Summary
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) is the Brussels-based research and campaign group that investigates and exposes corporate lobbying in EU policy-making. Founded 1998, CEO is the canonical institutional practitioner of corporate-campaigning.
Body
CEO tracks corporate influence on policy domains (agriculture, climate, digital, trade, finance) and exposes lobbying patterns through investigations, queryable data, and coalition campaigns. CEO’s annual EU Corporate Lobby League documents corporate lobbying expenditures across sectors; the EU Inc and Big Tech investigations have shaped EU digital and AI regulation debates. [source: corporate-europe-observatory]
CEO is the institutional anchor of lobbying-transparency and corporate-campaigning. The German counterpart is LobbyControl; the coalition-level organizer is ALTER-EU (Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation).
Use it for
Mapping corporate-influence networks in EU policy domains; designing transparency demands; building coalitions targeting corporate policy influence.