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Tech News

Brussels tech lobby distances from Huawei following Parliament probe

Influential tech industry group DIGITALEUROPE suspended Chinese member Huawei in the wake of a probe by Belgian prosecutors into suspected bribery at the European Parliament.

21/03/2025

Europe News

What rules apply to lobbying the European Parliament?

A fresh corruption investigation hit the European Parliament this week as arrests were made by the Belgian authorities and the offices of Chinese telco Huawei were searched. But what are the rules lobbying in the European Parliament?

17/03/2025

Europe News

Big tech, banking: Who are the biggest spenders on EU lobbying?

The world’s largest companies and trade associations from the big tech, banking, energy, and chemicals/agri sectors have significantly increased their EU lobbying budgets in recent years.

24/02/2025

Climate

How CCS became the fossil fuel industry’s favourite ‘escape hatch’

Oil and gas lobbyists have helped push carbon capture and storage into the heart of Europe’s climate plans.

18/12/2024

Tech News

EU Parliament to reconsider granting Amazon lobbyists access

The lobbyists were stopped from entering the European Parliament last February after they failed to attend hearings.

18/11/2024

Tech News

Amazon's EU lobbying spend hits €5M - nearly double its figures

The correction of the spending follows a complaint by several transparency organisations.

21/10/2024

Europe News

What lobbying footprint does Big Oil have on EU climate policy?

Two new reports have claimed to show just how much influence fossil fuel company lobbying has on EU climate policymaking.

26/09/2024

Tech News

Intended highlight of the 2024 Consumer Summit was completely omitted.

A European Commission initiative aimed to let Big Tech companies voluntarily commit to a "cookie pledge", which would allow consumers to make effective choices regarding tracking-based advertising models, has failed to gain traction, a Commission spokesperson told Euronews.

23/04/2024

Tech News

Lawmakers to approve updated GDPR rules despite companies' concerns

Tech lobby fears the updated GDPR rules will increase abusive complaints and further slow lengthy procedures.

02/04/2024

Tech News

Trade unions ask Parliament to ban all lobbyists working for Amazon

The call comes as lawmakers decided to ban Amazon representatives last month.

14/03/2024

World News

Euroviews. The EU’s hydrogen plans are a distraction led by corporate interests

Over the past few years, hydrogen has been transformed into a cornerstone of EU energy policy. Yet, oil and gas majors are taking advantage of the EU’s unrealistic targets for green hydrogen in order to sneak fossil-based hydrogen in through the back door, Belén Balanyá writes.

12/10/2023

Europe News

Tech companies spend more than €100 million a year on EU lobbying

Tech companies’ lobbying in Brussels has increased to €113 million a year as efforts to influence the EU’s digital policy intensify, according to new data published on Monday by NGOs Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and LobbyControl.

11/09/2023

World News

Euroviews. As the EU Single Market turns 30, we have to protect its just future

Corporations and their lobbyists have been using the Single Market rules to obstruct progressive social and environmental policies and regulations that might harm their profits. This needs to stop, Olivier Hoedeman writes.

21/07/2023

World News

Euroviews. The EU must restrict fossil fuel lobbyists’ access to our institutions

The countdown before climate mayhem has started, and it is high time to phase out the fossil fuel industry's influence on public institutions, MEPs Manon Aubry, Michael Bloss and Pierre Larrouturou write.

28/06/2023

World News

Euroviews. Germany and the EU are falling for corporate lobbyists' hydrogen hoax

By selling Europe's decision-makers on largely inefficient hydrogen-based e-fuels, corporations are locking in fossil fuels and ramping up climate colonialism, Belén Balanyá writes.

03/04/2023

Europe News

MEPs launch hotline to tip off 'shady lobbying' in EU institutions

The hotline website promises to guarantee complete anonymity for staff of EU institutions that come forward to tip off any irregularities in lobbying practices by Big Tech companies.

02/02/2023

Europe Decoded

Calls for reform of EU lobbying rules grow amid corruption scandal

"It is the only institution that basically has virtually no rules imposed on their representatives and very weak enforcement of those ethical rules," said one expert, referring to the European Parliament.

12/12/2022

Europe News

France 'should do more' to enforce corporate lobbying rules, says EU

The European Commission has recommended that France better enforce lobbying rules in its latest rule of law report.

13/07/2022

Europe News

Explained: What's the cooling-off period for EU Commissioners?

The period restricts former commissioners from taking jobs that entail lobbying its former employer.

12/07/2022

United Kingdom

UK Conservative MP faces suspension for breaching lobbying rules

Britain’s parliamentary standards watchdog said that the Tory MP Owen Paterson should be suspended from the House of Commons.

26/10/2021