#lobbying — Public Fediverse posts

...vanno avanti le 'facce di bronzo' - perde la democrazia

https://www.rsi.ch/info/svizzera/F-35-molte-reazioni-ma-nessuno-scossone--4076624.html

#CH #politica #VBS #armasuisse #lobbying #F35 #bugie #corruzione

Big money is damaging trust in our politics.

#UK #Government has announced a taskforce on mega-donations, but has not said what it will do and when.

We’re calling on the Government to deliver REAL action on big money in #politics, and urgently.

#Petition:

https://secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/200435/petition/1

#corruption #donations #politics #DemocracyNOW #lobbying #bribes

When Should Corporate Lobbying Trigger EU Competition Scrutiny?

In new research, Francisco E. Beneke Avila proposes a multifactor test to distinguish between the legitimate exercise of…
#Europe #EU #antitrustandcompetition #EuropeanUnion #lobbying #Regulation #regulatorycapture
https://www.europesays.com/europe/134927/

Another tale of grift, lobbying and conflict of interest, this time with ex-Tory thug, Jonathan Gullis. Quelle surprise..

#ReformUK #Lobbying #UKPolitics

Ex-Tory MP-turned-Reform councillor landed lobbying job after defecting
https://www.opendemocracy.net/email/62197bd7-f61f-43fa-b37a-77b8373dbb6c/

Another tale of grift, lobbying and conflict of interest, this time with ex-Tory thug, Jonathan Gullis. Quelle surprise..

#ReformUK #Lobbying #UKPolitics

Ex-Tory MP-turned-Reform councillor landed lobbying job after defecting
https://www.opendemocracy.net/email/62197bd7-f61f-43fa-b37a-77b8373dbb6c/

Another tale of grift, lobbying and conflict of interest, this time with ex-Tory thug, Jonathan Gullis. Quelle surprise..

#ReformUK #Lobbying #UKPolitics

Ex-Tory MP-turned-Reform councillor landed lobbying job after defecting
https://www.opendemocracy.net/email/62197bd7-f61f-43fa-b37a-77b8373dbb6c/

Another tale of grift, lobbying and conflict of interest, this time with ex-Tory thug, Jonathan Gullis. Quelle surprise..

#ReformUK #Lobbying #UKPolitics

Ex-Tory MP-turned-Reform councillor landed lobbying job after defecting
https://www.opendemocracy.net/email/62197bd7-f61f-43fa-b37a-77b8373dbb6c/

Another tale of grift, lobbying and conflict of interest, this time with ex-Tory thug, Jonathan Gullis. Quelle surprise..

#ReformUK #Lobbying #UKPolitics

Ex-Tory MP-turned-Reform councillor landed lobbying job after defecting
https://www.opendemocracy.net/email/62197bd7-f61f-43fa-b37a-77b8373dbb6c/

Stalwart says fishing industry facing wipe-out without radical change
By Joanna Prendergast

With the state government cutting $400,000 in funding from the WA Fishing Industry Council, a veteran fisherman says their political advocacy needs a significant rethink.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-10/calls-for-change-wa-fishing-industry-council-political-advocacy/107138084

#FishingandAquacultureIndustry #Lobbying #Agribusiness #JoannaPrendergast

Stalwart says fishing industry facing wipe-out without radical change
By Joanna Prendergast

With the state government cutting $400,000 in funding from the WA Fishing Industry Council, a veteran fisherman says their political advocacy needs a significant rethink.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-10/calls-for-change-wa-fishing-industry-council-political-advocacy/107138084

#FishingandAquacultureIndustry #Lobbying #Agribusiness #JoannaPrendergast

Stalwart says fishing industry facing wipe-out without radical change
By Joanna Prendergast

With the state government cutting $400,000 in funding from the WA Fishing Industry Council, a veteran fisherman says their political advocacy needs a significant rethink.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-10/calls-for-change-wa-fishing-industry-council-political-advocacy/107138084

