Myriam Vander Stichele
@mvdstichele.bsky.social
Decade long researcher on the financial industry & its impacts on planet and society: “private finance” issues, focus on non-banking sector & asset managers; (EU) laws/policies, int. standard & treaties on financial industry vs. needed reforms/alternatives
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If your business model can’t survive rules that require you to prevent human rights and environmental abuses, the problem isn’t the rules - it’s your business model. #CSDDD
US Lobbying Groups Target EU Corporate Accountability Law
As Europe emerges from a devastating heat wave, the European Parliament should reject efforts, including by industry groups in the United States, to weaken the European Union’s flagship corporate acco...
www.hrw.org
July 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
If your business model can’t survive rules that require you to prevent human rights and environmental abuses, the problem isn’t the rules - it’s your business model. #CSDDD
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The opposition to EU #deregulation is gaining momentum 👏
Last week
➡️ 470 organisations denounced the EU's “unprecedented wave of drastic cuts to regulations"
➡️ almost 200,000 citizens told the EU Commission to “stop any rollback of EU nature laws”
New post ⬇️ www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
Last week
➡️ 470 organisations denounced the EU's “unprecedented wave of drastic cuts to regulations"
➡️ almost 200,000 citizens told the EU Commission to “stop any rollback of EU nature laws”
New post ⬇️ www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
Deregulation Watch | Corporate Europe Observatory
Check out our new posts on Deregulation Watch which helps civil society monitor new developments in the deregulation agenda, assess what’s at stake, and organise in defence of strong social, environme...
www.corporateeurope.org
September 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The opposition to EU #deregulation is gaining momentum 👏
Last week
➡️ 470 organisations denounced the EU's “unprecedented wave of drastic cuts to regulations"
➡️ almost 200,000 citizens told the EU Commission to “stop any rollback of EU nature laws”
New post ⬇️ www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
Last week
➡️ 470 organisations denounced the EU's “unprecedented wave of drastic cuts to regulations"
➡️ almost 200,000 citizens told the EU Commission to “stop any rollback of EU nature laws”
New post ⬇️ www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
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"In the name of competitiveness, corporate lobby groups are promoting a radical plan of parallel, weaker rules. This could help them to avoid stricter member state rules for taxation, labour laws, and more, triggering a race to the bottom for social rights."
www.corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/s...
www.corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/s...
A social dumping disaster? EU’s ‘ 28th Regime’ plans could help corporations bypass member state rules | Corporate Europe Observatory
In the name of competitiveness, corporate lobby groups are promoting a radical plan to create an EU-level ‘28th regime’ of parallel, weaker rules. This could help corporations to avoid stricter member...
www.corporateeurope.org
September 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
"In the name of competitiveness, corporate lobby groups are promoting a radical plan of parallel, weaker rules. This could help them to avoid stricter member state rules for taxation, labour laws, and more, triggering a race to the bottom for social rights."
www.corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/s...
www.corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/s...
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It's coming!! The #BackToTheFuture march 🥾💪
Let’s get together to demand
- Accountability for human rights violations and pollution
- Protection for communities from corporate harm
We're ready to pound the pavement, fly our flags and sing out loud.
Will you come along?
backtothefuturemarch.org
Let’s get together to demand
- Accountability for human rights violations and pollution
- Protection for communities from corporate harm
We're ready to pound the pavement, fly our flags and sing out loud.
Will you come along?
backtothefuturemarch.org
September 11, 2025 at 5:32 AM
It's coming!! The #BackToTheFuture march 🥾💪
Let’s get together to demand
- Accountability for human rights violations and pollution
- Protection for communities from corporate harm
We're ready to pound the pavement, fly our flags and sing out loud.
Will you come along?
backtothefuturemarch.org
Let’s get together to demand
- Accountability for human rights violations and pollution
- Protection for communities from corporate harm
We're ready to pound the pavement, fly our flags and sing out loud.
Will you come along?
backtothefuturemarch.org
The State-of-Union #SOTEU speech tinyurl.com/3cjau5am announced that the EC will "partner with private investors on a multi-billion euro Scaleup Europe" and introduce a weak corporate law (28th regime) for innovation & profits, which will be at the expense of workers, the green deal & public budgets
tinyurl.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The State-of-Union #SOTEU speech tinyurl.com/3cjau5am announced that the EC will "partner with private investors on a multi-billion euro Scaleup Europe" and introduce a weak corporate law (28th regime) for innovation & profits, which will be at the expense of workers, the green deal & public budgets
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There's no place for institutional finance in rental markets. It's a predatory extraction machine that robs the poor and middle.
