Alban Grosdidier

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We’re putting together a press list around the #EUIsrael Association Agreement: upcoming developments, context, reactions.
📩 If you're covering this or want to stay in the loop, DM or reply. Also happy to chat if you're keen!

Attaques répétées contre la société civile : un signal inquiétant de dérive autoritaire du pouvoir Alors que ce 10 juillet marque le 40ᵉ anniversaire de l’attentat contre le « Rainbow Warrior », plusieurs responsables d’ONG – dont Jean-François Julliard (Greenpeace), Cécile Duflot (Oxfam), Claire N...

Le 10 juillet 1985, un de nos militants, Fernando Pereira, mourait lors de l'attentat commis par les services secrets français contre le Rainbow Warrior.
Hier comme aujourd'hui, derrière chaque militant·e réprimé·e, c’est une part de notre démocratie qui vacille. www.nouvelobs.com/opinions/202...

The European Commission is loosening rules around the use of carcinogenic, mutagenic and toxic substances in consumer products.
But don't worry, they trust for-profit industries will make sure we're safe 🙄
@jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu

EU rollback on environmental policy is gaining momentum, warn campaigners Observers shocked at scale and speed of deregulation drive they say is watering down European Green Deal and laws

Saying it like it is when we talk about #deregulation:

"the scale of the cuts in the first omnibus proposal [..] showed that the simplification argument was 'basically bollocks' [..] it’s not just weakening it a little bit [..] The heart of the proposal has been taken out.”

~ Paul de Clerck

👀 ⬇️

Screenshot of The Guardian website with the title: Heatwave grips southern Europe, Health and environmental alerts issued with high temperatures expected in France, Italy, Portugal and Spain. The image is of people playing in a urban water fountain.

It's 2025 and newspapers are still using images of people playing in water to accompany stories about heatwaves.

@theguardian.com

« Au moins 43 reculs » environnementaux ont eu lieu ces six derniers mois déplore un groupe d’ONG « Le monde politique non seulement procrastine, mais il enchaîne même les reculs » concernant l’environnement, déplore le Réseau Action Climat, ce mardi 24 juin 2025. L’ONG liste une quarantaine de re...

« Le monde politique non seulement procrastine, mais il enchaîne même les reculs » concernant l’environnement, déplore le Réseau Action Climat, ce mardi 24 juin 2025. L’ONG liste une quarantaine de reculs environnementaux depuis six mois.

To watch this space, follow @foeeurope.bsky.social @eccjorg.bsky.social @clienteartheur.bsky.social @globalwitness.org @cleanclothes.bsky.social @antislavery.org @amnesty.org @cidse.bsky.social @oxfameu.bsky.social

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So, what's next?

Well first the General Affairs Council (ministers from member states) may or may not publicly endorse the agreement. They're in a meeting as I type.

But mostly, the EU Parliament needs to negotiate its position. And we need to make it clear they can't mess this up like others did.

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5️⃣Last but not least, Council is proposing to delay the law's transpition deadline by a further year - after it was already postponed three months ago.

Nevermind the urgency of the climate crisis, nor the life-or-death situation faced by some victims of corporate abuse.

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This is the second time the CS3D personal scope is narrowed.
For most of the original negotiations, about 16k companies would have been covered. As adopted in 2024, about 3400 corporate groups are covered. Now it could be just 1000.

4️⃣Council proposes to further reduce the amount of companies covered by CS3D. Companies would now be in scope only if they fulfill the following criteria.

>5000 employees
>€1.5B yearly turnover

This leaves roughly a thousand companies in scope.

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Well, the Council basically decided to Frankenstein the whole thing: risk-based approach, but only on direct business relationships.
"identification and assessment obligations are extended in case of objective and verifiable information suggesting adverse impacts beyond direct business partners."

The Commission decided to go against that, and to borrow from the German Supply Chain Act: due diligence obligations would only extend to direct business relationships, unless "plausible information" would be available to the companies that violations were occurring deeper in the value chain.

3️⃣ CS3D originally required for companies to take a risk-based approach to their due diligence requirements. In plain English, look at where the risk of violations is higher (depending on countries, sectors, etc) and focus on that first.

This really endangers access to justice for victims of corporate abuse. Instead of a single regime, they could be facing 27 different potential regimes - and this opens the door for large multinationals to be regime-shopping.

A clear loss for swift and fair justice.

2️⃣CS3D's unified civil liability regime was already under attack in the Commission's proposal.
The Council, despite original push back from countries like France, Denmark, Spain or the Netherlands (non-exhaustive) is aligning with the Commission's proposal.

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These design elements in CS3D as adopted in July 2024: "intermediate and 2050 climate neutrality targets, and where relevant, the exposure of the company to coal-, oil- and gas-related activities."

So let's write climate transition plans without talking about targets or fossil fuels, shall we?

And the nail in the coffin: "companies should be given more flexibility regarding the content of the plan. [...] the design elements set out in Article 22(1), second
subparagraph of that Directive should be made optional"

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"It does not require making every possible effort,
[nor] adopting the best standard in the given sector for all actions [...]"

My interpretation: minimum efforts required.

...companies would now be expected to take implementing actions with reasonable efforts. The language difference may seem vague, but the paragraph that follows gives a pretty clear indication of the direction of travel ⬇️

1️⃣Based on the 6th draft of the compromise proposed by the Polish presidency, it seems member states are proposing considerable changes to art. 22 (climate obligations).

Instead of a duty to adopt and put into effect climate transition plans in line with the Paris Agreement, through best efforts...

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For anyone catching up, Omnibus 1 is the first of a series of deregulation packages attacking a variety of legislations secured under the previous commission's mandate.

It's widely seen as the canary in the coal mine for the survival of the European Green Deal.

🚨Another step towards the suppression of human rights and environmental protections in EU law 🚨

Last night, the Council of the EU agreed on a position regarding Omnibus 1. I'll focus on the attacks on the EU due diligence directive. Let's unpack ⬇️

Group of people holding banner: Stop the Genocide, Solidarity with Palestine

In solidarity with @foeint.bsky.social, 🇵🇸 NGO Pengon and the countless victims of the genocide in Gaza, we urge Europe to:

🛑​ Suspend the EU-Israel agreement
🕊️ Ensure full humanitarian access to Gaza.

Who the hell in his staff thought the FR people were gonna care about a dense pretentious speech replay, when the president shook hands with racists to attack immigrants and people of colour, and jumped on a TV set to protect the most famous rapist in the country?

But there’s a catch. The op-ed is almost a verbatim of his insufferable COP28 speech, when he spent 5 times the allowed time lecturing HoS on environmental and fiscal policy. All while carving out unprecedented exemptions for the financial sector in EU Green law.

Emmanuel Macron : « Nous devons accélérer en même temps sur le plan de la transition écologiq... TRIBUNE. Le président français propose, dans une tribune au « Monde », un nouveau Pacte mondial pour le climat et plaide en faveur d’une réforme de la gouvernance financière mondiale afin d...

FR president Emmanuel Macron made two horrendous moves right before Christmas: he allied with the far-right against immigrants and publicly defended a sexual predator. Now he publishes an Op-Ed in a poorly veiled attempt to deflect

[Opinion] Macron's hypocrisy at COP28 A few days after French president Emmanuel Macron performed an unending monologue at COP28, serenading every actor but France about their responsibility to do more, it is worth looking at the French g...

Well, I'm on Bluesky now!
Let me drop in with a critique of Macron's climate contradictions, confronting his unending COP speech with France's stance in recent EU negotiations.

Quite predictably, he's not putting his money where his mouth is.