The US to European corporations: abandon the packages of variety and inclusion packages | EUROtoday

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Renouncing the factors of variety and inclusion as a situation to have the ability to take part in public procurement within the United States. This is the indication arrived in current days to European corporations via a letter signed by the contracting officers of the US embassies. “All the contractors of the State Department must certify not to manage any program that promotes the gods that violates the applicable anti -discrimination laws” says the letter, which warns that in case you do not need to adapt to what’s established by the manager orders of the Trump Administration “we would be grateful if you could provide us with detailed reasons, which we will mean to our legal services”.

The information reported by the French press on the weekend then discovered a response additionally in different European international locations. The French Ministry of Foreign Commerce commented: “American interference in the inclusion policies of French companies, such as the threat of unjustified customs duties, are unacceptable”. One response has additionally arrived at European stage. «We are conscious of the letter from President Trump and I’ve no particular feedback on the matter. More usually, I can say that our union is clearly a union of equality “commented the spokesman for the European Commission Eva Hrncirova during the daily briefing with the press, adding:” We have laws each at European stage and on the stage of Member States that promotes variety, equality and inclusion. We assist organizations in selling and growing extra diversified and inclusive workplaces of labor as a result of we consider that this attracts abilities, higher creativity and innovation. And now we have laws to advertise gender stability on the boards of administrators of corporations “. And the node of the question lies precisely in the European regulatory framework and in the legislation of individual states. In Italy, for example, the Golfo-Mosco law is in force, which provides for a 40% share of the places in the BoDs of listed companies reserved for the least represented genre. It is a law that Italian companies cannot derogate in order to access public contracts from other states. And the point of reference for the legislation to follow is the competent forum of the company. The same Italian offices of US multinationals cannot refer to US executive orders, but must comply with the regulations of the country where they are based.

At European level two recent directives on the theme diversity and inclusion have been implemented by the States: Directive 2022/2381 on the improvement of gender balance between the administrators of the listed companies already implemented by Italy, and Directive 2023/970, which aims to promote equal pay between men and women, officially in force in June 2026 which are based in Europe, not being able to refer to the competent hole of the country of origin. The interpretation now passes to law firms, which will be called to settle the issue, while in the USA the American Federal Communications Commission opens an investigation into Walt Disney for its diversity, equity and inclusion policies that do not seem to respect government rules.