Minister Klever mentions the request of US to European companies to stop diversity policy ‘worrying’

Minister Reinette Klever (Foreign Trade and Development Aid, PVV) calls the request of US embassies to European companies to « worry » for the diversity policy. She announced this in a written response on Monday NRC. Klever says that she can « imagine » that the American request « creates more uncertainty for Dutch companies. »

Dozens of European companies received a letter from American embassies last weekend with the request to « not carry out programs that promote diversity, equality and inclusion. » If the companies do, the US government may tear the contracts with them.

For the time being it is unclear whether Dutch companies have received the letter. Klever says he has received ‘no signals’. From a tour of NRC A large number of Dutch companies does not make it clear whether companies such as Philips, Boskalis or Randstad have received a letter. ING has announced that they ‘do not make any announcements’ about communication with governments. Only Deloitte has said that it has not received a letter of all the approaches.

On Sunday, the French Ministry of Foreign Trade already spoke about ‘unacceptable American interference’. Jan Jambon, the Belgian Minister of Finance, said the same day that Belgian companies « has no lessons » from US President Donald Trump.

With the cooperation of Freyan Bosma and Eline Nugteren.

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