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Stein Arne Brekke

brekke@eupolicy.social

<p>Norwegian political scientist with a professional interest in European integration. Passionate about human rights and wealth distribution. Believer in degrowth and solidarity.</p>

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    RE: https://curia.social-network.europa.eu/@Curia/116730408835298643 Good news for the Europeans out there still working to defend international law and human rights: The #CJEU just ruled that being on an American sanctions list is not sufficient reason for banks to refuse people from opening accounts. People on said sanctions list includes high-ranking officers of the International Criminal Court.

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    It is not entirely invisible in Copenhagen either. I have highly educated British friends with work contracts and long-term partners in Denmark who were nevertheless given an incredibly hard time to get a visa. At the university English language courses are discouraged and silent rooms are being removed because Muslim students used then to pray. When the department of law &amp;quot;had to&amp;quot; fire six permanent staff this happened almost exclusively from the tiny pool of international empl...

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    Speaking of children, I&amp;#39;ve lost count on the amount of resourceful single expat mothers I know in Copenhagen who would like to leave Denmark and go home, but are unable to do so because their children would be taken away from them even though their husbands play no role in parenting, sometimes having been proven unfit to do so. They are kept hostage in Denmark because it is, apparently, always &amp;quot;the best interest of the child&amp;quot;. And the glass ceiling for foreign women se...

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    Yes! The instance with the highest density of social scientists is probably sciences.social: https://sciences.social/public/local @ced