Last year it was the ban on the internal combustion engine, now the FDP is suddenly opposing the supply chain law at the EU level. Can she still prevent it?
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Federal Justice Minister Marco Buschmann and FDP party leader Christian Lindner (from left) © Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa
Children who deviate from the norm with their behavior and provoke their social environment in order to get attention are described as having behavioral problems. This behavior also applies to the FDP in the traffic light government, although the liberals’ unusual behavior is less impulsive than that of a child, but rather a political calculation. In any case, those around them in Berlin and currently also in Brussels are leaving the FDP quite disturbed with their unpredictable voltes – once again, it has to be said.
At the end of last year, they finally agreed on a supply chain law for the entire European Union. EU states, the EU Parliament and the Commission had been negotiating this for more than two years. On December 14th, Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders presented the compromise: Companies in the EU with more than 500 employees should in future be responsible for ensuring that, for example, there is no child labor in their products and that certain environmental standards are also adhered to by their suppliers. The text of the planned directive was actually supposed to be completed at the end of January and the final vote on it in the Council of EU countries should take place in February. But at the beginning of this week, the FDP surprisingly announced: “We reject the current draft of the EU supply chain guidelines.”