09.02.21
Gemini version available ♊︎OHIM/EUIPO Giving Top Roles to Repeatedly-Convicted Fraudsters is Bad for the Reputation of the European Union
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Summary: Video about part 11 and the current status quo, where EPO officials enjoy an “above the law” status in exchange for protecting powerful corporations and rich people
AS EPO President, António Campinos enjoys diplomatic immunity and since EPO legal cases cannot be appealed upwards/outwards (or barely, e.g. ILO and Dutch Supreme Court, whose outcome/decision the EPO said it would ignore/disregard) he must be feeling like a deity right now. He’s still not complying with the latest high-profile decisions of ILO-AT as far as we know (he has not spoken about it in 8 weeks! It’ll soon be 2 monnths!) and at EUIPO he already had some immunity scandals, so one starts to wonder if Tony is a more suitable short-name for him, seeing that he’s above the law like in a Mafia.
Videos that we publish aren’t typically just a reading of articles; instead, in this case, we focus on how this whole diplomatic immunity mess became possible in the first place. People like Campinos serve the ‘untouchables’, who protect their civil servants (more like moles in civil society) in exchange for the protectionism (denying access by competition). This isn’t a tenable situation. It’s made even worse when those so-called ‘civil’ servants are in fact convicted criminals, who have no capacity to lecture us on obeying laws. █
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