The European Commission's new Competitiveness Compass confirms widespread concerns that President Ursula von der Leyen's administration is unleashing a sweeping deregulation agenda— at the expense of democracy and social and environmental protections.
As the right-of-centre attacks on EU funding to NGOs intensifies, new findings expose a glaring conflict of interest involving Member of European Parliament Monika Hohlmeier (EPP). This casts serious doubt over her role as rapporteur in scrutinising EU funding for NGOs under the LIFE Programme. Corporate Europe Observatory urges MEPs to remove Hohlmeier as rapporteur.
The EU proposal to restrict PFAS – or ‘forever chemicals’ – across Europe, which was originally developed by regulatory authorities in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden, is under serious threat from corporate lobbying.
In March 2024, the EU passed the world's first regulation on artificial intelligence. However, the devil is in the details of how the AI Act is actually implemented. Sure enough, new research from Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) shows how Big Tech is in the driving seat in deciding crucial rules on how to implement the AI Act through harmonised standards.
Europe’s scramble for green hydrogen in South Africa will have a devastating impact on the very same local communities whose voices are being completely ignored by EU policy makers, according to a new report from Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO).
At least 1773 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the COP29 summit in Baku, underscoring an outsized polluter presence year after year at crucial climate talks, according to a new analysis from the Kick Big Polluters Out (KBPO) coalition.
New research by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) exposes the EU’s climate hyCOPrisy, using COP29 to greenwash Azerbaijan’s gas as more climate friendly so it can justify doubling imports and still claim to be a climate leader.
Wopke Hoekstra failed to reassure that he would keep oil and gas lobbyists away from climate policy when he answered questions in the European Parliament, seeking its approval to reprise his role as EU Commissioner for climate.
As the EU’s climate commissioner Hoekstra prepares for his hearing in the EU Parliament to reprise his role for the next five years, more than a hundred civil society organisations have written to ask him not to bring fossil fuel lobbyists to COP as part of the EU delegation.
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