But one thing I'd add: we should stop calling these people "investors". They don't "invest". They buy up and milk existing assets. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But one thing I'd add: we should stop calling these people "investors". They don't "invest". They buy up and milk existing assets. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White
We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM
There's no place for institutional finance in rental markets. It's a predatory extraction machine that robs the poor and middle.
But one thing I'd add: we should stop calling these people "investors". They don't "invest". They buy up and milk existing assets. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But one thing I'd add: we should stop calling these people "investors". They don't "invest". They buy up and milk existing assets. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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AI powered rent collusion. Price fixing by algorithm. Been going on for a number of years.
Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why.
Texas-based RealPage’s YieldStar software helps landlords set prices for apartments across the U.S. With rents soaring, critics are concerned that the company’s proprietary algorithm is hurting compet...
www.propublica.org
July 7, 2025 at 7:49 AM
AI powered rent collusion. Price fixing by algorithm. Been going on for a number of years.
An EC consultion whether citizens want an easy account to invest their safe savings into easy investment products does not guarantee good returns, sufficient information how climate & socially sustainable investee companies are nor the impact of high payouts to shareholders: Say to europa.eu/!j7FRMm
European Commission - Have your say
European Commission - Have your say
europa.eu
July 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM
An EC consultion whether citizens want an easy account to invest their safe savings into easy investment products does not guarantee good returns, sufficient information how climate & socially sustainable investee companies are nor the impact of high payouts to shareholders: Say to europa.eu/!j7FRMm
The EU Savings & Investment Unions (#SIU) wants citizens to finance EU corporations but increases financial risks for citizens & economy as @danielagabor.bsky.social
explains in the FT: putting safe savings in a "savings & investment account with no guaranteed returns (see europa.eu/!j7FRMm)
explains in the FT: putting safe savings in a "savings & investment account with no guaranteed returns (see europa.eu/!j7FRMm)
July 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The EU Savings & Investment Unions (#SIU) wants citizens to finance EU corporations but increases financial risks for citizens & economy as @danielagabor.bsky.social
explains in the FT: putting safe savings in a "savings & investment account with no guaranteed returns (see europa.eu/!j7FRMm)
explains in the FT: putting safe savings in a "savings & investment account with no guaranteed returns (see europa.eu/!j7FRMm)
The EU Savings & Investment Unions (#SIU) wants citizens to finance EU corporations but increases financial risks for citizens & economy as @danielagabor.bsky.social explains www.ft.com/content/052e...: putting safe savings in investment accounts with unguaranteed returns (see europa.eu/!j7FRMm)
www.ft.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The EU Savings & Investment Unions (#SIU) wants citizens to finance EU corporations but increases financial risks for citizens & economy as @danielagabor.bsky.social explains www.ft.com/content/052e...: putting safe savings in investment accounts with unguaranteed returns (see europa.eu/!j7FRMm)
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In her new book “Bad Company,” journalist Megan Greenwell chronicles how private equity upended industries from health care to local news—and the ways workers are fighting back. www.wired.com/story/megan-...
How Private Equity Killed the American Dream
In her new book “Bad Company,” journalist Megan Greenwell chronicles how private equity upended industries from health care to local news—and the ways workers are fighting back.
www.wired.com
June 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
In her new book “Bad Company,” journalist Megan Greenwell chronicles how private equity upended industries from health care to local news—and the ways workers are fighting back. www.wired.com/story/megan-...
The proposed a #EUDefence #Omnibus aims to raise $800 bn public & private capital, in addition to $800 private capital for EU decarbonisation & innovation. It will allow defence projects to override public interests, and include defence in sustainable finance framework. europa.eu/!xcWjRb
Commission proposes simplification to speed up defence investments in the EU
Today, the European Commission proposes measures to speed up defence investments and production to make the EU more responsive to today\'s security challenges, as outlined in the Commission\'s White P...
europa.eu
June 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The proposed a #EUDefence #Omnibus aims to raise $800 bn public & private capital, in addition to $800 private capital for EU decarbonisation & innovation. It will allow defence projects to override public interests, and include defence in sustainable finance framework. europa.eu/!xcWjRb
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The run-up to #FfD4 has been inundated by the #GlobalNorth's unrelenting promotion of #PrivateFinance.
⏰It's time to push back against this bandwagon &
rebalance the roles of public & private finance in Sevilla.
Read why:
English 👉 ow.ly/NivS50WaPE7
Deutsch 👉https://ow.ly/82Q750WaPF6
⏰It's time to push back against this bandwagon &
rebalance the roles of public & private finance in Sevilla.
