Vicky Cann
@vickycann.bsky.social
Campaigner for @corporateeurope.org Working on #PFAS #BigToxics #Chemicals #Deregulation #LobbyFacts #PrivilegedAccess
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Latest #Deregulation Watch update on water policy...
⚠️ Water Framework Directive to be reviewed (weakened) to allow more mines in EU
✅ Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive will not be re-opened, despite intensive cosmetics and pharma lobbying
More here: corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
⚠️ Water Framework Directive to be reviewed (weakened) to allow more mines in EU
✅ Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive will not be re-opened, despite intensive cosmetics and pharma lobbying
More here: corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
December 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Latest #Deregulation Watch update on water policy...
⚠️ Water Framework Directive to be reviewed (weakened) to allow more mines in EU
✅ Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive will not be re-opened, despite intensive cosmetics and pharma lobbying
More here: corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
⚠️ Water Framework Directive to be reviewed (weakened) to allow more mines in EU
✅ Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive will not be re-opened, despite intensive cosmetics and pharma lobbying
More here: corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
Check out @corporateeurope.org new podcast for some weekend listening:
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/b...
Co-directors of new documentary "The scramble for hydrogen in South Africa" talk about the process behind the making of the film + find out how you can host your very own screening.
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/b...
Co-directors of new documentary "The scramble for hydrogen in South Africa" talk about the process behind the making of the film + find out how you can host your very own screening.
I Challenge Thee
corporateeurope.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Check out @corporateeurope.org new podcast for some weekend listening:
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/b...
Co-directors of new documentary "The scramble for hydrogen in South Africa" talk about the process behind the making of the film + find out how you can host your very own screening.
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/b...
Co-directors of new documentary "The scramble for hydrogen in South Africa" talk about the process behind the making of the film + find out how you can host your very own screening.
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This is a busy week for the Commission's deregulatory chainsaw ... and for our Deregulation Watch.
See our new post on the #EnvironmentOmnibus + earlier post on risk of a "Social Omnibus".
Rules protect us, and they need defending!
Stop #deregulation now!
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
See our new post on the #EnvironmentOmnibus + earlier post on risk of a "Social Omnibus".
Rules protect us, and they need defending!
Stop #deregulation now!
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
December 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This is a busy week for the Commission's deregulatory chainsaw ... and for our Deregulation Watch.
See our new post on the #EnvironmentOmnibus + earlier post on risk of a "Social Omnibus".
Rules protect us, and they need defending!
Stop #deregulation now!
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
See our new post on the #EnvironmentOmnibus + earlier post on risk of a "Social Omnibus".
Rules protect us, and they need defending!
Stop #deregulation now!
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
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Industrial agriculture grabs land and ships in feed, just to feed Europe’s factory farms.
It imports 96% of soy from abroad – fueling deforestation and pushing rural communities off their lands.
Let’s feed people, not factory farms.
#FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness #EUAgriFoodDays
See shorturl.at/XLFFw
It imports 96% of soy from abroad – fueling deforestation and pushing rural communities off their lands.
Let’s feed people, not factory farms.
#FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness #EUAgriFoodDays
See shorturl.at/XLFFw
The FAD That Won’t Die
The persistent myth of hunger as a result of “food availability decline”
shorturl.at
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Industrial agriculture grabs land and ships in feed, just to feed Europe’s factory farms.
It imports 96% of soy from abroad – fueling deforestation and pushing rural communities off their lands.
Let’s feed people, not factory farms.
#FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness #EUAgriFoodDays
See shorturl.at/XLFFw
It imports 96% of soy from abroad – fueling deforestation and pushing rural communities off their lands.
Let’s feed people, not factory farms.
#FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness #EUAgriFoodDays
See shorturl.at/XLFFw
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Food Security, anyone? Industrial agriculture consumes most of our food, while millions go hungry in Europe.
Most EU farmland isn’t supporting people - it’s feeding factory farms.
That’s land we need to grow real food and nourish communities.
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
Most EU farmland isn’t supporting people - it’s feeding factory farms.
That’s land we need to grow real food and nourish communities.
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Food Security, anyone? Industrial agriculture consumes most of our food, while millions go hungry in Europe.
Most EU farmland isn’t supporting people - it’s feeding factory farms.
That’s land we need to grow real food and nourish communities.
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
Most EU farmland isn’t supporting people - it’s feeding factory farms.
That’s land we need to grow real food and nourish communities.
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
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Support farmers, not industrial agriculture.
✅ Long-term access to land
✅ Fair prices & incomes
✅ Decent working & living conditions
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
See: www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
✅ Long-term access to land
✅ Fair prices & incomes
✅ Decent working & living conditions
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
See: www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
Europe’s Potemkin Lobby
Powerful European farming lobby Copa-Cogeca is losing legitimacy even as it stymies the EU’s green agenda and hoovers up public funds
www.lighthousereports.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Support farmers, not industrial agriculture.
✅ Long-term access to land
✅ Fair prices & incomes
✅ Decent working & living conditions
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
See: www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
✅ Long-term access to land
✅ Fair prices & incomes
✅ Decent working & living conditions
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
See: www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
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Just 1% of Europe’s biggest farms pocket a staggering 23% (€ 8.7 billion) of EU public money for agriculture.
The result? Small-scale farms vanish, and a new generation of farmers are locked out of the land.
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
See www.corporateeurope.org/en/2021/01/c...
The result? Small-scale farms vanish, and a new generation of farmers are locked out of the land.
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
See www.corporateeurope.org/en/2021/01/c...
December 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Just 1% of Europe’s biggest farms pocket a staggering 23% (€ 8.7 billion) of EU public money for agriculture.
The result? Small-scale farms vanish, and a new generation of farmers are locked out of the land.
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
See www.corporateeurope.org/en/2021/01/c...
The result? Small-scale farms vanish, and a new generation of farmers are locked out of the land.
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
See www.corporateeurope.org/en/2021/01/c...
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Food Security , anyone? Europe is losing its farmers.
5.3 MILLION farms have disappeared since 2005. Small-scale farmland is being eaten up by Big Agri corporations.
Big industrial farms make starting out nearly impossible.
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
5.3 MILLION farms have disappeared since 2005. Small-scale farmland is being eaten up by Big Agri corporations.
Big industrial farms make starting out nearly impossible.
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
December 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Food Security , anyone? Europe is losing its farmers.
5.3 MILLION farms have disappeared since 2005. Small-scale farmland is being eaten up by Big Agri corporations.
Big industrial farms make starting out nearly impossible.
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
5.3 MILLION farms have disappeared since 2005. Small-scale farmland is being eaten up by Big Agri corporations.
Big industrial farms make starting out nearly impossible.
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
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Ever heard of cheesing?* 🧀
It's the perfect way to describe the game that's played by decisionmakers to destroy environmental & human rights protections:
1. Cheap tricks
2. Unfair
3. Overly easy
Watch & let us know who you nominate for BIGGEST cheese⁉️
#Deregulator
youtu.be/IyWvUzR5y2M?...
It's the perfect way to describe the game that's played by decisionmakers to destroy environmental & human rights protections:
1. Cheap tricks
2. Unfair
3. Overly easy
Watch & let us know who you nominate for BIGGEST cheese⁉️
#Deregulator
youtu.be/IyWvUzR5y2M?...
The deregulator
YouTube video by Friends of the Earth Europe
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Ever heard of cheesing?* 🧀
It's the perfect way to describe the game that's played by decisionmakers to destroy environmental & human rights protections:
1. Cheap tricks
2. Unfair
3. Overly easy
Watch & let us know who you nominate for BIGGEST cheese⁉️
#Deregulator
youtu.be/IyWvUzR5y2M?...
It's the perfect way to describe the game that's played by decisionmakers to destroy environmental & human rights protections:
1. Cheap tricks
2. Unfair
3. Overly easy
Watch & let us know who you nominate for BIGGEST cheese⁉️
#Deregulator
youtu.be/IyWvUzR5y2M?...
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Today it's exactly 6 years ago that EU Commission President Von der Leyen announced the European Green Deal, which she called "Europe's Man on the Moon moment" 🎂
Von der Leyen's priority today? Acting on corporate demands for #deregulation, recklessly rolling back environment and health standards 😡
Von der Leyen's priority today? Acting on corporate demands for #deregulation, recklessly rolling back environment and health standards 😡
December 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Today it's exactly 6 years ago that EU Commission President Von der Leyen announced the European Green Deal, which she called "Europe's Man on the Moon moment" 🎂
Von der Leyen's priority today? Acting on corporate demands for #deregulation, recklessly rolling back environment and health standards 😡
Von der Leyen's priority today? Acting on corporate demands for #deregulation, recklessly rolling back environment and health standards 😡
Yet more really worrying #deregulation developments
Corporate lobby groups demand a “social omnibus” to roll back workers’ rights ⚠️
Lobby groups linked to BusinessEurope call for #deregulation of the pay transparency directive, posted workers directive, etc.
