Wow, such democracy. Much freedom of movement.

#germany #eu

@aral If you asked German men of that age, I’d be surprised if even one in tens of thousands knew this.

@ujay68 @aral the law was enacted in January, but the media only started to report it a couple of days ago. No one has read the new law. I doubt that in parliament many have read it. Some claim that it is in violation of EU law, but I am not really sure.

What we need is a man between 17 and 45 who wants to leave the country for more than 3 months, for example a student.

@prefec2 @ujay68 @aral This seems very contrary to the spirit of EU law, which allows people of any member the nation to move to any other, study there, work there, etc. This is fundamentally restraint on the free movement of people as well as being discriminatory based on sex and age.
@Infoseepage @prefec2 @aral PS. AFAICT, the regulation says the travel requests have to be granted with no scrutiny applied. So it seems more like a mandatory register of people abroad than a restriction, but still …
@ujay68 @prefec2 @aral But that's not the way it is written, right? It's written as "To travel, you must get approval and do X." If it was written as "All men who are German nationals between such and such an age must get a physical and register their current address," that would seem to be less legally objectionable.
@ujay68 @prefec2 @aral It really seems like there should be a process for getting a judicial judgement when a law pretty clearly doesn't harmonize with EU membership requirements. Otherwise, countries could pass all sorts of objectionable stuff, decline enforcement and then drag things through the courts for years