ICC judge sanctioned by US urges EU to fight back
https://www.politico.eu/article/nicolas-guillou-icc-judge-under-us-sanctions-urges-eu-leaders-to-hold-the-line-and-protect-rule-of-law/
Posted by pizzaiolo2
ICC judge sanctioned by US urges EU to fight back
https://www.politico.eu/article/nicolas-guillou-icc-judge-under-us-sanctions-urges-eu-leaders-to-hold-the-line-and-protect-rule-of-law/
Posted by pizzaiolo2
15 Comments
Narrator: “They didn’t.”
So this guy wants the EU to retaliate for sanctions on the ICC? Are we supposed to drop pretenses of the ICC being “independent”? We’ll just acknowledge that it is an extension of the EU?
See that’s why you got sanctioned bro lol, you’ll get platitudes but no one will help you
China has done this to a bunch of people and EU never did anything about it so what will they do now? It’s just how the world works.
Absolute American hostility towards the ICC has been baked in from the very beginning. Clinton deliberately fumbled getting it through on his watch and I don’t believe Gore would have been successful at making it stick. Even Obama and Biden adopted a tolerant approach rather than an accepting one.
There’s very little the EU can do here. It’s the only large bloc/power (with from the UK, I suppose) interested in upholding the Rome Statute, and if you asked half the eastern flank they’d hate it too, they just consider it irrelevant to their interests. There’s very little the EU should do here. Pretending the ICC is international law doesn’t make it so.
Honestly, getting involved in the Palestinian crisis was the worst thing that the court could do. Leaving aside the Israelis, indicting people who don’t recognise the existence of the ICC for alleged crimes committed in a state that the American government considers a fairy tale was the sort of thing that any president would hate. We’re talking about people who have an actual law calling for the invasion of the Hague if Americans end up on trial there for any reason.
EU couldn’t fight itself if it tried let alone fighting the US.
ICC has been compromised. You can thank Ireland and South Africa for that.
It is like a never-ending story.
Nah the anti-Semitic terrorist sympathiser can get fucked. The EU skills Sandton him as well
Wonder what the ”I have nothing to hide”-people say now.
Europe is closely monitoring the situation
This is not a battle europe should pick. We have enough on our plate as is.
Nothing is going to happen anyways so everything this court does related to israel will end up being performative. No european state is going to enforce the warrant. Netanyahu has already been assured of his safety in the event of his visit by several states.
If he would somehow be arrested by a european state, america would be very pissed. They would certainly use their the hague act. Almost every senator would be in favor of this as their aipac connections ensure this.
Just drop this whole act. It is futile. Let’s reserve our very limited political capital for things that actually matter to the european people.
We never hear about the Duterte case before the ICC.
EU should leave ICC and close it. Dictatorships’ toy should be abandoned. It stopped doing something useful a long time ago. It does nothing against really criminals. it only persecute democratic leaders.
Isnt it better to roll over and beg Donald to be nice to us?