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Food & agriculture

New GMOs are the problem, not the solution

15.01.2024
The European Parliament (and the EU member states' governments) is debating a new law for new GMOs that would come down to a complete deregulation: no more safety checks, mandatory traceability, nor labelling on the end product. This would mean that GM food could come on our fields and plates untested and unlabelled. Ask your MEPs to support strict regulations for all new GMOs to preserve our freedom of choice, health, and environment!
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Food & agriculture

CEO makes new complaint about unregistered industry lobbying

15.01.2024
Following a report by DeSmog, Corporate Europe Observatory has today demanded an investigation into unregistered influencing activity by European Livestock Voice (ELV).
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Climate

Decoding COP28

EU Watchdog Radio Episode 48
21.12.2023
Another year, another COP. Listen to our new podcast episode of EU Watchdog Radio, where Pascoe Sabido spills the tea of what went down in Dubai.
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Lobbying the EU

Business lobby ignores greedflation, promotes wage suppression

20.12.2023
During the cost-of-living crisis the employers’ organisation BusinessEurope has turned a blind eye to the link between industry's super profits and inflation. Their refrain is that wage moderation is the key to fight inflation. Their message: wage earners should pay for the crisis, not corporate profiteers.
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Climate

COP28 facilitates fossil fuel frenzy

Wrap-up blog from UN climate summit
19.12.2023
Despite the hailed deal to “transition away from fossil fuels”, the 2023 UN climate summit’s text has the oily fingerprints of the fossil fuel lobby all over it. COP28 is more likely to facilitate a fossil fuel frenzy by cementing false solutions.
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Climate

Watch all our COP28 videos

18.12.2023
Here's a compilation of the videos we have produced for COP28, from myth busters to explanatory videos!
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Climate

COP28: an historic outcome, but for whom?

18.12.2023
To make the COP28 outcome truly “historic”, we need to free the talks — and our political and economic systems — from the oily grip of the fossil fuel industry. Op-ed in Euronews.
Protest at COP28, Dubai, demanding Climate Justice Now
Climate

COP28 is running into overtime, but your time is up to deliver climate justice

Statement from global climate justice groups
17.12.2023
As COP28 came to an end in Dubai, members of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice, including Corporate Europe Observatory, released a statement calling out the negotiating text and its loopholes.
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Lobbying the EU

Qatargate - one year later, what changed?

EU Watchdog Radio Episode 47
09.12.2023
It's one year since the Qatargate corruption scandal exploded across the EU institutions and a good time to review if and how things have changed in the Brussels Bubble.
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Lobbying the EU

Qatargate

Everything you need to know about the scandal that rocked the European Parliament
09.12.2023
Everything you need to know about the Qatargate scandal that rocked the European Parliament and the wider issues that this debacle raises.
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Gaza: Ceasefire now

07.12.2023
As the resumption of the offensive against Gaza begins, we share the global outcry against the murder and grave breaches of international human rights we are witnessing in Palestine.
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Climate

EU floods COP28 climate talks with fossil fuel lobbyists

07.12.2023
The European Union and its Member States have brought more than 130 fossil fuel lobbyists into COP28, according to new research by Corporate Europe Observatory, a member of the Kick Polluters Out Coalition.
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Flagship reports

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Cold homes, hot profits

24.10.2023
From Rome to Prague, Brussels to London, politicians are welcoming fossil fuel companies as advisers instead of arsonists, failing to recognise their vested interests and their role in creating, prolonging, and profiting from the energy crisis. 
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30 Years of EU Single Market

21.06.2023
Our new report exposes how corporations have used the EU Single Market to obstruct progressive legislation like social housing measures, progressive healthcare reforms, protection from harmful substances as well bans on short-distance flights.
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Germany’s great hydrogen race

23.03.2023
Our new report maps Germany’s 'brave new hydrogen world'. Which looks a lot like the old world: prolonging fossil fuel use and continuing its extractivist logic. We show who is driving the German – and thus EU – hydrogen hype, who benefits, and the negative impacts for prospective green hydrogen export countries.
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Inside job

08.06.2022
Find out how a proposed EU law that seeks to hold companies accountable for abuses in their supply chains has been watered down by corporate lobbyists, with assistance from the EU's business-friendly ‘Better regulation’ agenda.
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A loud lobby for a silent spring

17.03.2022
In order to tackle the grave threat of the biodiversity crisis, the EU will table a proposal for targets for the reduction of pesticide use. This has put the pesticide industry into survival mode. A new leaked document from pesticides lobby group CropLife Europe shows that while it talks a big talk about backing the Green Deal, in reality it is employing a wide variety of lobbying tactics to undermine ambitious, binding targets.
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Under the influence (II)

20.12.2021
In January 2022, France will take on the rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU. Yet this Presidency has been prepared in close collaboration with the French corporate sector, and is setting a policy agenda that strongly reflects business demands. It looks set to be a captured presidency.
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