Kees Kimman (he/him)
@keeskimman.bsky.social
Finance Officer at CEO, Corporate Europe Observatory。We are watchdogs for the lobby activities of them greedy companies who put profit over people and planet, WHICH IS SOOH WRONG!!!
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We are the STORM....
April 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We are the STORM....
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Due process isn't optional in America—it's guaranteed.
47 is not a king—he's a president bound by our Constitution.
In America, our government doesn’t get to grab people off the streets, skip the courtroom, and send them straight to a foreign prison.
DUE PROCESS IS GUARANTEED
47 is not a king—he's a president bound by our Constitution.
In America, our government doesn’t get to grab people off the streets, skip the courtroom, and send them straight to a foreign prison.
DUE PROCESS IS GUARANTEED
April 20, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Due process isn't optional in America—it's guaranteed.
47 is not a king—he's a president bound by our Constitution.
In America, our government doesn’t get to grab people off the streets, skip the courtroom, and send them straight to a foreign prison.
DUE PROCESS IS GUARANTEED
47 is not a king—he's a president bound by our Constitution.
In America, our government doesn’t get to grab people off the streets, skip the courtroom, and send them straight to a foreign prison.
DUE PROCESS IS GUARANTEED
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11/ More on Huawei’s lobbying in our recent report on the AI Act corporateeurope.org/en/2025/01/b...;
and our 2019 deep dive into China’s lobbying, including Huawei and their various lobby consultancies.
www.corporateeurope.org/en/2019/04/f...
and our 2019 deep dive into China’s lobbying, including Huawei and their various lobby consultancies.
www.corporateeurope.org/en/2019/04/f...
Follow the New Silk Road: China's growing trail of think tanks and lobbyists in Europe
China is flexing its soft power in Europe, cultivating networks of think tanks and lobbyists, in particular to promote its flagship programme the 'New Silk Road'. Meanwhile European failures in lobby ...
www.corporateeurope.org
March 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
11/ More on Huawei’s lobbying in our recent report on the AI Act corporateeurope.org/en/2025/01/b...;
and our 2019 deep dive into China’s lobbying, including Huawei and their various lobby consultancies.
www.corporateeurope.org/en/2019/04/f...
and our 2019 deep dive into China’s lobbying, including Huawei and their various lobby consultancies.
www.corporateeurope.org/en/2019/04/f...
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10/ Read our press release on #Huawei here corporateeurope.org/en/2025/03/h... ;
and read Lobbyfacts Huawei's lobby declaration here www.lobbyfacts.eu/datacard/hua...;
and read Lobbyfacts Huawei's lobby declaration here www.lobbyfacts.eu/datacard/hua...;
March 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
10/ Read our press release on #Huawei here corporateeurope.org/en/2025/03/h... ;
and read Lobbyfacts Huawei's lobby declaration here www.lobbyfacts.eu/datacard/hua...;
and read Lobbyfacts Huawei's lobby declaration here www.lobbyfacts.eu/datacard/hua...;
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9/ Instead, repressive regimes have primarily made use of lobby, PR, & law firms; and think-tanks to influence the EU. The Lobby Register review in June is an opportunity to introduce long overdue legally-binding rules, ensuring transparency and accountability, with meaningful sanctions.
March 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
9/ Instead, repressive regimes have primarily made use of lobby, PR, & law firms; and think-tanks to influence the EU. The Lobby Register review in June is an opportunity to introduce long overdue legally-binding rules, ensuring transparency and accountability, with meaningful sanctions.
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8/ And it gets worse. The EPP is also trying to pin blame for foreign influencing on NGOs! Yet our own decade of research shows out of 128 lobby vehicles, only 1 front group NGO surfaced in our investigations into repressive regime influence. corporateeurope.org/en/2023/05/b...
a man in a hallway with the words " it helps to have somebody else to blame " above him
Alt: a man in a hallway with the words " it helps to have somebody else to blame " above him
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March 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
8/ And it gets worse. The EPP is also trying to pin blame for foreign influencing on NGOs! Yet our own decade of research shows out of 128 lobby vehicles, only 1 front group NGO surfaced in our investigations into repressive regime influence. corporateeurope.org/en/2023/05/b...
