16 December 2025
Omnibus I: Under Trump’s diktat, Europe enters democratic darkness
16 December 2025
Politico was right to name Donald Trump the most influential man in Europe[1]. Today’s vote by the European Parliament in Strasbourg confirmed this: the first Omnibus, a legislative package that destroys the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and begins the major deregulation of the Green Deal and of all European environmental rules, at the explicit request of Trump, Qatar, fossil fuel lobbies, and the chemical industry, has just been adopted by 428 votes to 218, by a majority of the liberal right (Renew), the conservative right (EPP) and the far right (ECR, PfE, ESN).
Omnibus I officially becomes the first European legislation to result from a formal strategic alliance between the right and the far right. Contrary to what some have written, this is not a “circumstantial” vote, but rather a strategy devised in advance by the American lobbying firm Teneo[2], commissioned by the most climate-damaging and reactionary lobbies to bring about a merger between the right and the far right for their own benefit.
Thus, under the diktat of Trump and the fascist cabal that he openly defends in his “National Security Strategy,”[3] Europe is entering a dark period for democracy.
The Omnibus Directive destroys the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, a historic piece of legislation adopted in 2024, designed to defend human rights, the environment, and the climate against multinational corporations that base their profits on the exploitation of human poverty and the destruction of ecosystems.
“Today, we are witnessing the beginning of a deregulation process of laws protecting human health, human and social rights, the environment, and the climate, validated by an anti-democratic coalition working on behalf of foreign powers and unscrupulous industrial lobbies. This is unprecedented since World War II,” comments Claire Nouvian, founder of the NGO BLOOM. “We are entering a regression phase for the protection of humans and democracy, to the benefit of the world’s top predators and destroyers. Industrial empires and authoritarian regimes such as Donald Trump’s United States and Qatar, which spearheaded Omnibus I, have already shown that they are prepared to do anything, including sacrificing our health and crushing the most vulnerable, to increase their profits and power. They want chaos, and they will get it. Our fear, in this era of digital fascism, is that there will be no turning back from this tipping point. None of this would have happened if the right had maintained its cordon sanitaire. Its decision to ally with the far right will prove fatal, as the right will be absorbed by the extremes. But the collateral victims will be citizens and peace. We have been here before, but in the 1930s, climate change did not threaten the stability of our societies. We were on the brink of the precipice, and now we have jumped off it. And the liberal right (Renew), which pretended to oppose the right-far right alliance, ultimately voted unanimously to bring about the reign of lobbyists against the public interest.”
In Strasbourg on Tuesday, December 16, the floodgates opened: the international fascist movement further weaves its web, from Viktor Orban’s Hungary to José Antonio Kast’s Chile, via Donald Trump’s United States and now the European Macron group of the Liberal right (Renew) and Manfred Weber’s conservative European right (EPP).
After working for five years to promote the Green Deal, Ursula von der Leyen began her second term as President of the European Commission by promising to pursue an agenda of “simplification.” But under pressure from industrial lobbies and faced with an unprecedented surge in support for the conservative right and the far right after the 2024 EU elections, Ursula von der Leyen is now pursuing an agenda of “deregulation” that threatens to sweep everything away in its path.
Thirteen omnibus bills[4] are already in the pipeline, threatening to undermine European legislation in the areas of agriculture, food, chemicals, technology, the environment, the automotive industry, pesticides, and taxation.
This first Omnibus, which tackled the corporate duty of vigilance, was a test case. One year after Ursula von der Leyen’s Commission took office, this test has caused an uproar, having crossed every red line, one by one.
The Omnibus I procedure was:
- Deemed illegal by more than 100 law professors,
- Judged to be a case of maladministration on the part of the European Commission by the European Ombudsman,
- The result of an unprecedented foreign interference campaign by Donald Trump,
- Adopted by the European Parliament in a formal alliance between the right and the far right, a first in European parliamentary history,
- Led by a Swedish member of Parliament from the EPP conservative right who is in a blatant conflict of interest, compromising with foreign powers and betraying the higher interests of the European Union (see our press release)
- The result of unprecedented lobbying by an alliance of American industries, led by ExxonMobil, Chevron, Dow Chemical, JPMorgan, and Koch.
>>> Read our complaint against Omnibus rapporteur Jörgen Warborn <<<
“Throughout the Omnibus process, Mr. Warborn showed that he didn’t care about democratic processes. Not only did he follow explicit instructions from US companies and the Trump administration, but he also forged an alliance with the far right, which he used to blackmail left-wing political groups in Parliament,” explains Swann Bommier, Advocacy Director at BLOOM. “Mr. Warborn has shown to be a Trumpist politician willing to sacrifice the stability of our European democracies to increase the profits of ruthless multinationals that are accelerating climate change and exploiting human misery around the world. We hope that the European institutions will quickly put an end to this political debacle. We expect a swift and thorough investigation into Mr. Warborn’s conflict of interest and his status as a liaison with the Trump administration.”
Today’s vote was a moment of truth for Macron’s liberal right and Manfred Weber’s conservative right. They made their choice: to legislate with the far right. The stakes went far beyond the threat of deregulation. They were about preserving the political and territorial integrity of the European Union. It was about our sovereignty in the face of supremacist foreign powers. By bowing down to Trump, Europe is heading into a storm.
[1] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/09/trump-interview-europe-john-harris-column-00682363
[3] https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf