🎂 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 🧵
https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/clean-industrial-deal-year-dirty-lobbying
🗓️ 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
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 and a #dirtyindustrydeal
👀 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/clean-industrial-deal-year-dirty-lobbying
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
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
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
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 ✊
Corporate Europe Observatory