{"id":10496,"date":"2025-04-11T10:13:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T10:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/10496\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T10:13:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T10:13:23","slug":"france-belgium-scoff-at-anti-dei-letter-from-trump-administration-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/10496\/","title":{"rendered":"France, Belgium scoff at anti-DEI letter from Trump administration \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe have a culture of non-discrimination in Europe and we must continue that,\u201d Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Jan Jambon said Sunday evening<\/a> on the French-language TV channel RTL-TVi. \u201cWe have no lessons to learn from the boss of America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several French companies received a letter \u2014 first reported<\/a> by Les Echos and obtained<\/a> by POLITICO \u2014 requiring them to certify<\/a> that they don\u2019t implement DEI or positive discrimination programs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you do not agree to sign this document, we would appreciate it if you could provide detailed reasons, which we will forward to our legal teams,\u201d reads the request sent to French companies and signed by Stanislas Parmentier, the contracting officer at the U.S. embassy in Paris.<\/p>\n

Companies in other EU countries including Italy<\/a>, Spain and Belgium reportedly received similar requests.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerican interference in the inclusion policies of French companies, as well as unjustified threats of tariffs, are unacceptable,\u201d France\u2019s trade ministry said in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The office of the economy minister, Eric Lombard, said the minister would raise the issue with his American counterparts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe have a culture of non-discrimination in Europe and we must continue that,\u201d Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Jan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[1789,2437,32,7219,7151,2000,299,36,7220,2199,104,479,1201,1219,49,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-10496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-companies","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-equality","12":"tag-eric-lombard","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-france","16":"tag-gender-equality","17":"tag-italy","18":"tag-spain","19":"tag-tariffs","20":"tag-trade","21":"tag-trade-war","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114318803204479552","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}