the European Parliament cuts the directive | EUROtoday

Together, the European proper and much proper introduced down a totem pole on Thursday, November 13. They joined forces with the European Parliament to intestine the directive on the obligation of vigilance of corporations. If this majority had already proven its muscular tissues, it had till now been content material to take action, for essentially the most half, on non-binding texts.

This time, the European People’s Party (EPP) has, in a way as considerate because it has assumed, taken the plunge and labored with nationalists from all horizons – from the French National Rally (RN) to Fratelli d’Italia, the Italian post-fascist get together, through the Hungarian Fidesz – to realize its ends.

By 382 votes to 249, the European Parliament largely diminished the variety of corporations affected by this regulation which requires them to stop human rights violations (youngster labor, pressured labor, security, and so forth.) in addition to environmental injury all through their worth chains. They should now have greater than 5,000 staff (in comparison with 1,000) and have a turnover of greater than 1.5 billion euros (in comparison with 450 million).

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