France and Germany are calling for EU to break the supply chain rules

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France and Germany have called on the law of a supply chain of each country, the championship of the previous block of the bloc and the champion of the human rights agenda to break the law.

French President Emmanuel Macron demanded that they gathered Versoller Versoller’s Versa, and demanding companies to move operations outside the EU, reduce the impact of operations outside the EU.

His call comes in a few days after Germany’s new Chancellor, Friedrich MerzHe said that the law was postponed within a year and the “first step” and “complete cancellation.”. The next logical step is “.

The EU member states and the European Parliament are currently negotiating to postpone the rules of the supply chain.

Macron said “clearly adapted” with the issue in connection with the issue and the one year was not enough. His speech was greeted with applause along the Versalilles Ballroom.

Pressure to the EU sustainability The block has recently tried to see a less valuable competition of an aggressive trade policy than the United States, as the rules have been built over the past year.

European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen began to push the member states and businesses and declared in early early 2019 the green deal to simplify and delay the main parts of the climate agenda.

When the government presented a law on a National Supply Chain in 2017, Macron said the EU presented “many restrictions” in the industry when he saw “Southeastern Competition from China, especially”.

French vocational and trade lobby groups claim that the EU regulation on the EU regulation, the less true world benefits for the benefit of the benefits of the global competition.

The Director General of a construction and logistics group implementing projects in the United States and Africa, “Several million” in the presentation of the supply chain of supply, he said he started watching more than 700 meters.

Compatibility in some African countries “essentially not possible”, because lower suppliers from the chain could not provide the required information. “Large companies like ours allow you to do it, but they can’t do the smaller ones,” he said.

French banks such as BNP Paribas were also applied to the financial sector and partially freedom.

Merz’s position is a change from the left coalition from the previous center. This was necessary for Socialist Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil, the law was necessary, but the law agreemented with the commission’s boosts to simplify the reporting requirements.

The difference is that increased ideological departments increased by the EU green agenda, trying to continue the pressure in the next letter of the law, and the last commission called for more adjustments to facilitate the pressure on enterprises.

Ai-level EU official said the commission said, “he said,” he said, “he said,” the rules of this rules “protect themselves”.

“It is more complex legislation, he is weaker,” he said.

The Supply Chain Law was concerned with the entry into force after the agony of the commission after the agony of the original proposal irrigate. It also strengthens the likelihood that the companies have placed climate transition plans and take legal measures against enterprises of NGOs.

“Macron, Merz and Von Der Leyen connect to Merz and Von Der Leyen, who sacrificed for a race to the bottom of Donald Trump. “An open invitation” is also an “open invitation” for distant leaders to destroy Europe’s green deal. ”