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Charlotte Roffiaen @charlotte-roffiaen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

[ #OperatingGrants #HealthNGOs] 🙏 to @roneilll.bsky.social for his excellent piece in Politico on the many reactions to the answer of the EU Ombudswoman to the Commission’s decision to cut health NGOs' operating grants. @tillymetz.bsky.social @woelken.eu @frankvandenborre.bsky.social

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Alban Grosdidier @albangd.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

⬇️ BREAKING - EU Commission answers EU Ombudswoman's findings of maladministration following a complaint by @foeeurope.bsky.social and 8 partner organisations. My reaction ⬇️

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Kat Smith @profkatsmith.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

New @cphjournal.bsky.social special issue on decentring health systems out: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jcph featuring articles exploring how competing narratives, agency & resistance shape health policy & practice. Includes papers examining economic restructuring... 1/4

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Journal of Critical Public Health

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

“DG SANTE’s continued pressure on health CSOs sends a worrying message. As the US experience shows, government–civil society partnerships are easy to break—restoring the value that they bring to policymaking is much harder.” @eleanorbrooks.bsky.social @hjarman.bsky.social @eupha.bsky.social

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EURO-DOGE by stealth? Concerning developments in the (de)funding of European health civil society

At the time of writing in June 2025, the European Commission’s directorate general for health, DG SANTE, has yet to publish its work programme for the year

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Rob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

@jacktaggart.bsky.social and I have been working together on multistakeholderism, and thinking about how these hybrid forms of governance connect to multilateralism This is an attempt to think through institutional hybridity in global plastics governance www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/glo...

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Early View Article - The Trojan Horse of Hybrid Governance: Corporate Power and Global Plastics Governance | Global Policy Journal

This article examines the emergence of a hybrid institutional complex (HIC) in global plastics governance. By interrogating the structure, features, and contradictions of hybrid global plastics govern...

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Jean Comte @jeancomte.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Remember Piepergate? The EU Commission officially ended today the position of EU SME Envoy, which was vacant since the resignation of Markus Pieper one year ago (below the new organisation chart of DG Grow, without the position) www.mlex.com/mlex/energy/...

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European Public Health Alliance @epha-eu.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

EPHA and the University of Edinburgh have developed a series of explainers on the Better Regulation agenda. Find this and all resources on our dedicated page: epha.org/brbh-toolkit/ @eleanorbrooks.bsky.social @clemricherdel.bsky.social @ukri.org

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Transform! europe @transformeurope.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐯𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 ➡️ 𝐖𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐟-𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 🌏 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 🌳💧 𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 👥 & 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 ✊ 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫 – 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 ‘𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬’. ✒ by Olivier Hoedeman @corporateeurope.bsky.social

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Why Progressives Must Organise to Stop the EU’s Deregulation Wave

Under von der Leyen’s lead, the European Commission is driving a far-reaching deregulatory agenda, threatening social and environmental protections. Olivier Hoedeman (Corporate Europe Observatory) rev...

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European Public Health Alliance @epha-eu.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

LAUNCH: Today, we publish a toolkit for civil society, to support engagement with the Better Regulation agenda! You can find: 🔸Videos 🔸Explainers 🔸How Better Regulation processes affect health and much more! Access the toolkit now: lnkd.in/edKwMpGm

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Regulation & Governance @reggovjournal.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

#Earlyview #Openaccess 'Impact Assessment as Agenda-Setting: Procedural Politicking and the Mobilization of Bias in the European Union's Audiovisual Media Services Directive' By @eleanorbrooks.bsky.social & @kat-lauber.bsky.social #RegGov #BetterRegulation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Though often framed as a technocratic tool, impact assessment is a core element of the political agenda-setting process. In this article, we show that decisions about what is subject to legislative debate are made during impact assessment; specifically, during the drafting of the assessment report. Using a social process tracing methodology, we analyze the removal from the agenda of provisions for stronger alcohol advertising rules during the revision of the EU's Audiovisual Media Services Directive. We identify and test three possible explanations for this non-decision, drawing on material not previously in the public domain, and exploring how procedural politicking in the context of the EU's Better Regulation agenda shapes the drafting process. Concluding that the non-decision on alcohol advertising regulation was most likely prompted by combined political pressure from within and outwith the Commission, we argue for greater attention to impact assessment as a tool for mobilizing bias and agenda-setting.

