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"In Lapavitsas’ view, from a working class perspective, national-democratic sovereignty can be the only basis for supra-national social democracy in Europe. The EU in its present form is beyond salvation."
- #WayneHope
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2019/09/25/rethinking-brexit-a-review-of-costas-lapavitsas-the-left-case-against-the-eu-london-polity-2019/

This is one of the best political-economic analyses I've seen of who supports the UK leaving and remaining in the #EU, and why.

European Copyright Directive implementation begins

Last week the Directive on #Copyright in the Digital Single Market was published in the Official Journal of the European Union, formally kicking off the implementation phase in which the Directive will be transposed into the national laws of the #EU Member States. EU countries will have until 7 June 2021 to adopt the provisions laid down in the directive into their respective copyright laws.

via All Shares Considered:
https://us.e-activist.com/page/message?mid=896d963ee2864179997cf978239b1596

@alexl don't get me wrong, I'm no uncritical fan of the #EU. There are many legitimate criticisms of its current "neoliberal" shape. But it's a #federation, it's taken that shape because it's member governments were and are still mired in "neoliberalist" assumptions. That doesn't mean important #PublicInterest threat fires can't be put out at EU level, and fighting them there avoids from having to fight the same fires over and over in multiple countries.
@bob

@maryjane @Sir_Boops so 100% true.

"Who's got a Samsung charger?" used to be my slogan in the Good Ole Days.

The microUSB and now USB-C standarization - we largely have the #EU to thank for that. And I happen to know how insanely hard it was to push it through against the immense lobbying.

@kaikatsu Ok. The other day I posted a link to an #ActOut podcast discussing the #NewsGuard soft censorship system run by US neo-cons. Is #EUnomia the #EU version of the same thing?

What the hell is going on?
For anyone outside the UK who doesn't understand what the hell is going on here at the moment, let me put this in terms that any sane person should be able to understand:

Theresa May has got the only deal she's going to get from the EU.
The EU has said there is no other deal than the one they've given.
Just about everyone hates the deal for one reason or another.
Everyone
http://www.cannon-linux.co.uk/2019/01/what-the-hell-is-going-on/
#Brexit #EU

How will the new #EU copyright law affect social.coop, and Mastodon at large?

cc. @mayel @ntnsndr @mattcropp @Matt_Noyes @h

Reading the wonderful "Ours to Hack and to Own" I discovered that the #EU invested €60mil into a complete suite of #FOSS tools meant to enable and empower digital and distributed democracy.

#ReadingGroup

https://dcentproject.eu/