Alberto Alemanno
@alemannoEU
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Professor of EU Law @HECParis @collegeofeurope | Democracy Fellow @harvard @europeatharvard | Founder @TheGoodLobby @EurJRR | #YGL #EYL
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Only a citizen-driven EU, accountable to its elected legislature, could possess the capacity and mandate to tackle the bloc’s many current and future challenges, from its security to its expansion to the East, in a geopolitically shuttered world .
My latest
@ProSyn
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The Servant to the People - President Zelenskyy - meets EU Commission President
@vonderleyen
#Ukraine
#UkraineRussianWar
#Zelenskyi
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A win by the Polish opposition would be a game-changer for the EU project:
1. Poland would end Polexit by rendering its judiciary independent, comply with ECJ judgments, fines lifted, EU funds paid and the media re-pluralised
2. Hungary would lose its closest ally
3. Ukraine
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Denmark excludes from its COVID Business Aid companies that are: 1. paying out dividends 2. buy back own shares or 3. are registered in tax havens | what an opportunity!
@TaxJusticeNet
@taxjustice
@pierremoscovici
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Charles Michel’s decision to prematurely leave the EU Council presidency to pursue his own political career as MEP is not only self-centred but also irresponsible:
it will pave the way for Viktor Orbán, the then president of the rotating presidency of the Council to take over
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📮We lodged a complaint against Viktor Orbán for breaching the duty of sincere cooperation and spirit of loyalty among Member States, by falsely presenting his foreign visits as acting on behalf of the Presidency of the Council of the EU.
Here’s the text of the complaint
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Donald Tusk’s indefatigable leadership contributed to an historical win for the Polish opposition and EU liberal values.
#poland
#Tusk
#PolishElections
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🚨Breaking 🚨
The EU Commission proposes - for the 1st time in its history - to suspend the disbursement of 65% of EU funds due to
#Hungary
in effort to protect
#ruleoflaw
(loopholes remain)
Now EU-26 must approve it at QMV (unlike under Art 7
#Poland
can’t veto it)
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💥 Breaking
The EU Parliament set to prevent Hungary to hold the presidency of the Council, given its well established departure from the EU foundational values and ‘rules of the game’
#euco
#RuleOfLaw
@GoodLobbyProfs
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🇫🇷 The French electoral results suggest that Macron’s decision to call for snap elections wasn’t a gamble, but a strategic choice.
As his minority government was set to lose political support while facing a rising far right, he counterintuitively decided to accelerate that
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‼️The EU Parliament votes in favor of transnational lists.
In 2024, each EU voter will have:
- one vote for his/her national party
- one vote for corresponding EU political party on a EU-wide college
A German could vote for Pole, and an Italian for French candidate!
#EP2024
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Switching the plane for the train
Italian rail group aims to launch high-speed links between European cities, from Barcelona to Berlin via Brussels and Amsterdam
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Jacques Delors has died aged 98.
He will go down into history as one of the most impactful EU Commission Presidents. Not only he established the single market - the first in the world - but also fathered the €.
Unlike most of his successors, he wasn’t a former PM, but ‘just’
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The Euro Quatari scandal opens multiple Pandora’s boxes all at once:
- flawed EU ethics system for MEPs (
#Kaili
)
- absence of post mandate rules for MEPs (
#panzeri
)
- scale of foreign influence over EU (
#qatar
)
-
#Qatar2022
tainted by corruption
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🚨 Breaking: European judges challenge the EU approval of
#Poland
’s recovery & resilience plan before EU General Court just a few months before elections in the country
Here’s a🧵 on why, how and what of this unprecedented development
#ruleoflaw
#RPP
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I am a Spanish resident since 2011, where I pay my taxes.
Yet - like millions of EU mobile citizens - I can’t vote today
#Elecciones
#Elecciones2023
The inconvenient truth is that we, the ‘most European Europeans’, are politically voiceless
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Today the EU Parliament will ask EU leaders to block the Hungarian presidency of the Council.
Regardless of whether this will ever happen, the mere fact of contemplating such a possibility may be highly consequential for the Union's democratic future
Here's why 🧵
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Ursula von der Leyen has lost Europe’s trust.
She doesn’t deserve a second term.
Here’s why.
