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Story from Protus: Brexit bankroller Christopher Harborne was a Digfinex shareholder — Bitfinex and Tether’s parent company — when he donated nearly $14 million to the Reform UK party in 2019, Protos can reveal.

Story from YLE in Finland: Brysselissä on käynnissä taistelu siitä, miten sinä voit käyttää internetiä – Google ja muut digijätit valjastivat käyttöönsä miljoonien eurojen lobbariarmeijan.

Story from Corporate Europe Observatory: As the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is approaching a key vote, freedom of information requests show that farmers and agribusiness lobby group Copa-Cogeca, along with pesticides and food industry giants, are doing their best to stop the CAP reform from aligning with the new Farm to Fork strategy of the Green Deal.

Die Lobbyausgaben großer Digitalkonzerne, wie Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook und Apple in Europa wachsen. Darin spiegelt sich die wachsende Rolle und Macht der Branche. Zugleich lassen sich die wachsenden Ausgaben als Vorbereitung für kommende Lobby-Auseinandersetzungen interpretieren. Die Debatten um Digitalkonzerne haben zugenommen und in der nächsten Zeit werden wichtige politische Weichen für die Internet-Plattformen gestellt.

Story from Corporate Europe Observatory: As the EU prepares for a review of its Tobacco Products Directive, lobbying by the tobacco industry to avoid stricter controls is intensifying.

Story from Corporate Europe Observatory: FleishmanHillard carried out a dubious lobby campaign for Monsanto, aimed at safeguarding the re-authorisation of controversial pesticide glyphosate. This involved a €14.5 million contract, tenfold the amount either corporation had officially declared in the EU lobby register. Now new guidelines have been promised to ensure registrants include their lobby spend at national level if it concerns EU policy-making.