#FishingandAquacultureIndustry #Lobbying #Agribusiness #JoannaPrendergast

Stalwart says fishing industry facing wipe-out without radical change
By Joanna Prendergast

With the state government cutting $400,000 in funding from the WA Fishing Industry Council, a veteran fisherman says their political advocacy needs a significant rethink.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-10/calls-for-change-wa-fishing-industry-council-political-advocacy/107138084

#FishingandAquacultureIndustry #Lobbying #Agribusiness #JoannaPrendergast

Stalwart says fishing industry facing wipe-out without radical change
By Joanna Prendergast

With the state government cutting $400,000 in funding from the WA Fishing Industry Council, a veteran fisherman says their political advocacy needs a significant rethink.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-10/calls-for-change-wa-fishing-industry-council-political-advocacy/107138084

#FishingandAquacultureIndustry #Lobbying #Agribusiness #JoannaPrendergast

Everyone But Us (in the USA)

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/everyone-but-us-in-the-usa/

"In 2023, 60 per cent of Australians rejected a constitutionally recognised Voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. A body that could only make representations, only on matters concerning the people whose ancestors have been here sixty thousand years.
"Too much, the No campaign shrieked. Division. Privilege. Special treatment.
"Nine months later, Anthony Albanese handed Jillian Segal what the Voice never dreamed of asking for. Not a right to be heard. Power. No election. No parliamentary vote. No hearing. A three year commission reporting personally to the Prime Minister, with a mandate reaching into every campus, newsroom, classroom, gallery, charity, arts contract and visa file in the Commonwealth."

Andrew Brown writes: https://michaelwest.com.au/the-segal-state-the-office-australia-never-voted-for/

#academicFreedom #influence #lobbying #policing #silencing #genocideSupport #hasbara #grievability #conflation #confusion #manipulation #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #Australia #RoyalCommission #AusPol #JillianSegal #Segal #AnthonyAlbanese

Besieged by lobbyists, will UK ministers protect our ecosystems? No, they’ll chicken out | George Monbiot
By George Monbiot

Industrial poultry farming is killing our rivers. But rather than stop it, the government has been facilitating it. Will Andy Burnham end this ecocide?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/23/lobbyists-uk-environment-ministers-ecosystems-chicken-poultry-faming

#Farming #Rivers #Pollution #Environment #Lobbying #Politics #UKnews #Food #Meatindustry #TheGuardian #GeorgeMonbiot

#TaylorFarms Spent Big on #MAGA and #AntiRegulatory #Lobbying Before #Diarrhea Outbreak

The company donated more than $3.6 million to #conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the #MAGAInc. #SuperPAC.

by Kate Taylor, Jul 21, 2026

"The lettuce supplier at the center of the turbo diarrhea outbreak has spent millions of dollars to sway sentiment around #FoodRegulation and elect Donald Trump and other MAGA Republicans, according to public filings.

"Taylor Farms donated more than $2 million to conservative political groups in 2025, according to Federal Election Commission filings. That includes a $1 million donation to MAGA Inc., the Trump-centric super PAC, and $1.1 million to other super PACs dedicated to electing Republicans.

"From 2020 through the end of 2024, the company donated more than $1.6 million to conservative PACs, including a total of $850,000 to #AFPAction, an anti-regulation super PAC with ties to the #Koch network.

"#BruceTaylor, the chairman and CEO of Taylor Farms, is also a longtime donor to Republican causes. Since 2020, Taylor has personally donated more than $900,000 to Republican PACs and candidates, including contributions to Texas senator #JohnCornyn and Tennessee senator #MarshaBlackburn."

Read more:
https://www.wired.com/story/diarrhea-outbreak-taylor-farms-maga-donations-lobbying/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/zUBU5

#KochBrothers #KochNetwork #Capitalism #Crapitalism #USPol #CyclosporaOutbreak

The window of opportunity is still open.
'The fact that agentic Al systems can currently undertake only comparatively simple tasks does not mean the policy community can sit and wait. The early stages of development of a technology provide critical windows of opportunity—that can close very quickly-for implementing effective safety and security measures.'