My latest for
@guardian
#vonderLeyen
#euco
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Is Ursula von der Leyen transforming the Berlaymont into an EU White House?
The new structure of the EU Commission, by blurring the portfolios among members and downgrading the VP status into executive positions, hints to a transformation of the Commission from a collegial body
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Solidarity with Israel is legitimate, but time has come for the EU to:
- condemn disproportionate retaliation
- remind the respect international humanitarian law
EU stance can’t be left to the individual sensibilities of political leaders
#IsraelPalestineConflict
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EU Commission suspends aid to ALL Palestinian territories
Yet:
1. It should be the Council to decide
2. This amounts to a collective punishment to the entire population which is in need of help. Btw the West Bank isn’t controlled by Hamas
The scale of terror and brutality against
#Israel
and its people is a turning point.
There can be no business as usual.
As the biggest donor of the Palestinians, the European Commission is putting its full development portfolio under review, worth a total of EUR 691m
⤵️
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Ready to make a difference?Share your talent with civil society organizations that need them
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Here’s the PROPOSED new EU Commission led and dominated by
@vonderleyen
featuring :
- mostly unknown national politicians, predominantly ‘yes men’ (the likes of Borrell/Breton gone)
- predominantly and unprecedentedly coming from the EPP and the right and far right to mimic
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French and Slovenians express a pro-EU vote 🗳
- Macron at 58% (above most optimistic predictions)
- Jansa out
Good day for Europe
#Presidentielles
#sloveniaelection
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The record- low attendance to the EU Parliament debate on
#Qatargate
tells it all!
Not even this major scandal will be enough to prompt a political response capable to fix the major flaws that enabled Qatargate in the first place
@EP_President
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In Italy 7 deaths as of today:
77 years old hospitalized for previous pathologies
77 years old, previous pathologies
68 years old cancer
84 years old, severely sick
88 years
80 years, hospitalized for heart attack
62 years old on dialysis
#coronavirus
#CoronavirusOutbreak
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Macron's move suicidal? Quite the opposite.
It's existential, and follows the Pedro Sanchez's script
Macron is crazy! Suicidal move calling a snap election. What is he expecting, that every other party except RN joins a “save the Republic” coalition? I seriously doubt that would be possible in just 3 weeks
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Unmarried couples from different countries have been quiet victims of the sealing off of global borders in the wake of the
#coronavirus
pandemic
#LoveIsNotTourism
#covid19
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Wow.
Three (socialist) Prime Ministers - from Germany, Spain and Portugal - take a public stance in support of a (liberal) candidate - Manuel Macron in the forthcoming
#presidentielles2022
Unprecedented. The Europeanization of the political space is happening.
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💣Italy confirms itself as a laboratory of political experimentation. After pioneering pre-trumpian Berlusconism, it experienced technocratic governments, techno-populism with Conte I + II, uber-technocracy with Draghi, now techno-sovereignism building on Orban
#ItalianElection
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The ‘group of twelve’ - a Franco-German initiative - offers a credible and uniquely pragmatic approach to EU institutional reform.
Here’s why & how 🧵
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Why flights are cheaper than trains?
“If you fly the the airline not only pays no VAT, but also no kerosene tax. If you travel by train, the rail company will pay an energy tax + VAT. This means higher costs for the company reflected in ticket prices."
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‼️Charles Michel’s early departure may reveal the most consequential of his actions as President:
it is creating momentum to prompt the first-ever-vote on Article 7.2 TEU (existence of breach) that may lead to suspension of voting rights of
#Hungary
.
This will solve the Orban
Launched a historic petition, which, if successful, will allow Mr Orban to be deprived of the right to vote in the Council.
This is decisively different from anything we have done so far regarding HU – the procedure foreseen in Article 7(2) TEU has never been initiated. 1/3
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Unprecedented and deeply troubling. What if a EU Commission President interferes into national political elections?
Isn’t there a manifest conflict of interest insofar as she supposedly acts as guardian of the Treaties?
@vonderleyen
is crossing a red line
#vonderLeyen
#Croatia
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4. Charles Michel will go down in history as the least effective Council president ever appointed at the helm of EUCO.
Michel’s constant battle of egos and ensuing row with vdL has manifestly weakened the Union on the international stage.
