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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) today gave shocking positive advice to move forward with the prolongation of the use of Europe's most widely used herbicide glyphosate despite a series of datagaps and outstanding issues.

Today the European Commission has launched an irresponsible and disastrous proposal to deregulate New GMOs. This deregulation will increase risks for the environment and health, and undermine the rights of farmers and consumers. Read our reaction.

Corporate Europe Observatory and LobbyControl have filed a complaint against ACT (The App Association) for misleading lobbying information in the EU Transparency Register. ACT claims to represent app developers but is over 50 per cent funded by Apple

The EU Ombudsman is investigating a contract awarded by the Commission to the economic consultancy firm RBB Economics to evaluate one of its merger control tools. The company has a long-standing relationship with Google and other tech companies.

On the occasion of the 30th year of the EU’s Single Market, our new report exposes how corporate interests use little-known Single Market enforcement mechanisms to block or undermine progressive legislation at the national and municipal level.

A leaked version of DG SANTE’s proposal to deregulate products of ‘new genomic techniques’ (NGTs, or new GMOs) confirms the early warnings by environmental, sustainable farming groups, consumer-groups and scientists.

More than 100 environmental, scientific and social organisations, as well as farmers, trade unions and church groups call for an end to EU derogations that water down CAP environmental measures. They also urge to keep the Farm-to-Fork ambitions of the Green Deal alive. 

Six months after the arrest of then Vice-President of the European Parliament Eva Kaili, CEO, Transparency International and LobbyControl take stock of the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the European Parliament.

A new study of the top 50 highest-spenders on EU lobbying based on LobbyFacts data shows that Big Toxics - major chemical industry players - now out-spend Big Tech in their EU lobby firepower.