Olivier Hoedeman

Lord Dannatt urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at request of US firm Police officer was concerned ex-army chief, a Teledyne adviser, sought to have ‘input’ into factory attack investigation

This story is getting worse and worse.

1. US defense firm gets vandalized by UK group.

2. US defense firm reaches out to UK politician it employs.

3. Politician lobbies his network to get the group banned.

During the TTIP negotiations the @europarl.europa.eu and @ec.europa.eu opposed US demands to have a say in developing EU legislation. Looks like US corporates and their European fellow travellers are now reopening this crucial battle

Corporate lobbyists will weaponise European Parliament's plan for 'impact assessments' Impact assessments have been used by the EU Commission for many years, but until now the European Parliament has been hesitant to introduce them. But this has changed now the EU has enthroned ‘competi...

Could the European Parliament be the first legislative body on the planet prepared to pause proceedings to allow for a jury to scrutinise amendments, using a corporate-friendly 'impact assessments' methodology?

Doing so risks further eroding democratic decision-making
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Watching you – Die Welt von Palantir und Alex Karp - hier anschauen Erstmals schaut ein Dokumentarfilm auf den US-Milliardär Alex Karp und seine so mysteriöse wie abgeschottete Firma Palantir. Neben Elon Musk, seinem Mitgründer Peter Thiel und Sam Altman gilt der CEO ...

Sehr sehenswerte Doku in der ARD-Mediathek. Besonders große Empfehlung für all diejenigen, die immer noch glauben, es wäre eine smarte Idee, #Palantir in unsere Sicherheitsbehörden und an unsere Daten zu lassen. It’s not. #DigitaleSouveränität

‘Climate action is too costly’: how the far right and big business are weaponising social instability to block progress Far-right parties and industry lobbies across Europe exploit economic insecurity to undermine climate policies, claiming a choice between green transition and social justice. But researchers stress bo...

“‘Simplification, not deregulation’: the more it's repeated, the clearer it becomes: this IS deregulation.”

CIEL's @silviap.bsky.social warns that the EU’s new climate rules bend to the will of big polluters.
Time to call it what it is.

voxeurop.eu/en/climate-a...

#ClimateJustice #EU

Heading: Winner Announced for the Helen Darbishire Award 2025 - The Forever Lobbying Project. Subheading: Madrid 1st August 2025 - Access to Europe is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 Helen Darbishire Award is The Forever Lobbying Project. This cross-border investigation exposed how the chemical industry lobbied against EU action on PFAS, so-called "forever chemicals", linked to ongoing environmental and public health risks.

The Forever Lobbying Project led by @stephanehorel.bsky.social of Le Monde with support from @corporateeurope.org has won the Helen Darbishire Award. The project exposed lobbying against an EU PFAS ban on a scale "far bigger than anything the tobacco industry have been able to pull together."

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📽️ Watch how Shell and ExxonMobil are suing the Dutch government for shutting down a harmful gas field in Groningen 👇

More information ➡️ www.somo.nl/aftershock-i...

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My comment on "VDL’s half-year from hell" in Politico's Brussels Playbook:

“This string of events reveals that the second von der Leyen Commission has a serious transparency and accountability problem: in all these cases von der Leyen refuses to be held accountable”
www.politico.eu/newsletter/b...

The number of people who can’t afford a week’s holiday despite being in work has risen again by over 1 million in a single year.

Winner Announced for the Helen Darbishire Award 2025 Madrid, 1st August 2025 – Access Info Europe is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 Helen Darbishire Award is The Forever Lobbying Project. This cross-border investigation exposed how th...

Access Info Europe announces the 2025 Helen Darbishire Award winner is The Forever Lobbying Project which exposed how the chemical industry lobbied against EU action on PFAS, so called “forever chemicals”, linked to ongoing environmental & public health risks. www.access-info.org/2025-08-01/w...

ExxonMobil says the Trump administration should use trade talks with Brussels to fight tough new EU climate and human rights regulations that threaten US companies with “bone-crushing penalties”.

