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European Media & Editorial Director, @hrw. My newsletter: https://t.co/KwjkBG9dJX All my links: https://t.co/QUQS8Dj4xh

May 9, 2021, 7 tweets

Happy #EuropeDay, celebrating the historic, radical experiment to promote peace through economic and political integration based on democracy and human rights.
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It’s a shame that current EU leaders are undermining our founding principles these days...

The EU & its member states did nothing as a dictatorship emerged in Hungary.

In fact, the largest political group in Europe, the European People's Party, actively supported it for years.

The EU is now no longer a bloc of exclusively democratic states
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EU member Poland is not far behind Hungary, either, sinking ever further into authoritarianism along the Hungarian model...

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And because the EU failed to address authoritarian rule in its own member states, EU foreign policy can't fight effectively for democracy globally.

When it comes to refugees, the EU & member states' appalling record of human rights abuses is now infamous.

It's a vicious, daily insult to the EU's founding principles...

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And the EU's pharma-profits-first approach to the global pandemic, blocking wider production of vaccines globally by obstructing the #TRIPSwaiver at the WTO, is prolonging the pandemic - an inhumane policy that's an affront to the EU's founding principles
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From the ashes of world war, united Europe was a promise of something new: peace & security through democracy & human rights.

🇪🇺 Happy #EuropeDay2021 to everyone who shares these, our most treasured values.

Sadly, many of our current European leaders do not.

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