‘Better Regulation’ was a formula for making laws and law-making more business friendly. But the current model takes the ‘simplification’ agenda to new levels: corporate involvement in decision-making (including the preparation of proposals) is unprecedented.
We need #rulestoprotect all of us!
The season is upon us, but it appears not everyone has been invited to the ball.
While industry leaders enjoyed red carpets in Antwerp, 270+ civil society groups are demanding their own ball ahead of #EUCO.
Will @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu accept the dance? 🦢
#AntwerpCounterSummit #RulesToProtect
We don't need no deregulation! ⬇️
We need #RulesToProtect
We need #Rulestoprotect
Corporate interests have pressured the heads of States into attacking vital safety, social, environmental laws.
We need more, even stronger laws to protect Europe’s people and wildlife.
🚨 Today, Von der Leyen meets corporate lobbyists
🚨 Tomorrow, the EU leaders do
We see a worrying trend and a connection there.
The (E)U-turn on protections must stop!
📄 Read our joint-open letter to find out what we do want:
friendsoftheearth.eu/wp-content/u...
#RulesToProtect
great piece from @matsengstrom.bsky.social the other side of the story are costs of non-regulation: pollution from PFAS chemicals will cost the European Union €440bn by 2050.
We need better rules not lawmakers that only want to tick boxes of industry wishlists. #Rulestoprotect
Political cartoon showing a large chainsaw labeled “Simplifier” cutting a green rope labeled “Regulation” stretched between two cliffs. Small people and animals are standing on the rope, about to fall. A figure above says, “We aren’t cutting, we are simplifying,” highlighting the danger of deregulation framed as simplification. Cartoon by @cartoonRalph
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We need #RulestoProtect not #Deregulation.
🇪🇺 Commission needs to stop doing bidding of big business & get back to regulating in public interest.
If you support our work to challenge this agenda, get our newsletter: corporateeurope.org/en/newsletter
Thanks again to @cartoonralph.bsky.social
Political cartoon showing a chainsaw labeled ‘Simplifier’ cutting through a stack of papers labeled ‘Vital social and environmental protections.’ The chainsaw bears EU symbols and is powered by a red fuel can labeled ‘Corporate lobbying.’ Above, text reads: ‘Commission unveils new tools in so-called “simplification” plans.’ Cartoon by @cartoonRalph
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The 🇪🇺 Commission is taking a political chainsaw to hard won social, environmental, and digital protections.
We need #RulestoProtect not #Deregulation.
Check out our new cartoons below by @cartoonralph.bsky.social and spread the word!
All we want for 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ (and forever) is
Food that is healthy
Thriving biodiversity
Water that is drinkable
Soil that sustains life
A safe work environment
🎶 We don’t need no D E R E G U L A T I O N ⬇️👀
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyWv...
#RulesToProtect #Deregulator
This year, we will stand even stronger to defend European climate laws from political backsliding!
#RulesToProtect #HandsOffNature
Governments are ´cutting red tape´ which are environmental and social safeguards to protect people from pollution and corporate abuse. This short-sighted strategy of conservative and far-right politicians is jeopardizing public health and environmental quality. #RulesToProtect @eppgroup.bsky.social
🎮 Alguien juega está jugando con nuestras vidas. Las grandes empresas presionan, los que hacen las leyes ceden. Con cada norma eliminada, nuestro aire, suelo y salud se degradan.
📽️ Mira como va la partida:
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#Deregulator #RulesToProtect @foeeurope.bsky.social
+100 people gathered today in Brussels to plan our fightback against #Deregulation and #Omnibus packages.
Trade unions, NGOs, public health & consumer organisations, corporate watchdogs... representing millions of citizens across Europe demand #RulesToProtect people, environment and the planet.
🤰🏼🍀🐝 Europeans want health & nature protected. The EU must act - the world is watching.
👀 @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @christophehansen.bsky.social @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu - time to step up...
#RulesToProtect #HandsOffNature
🔗https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar10983b93
“Legislative and regulatory self-restraint” 🙄
A document obtained by @politico.eu shows EU leaders will be calling on the Commission not to bring in any new laws… except for dismantling existing ones of course (no restraint on “omnibuses”!).
#deregulation #RulesToProtect
You don’t have to be an EU citizen to participate by the way: by slashing regulations which protect people and planet for the sake of purported “competitiveness”, the EU is fuelling a global race to the bottom. Time we stay stop 🛑
#RulesToProtect
It wasn’t enough for agrifood lobbies to sabotage efforts to make EU pesticide regulations stricter. Now they want to weaken them. There’s a public consultation ongoing and @foeeurope.bsky.social created a handy tool to help you raise your voice 👇
#RulesToProtect
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🚨 Commissioner @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu
: do not weaken EU water law!
The WFD protects our rivers, health & climate.
Living Rivers Europe urges: reject its inclusion in the Environmental Omnibus.
78% of us want stronger EU water protection rules - not more rollbacks.
Letter ⬇️
#RulesToProtect
I was proud to take part in this action by the Irish Coalition for Business and Human Rights to resist the EU #deregulation agenda and to call on Irish MEPs to stop the race to the bottom and defend #rulestoprotect.
This action was timed to coincide with the #BacktotheFuture march in Brussels.
✊600 actions, 195 cities, 85 countries. From Fiji to Canada and Benin to the UK - last weekend we yelled #DrawTheLine all over the world!
We need to put people over profits. Greed is killing our planet.
But our hope lies in action. We can do this, TOGETHER!✊ #RulesToProtect #BackToTheFuture
The German govt's new report into its energy transition shows meeting its 2030 green hydrogen target is "barely achievable".
The hydrogen lobby's response? More deregulation 🤦🏻♂️
Calls for a "pragmatic focus on unshackling investment long weighed down by overly complex regulation"
#RulesToProtect
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⏳ Delaying action means spiralling environmental, health & economic costs.
We stand with the 600+ scientists calling for bold, science-based EU action to protect Europe’s waters - not later, now. 🌊🌱
🔗 Full statement + signatories in comments.
#HandsOffNature #RulesToProtect #ActNow
True to form, the US doesn't hold back in telling the EU what to do - "dismantle climate legislation if you want our fracked gas"
#RulesToProtect
#deregulation
#GasLobby
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📢“Our protection must not be sold for profit”
This week, we joined 470 orgs denouncing the EU Commission’s deregulation push to labour, social, human, environnmental + digital rights ahead of Ursula von der Leyen’s #SOTEU.
👉Read the statement: corporateeurope.org/sites/defaul... #RulesToProtect
The EU Commission & Member States may dismantle rules that govern companies operating in the EU, that will set progress back many years on: environmental protection, social rights, climate policy & more.
We joined 470 organisations to say: We need #RulestoProtect
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/e...
👆The reality is that the Omnibus packages launched on issues like corporate accountability and chemicals are very clearly about deregulation and slashing rules that protect people and the environment.
#rulestoprotect
Yesterday, civil society and trade unions delivered a very clear message in a statement signed by 470 organisations (among which, us): we need rules to protect people and the environment!
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/e...
#RulesToProtect @caneurope.org @foeeurope.bsky.social @eeb.org
The #SOTEU speech has started, shall we guess how many times we'll hear the word "competitiveness"?
We need #rulestoprotect people and the environment, not profit!
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...środowisko!
#RulestoProtect
#SOTEU
#RulestoProtect
#SOTEU The EU weakens the rules that safeguard people & the environment 470 civil society trade unions and public interest groups tell President von der Leyen European Commissioners and EU Member States that our rights planet health and justice are not for sale tinyurl.com/4px7x9yr