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The Qatar scandal shows how the EU has a corruption problem
In this oped for
@POLITICOEurope
I argue how to tackle it by advocating for four reforms 🪡 🧵
#qatar
#Kaili
#Panzeri
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💥 The EU Parliament just asked EU leaders to block the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the EU.
Regardless of whether this will happen, this is an unprecedented and consequential move for the Union democratic future
#EUCO
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‼️unprecedented ‼️
The EU Commission will boycott the Hungarian Presidency of the Council
It won’t visit Budapest as planned and its senior representatives (Commissioners and DGs) will only attend informal meetings of the Council
IMPORTANT development ahead of
@vonderleyen
In light of recent developments marking the start of the Hungarian Presidency, the President has decided that
@EU_Commission
will be represented at senior civil servant level only during informal meetings of the Council.
The College visit to the Presidency will not take place.
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By suspending
#AstraZenaca
, many EU governments are becoming responsible of more deaths (among the unvaccinated) than those that’d have caused among the vaccinated.
A zero-risk approach is a costly illusion.
#Covid_19
#COVID19
#OxfordAstraZeneca
#oxfordvaccine
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The EU flag that just got banned at
#Eurovision2024
is the same that is waived by Georgians in the streets right now
A river of people marching towards the Parliament in Tbilisi, waving Georgian and EU flags 🇬🇪🇪🇺
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Millions of Europeans across Europe ask for more Europe
#MarchForEurope
#eu60
| that's what political leaders need to hear more than ever
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Not in Europe’s name:
Madame President, what about asking for a ceasefire instead of quadrupling humanitarian aid?
The EU is legitimizing a genocide that most of its Member States and citizens don’t want to be responsible for
The
@eu_commission
has quadrupled its humanitarian aid and is working with partners to make sure the aid gets to innocent civilians in Gaza.
Statement by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union on humanitarian pauses in Gaza
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As expected, Annalena Baerbock has been announced as the Green party's chancellor candidate for German elections on 26 September.
For the first time, the German Greens are ready to contend the chancellorship.
Good for Europe (and its women)
#BaerbockvsHabeck
#Baerbock
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Pope Francis’ opening to homosexuality is one of the most historical changes I’ve witnessed in my life.
“Homosexual people have the right to be in a family. They are children of God”.
Amen 🙏
#LGBTQ
#PopeFrancis
BREAKING: Pope Francis endorses same-sex civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary “Francesco.” “Homosexual people have the right to be in a family. They are children of God,” Francis said.
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📬Viktor Orban publishes anti-EU sponsored contents in Spanish right-wing
@abcespana
1. Let’s stop EU as super state
2. Stop EU integration
3. NGOs out
4. Mass migration is danger n.1
5. EU Parliament to be replaced but national parliaments
6. Serbia must join EU
#hun
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So bored to read that Macron’s gamble has backfired:
1. What if it wasn’t a gamble but a mere anticipation of an unfolding reality?
2. What if the results of these elections (still to be defined) may provide the level of clarity needed to move France ahead?
Ultimately to
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All political groups in the EU Parliament ask
@vonderleyen
NOT to approve the Polish recovery plan.
The only exceptions being
@ecrgroup
(hosting
#PiS
) and
@IDGroupEP
#Poland
#RuleOfLaw
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🆘 Why is the EU paying homage to Mr Berlusconi? What contribution would he ever made to EU integration?
He was the first EU leader to openly bash the Union to score electoral points at home. Crafted disinformation. Damaged judicial independence & political integrity.
He gave
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LANDMARK JUDGMENT by EU Court of Justice
Current border controls by 🇦🇹 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇸🇪 are ILLEGAL as:
- exceed 6-months
- may no longer be justified by serious threat to public policy & internal security
🧵 Any reaction
@vonderleyen
as guardian of Treaties?
@EmmanuelMacron
?
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Wow. One of the best political ads I’ve ever seen.
Meet
#Harris2024
’s vision for America.
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WOW. French President Macron calls for snap elections as a result of major defeat in EU elections.
NEVER an EU election has affected domestic politics to such an extent.
This is a Pedro Sanchez's move that has already stolen the far-right story line!
