EU: Flagship Corporate Accountability Law Suffers Big Losses

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image European activists march in Brussels on September 23, 2025 to protest EU governments’ efforts to weaken the EU’s corporate accountability law, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive. © 2025 Friends of the Earth Europe/Flickr (Brussels) – The European Parliament’s approval on December 16, 2025, of final amendments watering down the European Union’s flagship corporate accountability law severely undermines the EU’s ability to hold businesses accountable for human rights and environmental harms, Human Rights Watch said today.The vote on the Corporate Sustainability…

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