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• Post #3713497

  RE: https://curia.social-network.europa.eu/@Curia/116730408835298643 Good news for the Europeans out there still working to defend international law and human rights: The #CJEU just ruled that being on an American sanctions list is not sufficient reason for banks to refuse people from opening accounts. People on said sanctions list includes high-ranking officers of the International Criminal Court.

• Post #2376297

  It is not entirely invisible in Copenhagen either. I have highly educated British friends with work contracts and long-term partners in Denmark who were nevertheless given an incredibly hard time to get a visa. At the university English language courses are discouraged and silent rooms are being removed because Muslim students used then to pray. When the department of law "had to" fire six permanent staff this happened almost exclusively from the tiny pool of international empl...

• Post #2376296

  Speaking of children, I've lost count on the amount of resourceful single expat mothers I know in Copenhagen who would like to leave Denmark and go home, but are unable to do so because their children would be taken away from them even though their husbands play no role in parenting, sometimes having been proven unfit to do so. They are kept hostage in Denmark because it is, apparently, always "the best interest of the child". And the glass ceiling for foreign women se...

• Post #2376294

  Yes! The instance with the highest density of social scientists is probably sciences.social: https://sciences.social/public/local @ced

• Post #284265

  @jarekrozanski@mastodon.social @HennaVirkkunen The Commission is a huge bureaucracy tied up by complex procedures, not a handful of people in a room making decisions on a whim. They will want to produce a bunch of internal documents and build the case before they initiate anything formally, and they will want to do it right. A month is not a long time in this context, it's blazingly fast.

• Post #284264

  @jarekrozanski@mastodon.social @HennaVirkkunen Announcing in public that they are opening an investigation is a separate step from doing the preparatory works to decide whether an investigation should be opened. If they made a press release every time they considered looking into something it would be a mess. This is the first step of a formal process that has real consequences, it's not just them saying "huh, we'll look into this". I agree the language is so...

• Post #284263

  RE: https://darmstadt.social/@zarasophos/115977572119978674 Excellent opinion piece about European tech sovereignty in social media. Our dependency on American big tech is rarely driven by a lack of better alternatives, but rather by path dependency and a lack of willingness to use the alternatives that are already out there.