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Germany Throws a Spanner in Works of the EU Supply Chain Law, Human Rights,Watch Says (www.hrw.org)

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For over three years, European institutions have worked hard to develop and negotiate a groundbreaking EU supply chain law, with the aim of preventing and addressing human rights and environmental harm throughout companies’ supply chains. In mid-December, many celebrated the hard-reached agreement between the EU Council and Parliament on a draft law, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.

But now, just before getting the law across the finish line, it risks being tripped up by a German government coalition partner, the FDP (Freie Demokratische Partei, or Free Democratic Party).

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (11 children)

Ah... Good old FDP doing FDP things where the holy economy is worth more than the lives of countless people and animals in pursuit of profits. Even seemingly going so far to potentially ruin the global ecosystem for everyone because earning lots of money wasn't enough and they wanted to earn all the money.

Fortunately by the looks of it they won't get voted back into a position of power again. Unfortunately however it looks like a different but equally bad (and worse) party will more than replace them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Fortunately by the looks of it they won’t get voted back into a position of power again.

They will come back. They have been playing this game for a long time already and know exactly what they are doing. Whenever they manage to get into power they'll ruthlessly abuse it to gain maximum benefits for their benefactors, no matter the (political) costs for themselves as a party. Afterwards, they lay low for a bit until people forget (most voters have a short memory), and lure the next generation of stupid first-time voters to vote for them via a flashy campaign. Then the cycle repeats itself.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That cycle is real indeed. Though I am not quite sure if it's stupid first time voters or just naive people thinking that they are meant when they mention the economy doing good with them. In either case, I have seen that cycle in action too and I also don't get why a party for the top 1% gets more than 5% of votes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

They are specifically targeting young people in their campaigns. Anyone who is old enough to have lived through one such cycle needs to be incredibly naive in order to fall for them again.

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