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The EU is no stranger to launching legal dispute with other countries and even their own member states, but now they’re suing… themselves? What?! In this video we explain why the European Parliament is suing the European Commission, what the legal precedent is for this, and whether there could be any major consequences.
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1 – https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.LI.2020.433.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2020:433I:TOC
2 – Pech, L., Wachowiec, P. & Mazur, D. Poland’s Rule of Law Breakdown: A Five-Year Assessment of EU’s (In)Action. Hague J Rule Law 13, 1–43 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40803-021-00151-9
3 – https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20210304IPR99233/meps-warn-commission-to-activate-rule-of-law-mechanism-without-delay
4 – https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2021-0287_EN.html
5 – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/10/meps-back-action-against-european-commission-over-rule-of-law-sanctions
6 – https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A12016E265
7 – https://www.euronews.com/2021/08/25/eu-commission-misses-deadline-to-trigger-rule-of-law-mechanism-and-faces-potential-lawsuit
8 – https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1634551652872&uri=CELEX%3A52021DC0700
9 – https://www.euronews.com/2021/07/20/judicial-independence-is-a-concern-in-some-eu-countries-says-brussels
10 – https://twitter.com/SophieintVeld/status/1430254611164798983/photo/3
11 – https://www.consilium.europa.eu/media/47296/1011-12-20-euco-conclusions-en.pdf
12 – https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-rejected-eu-court-now-wants-eu-assistance/
13 – https://www.euronews.com/2021/10/11/eu-s-top-court-begins-looking-at-hungary-and-poland-dispute-over-rule-of-law-mechanism
14 – https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-european-poland-commission-rule-of-law-eu/
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In this video, we’ll discuss the EU’s new plan to quietly tax US Big Tech – and whether it could work.
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The EU’s plan to capture US Big Tech revenue
https://www.ft.com/content/ad06ed89-f600-4694-8c95-7d53b6d3315b?syn-25a6b1a6=1
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/brussels-looks-capture-big-tech-through-tax-large-corporations-ft-reports-2026-10-07/
EU rejects France’s calls for an EU-wide digital services tax
https://www.ft.com/content/e5a76494-71df-4ee0-a85f-b28f2c94ded6?syn-25a6b1a6=1
https://www.vatcalc.com/global/eu-holds-back-on-digital-services-tax-as-us-raises-retaliation-threat/
EU’s proposed CORE mechanism
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2025/08/28/the-commissions-foray-into-corporate-taxation-a-core-problem-for-the-eu-budget/
https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/eu-budget/long-term-eu-budget/eu-budget-2028-2034_en#driving-prosperity-via-competitiveness-research-and-innovation
US exempted from Pillar 2 of OECD’s global minimum corporate tax agreement
https://youtu.be/85voZ2FJhZk?si=6jVOHTB5CBTKvigd
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/06/us-exemption-oecd-global-tax-deal-multinational-companies
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/08/oecd-deal-imposes-global-minimum-corporate-tax-of-15
G7 statement on global minimum tax
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/06/g7-statement-on-global-minimum-taxes.html
https://www.ey.com/en_gl/technical/tax-alerts/canada-g7-releases-statement-on-global-minimum-tax-pillar-two-and-canada-rescinds-digital-services-tax
European Digital Services Taxes (DSTs)
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/eu/digital-services-taxes-europe/
https://taxfoundation.org/testimony/pillar-one-digital-services-taxes/
https://www.reuters.com/en/germany-seeks-levy-10-tax-online-platforms-like-google-2025-05-29/
Accusations of tax avoidance by Silicon Valley tech companies
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/15/silicon-six-accused-of-avoiding-almost-278bn-in-us-corporation-taxes-over-10-years
https://itep.org/trump-meta-tesla-alphabet-amazon-obbba-taxes/
https://itep.org/amazon-alphabet-meta-tesla-pro-trump-tech-companies-avoided-taxes/
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In this video, we will investigate how Russia uses bots for its influence campaigns, how the recent strikes may have affected Russian bots and what this could mean for Russia.
