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BenKenobi said:
The GDPR came into force today. According to certain people in the Czech Republic, this marks the end of the (western) world as we know it.

Yeah, one of the objectively best things to come out of Brussels in quite some time and it has the PR of a second Munich treaty.

I know people who refuse to have a Facebook account and deliberately got old button cell phones so that corporate illuminati Soroses don't get any of their personal data and yet consider the GDPR a "typical elitist EU bureaucratic nonsense". The mind keeps on boggling.
 
If anything, it is a testament to a complete incompetence of the Czech government. The GDPR was passed in 2016 but apparently the only date anyone is able to notice is entry into force and therefore any public debate regarding the Regulation only started 3 or 4 months before that date. And both governments did jack ****, since communicating an EU thing to the public could be seen as being a pro-EU or something and would lose sweet political points, and therefore pretty much the only public figure doing what should have been done was Věra Jourová who is, *sigh*, an EU commissioner. There is a ****ing majority stating that GDPR goes too far but at the same time they refuse to even try to create any exemptions that other ****ing countries managed to do, by not passing the implementing legislation. This is absolutely ridiculous - the same people who criticize the EU for being incapable are not able to do such a ****ing simple task. And a number of politicians say things about GDPR that do not even amount to criticism, but are outright lies.

*sigh*
 
BenKenobi said:
If anything, it is a testament to a complete incompetence of the Czech government....There is a ****ing majority stating that GDPR goes too far but at the same time they refuse to even try to create any exemptions that other ****ing countries managed to do, by not passing the implementing legislation.

Not a bug, a feature imo.

They either like or don't care about the regulation. But they like having an opportunity to score ez points more. If they did pass the law, someone would have to write it and have their name on it, and defend it and explain it and it would be their law. This way, the government, literally and figuratively, dindu nuffin.
 


With the exception that GB was already left to its own devices.
 
https://www.politico.eu/article/polish-supreme-court-turns-to-ecj-for-help-older-judges-retirement-eu-rule/

Trolololo.

What is interesting is that the Polish Supreme Court apparently referred preliminary questions to the ECJ in Luxembourg to have the Lux say whether the early retirement of judges is compliant with the EU law. This would put the ECJ into extremely politicized case (this all considering that the recent LM judgment (European Arrest Warrant issued by Poland - ie. do rule of law deficiencies allow a Member State to refuse to obey the EAW issued by a problematic state?) has been described as the most political case in 20 years). The ECJ was deciding earlier in the case of Hungarian case but the Commission was tiptoeing around the rule of law and the issue was decided as an infringement of the equal treatment legislation. What they will do with Poland in a situation when Art. 7 has already been activated and the rule of law is everything everyone is talking about will be incredibly interesting.

The last thing worth mentioning is that in a draft of the Treaty of Amsterdam that brought the Art. 7 into the Treaties, it was the ECJ that was to rule on Art. 2 (which includes the rule of law) infringement. Later, it got changed to the Commission and the European Council as it was deemed that political bodies should deal with political issues instead. But now it seems the ball is on the EJC's field nevertheless.
 
In other news, Polish president during the meeting in Leżajsk mentioned how Poland needs not to care about some 'imaginary union' that 'gives us next to nothing' :grin:

Can Czechs start sustaining controlled fires on the border so it's easy to navigate in the night?
 
At least it'll serve as an example, hopefully they don't paint it in a good way insofar as the US Congress starts taking notes.
 
why the blue hell did the "eurosceptics" vote to give the very body they're supposed to be sceptical towards more power?
1: Vote for a law that sucks.
2: During election campaigns, talk about how much this law sucks & that it's the EU's fault. Don't mention you voted for it tho.
3: People who dislike this law see that you dislike it, too, but they don't know you voted for it.
4: People vote for you
 
Press release for AG Sanchéz-Bordona's opinion on the possibility of unilateral revocation of Article 50 procedure (ie. Britain stopping Brexit on its own) has been published.

https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2018-12/cp180187en.pdf

AG argues that Article 50 TEU allows the unilateral revocation of the notification of the intention to withdraw from the EU, until such time as the withdrawal agreement is formally concluded, provided that the revocation has been decided upon in accordance with the Member State’s constitutional requirements, is formally notified to the European Council and does not involve an abusive practice.

While I've grown fond of the idea of the UK ****ing off, I must say that the idea of them revoking Art. 50 procedure and thus effectively accomplishing absolutely nothing is equally appealing.
 
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