Kenneth Haar

Researcher, Corporate Europe Observatory, @corporateeurope , a research and campaign group based in Brussels.

[Kenneth Haar @KennethHaar]

This is my last tweet. I am joining the X-odus. This place is now dominated by right wing extremists and looney money men. Find me on BlueSky.

Dette er mit sidste tweet. X domineres nu globalt af det yderste højre og gakgak pengemænd. Jeg smutter, holder mig til BlueSky

[Kenneth Haar @KennethHaar]

@pelledragsted Han burde sende skibet til Florida. Dér har de en krise med rødder i både nedskæringer og mere generelt i den amerikanske profitorienterede sundhedsmodel. https://t.co/3zF8Gl9ivC

[Kenneth Haar @KennethHaar]

Absurd and grotesque desires in the Trump camp to have the US 'own and control' Greenland. And annoying that some media have chased the Danish PM to check if the fantastic island is for sale, cos' it really is not for the Danes to decide in any case. https://t.co/FUILSjcnz7

[EUROPEAN TRADE UNIONS @etuc_ces]

🔴Figures showing that there would be very small financial savings from a deregulation policy with high social costs disappeared from an @EU_Commission document before its publication. Thread...

[Counter Balance @Counter_Balance]

3/ In this era of austerity, the @EIB isn’t funding the green public services we urgently need. Instead, it’s propping up markets with deregulation & weak social and environmental safeguards.

🎧: https://t.co/f7CnHgtQ4c

[Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope]

Years of campaigning by rightwing MEPs is succeeding: NGOs are now being threatened by the Commission they will lose funding if they do advocacy work that some may not like. A mere gag order! Read about it:
https://t.co/KLHcHwfsWn

[Jan Willem Goudriaan @JW_Goudriaan]

Commission publishes proposal simplifying administration for employers dealing with posted workers. But:
➡️Hardly any cost savings
➡️Labour inspectorates have scant information to target fraudulent employers

Simplification=red carpet for corporate abuse
https://t.co/lWAd8U2aw6

[Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope]

They call it ‘cutting red tape’, or slashing bureaucracy. What the new Commission is really about to do is to open a campaign that will be costly to the public interest. See our guide to their 16 tools to deregulate. https://t.co/zDXhucAefG

[Yiorgos Vassalos @YiorgosVa]

Reseach publication alert🚨
My article "Reforming EU financial markets: mission impossible? The field of Eurocracy and private interests in MiFID revision" has just been published in the "European Politics and Society" research journal.
Here's a thread 🧵. The article looks at:>>

[Kenneth Haar @KennethHaar]

Italian oil company ENI has launched an unjustified attack against CEOs good friend and ally Antonio Tricarico at ReCommon for defamation. He deserves all the support we can give! https://t.co/vx37OZLArP

[EUobserver @euobs]

1/7 In a new oped @corporateeurope argues that MEPs have a crucial opportunity at next week's commissioner hearings: to challenge potential commissioners on the deregulation agenda set by EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

https://t.co/Pix93FYLOX

[Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope]

🧟 Tonight, get ready for the European farmers massacre
🔪 In one decade, the EU lost 5 million small farmers, guess what happened to them?

🎵 Music by Grace Jones

#Halloween
@foeeurope
@TNInstitute
@Fern_NGO
@lobbycontrol
@TheGoodLobby
@Left_EU
@GreensEFA

[Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope]

It’s been a year since the @EUombudsman told the @EU_Commission to release the #REACHrevision impact assessment “without any further delay”.
Commission response?
Nothing.

https://t.co/7JbmSo7uOT

[Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope]

Building on this analysis of the CVs of the commissioners-designate, here are a few thoughts on their #MissionLetters below 🧵

[Vicky Cann @vicky_cann]

The amount of pesticide residue allowed on scores of food types in England, Wales and Scotland has soared since Brexit, analysis reveals, with some now thousands of times higher.

https://t.co/wm9Hw3dqyz

[Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope]

🚨We have reviewed the curricula of the candidates to Commissioners that von der leyen has just announced and found revolving-door moves and other conflicts of interest, as well as far-right affiliations that raise major concerns
https://t.co/RQYuNAMjxN

[Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope]

1/7

Today the @EUombudsman responds to our complaint about 🇪🇺 Commission’s Regulatory Scrutiny Board (RSB), its contacts with lobbyists, & whether it really has the full range of policy expertise needed for such an influential role.

Original complaint ⤵��
https://t.co/M987KcWaE1

[Kenneth Haar @KennethHaar]

In Brussels the air is thick these days with gospel about 'competitiveness'. If curious about the underlying ideological underpinnings, and what happens when the political agenda is guided by the term, here is a story about how damaging it can be https://t.co/8BQMUfYfaM

[Jan Willem Goudriaan @JW_Goudriaan]

Reaction @EPSUnions to #DraghiReport ➡️ https://t.co/UY28F6QTOG

It misses out on role of public services and public banks (other than de-risking private capital), continues ideological biais against public enterprise and ignores impact austerity and threat of wealth inequality

[Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope]

Worst fears confirmed with #draghireport on the next years priorities in the EU. What von der Leyen left vague is concretised.

Key proposals will lead to a tighter corporate stranglehold over EU rules.

🧵Here are 4 examples:👇