apply to ten categories of products that are currently covered by ecodesign requirements: smartphones and tablets, bicycles (including e-bikes), washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, fridges, displays, welding equipment, vacuum cleaners and servers.
Parts pairing- does that refer to shit like how Apple used to pair their home button to the serial number of the phone so you couldn’t replace it? Or how old Xboxes (idk about new ones) would pair the disc drive to the motherboard? About fucking time if so.
Yup, that’s it, at least from my understanding.
What would we DO without EU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe
More wars, I assume.
Do you know the difference between EU and Europe?
The EU didn’t even exist yet during most of those. And where it does it’s still something different.
I think that they share your opinion and are saying that there were way fewer conflicts between EU-members than there would have been without it.
Now that you point it out, I can see that that may be what they were saying.