Europe
The European Union’s flagship initiative to cut pollution from heavy industry has hit its first birthday, but a new watchdog study claims the bloc’s ambition has caved in to the biggest polluters with more than 750 meetings between lobbyists and EU officials registered in just 12 months. The investigation by the Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), covering the period from 26 February 2025 until 3 February 2026, shows that the EU’s Clean Industrial Deal has been captured by heavy industry lobbying and reshaped into a subsidy machine for Europe’s biggest polluters. The research couldn’t be more timely, as corporate intervention in…
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Published on 23/02/2026 – 18:43 GMT+1•Updated 18:50 The European Parliament has turned down a request…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the Commission’s “One Europe, One Market” strategy…
The top leadership of the European Union has sharply accused Hungary of breaching the bloc’s…
Published on 23/02/2026 – 10:30 GMT+1•Updated 13:38 Lithuania is calling for an overhaul of the…
Published on 23/02/2026 – 13:58 GMT+1•Updated 15:13 EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič is set to…
The climate crisis is no longer measured only in degrees and carbon targets, but in…
Published on 23/02/2026 – 13:59 GMT+1 Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó engaged in a heated…
Published on 23/02/2026 – 10:48 GMT+1 On the eve of the fourth anniversary of Russia’s…
The European Commission will once again delay the presentation of the bloc’s plan to re-industrialise…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the “One Europe, One Market” strategy, a…
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