By refusing to grant a trilogue mandate to the rapporteur of the text, the European Parliament has reaffirmed its importance in the face of this first act of destruction of the standards it has patiently and democratically developed over the last few years.

MEPs are thus clearly resisting the demands of industrial lobbies, the European right and Trump, who have made the destruction of the Green Deal their battle cry:

• On 12 March 2025, Republican Bill Hagerty introduced a bill in the US Congress aimed at ‘prohibiting entities that are integral to US national interests from participating in any foreign sustainability regulations, including the European Union’s Due Diligence Directive’.
• On 21 August 2025, Ursula von der Leyen, during her meeting with Donald Trump in Scotland, committed to creating an exemption regime for American companies and to ‘do everything possible to ensure that the Due Diligence Directive (…) does not impose excessive restrictions on transatlantic trade’.
• In early October 2025, the US President returned to the fray in a letter to the President of the European Commission demanding the implementation of the agreement sealed in Scotland in order to obtain the exclusion of US companies from the scope of the European due diligence.

The future of the European corporate due diligence directive (CS3D) now hangs in the balance, pending a plenary vote that could take place as early as next month. The liberal right, the ecological left and the conservative right delegations that adopted the CS3D during the previous term of office must remain true to their commitments and reject the ‘Omnibus I’ directive. Otherwise, a whole series of Omnibus legislations risks sweeping through Brussels in a vast effort to destroy the Green Deal and the major advances in environmental, climate, social and human rights protection voted by the European Union in recent years.

After celebrating the adoption of the corporate due diligence in May 2024, Pascal Canfin, shadow rapporteur for the Renew group on the ‘Omnibus I’ directive, and the S&D leadership who today both argued in favour of the shameful compromise put to the vote, must now pull themselves together and defend the legacy of the Green Deal, shaped by their groups during the previous term of office.

Civil society will remain mobilised, the battle has only just begun.