It took 2 months for French MEPs Aurore Lalucq (S&D) and Manon Aubry (GUE/NGL) to receive an answer from the European Commission to their priority question on the contract obtained by US asset manager BlackRock to carry out a study on the integration of environmental and social factors in the supervision of banks (see EUROPE B12468A23).
The response, received on Tuesday 16 June following a reminder letter sent the day before, is far from satisfactory. The Commission’s argument that...