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7/ Astonishingly, the rightwing EPP group of MEPs has been preparing to get rid of both of these reforms, with support of the far right…
kermit the frog and darth vader from the muppets are standing next to each other in the dark .
ALT: kermit the frog and darth vader from the muppets are standing next to each other in the dark .
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March 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
7/ Astonishingly, the rightwing EPP group of MEPs has been preparing to get rid of both of these reforms, with support of the far right…
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6/ The EU needs to consolidate and speed up implementation of the ethics body that was agreed after the Qatargate scandal, but not yet implemented. It also must ensure proper enforcement of online disclosure of MEP lobby meetings.
March 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
6/ The EU needs to consolidate and speed up implementation of the ethics body that was agreed after the Qatargate scandal, but not yet implemented. It also must ensure proper enforcement of online disclosure of MEP lobby meetings.
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4/ Because while eyes are on Huawei and China, we want to highlight a deeper, systemic scandal: the failure of the European institutions to properly defend democracy from influence operations.
March 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
4/ Because while eyes are on Huawei and China, we want to highlight a deeper, systemic scandal: the failure of the European institutions to properly defend democracy from influence operations.
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3/ Has the EU learned nothing from #Qatargate? Apparently not! 🤯
a cartoon says we 've tried nothing and were all out of ideas
Alt: a cartoon says "we've tried nothing and were all out of ideas"
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March 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
3/ Has the EU learned nothing from #Qatargate? Apparently not! 🤯
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1/ Brussels is reeling under another corruption scandal! This time it's Chinese big tech giant #Huawei whose offices just behind the European Parliament have been raided - along with those of 15 former and current MEPs from EPP and S&D. #Huaweigate
March 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
1/ Brussels is reeling under another corruption scandal! This time it's Chinese big tech giant #Huawei whose offices just behind the European Parliament have been raided - along with those of 15 former and current MEPs from EPP and S&D. #Huaweigate
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Breaking news:EU countries bring deregulation of new GMOs one step closer - but the fight is not over yet
Today EU ambassadors voted for the 1st time in favour of deregulation. This comes after a massive lobby attack by the biotech industry, lasting over a decade
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/03/n...
Today EU ambassadors voted for the 1st time in favour of deregulation. This comes after a massive lobby attack by the biotech industry, lasting over a decade
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/03/n...
March 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Breaking news:EU countries bring deregulation of new GMOs one step closer - but the fight is not over yet
Today EU ambassadors voted for the 1st time in favour of deregulation. This comes after a massive lobby attack by the biotech industry, lasting over a decade
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/03/n...
Today EU ambassadors voted for the 1st time in favour of deregulation. This comes after a massive lobby attack by the biotech industry, lasting over a decade
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/03/n...
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I never thought I’d see an American president suck Putin’s dick on live TV.
But here we are.
But here we are.
March 1, 2025 at 4:46 AM
I never thought I’d see an American president suck Putin’s dick on live TV.
But here we are.
But here we are.
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Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope.
THIS is good trouble!
Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.
THIS is good trouble!
Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.
February 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope.
THIS is good trouble!
Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.
THIS is good trouble!
Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.
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Do not obey in advance. Resist these fascists on everything.
Call them out on their egregious lies and unconstitutional actions.
Somewhere along the way, these feckless (GOP) politicians forgot that they work for us.
Get loud; silence is complicity and apathy opens the door to fascism.
Call them out on their egregious lies and unconstitutional actions.
Somewhere along the way, these feckless (GOP) politicians forgot that they work for us.
Get loud; silence is complicity and apathy opens the door to fascism.
February 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Do not obey in advance. Resist these fascists on everything.
Call them out on their egregious lies and unconstitutional actions.
Somewhere along the way, these feckless (GOP) politicians forgot that they work for us.
