cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53028588
European lawmakers have backed the weakening of flagship EU environmental and human rights rules as part of a drive to slash red tape for businesses. The move will free many corporations from the obligation to fix human rights and environmental issues in their supply chains or face EU fines.
the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) was hailed by green and civil society groups but criticised by businesses.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron had called for the CSDDD to be scrapped altogether
The capitalist class will ceaselessly and tirelessly work to roll back measures that benefit the working class. This is just the reality of the current economic system, and why the social democrat worldview of “working with the system instead of against it” is fundamentally flawed, even if good-spirited