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I've seen this claimed and if true I hope that a lot of people were convicted, not just her. Because I know for a fact that this exact setup has been used by other MEPs.

And you have done your civic duty and reported these cases of crime you know of happening to prosecutors/law enforcement?

Yes, if anyone else was doing it, they should be charged. Even in this case, it wasn't merely Le Pen. The case involved over 10 people being charged for various roles in misappropriation funds.

The size of the stick is purely about comfort level. You seriously suggest 140 million Russians will beat 480 million European union population. With better industrial capacity, more planes and so on.

They bogged down with 40 million Ukrainians.

What having USA buys "it isn't even a fight". Which seems to be many peoples comfort level. My comfort level is "99% it isn't a fight, 1% it is a fight, it won't be a walk over picnic to Moscow".

I also could get driven over by a drunk driver tomorrow and that is more likely, than Russia attacking us in next decade even without USA on our side.

"Owwww please daddy USA, save us from having to have any level of risk to concern with at all, 1% of risk is too much risk".

Good of him to notice, the campaign seems to be working then. Thus carry on and continue demonstrating and boycotting people.

He is on a stupid "let's play nice with USA and maybe the leopard doesn't eat our face" campaign. Even though this leopard has memory of gold fish regarding who his friends are. As Finn it is sad and pathetic. We didn't scream USA to defend us before we joined NATO and now suddenly supposedly we are utterly incapable of anything should USA be mean to us, since we didn't say thank you and wear a suit.

Guy is literally putting nice words to Trumps mouth, when in reality there is none.

Hey our dear president, as a Finnish conscript reserve what I'm I to you? A joke? There is 900k reserves and USA doesn't make our field artillery. Stop pandering to the orange one. It's embarrassing, under mines our international position and is pointless since the guy being pondered changes his mind everytime he talks to new person or watches new episode of FOX news.

Except on Greenland, Canada and Panama. Which seems to be Trump's only consistent positions. Two of which we are bound to defend per having joined NATO in case USA decides to go on "freedom delivering world tour" again.

Edit: when we did this to USSR, it was called finlandisation. Back then we had real fear based reason to do it. But this new round, this is voluntary and it makes it way worse.

Bold of you to assume he over ends up fully sober and doesn't just take "corrective series" first thing next morning to make the hangover and withdrawal go away.

How can we actually use it?

We don't.

I was being sarcastic.

The causality implied in the title is bullshit (and reading the article confirms this).

Yeah. Smallish fine and order to comply is the standard practice first round enforcement action on all European competition and such regulatory matters. The largest fines are reserved for willful violation once one has already been told to come into compliance and one outright refuse or tries to shade by the order with shady and deceitful means.

The small problem of it not actually being intelligent and thus not being rationally reliable. Gonna fix it on the next release for sure. ;)

Which is exactly why people were "this is going to bite us in the behind", when patriot act and so on was originally done and so on.

Way easier to change "who is terrorist", than "give us authorization to do this new thing" in the first place.

strong vibes of UNHAND ME HUMAN THIS SECOND OR ELSE ..... ......

No bravery by James Blunt, so I can play it at endless loop at world leaders.

That or he is stupid, had big hubris and thought he would get away with it just because his passport had different name on it. Since should he have gotten past Finland, he would have likely been caught in France or so on. Whomever (likely suspects would be Ukrainian or American intelligence) tipped off Finnish law enforcemen could have just as easily have later on tipped of French security services "hey this guy is in Nice, wanna go arrest a war criminal?".