How vulnerable are the EU institutions to undue corporate influence, and what gaps exist in EU lobbying and ethics rules?
An updated study shows that Big Tech spends 113 million euros on lobbying in Brussels - a 16.5 per cent increase since 2021.
As the EU Single Market turns 30, we can't allow further obstacles to its just future.
In case of the EU’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the tens of billions of euros the EU spends on purchasing vaccines from powerful pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer, the European Parliament has renounced its' key task of budgetary control.
NGOs have today written to European Parliament President Roberta Metsola to raise concerns about potential conflicts of interest regarding Member of the European Parliament Axel Voss.
Joana Louçã talks to economist and trade unionist Frank Ey, Olivier Hoedeman and Moritz Neujeffski, co-authors of CEO's latest report on the Single Market.
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Our new report exposes how corporations have used the EU Single Market to obstruct progressive legislation like social housing measures, progressive healthcare reforms, protection from harmful substances as well bans on short-distance flights.
Instead of a misguided 'foreign agents' law that will negatively target NGOs, the EU needs to respond to the Qatargate scandal with a robust compulsory transparency register that targets all covert lobbying, with legally binding sanctions and enforcement.
The European Commission has hired consultants who work for some of the biggest monopolies in the world to evaluate its merger enforcement policies. The European Commission has barely explored if there is a conflict of interest in such an appointment.
NGOs including Corporate Europe Observatory have today raised serious concerns about the risk of conflicts of interest by an MEP working on the Corporate Sustainability and Due Diligence file.
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.
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