Other battles

Online privacy, clean air, affordable housing, whistleblower protection and much more: which other corporate lobby fights are putting EU public interests on the line?

Brexit

Cameron and the European Commission: doing the business of business

06.05.2015

As the UK goes to the polls, CEO reflects upon the similarities between the UK and EU's 'better regulation' agendas.

EU institutions

Extreme finance: the far-right and its funding

05.05.2015

Money matters in Europe's far-right.

Towards legalised corporate secrecy in the EU?

27.04.2015

How industry, law firms and the European Commission worked together on EU “trade secrets” legislation.

EU draft trade secrets directive threat to free speech, health, environment and worker mobility

23.03.2015

Multi-sectoral civil society coalition calls for greater protections for consumers, journalists, whistleblowers, researchers and workers.

Les affaires au secret

28.01.2015

Va-t-on assister à l'apparition d'un label « secrets des affaires » pour les entreprises, comparable au « secret défense » des états ? Ce dernier leur permet de s'opposer à la publication de certaines informations jugées trop sensibles, et de poursuivre en justice ceux qui se risqueraient à les publier sans son autorisation. L'utilisation possible de tels outils contre des lanceurs d'alerte, journalistes, syndicalistes... fait craindre une régression importante. <a rel="me" href="https://mstdn.social/@corporateeurope">Mastodon</a>

EU trade secrets directive threat to health, environment, free speech and worker mobility

17.12.2014

A new draft EU directive currently looked at by the European Parliament wants to protect companies' "trade secrets", but poses several dangerous threats.

Single market

Leaked Draft Commission Work Programme 2015

15.12.2014

CEO obtained a scanned copy of the Leaked Draft Commission Work Programme 2015, containing controversial plans to scrap EU proposals for environmental and social legislation.

Single market

The crusade against 'red tape': How the European Commission and big business push for deregulation

31.10.2014

A crusade for big business-friendly deregulation, waged during José Manuel Barroso's Presidency of the European Commission, shows no signs of stopping. This neoliberal push to weaken or block new legislation appears likely to expand with Jean-Claude Juncker's new Commission team.

Militarisation

Lobbying warfare

21.09.2011

Lobbying Warfare - the arms industry's role in building a military Europe maps out the key players in the defence and security lobby in Brussels, and highlights how the industry's close alliance with EU decision makers has contributed to the expansion of the EU's defence and security structures, and to the overall militarisation of EU foreign policy.

Austerity

An undemocratic economic governance?

14.04.2011

Giving the European Commission a central and dominant role in EU economic governance, without proper democratic control neither at the European nor at the national level, would be a dream-come-true for industry hardliners BusinessEurope, but a disaster for Europe.