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The European Central Bank (ECB) today rejected calls for its President Mario Draghi to suspend his membership of banking lobby forum the Group of 30 (G30) - a decision which clashes with the European Ombudsman’s recent recommendation.

Ten years after the start of the financial crisis, the revolving door continues to swing both ways at the European Commission directorate responsible for financial regulation, new research reveals.

Today’s European Commission proposal for the disclosure of confidential industry studies used in the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) risk assessments contains positive elements but fails to enable meaningful independent scrutiny of the data.

As EU environment ministers meet in Bulgaria to discuss the upcoming UN climate negotiations, 93 civil society organisations from Europe and across the globe have joined forces to demand a conflict of interest policy for all future UN climate talks. In a joint letter sent today to the European Union’s lead climate negotiator, EU Climate and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete, they call on the EU to support efforts tackling vested interests at these UN conferences.

CEO's reaction to the European Ombudsman’s final ruling regarding the EU Commission’s handling of its former President Barroso’s revolving door move to investment bank Goldman Sachs.

The reformed Code of Conduct rules for ex-EU Commissioners chave come into force today, but a slight extension of the cooling-off period is not the big reform that the Commission promised.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) today gave the first indication of how it will classify foods and crops derived from new genetic engineering techniques.

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The European Ombudsman today followed Corporate Europe Observatory’s call for European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi to suspend his membership of the Group of 30 (G30). Her recommendations also insist future ECB Presidents stay out of the G30, a financial industry interest group composed of bankers from private financial institutions as well as national central banks.

Updated analysis released by Corporate Europe Observatory and Global Justice Now exposes how official lobby meetings about Brexit and post-Brexit trade are being dominated by big corporate interests at the expense of civil society and the public interest.