The huge sums for EU lobbying by the biggest declaring corporate interests are clearly paying-off, considering the pro-business agenda of the second von der Leyen Commissions. EU decision-making faces a real risk of regulatory capture, and there are next to no effective protections in place. Corporate competitiveness is being prioritised over democratic values and social and environmental protections. We need lobby firewalls to protect public decision-making. The Commission must stop providing privileged access to industry lobbies and ensure that civil society and community voices are heard. Introducing a legally-binding register is long overdue, to deliver meaningful sanctions for posting inaccurate data.

It's time for a #lobbyingfirewall to protect the public interest in EU decision-making from #corporatecapture including by #BigToxics

corporateeurope.org/en/2025/02/e...

Kampf um PFAS: Wie Habeck der Chemie-Lobby auf den Leim geht PFAS-Chemikalien sollen eingeschränkt werden. Doch Hunderte Firmen kämpfen hart dafür, die Chemikalien weiter zu benutzen. Neue Recherchen zeigen, dass wichtige Politiker falsche Lobby-Behauptungen üb...

And more important findings in 🇩🇪 by NDR, WDR

'How Habeck fell for chemistry lobbyists' by @danieldrepper.bsky.social and colleagues

Germany plays a critically important role in fate of #PFAS file as a proposer of the original file - and home of many #BigToxics

www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...

Important new article below by @mediapart.fr on how #BigToxics chemical industry lobbying threatens global ban on toxic substance: siloxanes.

And how industry has many allies inside Commission's DG Grow.

We secured many lobby documents mentioned via AsktheEU: www.asktheeu.org/en/info_requ...

UE, vertice Urso - Séjourné: “Nuova fase per la politica industriale europea” Particolare attenzione alla necessità di un nuovo approccio volto alla neutralità tecnologica

Disappointing signal from VP Séjourné who spent 1st official visit outside 🇧🇪 in 🇮🇹 meeting #BigToxics company Syensqo, previously Solvay

🇮🇹 minister: VP "anticipated the guidelines of a pragmatic industrial policy, which incorporates our requests & expectations"

www.mimit.gov.it/it/notizie-s...

BBC Radio 4 - World at One, 20/11/2024 Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment.

Good to hear coverage on today's BBC World at One of growing number of legal challenges by talc users following cancer concerns.
Time to tackle #BigToxics
Time for #ToxicFreePolitics
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Corporate capture won’t solve environmental crises As Prime Minister De Croo and President von der Leyen hobnob with the leaders of big business at BASF Antwerp, 70+ NGOs have demanded an end to privileged access for polluting industries and ambitious...

❌ Today #BigToxics & #BigPolluters meet in Antwerp with #EU2024BE to discuss an #IndustrialDeal.

⛔ NGOs & local communities suffering from massive #PFASpollution? Not invited.

✊ 70+ CSOs demand an end to #CorporateCapture & tough action on environmental crises.

👇 Check it out here

Crying wolf pays off for chemicals industry As politicians get ready to cosy up with Big Toxics at a private event in a chemicals factory to discuss a new 'European Industrial Deal', Corporate Europe Observatory looks at how the Green Deal's pr...

🚨NEW ARTICLE: "Crying wolf pays off for chemicals industry"

🐺 Check out how #GreenDeal's proposals to deliver a #ToxicFreeFuture have been delayed & sidelined by #BigToxics’ ‘cry wolf’ scaremongering tactics

👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2024/02/c...