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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 1w ago

❌ WE SAY NO TO PALANTIR We and 120+ organisations and unions across Europe are calling on our governments and the European Commission to scrap all existing public sector contracts w/ Palantir Read the open letter 👉 https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Palantir-graphic-final-2026.png It’s time to: ✔️Terminate contracts w/ Palantir & say NO to future public contracts ✔️Develop alternatives that safeguard people from mass surveillance ✔️Protect democracy by investing in people, not corporations Read all about it 👉 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/09/no-place-palantir-democratic-europe

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 1w ago

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🚨 Enough is enough! 👏 Workers from all over Europe came to Brussels to say no to the EU Inc/ 28th Regime proposal which will lead to undermining of workers and trade union rights. ✊ EU Inc is a symbol of the madness we are living in and it shall not pass! 👏 @etuc_ces@twitter-bridge.cryobyte.net 👏

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 2w ago

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🗺️ The European Commission’s deregulation frenzy means attacks on labour rights, climate policies, nature protection, and public health. If you want to know more, join us on a free lobby tour of Brussels on 1st Oct at 5.30pm! ✊ We will explain the basic scheme behind this wave of destruction, the lobbying happening behind the scenes, what consequences it can have and how we can fight it. ✍ Sign in for free at: ceo@corporateeurope.org (until the day before at 5pm)

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 3w ago

Boosted by @Dragofix@veganism.social

It's #SOTEU day in Brussels! 🎉 von der Leyen will tell MEPs "our democracy protects what matters", while the Commission has spent the past year churning out deregulation omnibuses that do exactly the opposite. As Orwell would say: 2 + 2 = 5. 🙃 🎥 Watch our take 👇

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 3w ago

Boosted by @Dragofix@veganism.social

#SOTEU : while Europe faces social, environmental and geopolitical pressures, it's funny how the solution always happens to be exactly what corporate lobbyists have been asking for, and they already have more access to EU decision-making than anyone. Here's our take on AI, deregulation and climate👇

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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The AI infrastructure boom is putting immense pressure on energy and water supplies, and threatens the EU’s climate goals. In the face of growing resistance, Big Tech has successfully lobbied the EU to keep information on individual data centres secret in little noticed Delegated Act.

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 2mo ago

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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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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 3mo ago

Boosted by @Dragofix@veganism.social

🚨 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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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 2mo ago

Boosted by @Dragofix@veganism.social

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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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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This a particularly egregious and shocking example of corporate influence. 📝 As the Commission is currently working on an update of the Delegated Act, it should now redo its homework and delete the copy-pasted Microsoft amendment

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 3mo ago

Boosted by @Dragofix@veganism.social

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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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

✊ 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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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 3mo ago

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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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

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3/6 Ripping up EU permitting rules will make it even harder to: 🚧 Stop new pipelines ⛰️ Block new mines 🖥️ Reject new data centres 💧 Refuse new mega-basins 🛫 Stop new airports At industry's behest, the EU is taking away tools that helped us fight against damaging new infrastructure. ✏️ @cartoonRalph

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 3mo ago

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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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

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We're a small team. We don't take money from corporations or EU institutions. Every few weeks, we send a newsletter that explains exactly who lobbied for what, which Commissioner had dinner with which industry rep, and what EU law just got quietly hollowed out. 👉 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/newsletter

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

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👆 So why on earth does the EU want to spend €23 billion building 19,000 km of them? To keep the oil and gas industry in business, and dirty industries from cleaning up their act. All because it’s listening to “experts” (read: fossil fuel companies) pushing the “carbon capture and storage” con. ✏️ @cartoonRalph

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

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2/6 Dirty industry demands are increasingly being written directly into EU law, including: ⚠️ weaker environmental assessments 🏞️ and public scrutiny 🔎 🚫 expanded “strategic project” loopholes 🏭 🛢️🛬 ⛔ more barriers for communities opposing harmful projects 🚷 👇

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

🎬 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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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

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5/6 Three case studies show what's at stake: ⛏️ Mines in northern 🇸🇪Sweden fast-tracked despite trampling Indigenous rights ☠️ Dangerous CO2 pipelines to be built near homes across EU, including 🇮🇹Italy + 🇩🇪Germany 🖥️ Data centre build-out guzzling dirty energy in 🇮🇪Ireland, as homes left unpowered 👇

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

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6/6 It's time to end EU decision-makers’ cosy relationship with Big Polluters. '00,000s are calling on the EU to stop gutting environmental laws and trading our health and future for profit: https://www.handsoffnature.eu/ #HandsOffNature EU: Listen to people not polluters - no more #Permission2Pollute

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

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4/6 The EU Commission has invited industry to shape its plans on permitting – and the companies don’t just want to fast-track polluting projects, they want public subsidies to build them. This means we won’t just be living with more pollution, we’ll be paying the polluters for the privilege 🏭💰 👇

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

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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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

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MCC Brussels is just one in dozens of far right organisations set up by Orbán in a very comprehensive propaganda machine for exporting his authoritarian politics. When it finally disclosed its lobby spending, it revealed an annual budget of more than 6 million euros. https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/03/inside-far-right-network-targeting-europes-digital-rules

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Inside the far-right network targeting Europe’s digital rules | Corporate Europe Observatory

The Trump administration and a network of far-right think tanks are increasingly targeting the EU’s digital regulations and rules on content moderation. Far-right MEPs have taken over these narratives, while tech companies are hoping to exploit the opportunity.