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In this video, we’re going to explain why the Trump-Putin diesel deal is probably illegal; whether it’ll get struck down; and why – either way – it’s a pretty rubbish deal anyway, even from Trump’s perspective.
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Diesel prices/components
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/us-diesel-sales-price-$-per-gallon-w-na-fed-data.html
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/brent-crude-oil
https://www.ft.com/content/f117f347-e1e0-457c-83fc-ba4745581bb2?syn-25a6b1a6=1
Fuel vs Dem congressional ballot
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/09/17/high-petrol-prices-could-hand-democrats-a-mighty-midterm-victory
Trump Truth Social posts
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117412435306815143
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117422699218841250
Zelenskyy comments
https://www.axios.com/2026/10/09/exclusive-zelensky-putin-trump-diesel-deal
https://thehill.com/policy/international/6141601-russia-strikes-ukraine-power-plant/
Laws
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6140830-fitzpatrick-bill-block-russian-oil/
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6968
https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-information/countering-americas-adversaries-through-sanctions-act-related-sanctions
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5025
Reports that Russia lacks refining capacity
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/10/why-is-us-turning-to-russia-for-diesel-despite-sanctions
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Last month, Ursula von der Leyen announced the formation of a European Security Council that would help to coordinate a response and strategy against hybrid attacks. In this video, we’re taking a look at how this could look like and the hurdles standing in the way.
Von der Leyen’s New Plan for European Independence Explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec_4Un6JrAY
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https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/ov/SPEECH_26_1868
https://sieps.se/en/publications/2026/forging-european-strategic-unity-the-case-for-a-european-security-council/
https://www.martenscentre.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/european-security-council-blueprint.pdf
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-greenland-crisis-revives-calls-for-european-security-council/
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2020/07/future-e3/origins-and-development-e3
https://www.nato.int/en/what-we-do/introduction-to-nato/the-consultation-process-and-article-4
https://www.iss.europa.eu/publications/commentary/european-security-council-between-strategic-need-and-institutional
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2024/757822/EPRS_BRI(2024)757822_EN.pdf
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@maxgustafsson7802
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
Using the "McDonalds Coffee Case" as a case of a frivalous lawsuit reflects pretty poorly on you as journalists. The woman had the coffee cup in her lap when a jolt in the car made it spill, the coffee was served at such a high temperature that the spill resulted in 3rd degree burns on large parts of her body. The perception of it as a frivalous case was driven by people paid by McDonalds.
Do better.
@donate_to_the_edhi_foundation
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
Someone hacked my account.
"When all means for solving a conflict or problem are exhausted, only then placing your hand to the sword is imperative. (22)" ~ Guru Gobind Singh in Zafarnama verse 22
I don't start fights. I finish them.
@bLd321
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
So parliament wants to activate a law, before it can be check to be legal? Seems legit. Comission! Quickly, activate it, before Court of Justice say it's illegal!
@fbeale3537
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
How does the penalty system work in these sort of legal battles? How does the fine system Work? If your fined do you take money from the government money pot then put it back in again.
@deborahwillard3495
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
The commision. But I am biased for Hungary and Poland. Germany invited a million new citizens to move there. Yet as soon as they got these people tried to force the other countries that did NOT INVITE ANYONE to take them instead. Glad we, in England got out, now we should pull Northen Ireland out of this quagmire too! Or take Ireland itself – before the EU plants their million new people there and it is too late. The 168,000 they already took scare the Irish! And yt threw off the one journalist who was blogging the truth. Gemma Doherty who like Katie Hopkins would not toe the EU line. Go ladies – you are our last vouces of reason in an insane world corrupted by talking money!
