Lora Verheecke
@loraverheecke.bsky.social
Policy Officer in Counter-Balance Researching lobbying in the EU and doing lobby tours at DarkSideEUTours
"La protection des espèces a-t-elle trop bien marché ?" Nouvelle tribune de Bertrand Alliot, marchand de déni climatique et écologique (qui déclarait notamment dans Le Point en octobre 2024 : "la biodiversité ne s'effondre pas en Europe") publiée dans Le Figaro le 10 juillet 2026. Fil à dérouler 👇
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to Donald Trump Jr. said it received at least $100 million from Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major policy wins from the Trump administration. (Published June)
An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr.
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major polic...
propublica.org
Press Release | Chevron and ExxonMobil today reported combined profits of more than US$26 billion for the second quarter, closing another bumper earnings season for the world's largest oil and gas corporations as the illegal war on Iran drives up oil prices and the cost of living.
As war on Iran drives monster Q2 profits for Big Oil, communities struggle with extreme weather and soaring costs - Greenpeace International
Amsterdam, Netherlands – Chevron and ExxonMobil today reported combined profits of more than US$26 billion for the second quarter, closing another bumper earnings season for the world’s la...
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60 years ago, Shell was warned that burning fossil fuels were likely driving global warming. It buried the warning. Now it’s key evidence in a landmark lawsuit looking to hold Shell accountable for the devastation of a climate-fueled typhoon. Read more here:
The Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms
“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of…
buff.ly
☑️ We pay. ❌ They don’t. Why? 👀 Any guess who "they" are? Find out who - sign up here👇🏾 forms.gle/jwmY5ASNaBof...
For a decade, the European Union has funded a group called the Libyan Coast Guard to stop migration in the Mediterranean. Despite its name, the LCG is a bundle of militias that routinely harasses rescuers trying to save lives at sea.
Migrant Rescue Operations Navigate a Mediterranean Bloodbath
The Seabird is a plane that monitors violence along the world’s deadliest migration route. Piloted by a German NGO, it is showing how European authorities collaborate with militias to harass people crossing the Mediterranean.
jacobin.com
« C’est un triomphe pour l’extrême droite française, constate le quotidien allemand Tagesspiegel. L’une des revendications qu’elle porte depuis des années va probablement devenir loi – sans même qu’elle soit au gouvernement. » www.courrierinternational.com/article/vu-d...
Derrière le débat sur la présomption de légitime défense pour la police, “l’influence du Rassemblement national”
Adoptée mardi 7 juillet à l’Assemblée nationale, la proposition de loi visant à reconnaître une présomption de légitime défense pour les forces de l’ordre “indi...
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In November, a lobbying firm approached me and asked to pay me to write articles critical of the Building Safety Regulator for newspapers. Filmed undercover, their staff admitted secretly paying reporters for copy in British newspapers friendly to their clients: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lobbying giant filmed offering reporter payment for flattering client coverage in national press
Exclusive: Guardian investigation of CT Group uncovers practice that appears to seek hidden influence over public opinion
theguardian.com
Meanwhile the farm lobby has successfully lobbied for: More fossil fuel based fertiliser More methane emissions More diesel subsidies Easier destruction of wetlands Harder transition to resources saving &healthier plant based diets. "Food security" is weaponised to destroy our actual food security.
Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · 2w ago9 million tonnes of crops destroyed by just one heatwave across Europe, which lasted 13-14 days. #FoodSecurity
Cette vidéo vous plonge dans les coulisses de la surveillance marocaine. Disponible en français, anglais et arabe sur Youtube. Regardez la vidéo complète : youtu.be/UZX6wwiPRMw?...
🔴 PEGASUS PROJECT: Inside Morocco's spying machine.
🎙️ “What's really sinister is that this kind of spyware that's so invasive, that takes all your data by default, is designed to delete all traces of itself. [Pegasus] is meant to violate your right…
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Les idées néofascistes progressent en France grâce à un puissant appareil médiatique et financier à leur service. Parmi leurs puissants mécènes, les entreprises de Stérin.
Ces entreprises financent l’ascension de l’extrême droite en France
Les idées néofascistes progressent en France grâce à un puissant appareil médiatique et financier à leur service.
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Péter Szijjártó spent a decade as Hungary’s FM doing Moscow’s and Beijing’s bidding from inside the EU. Now he’s cut out the middleman and gone straight to the payroll. The “national interest” he served was never Hungary’s and certainly never Europe’s www.politico.eu/article/hung...
Top Orbán ally joins Chinese car giant BYD
Hungary’s former foreign minister is not the only ex-politician finding a second career in the automotive business.
politico.eu
🚨🚨Breaking: @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social today dismissed #Google’s appeal against a €4.1 billion #Android antitrust fine for #abuse of #dominantposition, handing the @ec.europa.eu a major victory in one of its longest-running antitrust battles with Big Tech. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/top-...
Top EU court upholds Google Android fine in landmark antitrust case
The judgment strengthens Brussels’ hand as it increasingly relies on new digital competition rules to police Big Tech.
politico.eu
#Mining sites and/or infrastructure could be financed by EIB & other European public investors in #Haiti #GlobalGateway. Will they pay attention to the high risks of corruption, human rights violations, and environmental pollution? counter-balance.org/news/blog/pr...
Promoting European investments but not debate: the case of Haiti and Global Gateway - Counter Balance
On 29th June 2026, Haiti hosted its first Global Gateway Business Forum. Global Gateway is the new ideology of the European Union to support the ‘sustainable development’ projects of European multinat...
