Six months after the arrest of then Vice-President of the European Parliament Eva Kaili, CEO, Transparency International and LobbyControl take stock of the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the European Parliament.

In this episode of EU Watchdog Radio, Hans van Scharen talks to Special UN Rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri.

A new study of the top 50 highest-spenders on EU lobbying based on LobbyFacts data shows that Big Toxics - major chemical industry players - now out-spend Big Tech in their EU lobby firepower.

New analysis shows that major chemical industry players ‒ Big Toxics ‒ are at the top of LobbyFacts rankings when it comes to lobby spend.

An unprecedentedly large coalition of politicians from the US Congress and the EU Parliament call for an end to fossil fuel industry influence at the UN climate talks weeks before crucial negotiations.

An unprecedentedly large coalition of politicians from the United States Congress and the European Union Parliament call for an end to fossil fuel industry influence at the UN climate talks weeks before crucial negotiations on the topic in Bonn, Germany.

Agricultural production on fallow land with the excuse of 'boosting food production' is harmful for bees, birds, soil and the climate. NGOs demand the end of EU derogations using the war in Ukraine as excuse.

EU and member state decision-makers need to agree robust new rules to get the chemicals industry in line and paying its way in full.

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.

Most of the 116 recommendations made by special committee (PEST) and voted for by the European Parliament (1) in January 2019, which aimed to make the EU’s pesticides authorization system more transparent and efficient, have been largely ignored by the European Commission and member states, new analysis shows.