Mikay should really seek help. He’s done so much for privacy, I think someone should really reference him to psychiatric help. Also relevant is the fact Motorola is not European and has a vested interest in Google maintaining the monopoly while they sell the only famous “private” alternative.
Oh look, it’s a character assassination from one of the regime’s shitrags…
The ambassador was summoned back to Spain last September amid a diplomatic row over Spanish measures banning aircraft and ships carrying weapons to Israel from its ports or airspace due to Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, which Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar denounced as antisemitic.
On Tuesday, Spain published an announcement in its official gazette that the ambassador’s position had been terminated. Spain’s Foreign Ministry said its embassy in Tel Aviv will be led by a charge d’affaires for the foreseeable future.
The answer to your question is no. Spain just has very little investment in trade with both Isntreal and US so they have the enviable position to be able to tell both countries neonazi leaders to sod off without significant repercussions.
Why would we suddenly follow Germany’s stance and not Spain just because unanimity is gone? We would likely follow a qualified majority or supermajority, just as other aspects of legislation (perhaps even draw out higher thresholds for voting). If the majority elected to take a position against Russia (or for Ukraine, if you will), then it isn’t anything but counterproductive, that we remain in a political quagmire because of one individual exercising veto powers. If the majority elected to take a different approach to foreign policy towards the US, then it would also be frustrating if it was up to an individual head of state to veto our collective action. This won’t get us moving at all.
I wholeheartedly disagree. Spain’s position is a minority within the EU. If Germany or France want to support genocide, that’s for their people to deal with, the EU as a union, if there is no consensus, should not, through qualified majority have the chance to act as EU in representation of Spain when Spain does not agree with the EU position. Nothing is stopping the countries that support Ukraine (which is basically the almost entirety of the EU) to continue supporting Ukraine. What makes no sense is Hungary to serve as a guaranteur country for a loan for which its people allegedly do not agree with.
It’s not lost on me that Hungary is a net receiver of EU funds, but the EU was not designed for the latest expansionist waves of the late noughties. That’s where the legislative framework difficulties come from. German and British companies wanted access to cheap labour and a larger market, so now we have to deal with the consequences of expanding. The most urgent step is to repeal the lobbying law of 2007 and return to the stringent anti-corruption enforcement. Also, most EU countries already are subject to supra-national legal entities, i. e. the ECJ is sovereign, despite some German judges arguing otherwise. Whoever signed in should have read the ToS.
Edit: As if reality conspired to make my point…
The EU is an Union not a federation, yet. The stability of the union lies in the fact its participants have free reign in foreign policy and collective action requires unanimity. I for one admire Spain’s stance on the subjects of Gaza and Iran, remove unanimity and we may be forced to reckon with the German stance on those matters. Orbán is a cunt that isn’t in jail because the same framework that would be required to jail him, a strong EU anti-corruption enforcement, would likely be used to prosecute the Ursulas of this world, given they are two peas of a pod. That’s why Orbán is a problem and why she wants more power against the original treatise of the Union. Because the current tools would get rid of corrupt people like her too.
Looking forward to be drafted to a war to fight for Von der Leyen’s aristocrat husband’s family /s
Unanimity is the heart of EU. Enforce anti-corruption and the Orbans of this world disappear. The von der Leyens too so I call that a win.
I’m acutely against blanket bans of news sources. Even one as ostensibly anti working class and European pronciples as politico.
The publisher and its news outlets (with the aforementioned Bild, Fakt and Welt most prominent) is a main driver for a news coverage and reporting that is jointly responsible for the rise of the far right in Germany and Europe.
how do you @Pip@feddit.org turn this 👆 into this 👇?
Politico Europe as a main driver of the far right, which it persistently criticizes, investigates and denounces.
And then you use ground news as some kind of purity test, as if it’s worth any consideration. 10/10 chances they use an LLM to summarise their descriptions of news orgs. Only a complete fool (or lazy fool) would even entertain the idea politico is anywhere close to being left leaning or using ground news for anything at all.
Probably plagiarized at least half of the statement. This lady is a caustic influence in the unity of the EU and frequently abuses her power to overreach beyond the mandate of her office. Worse still, her only claim to fame was being Merkel’s bestie in the sausage fest that was the CDU in Merkel’s days and the french found her so useless that she was accepted as a compromise solution. If we don’t reform our political establishment we’re doomed to be ruled by idiots who failed upwards.