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February 14, 2013 - 11:23
The European Ombudsman has launched an investigation into the European Commission's alleged failure to prevent conflicts of interest among staff as a result of the revolving door - where EU staff take up jobs with lobby firms and vice versa.
February 4, 2013 - 11:10
In a decision published today, following a complaint filed by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), the EU Ombudsman concludes that the European Central Bank's (ECB) President Mario Draghi's membership of the lobby Group of Thirty does not violate the ethics rules of the ECB. Corporate Europe Observatory warns that this decision risks consolidating and even deepening the lack of accountability of the ECB.
January 28, 2013 - 13:18
Op 30 januari vindt de conferentie “Feeding the World” plaats in het Amsterdamse Hilton hotel. Op deze controversiële bijeenkomst van het tijdschrift The Economist, waar de industriële landbouw als oplossing van de wereldhonger gepresenteerd wordt, staat prinses Máxima naast pesticidenfabrikant Monsanto op het podium. Critici vinden de voorstelling van zaken in het Hilton misleidend.
November 27, 2012 - 08:43
Brussels/ Amsterdam – A small club of international law firms, arbitrators and financial speculators are fuelling an investment arbitration boom that is costing taxpayers billions of dollars and preventing legislation in the public interest, according to a new report from the Transnational Institute and Corporate Europe Observatory published today.
November 14, 2012 - 13:05
The Commission's proposed reforms of the EU Emissions Trading System fail to address its obvious flaw - the ETS is not fit for purpose and should be dropped, according to a coalition of environmental NGOs, including Corporate Europe Observatory, Cuonter Balance and FERN. They argue that the ETS has failed to achieve its own objectives, has generated windfall profits for polluting corporations, and postponed the needed transition from fossil fuels, locking the EU into a carbon-intensive future.
November 13, 2012 - 19:13
Parma, 13 November – Campaigners today demonstrated outside a conference to mark the 10th anniversary of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), held at its headquarters in Parma, Italy. Farmers, NGOs, students and local activists gathered to denounce the industry-capture of our food safety system that EFSA plays a key role in.
November 9, 2012 - 10:31
In 2012 the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) celebrates its 10th anniversary with a number of events organised at its base in Parma, Italy. Corporate Europe Observatory, the European Coordination Via Campesina, the Fondazione Italiana porla Ricerca in Agricltura Biologica e Biodinamica (FIRAB) and the Italian anti-GMO Task Force are organising a conference in Parma to mark EFSA's 10 year anniversary, examining the question of industry influence over European food safety and asking how to better protect public health and the environment.
November 7, 2012 - 11:56
Oil and gas companies from the United States and across Europe have launched an all-out campaign to prevent EU-wide rules for the developing shale gas industry, according to a new report from Corporate Europe Observatory [1]. The fierce battle has included intensive lobbying in the European Parliament and Commission, industry-funded reports, advertisements and websites, designed to show that shale gas does not pose a threat to the environment or to public health, and to promote the fiction that it is a green source of fuel. MEPs are expected to vote on whether the EU should introduce new regulations later this month.
October 17, 2012 - 12:19
The European Commission is deliberately promoting privatization of water services as one of the conditions being imposed as part of bailouts, it has acknowledged in a letter to civil society groups.[1] EU Commissioner Olli Rehn's directorate was responding to questions posed in an open letter concerning the European Commission’s role in imposing privatisation through the Troika in Greece, Portugal and other countries.[2] The civil society groups have today written to Commissioner Rehn to demand that he “refrains from any further pressure to impose water privatisation conditionalities”
October 16, 2012 - 11:47
Lobby transparency campaigners have filed a complaint with the EU Ombudsman, raising concerns about the European Commission's failure to deal with the problem of Commission staff going through the ’revolving door‘ to jobs in the private sector
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