Wer wissen will, wie der digitale Werkzeugkasten eines künftigen autoritären Staates aussieht, sollte sich Palantir ansehen. Totale Datensammlung, KI und staatliche Macht sind eine brandgefährliche Mischung – besonders dann, wenn die Demokratie ins Wanken gerät. Ein etwas längerer🧵👇

Manuel 'HonkHase' Atug@honkhase.de · 6h ago

Meine weitere ausführliche Recherche zu #Palantir ist auf @golemde.bsky.social frei verfügbar: Massenüberwachung: Machtzentrale Palantir "Wir erklären, was Palantir genau ist und wie es als Betriebssystem Sicherheitsbehörden weltweit zum Aufbau von Machtzentralen..." www.golem.de/news/massenu...

🚨Report by @cictar.bsky.social on how Big Tech company Palantir is managing to pay little to no taxes in EU. It shows how Palantir’s global tax structure drains funding for public services&infrastructure ✊ @epsu.bsky.social demands tougher rules on public contracts 👉 www.cictar.org/all-research...

Who Pays for the Surveillance State? — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research

Who pays for the surveillance state?

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New report on tax avoidance of US Big Tech company Palantir Leeching on the state and tax payers to fund surveillance and the rich

Palantir pays almost no corporate tax in Europe while benefitting from public contracts: new report

A new report reveals that Palantir is paying little to no corporate taxes in Europe while building massive profits and share value off the back of public contracts.

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🚨 Breaking New report @cictar.bsky.social on tax behaviour US Big Tech company Palantir Benefitting from public money but avoiding paying fair taxes undermining finance for public services and public pensions @corporateeurope.org @taxobservatory.bsky.social www.epsu.org/article/pala...

EU countries are arguing about how best to weaken its carbon market in line with polluting industry wishes. History lesson: The #ETS' permeability to industry influence filled it with loopholes & meant it rewarded polluters with vast windfall profits for years: corporateeurope.org/en/climate-a... 👇

"Big Tech is selling AI to Big Oil to find more fossil fuels to burn, faster" explains DeSmog. "Big Tech has gone from promising climate breakthroughs to breaking the climate." 😡 Fossil fuel-powered data centres + data centre-powered oil & gas expansion = 🔥🌍🔥🌎🔥🌏🔥 www.desmog.com/2026/07/16/b...

Big Tech Joins Big Oil in Ruining Summer

The industry has abandoned its climate pledges in favor of fossil fuel-powered AI data centers.

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Dear friends, The words "glaring conflict of interest" may have lost some of their power to shock. Impressive, then, that the EU Comm has still managed to cross a deeply troubling line in its recent appointment of Siemens chair as its AI envoy. Subscribe for more 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/newsletter

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☑️ We pay. ❌ They don’t. Why? 👀 Any guess who "they" are? Find out who - sign up here👇🏾 forms.gle/jwmY5ASNaBof...

As Europe’s largest carbon capture and storage (#CCS) project prepares to start operating in the Netherlands, fertilizer giant Yara is claiming a major climate win. But our expert Lisa Tostado pulls back the curtain on why this project is a dangerous distraction. 🙅 1/2 👇

👉 We don't need to capture carbon from a broken system. We need to transition to scalable, fossil-free solutions that already exist, like agroecological farming and legume-based crops 👇 www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/bl... @ciel.org @foeeurope.bsky.social @fian-international.bsky.social

Europe's largest carbon capture project is not a Climate win. It's a dangerous distraction — Real Zero Europe

Written by: Lisa Tostado, Agrochemicals and Fossil Fuels Campaigner at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) . This piece is also available on CIEL’s website .

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We were kindly invited by the @greens-efa.eu to host a #PFAS -themed lobby tour. It was a very timely initiative and a real joy for us to join it 📷 by @marcellablues.bsky.social To know more about the tours and other CEO initiatives, subscribe to our newsletter! corporateeurope.org/en/newsletter

Climate Commissioner Hoekstra invited dirty industries with vested interests to ‘implementation dialogue’ on carbon capture & storage - failed, risky+costly tech. Bring in critical voices, we said! We have stakeholder diversity, they replied. 🚫Falsely. 🔎New post corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

Climate Commissioner Hoekstra invited dirty industries with vested interests to ‘implementation dialogue’ on carbon capture & storage - failed, risky+costly tech. Bring in critical voices, we said! We have stakeholder diversity, they replied. 🚫Falsely. 🔎New post corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

WATCH NOW: Webinar explaining how the EU is giving companies permission to pollute ✂️ via deregulation of permitting, thanks to Big Tech, fossil fuel & mining lobbies 📉 impacts on communities + nature 🔎 data centres 🇮🇪 + mines 🇸🇪 + CO2 pipelines 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 💪 how to resist? www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ1S...

Webinar: How the EU is giving companies permission to pollute?

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Transparency around mining projects labelled 'strategic'- which get public money+laxer permitting, despite often dire impacts - is vital, @ombudsman.europa.eu ruling affirms👩‍⚖️ Read about the Per Geijer 'strategic' mine destroying Indigenous ways of life in Sweden: corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/p...

ClientEarth Europe@clienteartheur.bsky.social · 3w ago

WIN💫 The EU Commission refused to give us access to crucial documents around mining projects in Europe. We filed a complaint to @ombudsman.europa.eu and we won: she agrees with us that refusing to give access to the documents is unjustified and that the Commission should make them public! 🧵

Latest on EU's corporate-led rollback of social & environmental protections: ✂️ Chemicals Omnibus rides roughshod over health protections ✂️ Unions & NGOs slam new EU tax deregulation plan ✂️ Commission asks polluting industry, are workers’ rights bothering you? See corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

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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...

