Citizen Lobbyist

This is a podcast about equalizing access to political power co-hosted by @alemannoEU & @fiorellalavorgna

[Citizen Lobbyist @CLobbyist]

How do we identify and fight against European racism?
Together with @osfEUpolicy, we have invited the activists: @LaylaAzzouzi, @pavlodija, Wetsi Mpoma and @Violeta_BN to discuss this in the new episode of the Citizen Lobbyist Podcast @alemannoEU https://t.co/dMh8IvxDuP

[Idafe Martín Pérez ✨🚴 42.7 @IdafeMartin]

Meloni celebra las deportaciones para calentar al electorado, porque Meloni no deporta. En 3 años ha regularizado casi a 500.000 inmigrantes. Meloni hace lo que Sánchez porque es lo que la economía de su país necesita. Pero como su electorado no es como el de Sánchez, habla de deportaciones. Cinismo absoluto.

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

⚠️ Can the EU Parliament (and Metsola) drop the Art 7’s rule of law procedure against Hungary?

Fact-check @POLITICOEurope’s Article 7 story:

1.The EP triggered Art. 7(1) TEU in 2018 but it cannot close it alone. Termination requires Council action, not a Parliament resolution.

2.The EP President cannot commit the Parliament to any political position on a live procedure. She’s a presiding officer, not a majority leader.

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Why is Giorgia Meloni staying away from the beauty contest among world leaders on who bans social media first?

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Suspending the EU AI Act weakens - doesn’t strengthen - Europe’s stance on this widely unregulated technology and negatively affecte its citizens’ cognitive abilities and well-being.

If that’s true, Metsola’s celebration won’t age well.

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

G-7 leaders so mesmerized by the AI race they forgot the point of the G-7: govern together, not race apart.

Washington’s overnight kill-switch on Anthropic’s models proves the danger Europe warned about and exposes a G-7 that watches acceleration instead of steering it.

Time for collective governance, not dependency. #G7Summit #G7 #evian

https://t.co/SOwmI1v3Uk

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Good to see AI being discussed in global setting but all political leaders seem to struggle to grasp AI’s inherent uncertainty when it comes to its impact on society.

They all surrender to technological determinism under corporate pressure instead of calling for a pause!

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

As predicted, the EU deregulation wave is unstoppable despite all the ‘guarantees’ @TheProgressives @RenewEurope & @GreensEFA claim to have received from @EPPGroup : now it’s the ETS to fall!

Isn’t about time these mainstream political parties and groups wake up and walk away from @vonderleyen II Commission?

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

The Commission rushes to dismantle the AI Act’s safeguards to please Washington and stays silent when Washington restricts AI access to Europe.

This is what regulatory capture at geopolitical scale looks like.

@vonderleyen @HennaVirkkunen

https://t.co/aIvWcMtKLT

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

As I argued last week, the EU has known since 2017 it had legal right to freeze Israel trade deal – EUobserver https://t.co/E7JXBlCWUX

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Saving the automotive industry and having an EU industrial policy for mobility are not the same thing. One protects incumbents. The other builds the next generation of European champions in EVs, software & clean transport.

Taxpayers deserve the second, not lobbyists asking @EPP to scrap the combustion engine ban

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

EU leaders pretend they need unanimity to ban Israeli settlement products. They don’t – my latest for @euobs https://t.co/HYXAwZD96Y

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Europe: “We must reduce dependency on US tech.”

Also Europe: queues up to buy SpaceX shares at $135/piece.

The “vassalage” isn’t just structural but voluntary. 🛰️ https://t.co/DjeOfhD1WT

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

One in five Israeli-labeled food shipments entering the European Union are actually from illegal settlements but consumers have now way of knowing their origin.

This can be stopped by a QMV as part of trade policy

https://t.co/LCqsKM9DB8

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Time to rethink entirely EU diplomatic service and operations

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Regulation matters: Ryanair is the only airline making parents pay extra to seat with their kids https://t.co/PEbc3Z51C8

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Lobbying spending has more than doubled (!) in the EU since 2020.

And it's paying off: the von der Leyen 2 Commission, with the support of a right-wing majority in the European Parliament, has embarked on the biggest rollback of EU standards in history - from digital, consumer and food rights to environment and climate protection. The Commission has already delivered 10 omnibus deregulation packages - single proposals bundling multiple rollbacks, designed to minimise scrutiny.

New data from @corporateeurope and @lobbycontrol puts hard numbers on what many suspected: the top 173 industry lobbyists now spend €381.75 million annually on influencing EU institutions. Tech giants alone account for €73M. Energy majors: €52M. Chemicals and agribusiness: €46.5M.

This further injection of corporate money is set to deepen the power asymmetry between corporate interests and the general interest across public health, consumer protection, digital rights and climate action.

EU deregulation bypasses both the procedural safeguards meant to keep power accountable (no public consultation, no impact assessments) and the substantive Treaty standards meant to ensure high levels of consumer, environmental, and public health protection.

The EU deregulation agenda is set to backfire, as lower standards of protection hit people and reinforce foreign domination over our individual and collective life.

🔗 EU Corporate Lobby League 2026

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Another legal challenge to the EU deregulation agenda. If it succeeds, it will prove what we’ve been saying all along: the Omnibus doesn’t simplify EU law but it rewrites it - @foodwatch_de @TheGoodLobby @Teresaribera

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

When national interest primes over European general interest, again and again

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Here’s how Europe’s far-right governs the EU with @EPP - exactely as predicted in June 2024

https://t.co/Wq5VRB8k7a

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

« In practice, Ukraine is being offered everything except membership itself,”

Ukraine’s Ambassador to the EU Vsevolod Chentsov told Playbook @POLITICOEurope