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Re:European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad t... by lucianbr on Friday September 05, 2025 @03:41PM (#45142772)
Who does "enforcement" in Sweden? Is the police somehow under the courts? Same for things like consumer protection agencies, environment protection and so on? Are prosecutors somehow in the same group as the judges? That may work for you, but I see some potential for abuse there as well. I think that is how it turned out in Japan, once you are prosecuted conviction is a foregone conclusion.
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Re:European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad t... by victorbjorklund on Friday September 05, 2025 @03:47PM (#45142828)
No, they are not. The police is under the control of the central government (and that includes the courts). Yes, it is true that swedish politicans dont want to give the impression they control the actions of the police etc but of course in the end they do. The difference is maybe in the US politicans say "I gave the order to the police to do X" while in Sweden they would say in private "you probably should do X or we might find a replacement"
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Re:European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad t... by Zironic on Friday September 05, 2025 @03:50PM (#45142860)
The way it works is that the goverment (The politicians in executive positions) are allowed to write policy for all goverment agencies but they're not legally allowed to tell the agency how to handle any given individual case.
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Re:European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad t... by lucianbr on Friday September 05, 2025 @03:53PM (#45142892)
Who hires / appoints the chiefs of the agencies?
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Re:European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad t... by Y-bar on Friday September 05, 2025 @05:52PM (#45144083)
The government, specifically the Regering and the prime minister: https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utn%C3%A4mningsmakten_i_Sver... (sorry only in Swedish)
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