Read more in our new post on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎 www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
Lobby groups linked to BusinessEurope call for #deregulation of the pay transparency directive, posted workers directive, etc.
Read more in our new post on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎 www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
Deregulation Watch | Corporate Europe Observatory
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...
www.corporateeurope.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Yet more really worrying #deregulation developments
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The climate needs a fair, fast and funded fossil fuel phase-out, so why did EU governments roll out the red carpet for the oil and gas industry at #COP30?
Our take on this year's UN climate talks and what went down.
#KickBigPollutersOut
#FossilFreePolitics
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/c...
Our take on this year's UN climate talks and what went down.
#KickBigPollutersOut
#FossilFreePolitics
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/c...
December 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The climate needs a fair, fast and funded fossil fuel phase-out, so why did EU governments roll out the red carpet for the oil and gas industry at #COP30?
Our take on this year's UN climate talks and what went down.
#KickBigPollutersOut
#FossilFreePolitics
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/c...
Our take on this year's UN climate talks and what went down.
#KickBigPollutersOut
#FossilFreePolitics
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/c...
Is the tide turning on the UK’s failure to regulate chemicals? chemtrust.org/is-the-tide-...
Is the tide turning on the UK’s failure to regulate chemicals?
This week, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs published the 2025 Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP), which sets out how the Government plans to restore England’s environment ...
chemtrust.org
December 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Is the tide turning on the UK’s failure to regulate chemicals? chemtrust.org/is-the-tide-...
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EU Commission needs to focus on the real crises facing our communities, not the lobby demands of big business falsely complaining about over-regulation.
Take action today to defend pesticide regulations!
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/t...
Take action today to defend pesticide regulations!
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/t...
December 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
EU Commission needs to focus on the real crises facing our communities, not the lobby demands of big business falsely complaining about over-regulation.
Take action today to defend pesticide regulations!
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/t...
Take action today to defend pesticide regulations!
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/t...
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➡️ And important new report featured showing that synthetic chemicals in food system create health burden of $2.2 trln pa + $0.6 trln on environmental costs.
At fault are phthalates, bisphenols, pesticides & #PFAS within the global food system.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
At fault are phthalates, bisphenols, pesticides & #PFAS within the global food system.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
December 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
➡️ And important new report featured showing that synthetic chemicals in food system create health burden of $2.2 trln pa + $0.6 trln on environmental costs.
At fault are phthalates, bisphenols, pesticides & #PFAS within the global food system.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
At fault are phthalates, bisphenols, pesticides & #PFAS within the global food system.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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➡️ Libération on lobbying by cosmetics and pharma companies to oppose their liablities for cleaning up harmful chemicals via the Urban wastewater treatment Ddirective.
Industry angling to weaken this application of 'polluter pays' in today's or future omnibuses.
www.liberation.fr/environnemen...
Industry angling to weaken this application of 'polluter pays' in today's or future omnibuses.
www.liberation.fr/environnemen...
Micropolluants : les coulisses de la contre-offensive des lobbys pharmaceutiques et cosmétiques pour contourner la loi pollueur-payeur
Les géants des produits de santé et de beauté, principaux responsables des émissions de micropolluants dans les eaux usées, poussent pour que leur obligation européenne à supporter le coût de la décon...
www.liberation.fr
December 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
➡️ Libération on lobbying by cosmetics and pharma companies to oppose their liablities for cleaning up harmful chemicals via the Urban wastewater treatment Ddirective.
Industry angling to weaken this application of 'polluter pays' in today's or future omnibuses.
www.liberation.fr/environnemen...
Industry angling to weaken this application of 'polluter pays' in today's or future omnibuses.
www.liberation.fr/environnemen...
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As we wait to hear about the Commission's latest round of reckless #deregulation via the so-called environment omnibus, there are 2 important stories out today...
December 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
As we wait to hear about the Commission's latest round of reckless #deregulation via the so-called environment omnibus, there are 2 important stories out today...
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Corporate lobbyists will today be ticking off a few more demands from their deregulation hit-list.
And by emphasising how it will “stress test” all EU environment rules by 2029 it’s clear that far more roll-back is in the pipeline.
Find out more:
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
And by emphasising how it will “stress test” all EU environment rules by 2029 it’s clear that far more roll-back is in the pipeline.
Find out more:
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
December 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Corporate lobbyists will today be ticking off a few more demands from their deregulation hit-list.
