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In a decision published today, following a complaint filed by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), the EU Ombudsman concludes that the European Central Bank's (ECB) President Mario Draghi's membership of the lobby Group of Thirty does not violate the ethics rules of the ECB. Corporate Europe Observatory warns that this decision risks consolidating and even deepening the lack of accountability of the ECB.

Brussels/ Amsterdam – A small club of international law firms, arbitrators and financial speculators are fuelling an investment arbitration boom that is costing taxpayers billions of dollars and preventing legislation in the public interest, according to a new report from the Transnational Institute and Corporate Europe Observatory published today.

Brussels/ Amsterdam – A small club of international law firms, arbitrators and financial speculators are fuelling an investment arbitration boom that is costing taxpayers billions of dollars and preventing legislation in the public interest, according to a new report from the Transnational Institute and Corporate Europe Observatory published today.

Brussels/ Amsterdam – A small club of international law firms, arbitrators and financial speculators are fuelling an investment arbitration boom that is costing taxpayers billions of dollars and preventing legislation in the public interest, according to a new report from the Transnational Institute and Corporate Europe Observatory published today.

Brussels/ Amsterdam – A small club of international law firms, arbitrators and financial speculators are fuelling an investment arbitration boom that is costing taxpayers billions of dollars and preventing legislation in the public interest, according to a new report from the Transnational Institute and Corporate Europe Observatory published today.

The Commission's proposed reforms of the EU Emissions Trading System fail to address its obvious flaw - the ETS is not fit for purpose and should be dropped, according to a coalition of environmental NGOs, including Corporate Europe Observatory, Cuonter Balance and FERN. They argue that the ETS has failed to achieve its own objectives, has generated windfall profits for polluting corporations, and postponed the needed transition from fossil fuels, locking the EU into a carbon-intensive future.

Parma, 13 November – Campaigners today demonstrated outside a conference to mark the 10th anniversary of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), held at its headquarters in Parma, Italy. Farmers, NGOs, students and local activists gathered to denounce the industry-capture of our food safety system that EFSA plays a key role in.
 

In 2012 the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) celebrates its 10th anniversary with a number of events organised at its base in Parma, Italy. Corporate Europe Observatory, the European Coordination Via Campesina, the Fondazione Italiana porla Ricerca in Agricltura Biologica e Biodinamica (FIRAB) and the Italian anti-GMO Task Force are organising a conference in Parma to mark EFSA's 10 year anniversary, examining the question of industry influence over European food safety and asking how to better protect public health and the environment.

Oil and gas companies from the United States and across Europe have launched an all-out campaign to prevent EU-wide rules for the developing shale gas industry, according to a new report from Corporate Europe Observatory [1]. The fierce battle has included intensive lobbying in the European Parliament and Commission, industry-funded reports, advertisements and websites, designed to show that shale gas does not pose a threat to the environment or to public health, and to promote the fiction that it is a green source of fuel.