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The Trump administration has ordered French companies with U.S. government contracts to comply with Trump’s executive order that bans diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

Companies received letters from the U.S. embassy in Paris with a compliance questionnaire to be completed within five days.

French Finance Minister Eric Lombard plans to address this with U.S. counterparts, stating "This practice reflects the values of the new U.S. government. They are not the same as ours."

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[–] longjohnjohnson@lemmy.ml 75 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Lol. The French will not suffer American idiots like Trump and his lackeys.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

France does NOT fuck around when it comes to staunchly holding their own employment laws under internationally owned companies. If you want to fire someone, for example, you have to follow the French criteria, and it’s a complex and drawn out process that makes American MBAs melt like they’ve opened the Ark of the Covenant.

I hope you are right. This timeline usually shows the companies caving, keeping a bit of a difference from directive, selling it as a we won't change to their people and actually giving ground to the bullies so they can claim they won as well on conservative media. The polarization of the population makes it so their media won't overlap enough to cause real conflict, just enough to say the other "side" of the conflict is nuts ignore them.