Excerpt from 'Before it's too late: Why a world of interacting Al agents demands new safeguards' by Dr Vincent Boulanin, Dr Alexander Blanchard and Dr Diego Lopes da Silva for #SIPRI: https://bit.ly/46LQpnS

#agenticAI #lobbying #lobbies #Microsoft #AIEthics #GAFAM #AI #civilLiberties #EU #AIRisks #tech #AIAct

The #ultraprocessed foods #UPF problem is driven by commercial interests, not individual weakness. Here’s how to fix it
🧐"UPF is te #foodsector’s most profitable biz model. Te largest MNCs sit atop #global #supply, #marketing & #lobbying networks tt expand mkts, shape science & public debate, & block #regulation.. in 2024 leading food cos spent vastly more on #advertising than #WHO’s entire op'g budget. UPFcorp'ns follow same playbook as #tobacco & #fossilfuel industries"
https://theconversation.com/the-ultra-processed-foods-problem-is-driven-by-commercial-interests-not-individual-weakness-heres-how-to-fix-it-269401

Are legislatures that are elected purely by sortition immune to lobbying by special interests?
#government #politics #sortition #legislatures #parliaments #lobbying #lobbyists #specialinterests #elections #politicians #politicalscience #democracy

The Folk Economics of Housing
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.20241428
#ycombinator #Political_Processes_Rent_seeking #Lobbying #Elections #Legislatures #and_Voting_Behavior #Search_Learning_Information_and_Knowledge_Communication_Belief_Unawareness #Urban #Rural #Regional #Real_Estate #and_Transportation_Economics_Housing_Demand #and_Transportation_Economics_Regional_Migration_Regional_Labor_Markets_Population_Neighborhood_Characteristics #Housing_Supply_and_Markets #Regional_Development_Planning_and_Policy

Doppeltes Spiel des Agrarverbandes: Bauernschlaue Lobbyisten

»Der #Bauernverband verspricht in der #Zukunftskommission #Naturschutz, handelt aber dagegen. Umweltverbände fürchten jetzt Ähnliches auf EU-Ebene.

Der Deutsche Bauern­verband hat mehrmals Zusagen für mehr #Umweltschutz im wichtigsten Beratergremium der #Bundesregierung zur #Landwirtschaft gebrochen. Die Organisation unterschrieb in der Zukunftskommission Landwirtschaft (#ZKL) wichtige Forderungen nach mehr Natur­- und #Tierschutz in der Branche. Dafür mäßigten Umweltschützer ihre Kritik an der #Agrarlobby. Doch besonders seit den Bauernprotesten des vergangenen Winters verstößt der Verband gegen den Konsens des Expertengremiums und kämpft dafür, Umweltvorschriften zu kippen. Mit Erfolg. […]

Das #Lobbying des Bauernverbandes und seiner #EU-Dachorganisation #CopaCogeca war so erfolgreich, dass die Empfänger von #Agrarsubventionen unter dem grünen Bundeslandwirtschaftsminister Cem #Özdemir nun sogar weniger für die #Umwelt tun müssen als unter seiner CDU-Vorgängerin Julia #Klöckner. […]

Es ist nicht das einzige gebrochene Versprechen. Der ZKL-Bericht empfahl, weniger tierische Lebensmittel zu produzieren, weil sie dem #Klima schaden. Doch Bauernverbandspräsident Joachim #Rukwied sprach sich später klar dagegen aus, die Viehzahlen zu senken […]

So hält die Doppelzüngigkeit der #Agrarlobby in der ZKL und im echten ­Leben an. Besonders deutlich zeigte sich das im April, als die ZKL empfahl, mehr Tierschutz mithilfe einer höheren #Mehrwertsteuer auf #Fleisch zu finanzieren. Wenn die Verbraucher #Tierwohlprämien für Bauern mitbezahlen müssten, sollte dies über „die Anhebung des bisher reduzierten Mehrwertsteuersatzes auf tierische Produkte“ geschehen, heißt es im entsprechenden Papier, dem auch der Bauernverband zugestimmt hatte. Die Kommission begrüßte ausdrücklich, dass sich die Ampelkoalition Mitte Mai 2023 auf eine Tierwohlabgabe für Fleisch geeinigt habe. […]