And by emphasising how it will “stress test” all EU environment rules by 2029 it’s clear that far more roll-back is in the pipeline.
Find out more:
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
And by emphasising how it will “stress test” all EU environment rules by 2029 it’s clear that far more roll-back is in the pipeline.
Find out more:
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
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"With this eighth so-called omnibus we can see the European Commission continues to prioritise the short-term interests of industry over the health and environmental concerns of citizens."
#EnvironmentalOmnibus
#EnvironmentalOmnibus
December 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
"With this eighth so-called omnibus we can see the European Commission continues to prioritise the short-term interests of industry over the health and environmental concerns of citizens."
#EnvironmentalOmnibus
#EnvironmentalOmnibus
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🚨 HAPPENING NOW: EU regulators are with the fossil fuel lobby + its allies at the #ICMForum. Organised by the EU Commission, it aims to ramp up failed + risky #carboncapture technologies + will likely see them get yet more €€€ + political support 😫
Read more: www.corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/m...
Read more: www.corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/m...
December 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🚨 HAPPENING NOW: EU regulators are with the fossil fuel lobby + its allies at the #ICMForum. Organised by the EU Commission, it aims to ramp up failed + risky #carboncapture technologies + will likely see them get yet more €€€ + political support 😫
Read more: www.corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/m...
Read more: www.corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/m...
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If you live in the UK or Europe + want to use our map to investigate landfill, current or historic near you, it's available here:
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Europe landfills 2 – Felt
The only cloud-native GIS platform.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
If you live in the UK or Europe + want to use our map to investigate landfill, current or historic near you, it's available here:
share.google/PieVvUSOvTrP...
share.google/PieVvUSOvTrP...
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Our report on pollution from landfill with @investigate-europe.eu was covered by Martin Stew on ITV News last night. If you fancy watching the whole piece, it's available here:
youtu.be/WY9poL0hhj4?...
youtu.be/WY9poL0hhj4?...
December 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Our report on pollution from landfill with @investigate-europe.eu was covered by Martin Stew on ITV News last night. If you fancy watching the whole piece, it's available here:
youtu.be/WY9poL0hhj4?...
youtu.be/WY9poL0hhj4?...
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🔴 No adequate protection measures for the organic sector and other GMO-free chains
The only positive aspect are the sustainability criteria: NGT1 plants cannot be herbicide-resistant and cannot produce insecticides themselves.
The only positive aspect are the sustainability criteria: NGT1 plants cannot be herbicide-resistant and cannot produce insecticides themselves.
December 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM
🔴 No adequate protection measures for the organic sector and other GMO-free chains
The only positive aspect are the sustainability criteria: NGT1 plants cannot be herbicide-resistant and cannot produce insecticides themselves.
The only positive aspect are the sustainability criteria: NGT1 plants cannot be herbicide-resistant and cannot produce insecticides themselves.
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🔴 Patents: a very weak compromise on a voluntary code of conduct, further weakened by Commissioner Varhelyi himself. Farmers and breeding companies will pay the price.
🔴 No traceability, no monitoring, no mandatory buffer zones or other co-existence measures (only optional for member states)
🔴 No traceability, no monitoring, no mandatory buffer zones or other co-existence measures (only optional for member states)
December 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM
🔴 Patents: a very weak compromise on a voluntary code of conduct, further weakened by Commissioner Varhelyi himself. Farmers and breeding companies will pay the price.
🔴 No traceability, no monitoring, no mandatory buffer zones or other co-existence measures (only optional for member states)
🔴 No traceability, no monitoring, no mandatory buffer zones or other co-existence measures (only optional for member states)
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And there's more:
🔴 For NGT1 plants there is no risk assessment, even though everyone agrees there is no scientific basis to claim that NGT1-plants are safe for food
🔴 No labelling, so consumers can no longer see what they eat
🔴 For NGT1 plants there is no risk assessment, even though everyone agrees there is no scientific basis to claim that NGT1-plants are safe for food
🔴 No labelling, so consumers can no longer see what they eat
December 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM
And there's more:
🔴 For NGT1 plants there is no risk assessment, even though everyone agrees there is no scientific basis to claim that NGT1-plants are safe for food
🔴 No labelling, so consumers can no longer see what they eat
🔴 For NGT1 plants there is no risk assessment, even though everyone agrees there is no scientific basis to claim that NGT1-plants are safe for food
🔴 No labelling, so consumers can no longer see what they eat