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Corporate Europe Observatory is in mourning over the unexpected death of Roel van den Bosch, our financial administrator, appreciated colleague and friend.
AirBnB and its allies are lobbying the EU to fight city-level measures meant to protect affordable housing. Our new report “UnFairbnb” looks at the way the EU lobbying of the companies behin short-term rental platforms risk to undermine cities’ ability to regulate the AirBnB model.
One third of the people who occupied top positions in the EU Commission’s department for banking and financial regulation during the period 2008-2017 either came from the financial industry or went there after leaving the Commission.
As political support for radical solutions to single-use plastic pollution grows, we look at the links between the packaging industry and anti-litter NGOs in Brussels and across the EU.
Should fossil fuel representatives be allowed into the UN climate talks, or do we need a conflict of interest policy to protect the process? Negotiators spent much of the last two weeks fighting over that very question as part of the latest round of talks in Bonn, Germany. While governments representing nearly 70 per cent of the world have demanded a robust conflicts of interest policy, the US tried its best to kill the proposal dead.
On the occasion of the International Day of Farmers’ Struggle, we joined forces with allies to publish five visions for a sustainable, healthy and fair food and trade policy. Let’s restart this important debate!
The appointment of Martin Selmayr as new Secretary-General of the European Commission took almost everybody by surprise. This new role makes the member of Germany’s conservative party the head of some 33,000 commission staff and thereby a crucial actor in processes that could support but also or hinder public interest policy-making.
Who influences decision-making in the European Union? And how? Welcome to the complex and often shady realm of corporate lobbying, 
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