@bramvranken.bsky.social
Big Tech campaigner and researcher at @corporateeurope.org. Fighting corporate power ✊
The Atlas Network, founded in 1981, has 589 think tanks in 103 countries that finance the hatred and hoaxes of the extreme right. The objective: to protect the privileges of capital owners. Available in EN, ES, PT-BR, DE, FR, IT, TU and AR.
04.12.2025 09:28 — 👍 10 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
Must read article on how"the EU’s 'simplification' drive is turning into a bonanza for corporate lobbyists" #deregulation #corporatecapture
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like big tobacco funding cancer research
01.12.2025 23:42 — 👍 704 🔁 173 💬 16 📌 19
📣 NEWS! Last week a key paper defending #glyphosate, ghostwritten by #Monsanto (now #Bayer), is retracted after undermining safety decisions for 25 years!
👉 This should lead to the EU to reconsider glyphosate's permit on the EU market.
😡 But EC and Big Polluters team up to weaken safety rules
Amazon exploits its workers, fuels AI warfare, and destroys the climate. To protect its problematic business practices, it is rapidly expanding its lobby power in Europe
🤜 The EU must listen to its workers and citizens and stand up to Amazon.
Time to Make Amazon Pay
euobserver.com/health-and-s...
✊ Today workers across Europe are taking action against Amazon.
❌ Amazon exploits its workers
❌ Has close ties with the Israeli military
❌ Is a monopolist
As the company is under intense scrutiny, it has ramped up its lobby power in the EU 🧵
#MakeAmazonPay
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/w...
As Amazon workers and their allies strike and protest in over 35 countries today, UNI Europa Regional Secretary Oliver Roethig argues that Europe shouldn't submit to the deregulatory pressure from Amazon and Trump.
#MakeAmazonPay
We have found a number of procedural shortcomings in how @ec.europa.eu prepared legislative proposals that it considered urgent.
The proposals concerned:
☑️ Corporate sustainability (Omnibus I)
☑️ Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
☑️ Countering migrant smuggling
www.ombudsman.europa.eu/press-releas...
BREAKING: EU Commission President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu says “We are not fighting fossil fuels, we are fighting the emissions from fossil fuels”
She is parroting oil&gas industry lines, pushing unproven costly technologies like CCS + CO2 removals to keep using fossil fuels.
#FossilFreePolitics
Last week Conservative & far right MEPs pushed through Omnibus package that weakens 3 corporate sustainability laws
Omnibus decision-making was clear corporate capture ⚠️
Legal experts warn that Omnibus I may be illegal 💥
Read more on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎
www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
📰"The announced reform package is here, and the #EU Commission remains on a collision course: instead of simplifying data protection, it is eroding fundamental rights. Instead of helping European companies, it is accommodating #BigTech." (from German)
👉 netzpolitik.org/2025/digital...
EU’s Digital Omnibus package threatens privacy and education by dismantling key protections. ETUCE calls this a dangerous deregulation agenda.
Read more: t.ly/c3jRN
#Education #DigitalRights #EU
EU Commission spokesperson on tech. The difficulty here is that the Commission sent X a provisional finding of breach of the Digital Services Act 16 months ago, and has done nothing since. So why take this expression of concern seriously?
20.11.2025 16:51 — 👍 89 🔁 34 💬 2 📌 0In case you're wondering just how far corporate lobbyists have gone to get into COP30 to push the idea that AI will solve climate change (and never you mind about all the energy it guzzles)....
19.11.2025 15:55 — 👍 18 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Today the European Commission unveiled its Digital Omnibus Package, reopening and weakening core parts of the EU’s digital rulebook, including crucial safeguards in the AI Act. This is a seriously concerning shift for rights and accountability in Europe.
cdt.org/insights/cdt...
The European Commission seems to believe that rights are an obstacle to competitiveness and innovation, but real innovation means finding ways to make new technologies work for everyone’s benefit, writes Amnesty Tech's Joshua Franco.
19.11.2025 15:35 — 👍 26 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1
🪚 The digital omnibus proposed by the Commission today is an unprecedented rollback of digital rights.
In secretive meetings, the Commission has given privileged access to tech lobbyists to shape its proposals.
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/p...
🚨 Brussels, today 🚨Ursula! Stand up for Europe – not for Trump’s tech bros!
As the EU unveils its “Digital Omnibus” today, we're rolling out billboards calling on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to stop bending to US and Big Tech pressure and enforce our digital laws #StandUpUrsula✊
According to a document we obtained, EU member states seem ready to give US law enforcement authorities direct access to European police and immigration databases.
While some member states have concerns over specifics, none question the need for such an agreement.
Read more: buff.ly/qGEDeGK
A cautionary tale about a European attempt to break free of US Big Tech which ended up being derailed by it.
If you want to solve a problem of corporate power, don't give seats on your board to the companies creating that problem.
A major five-year effort to build a technology base for Europe free of US influence flopped amid conflicting national strategies and powerful corporate lobbying.
17.11.2025 07:57 — 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
New wave of protests against Palestine Action ban set to be 'most widespread civil disobedience in modern British history'
These actions will also, once again, be in solidarity with the people of Gaza and the West Bank.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/new-...
Info: wedonotcomply.org
TACD warns: The European Commission’s Digital Omnibus reform could weaken major EU digital protections. Civil society groups in the United States and in Europe call on the Commission to halt these changes.
14.11.2025 09:26 — 👍 1 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
📣 BREAKING: One out of every 25 attendees walking around the #COP30 climate talks is a fossil fuel lobbyist.
New research from #KickBigPollutersOut reveals there are more than 1,600 in the UN negotiations in Brazil.
Here's a thread with the top findings 🧵
kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
Our new mini-guide breaks down how soaring data centre demand, fuelled by AI, is straining energy systems and slowing the transition in Europe.
At #COP30, governments and tech giants need to realise data centres growth needs new and extra renewables, and can’t come at our planet’s expense.
We joined 127 civil society organisations, trade unions and defenders of the public interest to express our alarm at the forthcoming EU Digital Omnibus proposals. These are part of a wide deregulation agenda
@ec.europa.eu is threatening hard won protections
Our letter
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Turns out “don’t be evil” actually means “automate evil”
14.11.2025 07:23 — 👍 9 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
127 civil society groups, unions & BEP urge the EU to stop the Digital Omnibus—the biggest rollback of digital rights in EU history. Protect GDPR, AI Act & privacy. Full statement: https://balancedeconomy.pulse.ly/ipgvhvmauf #DigitalRights
13.11.2025 12:44 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🙌We are joining 127 organisations demanding the Commission to halt its highly damaging digital omnibus.
The Commission's leaked proposal threatens to:
❌Pause the AI Act
❌Weaken the GDPR to enable AI companies to hoover up personal data
This would be a major Big Tech win
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