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

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⛏️ The mine would cut off the last remaining seasonal migration route of the reindeer herding community of Gabna. Lars-Marcus Kuhmunen, Chair of Gabna, explains: “Everything is founded around the reindeer herding. If that ceases to exist, the Sámi culture will also cease to exist.”

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

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It's time to end EU decision-makers’ cosy relationship with Big Polluters. '00,000s are calling on the EU to stop gutting environmental laws and trading our health and future for profit: https://www.handsoffnature.eu/ #HandsOffNature EU: Listen to people not polluters - no more #Permission2Pollute

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

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Planned pipelines could pass through densely populated areas despite major safety concerns. As accidents in the US have shown, CO2 pipelines pose major health risks: asphyxiation, mass-hospitalisations and long-lasting health impacts. In Europe, a ruptured pipeline could even prove fatal. 👇

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

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🤝 Sweden's LKAB met top-level EU officials six times in the three months prior to the Commission granting its Per Geijer mine ‘strategic’ status. 🕴️ LKAB is also President of lobby group Euromines, successfully using it to deregulate permitting in Brussels + build support for Per Geijer.

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

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The EU is on an unprecedented deregulation track. The rules that protect us and our environment, and climate policies, social and digital rights, are being rolled back swiftly and systematically. The EU Commission, still dubs it “simplification”, but there is no denying it is deregulation.

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

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There is no limit to the willingness to allow companies to design the Commission’s deregulation plans.

✊ We need:

to defend existing ethical standards,
to stop and roll-back corporate capture,
to drop all consultation methods that allow corporate lobbyists to dominate.
a broad based campaign to defend and expand the protection of the public interest.

👇 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/what-corporate-capture-looks

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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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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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

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Orbán's Brussels-based thinktank, MCC Brussels is part of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), that runs universities with hardline conservative politics in Hungary, Austria and Slovakia, with plans for further expansion. It declared a lobby spending of a whopping 6M+€ in 2024. https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2024/10/orbans-oil-funded-thinktank-murky-transparency

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

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65% of MOL's oil is from 🇷🇺, so Russian oil profits are used to spread Orbán's authoritarian agenda. Besides hosting events on so-called "gender ideology", "cancel culture", and other far right obsessions, it publishes reports and hosts debates on EU policy issues. https://www.desmog.com/2024/05/29/mathias-corvinus-collegium-mcc-oil-funded-think-tank-gathers-climate-deniers-crucial-eu-elections/

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

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Orbán may loose the elections this week-end, but there is a lot of work ahead of us to counter the propaganda machine he set in place, like Euronews, now owned by a company w/ direct ties to Orbán If you want to know more about our work, subscribe to our newsletter: https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/newsletter

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

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Led by an Orbán advisor, Frank Furedi, its wealth started with an endowment of more than €1.3 billion from the Hungarian state in 2021. The endowment included real estate as well as a 10% stake in the state-owned oil and gas company MOL. https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/ausland/viktor-orban-cpac-hungary-ungarn-rechtspopulismus-100.html

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 3mo ago

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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://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/03/action-tell-meps-stop-dismantling-eu-pesticide-laws

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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✊ Our newsletter is what happens when you follow the money, the meetings, the revolving doors, and all the scandals, and then write about it plain language, no EU jargon (can be a challenge!). It is also the way we have to reach out to our supporters, independently of Big Tech. You can subscribe to it here 👉 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/newsletter And send it to a friend who still thinks lobbying by Big Tech is just business as usual!

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

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‘Better Regulation’ was a formula for making laws and law-making more business friendly. But the current model takes the ‘simplification’ agenda to new levels: corporate involvement in decision-making (including the preparation of proposals) is unprecedented.

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

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In the beginning, the Commission did deny it. As when Simplification Commissioner Dombrovskis said in Nov 24 it was “not about deregulation or diminishing our high standards”. Since then he has done little else than diminish standards in collusion with corporations, our report shows.

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Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

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While deregulation campaigns are nothing new to Brussels politics, this one stands out with its scope and methodology. Also, corporate lobbyists and other business representatives are invited in to take a major role, which threatens to set the direction for the EU even further into the future.

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