#post-eu

[fabcreature]

so....

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

just to be completely clear, the amount of military power and political influence Israel has has NOTHING to do with its settlers being Jewish. Israel is a force for American & European interests in the region and they're just doing what America does and allows/encourages its close allies to do.

war crimes aren't considered war crimes when someone America finds useful is doing them. european and american pushback against anyone criticizing Israeli apartheid & genocide is 100% because these crimes are useful to American & European hegemony.

Governments that are deeply antisemitic, like France, aren't suddenly caring about Jewish people. Jewish people, persecuted the world over, don't hold some kind of hegemonic power outside of Israel.

The state of Israel and its attendant brutal treatment of the locals are both incredibly useful to the US, and American hegemony means we're expected to celebrate both.

not bc they're Jewish. this isn't a break in the pattern of western antisemitism and it's not evidence that antisemitism doesn't exist.

it's just like how you could get fired for saying shit against the US war in Afghanistan when i was growing up. it is 100% about US military and political interests (ok slightly western europe too but lbr)

[sonicskullsalt]

[splatoonusna]

"Frye here with a BIG scoop! We got the Grand Festival set list for you. During the first part, all three groups will rotate between the three stages. And in the second part, the whole Now or Never Seven will put on a special performance! Don't miss it!" - Frye

[felassan]

Acting cast for Rook in Dragon Age: The Veilguard -

Erika Ishii - US/North American Rook Bryony Corrigan - United Kingdom/EU Rook Jeff Berg - US/North American Rook Alex Jordan - United Kingdom/EU Rook

[source, images from IMDB, companions post]

[mightyantcolony]

I might have accidentally developed another hyperfixation

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[reasonsforhope]

An illegal toxic dump site in Croatia, the theft of water from a major aquifer in southern Spain, illegal trading of ozone-depleting refrigerants in France: This is just a sampling of the environmental crimes that European countries are struggling to stop. The lack of accountability for these acts stems in part from the European Union’s legal code, which experts say is riddled with vague definitions and gaps in enforcement. That’s about to change. 

Last week, EU lawmakers voted in a new directive that criminalizes cases of environmental damage “comparable to ecocide,” a term broadly defined as the severe, widespread, and long-term destruction of the natural world. Advocates called the move “revolutionary,” both because it sets strict penalties for violators, including up to a decade in jail, and because it marks the first time that an international body has created a legal pathway for the prosecution of ecocide.

“This decision marks the end of impunity for environmental criminals and could usher in a new age of environmental litigation in Europe,” wrote Marie Toussaint, a French lawyer and EU parliamentarian for the Greens/European Free Alliance group, on X...

The new directive uses the term “ecocide” in its preamble, but does not criminalize the act by laying out a legal definition (the most widely accepted definition of ecocide was developed by an international panel of experts in 2021). Instead, it works by providing a list of “qualified offenses,” or crimes that fall within its purview. These include pollution from ships, the introduction of invasive species, and ozone depletion...

The new law holds people liable for environmental destruction if they acted with knowledge of the damage their actions would cause. This aspect of the law is important, experts said, because it means that a permit is no longer enough for a company to avoid culpability.  

“If new information shows that behavior is causing irreversible damage to health and nature – you will have to stop,” a member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands, Antonius Manders, told Euronews. 

Advocates like Mehta hope that the EU’s move will have influence beyond Europe’s borders. The principal goal of the Stop Ecocide campaign is for the International Criminal Court to designate ecocide as the fifth international crime that it prosecutes, after crimes against humanity, war crimes, crimes of aggression, and genocide. At the moment, environmental destruction can only be prosecuted as a war crime at the ICC, and limitations in the law make this extremely difficult to do...

Kate Mackintosh, the executive director of the Netherlands-based UCLA Law Promise Institute Europe, told Grist that the ICC is unlikely to adopt an ecocide law if other countries do not do so first. 

“It’s not something you can just pull out of thin air,” she said, adding that any international legal doctrine has to have a precedent on the national level. “That’s the way states are going to accept it.”

The EU’s 27 member states will have two years to adapt the new legislation into their penal codes. Afterwards, their implementation must be reviewed and updated at least once every five years using a “risk-analysis based approach,” to account for advancements in experts’ understanding of what might constitute an environmental crime. Mehta said that despite its omission of some important offenses, the law sets an important example for other countries. Several days before the EU vote, Belgium adapted its criminal code to include the directive, making it the first country in Europe to recognize ecocide as a crime.

The ruling “shows leadership and compassion,” Mehta said. “It will establish a clear moral as well as legal ‘red line’, creating an essential steer for European industry leaders and policy-makers going forward.”

-via Grist, March 6, 2024

[iisabelinski]

The lovely chaps behind the FANTASTIC Interregnum fics loved my ✨PRACTICAL SPACE FASHION MARA✨ so much that they asked if we could get a companion piece to celebrate the completion of their latest work.

AND WHO THE F*CK AM I TO SAY NO??!

Rogue Squadron jacket Luke? Non-black wearing Luke? Blaster-wielding, badass Luke? Slightly-older, lines-across-his-forehead Luke? YES.

Oh, also, I updated Mara's face a bit as well, so it would match more with the lighting and shading I did for him.

[being-of-rain]

It's so silly that the Doctor Who expanded universe will have novels and audio dramas that are famous and beloved in the small fandom they belong to—there'll be stories that are held up as defining works in the franchise and some of the best Doctor Who full stop—most everyone who's dipped their toes into the Who EU will have read, listened, or heard of these stories—and two decades after they're released, their Tardis Wiki entry will be like 'plot: to be added'. What are we doing here gang. Group huddle group huddle. Who was in charge of the plot summaries

[tardis-technician]

This is what eu fans sound like

[zagreus-eats-your-bread]

8th dr who textposts + some Fitzie

[ironsnows]

Watching the EU election results be like ..

[sonicskullsalt]

https://www.lsvd.de/de/ct/11665-Was-wollen-die-Parteien-fuer-LSBTIQ-in-der-EU-tun

Vom LSVD zusammengestellte Übersicht der Parteien zu queeren Themen.

Die Reihenfolge der dargestellten Ergebnisse orientiert sich an der Größe der Stimmenanteile pro Partei bei der letzten EU-Wahl im Jahr 2019. Andere Parteien: Trotz Fristverlängerung von vier auf sechs Wochen haben die folgenden Parteien keine Antworten auf die Wahlprüfsteine gegeben: BSW (begründet), ÖDP (begründet) und Die Partei (unbegründet).

[whompthatsucker1981]

message to all brazilians:

please survive

[mightyantcolony]

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