This is well and truly a milestone. Interesting are the two nations that abstained. Britain, because it is scheduled to leave the EU and does this on principle and Germany because of its endemic corporate crime. Germany does not have a whistle-blower law. That was very convenient during the diesel scandal. This is unfortunately only in German, but here is an intervention by Germany against the law: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_institutions/parlements_nationaux/com/2018/0218/DE_BUNDESRAT_CONT1-COM(2018)0218_DE.pdf
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