Now, @corporateeurope.org "The digital omnibus proposed by the Commission today is an unprecedented rollback of digital rights". corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/p...

✊ Together with more than 120 civil society organisations we are calling on the EU stop these shortsighted and harmful proposals.

Time to listen to European citizens, not to Big Tech CEOs.

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The consequences are clear. The digital omnibus reads as a Big Tech wishlist:

❌ The AI Act will be paused for potentially 16 months
❌ AI companies will be able to train their systems with personal data without people's consent

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🧐In so-called Reality Checks, secretive meetings exempted from transparency rules, the Commission has almost exclusively gathered input from industry.

Out of a total of 138 invitees, 114 represented corporate interests.

We have filed an Ombudsman complaint against this biased consultation process.

The Commission’s deregulation agenda has opened the door to Big Tech lobbying.

🫂 During a tour in Silicon Valley, EU Commissioner Virkkunen shamelessly courted Big Tech CEOs promising to ‘simplify’ EU rules.

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Both political forces want to get rid of NGOs that are advocating for protective EU rules on issues related to health, environment and climate + are the same political groups that are pushing the deregulation agenda and weakening all kinds of protective rules.
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Hans van Scharen, campainger at CEO, adds "while NGOs have always been fully committed to being transparent and have also been campaigning for decades to get a more transparent EU decision making process, the far-right and EPP are closely working together and blocking more transparency".

"The new scrutiny working group (SWG) on NGOs in the European parliament as set up by the far-right & EPP should be boycotted by the other political groups.This SWG is nothing more than a political translation of the smear campaign against civil society by the far-right", says CEO's Hans van Scharen

⚠️ The same #BigAg corporations that are complicit in destroying places like the Amazon are attending and influencing the climate talks in Brazil.

Something smells like B.S…. and it’s not just the methane coming from JBS’ cows.

🚜 500 paysannes et paysans, malades victimes des pesticides et leurs soutiens mettent à l'arrêt & réalisent une inspection surprise accablante sur un site de production de pesticides BASF en France
👉 http://confederationpaysanne.fr/actu.php?id=16134
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