The secretive cabal of US polluters that is rewriting the EU’s human rights and climate law - SOMO
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Leaked documents reveal how a secretive alliance of eleven large multinational enterprises has worked to tear down the EU’s CSDDD.

Leaked documents reveal how a secretive alliance of eleven large multinational enterprises has worked to tear down the EU’s flagship human rights and climate law, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). The mostly US-based coalition, which calls itself the Competitiveness Roundtable, has targeted all EU institutions, governments in Europe’s capitals, as well as the Trump administration and other non-EU governments to serve its own interests. With European lawmakers soon moving ahead to completely dilute the CSDDD at the expense of human rights and the climate, this research exposes the fragility of Europe’s democracy.

  • Insekticus@aussie.zone
    6·
    2 months ago

    Nationalise the companies and imprison the executives and the EPP. This has gone on for far too long.

  • starlinguk@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 months ago

    What’s infuriating is that a lot of people who vote AfD et al actually believe in climate change. They don’t want this shit, but they also don’t read manifestos.

  • Ford Prefect@feddit.orgOP
    1·
    16 days ago

    Update:

    According to a new report of the German investigative TV news magazine Monitor, Manfred Weber and the EPP also collaborated with the far-right ESN group, to which the AfD belongs, to gut the supply chain law in the interests of fossil fuel companies such as ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies.

    Research by Monitor shows that, contrary to public assurances, the conservative EPP in the European Parliament deliberately collaborated with the entire right-wing bloc to significantly weaken the EU supply chain directive. Internal emails and chats prove that a compromise was agreed early on with right-wing and far-right factions, including the AfD. EPP leader Manfred Weber denies any structural cooperation, but voting patterns, nearly identical amendments, and prepared majorities suggest otherwise. In addition, lobbyists from large fossil fuel companies such as ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies strategically relied on this right-wing majority and influenced the negotiations.

    Article with Link to Monitor report (in German): https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/monitor/eu-parlament-lieferkettengesetz-abstimmung-100.html