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AVİM's Note: In Thursday’s vote (13 November 2025), 382 Members of the European Parliament supported the EPP-led proposal to roll back corporate sustainability and due diligence obligations, while 249 voted against and 13 abstained. This outcome marks the first instance in which a major EU legislative measure has been adopted by a majority comprising both the center-right and far-right political groups.  

EU Observer (13 November 2025)

Evi Kiorri

[...] All eyes today are on a crucial vote in the European Parliament regarding corporate sustainability and due diligence rules. The Parliament’s biggest political group, the European People’s Party, or EPP, is poised to do something it has long claimed it would never do, vote alongside the far right.

How could this move reshape not only the EU’s environmental policy but also the entire political balance in Brussels?

In this key vote the EPP plans to back a package that rolls back corporate sustainability and due diligence laws. That means fewer companies would have to report on their environmental and human rights impacts.

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