For background on the lobbying against the Digital Fairness Act, see our report "Addicted to the algorithm - How Big Tech lobbies to keep us hooked on social media"
Big Tech aims to capitalize on the current obsession with #deregulation among EU decision-makers 🚨
corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/a...
Tech lobby groups are intensifying their efforts to derail the forthcoming #DigitalFairnessAct, which aims to rein in the addictive design of social media
34 tech lobby groups have asked the Commission for a “pause and reset" ⚠️
We've joined over 200 NGOs and academics in insisting on a strong #DFA
Following our complaint, MCC Brussels in August 2025 added financial information to their Transparency Register entry
That's progress but the conclusions from the investigation are important: financial info on who funds #lobbying should be available without delay
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/04/e...
It's been a year since we submitted our complaint against the funding secrecy of MCC Brussels, an Orbán-linked thinktank
Soon after, the EU Transparency Register secretariat told us that they'd investigate and inform us about the outcome
Disappointingly, we've heard nothing from them since then ⌛🤔
Meanwhile, following our recent complaint about the #Chemicals Omnibus, the European Ombudsman will:
✅ Raise our concerns with the European Commission
✅ Consider our concerns as she analyses the Commission's response to to her findings on Omnibus 1
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
Take action for an improved #Chemicals Omnibus:
🇬🇧 shaketonpolitique.org/en/appeals/o...
🇪🇸 shaketonpolitique.org/es/interpela...
🇮🇹 shaketonpolitique.org/it/interpell...
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@generationsfutures.fr @healthandenv.bsky.social
Check our new #DeregulationWatch update which focuses on the #Chemicals Omnibus which threatens to:
⚠️ weaken chemicals labelling rules
⚠️ make it easier to keep carcinogens in cosmetics
⚠️ loosen fertiliser regulations
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
📣 Dearest Gentle Readers,
The season is upon us, but not everyone has been invited to the ball!
With captains of industry treated to red carpet, the rest of society has been left out.
270 organisations invite Von der Leyen to the #AntwerpCounterSummit: bit.ly/AntwerpCount...
👉Will she accept?!
I've signed the trade union statement against the illegal war on Iran
Backed by 18 national organisations
Add your name > actionnetwork.org/forms/trade-...
#NoWarOnIran
Fantastic to start to hear from lawyers working with #PFAS affected communities in Belgium, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, France as well as Robert Billot who took on DuPont in US and started anti PFAS litigation
2 powerful documentaries on #PFAS showing now, looking at 3Ms toxic legacy in firefighting foams, in Australia and France (and around the world), as well as other PFAS, in other products, by other companies, and how communities are confronting this
Good to hear @martinhojsik.bsky.social and @sigridfriis.bsky.social talking about the need for urgent action on #PFAS, how polluters must pay, and how we need phase outs now!
In European Parliament where MEPs and civil society including PFAS-affected communities are discussing the fight for justice and for a #PFAS ban
It’s time to get tough with corporate lobbies, not peaceful protestors.
#PFAS producers & their allies who lobby to delay, weaken, or derail the proposed ban on PFAS have had huge access to the Commission & other EU decision-makers and it’s time for this to stop.
We need #ToxicFreePolitics now!
A short civil conversation took place & then 6 police vans arrived. And they arrested the corporate polluters…
Damn! That isn't what happened. 6 police vans turned up … against peaceful protestors who just wanted to explain how #PFAS have polluted their communities & why they want an EU ban.
When we got to Chemours' office building, some citizens peacefully entered and requested to visit their office to drop off bottles of #PFAS beer, a symbol of the contamination that the citizens of Dordrecht in 🇳🇱 and elsewhere experience, day to day.
Then we took the community representatives on a lobby tour of 🇪🇺 quarter to show how #PFAS corporate lobby operates in Brussels: its access to decision-makers, and how some have relied upon “misleading, fearmongering, exaggerated, or potentially dishonest” lobbying, as #ForeverLobbying Project showed
Even though President von der Leyen is happy to meet with CEFIC & chemicals industry in Antwerp to tell them how she is delivering on their agenda, it seems like she has no time to meet people living day-to-day with impacts of #PFAS pollution.
Busy day in Brussels.
Proud to be part of the energetic protest this morning outside the European Commission together with citizens affected by #PFAS #ForeverChemicals from across Europe - 🇳🇱 🇫🇷 🇧🇪 🇮🇹 🇩🇰 🇩🇪 - and @eeb.org
Together we demand a ban on PFAS now!
En 2025, les lobbys de la chimie ont obtenu près de 200 rdvs avec des hauts fonctionnaires européens, dans le but d’assouplir la règlementation sur les produits chimiques dangereux.
Ma dernière chronique pour @blast-info.fr avec les éclairages de @vickycann.bsky.social
youtu.be/28TSHUNYbN8?...
🚨 The EU’s Industrial Accelerator Act #IAA is finally out:
🚘 The result of heavy lobbying, led by the steel + car industries (Séjourné's door was always open)
🏭 Claims to promote the green transition, but really is about slashing permitting rules that protect people + nature.
Expect ⬆️ pollution 💨
Horrific.
And apparently no accountability for those who ordered this missile strike.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
If you haven't already, now really is the time to sign the ECI to have the EU suspend the association agreement with Israel!!
eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...
We were pleased to take part in this overview film about the power of the EU chemicals lobby.
Our recent report on the #REACH chemicals lobby is featured: corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/r...
Also presented is the great work of @generationsfutures.fr.
See the film below ⬇️ ⬇️
Corporate lobbyists in Brussels have a playbook.
4 tactics they use to shape EU laws without us noticing:
1️⃣ Repeat until it sounds like consensus
2️⃣ Throw money at it
3️⃣ Blur the lines between regulator and regulated
4️⃣ Delay, distract, greenwash
The more we know it, the less we fall for it!
@vickycann.bsky.social autrice du dernier rapport @corporateeurope.org révèle que les lobbys de la chimie ont obtenu près de 200 réunions avec des hauts fonctionnaires européens, dans le but affiché d’assouplir les règles sur les produits chimiques dangereux.
@aidoudadel.bsky.social
Industry Support at All Costs? 🇪🇺
Our new report shows how InvestEU is scaling up public guarantees while undermining a just transition. 🧵👇
🔗 Read more: counter-balance.org/publications...
