Bruh, “stopping” slavery in the us was also deemed a burden for cotton businesses.
What a shit argument: yes if your business relies on preying on either humans or the environment it should be difficult to continue business as usual; yes that is exactly the point. If you can’t proof that that’s not the case then you can’t possibly know for sure that it’s not. Yes that is exactly the point.
Dumb neoliberal ignorant fucks. (Goes out also also to my dudes in German politics fucking with this: fuck all’a’yall!)
Bruh, “stopping” slavery in the us was also deemed a burden for cotton businesses.
And it was the USA along with Britain (and Europe) that stopped it within their own countries, is Africa incapable of doing the same hundreds of years after others? If not should we recolonise them so we can implement basic human rights in Africa in 2025? :))
The problem right now is that the EU has too much regulation and it is stagnating, specifically compliance costs have grown massively:
The costs of the expanding compliance burden are enormous. In Denmark the number of applicable regulations, both Danish and European, for the average firm rose by 63% from 2001 to 2023.5 For the chemical industry, annual compliance costs for small and medium enterprises have almost doubled in 10 years from €332.500 in 2014 to €577.000 in 2023.6 To this cost we must add GDPR compliance, at €500.000 for SMEs to €10m for large organisations.7
The stunning thing is that all this European legislation does not replace national legislation! This duplication, according to the Draghi report, costs another €200bn per year due to complex procedures, excessive national requirements and unharmonized labelling standards.8
You would prefer EU companies to go broke investigating and trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist in 99.9% of EU companies, it’s just more paperwork that needs filling out to satisfy the paper gods…
It’s ridiculous! Why is it that the EU has to have its companies go through and search through its supply chains all over the world to find irregularities and report on them and no one else does? Maybe if the EU was in #1 position and everyone had spare money and time to throw around sure but right now the EU needs less compliance burden and more freedom to fight against the big boys of China and USA
fuck all’a’yall
Why are you typing like an American 🤮 Please stop it’s embarrassing
And it was the USA along with Britain (and Europe) that stopped it within their own countries, is Africa incapable of doing the same hundreds of years after others?
You may find that most Africans states are not all that old and you may also find that there are postcolonial relationships between EU and African countries. As in, we’re still sucking these countries dry and aren’t providing all that much in return.
Why is it that the EU has to have its companies go through and search through its supply chains all over the world to find irregularities and report on them and no one else does?
Yikes. Because we subscribe to certain values, such as the declaration of human rights. Possibly also because global inequalities create massive migration streams.
Because we subscribe to certain values, such as the declaration of human rights.
and no one else does? just Europe?
Mostly, it seems. The UK is no longer part of the EU and it was the first to prescribe companies create a Anti-Slavery Policy (afaik, that law is toothless though).
I don’t think whether the EU is the only (or just the first!) bloc to enact a supply-chain transparency law is an argument against such a law at all though. Especially given the connectedness and trade power of the EU, such a law can do a great deal, even if it is enacted only in this part of the world.
I’m not saying the laws are a bad idea, I think they’re not a good idea right now as Europe is faltering economically and adding additional regulatory burden on EU businesses is taking it in the wrong direction
Both France and Germany are having massive issues over their countries finances right now and the EU as a whole is losing out to the USA and China not just on innovation/productivity but the income, taxes and jobs these provide.
Hyperbolic Youtube videos:
The Problem with Europe’s Economy | Economy of Europe | Econ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp2IALaLeQw
Europe’s Missing Trillions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOO41jlHRb8
Will The EU Fail? | Economics Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds5FVrT5udw
And political turmoil:
The collapse of the three-way alliance caps months of wrangling over budget policy and Germany’s economic direction.
France eyes €32B in spending cuts and €21B in tax hikes
Europe is spending too much and making too little, it makes little sense to continue forward in this direction because it usually ends up badly for Europeans as their social benefits are slowly stripped away as we’re already seeing:
The law was to deal with a pension system budget deficit projected to reach €13.5 billion per year by 2030.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_French_pension_reform_law
The other option is to continue to increase state spending like Argentina and end up with 1000% inflation
Mhm I dunno, I rather enjoy my chocolate and coffee and what not being slavery free.
You can already do this by yourself, you just need to look for this logo:
https://www.fairtrade.net/de-de/Was-ist-Fairtrade/der-fairtrade-ansatz/Fairtrade-Siegel.html
yeah but afaik the Fairtrade certificate is optional. CSDDD is mandatory.
