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3 Jun, 6 tweets, 2 min read
One of the criticisms of the EU pointed out in the Brexit debate is that sometimes responsibility between the levels gets confused. Curiously, Brexit has made this worse rather than better (short thread) telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/…
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Of course, the extent to which you can hire foreigners and the procedures for that are entirely UK decisions. It is UK red tape. Whether desirable or not.
I thought about laughing this one off, but it’s actually important: these are entirely UK decisions. It is important for democracy that we know who to complain to / praise for them.
I should add that the chef actually did not say what the article claims he said. Here’s a para from the restaurant’s website
And here’s why I felt the need to write the thread: the red tape that the express is talking about is uk checks under uk law. express.co.uk/news/uk/144439…

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What a beautiful passage Aodhán emphasized. Apart from what he points out and the fact that Switzerland still is as connected to the Single Market as before and not frozen out (slow deterioration of access is the word), there's an even bigger problem (thread)
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Some thoughts on a trade tweet that - as many have pointed out - is wrong. Now I try to no longer critcise tweets of others, but there’s a point here and I would ask you to refrain from any ad hominem attacks (thread)
First the obvious: the tweet makes two points. Both of them are factually wrong. Let’s take them one by one. /2
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Allow me to add a public international law take on this. Because it is international law that will count here. (Thread)
International law knows a number of ways to justify breaches of provisions. The first place to look for such justification is in the text of the treaty itself. Are there exceptions? /2
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Bit patents and access to medicines at the WTO news: Bolivia's request for a compulsory license for export under existing TRIPS rules is going forward. A quick thread on where we stand /1
Great. That should be BIG news. Wow. OK. So, where were we? Right: Some background. Patents are territorial. A US patent is for the US, a UK patent is for the UK and so on. That's an important principle to know. /2
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