On Friday 8 September, the research centre Corporate Europe Observatory and the NGO Lobbycontrol published a report in which they point out that the digital industry’s annual lobbying expenditure in Brussels rose from €97 million to €113 million between August 2021 and August 2023, an increase of 16.5%.
Of the 651 companies identified, the top 10 alone spent almost €40 million. The Meta group’s lobbying budget - at the top of the rankings - increased from €5.75 million to...