed by a conversation with activists on the ground. More info 👉 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/new-free-screenings-our-documentary

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  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 https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-transparency-watchdog-suspends-viktor-orban-mcc/

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  🚨 We need your help The Food & Feed Omnibus - already a direct attack on EU pesticide rules - is being made WORSE by its rapporteurs, who are acting as loyal servants to Bayer and Syngenta They want: ☠️ Unlimited approval for pesticide active ingredients at EU and national level ⚠️Hazardous substances on the market for up to 15 years, based on "socio-economic and agro-economic assessment", not health concerns MEPs have days left to push back before the vote ✊Take action https://ww...

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  Captured! Published today with European Environmental Bureau check out our new report and find out how industry captured the EU Commission’s Critical Chemicals Alliance, which is really bad news for action on chemicals & climate crises. Don’t worry if you’ve never heard of the Critical Chemicals Alliance – we’ve got you covered! https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/07/captured-critical-chemicals-alliance

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  🚨 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. https://www.politico.eu/article/european-tech-ceos-want-direct-line-to-craft-eu-policy/ Read our report 👉 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/what-corporate-capture-looks

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  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@bewegung.social https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/eu-corporate-lobby-league-2026

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  🚨 NEW REPORT: EU handing industry #Permission2Pollute 🚨 At the request of oil&gas, mining + BigTech lobbyists, the Commission is ripping up permitting rules to fast-track polluting projects like pipelines, mines + data centres. Read more https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/permission-pollute 👇 🧵 1/6

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  🛢️ The oil and gas lobby is pushing for fast-tracked approvals, weaker enviro assessments+new permitting loopholes for thousands of planned CO2 pipelines These projects may be labelled “strategic” or “public interest”, making it harder for communities to challenge them 🚷 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/permission-pollute

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  ✊ Help prevent Bayer and BASF from controlling the food chain even further! The EU is planning a major hand-out to big corporations by scrapping safety and transparency rules for risky new GMOs, and let corporations profit from patented GM crops. MEPs vote in June, let them know what you think at the petition 👉 https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/take-action-say-no-deregulation-gmo-food

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  Sweden’s new Per Geijer iron ore & rare earth metals mine, owned by LKAB, is being fast-tracked thanks to its EU-granted 'strategic' status: but the indigenous Gabna Sameby community warns the project threatens their very way of life. #Permission2Pollute 👉 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/permission-pollute

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  Last week the EU Parliament and member states reached a deal on the AI Omnibus. This is only a first step in the EU's misguided plans to weaken the digital rulebook to please big business and the Trump administration. Read here how the AI Omnibus weakens digital rights and adds legal complexity 👇 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulation-watch

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  Breaking! Internal #EPP campaign video leaked! EPP president Manfred Weber leaked in a campaign video adopting far-right narratives on migration and green policy. The EPP increasingly votes with far-right parties, vowing to deregulate ecology, kill the Green Deal, and rebrand the party. Share it!

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  Thanks to everyone who joined us for a webinar on our report 'This is what corporate capture looks like!' by its main author, Kenneth Haar! If you didn't manage to, you can: watch the webinar 👉 https://www.youtu.be/Qs6nNIeAD9E check out the report 👉 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/what-corporate-capture-looks

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  “We can defeat them, the big tech industry has a playbook, but we also have a playbook” said Bram Vranken in conversation with Carole Cadwalladr, Margarida Silva and Natalia Viana, at #ijf26 conference. At the International Journalism Festival, Bram presented our recent research with AlgorithmWatch, published by Investigate Europe, revealing how the European Commission copied and pasted an amendment suggested by Microsoft and Digital Europe. 👉 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/copy-pa...