@ayaanaali8852
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
The collapse of the European Union in imminent
@tranchedecake3897
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
it's like when you try to change things to make things better, but ur mates aren't cooperative
@dsuse3949
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
what is the point in having laws if you dont enforce them ?
rules only exist if ursula von der leyen agrees with them
@niclash
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
It is UK's fault! Of course!
@blindshiva2826
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
The left will always eat their own!!!
@nickgrishin2068
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
6:05 the quote on the screen and what you're saying as you're reading that quote don't match….? What?
@Equalrights4evrybdy
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
It just seems like the EU is too bureaucratic for its own good and Hungary and Poland are just taking advantage of your poor constitutions construction. You need to start again.
@Equalrights4evrybdy
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
Opening the video with that approach to the cup of coffee mcdonalds case makes you look very much not credible. That case isn't just frivolous but has importance of McDonald's escaping paying medical bills for their own negligence for a woman who face third degree burns on her genitals.
@JosephKulik2016
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
Western Europeans and their worldwide descendants in America and elsewhere falsely assume that everyone in the World has the same idea of what "freedom" means as they do. People in Eastern Europe do not have the same concept of "freedom" and "democracy" that the West does and never will. The EU and the globalists are trying to put all the cultures and traditions of Europe and of the World into a blender and produce a homogeneous "vanilla" culture across the World based on Western notions of "democracy" and "freedom". However, when the West talks about "democracy", they mean the type of "democracy" that we have here in America, where Washington DC is little more than a Puppet Show with Wall St pulling all the strings. In short, countries who assume Western "democratic values" are easier to economically exploit by the Global Elites, and Poland & Hungary are apparently smarter than to let that happen to them.
@Timmy_Horsenutz
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
Man other countries will beg to be brexited by the end of this European failure
@keithnewton8981
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
The parliament has to be the higher authority as they are elected by for the people. Parliament is the highest authority end of
@thexdatabase
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
Poland is in the right
@tomriddel8657
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
If i understand that correctly its courts fault for takeing so long to even beginn
@noahway13
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
I don't see how the EU can function over time. You have so many countries with so many different outlooks and economic policies. Look at how they had to bail out Greece, etc. I mean, look at this site, it has fairly upscale, intelligent viewers compared to other sites. AND MOST COMMENTS ARE ARGUING ABOUT MCDONALDS LAWSUIT. I think EU needs to downscale and have a loose federation for defense and a few major issues.
@anarchoraven
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
EP is in the right
@Camelotsmoon
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
0:54 in the US you technically need to sue yourself in car insurance cases.
@jessefisher1809
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
I hope the parliamant wins. The democratic backsliding of poland and hungary need to be addressed.
@scubasausage
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
Why would anyone want an EU pin bade? The EU is disgusting!
@warbringer5554
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
looks like the EU is trying to do a tight rope of keeping the EU together with wokeism and not loose member states, because of Brexit showed other EU members that they to can leave if the EU doesn't line up with their own laws and ethics
@sashasscribbles
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
Eh actually if you compare this to the US this isnt actually that weird? Its the equivilent of congress/the senate taking the president to the supreme court
@S.P.Q.R.117
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
Neoliberal EU countries are bullying Hungary and Poland just because they don’t have terror attacks and actually has good architecture and culture.
@jackforshaw4439
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
Assuming this is mostly to do with Poland not taking Muslim migrants, I support Poland Hungary in this case for the same reasons I would have supported brexit if I was old enough to vote. Having said that, looking at the rise of the right across Europe, Brexit may have been premature and we may be better aligning ourselves more closely with the European right
@jacekkubiak3551
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
EU commission seems to be a hospital for the mentally ill .. all this EU project will fail inevitably. Utopianism
@DeyvsonMoutinhoCaliman
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
Poland and Hungary should just left the EU, it's acting like those countries should have no right to their own sovereignty.
@filipedasilvadias712
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
EU are a Dictator state now that why leaders are not ok whit that .
@polishwhite2282
February 28, 2024 at 3:05 am
Thats sad that EU needs to do this