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En France, le gouvernement s’apprête à donner un «permis de tuer» aux policiers. Le 7 juillet, l’Assemblée nationale doit voter une loi qui considèrerait légal TOUT TIR de policier ou gendarme. Ce serait une bascule historique. Voici en 5 points ce que cette loi changerait.👇
Prévention tu parles. Les sénateurs viennent littéralement de remettre en circulation des cochonneries de pesticides. Faudra aller parler de prévention aux agriculteurs qui choperont un cancer les premiers.
Public Sénat@publicsenat.fr · last mo.Dans un rapport publié ce mardi, les sénateurs appellent à rééquilibrer le système de santé français en faveur des soins préventifs, à l’heure du vieillissement de la population et de l’augmentation importante des cancers. ➡️ https://go.publicsenat.fr/yeN
Alors qu’il travaillait au lancement de sa chaîne « Livre noir » (devenu « Frontières »), l’activiste d’extrême droite Erik Tegner a été payé par un lobby hongrois 🇭🇺 pro-Orban pour influencer le débat public en France. Le contrat (4.200€ par mois) est publié sur @streetpress.bsky.social👇
Le contrat qui prouve qu’Erik Tegnér agissait comme un agent d'influence du pouvoir hongrois
StreetPress a obtenu le contrat d’Erik Tegnér, directeur du média d’extrême droite Frontières, avec le Danube Institute. Pour 4.200 euros par mois, il devait aider à promouvoir les discours d’Orbán en...
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Anyone lobbying against climate policies, and governments/EU bodies giving in to that lobby, do so in the full knowledge that their actions lead to thousands of preventable deaths.
Europe is baking in a record-breaking heatwave – driven by climate change, mostly caused by burning fossil fuels Meanwhile, the US, Qatar, Nigeria and Algeria are lobbying to cut the EU's methane pollution rules so they can selling Europe EVEN MORE FOSSIL GAS and push those temperatures up higher
In our newest article, Lora Verheecke looks at the EU-US trade deal that was approved by the EU Parliament. How did the EU allow itself to be bullied across all its institutions? And what comes after globalization as we know it? rosalux.eu/en/2026/the-...
Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels Office | The EU-US Trade Deal Locks Europe into US Dependence
On 16 June, the European Parliament approved a trade deal agreed a year ago by Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Trump at Trump’s golf resort in Turnberry. The Left was the only political group united i...
rosalux.eu
One Commissioner. 184 meetings. 182 with business groups. The other 2? Probably his mum and his dog. Our new podcast ep exposes the corporate capture driving the EU's deregulation frenzy,and it's worse than you think. W/ @kennethhaar.bsky.social &Rachel Tansey 🎙️ corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/1...
182 out of 184 | Corporate Europe Observatory
We need to talk about what deregulation actually means in Brussels right now. It means one commissioner holding 184 meetings with external actors, 182 of them with business groups. Check out our new p...
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La métropole de Nice a déboursé 312.000 euros de frais de représentation au profit de Christian Estrosi entre 2016 et 2025. Malgré les demandes répétées, l’ancien maire refuse de fournir les justificatifs. La justice est saisie. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
Notes de frais de Christian Estrosi : la justice est doublement saisie à Nice
Face au refus de son prédécesseur de fournir les documents justifiant les 312 000 euros de frais de représentation déboursés par la métropole entre 2016 et 2025, le maire de Nice, Éric Ciotti, a anno…
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Dominique Simonnot, contrôleuse générale des lieux de privation de liberté : « Ce que je vois en prison dépasse l’entendement » www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...
Dominique Simonnot, contrôleuse générale des lieux de privation de liberté : « Ce que je vois en prison dépasse l’entendement »
« Je ne serais pas arrivée là si… » Chaque semaine, « Le Monde » interroge une personnalité sur un moment décisif de son existence. L’ancienne éducatrice pénitentiaire devenue journaliste revient sur ...
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The EU and big business want access to lithium, copper, cobalt, and much more. 🌍 But do you know who is bearing the costs of this? Well.. communities, mainly in the Global South, who are rarely given a real say over mining projects on their own land. ⛏️❌
Documents reveal that a European company linked to Israeli spyware seller NSO Group has been exporting surveillance technology to government agencies in repressive countries for years, despite EU regulations intended to curb such sales: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Circles Sold Phone Spy Tools to Repressive States, Report Says
A Bulgaria-based company sold controversial surveillance technology to governments in countries with records of repression, enabling authorities to track mobile phones and eavesdrop on private communi...
bloomberg.com
"The scientific evidence shows that when considered as a whole, the CRISPR gene editing process causes large-scale random unintended sites of damage to the DNA of the plant, and [those sites of damage] can number in the hundreds or thousands" — Professor Michael Antoniou www.dw.com/en/crispr-ge...
CRISPR gene-editing for crops: Precision tool or new risk?
The EU has eased restrictions on crops developed using novel genetic techniques. While supporters say the technology could help farmers adapt to climate change, critics argue its effects remain poorly...
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Important : Fait inédit, l'Arcom constate que CNews viole le pluralisme des courants de pensée & d'opinion. Car l'analyse méthodique des émissions révèle un « déséquilibre manifeste et durable ». Avec une focalisation (structurelle & volontaire) sur l'immigration, l'islam, les juges ou LFI...
