Citizen groups denounce EU leaders' secret polluters' pact

Today, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have been attending a closed-door meeting with 70 or more corporate leaders of Big Polluters to launch a declaration for a 'European Industrial Deal' at BASF's chemicals plant in Antwerp, the so-called Antwerp Declaration.

The industry summit was a collaboration between major chemical and intens