I have written a lot about the European Union and its democracy and its easy to get lost so I have made this page which is meant to be a start page/index.
- Subsidiarity and proportionality basically my comments, notes and links on the treaties and constitution of the EU, you can see where it started, but now includes a number of paper links on democracy in the EU including references to those who want to reverse the centralising tendencies.
- Digital market regulation in the EU includes the Democracy Shield and some brief comments on the Media Freedom Act, see also Democratic renewal in the EU focuses on the Democracy Shield and the DSA, with some comments on some of the Techo politics. (Possibly these should be merged.)
- Sailing the high seas reforming and enlarging the EU on the late 2023 attempts to agree or head off significant reform to the institutions and competencies, interesting because the two initiatives show the two approaches of increasing federalism and/or reverting to a two speed Europe.
Also possibly less central to understanding the EU
- An article called, Media and election interference covers the UK and EU, catalogues and comments on the laws I think needed to understand the challenges of the Democracy shield.
- How much has the EU changed since Jan 20?, unfinished, maybe I should put the UKICE material in this page.
A list of all the articles tagged “europeanunion” can be found here, and here is a rendering of the last 12 item in the list in Feedzy. There are a number of articles also tagged on my blog. and a Feedzy render of those is available below.
- From Here On, We Must Go Alone
by Dave on March 10, 2026 at 1:15 pmI was sent an English [machine] translation of a speech by Jürgen Habermas together with a prequel summary. … I am sharing below the new speech by 96-year-old Jürgen Habermas, titled “From Here On, We Must Go Alone,” which he gave at the Siemens Foundation in Munich. It is about the future of Europe and…
- Two speed E.U.
by Dave on February 18, 2026 at 4:18 pmOne of the reform proposals at the end of the last EU mandate, was a multi-speed Europe. I reported on the most explicit initiative https://davelevy.info/wiki/sailing-the-high-seas-reforming-and-enlarging-the-eu/ . Has the time come again to look at this as an answer to the EU’s sclerosis. The challenges are clear, with the federalists or federalist adjacent players looking at…
- What the EU thinks of the “reset”
by Dave on December 12, 2025 at 1:26 pmA transcript of Ambassador Serrano, and Commissioner Šefčovič’s introductory speech/letter to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly’s 6th meeting. Meta This transcript of Ambassador Serrano, and Commissioner Šefčovič’s speeches/letter to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly’s 6th meeting in the Palace of Westminster was constructed by scraping the transcript from the youtube stream which is the UK’s…
- Rolling back the tide
by Dave on November 12, 2025 at 9:23 amThe EU is rolling back some of its corporate regulatory measures in the areas of sustainability reporting, and coming soon, simplifications in the digital economy laws. Here are some notes and links … Links
- What are the politics of the EU Commission?
by Dave on November 5, 2025 at 11:47 amThis explains a lot. This is a chart of the EU commissioners by political party, I made this today and it includes a few judgements. The EPP have a voting majority on the Commission. In addition, there is a creeping Presidentialisation of European politics which in my opinion concedes too much power to the singular…
- IT Sovereignty
by Dave on September 26, 2025 at 4:57 pmVarious things have taken me to considering the EU stack, these include the issues raised in this article On cloud operating systems and security of supply and the Bastani/Hao interview. The EU is considering these issues, in defining an EU stack, which does include networks, storage, and systems (and thus presumably CPUs and ASICS). The…
- My EU Start Pageby Dave on September 24, 2025 at 10:56 am
I have written a lot about the European Union and its democracy and its easy to get lost so I have made this page which is meant to be a start page/index. Also possibly less central to understanding the EU A list of all the articles tagged “europeanunion” can be found here, and here is…
- Copernicus & Brexit
by Dave on August 13, 2025 at 2:35 pmThe European Space Agency celebrated its most recent launch of a Copernicus Sentinel Satellite, which made me wonder how Brexit had impacted the UK’s participation in the EU’s space programmes. This post looks at what I found. On visiting the Design Museum’s Living on Mars exhibition (a couple of years ago, I was surprised to…
- On AI Regulation
by Dave on June 26, 2025 at 6:35 amSome people are thinking very hard about this, here are my notes. Links I posted some thoughts on my blog; https://davelevy.info/thoughts-from-gmb-25-on-privacy-law/ and others (including Linkedin article mirrors) at https://davelevy.info/tag/ai/ Does DUAB change the landscape?
- EES/ETIAS
by Dave on June 19, 2025 at 11:54 amEES is coming this year, allegedly, while ETIAS will wait ’till 2026. EES is an automatic registration and will eliminate the need for passport stamps for short stay visitors to most of the EU; ETIAS is the pre-travel authorisation system, travellers will need to apply for permission to enter prior to visiting the EU, as…
- The next EU budget
by Dave on May 27, 2025 at 7:13 amThe EU is preparing its next medium term budget. This is an act of legislation but they have convened a European citizens panel https://citizens.ec.europa.eu/index_en on the topic; its rercommendations are documented here. No matter the cynicism and valid criticisms aimed at these panels, this must be a good thing. The process continues and this page…
- Reset or Roadbump
by Dave on May 25, 2025 at 12:56 pmOn May 19th the European Union and the UK at a summit made a series of agreements. The UK government heralds this as a “Reset”. The European Commission have issued a press release, which has been agreed with the UK. The press release covers Defence, Connecting People, Trade and Economics, & internal security and judicial…
And the Feedzy of my blog, tagged “European Union”
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