Doch #Rukwied erklärte kurz nach Bekanntwerden des Papiers: „Eine Mehrwertsteuererhöhung auf den Regelsatz oder einen Tierwohlcent lehnen wir ab. Das Geld für den Tierwohlumbau muss aus dem Bundeshaushalt kommen. […]

Auch heute noch gibt es Unzufriedenheit in der Zukunftskommission Landwirtschaft. „Die Kommission ist eine gezielte Strategie, um die ­Umweltverbände zu binden“, erfuhr die #taz aus Kreisen der aktuellen Kommission. Die Umweltschützer würden hunderte Stunden für Ergebnisse verwenden, die sowieso nicht umgesetzt würden. „Aber der Bauernverband kann sagen: Wir sprechen ja miteinander, und deshalb demonstriert jetzt mal bitte nicht. Die Kommission hält den Wut der Umweltseite auf der Führungsebene im Zaum." Spätestens nach der Aufweichung der Umweltbedingungen für die #Agrarsubventionen sei aber „massiver öffentlicher Protest“ nötig.

Stattdessen beteiligen sich große Umweltorganisationen jetzt auch noch an einer Arbeitsgruppe auf EU-Ebene nach dem Vorbild der deutschen ZKL: am „Strategischen Dialog zur Zukunft der EU-Landwirtschaft“, den Ursula #vonderLeyen im Januar eröffnet hat. […]

Hannes Lorenzen, Vorsitzender der Gruppe Arc2020, die sich für eine Reform der EU-Agrarpolitik einsetzt, glaubt, dass das Forum einen echten Austausch nur vorspielen solle. „Ich habe allen Nicht­regierungsorganisationen gesagt: Geht nicht dorthin. Die Bauernverbände werden sich nicht einen Millimeter bewegen.“ Der Dialog solle nur legitimieren, dass die #EuropäischeUnion die Umweltstandards in der #Agrarpolitik abbaut.«

https://taz.de/Doppeltes-Spiel-des-Agrarverbandes/!6009938/ via @tazgetroete

#Europawahl ist #Klimawahl
#EU2024 #Agrarindustrielobby #LULUCF #Artensterben #Biodiversitätskrise #BiologischeVielfalt #Biodiversität #Artenvielfalt #Massentierhaltung

Lobbyists for a coalition of six groups succeeded in getting changes into a 2021 Portman-Cardin bill governing IRS #oversight of #private #retirement #plans.

Fact sheets provided to POLITICO
— which a Hill staffer said the lobbyists distributed to advocate for their proposal
— sold the changes as fixes that would help elderly Americans, such as retired government and factory workers,
who had inadvertently put too much in their retirement accounts and could face penalties from the IRS.

But the lobbyists were also targeting benefits for a different demographic.

The head of the coalition, according to his biography, specializes in tax planning for🌟 “ultra-high-net-worth clients.” 🌟

The coalition also included an advocacy group that has previously been tied to the #Koch #network
— and which engaged in a massive lobbying campaign against efforts to restructure Puerto Rico’s debt that was owned by hedge fund managers in 2015.

Tax lawyers who reviewed the statutory changes said they would in fact
👉 make it far more difficult for the IRS to penalize supersized retirement accounts where owners avoided millions of dollars in taxes. 👈

“The lobby power of these groups is tremendous,” said Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), a member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee.

“There has been little lobby effort for [low-income taxpayers] and plenty of lobbying from those people in the financial services industry that benefit from those retirement plans

#Secure #financial #services #industry #tax #advantaged #retirement #savings #taxes #Cardin #Portman #Neal #lobbying

Five months before Congress faced a near-catastrophic 2022 standoff over the debt ceiling,
with Republicans demanding restrictions to food and Medicaid programs to rein in spending,
a bill that raised the cost of private retirement savings accounts to $282 billion per year was quietly signed into law.

