PARIS — Emmanuel Macron’s new crusade against European green rules is causing outrage even among his allies.
Heavyweights from the French president’s camp are speaking out against Paris’ push to water down upcoming European Union rules requiring companies to report on their environmental footprint and potential human rights violations in their supply chains.
They complain that France has betrayed its reputation as one of Europe’s loudest green champions and warn that yielding to anti-green pressure from business groups and from countries outside the EU — most notably the United States — will not serve France’s or the EU’s interests in the long run.
“We are aiming at the wrong target,” Macronist lawmaker and former minister Olivia Grégoire told POLITICO, defending the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, which requires companies to disclose their environmental impact and exposure to the risks of climate change and that France strongly supported until recently.
