EU: Belgian Presidency presents last-ditch text on due diligence

Following the refusal of France, Italy and Germany to vote on the proposed corporate sustainability due diligence directive, it was not put to the vote on 28 February. As Isabelle Schömann, deputy secretary general of the European Trade Union Confederation, revealed in an interview with mind RH on 6 March, the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU has intensified its efforts to secure a compromise. In the last few hours, it has proposed a streamlined text that would raise the thresholds f