In this era of deeply divided politics, the 2022 bill known as "#Secure 2.0" was hailed as a bipartisan success — a victory for average Americans.
It had sailed through the House by a whopping 414-5 vote.
It followed four other major bills passed between 1996 and 2019 that 🔸dramatically expanded taxpayer savings 🔸– all equally lauded as bipartisan victories.

But that rare issue that brought a divided Washington together also 💥increased wealth disparities and the federal deficit. 💥

And the victory was most strongly applauded by the burgeoning #financial #services #industry, for whom #tax-#advantaged #retirement #savings has transformed a $7 trillion retirement market in 1995 to a $38.4 trillion behemoth in 2023.

👉Tax-advantaged savings has become a staple of the American retirement system, with 60 million savers squirreling away $6.6 trillion in their 401(k)s, alone.

But a yearlong POLITICO investigation found that Secure 2.0 and its predecessor bills have expanded the system well beyond its goal of helping the middle class.

Today, ⭐️wealthy taxpayers can protect up to $452,500 per year ⭐️in tax-advantaged accounts in a single year, 👉saving up to $203,600 on their #taxes.

And they can keep their money in tax-advantaged accounts far longer.

More striking is how these victories were achieved:
A quarter-century partnership between two senators
— Democrat Ben #Cardin of Maryland and Republican Rob #Portman of Ohio
— joined more recently by the former House Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard #Neal (D-Mass.).

Backed by one of the most highly skilled and lavishly funded industry #lobbying teams, and greased by campaign contributions, Portman, Cardin and Neal turned what could have been a deeply controversial giveback to higher-income taxpayers into a staple of the American Dream.

They appealed to core beliefs in both parties
— free enterprise for Republicans, economic security for Democrats
– to enact what is arguably the most costly series of non-Defense bills in recent decades.

Indeed, that success now vexes many retirement experts, alarmed by how easily Congress acquiesces to tax breaks for retirement savings that 🔹disproportionately help the wealthy 🔹while treating the benefits relied upon by most retirees
— Social Security and Medicare
— as "budget-busters ripe for reform".

🔥“The 401(k) industry owns Congress,” 🔥said Daniel Hemel, a professor and tax law scholar based at NYU School of Law.
“Either lawmakers were trying to pull a fast one on the American people or lobbyists were trying to pull a fast one on Congress.
I don’t know which story is better. I don’t know which one I should want to believe.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/13/how-your-401k-ate-the-federal-budget-00150319

Richard Ferrand vend ses services auprès d'Accenture pour vider de sa substance la proposition de loi d'encadrement des cabinets de conseil, révèle Mediapart. L'ex-président de l'Assemblée intervient auprès de la multinationale via sa société Messidor, créée deux mois après sa défaite aux législatives dans la circonscription de Carhaix-Châteaulin. 🧐 1/

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/060224/un-cabinet-de-conseil-utilise-richard-ferrand-comme-cheval-de-troie-au-parlement

#richardferrand #lobbying #assembleenationale #cabinetsdeconseil #parlement #accenture #finistere #bretagne #mediapart

Nominations for @thehill’s 2023 Top Lobbyists list are now open!

The list highlights the most impactful advocates at K Street firms, companies, trade associations and grassroots advocacy groups.

More details (including the nomination link) here: https://thehill.com/lobbying/4241934-nominations-for-the-hills-2023-top-lobbyists-now-open/

#lobbying #toplobbyists #nomination #thehill #dc #kstreet #advocacy #tradeassociations

Hang on, what am I missing here?

Why is a lobby group, IBEC, on behalf of an industry group, FDII, appearing on the government's tendering website?

https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=2028963

#IBEC #FDII #lobbying #tenders #ETenders #Ireland