Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)Feb 25
🎂 For the 1st birthday of the Clean Industrial Deal (CID) 🎂 CEO exposes how dirty industry lobbyists have outgunned civil society in gaining access to the European Commission and influencing this #DirtyIndustrialDeal. Thread with key findings 🧵 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/c...

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The ‘Clean’ Industrial Deal: a year of dirty lobbying | Corporate Europe Observatory

CEO looked at lobby meetings on the EU's flagship Clean Industrial deal since it was announced a year ago. Dirty industry dominated.

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🗓️ In the year since the CID was released, top Commission staff have had 750+ lobby meetings on it, more than three per working day. 👔 90% w/ business interests 🔎 5.5% w/ NGOs 👷 1% w/ trade unions Corporate interests have engineered a #DirtyIndustrialDeal 👀 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/c...
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The 🇪🇺 met with ±500 different business groups and their reps. The top 5: 🏭 EUROFER - 39 meetings 🏭 ArcelorMittal - 18 ☢️ EDF - 12 🏭 European Aluminium - 11 🏭 Cement Europe - 11 These big polluting industries have all lobbied for #deregulation. Read more 📖: corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/c...
Show threadCorporate Europe Observatory (CEO)Feb 25
Among lobby groups with 5 or more meetings on the CID and its related files, the metals & mining sector dominated: 🤝 41% of meetings 🏅 6 out of the top 10 most frequent visitors Next highest was energy (13%) and automotive (11%) #DirtyIndustrialDeal corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/c...
Show threadCorporate Europe Observatory (CEO)Feb 25
The CID promised to introduce/alter/accelerate swathes of new + existing files, making it a key target for dirty industry lobbying. The files with most meetings: 🏭 CID: 162 🛃 CBAM: 145 ♻️ Circular Economy Act: 65 ⏩ Industrial Accelerator Act: 53 🚗 Automotive Action Plan: 45 #DirtyIndustrialDeal
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16 different departments were lobbied, but which Commissioner and their cabinet was the most welcoming? 🇫🇷 Stéphane Séjourné (DG GROW, 131 meetings) 🇳🇱 Wopke Hoekstra (DG CLIMA, 60) 🇪🇸 Teresa Ribera (DG COMP) co-coordinates the #CID with Séjourné + Hoekstra, but only had 20 meetings
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Show threadCorporate Europe Observatory (CEO)Feb 25
The past year dirty industry has pushed for + won: 🔑 Increased access to EU decision-making ✂️ Cuts to workers rights + environmental protections 💶 More public subsidies ⚡ Speeding up dirty infrastructure permitting Ingredients for bigger corporate 💰, but a failed 🇪🇺 Time to fight back ✊