#the european union

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#paying for terrorists #martyrs fund #israel #gaza #hamas massacre #antisemitism #hamas #hamas is isis #the eu #the european union

[countriesgame]

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If you have any fun fact about the European Union, please tell us and I'll reblog it!

Be respectful in your comments. You can criticize a government without offending its people.

#the european union #europe #country polls #polls #not a country

[burnitalldownism]

Brexiteers: We took back control of our borders 🎉

France: Takes back control of its northern border because…GB not in EU anymore.

Brexiteers: UWU, the EU are being such meanies! How dare a sovereign nation impose customs checks on their border for a country that’s not part of an internal market they’re a part of?!?

EU: Y’know, you’re totally free to impose custom checks like…today?

Brexiteers: That’s sooooooooo unfair! We don’t have enough money or workers to do that.

EU: Wow! Probably shoulda kept free travel & not pissed away a dozen billion on PPE from a Tory donor that didn’t work.

Brexiteers: We’re gonna break international law.

EU: 🤦‍♂️

#brexit #brexiteers #the eu #the european union

[dissociatingdumbass]

The UK have discovered they have in fact reached the "Find Out" part...

#fuck around and find out #uk #brexit #european union

[pressnewsagencyllc]

Romania and Bulgaria partially join Europe’s Schengen travel zone, but checks at land borders remain

Romania and Bulgaria partially join Europe’s Schengen travel zone, but checks at land borders remain  Yahoo! Voices Source link

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#bulgaria #Nic Dumitrache #Romania #The European Union #travel zone #Valentina Petrova

[takjamrotsne]

66 days and now no faith in anything

The Danish woman made it through court in Dubai but because there is a month to appeal, she is still not on her way back to Denmark. So, the future of Dubai as tourist destination is still very much in doubt. If only that was the only problem for us Danes who is perhaps the population in the world who faces most challenges in our daily lives. Is there a future for Denmark? The Nato…

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#2024 #Denmark #Dubai #election #NATO #punch clocks #Russia #The European Union #tourism #Trump #USA

[reasonsforhope]

It’s an open secret in fashion. Unsold inventory goes to the incinerator; excess handbags are slashed so they can’t be resold; perfectly usable products are sent to the landfill to avoid discounts and flash sales. The European Union wants to put an end to these unsustainable practices. On Monday, [December 4, 2023], it banned the destruction of unsold textiles and footwear.

“It is time to end the model of ‘take, make, dispose’ that is so harmful to our planet, our health and our economy,” MEP Alessandra Moretti said in a statement. “Banning the destruction of unsold textiles and footwear will contribute to a shift in the way fast fashion manufacturers produce their goods.”

This comes as part of a broader push to tighten sustainable fashion legislation, with new policies around ecodesign, greenwashing and textile waste phasing in over the next few years. The ban on destroying unsold goods will be among the longer lead times: large businesses have two years to comply, and SMEs have been granted up to six years. It’s not yet clear on whether the ban applies to companies headquartered in the EU, or any that operate there, as well as how this ban might impact regions outside of Europe.

For many, this is a welcome decision that indirectly tackles the controversial topics of overproduction and degrowth. Policymakers may not be directly telling brands to produce less, or placing limits on how many units they can make each year, but they are penalising those overproducing, which is a step in the right direction, says Eco-Age sustainability consultant Philippa Grogan. “This has been a dirty secret of the fashion industry for so long. The ban won’t end overproduction on its own, but hopefully it will compel brands to be better organised, more responsible and less greedy.”

Clarifications to come

There are some kinks to iron out, says Scott Lipinski, CEO of Fashion Council Germany and the European Fashion Alliance (EFA). The EFA is calling on the EU to clarify what it means by both “unsold goods” and “destruction”. Unsold goods, to the EFA, mean they are fit for consumption or sale (excluding counterfeits, samples or prototypes)...

The question of what happens to these unsold goods if they are not destroyed is yet to be answered. “Will they be shipped around the world? Will they be reused as deadstock or shredded and downcycled? Will outlet stores have an abundance of stock to sell?” asks Grogan.

Large companies will also have to disclose how many unsold consumer products they discard each year and why, a rule the EU is hoping will curb overproduction and destruction...

Could this shift supply chains?

For Dio Kurazawa, founder of sustainable fashion consultancy The Bear Scouts, this is an opportunity for brands to increase supply chain agility and wean themselves off the wholesale model so many rely on. “This is the time to get behind innovations like pre-order and on-demand manufacturing,” he says. “It’s a chance for brands to play with AI to understand the future of forecasting. Technology can help brands be more intentional with what they make, so they have less unsold goods in the first place.”

Grogan is equally optimistic about what this could mean for sustainable fashion in general. “It’s great to see that this is more ambitious than the EU’s original proposal and that it specifically calls out textiles. It demonstrates a willingness from policymakers to create a more robust system,” she says. “Banning the destruction of unsold goods might make brands rethink their production models and possibly better forecast their collections.”

