Lobbying the EU

How vulnerable are the EU institutions to undue corporate influence, and what gaps exist in EU lobbying and ethics rules?

Digital

Recruiting now: researcher campaigner on corporate capture & Big Tech

19.05.2022

Are you fed up with the power of Google, Facebook, and other Big Tech players? Join our team!

Digital

Big Tech’s last minute attempt to tame EU tech rules

23.04.2022

As the EU discussions to set up new tech rules come to an end, new lobby documents expose the intense last minute corporate campaign to influence the secretive last phase - the trilogues.

Ukraine crisis

31.03.2022

CEO brings you its latest analysis on lobbying and the Ukraine crisis, from energy policy, to tracking the corporate opportunists and their lobby demands.

Digital

Over 40 CSOs and trade unions demand transparency in DSA-DMA trilogues

28.02.2022

Today over 40 NGOs and trade unions working on transparency, media, democracy and digital rights, asked EU policy-makers to make urgent improvements to the transparency of the trilogue negotiations on the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA).

Captured states

Macron's EU vs Transparency & Democracy

21.01.2022

In this new episode of EU Watchdog Radio we discuss France, French politics, the role that French President Emmanuel Macron wants to play in the EU and what vision he has for the future of Europe. Disclaimer: the French Presidency of the EU Council which started on 1 January promises a very corporate-driven future of Europe!

Digital

How corporate lobbying undermined the EU’s push to ban surveillance ads

18.01.2022

Despite the EU's talk about regulating the digital sphere, we uncover how Big Tech has successfully waged a major lobbying campaign to prevent a ban on their extremely profitable model of intrusive surveillance advertising. However MEPs still have a chance to turn some of this around.

Captured states

Under the influence (II)

20.12.2021

In January 2022, France will take on the rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU. Yet this Presidency has been prepared in close collaboration with the French corporate sector, and is setting a policy agenda that strongly reflects business demands. It looks set to be a captured presidency.

Captured states

Recovery Watch versus the Great EU Robbery

15.10.2021

In this new episode of EU Watchdog Radio we dive into the question on how the European governments are actually spending the billion and billions of EU recovery funds. We focus specifically on France, which is taking over the EU presidency as of 2022.

Captured states

Under the influence (I)

12.10.2021

In January France will take over the Presidency of the EU Council for six months. But the early signs are worrying that this will be a pro-corporate presidency which prioritises a handful of corporate ‘champions’, and an ever greater role for big business in policy-making.

Regulatory cooperation

Tech lobby eyes opportunities created by new EU-US Trade and Tech Council

28.09.2021

Tomorrow EU and US counterparts will sit down together for the first meeting of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC). This is a new transatlantic 'regulatory cooperation' effort with a special focus on the tech sector. Much is at stake in these discussions: from regulating tech giants to standards for artificial intelligence. Corporate lobbyists are keen to get a new industry-driven tool.

Captured states

No sponsorship deals for the French EU Presidency

23.09.2021

On 1 January 2022, the French Government will kick off its stint at the helm of the Council. Take action today to send a clear message to President Macron to say NO to dodgy sponsorship deals for the Council presidency.

Digital

Big Tech Lobby versus EU Democracy

06.09.2021

In this new episode of EU Watchdog Radio, we start with a Bang. This podcast deals with the question how the big digital corporations and platforms like Facebook, Google, Amazon and others try to influence European policy making to keep their business models intact.

Lobbying the EU

Recruiting now: researcher campaigner on corporate capture & Big Tech

Big Tech’s last minute attempt to tame EU tech rules

Ukraine crisis

Over 40 CSOs and trade unions demand transparency in DSA-DMA trilogues

Macron's EU vs Transparency & Democracy

How corporate lobbying undermined the EU’s push to ban surveillance ads

Under the influence (II)

Recovery Watch versus the Great EU Robbery

Under the influence (I)

Tech lobby eyes opportunities created by new EU-US Trade and Tech Council

No sponsorship deals for the French EU Presidency

Big Tech Lobby versus EU Democracy

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