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The biggest chemical producer in the world, German company BASF is a political powerhouse and has used its influence to push back against chemicals regulation in the EU. No wonder, when its products include ‘forever’ chemicals and hazardous pesticides. Corporate Europe Observatory takes a look at the company's influencing tactics, as well as its scandals, from a massive carbon footprint to 'Cancer Alley'.

Women are suffering in poverty, being forced to make impossible choices to ensure people who are dependent on them can survive, while the corporations responsible for this crisis are overwhelmingly run by men.

Documents obtained by Corporate Europe Observatory reveal how the EU’s pioneering attempt to regulate artificial intelligence has faced intense lobbying from US tech companies.

One of the most important steps in EU decision-making takes place behind closed doors. We call on the EU to end this secrecy. We have the right to be informed about the negotiations between the Commission, the Parliament and the member states.

Corporate Europe Observatory's researchers Kat Ainger, Olivier Hoedeman and Hans van Scharen talk about the corruption scandal and its’ consequences.

The unified political outrage in the European Parliament following Qatargate lasted more or less until Christmas. There was - granted – an ambitious, cross-party resolution voted 15 December, to clean up the political mess collectively by strengthening transparency and ethics rules and installing real, independent enforcement of those. But before the year ended this political will began to melt like ice caps under climate change.

In our brand new episode of EU Watchdog Radio, we talk to MEP Paul Tang and to CEO’s Bram Vranken about the new website LobbyLeaks.eu

Big Tech might be the EU's biggest lobby spender by sector, but research by CEO and LobbyControl shows that a little-known band of economic consultancies are still managing to fly under the radar on behalf of their tech clients. These consultancies are effectively 'spamming the regulator' with supposedly neutral reports to influence the EU's competition policy and smooth the path for Big Tech monopolies and mergers. What's worse, the Commission's DG Competition in charge of competition policy enjoys a regular revolving door with these consultancies.

Everything you need to know about the Qatargate scandal rocking the European Parliament and the wider issues that this debacle raises.