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Recent publications

EU Watdog Radio Episode 43: Hunger is a political failure over the image of corn grains
Food & agriculture

Hunger is not an issue of production but of political failure

EU Watchdog Radio Episode 43
04.06.2023
In this episode of EU Watchdog Radio, Hans van Scharen talks to Special UN Rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri.
Big Toxics firepower

Big Toxics and their lobby firepower

25.05.2023
New analysis shows that major chemical industry players ‒ Big Toxics ‒ are at the top of LobbyFacts rankings when it comes to lobby spend.
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Climate

Transatlantic alliance of 130+ EU and US decision makers call to end fossil fuel influence at UN climate talks

23.05.2023
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.
Recruitment press officer 2023

We're recruiting!

Could you be our Press Officer?
16.05.2023
Can you distil complex political ideas into clear and powerful messages? Are you passionate about social and environmental justice? Can you build relationships and pitch a great story? Do you want to help expose the power of corporate lobbying? Join us as our new Press Officer!
BASF Controversies
Other battles

It's time to tackle BASF’s legacy of pollution and end its burden shifting

04.05.2023
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.
Qatargate
Lobbying the EU

Beyond Qatargate: the EU needs a compulsory register that targets all covert lobbying

03.05.2023
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.
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Issues we work on

Food & agriculture

How do agribusiness corporations impact decisions on our food system?

Trade

How is big business using the EU's trade and investment agreements to sideline people, planet and democracy?

Lobbying the EU

How vulnerable are the EU institutions to undue corporate influence, and what gaps exist in EU lobbying and ethics rules?

Finance

What influence does the financial lobby have over banking regulation and other financial markets?

Climate

How are polluting industries lobbying against real climate action?

Other battles

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

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EU Watdog Radio Episode 43: Hunger is a political failure over the image of corn grains
EU Watchdog Radio Episode 43: Hunger is not an issue of production but of political failure
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Flagship reports

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Germany’s great hydrogen race

23.03.2023
Our new report maps Germany’s 'brave new hydrogen world'. Which looks a lot like the old world: prolonging fossil fuel use and continuing its extractivist logic. We show who is driving the German – and thus EU – hydrogen hype, who benefits, and the negative impacts for prospective green hydrogen export countries.
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Inside job

08.06.2022
Find out how a proposed EU law that seeks to hold companies accountable for abuses in their supply chains has been watered down by corporate lobbyists, with assistance from the EU's business-friendly ‘Better regulation’ agenda.
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A loud lobby for a silent spring

17.03.2022
In order to tackle the grave threat of the biodiversity crisis, the EU will table a proposal for targets for the reduction of pesticide use. This has put the pesticide industry into survival mode. A new leaked document from pesticides lobby group CropLife Europe shows that while it talks a big talk about backing the Green Deal, in reality it is employing a wide variety of lobbying tactics to undermine ambitious, binding targets.
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Under the influence (II)

20.12.2021
In January 2022, France will take on the rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU. Yet this Presidency has been prepared in close collaboration with the French corporate sector, and is setting a policy agenda that strongly reflects business demands. It looks set to be a captured presidency.
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Under the influence (I)

12.10.2021
In January France will take over the Presidency of the EU Council for six months. But the early signs are worrying that this will be a pro-corporate presidency which prioritises a handful of corporate ‘champions’, and an ever greater role for big business in policy-making.
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Hijacking the Recovery Through Hydrogen

08.07.2021
The European Commission said it wants to avoid giving billions in bailouts to the fossil fuel industry like it did in 2008 - but it’s doing just that: In Italy, France, Portugal and the Spanish State, €8.3 billion of EU recovery funds will be spent on hydrogen and renewable gases, thanks to fierce industry lobbying at national and EU level.
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