European Parliament just passed the Forced Labour Ban, prohibiting products made with forced labour into the EU. 555 votes in favor, 6 against and 45 abstentions. Huge consequences for countries like China and India

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by EUstrongerthanUS

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  3. >But critics, notably Germany’s liberal, pro-business FDP party, have argued the law will bring excessive bureaucracy and weigh down on businesses.

    Absolute state of our society. You can say “slavery is bad” and someone will still go “Uhm, akchually…”.

  5. And we Brits would have been with you if it weren’t for Russian propaganda

  8. Does this take into account US prison ~~work~~ slavery ?

  9. And how are EU countries planning on enforcing this ? Who’s going to be exporting to the EU and declaring that they use forced labour in their products ? Is the EU going to setup an independent body; fully funded by the EU, stationed in source countries, who will trace if any forced labour was used in the products that were made in say China, India (as per the OP) destined for the EU market ?

  11. Why the fuck would 6 people vote *against* banning slave labor?

  12. What about products made by a country doing ethnic cleansing / mass killing / genocide in the Middle East?

    P.S. I condemn Hamas.

  13. I don’t see how you could possibly enforce something like this so I’m guessing it’s just a legal weapon for the EU to ban whatever products from China and the like they don’t want coming into the union.

    Doesn’t really affect Europeans in any way, good or bad, so yeah sure whatever, go ahead with it.

  14. Great news! A vote against slave labor is an important vote!

  17. Aha, I wanna see.

    How will I as a consumer see this take effect?

  18. How about banning products from occupied territories?

  19. is this an apple USB-c charger type thing or just a suggestion?

  24. It should also apply to the USA, which still has legal slavery for anyone convicted of a crime.

  25. *the European Commission will be able to investigate suspicious goods, supply chains, and manufacturers. If a product is deemed to have been made using forced labour, it will no longer be possible to sell it on the EU market (including online) and shipments will be intercepted at the EU’s borders.* 

    *Decisions to investigate will be based on factual and verifiable information that can be received from, for example, international organisations, cooperating authorities and whistle-blowers.*

    The EU leads the way, even in its current reduced state. Imagine what a federal Europe would do. 

  26. Is Nestlé going to get fucked? Everything containing lithium (so pretty much all modern electronics from phones to EV) too?

  28. who are the 6 who voted against it? 

    anyways, this is a big win for the EU

  30. Does this involve products that are made up of other products that were from forced labour?

    If so, RIP all chocolate and 90% of Nestle products.

  31. Now, to ban products produced by companies that don’t follow basic safety and human rights regulations to the standard of the EU. For example, those sandle wearing dudes who are welding batteries together on tiktok while they smoke. Or the guy who is working with red hot steel and the only way he isn’t dying is cause some other dude is tossing water on him from a dirty bucket.

  32. This isnt 2010’s china most of the goods can be easily permitted and the rest can be bribed from inspections about what labor has it.

    This is more of a hit at african cobalt mines, Coffee plantations at caribbrean or Thailand etc

  33. Okay, when is it going to produce legal effects and sanctions

    Soon, in a few years or never? What’s the catch

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