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lol come and take it. I don’t live in europe and you’ll never be able to enforce any of your fines.

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This is the dumbest position a company could possibly take.

Paying ransoms (especially for organisations outside of the respective jurisdiction) isn't?

I guess there sureley will be employees who want to continue traveling to Europe at some point in their lives.

Employees are on the hook for their companies decisions when they are taking a vacation? That doesn't sound right.

But willingly ignoring European laws does?

So an individual employee is on the hook if the company they work at violates European laws?

I don't know the details and decisions of my company, but I guess I shouldn't travel to Europe in that case.

We're not just talking about "violating laws". That happens all the time, mostly accidentally. We're talking about a company that willingly ignored the laws, was sued in Europe, fined millions, doesn't pay, all European assets have been ceased and now operates by "lol come and take it".

Most companies don't have European assets, so yes "lol come and take it" is valid. There are many companies in the world that could explicitly and willfully violate every aspect of European laws and there is nothing that can be done about it. The other post was essentially saying there is no recourse to companies that do not have have European assets.

> there is nothing that can be done about it.

There are multiple things that could be done. The EU could deny entry to employees of the company. They could ask the country of the company to press charges there. Of course the country could also ignore the EU, but than it would risk its good relationship with the EU.

That is insane. Denying entry to someone going on vacation because the higher ups did something the EU arbitrarly disagrees with?

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