Who met the European Commission at the beginning of the new mandate?
propagandaEuropean Union pressure groups celebrated 5,813 meetings Between the beginning A new mandate for the European Commission (CE) In December 2024 and April 7, 2025, according to UE International Transparency. At least a third of all the meetings that have been revealed Treated issues related to the European Union’s climate agenda.
Simplification and Competitiveness They chair the list of the most popular topics for climate -related meetings, with 421 meetings, one or another, or both. Instead,Green AgreementAs a subject It has disappeared from the Panorama European Union pressure groupsWith 21 meetings, the historical climate package of the mass was mentioned specifically.
range Digital policy One of the main goals of pressure groups remains, with 492 meetings in which relevant issues are mentioned, such as the DSA application and Artificial Intelligence Law.
Agriculture, cars, chemicals, large technologies and financing dominate meetings with the committee. Almost 37 % of CE meetings with companies And groups, while approximately 30 % were with commercial and commercial associations. while, Only 16.21 % of the meetings were with NGOs.
Los European farmers They held 34 meetings. They are followed by pressure groups from The European Association of Automobile Manufacturers And “European Business”, both with 29 meetings each. Three Non -governmental organizations at the top of the meetings with the European Commission are beuc (European Consumer Organization), With 28 meetings, European Environment Office (25), and European Transport Federation Y environment (20).
Unbalanced access
The international transparency experts of the European Union confirms that the lack of balance in the arrival of the parties concerned can lead to political capture, in The person whom the committee only brings to the interests of a selection of organizations.
“The laws prepared by the European Union affect hundreds of millions of people. Rafael Kirgoino, in charge of the European Union’s international transparency policies, and Charia Shamoland, an international aide for transparency, is responsible for international transparency policies in the European Union, and the European Union assistant, an international assistant to transparency policy. We are in a political panorama that is increasing to restrict the civil spaceIn both Brussels and at the national level, “They have added.
At the beginning of the year, The correct lawmakers protested To use public funds for help Non -governmental organizations To press MEPS and within the executive authority of the European Union itself. This has sparked criticism of the green euro, which confirmed that the right -wing group has sparked the environmental bachelor’s equipment embracing a reason related to the narratives of the extreme right parties.
The leaders of political groups in the European Parliament were expected to vote on May 8, a research committee on NGOs proposed by ECR, but the vote was postponed until June.
During, 600 civil society organizations signed a joint advertisement The Civil Society Declaration in it says and adds: The attack is headed by some MEP for the European Popular Party (PPE) And through the extreme right groups, the wrong information is fed. “
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