The European
22.09.2026
Marcus Iles
As Brussels strips back EU sustainability reporting rules, companies risk discovering that corporate compliance built structures without creating commitment. The European’s new Business Strategy & Organisational Behaviour Correspondent, Marcus Iles, says leaders must now measure whether people actually believe in the strategies they are being asked to execute
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„On February 24, the Council of the European Union gave final approval to the Omnibus I simplification package, with the revised rules coming into force on March 18. The headline was straightforward deregulation: the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive now applies only to companies with more than 1,000 employees and more than €450 million in turnover, up from a framework in which 250 employees was one of the size thresholds used to define a large undertaking. This has meant an estimated 90 per cent of previously in-scope companies were released from the requirement altogether.
Almost every analysis of that decision has focused on regulation:…“
The European: Brussels’ sustainability rollback has exposed a crisis of corporate belief