@EmmanuelMacron
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The EU Parliament’s move to solicit an opinion poll supporting its stance against the Council on rule of law conditionality is one of the smartest moves I’ve ever witnessed in inter-institutional relations.
It’s called advocacy
#ruleOfLaw
#MFF
#EUBudget
@EP_President
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Horrified by the attacks on Israel that must be firmly condemned.
Yet I doubt that having the EU taking side will de-escalate the conflict.
It seems an easy, non committal stance towards a complex, dramatic reality.
#Israel_under_attack
#IsraelPalestineWar
#Israel
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Don't fall into the trap:
the pro-EU majority would lose only 7 MEPs (398 vs 405)
+++ based on the 1st seat projection of the new EU Parliaments +++
#Europ
éennes2024
#EuropeanElections2024
#elezionieuropee
📷
#EuropeanElections
#Europawahl2024
#EP2024
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Wow:
- PSOE holds against PP
- Sumar holds against VOX
This is an unexpectedly close race that reflects on the unprecedentedly polarised electoral campaign and overall cultural split within Spanish society
#Elecciones2023
#J23
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How connected Europeans are by train?
Here’s the number & length of train links to European cities by
@lorferr
A geographically unconventional way of looking at Europe
@EdjNet
@nnougayrede
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🇫🇷 The Far-Right won’t govern France:
Le Pen/Bardella only 3rd after the Left (big win) and the Macronists (who hold)
What if Macron’s strategy wasn’t a gamble?
#legislatives2024
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Poland is leaving the EU without formally leaving. Yes a new form of exit from the EU |
#Polexit
as predicted by
@ProfPech
some time ago
#poland
#ruleoflaw
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🗣 We‘ve lodged a complaint against
@facebook
before the EU Commission insofar as it prevents hundreds of NGOs from running get-out-to-vote campaigns before
#EuropeanElections2019
in manifest breach of EU citizens’ electoral rights and freedoms
#facebook
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Romanians elected a German citizen, Dominic Fritz, mayor of
#Timi
șoara
Dominic, anti corruption activist, has no Romanian passport but thanks to his EU citizenship he will now be running the third-largest city in Romania
#the17million
@VoterWOBorders
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3. Charles Michel manifestly failed to leave a mark in EU politics as council president.
Whether he will make a difference as a leader of a national (well, regional) party in his native Belgium (Wallonie) remains an open question.
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🚨 personal news
I’m delighted to announce my appointment as Europe’s Futures Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna
@IWM_Vienna
where I’ll be pursuing my work on how to make Europe a People’s Project in close contact with leading thinkers from across the
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Happy Bday European Union!
Today we celebrate the 71st anniversary of the European Coal and Steel Community.
Contrary to what many suggest, it wasn’t yet another Int’l org, but a UNIQUE supranational entity whereby its members constrained their powers to attain shared goals
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No, this is NOT an attack to EU democracy
@EP_President
Metsola
#Qatargate
is self inflicted damage
The EU Parliament and most of its members have historically resisted stricter integrity rules and effective enforcement system.
#Kaili
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2. As anticipated, 6-months ago Viktor Orbán isn’t entitled to hold the rotating presidency of the EU due to his manifest conflict of interest between being in breach of EU law and potentially be the chair of the Council meetings deciding on sanctions.
Making him, even
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5. Charles Michel’s inability to handle Viktor Orban by using the council president’s authority has equally weakened the EU internally.
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Despite his uniquely European legacy, it's France - not the EU - paying tribute to Jacques Delors.
That's the most telling and paradoxical dimension of the adieu to the greatest European of the last three decades.
#Delors
#EUCO
#JacquesDelors
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“Genova bridge collapse is Europe’s fault”. According to Matteo Salvini, Italian Interior Minister, EU rules would PREVENT Italy from adequately maintaining its highways. EU law does actually REQUIRE member states to do so via several regulatory frameworks
@PoliticoRyan
Se ci sono vincoli europei che ci impediscono di spendere soldi per mettere in sicurezza le scuole dove vanno i nostri figli o le autostrade su cui viaggiano i nostri lavoratori, metteremo davanti a tutto e a tutti la sicurezza degli Italiani.
