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Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values by rsynnott on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:44AM (#43279066)
> but an org that doesn't impose any kind of universal values across the different diverse members except some laws that ease trade, labor movement and cooperation and that's it

Also human rights, democracy, anti-corruption stuff. Now, as we've seen with Orban, Europe's mechanism for actually _enforcing_ this is basically defective.

And peace. Like, the original stated intent of the Coal and Steel Treaty (the EU's ultimate predecessor) was to prevent another European war (largely by making it economically impracticable).

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Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values by AlecSchueler on Thursday March 06, 2025 @08:21AM (#43279881)
> And peace. Like, the original stated intent of the Coal and Steel Treaty (the EU's ultimate predecessor) was to prevent another European war (largely by making it economically impracticable).

And has a war broken out amongst ECSC/EU countries?

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