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Our new investigation reveals how fossil fuel giants have been lobbying to skew emission accounting models, allowing hydrogen made from fossil gas to be misleadingly labelled as 'clean’. This could pave the way towards billions in new subsidies for fossil fuel projects that exacerbate the climate crisis.

As the EU Energy Council meets to discuss energy security and ‘critical infrastructure,’ 87 organisations release a statement opposing the South H2 Corridor. The planned 3,300 km hydrogen pipeline from North Africa to Germany via Italy will serve corporate interests and hurt local communities.

EU countries bring deregulation of new GMOs one step closer - but fight not over yet

As a new corruption scandal hits the Brussels bubble, Corporate Europe Observatory(CEO) condemns the EU institutions' lack of robust action on transparency and ethics, which means the same conditions that produced the last one (Qatargate) have never been properly dealt with. 

Today one of the Commission’s flagship projects, the ‘Clean Industrial Deal’ (CID) is published. The deal breaks with past ambitions on chemicals, and deepens the EU’s commitment to false solutions to the climate disaster.

In the week of the launch of the Clean Industrial Deal, new analysis by Corporate Europe Observatory and LobbyControl shows that the huge sums spent on EU lobbying by the biggest corporate interests are clearly paying off, given the pro-business agenda of the second von der Leyen Commission. 

The ‘Vision for Agriculture & Food – Shaping together an attractive farming & agri-food sector for future generations’, presented today by commissioner Hansen is a clear backtracking of the common sense that was reflected in many proposals resulting from the Strategic Dialogue published in September 2024 and which according to EC-president Ursula Von der Leyen would serve as the basis for this Vision.

 

The European Commission's new Competitiveness Compass confirms widespread concerns that President Ursula von der Leyen's administration is unleashing a sweeping deregulation agenda— at the expense of democracy and social and environmental protections.

As the right-of-centre attacks on EU funding to NGOs intensifies, new findings expose a glaring conflict of interest involving Member of European Parliament Monika Hohlmeier (EPP). This casts serious doubt over her role as rapporteur in scrutinising EU funding for NGOs under the LIFE Programme. Corporate Europe Observatory urges MEPs to remove Hohlmeier as rapporteur.