Read why:
English 👉 ow.ly/NivS50WaPE7
Deutsch 👉https://ow.ly/82Q750WaPF6
June 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The run-up to #FfD4 has been inundated by the #GlobalNorth's unrelenting promotion of #PrivateFinance.
⏰It's time to push back against this bandwagon &
rebalance the roles of public & private finance in Sevilla.
Read why:
English 👉 ow.ly/NivS50WaPE7
Deutsch 👉https://ow.ly/82Q750WaPF6
⏰It's time to push back against this bandwagon &
rebalance the roles of public & private finance in Sevilla.
Read why:
English 👉 ow.ly/NivS50WaPE7
Deutsch 👉https://ow.ly/82Q750WaPF6
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Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce this new project: a website dedicated to research and data on imperialism and inequality. You're going to love this...
globalinequality.org
globalinequality.org
Global Inequality - Global Inequality
globalinequality.org
June 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce this new project: a website dedicated to research and data on imperialism and inequality. You're going to love this...
globalinequality.org
globalinequality.org
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The #EU and #UK are stopping the global south from having a say by blocking UN-led #debt reform in #FfD4 outcome document. 👎
Our press release: www.eurodad.org/eu_and_uk_bl...
Our press release: www.eurodad.org/eu_and_uk_bl...
June 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The #EU and #UK are stopping the global south from having a say by blocking UN-led #debt reform in #FfD4 outcome document. 👎
Our press release: www.eurodad.org/eu_and_uk_bl...
Our press release: www.eurodad.org/eu_and_uk_bl...
At the EC hearing on Savings & Investment Union (SIU), the Poland presidency argued in favour of more simplification, integration in "a balanced way". But no clarification how the savings from the "reporting burden" will not go to the shareholders in billions in dividends & share-buybacks"
June 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
At the EC hearing on Savings & Investment Union (SIU), the Poland presidency argued in favour of more simplification, integration in "a balanced way". But no clarification how the savings from the "reporting burden" will not go to the shareholders in billions in dividends & share-buybacks"
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Do not want to link but... there are some reasons to think they chatgpt'ed the tariffs.
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x.com/krishnanrohi...
April 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Do not want to link but... there are some reasons to think they chatgpt'ed the tariffs.
x.com/krishnanrohi...
x.com/krishnanrohi...
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This is incredible. The "reciprocal tariffs" were calculated without actually looking at anything to do with tariffs.
This is the most amateur-hour crap you can imagine and it's going to straight tank the global economy.
This is the most amateur-hour crap you can imagine and it's going to straight tank the global economy.
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
April 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This is incredible. The "reciprocal tariffs" were calculated without actually looking at anything to do with tariffs.
This is the most amateur-hour crap you can imagine and it's going to straight tank the global economy.
This is the most amateur-hour crap you can imagine and it's going to straight tank the global economy.
Trump dangerously falsifies how trade agreements benefit US corp interests by global protection of intellectual property rights & investments (benefits bigtech), openess to US services & cheap imports of consumer goods, with no labour & food security & environment protection: much more than #Tariffs
April 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Trump dangerously falsifies how trade agreements benefit US corp interests by global protection of intellectual property rights & investments (benefits bigtech), openess to US services & cheap imports of consumer goods, with no labour & food security & environment protection: much more than #Tariffs
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🔍At the ERIN conference we’re tackling the shrinking space for #shareholder rights with @mvdstichele.bsky.social @betterfinance.bsky.social
Kritsche Aktionare, Winson Sonsini
With new challenges arising, we’re identifying barriers & opportunities to ensure investors can support the EU transition 💪
Kritsche Aktionare, Winson Sonsini
With new challenges arising, we’re identifying barriers & opportunities to ensure investors can support the EU transition 💪
March 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🔍At the ERIN conference we’re tackling the shrinking space for #shareholder rights with @mvdstichele.bsky.social @betterfinance.bsky.social
Kritsche Aktionare, Winson Sonsini
With new challenges arising, we’re identifying barriers & opportunities to ensure investors can support the EU transition 💪
Kritsche Aktionare, Winson Sonsini
With new challenges arising, we’re identifying barriers & opportunities to ensure investors can support the EU transition 💪
Just to specify: the #CleanIndustrialDeal argues that per year an additional ca. EUR 480bn is needed for EU investments in "energy, industrial innovation & scaling up the transport system" (supposed to support decarbonisation) --> just stop annual corporate pay-outs of ca. $ 416 bn/EUR 403 bn
The #CleanIndustrialDeal claims to mobilise more state aid (your money), EUR 100 bn by a new Industrial Decarbonisation Bank + EUR 50 bn easier derisking via InvestEU, etc. Big Eur. companies should spent on transition and not on dividends $305.8 bn (+18.1%) and $ 110.6 bn in share buybacks (2023).
