EU: European Commission launches public consultation on its new CSR strategy

Since the European strategy on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) will expire at the end of the year, the European Commission is launching a big public consultation to determine the political course to adopt on this subject after 2014.  This exercise started on Tuesday, April 29 and will end on August 15.
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Objective. The “renewed EU strategy 2011-14 for Corporate Social Responsibility” (see article No. 110648), launched in 2011, aimed to strengthen businesses’ social and environmental responsibility in the name of competitiveness. Since this strategy will be over at the end of the year, Michel Barnier, EuropeanCommissioner responsible for internal market, wants to keep going, judging that CSR is “about creating new value through the innovation that comes from challenging a company’s status quo

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