>An official in Stockholm has condemned a U.S. demand his city applies the Trump administration’s rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies for contractors dealing with the American embassy.
>Jan Valeskog, Stockholm’s planning commissioner, described as “bizarre” a letter by the U.S. Embassy in Sweden calling for the city’s authorities to formally agree to cease diversity initiatives, according to the newspaper *Dagens Nyheter.*
>Firms in other European countries like France, Denmark and the Netherlands have also reported they have received the U.S. request, prompting one Danish official to call for a united [EU](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/eu) response
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>An official in Stockholm has condemned a U.S. demand his city applies the Trump administration’s rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies for contractors dealing with the American embassy.
>Jan Valeskog, Stockholm’s planning commissioner, described as “bizarre” a letter by the U.S. Embassy in Sweden calling for the city’s authorities to formally agree to cease diversity initiatives, according to the newspaper *Dagens Nyheter.*
>Firms in other European countries like France, Denmark and the Netherlands have also reported they have received the U.S. request, prompting one Danish official to call for a united [EU](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/eu) response
https://preview.redd.it/p2lvekkctcze1.png?width=596&format=png&auto=webp&s=d7f9b39c6b162b0ee53e3f3d21d5c1cd3168c73d
So much for isolationism
Trump is burning the USA’s soft power on *this*?