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Emmanuel Macron: 'We have to go fast and we have to do [something] big if we want to be back in the race' (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

Macron and Merz align to gut due diligence law as council backs deregulation push

The EU’s landmark due diligence law is facing strong political headwinds, after French president Emmanuel Macron called for its outright withdrawal. 

“CSDDD [Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive] and some other sustainability regulations shouldn’t just be postponed for one year, but taken off the table,” he told a business audience at the Choo...

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Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent.

Emmanuel Macron: 'We have to go fast and we have to do [something] big if we want to be back in the race' (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

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Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent.

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