Progressive municipalist city governments from Barcelona, to Naples, to Grenoble have introduced important policies to promote citizen participation, public ownership of services, expanded affordable housing, urban ecology and sustainable energy, better transparency and accountability, and […]
While all eyes are on the process for the UK leaving the European Union, far more attention needs to be given to how post-Brexit EU-UK trade negotiations are being conducted. The first moves have been […]
Despite their responsibility for the 2008 crash, the financial sector has successfully avoided major reform in the decade since. Their army of lobbyists has won almost all the major battles, leaving new legislation full of […]
As its authority in Brussels is being threatened, Germany is consolidating its control over the EU. Three of the EU´s four leading civil servants are now German. Angela Merkel has declared that a German, the […]
We pay our taxes, so why don’t corporations? This new report shows how the Big Four are embedded in EU policy-making on tax avoidance, and concludes that it is time to kick this industry out […]
Documents released to Corporate Europe Observatory following a Freedom of Information request reveal how pro-biotech lobby platform Public Research Regulation Initiative (PRRI) unites industry, researchers and regulators in ‘like-minded’ groups to influence crucial international biosafety […]
It is no surprise that online rental platform AirBnB and its allies would prefer to keep their controversial political demands to the European Commission private. But it is a disgrace to see the Commission oblige […]
Industry lobbyists who want to continue monetising users’ online data are battling against new ePrivacy regulations, targeting EU member states in the Council. And some member state governments are only too happy to help. Adapted […]
Once again the EU political elite is pushing through the interests of international corporations at the cost of the people of Europe and their environment. Cross-posted from Corporate Europe Observatory Since December 2017, the European […]
Following the Cambridge Analytica affair and the massive leak of 87 million people’s data revealed earlier this year, Facebook is facing unprecedented scrutiny of its business model and especially its use of users’ personal data. […]
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