Basically, they want to scan everyone's chat messages for illegal stuff, which is completely disproportionate and a #privacy nightmare.
Chat Control violates fundamental rights (according to the European Data Protection Board), and the German Child Protection Association says it's not suitable to combat child abuse.
Please tell your government to vote against it! I already have.
The European Union has effectively signed off on the Lebanese plan to deport hundreds of thousands of Syrian civilians stuck in Lebanon as refugees to Assad’s gulags and/or to a life of fear and misery. This is happening.
The EU gave Lebanon’s ruling warlords and oligarchs (including Hezbollah, by the way) one billion Euros even as they were publicly discussing their deportation plans.
This is against international law, and the EU is directly complicit in it. #Lebanon#europeanunion
"#RenewableEnergy accounted for more than 30% of the world’s electricity for the first time last year following a rapid rise in wind and solar power, according to new figures.
The surge in clean electricity is expected to power a 2% decrease in global fossil fuel generation in the year ahead, according to Ember."
"Wind and #solar power generation in the #EuropeanUnion increased by 46% from 2019, when the current European Commission took office, to 2023, displacing a fifth of the bloc's #FossilFuel generation, a report by think tank Ember showed.
Without this expansion, fossil generation would have fallen just 1.9% (21 TWh) instead of 22%."
"The ultimate goal, I suggest, was a translatio imperii; the establishment of an imperial monarchy in the west that could rival the Habsburg empire, and which in time, perhaps, might even come to imitate the universal glory of the Roman imperium. Not the American Atlantic seaboard, but rather the continent of Europe, with its arms, its learning, and its treasure, was the goal of Bacon’s early imperial vision."
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"We are witnessing a historic process -- Russians are leaving for the first time in two centuries," independent Azerbaijani analyst Elhan Shahinoglu told AFP.
#EuropeanUnion foreign policy chief #JosepBorrell on Friday called the removal of Estonian buoys by Russian border guards on a river separating the Baltic country from #Russia “unacceptable,” and demanded an explanation from Moscow and the immediate return of the orange floats. #Estonia#Ukraine
How about voting in the #EuropeanUnion, a 👉confederation of sovereign nation?
"All EU country also have the right to vote and stand as candidate in local or municipal elections in the country they live in, again under the same conditions as the...
"The energy charter treaty (#ECT) is a system of secret courts that enables companies to sue governments over policies that would cut their future profits. Companies have sued over phasing out #coal-fired power stations, ending offshore #oil drilling and banning #fracking. The #UK’s #ClimateChangeCommittee said Britain should withdraw from the ECT.
The UK and Japan are the only major economies not to have committed to exiting the ECT."
"#EuropeanUnion countries agreed on Thursday to jointly quit the [#EnergyCharterTreaty] over concerns that it undermines efforts to fight climate change, officials said.
The decision will now go to the European Parliament to seek lawmakers' consent. That is seen as highly likely because the #EU assembly has previously urged it to leave the treaty."