I've been following the US oil industry lobbying to weaken EU climate policies for a little while now, and often it's a lot more delicate than this. Woods is just coming out and saying it

www.ft.com/content/82ba...

I only now read Georg Riekeles' excellent 2022 account of #BigTech's outrageous global #lobbying influence. While I don't agree with everything (e.g. his take on #liability and the #copyright debate), after 15 years in #EU #Brussels I'd say his long-read is frighteningly accurate.

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How (and why) to fix political ads in the EU Meta follows Google (and TikTok and Microsoft) and leaves the EU political advertising market. The damage will be significant.

A long(ish) piece on what follows from Meta's forthcoming political ad ban in the EU:
open.substack.com/pub/whotarge...

Europe learned to love American gas. This is how Trump wrecks it. Backroom deals, embassy contacts and brown liquor built a booming export trade. Now, the lobbyist who saw it all says the U.S. president’s dalliances with Vladimir Putin are an incoming “aste…

NEW: Backroom deals, embassy contacts and brown liquor built a booming trade of American LNG to Europe.

Now, the lobbyist who saw it all says the U.S. president’s dalliances with Vladimir Putin are an incoming “asteroid” for the industry.

www.politico.eu/article/euro...

❗#EU4Health 2025 drops operating grants for health NGOs. 30 orgs left without funding, despite @ec.europa.eu agreements.

This is a blow to democracy, equity & transparency.

📣 We call on the European Commission to restore support & defend public health.

🔗 Full reaction: epha.org/epha-stateme...

Europe learned to love American gas. This is how Trump wrecks it. Backroom deals, embassy contacts and brown liquor built a booming export trade. Now, the lobbyist who saw it all says the U.S. president’s dalliances with Vladimir Putin are an incoming “aste…

.@politico.eu reveals how US lobbyists are pushing the EU to buy more US fossil gas. Only this week the EU pledged to buy $750bn worth of US fossil fuels. The lobbyists next target? The EU Methane Regulation - the EU's strongest tool to curb LNG climate damage.
www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Europe learned to love American gas. This is how Trump wrecks it. Backroom deals, embassy contacts and brown liquor built a booming export trade. Now, the lobbyist who saw it all says the U.S. president’s dalliances with Vladimir Putin are an incoming “aste…

US lobbyists want to flood Europe with #LNG.

After this week’s $750bn EU-US deal, Politico reveals a decade-long push to lock in US gas. Its next target? The EU Methane Regulation - our strongest tool to curb LNG #climate damage.

#Methane #MethaneEmissions #TrumpGas
www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Methane regulation is a litmus test for Europe’s climate sincerity While the US abdicates responsibility, the EU has the opportunity to raise the global bar on methane regulation, argues Draegers' Megan Hine.

"While the US abdicates responsibility, the EU has the opportunity to raise the global bar."

Will the EU follow the science or cave to the fossil fuel lobbying dollars?

Pfizer text messages lost right after access request, New York Times reports In a potentially explosive development, the European Commission has admitted it did not retain text messages after a journalist requested access to it.

The European Commission has admitted it lost texts between President Ursula von der Leyen and Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla right after a journalist had asked to see them. The messages were about a multi-billion-euro Covid vaccine deal.

Zoll-Deal: TTIP per Handschlag US-Präsident Trump und EU-Kommissionspräsidentin von der Leyen haben am Sonntag überraschend einen Deal im transatlantischen Zollstreit verkündet. Nun hat das Weiße Haus eine besorgniserregende Interp...

TTIP per Handschlag? Ein Papier der US-Regierung zeigt, dass die USA den Zolldeal anders auslegen als die EU. Massive Zugeständnisse an US-Konzerne auf Kosten von EU-Verbraucher-& Umweltstandards – das kennen wir schon!
Diesem Deal darf Europa nicht zustimmen! www.lobbycontrol.de/pressemittei... 👇/

A new paper published by the US government shows that it interprets the EU-US trade deal as having secured exemptions for US corporations from EU regulations in areas like food and digital 🚨

If this interpretation is confirmed, it would be “#TTIP through the back door", as LobbyControl points out ⬇️

Begin dit jaar pakt De Telegraaf groot uit met een artikel over een vermeend lobbyschandaal in Brussel. Milieuorganisaties zouden Europees geld krijgen met de opdracht om te lobbyen voor groener beleid. Maar al snel zijn er vragen over de berichtgeving. Vanavond in #Medialogica 22:10 uur op NPO 2.

