Notices by abolitionniste 🇪🇺 (abolitionniste@bagarrosphere.fr), page 2

Law or Fear. The Supreme Court Chooses by #TimothySnyder

"Trump disqualified himself from office by taking part in an insurrection and thereby seeking to substitute the rule of fear for the rule of law... The hard part, of course, is that... We fear the oath-breaker and the oathbreaker plays on our fear. And so we seek the excuses that will allow us not to take responsibility... And so it is our very fear that is the signal that we must act."

https://snyder.substack.com/p/law-or-fear

Bad Arguments and Good Historians. The History of Section 3 and the Future of the Republic by #TimothySnyder

"three bad... excuses for the Supreme Court not to apply the plain wording of the Constitution... These bad arguments have been met by good history, provided in two amicus briefs signed by two groups of prominent historians with expertise on the issues in question."

https://snyder.substack.com/p/bad-arguments-and-good-historians

#Ukraine ’s fate, Europe’s choice. After a century of struggle, Ukrainians have chosen Europe against Russia. Now Europe must decide: allow Ukraine to be defeated or help it to victory? by #TimothyGartonAsh

"Ukraine has made its European choice. Now Europe must make its Ukrainian choice... We Europeans need to decide and act fast. If we continue to dither... we will end up making the wrong choice by default, with disastrous consequences for decades to come."

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe/ukraine/64563/ukraines-fate-europes-choice

#TimothySnyder and other experts in democracy's survival to the Supreme Court.

"This brief seeks to provide the Court with an understanding of how the events surrounding the 2020 election and the violence on January 6, 2021, appear in relation to events that have caused democratic erosion and collapse in other countries... Democracy is historically rare... But democracy is fragile..."

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-719/299402/20240131142658027_2024.01.31%20Final%20Brief%20of%20Democracy%20Experts.pdf

After more than a year I finished viewing the 23 #TimothySnyder 's lectures The Making of Modern #Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNewfxO7LhBoz_1Mx1MaO6sw_ . Each about 50 minutes. I suggest everybody should go through this intellectual and emotional experience. Clear English, subtitles with translation possibility available. Goes way beyond narrow story. Contains insights important to understand the Universe around us. #MyEU #GermanyEU #colonialism #imperialism #agency #StatesEU United States #evil #courage ... 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇷🇺

Yes 🙂

So formal is, for example, paragraph 1 of article 15 of #TEU https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A12016M015 :

> The European Council shall provide the Union with the necessary impetus for its development and shall define the general political directions and priorities thereof. It shall not exercise legislative functions.

Shall I study the Treaties or is some concise description of the roles of the Union Bodies available?

@pmroman @jmaris @elCelio @HistoPol @nooartur @Veza85UE

#MyEU #EUCO

Would it be possible to separate clearly, what are (1) the 'formal'(?) rules and what are (2) 'informal' or 'de facto' 'influences' or 'guidelines' or 'directions'? I am confused 🙂

Re all this 8 toots: https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=271#p271

@elCelio @HistoPol @jmaris @nooartur @pmroman @Veza85UE

#MyEU #StatesEU #EUCO #EC

Yes 🙂

So, we have the Treaties. I guess it is this: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/collection/eu-law/treaties/treaties-force.html .

So, what the Treaties say about the EUCO declarations and about the conclusions? Or more generally, how the Treaties set the legislative processes and decision making and the roles of the bodies?

Should I study the Treaties or is there a concise and accessible description at the level for, say, students of a secondary school?

@jmaris @elCelio @HistoPol @nooartur @pmroman @Veza85UE

#MyEU

As a detour to https://eupolicy.social/@Veza85UE/111688177027828831 @Veza85UE 2.1.2024:
> https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022/03/11/the-versailles-declaration-10-11-03-2022/
I have a question concerning the legal status of such 'declarations'.

More details:
https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=242#p242

Or translated:
https://trojkatretiho-cz.translate.goog/viewtopic.php?p=242&_x_tr_sl=cs&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en#p242

@elCelio @pmroman

#MyEU #StatesEU

>> https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022/03/11/the-versailles-declaration-10-11-03-2022/
> I have a question concerning the legal status of such 'declarations'.

What is the 'legal status' of such 'declarations'?

For me with this 'declaration' with the words "informal meeting", the question is, what the legal status of this 'declaration' actually is. Somehow it seems to me, that it is neither part of 'legislating activity'(?) of the European Union, nor is it an "international treaty". It seems to me more like a "letter of intent" of the current rulers...

Trump cannot run for office. According to the U.S. Constitution by #TimothySnyder

I admire Snyder's willingness to reiterate and defend a few basic truths that are otherwise drowning in the deluge of particularities.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/trump-cannot-run-for-office

Safe Skies. Over more of Ukraine, thanks to you. By #TimothySnyder.

"... a season for generosity. It feels good to do good. So please help me to bring Safe Skies to four more regions of Ukraine. The donation link is here (https://u24.gov.ua/safeskies). Please share this post with others who might want to help."

https://snyder.substack.com/p/safe-skies-8a2

It seems here #we have #CyberEU experts 🙂

@HannahRuschemeier @RainerMuehlhoff https://legal.social/@verfassungsblog/111584651974031237

cc: @ErikJonker #MyEU

Who are the basic income people in 🇪🇺?

#MyEU #LeftEU #ValuesEU #BasicIncomeEU

re: https://hachyderm.io/@scottsantens/111527914331245425

cc: @scottsantens 🎺 @paka 🚀

#MyEU #BabelEU #EnglishEU

@fedifaschifo's profile:
> Does the Fediverse suck?
> Is the Italian Fediverso too Italian?

#I believe, #we, the #Unionians, should think about #EU conversation space which:
1. Includes the coversation spaces of the 24 official languages (and of other languages).
2. Uses also Union English but is distinct(?) from the us, uk, au, nz, in... (Global? English) conversation spaces.
Let us cooperate 🙂 Report in 🙂

@nemobis, yes, https://eupolicy.social, yes, https://respublicae.eu. You write from https://mamot.fr. Not sure, where to have an account. I like https://bagarrosphere.fr. Let us talk about the goals and possible cooperations. I am trying to gather toots to my goals under some tags: #MyEU #BabelEU #GeoEU #CyberEU ... What are you trying to do? What we may do together? 🙂

cc: @fedifaschifo

#TimothySnyder: Would you sell them out? A question for American lawmakers about Ukraine.

"Imagine that things had gotten so bad that a dictatorship actually invaded a democracy with the express goal of destroying its freedoms and its people.... imagine that this people fought back. Imagine that their leaders stayed in the country. Imagine that this people got themselves together... and... held back an invasion of what seemed like overwhelming force."

https://snyder.substack.com/p/would-you-sell-them-out