Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
Check out our new videos illustrating The EU’s lobby league table, showing highest declaring EU corporate lobby spenders
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It's time for a #lobbyingfirewall to protect the public interest in EU decision-making from #corporatecapture including by #BigToxics
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On chemicals promised #REACH revision has shifted to simplification agenda to help sector become more "competitive", while #PFAS restriction is at risk from chems industry lobby
#Deregulation rules in VDL Commission
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In these videos you can see the highest declaring corporate lobby sectors:
1. Big Tech
2. Banking & Finance
3. Energy
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When the EU Commission's Clean Industrial Deal is launched on Wednesday it looks set to have corporate lobby fingerprints all over it.
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Corporate Europe ObservatoryBig business spends millions lobbying the EU, but who are the top spenders, and what do they want? We together with LobbyControl, took a look and can reveal that corporate lobby spending has reached unprecedented levels.
The biggest corporate sectors of those declaring €1 million annually are:
1. Big Tech
2. Banking & Finance
3. Energy
4. Chemicals & Agribusiness
5. Cross-sector
6. Pharma
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Other key findings include:
💰Total lobbying spends: The 162 corporations and trade associations which declare EU lobby budgets of over €1 million annually, collectively spend at least €343 million per year.
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Corporate lobby firepower is yielding results: Big Polluters have held huge sway over the Commission's current plans for an aggressive deregulation agenda, and a replacement of green policies by the so-called 'Clean Industrial Deal'.
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#lobbyingfirewall
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Big business spends millions lobbying the EU, but who are the top spenders, and what do they want?
Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social we took a look and can reveal that declared corporate lobby spend has reached unprecedented levels.
#lobbying
#lobbyingfirewall
#corporatecapture
