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BumRushDaShow

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Mon Mar 31, 2025, 04:36 AM Mar 31

French Minister Slaps Down Trump's DEI 'Diktat' to Europe

Source: Daily Beast

Published Mar. 30 2025 4:42PM EDT


French lawmakers rebuffed President Donald Trump after his administration tried to export its war on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) to Europe. Earlier in the week, the Trump administration sent a letter to a number of French companies claiming the Republican president’s measures against DEI apply “to all suppliers and service providers of the U.S. government, regardless of their nationality and the country.”

“It’s an attempt to impose a diktat on our business,” Aurore Bergé, France’s Minister for Equality and Combating Discrimination, said in a Sunday interview on French network BFM TV. “A form, obviously, of interference,” she added. The letter further asked addressees to “certify that they do not operate any programs promoting DEI that violate any applicable anti-discrimination laws.”

It additionally said that if any recipients should object, “we would appreciate it if you could provide detailed reasons, which we will forward to our legal services.” Bergé said the French government is currently “following the situation very closely,” with efforts being made to ascertain the exact number of companies in France the letter was sent to.

The minister added many firms had made it clear they had precisely no plans to reply anyway, given that “they don’t have to respond, in fact, to a sort of ultimatum laid out by the U.S. embassy in our country.”

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/french-minister-slaps-down-trumps-dei-diktat-to-europe/



REFERENCE - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143429187
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French Minister Slaps Down Trump's DEI 'Diktat' to Europe (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Mar 31 OP
Simply "Vive la France" (n/t) wyn borkins Mar 31 #1
Dear chump. France is telling you to, BidenRocks Mar 31 #2
More on point... FirefighterJo Apr 1 #7
Does AMF translate? BidenRocks Apr 1 #8
More accurately FirefighterJo Apr 2 #9
But, don't they understand only the United States is a sovereign country and TSF is king of the world? sinkingfeeling Mar 31 #3
Stephen Miller is a complete shit. Kid Berwyn Mar 31 #4
Don't mess with the French DBoon Mar 31 #5
... BumRushDaShow Mar 31 #6
I'm wondering when Trump will go after Costco Zorro Apr 2 #10

sinkingfeeling

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3. But, don't they understand only the United States is a sovereign country and TSF is king of the world?
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 08:46 AM
Mar 31

BumRushDaShow

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6. ...
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 10:49 AM
Mar 31






(I am not far from "Lafayette Hill" where Gen. Marquis de Lafayette camped during the Revolutionary War)

Zorro

(17,178 posts)
10. I'm wondering when Trump will go after Costco
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 12:25 AM
Apr 2

or is he thinking that would push the envelope too far?

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