Denmark has rejected calls from Germany and France to scrap a planned EU supply chain law that has become symbolic of the bloc’s dilemma between meeting its ambitious climate goals and helping its ailing industry.
“We don’t agree” on abandoning plans to ask companies to monitor, report and take action against forced labour and mitigate the environmental impact of their operations outside the EU, Danish industry minister Morten Bødskov told the Financial Times.
Copenhagen will gain greater policy influence in Brussels when it takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU in July. Denmark is one of the most ambitious countries in the bloc when it comes to adopting green legislation and pushing the EU to go even further than current targets and cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 90 per cent by 2040.