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Gary Fooks – The ‘forever chemicals’ lobby is spreading disinformation and the EU is eating it up

January 22, 2025 Ben Wray 0

A huge campaign by the corporate chemicals lobby is seeking to convince the EU not to place restrictions on ‘forever chemicals’ which could cost €2 trillion to clean-up. Gary Fooks is Professor in Criminology at […]

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Corruption

Robin McAlpine – A shift to the angry

January 17, 2025 Mathew D. Rose 0

Capitalists and politicians have driven Western society to the brink. What comes after the anger? Robin McAlpine is Head of Strategic Development at the Common Weal think-tank in Scotland. Cross-posted from Common Weal It is […]

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Pascoe Sabido, Elena Gerebizza – Just how many fossil-fuel lobbyists did the EU take to COP29?

December 3, 2024 David Shirreff 0

COP29 in Baku, which finished on November 24th, was crawling with fossil-fuel lobbyists determined to eke out profits for as long as possible. Pascoe Sabido is a researcher and campaigner at Corporate Europe Observatory, Elena […]

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Corporate Europe Observatory – Uncovering Big Tech’s hidden network

October 30, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Conflicts of interest gone wild in the world of EU big tech regulation. This investigation was a joint initiative between the Corporate Europe Observatory, SOMO and Lobby Control. Cross-posted from Corporate Europe Observatory Over the […]

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Corporate Europe Observatory – The little-known ‘forum’ locking Europe into a fossil fuelled future

October 9, 2024 Ben Wray 0

The European Commission’s ‘ICM Forum’ on 10-11 October in Pau, France, is a fossil-fuel industry-led carbon coup, aiming to lock the continent into fossil fuels for decades. Cross-posted from Corporate Europe Observatory The EU has […]

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Corporate Europe Observatory – Bayer’s Toxic Trails

September 24, 2024 David Shirreff 0

Market power, monopolies, and the global lobbying of an agrochemical giant Cross-posted from Corporate Europe Observatory Photo: Bayer Leverkusen Corporate Europe Observatory takes a deep dive into the present – and dark past – of the German […]

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Politico – The Metsola exception: The European Parliament president and her lobbyist husband

September 4, 2024 Ben Wray 0

The European Parliament President, Roberta Metsola, never made it public that her husband is a major Brussels lobbyist in the cruise ship industry, despite pushing through a law on lobbying transparency in the European Parliament […]

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Lobbying

Sonali Kolhatkar – Who’s a Bigger Threat to Democracy—Immigrants, or Billionaires?

July 23, 2024 David Shirreff 0

Don’t be distracted by the anti-immigrant rhetoric this election. The real impact on democracy comes from moneyed elites. Sonali Kolhatkar is an award-winning multimedia journalist. She is the founder, host, and executive producer of “Rising […]

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Court of Justice of the European Union: The Commission did not give the public sufficiently wide access to the purchase agreements for Covid-19 vaccines

July 17, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

The EU Commission led by von der Leyen has been illegally holding back documents to cover up its corruption Read HERE

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Lobbying for Zionism: On both sides of the Atlantic, by Ilan Pappe

June 24, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Book review by Peter Oborne Cross-posted from Middle East Eye No review has yet been published of Professor Ilan Pappe’s magnificent and passionate new book on the Zionist lobby. This silence is no surprise. Even a passing […]

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