@divegeester said
Well let’s wait and see shall we.
Let’s first watch as the Swiss ignore it and tell the “EU” to fuk off.
Then let’s watch as every other EU country finds it yet another reason to leave the undemocratic gravy train that is the EU.
Then we can watch everyone else ignore this ruling.
How many times do you have to be told: this has nothing to do with the EU.
It’s the council of Europe.
And you have to comprehend that its findings are binding. It’s the higher court on specific issues.
And that’s why this decision is interesting. Because it’s a judgement on countries signing up to treaties and not doing enough to adhere to the treaties to an extent that it interferes with basic human rights.
Basically meaning, if a country doesn’t want to be bound by the judgement, it has to step out of said treaties on environmental issues and aims to reduce global warming.
But that is where it gets rather sticky. Despite what the extreme right-wing fantasists want people to believe, global warming and the human component are really a thing.
And every country agrees with the science and, to various extents, measures to counter-act the situation.
So, see, it’s all cool to debate issues like global warming on an arm chair general’s level like a chess forum, where people from different walks of life regurgitate the bubbles they are living in, in real life governments have to act on information and science they actually have.
So, to put Brexit into perspective for you: it didn’t remove the UK from the European council or its courts. It didn’t remove the UK from the major treaty on refugees (which is UN) and it didn’t leave the European Convention on Human Rights.