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The European Union and European governments were found to be complicit in the crimes of transnational corporations, including damage to the environment and human rights violations, at a special tribunal which took place in Madrid in May.

In a second letter to Corporate Europe Observatory, the European Commission defends the way in which the Ad Hoc Ethical Committee handled the move of former Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner to reinsurance company Munich Re.

Seven civil society organisations have written to DG Environment today, calling on them to leave the "European Food Sustainable Consumption and Production Roundtable (SCP Roundtable)". The promise of inclusion and broad stakeholder participation by the food industry funded organization however has never materialized. Instead of involving key stakeholders in the food chain like consumers, environmentalists, farmers and other members of civil society, the SCP leadership and membership at the time of writing consists entirely of the food and beverage industry.

CEO has written to the Commission's Secretary-General to question the Commission's decision to allow Mogens Peter Carl (former director General at DG Environment) to become a lobbyist at Kreab Gavin Anderson (KGA), only months after retiring from the Commission.

The European Parliament’s press service has just published a remarkable online tribute to the practice of MEPs submitting amendments to proposed legislation.

The Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS), a much criticised initiative for the certification of soy as ‘responsible’, has stepped up its lobbying to be included under the EU's Renewable Energy Directive to certify ‘sustainable agrofuels’. This would give RTRS-approved soy, much of which would be produced in unsustainable and damaging monoculture farming, the EU's seal of approval in the context of the EU 10% agrofuels target.