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The EU is about to sell your most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel - European Digital Rights (EDRi) (edri.org)

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[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is the eu trying to become more unpopular

[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I don't think so.

Here in Slovakia, the EU is viewed very favourably for a reason. We can work freely in whichever EEA country we want, take a walk to neighboring countries without any border checks or just freight forward a laptop that doesn't ship here to Wolfsthal and pick it up there. That's the beauty of it.

Also our Brussels overlords didn't outsource age checks to external companies, unlike the rest of the first world.

Also if the Eurofunds money isn't misplaced to serve high-ranking politicians only, some amazing things can be achieved with it.