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SOTEU: need for speed, hit the brakes! (opens the original)
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“We have to be faster”, “speed is of the essence”, “we need to move much faster”, “…proposals to further speed up”, “we need to massively accelerate”.The State of the European Union speech by Commission President Ursula leaves no doubt about the urgency: Europe needs to rapidly complete the single market, boost innovation, organise its defence and security, combat climate change and become energy-independent, regulate big tech and protect our children. The vast majority of Europeans would wholeh
Lady Justice must remain blindfolded (opens the original)
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There is much talk these days of introducing an Orbàn-Prevention-Clause in the accession procedure for new EU member states. The aim being to prevent the rise of another Orbàn constantly throwing spanners in the EU wheels. A group of countries and the responsible Commissioner have been floating the idea of not granting veto rights to new EU member countries.In other words: they want to remove the blindfold of Lady Justice. They seek to create a B-status for new EU members<p class=
How is European Autonomy coming along? (opens the original)
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One of the buzz words in Europe since the invasion of Ukraine, since Trump’s re-election and since the masks of the evil tech giants have fallen, is “Autonomy”. Europeans have finally (better late than never) woken up to their total dependency of the United States. Or rather: the absolute US domination of Europe. Of course we always knew that was the case, but we did not think it was a problem. While we saw the US as our big friend, ally and protector, we happily closed our eyes and liked to bel
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