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Re:Web browsers drop mysterious company with ties to U.S. mi... by tinus_hn on Thursday December 01, 2022 @02:25AM (#33813351)
What’s to prevent the EU from declaring itself trustworthy?
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Re:Web browsers drop mysterious company with ties to U.S. mi... by josefx on Thursday December 01, 2022 @03:48AM (#33813865)
Its courts? At least that is the only thing that keeps the EU Commission from going full police state.
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Re:Web browsers drop mysterious company with ties to U.S. mi... by tgv on Thursday December 01, 2022 @05:08AM (#33814389)
The EU Commission? You mean, the one without an actual police force or army, or any say over the member states' criminal legislation? That Commission?
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Re:Web browsers drop mysterious company with ties to U.S. mi... by anticensor on Thursday December 01, 2022 @05:58AM (#33814749)
PESCO and Europol exist. Not a body of the EU commission, but still.
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Re:Web browsers drop mysterious company with ties to U.S. mi... by josefx on Thursday December 01, 2022 @07:26AM (#33815330)
> or any say over the member states' criminal legislation? That Commission?

One of the jobs of the commission is deciding whether member states are in line with their treaty obligations, that includes any laws passed by said member states.

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Re:Web browsers drop mysterious company with ties to U.S. mi... by simplotek on Thursday December 01, 2022 @05:31AM (#33814526)
> At least that is the only thing that keeps the EU Commission from going full police state.

Such an extraordinary claim.

Are you able to provide any evidence that supports your claim that at any time the EU Commission tried to go "full police state", and that courts kept that from happening?

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Re:Web browsers drop mysterious company with ties to U.S. mi... by pmontra on Thursday December 01, 2022 @05:35AM (#33814561)
The Commission and the Parliament can do whatever they want but it's the Council that de facto has the final word on everything that matters.
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Re:Web browsers drop mysterious company with ties to U.S. mi... by tinus_hn on Thursday December 01, 2022 @12:52PM (#33819832)
The EU court can only rule using laws written by the EU
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