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According to a leaked document, the EU is bent on using the TTIP negotiations with the US to get an agreement on financial regulation that, according to this analysis by Kenneth Haar of CEO and Myriam Vander Stichele of The Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) will weaken reform and control of the financial sector.

Fresh evidence from the French online newspaper Mediapart has cast new light on just how intimate the relations between the controversial tobacco industry and MEPs can be.

Read our response to the EU ombudsman in her inquiry into the commission's handling of the revolving door.

CEO just responded to the public consultation over the EU's plan to enshrine far-reaching rights for foreign investors in the proposed EU-US trade deal, rejecting the Commission's approach.

Hopefully you will have heard about the Politics for People campaign during the European elections? Politics for People was a major campaign co-ordinated by the ALTER-EU coalition and involving many partner organisations across 19 EU member states. Together we asked prospective MEPs to sign up to a pledge to "stand-up for citizens and democracy against the excessive lobbying influence of banks and big business" and at the end of the campaign, over 1330 candidates had done so, of whom more than 170 were elected as MEPs. Now the challenge is to make the Politics for People pledge a reality.

As the dust has settled after the European Parliament elections last month, we're taking another look at the election debates in several member states where excessive corporate influence on EU decision-making and other concerns about the role of lobbying in Brussels became a major theme. We have previously reported on Austria and Denmark, but in Germany and Spain there were also big breakthroughs in the level of debate about these important problems.

As the management board of the European medicines agency votes today on its new clinical-trial data transparency policy, fresh concerns are being raised about how EMA handles revolving door cases.

Open letter to Ecover and Method regarding the decision to use ingredients derived from synthetically modified organisms

A presentation explaining the situation at the European Food Safety Authority and why conflicts of interest scandals keep accumulating there.