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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 visitorsNext highest was energy (13%) and automotive (11%)
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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 visitorsNext highest was energy (13%) and automotive (11%)
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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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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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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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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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Well with the #Antwerp & #AldenBiesen meetings this week, it's been a pretty depressing picture coming out of 🇪🇺. But activists are fighting back on all sorts of issues; we are going to comment on / re-post various items for some cheer and to share some opportunities to take action and get involved.
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1/ Commission President von der Leyen & EU government leaders meet today for a 'competitiveness' retreat in #AldenBiesen 🇧🇪 VDL, since her reappointment in 2024, has unleashed an aggressive #deregulation agenda Worryingly, she is now getting absolute backing from #Merz, #Meloni, #DeWever & others
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4/ Most #deregulation reforms discussed at today's 🇪🇺 summit are long-standing corporate #lobbying demands from CEFIC, the European Round Table for Industry (ERT) and BusinessEurope 🚨 BusinessEurope is currently lobbying for a 'social Omnibus' intended to weaken workers' rights 🤯 #CorporateCapture
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3/ Today's 🇪🇺 leaders retreat in #AldenBiesen will discuss proposals from hard-right prime ministers #Merz & #Meloni for accelerating #deregulation: * ending "over-regulation" * Omnibus law to speed up permitting * getting an "emergency brake" on new 🇪🇺 legislation considered "too burdensome"
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2/ Yesterday von der Leyen met with corporate leaders at the #Antwerp Summit, listening to industry lobby demands for further #deregulation She promised she would use today's 🇪🇺 summit in #AldenBiesen to "discuss with leaders how to match the pace you need. It is time to further accelerate" 🚨
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The Commission is assessing whether #Mandelson's #Epstein contacts violated EU ethics rules 👏 Just a reminder that #Mandelson, as EU Trade Commissioner (2004–2008), operated an open-door policy for corporate #lobbyists & prioritised big business interests, as summarised in this cartoon from 2008 ⬇️
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The Commission is assessing whether #Mandelson's #Epstein contacts violated EU ethics rules 👏 Just a reminder that #Mandelson, as EU Trade Commissioner (2004–2008), operated an open-door policy for corporate #lobbyists & prioritised big business interests, as summarised in this cartoon from 2008 ⬇️
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The Commission is assessing whether #Mandelson's #Epstein contacts violated EU ethics rules 👏 Just a reminder that #Mandelson, as EU Trade Commissioner (2004–2008), operated an open-door policy for corporate #lobbyists & prioritised big business interests, as summarised in this cartoon from 2008 ⬇️
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The Commission is assessing whether #Mandelson's #Epstein contacts violated EU ethics rules 👏 Just a reminder that #Mandelson, as EU Trade Commissioner (2004–2008), operated an open-door policy for corporate #lobbyists & prioritised big business interests, as summarised in this cartoon from 2008 ⬇️
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The Commission is assessing whether #Mandelson's #Epstein contacts violated EU ethics rules 👏 Just a reminder that #Mandelson, as EU Trade Commissioner (2004–2008), operated an open-door policy for corporate #lobbyists & prioritised big business interests, as summarised in this cartoon from 2008 ⬇️
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The addictive design of social media is a major societal problem with serious impacts on public health & endangering the future of democracy
Weakening of the #DFA, in the name of 'simplification' or ‘competitiveness’, would only benefit the already excessively powerful US-based tech giants
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Our new report shows Meta #lobbyists presented misleading claims to EU officials about the safety of Instagram for young women
These claims are contradicted by several recent independent studies as well as analyses of Meta’s own internal documents
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Check out ‘Addicted to the algorithm: how Big Tech lobbies to keep us hooked on social media’
Big Tech #lobbyists:
- enjoyed privileged access to EU decision-makers
- made false claims about online safety
- argued new rules harm EU 'simplification' agenda
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The addictive design of social media is a major societal problem with serious impacts on public health & endangering the future of democracy Weakening of the #DFA, in the name of 'simplification' or ‘competitiveness’, would only benefit the already excessively powerful US-based tech giants
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⚽ Football supporters call people to boycott the 2026 World Cup held in the USA unless the matches are moved. Given the brutality of ICE, travelling there as a fan doesn’t look so tempting right now. www.boycottusa2026.org/2025/04/23/i... #BoycottUSA2026 #Boycott2026WorldCup #fuckICE 7/
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⚽ Football supporters call people to boycott the 2026 World Cup held in the USA unless the matches are moved. Given the brutality of ICE, travelling there as a fan doesn’t look so tempting right now. www.boycottusa2026.org/2025/04/23/i... #BoycottUSA2026 #Boycott2026WorldCup #fuckICE 7/
It’s Time To Boycott The World... -
⚽ Football supporters call people to boycott the 2026 World Cup held in the USA unless the matches are moved. Given the brutality of ICE, travelling there as a fan doesn’t look so tempting right now. www.boycottusa2026.org/2025/04/23/i... #BoycottUSA2026 #Boycott2026WorldCup #fuckICE 7/
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Disappointed you don't hold billions in US Treasury Bonds so you can dump them? 😉 You can still help declare independence from Trump and his oligarch enablers... here's a few ideas on how to join many in Canada and Denmark in boycotting Trump’s MAGA madness. #BoycottMAGA 🧵 1/
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The 🇪🇺 Commission is taking a political chainsaw to hard won social, environmental, and digital protections.
We need #RulestoProtect not #Deregulation.
Check out our new cartoons below by Ralph Underhill and spread the word! -
1/ The 🇪🇺 Commission is taking a political chainsaw to hard won social, environmental, and digital protections. We need #RulestoProtect not #Deregulation. Check out our new cartoons below by @[email protected] and spread the word!
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📣 Watch and share! Farmers are protesting all over, against the #EUMERCOSUR free trade deal. The EU is selling them out, favouring industrial sectors such as pesticide corporations.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oej3znv7xm6oofk4zq7hvghs/post/3mbyiwit6xc2f -
There’s a better way. 🌱 By avoiding synthetic inputs, organic & agroecological farms protect soil, water, and wildlife. They build resilience, producing food long-term without destroying the planet. #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness #EUAgriFoodDays See: www.eea.europa.eu/en/topics/in...
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By 2050, climate change could push food prices up 20%]. Agriculture makes up 12% of EU emissions, yet agribusiness lobbyists block real climate action, like controlling harmful and dangerous levels of industrial animal production. #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness #EUAgriFoodDays
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A handful of corporations control what we eat - and profit from it. Seeds, pesticides, machinery, carbon credits, fertilisers, even poultry genetics. That’s not free choice - that’s corporate monopolies. Food Security, anyone? #EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness