Julia joined the Brussels team of the Responsible Companies section in 2021 and leads the work on corporate due diligence and directors’ obligations. She coordinates the EU advocacy work on these issues and implements Frank Bold’s policy outreach.
Before joining Frank Bold, Julia worked on corporate accountability and supply chain due diligence for several years at non-profit organization in Berlin. She has gained experience in advocacy, campaigning, and research, but also in academia and theatre.
Julia holds an MA in International Law from the Graduate Institute in Geneva and has studied International Relations at the University of Dresden and the Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny in Poznań. She likes to spend her holidays high up in the mountains.
„What motivates me to work in the field of business and human rights at Frank Bold, is how we are being very straightforward about what we propose and try to live up to it internally.”
For the first time, the European Peoples Party (EPP) in the European Parliament is relying on the support of the anti-European, right-wing groups to pass a legislative text - its position on the Omnibus 1 simplification package. This represents a clear break with the cordon sanitaire that previously kept such alliances off-limits.
European Union and its member states have approved a framework to prevent that companies providing low prices based on dumping, child labour, pollution and exploitation will not be better positioned in the EU market. They adopted the Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), which will provide guidance to companies on how to prevent significant negative impacts in their operations and value chains.
Today, the Council of the EU approved a watered-down version of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). It includes a severely reduced scope: Only about 0,05% of companies across the EU will be subject to the new law, a cut of roughly 2/3 - compared to the December trilogue outcome.