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 24/02/2025

Clean Industrial Deal risks becoming yet another example of corporate capture. Without strong transparency rules & enforcement, plus real accountability, industry will continue to write the EU’s agenda behind closed doors. ✊ We need #lobbyingfirewall to protect public interest decision-making!

The huge sums for EU lobbying by the biggest declaring corporate interests are clearly paying-off, considering the pro-business agenda of the second von der Leyen Commissions.
EU decision-making faces a real risk of regulatory capture, and there are next to no effective protections in place.
Corporate competitiveness is being prioritised over democratic values and social and environmental protections.

We need lobby firewalls to protect public decision-making.
The Commission must stop providing privileged access to industry lobbies and ensure that civil society and community voices are heard.
Introducing a legally-binding register is long overdue, to deliver meaningful sanctions for posting inaccurate data.

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 24/02/2025

Big business spends millions lobbying the EU, but who are the top spenders, and what do they want? Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social we took a look and can reveal that declared corporate lobby spend has reached unprecedented levels. #lobbying #lobbyingfirewall #corporatecapture

Cover of the report, with the titles: The EU’s lobby league table: Big Tech, Banking, Energy, Chemicals & agri-business
Based on the analysis of companies declaring more than €1 million on annual lobbying in the EU lobby register. Data corrected as of 8 February 2025.

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May van Schalkwyk @maizie333.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

2024 marked 70 years since the tobacco industry, faced with mounting evidence of the harm caused by its products, issued their “Frank Statement” to smokers reassuring them that the link between smoking and lung cancer was yet to be proven.🧵

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Eleanor Brooks @eleanorbrooks.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Planned European Commission Recommendation on reducing #health / #cancer risk associated with sunbeds withdrawn yesterday ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

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European Commission - Have your say

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Eleanor Brooks @eleanorbrooks.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Strange developments re the EU's new #CriticalMedicinesAct. Widely considered the most important piece of health-related legislation announced for this mandate, but to have no impact assessment or genuine* public consultation, on the basis of its 'urgency'... 1/9

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Rob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

given that the USAID website has just gone offline, I feel it is profoundly misguided for public health experts to be giving this administration any credit whatsoever

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Kenneth Haar @kennethhaar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Todays biggest story, I think. CEOs Vicky Cann has written a great report on industry lobbying in the EU against a universal PFAS ban. They are good at it - the lobbyists for the PFAS producers, the chem. industry, pharma industry and others. There's a risk very little will be done in coming years.

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Eleanor Brooks @eleanorbrooks.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

⏳ One week left to submit an abstract for our upcoming workshop on politics and health care/policy - deadline 21 Nov - feel free to get in touch with any questions. Full details below 👇

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Eleanor Brooks @eleanorbrooks.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Fab opportunity to spend four days discussing all things political science and health - come join us in Prague in May 2025 - deadline for applications = 21 November. Full details and call for papers at www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Eleanor Brooks on LinkedIn: Towards a political science of health and healthcare

Call for papers - Towards a political science of health and healthcare ECPR Joint Sessions workshop, Charles University Prague 20-23 May 2025 We are delighted…

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Eleanor Brooks @eleanorbrooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

This is a major challenge facing health - as well as social, environmental and labour - policy at EU level, and a key opportunity to work together to change the narrative on regulation 👇 #betterregulation

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 18/09/2024

Yesterday the EU Ombudsman responded 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 ⤵️ corporateeurope.org/en/2023/03/e...

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European Ombudsman announces new inquiry into Regulatory Scrutiny Board

The European Ombudsman has responded positively to our request for an inquiry into the role of the Commission's Regulatory Scrutiny Board.

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 09/09/2024

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:👇

This cartoon shows a big, scary fish under the sea, with teeth barred. The fish has a banner called ‘competitiveness’ and a net called ‘green wash’. Smaller fish are close by and looking worried about being swallowed up, with labels saying ‘consumer safety’, ‘workers rights’, and ‘environment’. Cartoon by @CartoonRalph

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Paul Belcher FRCP HonMFPH 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @pauljbelcher.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

European health policy starter pack My favourite European health policy and law connections on Bluesky so far go.bsky.app/K2JB6CN

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Rob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

new paper in BMJ Global Health on conceptualising the 'commercial determinants of health' with the brilliant Ellie Brooks and Charlotte Godziewski We highlight a tendency to overlook the importance of political institutions in shaping the exercise of corporate power gh.bmj.com/content/8/11...

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