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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.

The reform of the EU Emissions Trading System could hand more than €230 billion in subsidies to energy intensive industries, a new report from Corporate Europe Observatory shows.

New analysis of lobby meetings shows that EU Climate Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete and his colleague Maroš Šefčovič, Vice President for the Energy Union, have overwhelmingly met corporate lobbyists, rather than public interest groups.

After winning the Democracy for Sale Award as the worst corporate lobby actor on TTIP, the pesticide industry’s EU lobby group European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) announced they would transfer money to co-organiser Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO). CEO has so far not been able to register this transaction, but will of course return the money to ECPA if it ever arrives, as we never accept corporate funding.

Reacting to the Commission’s Ad-hoc Ethical Committee recommendation not to sanction former Commission President Barroso for joining Goldman Sachs International, Corporate Europe Observatory’s transparency campaigner Vicky Cann criticised the weakness of the Code of Conduct for ex-Commissioners and the lack of independence of the advisory committee.

Ahead of the International Monsanto Tribunal in The Hague, Corporate Europe Observatory publishes a summary of Monsanto’s lobbying strategies at national, EU, and international levels.