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What are "European Values"? Are they identical to the values of the EU, that are in section 2 of the Treaty of European Union:

    "The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities."[1]
Also, did all the listed companies sign a codex that they will adhere to those values?

And finally, in which way do non-European companies, for example Amazon, violate those values?

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...



> did all the listed companies sign a codex that they will adhere to those values?

I guess they must follow the EU laws.


Honestly the way the EU pays countries to catch refugees leaving their shorelines headed to the EU, I'm not even sure the EU conforms to that statement...

Amazon makes their warehouse workers pee in bottles, much respect for dignity there. Oh wait I hear that happens in Non-EU Britain, so that's not a problem! /s


> Amazon makes their warehouse workers pee in bottles, much respect for dignity there. Oh wait I hear that happens in Non-EU Britain, so that's not a problem! /s

Do you think the population supports that or there an inevitable lag between real-world actions and political responses?




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