EU pressure groups celebrated 5,813 meetings between the beginning of New mandate of the European Commission (EC) In December 2024 and April 7, 2025, according to EU international transparency. At least one third of all the disclosed meetings issues addressed relating to EU climatic agenda.
Simplification e Competitiveness They direct the list of the most popular topics of climate meetings, with 421 meetings in which one or the other or both is mentioned. Instead, the ‘Green pact‘As the theme Has disappeared from the panorama of EU pressure groupswith 21 meetings in which the historic block climate package is mentioned specifically.
The scope of the Digital policy It remains one of the main objectives of the pressure groups, with 492 meetings in which related problems are mentioned, such as the application of the DSA and the Law of ai.
Agriculture, cars, chemicals, great technologies and funding dominate the meetings with the Commission. Almost 37% of CE meetings were with companies And groups, while almost 30% were with commercial and commercial associations. While, Only 16.21% of the meetings were with NGO.
Los European farmers They held 34 meetings. Are followed by the pressure groups of the European Association of Car Manufacturers And “European business”, both with 29 meetings each. The only three NGOs at the top of the meetings with the European Commission are Beuc (European consumer organization), with 28 meetings, the Office for the European environment (25) and the European Transport Federation y Environment (20).
Unbalanced access
EU international transparency experts affirm that the lack of balance in accessing the interested parties could lead to political capture, in What the Commission leads only to the interests of a selected group of organizations.
“The laws prepared by the EU affect hundreds of millions of people. It is essential that their items are sufficiently listened to in the decision process, “said Raphaël Kergueno, head of the EU international transparency policies, and ICharia Schmoland, an international transparency policy assistant.” However, We are in a political panorama that is increasing to limit civic spaceBoth in Brussels and nationally, “they added.
At the beginning of the year, Right legislators protested for the use of public funds to help Non -governmental organizations Press the MEPs and within the EU manager. This raised the criticisms of the green euro, which stated that the Centi Dpi group is embracing a cause associated with the narratives of the extreme right parts.
The leaders of the political groups of the European Parliament should have voted on on 8 May a research commission on NGO proposed by ECR, but the vote was delayed in June.
In the meantime, 600 civil society organizations have signed a joint declaration in which they argue that their sector “must face an unprecedented attack”, says the declaration of civil society and adds: “The attack, led by some MEP of the European People’s Party (PPE) And with extreme right groups, it is fed by disinformation. “
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