Marcella

More detail in op ed!

It's urgent that citizens concerned about health & well-being take action to support a comprehensive 🇪🇺 #PFAS ban.

And it is imperative that politicians listen to them.

action.wemove.eu/sign/2024-01...

This cartoon shows a man wearing a tie at a lectern with EU stars, and a chemical diagram on the wall behind him. He is saying: “We have set out a plan for PFAS … which the industry has provided for us.” Cartoon by @CartoonRalph

While EU Commission continues to emphasise its commitment to tackling PFAS, its language around scope of proposed ban is increasingly focussed on ‘consumer uses’, which could allow countless other sources of PFAS contamination to continue, and would be a far cry from the “universal” ban promised.

PFAS : « L’interdiction des polluants éternels en Europe reste un espoir lointain » TRIBUNE. Dans une tribune au « Monde », la chercheuse au sein de l’ONG Corporate Europe Observatory Vicky Cann dénonce le lobbying des entreprises chimiques et s’inquiète de voir s’éloigner la possibi...

Despite January revelations of #ForeverLobbying Project @lemonde.fr about devastating impacts of forever chemicals #PFAS, & corporate influence campaign that keeps these harmful substances in our food, water, soil, & bodies, little has changed

Read our op ed (in 🇫🇷) ⬇️

www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Plus de détails dans l'éditorial !

Il est urgent que la population préoccupés par la santé et le bien-être agissent pour soutenir une interdiction complète des 🇪🇺 #PFAS. Et il est impératif que les politiciens les écoutent.

action.wemove.eu/sign/2024-01...

PFAS : « L’interdiction des polluants éternels en Europe reste un espoir lointain » TRIBUNE. Dans une tribune au « Monde », la chercheuse au sein de l’ONG Corporate Europe Observatory Vicky Cann dénonce le lobbying des entreprises chimiques et s’inquiète de voir s’éloigner la possibi...

Malgré les révélations faites en janvier par le projet #ForeverLobbying et @lemonde.fr
sur les effets dévastateurs des #PFAS et sur la campagne d'influence des entreprises qui maintient ces substances nocives, peu de choses ont changé. Lisez notre éditorial ⬇️

www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Big Tech lobby budgets hit record levels | Corporate Europe Observatory New figures show that the digital industry as a whole is now spending €151 million a year on lobbying the EU, a major increase to what was already considerable firepower.

📢 As the EU's deregulation agenda rolls out the red carpet for corporate interests, our new study shows that the tech industry has ramped up its lobby power:

💰 Lobby spending hits a record €151 million
🕴 Almost 900 tech lobbyists
🤝 Big Tech has lobby 3 meetings a day

@lobbycontrol.bsky.social

A screenshot from the article that reads: "Opinion. Why is the EU operating a politics of secrecy on chemical safety?"

💥New article 💥

Check out our new op-ed with @clienteartheur.bsky.social , which challenges the 🇪🇺 Commission to stop operating a politics of secrecy on chemical safety.

euobserver.com/EU%20Politic...

🧵👇

You have heard the EU bubble's new buzzword "deregulation" and you have no idea what it means?
Or even better, you know what it means and whant to know how to fight it?
That's why we joined forces with out friends at @lobbycontrol.bsky.social to create free lobby tour of Brussels about the D-word!👇

🌍 Europe bans toxic pesticides... but exports them abroad!
✊ Let’s stop this toxic trade together!
#StopToxicTrade #EndDoubleStandards
#PeopleBeforeProfits

🎥 Share the video from END TOXIC PESTICIDE TRADE COALITION &sign:
👉 www.foodwatch.org/en/stop-the-...
👉 www.openpetition.eu/petition/onl...

Banned pesticides The European Union exported nearly 122,000 tonnes of banned pesticides in 2024, despite a European Commission commitment to put an end to the practice, a new Public Eye and Unearthed investigation has...

💥 Europe's Toxic Trade Alert ! ☠️

The EU banned dozens of pesticides because they are too dangerous for our health and too toxic for nature. But European companies still produce and export those banned chemicals.

Shame on the #EuropeanCommission !

See new data: www.publiceye.ch/en/topics/pe...

VDL's proposals on Gaza welcomed by the Greens but slammed by the Left:

“It’s been 700 days of genocide, and she’s only calling now for a partial suspension. But then there cannot be any partial measures to be taken against the genocide. You need full measures.” - @manonaubryfr.bsky.social
#SOTEU

Tomorrow, von der Leyen will address the EU Parliament with her SOTEU speech. Today, civil society and trade unions delivered a very clear message in a statement signed by 470 organisations: we need rules to protect people and the environment!

corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/o...

Undemocratic, the #EUMercosur is toxic!

We joined +40 civil society groups and farmers unions in braving the rain to make sure EU policymakers heard us loud and clear 📣

Why the adoption of the deal is a democratic hijack 👉 friendsoftheearth.eu/press-releas...

... And guess which political groups these MEPs belong to 👀

⚠️ Auto-deleting messages means that VDL's decisions can't be scrutinised by journalists and democracy advocates, as the messages cannot be obtained under the 🇪🇺’s freedom of information laws.

Read more on @ftm.eu

15 people gathered around a table at a meeting

We were thrilled to be invited to participate in Policy Lab's study trip to Brussels with a presentation by @kennethhaar.bsky.social on his book "A Europe of Capital".

The programme is extensive and includes also great pannels by Kevin Le Merle, Eliaz Moreau, Sylvia Kay and Diego Marin.

✊ Hvala!

Italian Dockworkers Threaten to ‘Shut Down All of Europe’ If Gaza Aid Flotilla Is Blocked | Novara Media A union representing dockworkers at one of the largest ports in the Mediterranean - a key stopping point for Israeli goods - has said it will ‘block everything’ if Israel stops the inbound aid flotill...

What a great example of international solidarity! 🇵🇸

The Genoese docker worker's threat is a one-off protest. USB blocked military ships in June and August.

Read more on @novaramedia.com 👇

novaramedia.com/2025/09/02/i...

Orbán’s favorite Brussels think tank received millions from Budapest, new figures reveal MCC Brussels has received more than €6 million in funding to influence debate on public policy.

Almost 3 years after its first public event, MCC Brussels has now FINALLY disclosed budget size & income sources in the EU Transparency Register

With a 2024 budget of over 6,3 million euro, Orbán-linked MCC Brussels is one of the wealthiest thinktanks in Brussels 😟

www.politico.eu/article/vikt...

🚨New video!

Communities impacted by green hydrogen projects in South Africa finally had their voices heard by MEPs and the European Commission for the first time.

🤥 Incredibly disappointing: the Commission denied the EU was involved in any of the projects shown

corporateeurope.org/en/2025/07/h...

report summary quote: "The complicity exposed by this report is just the tip of the iceberg; ending it will not happen without holding the private sector accountable, including its executives." https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ahrc5923-economy-occupation-economy-genocide-report-special-rapporteur

Solidarity w Francesca Albanese who faces threats of US sanctions, right after the special rapporteur to the UN human rights council published a grim new report on companies profiting from genocide.
Big Tech names like Palantir feature, along with ag & construction giants.
#Gaza

shorturl.at/MsIk7

And we're outta there! Hasta la vista Strasbourg 🇫🇷

Was an absolute privilege to be able to bring the voices of 🇿🇦 communities fighting #greenhydrogen into the heart of EU decision-making.

Thanks to @udobullmann.bsky.social @tillymetz.bsky.social for making it happen 🙏🏼

This is just the first step ✊🏼

Claudia Azevedo from the Jacques Delors think tank (who used to work at DG TRADE) comments on the ongoing #CTIP negotiations. She calls for:

- civil society + parliament involvement in negotiations
- sustainability commitments to be included
- explicit inclusion of free prior and informed consent

South Africa Trade Union Confederation COSATU's Tanya van Meelis warns against the EU-South Africa #CTIP and its push for green hydrogen leading to a new energy colonialism "it must not replicate the exploitative patterns of the past"

@groundworksa.bsky.social's Yegeshni Moodley to the European Parliament:

"Green hydrogen has been marketed as a promised panacea for all our energy transition woes.... But there are critical flaws in this hypothesis – there is no empty land in my country, and energy is never free."

2/2 The Parliament's Delegation to South Africa 🇿🇦 will follow the 🎥 with a hearing on the #CTIP + #greenhydrogen, featuring the DG TRADE + @groundworksa.bsky.social

Tomorrow marks the first time the voices of 🇿🇦's impacted communities are heard by EU decision makers - but definitely not the last 📢✊🏼

1/2 We've made it to Strasbourg 🇫🇷🥖🧀 👔

Tomorrow @corporateeurope.org will be in the EU Parliament for a preview screening of our new documentary 🎥 The Scramble for Hydrogen in South Africa 🎥 See the teaser here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AATC...

If you're in Strasbourg, join us! Deets below

While Jeff Bezos held a lavish wedding in Venice, Amazon refused to send a high-level representative to testify in the European Parliament.

This is an insult to its workers and our democratic institutions.

We demand an end to Amazon's contracts with the European institutions.

The EU's 2040 climate targets have a loophole that could see CO2 removals included in its carbon market.

CEO campaigner @belenbalanya.bsky.social labels it "carbon welfare", as it will funnel more public money to Big Polluters.

Read more: www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/pr...

#RealZeroEurope

🔴 The EU’s updated Climate Law falls short of delivering the real solutions needed to reach real zero.

The new proposal rely on international carbon offsets and #CDR — approaches that undermine climate ambition and delay real emission cuts.

Read more 👇
www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/pr...

On an aquamarine background, an drawing of Ursula von der Leyen with an aquamarine swimming costume, on a pink surfboard, surfing a big wave a sorrounded by the stars of the EU. In the water there are two boards floating, one says “simplification” and the other “competitiveness”. There is a title: A crash course on the EU’s deregulation wave; and a subtitle: surf’s up! There is a logo of Corporate Europe Observatory on the top left corner, on the bottom left corner there is the address: www.corporateeurope.org and on the bottom right corner there are the icons of the following social media channels: mastodon, instagram, bluesky and facebook.

☠️ Knowing about these 5 terms can help you decode the lingo flowing out of the EU-institutions. Put together, they show the outline of a terrifying plan.

✊But resistance is building up. Don’t feel intimidated, help us stop them. Get organised!

👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/07/c...