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  🚨BREAKING New research together with @algorithmwatch shows how the European Commission has copy-pasted a Microsoft amendment. The amendment will keep key information on energy-guzzling data centres hidden. 👏 Investigate Europe for covering https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/copy-paste-govern

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  As we wait to know on Sunday the future of Hungary, the chances of Orbán’s defeat give hope that the rise of far-right can be stopped. But his propaganda machine has spread over Europe. We’ve been looking into it, here’s what we know:

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  It's People vs. #PFAS polluters. For a small insight into how PFAS-affected communities, who live with pollution every day, are treated by those in Brussels' lobby quarter, check out this video. Spoiler: 💥 VDL refused to meet citizens 💥 PFAS lobby called the police

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  Commissioner Séjourné held 84 meetings on deregulation. All 84 were with business groups. Not one civil society org. Not one. This isn't consultation. This is what corporate capture looks like. 🧵 New report 👇 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/what-corporate-capture-looks

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  🤔 Who's really driving the EU's deregulation frenzy and how can we fight it? 🗺️ Join our free lobby tour of Brussels on 16 March at 5pm to find out. Length: 1.5hrs Sign up: ceo@corporateeurope.org More info 👉 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/03/free-lobby-tour-eus-deregulation-frenzy

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  📣 Dearest Gentle Readers, The season is upon us, but not everyone has been invited to the ball! With captains of industry treated to red carpet, the rest of society has been left out. 270 organisations invite Von der Leyen to the #AntwerpCounterSummit : https://friendsoftheearth.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Antwerp-Counter-Declaration-Standing-up-for-rules-that-protect-democracy-people-and-planet-1.pdf 👉 Will she accept?!

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  Dearest Readers, The invitations have been delivered, silver has been polished, and the 270+ signatories of the #AntwerpCounterSummit are officially adjusting their silks. 🖋️ ⏰ But the guest is... missing? Is the President's dance card already full of corporate interests? https://www.friendsoftheearth.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Antwerp-Counter-Declaration-Standing-up-for-rules-that-protect-democracy-people-and-planet-1.pdf

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  📣 270+ organisations gathered. A ballroom prepared. And the Guest of Honour? She has declined the dance. 👀 It seems @vonderleyen only has eyes for her industrial suitors. 😱 The @EU_Commission has officially refused to meet the people. #AntwerpCounterSummit A scandal, truly.

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  We are so much better at fighting corporate capture that we are at making videos! Still, we hope you have enjoyed this series of explainers. Should we continue to do it? If so, what topics should we talk about next? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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  Is the EU heading for a social dumping disaster? The proposed '28th Regime' would let companies choose EU-level rules over national labour and tax laws. Trade unions warn it could trigger a race to the bottom for workers’ rights. Innovation — or deregulation? Watch our new explainer video and find out👇

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  The EU just signed its “Clean Trade and Investment Partnership” w/ South Africa. Clean transition — or green colonialism? Europe wants green hydrogen. South Africa bears the water, land & livelihood costs. 130+ groups are pushing back. Watch & sign the petition 👇 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/gh2-petition-new

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  🗓️ Tomorrow is the 1-year anniversary of the EU’s #CleanIndustrialDeal. We looked into the lobbying: 🤝 750+ meetings - 3/working day 👔 90% = business interests 🔎 5.5% = NGOs 👷 1% = trade unions Big polluters have engineered a #DirtyIndustrialDeal 📖 Read more: https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/clean-industrial-deal-year-dirty-lobbying

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  🎂 For the 1st birthday of the Clean Industrial Deal (CID) 🎂 CEO exposes how dirty industry lobbyists have outgunned civil society in gaining access to the European Commission and influencing this #DirtyIndustrialDeal. Thread with key findings 🧵 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/clean-industrial-deal-year-dirty-lobbying

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  Corporate lobbyists in Brussels have a playbook. 4 tactics they use to shape EU laws without us noticing: 1️⃣ Repeat until it sounds like consensus 2️⃣ Throw money at it 3️⃣ Blur the lines between regulator and regulated 4️⃣ Delay, distract, greenwash The more we know it, the less we fall for it!