The EU’s pressure groups celebrated 5,813 meetings Between New Order of the European Commission (CE) According to the International Transparency UE, December 2024 and April 7, 2025. At least one -third of the revealed meetings EU climate age -related issues were solved.
Simplicity and Competition They lead the list of most popular topics of climate -related meetings, one or the other mentioned in 421 meetings or both. Instead of, ‘Green deal‘As the theme It has disappeared from the panorama of EU pressure groupsWith 21 intersections, the historical climate of the constituency is specifically mentioned.
Purpose Digital principle It is one of the main objectives of pressure groups, the issues associated with 492 meetings are mentioned, such as DSA and use The law of AI.
Agriculture, automotive, chemicals, large technologies and funds dominate meetings with the Commission. C.E. The meetings were nearly 37% of companies And groups, nearly 30% of business and business associations. At the same time At the meetings were only 16.21% of the volunteer.
Las European farmers They held 34 meetings. There are pressure groups followed by them European Association of Automobile Manufacturers And ‘European Business’, with both 29 meetings each. Three volunteers on top of meetings with the European Commission Beuc (European consumer system), With 28 meetings, the European Environmental Office (25), and Corporation of European Transportation y Environment (20).
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International transparency EU experts confirm that the lack of balance in the approach of interested parties can lead to political capture Commission only brings the interests of a group of selected organizations.
“Laws prepared by the EU affect hundreds of millions of people. It is important that their voices are sufficient in the decision -making process, ”said Rabal Gerguno and the International Transparency Policy Assistant, European Union, European Union, European Union. However, We are in a political panorama, which is increasing to control civic spaceIn both Brussels and nationally, ”they added.
At the beginning of the year, The right legislators protested To use public funds to help Non -government Within the EU management to press the MEPs. This raised the criticism of the Green Euros, which confirmed that the PPE central-voyage group hugged a reason for the stories of the extreme right parties.
The leaders of the political groups of the European Parliament were expected to vote for the Research Commission on Volunteers proposed by the ECR on May 8, but the referendum was delayed in June.
In the meantime, 600 civil society organizations have signed a joint notice In it they say that their department is “faced with an unprecedented attack”, the announcement of the civil society says: “Attack, led by some European famous party MEP (PPE) By extreme right groups, it is provided by false information. “
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