EU decisions and policies often mirror the interests of big business, as a result of the corporate capture of EU decision-making processes. This has consequences in terms of social and economic injustice and inequality, climate change and environmental destruction. Thus, CEO has developed a particular expertise in the following EU policy areas: agriculture, food safety, energy, climate change, EU lobbying regulation, trade, investment, economy, and finance. Corporate Europe Observatory's reports often attract the attention of media from all over the world. Recently, it gained international attention by announcing (in a joint publication with
Global Witness and
Corporate Accountability) that at
COP26 the
fossil fuel industry had the largest delegation at the summit. With French NGO Observatoire des multinationales, CEO issued a report on
Emmanuel Macron's French Presidency of the
EU Council which shows how the French EU Presidency had been prepared closely with the industry, raising several democratic concerns. CEO's work as a lobby watchdog of big pharma and
big tech, has also issued significant reports, which were published in
The New York Times, and
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