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Despite unprecedented public opposition, the European Parliament today approved the controversial EU-Canada CETA deal. The vote flies in the face of millions of people, as well as trade unions, environmentalists and a broad civil society coalition who called for a rejection of the agreement.

Ahead of Wednesday’s Parliament vote on CETA, a new report shows the devastating effects the agreement could have on EU member states, whose citizens and courts block harmful mines. A lawsuit over the controversial Roşia Montană mine in Romania highlights governments’ vulnerability to expensive investor-state challenges.

The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) will further empower corporate lobbyists by providing them with early, exclusive access to the legislative process, a report co-published by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) shows.

Scandals have failed to rein in top-level staff at the ECB increasingly involved with the Group of Thirty. A CEO complaint has now spurred the European Ombudsman to open a new inquiry to investigate this proximity.

The EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) is another step closer to handing out billions in free pollution permits to polluters, following this morning’s vote in the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI).

While cancer research and treatments are ever advancing, industry lobbying against better protection from workplace-related cancers has been intense, as a new report by Corporate Europe Observatory shows.

The European Central Bank’s programme of ‘quantitative easing’ has seen over €46 billion of public funds invested in sectors including the oil, gas and car industries. A short report published by Corporate Europe Observatory today highlights the dubious nature of many corporate bonds bought since the bank’s economic growth scheme was launched in June 2016.

The European Ombudsman Emily O'Reilly today closed her inquiry into the European Commission's implementation of UN tobacco lobby rules, which in 2014 had been prompted by a complaint from Corporate Europe Observatory.