The United States asks French companies to comply with Donald Trump’s order to combat diversity

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The Trump administration sent a message to some large French companies that warn them of compliance with an executive order prohibiting diversity, stock and integration programs.

The letter, sent by the American embassy in Paris, mentioned this TrumpThe executive order was applied to companies outside the United States if it is a supplier or service provider for the American government, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The embassy also sent a questionnaire for companies to convert to compliance. The document, which was witnessed by the Times, entitled “A certificate related to compliance with the applicable federal discrimination law.”

The document says: “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs contractors must ratify that they do not manage any programs promoting Dei, which violates any laws in force in combating discrimination and agreed that this certificate is material for the purposes of the decision to pay the government and thus subject to the law of wrong claims,” ​​the document says.

The documents seem to indicate that the Trump administration expanded its campaign against Dei to foreign companies after the launch of a campaign against American media groups such as Disney.

A senior banker in Paris said he was shocked by the message. “It’s crazy … but everything is now possible. The base of the strongest is now.”

The French Ministry of Finance expressed its concerns after notifying some of the companies concerned with this step.

“This practice reflects the values ​​of the new US government. It is not the same.” FranceEconomy Minister Eric Lombard. “The ministry will mention its counterparts in the American government.”

The message was reported for the first time by the Les échos newspaper.

The move comes outside the regional borders by the United States amid increasing tensions between the Trump and Europe administration on economic and security policy, such as the nation’s vicinity, away from its traditional allies, especially in the trade and the full invasion of Russia for Ukraine.

This week, Trump imposed an additional tax of 25 percent on the imports of the auto sector in the United States and increased customs tariffs on European and aluminum steel imports. The European Union is working on a mutual tariff in response, but it has not yet decided the products targeted.

The position of Trump’s senior officials of Europe was thrown in a blatant relief this week when messages about the attack plans in Yemen were leaked to the American media. “I just hate to save Europe again,” Vice President GD Vans wrote in the sign chat group. “It is compassionate,” Defense Minister Beit Higseth answered.

France was not traditionally a place in which Dei programs were established due to legal restrictions to collect ethnic and ethnic data. Labor owners are not allowed to factors of people’s assets in employment or promotion decisions.

But French companies that are likely to be exposed to the demands of the United States include aviation and defense groups, consulting providers and infrastructure companies. FT immediately could not identify the companies that received the message.

According to Les échos, the message concluded: “If you do not agree to sign this document, we will be grateful if you prefer to provide us with detailed reasons, which we will send to our legal section.”