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CEO's reaction to the European Ombudsman’s final ruling regarding the EU Commission’s handling of its former President Barroso’s revolving door move to investment bank Goldman Sachs.

The reformed Code of Conduct rules for ex-EU Commissioners chave come into force today, but a slight extension of the cooling-off period is not the big reform that the Commission promised.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) today gave the first indication of how it will classify foods and crops derived from new genetic engineering techniques.

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The European Ombudsman today followed Corporate Europe Observatory’s call for European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi to suspend his membership of the Group of 30 (G30). Her recommendations also insist future ECB Presidents stay out of the G30, a financial industry interest group composed of bankers from private financial institutions as well as national central banks.

Updated analysis released by Corporate Europe Observatory and Global Justice Now exposes how official lobby meetings about Brexit and post-Brexit trade are being dominated by big corporate interests at the expense of civil society and the public interest.

Press briefing on the EU Commission's transparency and independence proposals in response to the European Citizens' Initiative "Stop Glyphosate"

EU Commission, Parliament and Council have prolonged the future of the EU Emissions Trading System as a source of billions of euros in polluter subsidies.

Corporate Europe Observatory has just submitted a complaint on Monsanto to the EU's Joint Transparency Register Secretariat over the pesticide manufacturer’s non-compliance with EU transparency rules.

A new Corporate Europe Observatory report reveals that in 2016 alone the gas industry invested over €100m in lobbying EU decision makers. These lobby efforts threaten to lock the European Union into another 40 – 50 years of climate-damaging fossil fuel dependency.