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'A boiling Europe needs Real Zero, not more loopholes for polluters' 👇

Belén Balanyá@belenbalanya.bsky.social · 3w ago

Statement by @realzeroeurope.bsky.social on the European Commission's proposal for a revised EU carbon market #ETS "A boiling Europe needs Real Zero, not more loopholes for polluters" This is nothing short of carbon welfare. Rewarding energy intensive industries for continuing polluting.

🔴 Today the European Commission unveiled its proposed revision of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), one of the EU’s flagship climate policies. At a time of record-breaking heatwaves across Europe, we need a climate strategy focused on reducing emissions at source, not on false solutions 👇

📣 This article based on internal documents from #Copa-Cogeca, the lobby group that claims to represent European farmers, highlights the groups full-scale attack on EU Green Deal files from #pesticides to caged animals to promoting factory farmed meat. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law

Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife

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Brussels is louder than hate. Some photos of yesterday's protest against the far-right by @marcellablues.bsky.social #nopasarán #UnitedinDiversity

This story confirms the picture that arises from many of our reports, of a "farm lobby" group that actually does not represent the interests of farmers and indeed that of food production in the long run. #CopaCogeca

Zach Boren@zdboren.bsky.social · 3w ago

New investigation from @grilledmedia.bsky.social & @theguardian.com Documents from inside Europe's most powerful farming org show how it lobbied "in the same way as the tobacco industry" (their own words!) to block policies for public health & the environment www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

New op ed (in 🇫🇷, in @mediapartblogs.bsky.social) about the EU's Critical Chemicals Alliance and why we need a fundamental change of approach: blogs.mediapart.fr/vicky-cann-c...

Comment l'influence de l'industrie façonne l'avenir du secteur chimique européen

Il est probable que vous n'ayez pas entendu parler de l’Alliance pour les produits chimiques critiques de la Commission européenne. Lancé en janvier, ce processus opaque aurait pu être l’occasion de …

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📣 Op-ed today in EU Observer 🚜 While farmers suffer the heat, in Brussels Copa-Cogeca and Croplife (pesticide industry) lobbyists join forces to dismantle pesticide safety rules - against the interests of farmers. 👇 Read here: euobserver.com/227840/the-f...

The farming lobby is in bed with the pesticide industry – against the interests of farmers themselves

The lobbyists' goal is to convince MEPs to radically dismantle the existing EU rules on pesticide authorisation and use, rules meant to keep too toxic products off the market.

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New research from @somoamsterdam.bsky.social shows EU push for rapid expansion of data centres will increase wealth & power of US #BigTech companies ❗Warning❗“Data centre acceleration zones” = fast-tracked construction, bypassing environmental assessment, land permitting + community consultations 🚧

SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations @somoamsterdam.bsky.social · 3w ago

The EU wants to fast-track data centre "acceleration zones" across all Member States. ⚠️ But our analysis shows that those data centres will remain largely owned by and serving US companies, while draining European resources and escaping public scrutiny. Read more: www.somo.nl/eus-data-cen...

Check out Deregulation Watch for the latest update on the Chemicals Omnibus which will roll-back protections against harmful substances in cosmetics. But progressive MEPs, some member states & civil society fought back against the Commission's worst proposals. corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

🏭Opinión | La industria mueve los hilos del futuro químico de Europa. 🖋Vicky Cann. 📷 @aminguito.bsky.social  https://elsal.to/48822

Check out our op ed in 🇪🇸 and read the original report in 🇬🇧 here: corporateeurope.org/en/2026/07/c...

Captured! The Critical Chemicals Alliance: by industry, for industry | Corporate Europe Observatory

Together with the European Environmental Bureau, this new report exposes a new Commission process which looks set to reward the chemicals industry, while ignoring the imperative to tackle harmful chem...

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El Salto@elsaltodiario.com · 3w ago

"La Alianza de Productos Químicos Críticos, encargada de identificar qué moléculas químicas y centros de producción son considerados “críticos” para la economía europea, parece encaminada a respaldar a la industria química existente y sus actuales líneas de producción."

Tomorrow @ 11am CEST: Webinar on the deregulation of EU permitting rules, at request of Big Tech, Big Oil & mining lobbies🦹‍♂️ ❓How will it affect communities + nature Lessons from 🇮🇪 data centres + 🇸🇪 mines + 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 CO2 pipelines Last chance to register TODAY: cloud.corporateeurope.org/apps/forms/s...

"Leftwing lawmakers have warned that the EU Inc proposal could lead to social and regulatory “regime shopping” by allowing companies to choose where they are registered without harmonising labour law. That, they argue, could undermine collective agreements and lead to social dumping."

euobserver — EU news that matters@euobserver.com · 4w ago

MEPs have also warned against the EU's new corporate '28th regime' being used to create a European equivalent to the US state of Delaware.

#Germany: Government is trying to make it significantly more difficult for journalists to monitor the actions of politicians and public authorities by amending the Germany’s Freedom of Information Act. #FoI Read more ⤵️ @djv.de @djuver-jorg.bsky.social

Germany: the government is threatening freedom of information

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joins its German affiliates, dju in ver.di and DJV, in calling on the German government to abandon its plans ...

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