The EU constitution indeed moved more matters to the codecision procedure, where the EU parliament is involved, I agree with that.
But the power of the parliament within the codecision procedure remained unchanged, as it was before and as it is now: the EU parliament cannot propose a directive (only the unelected EU commission can), and the EU parliament cannot trump the EU council on some amendment. Its only real power is to block a directive.
The EU constitution did not propose to change that, and the Lisbon treaty did not change it as well. The EU is an a-democratic framework where your elected MEP have very little power.
They have a double digit sales tax rate and the biggest deficit out of every state
Correct me if I am wrong, but it is also by far the wealthiest out of every state: the deficit is not a serious problem. Look at how EU screws itself with its obsession on member state deficits, this is not a path to follow
Do you know the differences between the EU constitutional treaty and the Lisbon treaty? They almost bring the same changes, written differently. The EU constitutional treaty replaced all previously exiting treaties (Rome and Maastricht, modified by Nice, Amsterdam and the Unique Act), while the Lisbon treaty is a huge set of amendments on previous treaties.
There are subtle but important differences on the result, thought. The EU Constitutional treaty validated the EU Court of Justice decision that EU treaties trumped member state constitutions (which is not obvious since EU treaties exist based on member state constitutions). That highly controversial part was removed from Lisbon treaty, which led to the bizarre situation where EU treaties trump some member state constitutions, but not all of them: Germany's constitutional court had a decision rejecting EU treaties supremacy.
Factually incorrect. Treaty was changed. The only ones I ever heard claiming otherwise are the rabid anti-EU parties well known to simply ignore facts when they don't suit their populist needs.
Valery Giscard d'Estaing, who was the lead writer of the EU constitutional treaty, told us Lisbon treaty was equivalent. You can trust him, he is not an anti-EU populist.
Except that the People of France and Netherlands did not change their mind. The treaty that they rejected by referendum was finally adopted as the Lisbon treaty without new referendum.
The People voted badly, proceed without asking them again. Is it democracy in your opinion?
TFA says:
VPN services that wish to operate within China are required to register with Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for permission
Would it make sense for corporate VPN to register? I mean the situation where the VPN service is only accessible for non Chineese employees visiting mainland for business purpose.
And if it makes sense, what is the procedure?
We run liberal democracies here in EU
EU is liberal, but no democratic. Do you remember the Lisbon treaty was adopted as a rewrite of the EU constitutional treaty, which was rejected by referendum in France and Netherlands?
There is no F******G war going on. 20 people where killed, 17 by terrorists.
Agreed, except these were not terrorists but just murderers. Common people are not terrorized by some inivisble threat that may kill them.
I must concede some journalists are terrorized, That twists press coverage of the situation.
From TFA
The chemicals they create when they dissolve—mostly a plastic, plus zinc, an essential mineral—are supposed to be safe for the body
What plastic are we talking about? Polyethylene and polypropylene are safe. Polycarbonate and polystyrene are definitively not safe. The generic term "plastic" does not tell us much about safety.
I understand you have no problem with taking wealth away from workers if that maximize market efficiency. That seems a paradox since it means increasing market efficiency does not bring more wealth for most human beings, but I guess this is just an "efficiency" definition problem.
Beside this I note you did not address the problem of renewing workforce. Corporations need skilled workers, and training workers (that is: education) is an investment. A free labor market seems unable to handle that properly: who wants to invest on training workers if they can move to another company at any time? And if no actor leaves money for education, you have an obvious problem for every actors.
The paper points that CNNIC is under government control and should not be trusted as a CA, but the attack described does not involve any CNNIC wrongdoing: the rogue certificates were self-signed
That is nonsense to me. Indeed CA integrity should be questioned, but wrongdoing CA leaves trails, since a bad CA they issue is signed.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.