Gerd_Brodowski
@Gerd_Brodowski@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday
#eu #spain #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #genocide / #sanctions / #symbolpolicy

(EU foreign policy: 1000 appeals - zero sanctions)

»In the wake of a damning EU review of Israel's human rights record in Gaza, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez slammed his colleagues for not moving to suspend a trade deal with Israel despite what he called "the catastrophic situation of genocide."«

https://www.dw.com/en/double-standards-spain-slams-eu-inaction-on-israel-deal/a-73055177

See also:

„Spain PM accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza“
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/06/26/spain-pm-accuses-israel-of-genocide-in-gaza-as-65-more-killed_6742755_4.html
Miguel Afonso Caetano
@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

"To create a European public internet, it's neither necessary nor desirable to have your digital life operated by the EU and its member states, nor by its private contractors. Instead, the EU could make Eurostack a provider of technological public goods.

For example, the EU could work to improve federated social media systems, like Mastodon and Bluesky. EU coders could contribute to the server and client software for both. They could participate in future versions of the standard. They could provide maintenance code in response to bug reports, and administer bug bounties. They could create tooling for server administrators, including moderation tools, both for Mastodon and for Bluesky, whose "composable moderation" system allows users to have the final say over their moderation choices. The EU could perform and/or fund labelling work to help with moderation.

The EU could also provide tooling to help server administrators stand up their own independent Mastodon and Bluesky servers.
(...)
In addition to improving federated social media, the EU and its member states can and should host their own servers, both for their own official accounts and for public use. Giving the public a digital home is great, especially if anyone who chafes at the public system's rules can hop onto a server run by a co-op, a friend group, a small business or a giant corporation with just a couple clicks, without losing any of their data or connections.

This is essential facilities sharing for services. Combine it with public data centers and tooling for migrating servers from and to the public server to a private, or nonprofit, or co-op data-center, and you've got the equivalent of publicly available conduit, data-centers, and fiber.

In addition to providing code, services and hardware, the EU can continue to provide regulation to facilitate the public internet."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/25/eurostack/#viktor-orbans-isp

#EU#PublicInternet#DigitalSovereignty#Decentralization#SocialMedia
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

The Green Party is right; we do need to sit down with the EU & establish exactly what would be needed to being a process of re-joining the EU....

'the best way to restore prosperity, protect the environment & strengthen security is to rebuild the partnership we walked away from'.

Anyone wondering where sensible people might flock to as Labour continues its lurch to the right, might want to ask themselves: why not the Green Party?

#politics#EU

https://greenparty.org.uk/2025/06/23/nine-years-since-brexit/
Exec
@exec@furry.engineer  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Hey, the Stop Killing Games initiative still has a chance on passing.
Even though the signatures are only halfway through and there's only a month left, remember we still managed to pass the conversion therapy ban initiative when it only had a week or so left.
Demotivated video on it: https://youtu.be/HIfRLujXtUo
Actual link for the signatures collection: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

#games #gaming #videogames #videogamepreservation #eu #europe #europeanunion #stopkillinggames
European Commission
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu  ·  activity timestamp last week

Hate has no place in our societies.

It fuels division, conflict, and undermines human rights.

On International Day for Countering Hate Speech, we reaffirm our commitment to stamping it out, in all its forms.

Europe is acting through concrete frameworks such as the ECHR, Digital Services Act, and laws banning incitement to hatred.

Say #NoToHate, today, and every day.

Find out more about what we’re doing to combat hate speech: https://europa.eu/!Hf6cVb
GeoRg
@MrGR@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
@EUCommission Warum ist dieser Artikel auf Ihrer Website ausschließlich in englischer Sprache verfügbar und nicht in allen anderen Nationalsprachen der EU? Mit Hilfe moderner KI dürfte dies eigentlich kein technisches Problem mehr sein, alle Texte in allen Amtssprachen der EU verfügbar zu machen. #Sprache#Inklusion#EU#Europa