Corporate Europe Observatory

Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) challenges the influence of Big Business and corporate lobby groups in EU policy-making.

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2025-10-29 08:33:04 UTC

📢 As the EU's deregulation agenda rolls out the red carpet for corporate interests, our new study with @npub16ux…q37k shows that the tech industry has ramped up its lobby power:
💰 Lobby spending hits a record €151 million
🕴 Almost 900 tech lobbyists
🤝 Big Tech has lobby 3 meetings a day
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/big-tech-lobby-budgets-hit-record-levels
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2025-09-08 12:50:36 UTC

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The most visible players #lobbying for the 28th Regime are start-ups and venture capital investors, but in the background big business lobby groups are eagerly promoting it too
Read our new article on the #28thRegime , who’s behind it and what’s at stake
https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/social-dumping-disaster-eus-28th-regime
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2025-09-08 12:46:51 UTC

⚠️ Corporate lobby groups are promoting a radical plan to create an EU-level ‘28th regime’ of parallel, weaker rules for start-ups and ‘innovative’ companies
This could enable social dumping and trigger a race to the bottom for social rights
#Deregulation #rulestoprotect
https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/social-dumping-disaster-eus-28th-regime

2025-01-29 15:10:56 UTC

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The Competitiveness Compass will result in unprecedented levels of corporate influence 🚨
Take the ‘Implementation Dialogues’, which each of the 27 Commissioners will hold twice yearly “to hear business concerns” & identify “burden reductions”; that's another 54 corporate lobbying events per year 🤯

2024-11-18 14:28:45 UTC

EU governments brought at least 113 fossil fuel lobbyists to #COP29 according to analysis from #KickBigPollutersOut and #FossilFreePolitics . Many were there to do gas deals.
🧵Thread 👇
#FossilFreePolitics
#KickBigPollutersOut
https://fossilfreepolitics.org/news/europe-brings-gas-lobbyists-to-cop29-to-strike-deals/
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