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Press briefing on the EU Commission's transparency and independence proposals in response to the European Citizens' Initiative "Stop Glyphosate"

EU Commission, Parliament and Council have prolonged the future of the EU Emissions Trading System as a source of billions of euros in polluter subsidies.

Corporate Europe Observatory has just submitted a complaint on Monsanto to the EU's Joint Transparency Register Secretariat over the pesticide manufacturer’s non-compliance with EU transparency rules.

A new Corporate Europe Observatory report reveals that in 2016 alone the gas industry invested over €100m in lobbying EU decision makers. These lobby efforts threaten to lock the European Union into another 40 – 50 years of climate-damaging fossil fuel dependency.

New research by Corporate Europe Observatory traces how financial and car industry lobbies have slipped their wishes into draft EU rules for the sale of bundled and repackaged car loans, set to be voted on in the EU Parliament plenary this Thursday.

This Wednesday 11 October, an extraordinary hearing at the European Parliament will dissect the tactics which pesticide manufacturer Monsanto has used to manipulate science in order to keep its flagship product Roundup on the market. CEO's Martin Pigeon will be there to give evidence.

ECB advisory groups are used as lobby platforms by the financial industry, as our newest report shows. The expert groups counselling the European Central Bank on EU monetary policy have become dominated by representatives of some of the most influential global financial corporations.

UK trade secretary Liam Fox has come under fire for the strong business bias of his Department for International Trade's lobby meetings, as he launches unofficial trade negotiations with the US today - a bias that raises questions about the way a possible post-Brexit UK-EU trade deal might be skewed in the interest of Big Business.

Earlier today, German agribusiness giant Bayer formally requested the EU Commission’s approval for the takeover of its US seeds and pesticides rival Monsanto. Here is our reaction.