To the contrary, European governments, in addition to the EU Commission, offer broad-based support to corporate initiatives with regard to CSR. For instance, the Belgian government is striving to establish a social labeling program; the Danish government created the Copenhagen Centre in 1998 to generate CSR-based partnerships between business, society, and government; France has established requirements for social and environmental reporting; and the U.K. has a minister
devoted to CSR (Brum, 2003).