US EditionMacron and Merz Call to Abolish EU Law on Ethical Supply Chains
- French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called in May 2025 to abolish the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive .
- Their push follows complex negotiations and revisions that scaled back the law's scope and postponed its full implementation to 2028.
- The CSDDD requires companies to address adverse human rights and environmental impacts across supply chains, including forced labor and pollution, with significant compliance costs reported.
- Macron expressed strong agreement with Merz, arguing that delaying the regulations for just one year is insufficient and that they should be completely removed from consideration.
- Their stance reflects growing pressure on the EU to ease regulatory burdens on industry amid fierce competition from China and the US, potentially weakening the bloc's climate and human rights agenda.
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RECIT - In the face of American-Chinese competition, the French President and the German Chancellor call for the abolition of the European CS3D Directive on the duty of vigilance.
The postponement of the application of the Directive from 2027 to 2028 is not enough in Berlin and Paris. They want to completely abolish the EU law, which should make the company liable for the human and environmental law violations of its suppliers.
Macron, Merz Call on EU to Scrap Supply Chain Sustainability Law
The leaders of France and Germany have called on the European Union to scrap a supply chain audit law. The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), approved in May 2024, establishes far-reaching mandatory human rights and environmental obligations on both European Union and non-EU companies meeting certain turnover thresholds, starting from 2027. While requiring companies to make environmental and human rights checks on their di…
Politico reports that French President Emmanuel Macron may have given the final nod to the Sustainable Development Due Diligence Directive (SDDD) by calling for its repeal. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz also wants the EU's green regulation repealed.
France's president wants a more determined reduction of bureaucracy. Like Chancellor Merz, he calls for the abolition of the EU supply chain law. But Berlin's resistance is by no means certain.
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