The "simpler" rules on transparency in the supply chain are simply intended to allow companies to continue to destroy ecohabitats and profit from slave and child labor by feigning ignorance of subcontractor practices.
First season #USG hasn't succeeded in replacing the players that left with equal or better. Sadiqi, Vanhoutte, Machida, Ivanovic have not been replaced with similar quality. And it shows #usgint
And here's yet another EU surrender to a Trump dictate.... It's hard to keep up with these surrenders to Trump demands as there are so many, however hard you try to cover them up as "cutting red tape"... www.politico.eu/article/trum...
Veto powers are the nail in the EU's coffin. Whether you are Putin, Xi, Trump, Erdogan, whatever dictator, autocrat or tyrant: you only need to buy or corrupt 1 EU member state leader to render the EU completely powerless....
Ik zal het niet ontkennen maar ik wantrouw elke studie "in opdracht van". Al te dikwijls blijken die wonderbaarlijk te bevestigen wat de opdrachtgevers wensten dat ze zouden bevestigen.
It would be easy for the US Military to stop these boats, search them, arrest the people on board if they are found to be drug smugglers and then exhibit the drugs to the rest of the world, pretty much what every police organization on the planet does. But no, killing indiscriminately is the goal.
Ik zal het nog maar eens zeggen want de journalisten vertikken het om het ter sprake te brengen: onze regeringen subsidiëren elk jaar klimaatrampen veroorzakende fossiele brandstoffen ter waarde van meer dan 13 miljard euro. Hoezo, er is geen geld?
The path to power for the extreme-right, fascists and nazis has historically always been paved by center-right parties. @eppgroup.bsky.social is no exeption, alas...
Fossil fuel giants Russia, Saoudi-Arabia, UAE are all fuelling this war by massively arming the warring parties, causing tens of thousands of deaths and millions of people fleeing. One more reason to get out of fossil fuels asap.
There will be no further enlargement as long as the EU does not adopt robust mechanisms to effectively neutralize EU member states that thrash the rule of law, destroy the independence of the judiciary and the free press and support, aid and abett fascist Russia like Hungary or Slovakia.
