Post Axat3AHje1GOUifQvI by marcas@mastodon.ie
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(DIR) Post #Axat392SHLRkd2ViT2 by johnnyryan@eupolicy.social
2025-08-26T05:54:08Z
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The EU must use the anti coercion instrument now, or be humiliated. Europe must be free to enforce its own law on its own soil.
(DIR) Post #Axat3AHje1GOUifQvI by marcas@mastodon.ie
2025-08-26T11:51:34Z
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@johnnyryan Time for EU states to abolish their statutes effectively making the US DMCA domestic law. (They did this at American insistence as the price for no- or low-tariff access to the US market. Now that Trump has reneged on the US end of the bargain, other states should feel free to say: "Fuck you Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Meta: our people can reverse engineer your shit to their hearts' content".)
(DIR) Post #Axat3GuF1ld71sjGm8 by johnnyryan@eupolicy.social
2025-08-26T06:01:37Z
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Big tech firms would not be the problem that they now are if we had actually enforced the GDPR in 2018. But we - Ireland and the European Commission - allowed them to trample EU law. Now they are a major geostrategic problem, and the EU has a massive case of “vendor lock in”, too.Time for change.
(DIR) Post #Axat3OoVcxnXYQ6nx2 by johnnyryan@eupolicy.social
2025-08-26T06:17:14Z
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Europe hyped its “trade bazooka”. Is it real? https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20230915STO05214/anti-coercion-instrument-the-eu-s-new-weapon-to-protect-trade
(DIR) Post #Axat3WXmt1AxWsLYzw by johnnyryan@eupolicy.social
2025-08-26T06:17:29Z
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The U.S. knows that trade ain’t just about trade. Just as Brussels should now understand that Competition and Data Protection are not just about markets and privacy. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-weighs-sanctions-officials-implementing-eu-tech-law-sources-2025-08-25/
(DIR) Post #Axat3ee6lOz8enMixc by johnnyryan@eupolicy.social
2025-08-26T06:19:55Z
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This is a bigger battle. U.S. policy is to boost authoritarians in to power across Europe, and to squeeze Europe until the pips squeak. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/15/us-europe-military-spending-trump-ireland
(DIR) Post #Axat3mw7wI9UMzrE9o by johnnyryan@eupolicy.social
2025-08-26T10:46:46Z
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Europe has to stand up now or it will be forced to accept the continued boosting of authoritarians in to power in every member state. Our backs are against the wall. There is nowhere left to run. We need our leaders to act.
(DIR) Post #Axat3ukisZmcbwaEUa by johnnyryan@eupolicy.social
2025-08-26T11:45:29Z
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Europe cannot trade away defence of its democracies for a Trump security guarantee that may not be worth much.
(DIR) Post #Axat42L8fa4W8ufuj2 by johnnyryan@eupolicy.social
2025-08-26T12:12:10Z
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Apparently Commission spokespeople are claiming today that the Anti-Coercion Instrument can't be used against threats. However, the law says otherwise. Time to come back from your holidays people. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:02023R2675-20231207
(DIR) Post #Axat49h1KcjawnxzIu by johnnyryan@eupolicy.social
2025-08-26T17:54:48Z
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Incredible. The European Commission's most senior political leader for "Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy" @HennaVirkkunen apparently has nothing to say today. Except the post below, which is astonishing considering the circumstances.