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When the Italian Prime minister goes LIVE on Spanish TV, an embryonic form of European public sphere emerges. Possibly one of the major merits of
#COVID19
in the EU space
@jonhenley
@nnougayrede
Giuseppe Conte now live on Spanish TV. I’ve personally never seen this done before. Live QA from a foreign leader in peak tv hours. Conte now best known than Macron I would say.
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Wow. This is unprecedented:
The EU Commission denounces
@EPPGroup
disinformation campaign around
#RestoreNature
proposal
New interinstitutional power dynamics at play ahead of
#EP24
This is simply wrong
The
@EUCouncil
has agreed to better address large divergences within & between EU countries regarding urban green, notably in those cities with already large green areas, like Helsinki
They won't have to do the same efforts as less green ones
#ForOurPlanet
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This is Giorgia Meloni's youth movement
They are fascists - not post-fascists.
They are the far-right, not the right.
Watch this!
In
#GioventuMeloniana
, la nuova inchiesta di Backstair per
@fanpage
, emerge il lato oscuro di Gioventù Nazionale, il movimento giovanile di Fratelli d’Italia.
#fanpage
#backstair
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I don’t think Europeans, Americans — and others — realise how deeply our way of life is under threat. MUST READ: Donald Trump and the 1930s playbook: liberal democracy comes unstuck
#FutureofEurope
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Deeply troubled by infelicitous semantic choice of incoming EU Commissioners’ portfolios as they reflect a sense of detachment from European realities. To call migration Commissioner in charge of "protecting our way of life" is not only odd but deeply insulting
#vonderLeyen
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🆘 the Pope needs a crash course in EU Law!
VATICAN
Pope Francis has criticised the European Union for how it deals with Hungary, saying that it "seems to want to standardize everything, which should respect Hungarian uniqueness."
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🗞 NEW study 🇪🇺
How do citizens engage with the EU?
Here’s the first empirical analysis of the use of existing EU participatory tools, plus a proposal on how to revamp them via randomly selected citizens advising the EU 🧵
#cofoe
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Hungary/Poland lift their veto on EU budget, after being reassured that new
#RuleOfLaw
mechanism won't be applied to them until a judgment of ECJ will define 'methodology' to be applied.
This is not only unprecedented, but also LEGALLY questionable THREAD
#EUCO
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Did the Conference on the Future of Europe succeed?
It depends very much on how you measure success.
For me it worked beyond expectations.
Here’s why 🧵
#CoFoE
#FutureOfEurope
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7. What has been Michel’s greatest contribution as
@eucopresident
?
Paradoxically, it has been to prove that the
#EUCO
presidency may not only reveal redundant but also counterproductive - notably on the internal stage -, and must urgently be reformed.
Michel interpreted that
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‼️ BREAKING — Here’s the list of Treaty amendments that the EU Parliament (
@EPInstitutional
) has prepared - without taboos - in its forthcoming formal demand to trigger Art 48 TEU’s convention.
That’s exactly what EU citizens asked for in
#CoFoE
#treaty
cc:
@Contexte
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This is NOT my Europe! This video epitomizes the normalization of the far-right discourse into mainstream centrist EU politics.
Ashamed of EU ‘leadership’
#notinmyEurope
#Greece_Turkey_Borders
The situation at our border is not only Greece’s issue to manage.
It is the responsibility of Europe as a whole.
And we will manage it in an orderly way, with unity, solidarity and determination.
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EU citizens should be able to vote wherever they reside across the Union (spoiler: they’re not)
That’s our ask in a new European Citizen Initiative launching tomorrow with
@ECITFound
+
@thegoodlobby
@karmel80
@d_boeselager
@endergreen
@jcoetjen
Please sign it
@VoterWOBorders
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How on Earth can the EU Commission unblock €10.2 billion of public money for Hungary despite persistent breaches of EU law?
The concept of political corruption finds a new expression in the EU legal order
#Orban
#EUCO
#eucocouncil
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🗳 How Facebook is killing European democracy ahead and beyond the EU elections?
#EUelections
#EUelections2019
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🧵 A few reactions on the EU elections results:
1. The EU election - being 27 parallel elections - failed to provide 1 clear message, thus failing on its raison d'être: to elicit EU voters’ political preference for the Union (not their countries, as it caricaturally happened in
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