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Packaging lobby’s support for anti-litter groups deflects tougher solutions

28.03.2018

As political support for radical solutions to tackle the scourge of single-use plastics grows, we look at the links between the packaging industry and anti-litter NGOs in Brussels and beyond. 
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Real sanctions vital to stop lobby register abuses

22.03.2018

Find out how the EU lobby register Secretariat has been dealing with CEO complaints about dodgy data, including by Monsanto.
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Selmayrgate: Or why the Secretary-General job matters

20.03.2018

The appointment of Martin Selmayr as new Secretary-General of the European Commission took almost everybody by surprise. This new role makes Selmayr the head of some 33,000 commission staff and, thusly, a crucial actor in processes that can support or hinder public interest policy-making.
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The beginning of a Parliamentary rebellion?

15.03.2018

177 Members of the European Parliament took a stand in Strasbourg yesterday, voting to not give EU money and political support to more than a hundred new pipelines and other gas infrastructure projects.

Final Barrosogate ruling means Commission must get off its high horse

15.03.2018

CEO's reaction to the European Ombudsman’s final ruling regarding the EU Commission’s handling of its former President Barroso’s revolving door move to investment bank Goldman Sachs.

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More secrecy rights for business in the UK? No thanks!

14.03.2018

The UK government will shortly bring new EU rules on industrial espionage into law. But civil society is concerned that these new rules risk creating a chilling effect on future corporate whistle-blowers and those who report their stories.
Food

Will a food industry lobbyist again be appointed to EFSA's Management Board?

02.03.2018

Wouldn't it be time that the EU stops allowing a direct representation of the food industry's interests on the Board of the EU Food Safety Authority (EFSA)?
Food

What the Monsanto Papers tell us about corporate science

01.03.2018

The Monsanto Papers are a trove of internal documents slowly released since March 2017 in a US lawsuit by cancer victims against Monsanto over its ubiquitous herbicide, Roundup. They tell a lot about how Monsanto actively subverts science, both in its practices and the way it abuses science’s moral authority to push for its interests.
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EU tax officials: open door for tobacco lobbyists

22.02.2018

New research by the Tobacco Investigations Desk shows that tobacco industry lobbyists worked hard to weaken the European Commission’s stance on tobacco product taxes, while enjoying an “open door policy”, despite having signed on to an international treaty to protect public health officials from tobacco lobbyists.