1.🍃 BRUSSELS’ CSRD/CSDDD OVERREACH

Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Paul Atkins, is warning European regulators that their sweeping sustainability rules risk piling costs onto U.S. companies and ultimately American investors & consumers. The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) don’t stop at the water’s edge — They reach deep into non‑EU supply chains, forcing U.S. firms to build parallel compliance machines to satisfy Brussels’ paperwork.

The EU often advances sweeping sustainability rules that play well rhetorically but overlook real-world costs. Chairman Atkins is right:

“I have significant concerns with the prescriptive nature of these laws and their burdens on U.S. companies, the costs of which are potentially passed on to American investors and customers.”

Matt Mowers, board member of the EU-US Forum, today joined the Dana Show, highlighting how these policies are already hurting American companies.

“There’s a reason why so few global companies are starting in the European Union. There’s a reason why you don’t see the same manufacturing capacity in the European Union, and now, because of these policies, they’re trying to push like CSDDD, they’re essentially going to hamstring every other company that tries to do work in the European Union as well. We cannot allow the European Union to hamstring US businesses, to prevent them from growing and from expanding and being competitive on the global market the way we need them to, the way we want them to because it’s important to our livelihood as well. They can’t be subject to a bunch of rulings coming out of Brussels in their bureaucratic state.”

Time and again, Brussels has treated the impact on U.S. businesses as an afterthought. By exporting its climate policy through extraterritorial requirements, the EU shifts compliance costs across the Atlantic and expects little pushback.

2.🇫🇷 MACRON FAILS AGAIN, FURTHER “PLACATES THE LEFT”

France is sliding deeper into chaos as Emmanuel Macron appoints his fifth prime minister during his presidency. Instead of reversing course, Macron appointed loyalist Sebastian Lecornu as Prime Minister. The French press is trying to paint Lecornu as the “Le Pen whisperer.” In reality, France can expect more of the same failures that have defined Macron’s tenure.

Macron’s approval rating now sits at just 28%, and his last prime minister lasted barely nine months. “He is doing everything he can to try to placate the far left,” Mowers explained further on the Dana Show.

Meanwhile, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is still popular, despite Macron’s attempts to silence her. Mowers noted:

“Marine Le Pen’s party was growing and doing exorbitantly well until Macron made a deal with the far left in the runoff elections to try to shut her out of political power. He then saw what they did with these first ever tried and trumped up charges against her, and then forbade her to actually run for president again, because they knew that she and her political party were ascendant, trying to stifle political opposition.”

📱APPLE FORCED TO MUTE LIVE TRANSLATION IN EUROPE

Apple is debuting Live Translation on AirPods, a new feature that lets conversations flow seamlessly across languages in real time. But if you’re in the European Union, this feature won’t be available. Live Translation won’t be available in the EU due to ongoing compliance work with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) interoperability rules. For now, if your Apple ID region is set to an EU country, the feature will remain inactive at release.

What’s being delayed is significant: Live Translation is part of Apple’s broader on‑device “Apple Intelligence” push and is designed to deliver near real‑time, two‑way translation through AirPods during conversations.