Following the trilogue agreements on the EU Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and the EU Platform Directive, the FDP has voiced clear criticism: in an interview with Table.Media, Federal Vice President Johannes Vogel described the results as „blows against Europe as a business location.“ The Due Diligence Directive threatens to pull the lever in the wrong direction. The EU Commission must not create any additional bureaucracy and thus destroy the reduction in bureaucracy at the national level. „Ursula von der Leyen has spoken grandiosely about reducing bureaucracy, but she and her Commission must not create new red tape with the Supply Chain Act. That would be the wrong approach.“