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Climate

Deregulation Watch

Exposing new developments in the deregulation agenda
08.10.2025
Check out our new posts on Deregulation Watch which helps civil society monitor new developments in the deregulation agenda, assess what’s at stake, and organise in defence of strong social, environmental, and human rights protections.
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Climate

225+ organisations call for Big Polluters to be kicked out of COP30

01.10.2025
Over 225 organizations, including CEO, demand: "Kick Big Polluters Out, Don't Invite Them to the COP30 Table!"
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Food & agriculture

Tell the Commission: no weakening of rules on food and feed safety, pesticides

01.10.2025
Yet another Omnibus proposal has been announced in a ‘call for evidence’ by the Commission, to “reduce unnecessary regulatory burdens while maintaining high standards”, and this time the target is food and feed safety. Tell the Commission now: No weakening and removing food and pesticide laws!
Food & agriculture

Patented and unlabeled GM crops: Dutch Government lobbying to scrap biotech rules

24.09.2025
The Dutch Government is actively lobbying to scrap rules for new GM crops, which will leave consumers in the dark, undermine independent breeders, and make them and farmers even more dependent on just a few seed giants.
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Food & agriculture

UN report slams global corporate capture of food systems

23.09.2025
An important new UN report shows how a handful of mega-corporations control the global food system, with devastating consequences for food security and inflation; climate change and biodiversity; and human rights and health. Corporate Europe Observatory submitted relevant evidence from the EU to this study, which highlights the major pitfalls of corporate capture.
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Lobbying the EU

Not that kind of Europe, please

18.09.2025
We need civic involvement to rid Brussels of the deregulation mania that dominates the current agenda, putting people and planet in peril. Op ed by Kenneth Haar.
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Free lobby tour on the EU's deregulation wave

Join us for a free lobby tour of Brussels on 17th September at 5h30pm
15.09.2025
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EU verzwakt regels die mensen en milieu beschermen

470 maatschappelijk middenveld, vakbonden en publieke belangengroepen verklaren aan voorzitter Von der Leyen, de Europese commissarissen en de EU-lidstaten dat onze rechten, onze planeet, onze gezondheid en ons rechtssysteem niet te koop zijn.
08.09.2025
A person holds a blue piggy bank adorned with EU stars, with financial graphs and dry cracked earth in the background, symbolising environmental and social concerns. The title of the image says: Our protection is being sold for profit. The heading says: 470 groups urge the EU not to weaken the rules that safeguard people and the environment

The EU weakens the rules that safeguard people and the environment

470 civil society, trade unions and public interest groups tell President von der Leyen, European Commissioners and EU Member States that our rights, planet, health and justice are not for sale
05.09.2025
A flowchart showing who is lobbying for the "28th Regime." The chart includes major corporations like Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and companies such as Uber, Airbnb, and organisations like France Digitale and BusinessEurope. It details the coalitions and entities funding and supporting the lobbying efforts for the 28th Regime.
Lobbying the EU

A social dumping disaster? EU’s ‘ 28th Regime’ plans could help corporations bypass member state rules

05.09.2025
In the name of competitiveness, corporate lobby groups are promoting a radical plan to create an EU-level ‘28th regime’ of parallel, weaker rules. This could help corporations to avoid stricter member state rules for taxation, labour laws, and more, triggering a race to the bottom for social rights.
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Lobbying the EU

How trade tariffs and deregulation go hand in hand

New episode of EU Watchdog Radio
23.07.2025
Listen to the brand new podcast episode, where Kenneth Haar discusses the link between the announced trade tariffs from the USA to the EU and deregulation.
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Lobbying the EU

Complaint results in €47 million-worth of changes to EU lobby register declarations

17.07.2025
Nestlé and Yara are among the big corporate interests that have had to increase their lobby register declarations. Other registrants have been removed for massively over-reporting their EU lobby spending.
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Flagship reports

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Chemical reaction

14.01.2025

The proposal to restrict PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ is at serious risk of being hijacked by corporate lobbying, says a new CEO report. Find out more, including about the Forever Lobbying Project, a ground-breaking journalistic investigation. 

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The scramble for hydrogen in South Africa

05.12.2024

Europe’s scramble for green hydrogen in South Africa will have a devastating impact on local communities, the very same ones whose voices are being ignored by EU policy makers.

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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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