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The European Union and European governments were found to be complicit in the crimes of transnational corporations, including damage to the environment and human rights violations, at a special tribunal which took place in Madrid in May.

Seven civil society organisations have written to DG Environment today, calling on them to leave the "European Food Sustainable Consumption and Production Roundtable (SCP Roundtable)". The promise of inclusion and broad stakeholder participation by the food industry funded organization however has never materialized. Instead of involving key stakeholders in the food chain like consumers, environmentalists, farmers and other members of civil society, the SCP leadership and membership at the time of writing consists entirely of the food and beverage industry.

Brussels, 26 April 2010 – The ALTER-EU coalition today sets out its road map for greater transparency and accountability in the European Union with the publication of a new book: Bursting the Brussels Bubble – the battle to expose corporate lobbying at the heart of the EU”.

CEO has written to the Commission's Secretary-General to question the Commission's decision to allow Mogens Peter Carl (former director General at DG Environment) to become a lobbyist at Kreab Gavin Anderson (KGA), only months after retiring from the Commission.

Brussels, 14 April 2010 – The European Commission's new initiatives to regulate financial markets are based on unbalanced advisory groups dominated by financial services lobbyists, new research published by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) today shows. This has delayed and undermined the quality of the Commission’s regulatory responses to the financial crisis.

The European Parliament’s press service has just published a remarkable online tribute to the practice of MEPs submitting amendments to proposed legislation.