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A reply to the Alliance Defending Freedom - an anti-abortionist organisation that defends hate speech with a strong presence on the Brussels lobbying stage.

In February 2024, big polluting corporations, led by the chemicals lobby group CEFIC, launched the 'EU Industrial Deal', or 'Antwerp Declaration', which pushes for business-friendly EU decision-making, deregulation of toxic products, and more public subsidies for business as usual.

As EU leaders meet at tomorrow's European Council summit, 120 civil society organisations demand they prioritise the needs of people and the environment, not corporate greed.

During the last EU legislature, the rise of far-right forces has come hand in hand with the stigmatisation, harassment, and violence against women and LGBTQI+ people. Find out more about the North American ultra conservative groups behind it in this podcast hosted by Marcella Via.

Ahead of the EU elections, PAN Europe, Friends of the Earth Europe, and Corporate Europe Observatory present a set of voting score cards by EU political group on the pesticide reduction proposal. These score cards allows the public to see in a glance which groups defended for instance the health of farmers, their right to independent advice on pesticides, citizens' right to clean water - and those who didn't.

Check our our cartoons by @CartoonRalph to dissect the industry-derived Antwerp Declaration

The European Parliament may be about to change radically after the 9 June elections. Some projections predict a new majority of the right and far right: the conservative European People’s Party group, the ultraconservatives in the European Conservatives & Reformists, and the far-right in the Identity & Democracy Group.

Internal documents obtained by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) show that extremely close coordination took place between gig economy companies and the Estonian government, in order to water down social protections for platform workers.

The European Commission pledged to address one of the most unethical trading practices in the EU: the export of banned chemicals to third countries. Our new report outlines the main arguments put forward by the chemical and pesticides industry lobby to keep this deadly trade flowing and block the proposal to ban the export of forbidden chemicals.