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Are you suggesting that the EU would be identical without Article 1 in place?
by samsari 5y ago
Are you suggesting that the EU would be identical without Article 1 in place?
- breakfastduck 5y agoConsidering many states outright ignore Article 1, yes
- nchi3 5y agoWhich are these "many states" other than Poland and Hungary? It's not like Poland and Hungary are doing so without any kind of repercussions from EU.
- southerntofu 5y agoHow people are treated in practice is a matter of power balance between the people/workers and the exploiters. What is written in a book of law matters very little. The rule of law is a cynical joke reserved to people who can pay million-dollar lawyers. For the rest of us, only raw force and humiliation by police/tribunals exist and the law is a farce. Those in power who commit crimes will usually never spend a single day in prison, and when they exceptionally do they get built a special-purpose luxury cell which has nothing to do with prison. The rest of us get tortured and imprisoned because of fake police testimonies. The situation is not as bad here in France as it is in Belarus/China/USA/Colombia, but it's certainly not as good as human rights declaration imply. If only human rights declarations were respected, then we would have a decent life and nobody would struggle for basic survival (food & housing). Unfortunately, we all know how it goes in the 5th richest nation in the world with 10% of the population living under the poverty line.