Get loud; silence is complicity and apathy opens the door to fascism.
Call them out on their egregious lies and unconstitutional actions.
Somewhere along the way, these feckless (GOP) politicians forgot that they work for us.
Get loud; silence is complicity and apathy opens the door to fascism.
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The EU Commission has hired US lobby firm DCI Group to advise on trade and investment communication 😱
A terrible choice for so many reasons, incl this:
DCI helped run a Brussels-based front group funded by Facebook & Google to influence EU data privacy law 😡 ⬇️
corporateeurope.org/en/lobbycrac...
A terrible choice for so many reasons, incl this:
DCI helped run a Brussels-based front group funded by Facebook & Google to influence EU data privacy law 😡 ⬇️
corporateeurope.org/en/lobbycrac...
February 6, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The EU Commission has hired US lobby firm DCI Group to advise on trade and investment communication 😱
A terrible choice for so many reasons, incl this:
DCI helped run a Brussels-based front group funded by Facebook & Google to influence EU data privacy law 😡 ⬇️
corporateeurope.org/en/lobbycrac...
A terrible choice for so many reasons, incl this:
DCI helped run a Brussels-based front group funded by Facebook & Google to influence EU data privacy law 😡 ⬇️
corporateeurope.org/en/lobbycrac...
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De Nederlandse wet biedt te weinig mogelijkheden om ambtenaren te vervolgen wegens corruptie, stellen het Openbaar Ministerie en de Rijksrecherche. Zij werken aan een 'signaal' hierover naar aanleiding van een onderzoek naar mogelijke omkoping van Neelie Kroes en belastingdienstambtenaren door Uber
OM wil meer mogelijkheden om corrupte ambtenaren te vervolgen. Neelie Kroes ontkomt aan onderzoek over omkoping door Uber
De Nederlandse wet biedt te weinig mogelijkheden om ambtenaren te vervolgen wegens corruptie, stellen het Openbaar Ministerie en de Rijksrecherche. Zij werken aan een ‘signaal’ hierover voor het…
buff.ly
February 4, 2025 at 7:49 AM
De Nederlandse wet biedt te weinig mogelijkheden om ambtenaren te vervolgen wegens corruptie, stellen het Openbaar Ministerie en de Rijksrecherche. Zij werken aan een 'signaal' hierover naar aanleiding van een onderzoek naar mogelijke omkoping van Neelie Kroes en belastingdienstambtenaren door Uber
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😂😂😂
From @CH_Cartoon on Twitter.
From @CH_Cartoon on Twitter.
February 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
😂😂😂
From @CH_Cartoon on Twitter.
From @CH_Cartoon on Twitter.
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Trump’s last trade war cost farmers $11 billion
They lost huge markets which they never regained
Many of them still haven’t recovered
And now they’re going to get decimated
Again
Because Trump is so stupid he thinks tariffs will actually HELP the economy
They lost huge markets which they never regained
Many of them still haven’t recovered
And now they’re going to get decimated
Again
Because Trump is so stupid he thinks tariffs will actually HELP the economy
February 2, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Trump’s last trade war cost farmers $11 billion
They lost huge markets which they never regained
Many of them still haven’t recovered
And now they’re going to get decimated
Again
Because Trump is so stupid he thinks tariffs will actually HELP the economy
They lost huge markets which they never regained
Many of them still haven’t recovered
And now they’re going to get decimated
Again
Because Trump is so stupid he thinks tariffs will actually HELP the economy
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New!
The "corporate siege" of Davos, Big Tech's political pressure on the European Union and Musk's meddling in Germany.
Max Bank of @lobbycontrol.bsky.social talks to Critical Takes on Corporate Power.
Listen here:
criticaltakes.org/the-corporat...
The "corporate siege" of Davos, Big Tech's political pressure on the European Union and Musk's meddling in Germany.
Max Bank of @lobbycontrol.bsky.social talks to Critical Takes on Corporate Power.
Listen here:
criticaltakes.org/the-corporat...
January 31, 2025 at 7:28 AM