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22 Mai 2025

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By Max Griera and James Fernyhough, Politico (PUSA)

France: Allies of President Macron critique his call to repeal CSDDD

“Macron clashes with allies over call to scrap EU ethical supply chain law”

Emmanuel Macron is on a collision course with his own allies in Brussels after he called for ethical supply chain rules to be scrapped — a cause first championed by the far right.

On Monday, the French president stunned many when he said he wanted to repeal the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive

But Macron's own liberal political family is having none of it.

Pascal Canfin, an influential French member of European Parliament with Macron’s centrist Renew Europe group said he would not support repealing the law…

While Merz’s own center-right European People'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…

Dutch Socialists and Democrats MEP Lara Wolters, speaking on behalf of the EU’s second-biggest political group, said, “President Macron is categorically wrong.”

“Repealing EU rules on responsible business would signal companies have the right to pocket profits made through exploitation and environmental damage. He is advocating for private gains and public losses,” she said, while accusing Macron of following U.S. President Donald Trump’s “cannibalist-style capitalism.” The Greens also oppose the proposal…

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