“I don’t know if these are the fundamental principles on which our Europe was built,” Emmanuel Macron said as he strongly criticized the increasingly popular project to build return hubs for rejected asylum seekers.

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    4 days ago

    Yes, it’s good that a few stand up for the right thing, but Pedro Sanchez is just standing up for himself. He has been attempting to sell Spain to China, a government not famous exactly for its positive human rights record (thankfully he was not always successful in this, but the Spanish judicial wiretap system now depends on Huawei). And the corruption scandals surrounding family members (like his brother; his wife just got banned from leaving the country) and close political allies have been piling up in recent years and months.

    Sanchez talking about human rights and the rule of law feels like satire.

    @hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz