Stockholm City Council rejects US Embassy demands to end DEI programming

Stockholm, May 9 (AP) The Stockholm City Council has rejected the US Embassy's demands that it comply with the Trump administration's rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.
     It's the latest in US President Donald Trump's efforts to terminate such programmes within the federal government — and beyond — in what he described in his inauguration speech as a move to end efforts to “socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life.”
     Countries and cities across Europe have received similar outreach from US embassies, including France, Belgium and the city of Barcelona, all of which lashed out at the US efforts to expand its anti-DEI policies to the continent.
     In an email to the city's planning office, dated April 29, the US Embassy in Stockholm asked that Stockholm officials sign a certification that their contractors do not operate any programmes promoting DEI that would violate US anti-discrimination law.
     The city council said Friday that it will not comply with the US Embassy's demands or respond officially. (AP) NPK
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