Despite strong calls from MEPs and the public, ExxonMobil and its lobby groups mobilise enough behind-the-scenes pressure to stop the European Parliament taking away its lobby badges

EU Watchdog Radio is a new podcast hosted jointly by CEO and Counter Balance. In the third episode, Nicholas Hildyard, UK-based researcher and activist of NGO The Corner House, gives some fascinating insights in the world of logistics.

Will the EU concede to the demands of US negotiators on food standards? While the EU's narrow negotiation mandate makes this seem impossible, the Commission can in fact circumvent the mandate by using other methods that make it much easier to weaken standards – and tilt voting procedures to their own advantage.

Chemical nations, a toxic oligarch ... find out how the EU's titanium dioxide lobby battle concluded.

EU Watchdog Radio is a new podcast hosted jointly by Brussels-based lobby watchdog Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and Counter Balance. In this second episode Nina Holland and Kenneth Haar, both researchers from CEO, analyze the ongoing negotiations on a EU-US trade deal and what impact this ‘TTIP-light’ could have on the so called European Green Deal.

Over 100 civil society organisations from across the EU denounce the European Commission’s recent statements on EU-US trade talks. Public health and the environment are being put at risk to please Trump, they say.

More than 100 civil society organisations demand a stop to trade talks with the US that will further endanger EU rules on health and the environment and aggravate the climate crisis. A change of course is needed.

EU Watchdog Radio is a new podcast hosted jointly by two Brussels based organisations Counter Balance (CB) and Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO). In the very first episode Xavier Sol of Counter Balance discusses how the European Union is planning to finance the Green Deal.

A deregulatory zeal continues to sweep through the European Commission and member states, now turbo-charged by the ‘innovation principle’ and the new ‘One In, One Out’ mantra.

As the new European Commission calls for “an increased level of ambition to reduce significantly the use and risk of chemical pesticides”, in the context of the Green Deal and the ‘Farm to Fork strategy’ , these lofty ambitions are already being watered down via the back door of ongoing trade negotiations.