European Officials Weigh Response to US Efforts to Thwart Local DEI Programs

The US Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden.

Photographer: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images

European officials are weighing how to respond to US efforts to thwart local DEI programs, as the two regions come closer than ever to clashing over anti-discrimination policies.

US embassies across Europe have spent the past few weeks sending letters to companies and public offices doing business with the American government, demanding that they certify that they don’t have diversity, equity and inclusion programs that violate US President Donald Trump’s executive order.