Corporate Observatory Europe

Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO - Observatory of industrial Europe) is an association based with Amsterdam and Brussels which makes research and conducts campaigns on the threats for the democracy, equity, social justice and the environment that makes weigh the economic and political capacity large companies and their Lobbies.

The team of the CEO consists of ten people who work in network of a little everywhere in Europe (Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Greece…).

The recent reports/ratios or notes of synthesis published (in English) by the CEO related to the rise and the opaque financing of the Think tank S to Brussels, the European hidden side of politics as regards Agrocarburant S, the industrial lobbying near the European Union (EU) via " groups of experts" , the Lobbying of auto industry against the regulation of the emissions of CO₂ of the cars, financing by the EU of structures promoting the Privatization water in the Developing country, etc

As few structures observe with acuity the reports/ratios of influence between the European industry and institutions, the CEO enjoys a notoriety which is worth to him to be often solicited by the international press (Financial Times, The Guardian, European Voice, etc) for its observations and its analyzes of economic construction and the decision-making processes of the EU.

The CEO is also implied in ALTER-EU, an international coalition of more than 150 ONG which asserts more transparency and of ethics as regards lobbying in the EU.

Lastly, it coorganise since 2005 the Price of the worst lobbying of the EU decreed each year in December in Brussels.

The members of the advisory committee of the CEO are: Pratap Chatterjee (Inde/USA), Ann Doherty (Country-Bas/USA), Ramon Fernandez Duran (Spain), Susan George (France), Adam Ma' anit (Kingdom-Uni/USA), America Vera-Zavala (Sweden) and Thomas Wallgren (Finland).

Publications

In addition to its many analysis and summarys report published on its Internet site, the CEO made appear in 1999 the fruit of its first research in the form of a work entitled Europe Inc.: Regional and Total Restructuring and the Small channel off Corporate Power (Pluto Near). A French translation is appeared the following year under the title Europe Inc. - Dangerous Connections between institutions and European mediums of businesses (Agonic). A new re-examined and brought up to date edition is appeared in France in 2005 in the same editor under the title Europe Inc. - How the multinationals build Europe and the worldwide economy .

The CEO is also the author of a second work published in 2005: Public Reclaiming Toilets: Achievements, Struggles and Visions from Around the World (ISBN: 90-71007-10-3), not translated into French to date.

Financing

The CEO with the legal shape of a non-profit-making foundation of Dutch right registered to the Chamber of commerce of Amsterdam.

In 2007, the activities of the CEO were financed by the Isvara Foundation, the Sigrid Rausing Trust, Christian Aid, the Humanitarian Group For Social Development, the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, the Polden Puckham Charitable Foundation and the Humane Earth Foundation.

External bonds

Corporate Observatory Europe

ALTER-EU

Price of the worst lobbying of the European Union

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