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Corporate lobby power

Corporations often have enormous power over national and international governments. They are able to impose their (limited) interests upon society, often against the interests of people and the environment, as some case studies illustrate. 
 

• Profits before health and environment - How the chemical industry is undermining european chemical legislation
  November 2005
    
• The EU Corporate Trade Agenda - The role and the interests of corporations and their lobby groups in Trade Policy-Making in the European Union
  By The Seattle to Brussels Network, November 2005
    
• Hidden Voices; The CBI, corporate lobbying and sustainability, FoE EWNI, July 2005
     
• Bulldozing REACH; the industry offensive to crush EU chemicals legislation, CEO, March 2005
   
• Shell leads International Business Campaign against UN Human Rights Norms, CEO, March 2004

 

 

Lobby Scandal: Complaint in relation to EPACA's code of conduct - conflict of interest or appearance of conflict of interest constituted by Mr David Earnshaw

• Press Release: David Earnshaw accused of conflicting interests (30 November 2006)
• Official complaint by Friends of the Earth Europe to the European Public Affairs Consultancies Association (EPACA) about the pharma lobbyist David Earnshaw, for taking on an "independent expert" role for the European Parliament (30 November 2006)
• Letter to the Chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety regarding a Conflict of interest of independent expert to the ENVI Committee - David Earnshaw (30 November 2006)
• Mr Earnshaw's reaction to the complaint (5th December)
• FoEE reaction to Mr Earnshaw's letter (13th December)
• EPACA's response to the complaint (21 Dec 2006)
• FoEE's position on EPACA's rejection of the complaint (24 Jan 2007)

 

EU Commissioners in Bed with Business - Action outside the annual back-pat of the Confederation of European Business (UNICE), attended by six European Commissioners and called "Why do companies care about Europe?" (17 October 2006)

ALTER-EU and the Seattle to Brussels Network (S2B) press conference: New report denounces damaging impacts of corporate lobby on trade policies (16 October 2006)

Trade and transparency campaigners slam secret cocktail deals - Activists offer alternative cocktails to EU officials before exclusive lobby meeting (23 May 2006)