One of the outstanding questions is over enforcement. Time and again, brands have used the lack of supply chain transparency in fashion as an excuse for bad behaviour. Part of the challenge with the EU’s new ban will be proving that brands are destroying unsold goods, not to mention how they’re doing it and to what extent, says Kurazawa. “Someone obviously knows what is happening and where, but will the EU?”"

-via British Vogue, December 7, 2023

#fashion #slow fashion #style #european union #eu #eu news #eu politics #sustainability #upcycle #reuse #reduce reuse recycle #ecofriendly #fashion brands #fashion trends #waste #sustainable fashion #sustainable living #eco friendly #good news #hope

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#tumblr live #threads #eu #european union #my post

[tamfitronics]

Russina Versus Ukraine War Live

The conflict between Ukraine and Russia has been escalating in recent weeks, with both sides amassing troops along their shared border. The situation has caused alarm in the international community, with fears of a full-scale war. As the Ukrainian military is on high alert and diplomatic efforts have been made to de-escalate the situation, the search for a lasting peace has become more…

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#Russina Versus #the European Union #the United Nations Security Council

[thevvitchbitch]

#free palestine #gaza #spain #ceasefire now #west bank #jerusalem #middle east #social justice #feminism #lgbtq #palestine #defund israel #israel is a terrorist state #world news #european union

[ohfugecannada]

Any chance we could get #RejoinMarch trending on here at least? Just wondering…

#RejoinMarch #uk #united kingdom #Uk politics #RejoinEU #eu politics #european union #bbc news #sky news #itv news #uk news #NationalRejoinMarch #protest #protest march #Twitter

[targetnewz]

Russian Prankster Impersonating Macron Talks To Poland's Duda After Blast

Russian Prankster Impersonating Macron Talks To Poland’s Duda After Blast

The Polish president spoke to a fake caller pretending to be France’s Emmanuel Macron the night a missile hit a village near the Ukrainian border, his office said on Tuesday, an admission of its operation Questions is likely to be raised about. In a 7-1/2-minute recording of the call posted on the Internet by Russian comedians Vovan and Lexus, Polish President Andrzej Duda can be heard speaking…

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#Russia #The European Union #Ukraine #world News

[useless-catalanfacts]

Sweden saying they'll vote against allowing the use of Catalan, Basque and Galician in the European Union Parliament because "there's lots of minority languages and we can't allow them all" is so funny because CATALAN HAS MORE SPEAKERS THAN SWEDISH

Catalan is the 13th most spoken language in the EU. It has more than 10 million speakers, which means it has more speakers than other languages that are already official EU languages like Maltese (530,000), Estonian (1.2 million), Latvian (1.5 million), Irish (1.6 million), Slovene (2.5 million), Lithuanian (3 million), Slovak (5 million), Finnish (5.8 million), Danish (6 million), Swedish (10 million), and Bulgarian (10 million).

Neither Galician (3 million) nor Basque (750,000) would still be the least spoken languages to be allowed in the EU representative bodies.

But even if any of them did, so what? Why do speakers of smaller languages deserve less rights than those of bigger languages? How are we supposed to feel represented by the EU Parliament when our representatives aren't even allowed to speak our language, but the dominant groups can speak theirs?

It all comes down to the hatred of language/cultural diversity and the belief that it's an inconvenience, that only the languages of independent countries have any kind of value while the rest should be killed off. After all, isn't that what Sweden has been trying to do to the indigenous Sami people for centuries?

#actualitat #sweden #languages #catalan #basque #galician #sami #saami #europe #european politics #european union #language #langblr #eu #minority languages #minoritized languages #minorities #national minorities #stateless peoples #imperialism

[sayruq]

In Oct, European leaders lined up to support Israel's war on Gaza. By that point, hundreds of Palestinians had been killed in airstrikes. There was a worry among some officials that by doing this, they will end up alienated from the global south

That fear has come to fruition as countries like Bolivia cut diplomatic ties, South Africa took Israel to the ICJ, Yemen has blockaded the Red Sea (is now regularly attacking American and British warships), Malaysia has banned all Israeli ships from its ports, etc.

Here's the latest example. The EU organised the Indo-Pacific Ministerial Forum. It was a disaster for many reasons (7 European foreign ministers didn't bother to show up) but the important issue was Gaza

Simple put Israel, the EU and America will not escape accountability for what they've done to Gaza

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #global south #european union

[pressnewsagencyllc]

Explainer-Why is the EU probing Big Tech under the Digital Markets Act?

By Martin Coulter LONDON (Reuters) – The European Union on Monday launched investigations into Alphabet, Apple and Meta for potentially breaching a landmark new law designed to prevent Big Tech having an unfair advantage over competitors. Last year, Brussels designated six companies as “gatekeepers” under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), meaning they were big and powerful enough to warrant extra…

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#APPLE #dma #GOOGLE #investigations #Tech companies #The European Union

[takjamrotsne]

The European Union wants to know what you are doing

Sommer 2024 all Danes will be subjected to the same kind of heavy time count as the caretakers in the public sector suffer from. Today people in retirement homes, group homes and helpers at home by elderlies do not have that much time for the people, they are supposed to help. As result some does not get their diapers changed every day. Some do not get the food they are supposed to and some even…

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#July 2024 #law #registration of working time #The European Union