Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Robert Habeck (Greens) believes an agreement in the coalition dispute over the EU Supply Chain Act is still possible. Habeck said on Wednesday evening at a citizens' dialog of the "Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland" in Leipzig with regard to the law that there are justified concerns that the "whole thing" is going wrong. "But of course there is also a corridor of reason, so that the whole thing can be set up in such a way that concerns can be allayed." However, he could not say whether it would be possible to get there.
If Germany abstains as a result of opposition from the FDP in the traffic light coalition, the entire EU supply chain law could fail. As there is no majority among the member states, a planned vote at EU level has been postponed. The EU Supply Chain Act is intended to hold large companies accountable if they profit from child or forced labor outside the EU, for example, or if their production causes environmental damage there. A national supply chain law has been in force in Germany since 2023, but the EU project goes beyond this.
