“Bye, Marco.” The team queuing back onto the bus was not wearing shorts and cleats but well-made suits and ties. A few rare women stood out in bright colors in the line of chemical industry bosses leaving the gigantic BASF plant in the port of Antwerp, Belgium. They are the chemical “lobby.”
On this chilly February 20, 73 chief executive officers (CEOs) from 17 sectors gathered to sign the Antwerp Declaration for a European Industrial Deal, or Industrial Deal. Almost all of them operate in the chemical sector. Europe’s most powerful lobbying organization, the European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic), chartered a bus to transport two-thirds of its board of directors, whose members represent companies like Bayer, from Germany, and Syensqo (formerly Solvay), from Belgium.
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