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Lobbying the EU

How trade tariffs and deregulation go hand in hand

New episode of EU Watchdog Radio
23.07.2025
Listen to the brand new podcast episode, where Kenneth Haar discusses the link between the announced trade tariffs from the USA to the EU and deregulation.
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Lobbying the EU

Complaint results in €47 million-worth of changes to EU lobby register declarations

17.07.2025
Nestlé and Yara are among the big corporate interests that have had to increase their lobby register declarations. Other registrants have been removed for massively over-reporting their EU lobby spending.
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Climate

The human cost of green hydrogen in South Africa: community voices challenge EU's narrative

09.07.2025
Communities impacted by green hydrogen projects in South Africa had their voices heard by MEPs and the European Commission for the first time after previously being excluded, thanks to a meeting convened by the European Parliament’s Delegation on Relations with South Africa (D-ZA).
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Lobbying the EU

Deregulation Watch

Exposing new developments in the deregulation agenda
09.07.2025
Check out our new posts on Deregulation Watch which helps civil society monitor new developments in the deregulation agenda, assess what’s at stake, and organise in defence of strong social, environmental, and human rights protections.
This cartoon is entitled Chemical regulations. There are 3 people looking at a large white board which is entitled Chemicals regulations. On the board is a table with 2 columns: one says “costs” and just has “a bit more work for industry” listed. The other column is called “benefits” and it includes items such as “more wildlife” and “healthier people” and “cleaner water”. A 4th person, in a suit, is saying: “We can see from the industry analysis, the costs far outweigh the benefits”. Cartoon: @CartoonRalph

A good day for chemical polluters; a bad day for people and environment

Reaction to the Chemicals Industry Action Plan
08.07.2025
Today’s announcements from the European Commission on chemicals have made this a good day for polluters and a bad day for people and environment.
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EU’s AI rules set to be handed on a silver plate to corporate lobbyists

03.07.2025
Today, the EU’s AI Office is set to present the final version of the voluntary Code of Practice on general-purpose AI. The Code aims to regulate the most advanced AI models to prevent fundamental rights abuses and copyright infringement. Still, it is expected to be heavily watered down following intense lobby push-back from Big Tech companies and the Trump administration.
Surfs up! A crash course on EU's deregulation wave
Lobbying the EU

A crash course on the EU’s deregulation wave

01.07.2025
The European Commission’s deregulation wave means attacks on labour rights, climate policies, nature protection, public health, and more. We explain the basic scheme behind this wave of destruction – and reveal the reality behind five key buzzwords.
Photo of a burning area and on top of it a map of South Africa and the title: A selection of planned green hydrogen projects in South Africa 1- BOEGOEBAAI: South Africa’s flagship export project in the Northern Cape, led by petrochemical giant Sasol, with a green hydrogen and ammonia production facility and a new mega port. 2- VAAL TRIANGLE: Sasol and steel producer ArcelorMittal plan to produce and use green hydrogen and captured CO2 to green their products in the Gauteng and Free State provinces. 3- HYDRO
Climate

The EU's dirty hydrogen push in South Africa - revealed

30.06.2025
EU politicians are presenting green hydrogen as a win-win fuel, claiming it will lead to low-carbon industrialisation in the Global South while decarbonising economies in Europe.
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The Dirty Industrial Deal FAQs part III: Chemicals

A low-down on the EU’s not-so-Clean Industrial Deal
30.06.2025
The Clean Industrial Deal is the EU Commission’s flagship policy – but despite the name, it’s definitely not clean. This series will guide you through the basics with our answers to some frequently asked questions. Part III is on one of industry's biggest winners - chemicals.
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Lobby watchdogs slam Amazon for non-showing at Parliamentary hearing

25.06.2025
Today, Amazon has once again snubbed the European Parliament by refusing to send senior management to a parliamentary hearing on working conditions in its warehouses. This hearing is a prerequisite for the company to regain its lobby badges, which were withdrawn over a year ago. Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), LobbyControl and SOMO are calling on the Parliament to extend the ban on Amazon’s lobbyists.
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Food & agriculture

Double standards violate human rights

EU should keep its promise and end toxic trade in banned pesticides
24.06.2025
Where the world is on fire with various wars, the EU is continuing an invisible chemical war by continuing its massive exports of banned, toxic pesticides to all corners of the world. Today the ‘ End Toxic Pesticide Trade Coalition’ demands in an open letter to EC-president Ursula von der Leyen to keep its 2020 promise and put an end of the EU production, export and residue imports of those banned pesticides.
Dirty Industrial Deal FAQs Part II: Gas and Energy Prices
Climate

The Dirty Industrial Deal FAQs Part II: Gas imports & energy prices

A low-down on the EU’s not-so-Clean Industrial Deal
12.06.2025
The Clean Industrial Deal is the EU Commission’s flagship policy – but despite the name, it’s definitely not clean. This series will guide you through the basics with our answers to some frequently asked questions. Part II is on gas imports and energy prices.
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Chemical reaction

14.01.2025

The proposal to restrict PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ is at serious risk of being hijacked by corporate lobbying, says a new CEO report. Find out more, including about the Forever Lobbying Project, a ground-breaking journalistic investigation. 

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The scramble for hydrogen in South Africa

05.12.2024

Europe’s scramble for green hydrogen in South Africa will have a devastating impact on local communities, the very same ones whose voices are being ignored by EU policy makers.

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Cold homes, hot profits

24.10.2023

From Rome to Prague, Brussels to London, politicians are welcoming fossil fuel companies as advisers instead of arsonists, failing to recognise their vested interests and their role in creating, prolonging, and profiting from the energy crisis. 

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30 Years of EU Single Market

21.06.2023

Our new report exposes how corporations have used the EU Single Market to obstruct progressive legislation like social housing measures, progressive healthcare reforms, protection from harmful substances as well bans on short-distance flights.

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Germany’s great hydrogen race

23.03.2023

Our new report maps Germany’s 'brave new hydrogen world'. Which looks a lot like the old world: prolonging fossil fuel use and continuing its extractivist logic. We show who is driving the German – and thus EU – hydrogen hype, who benefits, and the negative impacts for prospective green hydrogen export countries.

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Inside job

08.06.2022

Find out how a proposed EU law that seeks to hold companies accountable for abuses in their supply chains has been watered down by corporate lobbyists, with assistance from the EU's business-friendly ‘Better regulation’ agenda.

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