With #CleanIndustrialDeal around the corner, big energy companies claim they need money to feed the energy transition. But instead, they are feeding the shareholders a whopping 75% of their profits.
⬇️ Read the new shocking report from @somoamsterdam.bsky.social & @foeeurope.bsky.social ⬇️
⬇️ Read the new shocking report from @somoamsterdam.bsky.social & @foeeurope.bsky.social ⬇️
February 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Just to specify: the #CleanIndustrialDeal argues that per year an additional ca. EUR 480bn is needed for EU investments in "energy, industrial innovation & scaling up the transport system" (supposed to support decarbonisation) --> just stop annual corporate pay-outs of ca. $ 416 bn/EUR 403 bn
The #CleanIndustrialDeal claims to mobilise more state aid (your money), EUR 100 bn by a new Industrial Decarbonisation Bank + EUR 50 bn easier derisking via InvestEU, etc. Big Eur. companies should spent on transition and not on dividends $305.8 bn (+18.1%) and $ 110.6 bn in share buybacks (2023).
With #CleanIndustrialDeal around the corner, big energy companies claim they need money to feed the energy transition. But instead, they are feeding the shareholders a whopping 75% of their profits.
⬇️ Read the new shocking report from @somoamsterdam.bsky.social & @foeeurope.bsky.social ⬇️
⬇️ Read the new shocking report from @somoamsterdam.bsky.social & @foeeurope.bsky.social ⬇️
Shareholders over solutions: How big industry favours payouts over the energy transition - Friends of the Earth Europe
In the framework of the Clean Industrial Deal, energy-intensive companies are set to receive billion-Euro-subsidies to maintain their competitiveness and contribute a clean energy transition. A new…
friendsoftheearth.eu
February 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The #CleanIndustrialDeal claims to mobilise more state aid (your money), EUR 100 bn by a new Industrial Decarbonisation Bank + EUR 50 bn easier derisking via InvestEU, etc. Big Eur. companies should spent on transition and not on dividends $305.8 bn (+18.1%) and $ 110.6 bn in share buybacks (2023).
The EC #CleanIndustrialDeal proposal is full of derisking of private companies & investors, but no conditions mentioned on how much to reduce emissions and use of energy & materials, how labour & consumers benefit, and especially, how subsdies & profits will not be transferred to shareholders.
🍪🫙 The 2040 climate target is the only cookie in the #CleanIndustrialDeal cookie jar!
The missing cookies include:
❌End fossil fuel dependency
❌Genuine new finance for green and just transition
❌Binding social & environmental conditions
❌Energy savings and efficiency measures
The missing cookies include:
❌End fossil fuel dependency
❌Genuine new finance for green and just transition
❌Binding social & environmental conditions
❌Energy savings and efficiency measures
February 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The EC #CleanIndustrialDeal proposal is full of derisking of private companies & investors, but no conditions mentioned on how much to reduce emissions and use of energy & materials, how labour & consumers benefit, and especially, how subsdies & profits will not be transferred to shareholders.
The EC "Clean Industrial Deal" proposal is full of derisking of private companies & investors, but no conditions mentioned on how much to reduce emissions and use of energy & materials, how labour & consumers benefit, and especially, how subsdies & profits will not be transferred to shareholders.
February 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The EC "Clean Industrial Deal" proposal is full of derisking of private companies & investors, but no conditions mentioned on how much to reduce emissions and use of energy & materials, how labour & consumers benefit, and especially, how subsdies & profits will not be transferred to shareholders.
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Big Tech is the largest lobby spender in the EU, new research shows.
📈 Tech firms have increased their spending with 57 per cent since 2020. They now spend €67 million on lobbying.
Big Tech is using its endless resources to attack the EU's digital regulation.
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/02/e...
📈 Tech firms have increased their spending with 57 per cent since 2020. They now spend €67 million on lobbying.
Big Tech is using its endless resources to attack the EU's digital regulation.
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/02/e...
The EU’s lobby league table
Corporate Europe Observatory and LobbyControl reveal the sheer corporate lobby firepower in the EU, analysed by sector. Big Tech, Energy, Banking, and Chemicals dominate.
corporateeurope.org
February 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Big Tech is the largest lobby spender in the EU, new research shows.
📈 Tech firms have increased their spending with 57 per cent since 2020. They now spend €67 million on lobbying.
Big Tech is using its endless resources to attack the EU's digital regulation.
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/02/e...
📈 Tech firms have increased their spending with 57 per cent since 2020. They now spend €67 million on lobbying.
Big Tech is using its endless resources to attack the EU's digital regulation.
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/02/e...