Stricter rules for the e-cigarette are way down the road
The UN conference on stricter tobacco policy has fizzled out. ‘Milestone’: a minuscule fund to help poor countries getting rid of tobacco. By: Ties Keyzer & …
Newsletter Q3 2021
Read the full newsletter here. By Marcel Metze Dear reader, I’m glad to report that in the past year, the number of our followers has …
Vaping: The real dollars behind fake consumer organisations
An investigation by “Le Monde” and “The Investigative Desk” (Netherlands) reveals the alliance between the tobacco lobby and the networks of American oil tycoons to …
Amsterdam Medical Center creates ‘hijacked’ medicine
By Lucien Hordijk and Daan Marselis Using a set of legal tricks, the pharmaceutical industry was able to turn an animal gallic acid into a …
How Shell influenced the Dutch political position on Russian gas
With a sophisticated lobby, oil company Royal Dutch Shell influenced the political position of the Netherlands on Nord Stream 2, The Investigative Desk revealed in …
Shoe brand Crocs found alternative route to continue avoiding taxes through the Netherlands
Footwear company Crocs bypasses European and US efforts to end a widely used form of tax avoidance in the Netherlands. Due to interventions by both …
Dutch PM Rutte informs House of Representatives ‘incorrectly and incompletely’ about gas contacts with Russia
By Ties Keyzer The Dutch and Russian governments regularly discuss energy projects. The Working Party on Energy, which had been suspended in 2014 after the …
Harmful neonic pesticides still widely used despite EU-ban
Scientists and activists were euphoric when the EU banned the extremely harmful neonic pesticides in 2018. During the next three years, sixteen EU countries used …