This is bold: According to the US government, the Trump-vdL deal to settle the tariff war with the EU could lead to EU food standards & digital rights being undermined by interference in our laws. All in the interests of US corporations. Not a good deal – EU-Parliament & member states must stop it!

Accord UE-Etats-Unis : un Munich économique au profit de l’extrême droite Il y a de quoi être effaré. Bruxelles cède aux exigences léonines de D. Trump : claironnée sur tous les tons, « l’autonomie stratégique européenne » vient de voler en éclats, dévoilant à la fois une vacuité géostratégique, le refus idéologique de restreindre nos dépendances extérieures et, par ricochet, la faiblesse d’E. Macron et de la France à Bruxelles.

Accord UE-Etats-Unis : un Munich économique au profit de l’extrême droite

Par @maximecombes.bsky.social‬

[Que penser de l'Accord UE-Etats-Unis ?]

Céder face à Trump, dans ce qui ressemble à un "Munich économique" illustre une vacuité géostratégique & le refus idéologique de restreindre nos dépendances extérieures. La faiblesse de Macron aussi

Explications ➡️ blogs.mediapart.fr/maxime-combe...

Zoll-Deal: TTIP per Handschlag US-Präsident Trump und EU-Kommissionspräsidentin von der Leyen haben am Sonntag überraschend einen Deal im transatlantischen Zollstreit verkündet. Nun hat das Weiße Haus eine besorgniserregende Interp...

Das Weiße Haus hat eine besorgniserregende Interpretation des Zolldeals mit der EU veröffentlicht. Sie offenbart massive Zugeständnisse an US-Konzerne – auf Kosten von EU-Standards. Dieser Deal ist TTIP durch die Hintertür – per Handschlag auf dem Golfplatz. www.lobbycontrol.de/pressemittei...

Trump-hardliners willen machtswissel EU met hulp van Europese bondgenoten Europese en Amerikaanse conservatieve denktanks slaan de handen ineen. Ze willen Europa van binnenuit 'veranderen en ontmantelen'.

Ongelooflijk. Werkelijk ongelofelijk.

We worden in onze rug aangevallen door Washington, met steun van Europees radicaal rechts.

En dat met een oorlog op het Europese continent door de bondgenoot van dat geteisem.
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Trump-hardliners willen machtswissel EU met hulp van Europese bondgenoten Europese en Amerikaanse conservatieve denktanks slaan de handen ineen. Ze willen Europa van binnenuit 'veranderen en ontmantelen'.

💥Dutch public media reports on how the Trump administration is meddling in the EU’s political future, citing our @vsquare.bsky.social story on how Polish and Hungarian illiberals (Ordo Iuris and MCC) use Heritage Foundation ties to try help dismantle the EU. @saskiadekkers.bsky.social @nieuwsuur.nl

As Trump’s Trade Deadline Looms, U.S. Gas Exporters Are Sweating Over Meeting Europe’s Pollution Standards The EU’s new methane rules threaten U.S. LNG exports. But industry insiders and lobbyists are pressuring the EU to look the other way

📍 NEWS ALERT:📍 With the U.S. and EU headed toward a trade deal any day now, DeSmog reports U.S. gas exporters are pressuring Europe to loosen pollution regulations. www.desmog.com/2025/07/23/a...

How to Use Germany’s New Lobby Register as an Investigative Tool The German Bundestag’s new lobby register is a trove of data for investigative journalists reporting on influence and money in federal politics.

In @gijn.org's latest story, we cover how Germany's new lobby register tool can be a great resource for investigative journalists tracking political influence on that country's government, including how its new transparency rules helped expose anti-abortion groups' secret lobbying efforts.