The technology industry is betting big on lobbying the European institutions, say the NGOs Corporate Europe Observatory and Lobbycontrol in a report published on Tuesday 31 August.
Some 612 companies, groups and associations of companies were identified in the report between 2019 and 2020. They have spent some €97 million to assert their interests in the EU.
Almost a third of this expenditure - €32 million - was done by ten companies: Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Huawei, Amazon,...