Business and civil society groups have made a last-ditch effort to urge EU ministers not to collapse a key law on company due diligence ahead of a decisive vote on Friday (9 February) — which was finally postponed.
EU governments had been expected to rubber-stamp the new law at a meeting in Brussels on Friday. But its passage could be derailed after Germany's 11th-hour decision to abstain prompted Finland to follow suit.
Earlier this week, the neo-liberal Free Democrat Party, th...
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