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Big business' key demand is a new EU court for corporations, as well as substantive rights, which could ultimately put governments off regulating in the public interest (Photo: Florent Le Gall)

Big corporations' fresh lobbying push for a new EU legal regime

In April 2020, justice commissioner Didier Reynders committed to an EU legislative initiative which will require European companies to comply with mandatory human rights and environmental "due diligence".

The announcement followed a European Commi...

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Pia Eberhardt and Olivier Hoedeman are researchers at Corporate Europe Observatory, an NGO which monitors lobbying of policy-making in Brussels.

Big business' key demand is a new EU court for corporations, as well as substantive rights, which could ultimately put governments off regulating in the public interest (Photo: Florent Le Gall)

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Pia Eberhardt and Olivier Hoedeman are researchers at Corporate Europe Observatory, an NGO which monitors lobbying of policy-making in Brussels.

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