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Story from Corporate Europe Observatory: Studies have showed that Shell has the worst environmental record of any of the large oil multinationals. It also spent over €4.5 million in 2019 alone on EU lobbying. And, along with the other lobby groups it is a member of, it has spent over €215 million since 2010 on buying influence at the heart of the EU.

Story from Luxembourg Times (paywall): Luxembourg MEPs are offering only rudimentary descriptions of their meetings with lobbyists, making it hard for the public to know how businesses and other special-interest groups try to shape rules affecting the entire EU.

Story from Corporate Europe Observatory, Food and Water Watch, Friends of the Earth Europe, and Greenpeace Europe: To mark the launch of the new #FossilFreePolitics campaign, new research reveals that the world’s five big oil and gas majors and their lobbyists have spent at least €251 million lobbying the EU since 2010.

Story from Corporate Europe Observatory: Norwegian fertilizer giant Yara dominates the global market for nitrogen fertilizer and has been the largest buyer of fossil gas in Europe for years. This article looks at the many channels of influence used by Yara and its lobby network in the EU.

Story from Corporate Europe Observatory: Weeks before the European elections, MEPs missed a golden opportunity to show the public its determination to protect EU climate policy-making from the dirty influence of Big Oil and Gas. Instead, ExxonMobil mobilised its lobbyists to prevent the withdrawal of its lobby badges, and MEPs fell in line.

Viele Unternehmen und Verbände nutzen verstärkt große Anwaltskanzleien wie Sidley Austin oder K&L Gates als Lobbydienstleister. Diese Anwälte des großen Geldes lobbyieren unter anderem für schwächere Regeln für die Chemieindustrie oder eine Ausweitung der umstrittenen Schiedsgerichte im Rahmen von TTIP, Ceta und Co. Mit dem EU-Lobbyregister ist den Anwaltskanzleien nicht beizukommen. Ein Problem, das sich lösen ließe.