{"id":122486,"date":"2025-05-22T12:16:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/122486\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T12:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:16:15","slug":"macron-clashes-with-allies-over-call-to-scrap-eu-ethical-supply-chain-law-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/122486\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron clashes with allies over call to scrap EU ethical supply chain law \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But Macron&#8217;s own liberal political family is having none of it.<\/p>\n<p>Pascal Canfin, an influential French member of European Parliament with Macron\u2019s centrist Renew Europe group said he would not support repealing the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI will defend the revision of the Directive to make it more manageable for companies, just like the French government has done so far in the negotiations \u2014 in coherence with the fact that it has already set up a strong due diligence law in 2017,\u201d he told POLITICO in a written statement. \u201cRemoving all obligations would create an uneven and fragmented Single Market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CSDDD, which was adopted last term, has been reopened by the EU executive as part of the first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/194493\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">omnibus simplification bill<\/a>, and is currently being negotiated in Parliament and the Council of the EU. The omnibus bill proposes watering down the law, but the window is now wide open for more drastic changes.<\/p>\n<p>While Merz\u2019s own center-right European People&#8217;s Party family and the Renew group are keen to simplify the bill, so far it has been only the far right that has vowed to kill it altogether.<\/p>\n<p>The far-right<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Patriots for Europe said they had long called for the CSDDD to be dropped (along with the entire Green Deal). \u201cHow hypocritical it is to see Renew and EPP leaders fighting against texts they created,\u201d said a spokesperson for the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But Macron&#8217;s own liberal political family is having none of it. Pascal Canfin, an influential French member of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[53958,34,728,2000,299,5187,34065,1699,7483,36,1945,1824,4582,54493,54494,6648],"class_list":{"0":"post-122486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-due-diligence","9":"tag-emmanuel-macron","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-green-deal","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-forestry","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-friedrich-merz","19":"tag-germany","20":"tag-human-rights","21":"tag-lara-wolters","22":"tag-pascal-canfin","23":"tag-supply-chains"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114551441616904505","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122486","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=122486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}