BLOOM releases an explosive investigation into US interference in the European Parliament

05 February 2026

Behind the dismantling of the Green Deal lies a conservative right wing traitorous to the interests of the European Union, serving instead the agenda of climate-damaging lobbies and Trump’s bid to change Europe’s political regimes.

Between October and December 2025, BLOOM issued relentless warnings about the pending collapse of the cordon sanitaire in Brussels and the destruction of the European Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). Today, in coordination with media outlets Der Spiegel (Germany) and Aftonbladet (Sweden), BLOOM publishes a major investigative report that traces the origins of the American interference that tipped European parliamentary democracy into the clutches of the far right and triggered a deregulation frenzy.

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In December 2025, a historically significant domino fell in the construction of European unity: the European Parliament adopted the first act to dismantle the Green Deal in an unprecedented union between the conservative right and the European far right. This dangerous shift in the political balance in Brussels did not happen overnight: it was the result of the Trump administration’s strategic action plan to bring about a white, Christian supremacist world order, backed by the extractive industries of fossil fuels and petrochemicals.

One man played a crucial role in this process of political destabilisation of European democracies and regression of social and environmental rights on the Old Continent: the Swedish MEP, Jörgen Warborn. In a strategy devised by fossil fuel lobbies and the Trump administration, this ultraliberal member of the conservative right EPP group (European People’s Party) and rapporteur for the first Omnibus that led to the demolition of the European Directive on Corporate Due Diligence, worked to betray the higher interests of the European Union and turn our democracies into vassals of the fascist international agenda openly desired by Donald Trump.

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Jörgen Warborn: primary target turned accomplice of American lobbies

On 16 January 2025, Jörgen Warborn met with the American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium. This meeting marked the beginning of an unprecedented offensive by North American industrial lobbies on our European institutions. Between January and October 2025, the Swedish MEP, rapporteur for the first Omnibus on corporate due diligence, met with American lobbyists more than ten times. As a prime target, Jörgen Warborn became their main interlocutor and accomplice: in less than one year, he met with the American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium four times, a record for a Member of the European Parliament.

As soon as parliamentary debates on the first Omnibus began, Jörgen Warborn served as a Trojan horse for American interests: he adopted the strategy of the Trump administration and the fossil fuel industry (ExxonMobil, Chevron, Koch, TotalEnergies, Dow Chemical, JP Morgan) to torpedo corporate due diligence measures that would have forced multinationals to be held accountable in court for the human and environmental impacts of their entire value chain, and to align their strategy with the Paris Agreement objectives through the implementation of “climate transition plans”.

The plan of attack devised by the American lobbying firm Teneo on behalf of this climate-damaging industrial coalition was to dismantle the CSDDD, adopted in spring 2024 as a landmark victory of the Green Deal, by pushing an unprecedented alliance of the European right and far right against the rest of the European Parliament.

The EPP: the driving force behind the union of the European right and far right

In addition to his meetings in Brussels with American lobbyists in his capacity as MEP, Jörgen Warborn also took on the role of President of two lobbies promoting corporate interests, attending four international forums organised by the International Democracy Union (IDU), an organisation created in 1983 by Margaret Thatcher and George Bush, among others, to push a conservative and neoliberal agenda.

Today, the IDU platform presents itself as “the Global Alliance of the Centre Right,” yet in reality it works to bring together conservative, Trumpist and neo-fascist right-wing parties from around the world.

The presidency of these lobbies places Jörgen Warborn in a conflict of interest, with the first lobby, SME Europe, even appearing in the EU’s transparency register, while the other, SME Global, which claims to have “business representatives from across the globe”, is the corporate branch of the IDU.

While Jörgen Warborn’s travels reveal clear conflicts of interest and confusion between his roles as lobbyist and as Member of the European Parliament, they are above all an illustration of the inadequacy of the rules adopted by the European Parliament in the wake of Qatargate, a scandal involving corruption and foreign interference that shook the European Parliament from December 2022 onwards.

Jörgen Warborn did not act alone in orchestrating the shift within the European Parliament towards the far right, which led to the Omnibus unprecedented act of normative regression. Several other senior politicians from the European right also worked to forge closer ties with the Trumpist movement and travelled to the United States to meet with the Trump administration, several Republican elected officials, as well as other key players involved in the re-election of Donald Trump, among which the mighty Heritage Foundation:

• In December 2024, Manfred Weber, the German President of the EPP, met with Jörgen Warborn and the influential American think tank “The Heritage Foundation”.
• The Vice-President of the EPP, Spain’s Dolors Montserrat, accompanied Jörgen Warborn to Washington D.C. in December 2025 and was delighted to be congratulated by the American administration for the destruction of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.
• The EPP President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola of Malta, also made numerous trips to the United States and told the American Chamber of Commerce that she wanted to torpedo the European CSDDD in order to please the American business community and the Trump administration.

The radicalised European right wing: a systemic danger to the sovereignty of the European Union

The European right wing had already shattered any ethical considerations of the public interest by accepting funding from multinationals and participating in international forums financed by the North American fossil fuel industry and the Danube Institute, a foundation linked to Viktor Orbán’s regime, alongside Trumpist parliamentarians and members of the neo-fascist “Brothers of Italy” party.

Shattering the longstanding cordon sanitaire implemented to keep parties opposed to the rule of law at bay, and instead serving the interests of Trumpism and its fascist supremacist ideology, as clearly outlined in the US National Security Strategy[1], poses a major threat to the sovereignty of the European Union, its security, peace, the stability of its economy and its climate future.

By aligning itself with the European and transatlantic far right, the radical conservative right is posing a systemic risk to the European Union: unsurprisingly, the EPP and Jörgen Warborn are now repeatedly calling for the parliamentary process on the US-EU trade agreement, which was put on hold after Donald Trump’s threats to annex Greenland at the beginning of 2026, to be resumed as soon as possible.

A request for a Parliamentary Inquiry Committee and urgent recommendations to protect EU democracies against foreign interference

In order to shed light on US interference and protect European democratic sovereignty, BLOOM is calling on the European Parliament to urgently establish an Inquiry Committee. Additionally, together with Transparency International, we are forwarding our investigation to the Advisory Committee on the Conduct for Members of the European Parliament, in order to supplement the two complaints filed in December 2025 against MEP Jörgen Warborn concerning his potential conflict of interests and ties with the United States.

To protect our democracies, the achievements of decades of European law-making, and a future compatible with respect for the climate and biodiversity, BLOOM is calling for:

• The creation of a single, independent body responsible for enforcing all rules relating to the integrity of European public officials, with the power to initiate investigations and impose sanctions
• A ban on closed-door meetings between Parliamentarians and lobbyists, so that all such meetings are subject to public hearings
• A ban on oil and gas companies influencing European policies, based on the model of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
• A ban on European Parliament rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs travelling outside the EU to participate in institutional, diplomatic or political meetings outside of a cross-party delegation
• Extension of the jurisdiction of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office to criminal offences affecting the democratic interests of the European Union.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf

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