Not yet, but the US administration’s behaviour over Ukraine is leading the rest of NATO to ask how real US defence guarantees are. The EU Commission has announced a funding route for arms and Germany is looking to exclude defence expenditure from their “debt ceiling rules”. My notes and links …
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Some notes and links on regulating the media and election interference …
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There is an election coming up in Germany, and both the Free Democrats and die Linke are polling at under 5%, which means they’re out. The BSW is seen as Left Populist, with a lot of focus being put on their position on immigration. This article i.e. mine, starts with a look at an interview…
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I volunteered to watch some of the commissioner confirmation hearings, and write them up. I started with McGrath, Commissioner Designate for democracy , justice, and the rule of law; to get a full picture of my notes, see also Digital market regulation in the EU elsewhere on this wiki. See also Democratising the EU, Democratic…
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I was looking at a piece of project work, considering the next Commission of EU . It seems that either part of VdL’s manifesto for the 24/29 programme or her letters to Commissioner designates contains the sentence as follows, “We will build on the Conference on the Future of Europe to instil a true and…
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Starmer met Ursula Von Der Leyen in Brussels yesterday. It seems they couldn’t agree on what to say. Here are my notes and links …
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I had some interest in the ECR after the European Parliament elections, as they became the third largest party, and so made this page. The group was jointly founded by the British Tories as they build their off-ramp to Brexit and left the EPP. The parliamentary group is constructed for each parliament; in the 10th…
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Some EU citizen’s residents in the UK will be able to vote in the upcoming #EuropeanParliament elections. The infographic below, shows which countries are offering to permit this, and how they mean to make this happen. Some will offer postal votes, some will organise polling stations in the UK and Estonia is offering internet voting….
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A note on the political manifestos of the EU parties.
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Ursula von der Leyen made a speech in which she said the EU had goofed up over Brexit. I have a number of articles collected in response to this speech, which I will add to this page at a later stage. But today I have reproduced an article entitled “Goofy” from EuroIntelligence, because it is…
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For reasons, I made a wiki page, called Labour’s Turning Point, which looked at matters in the Labour Party on the topic of the European Union following Starmer’s speech/interview in Montreal in Sept 23. I argued that , it needs to be seen in the context of the EU’s consideration of its own reform which…
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It seems that GoNads screwed up the Tories first attempt to amend the 2018 Data Protection Act which implemented the GDPR in the UK. The current data regulation regime has earned the UK an adequacy ruling from the EU commission. This page documents my thoughts on this current attempt to amend the law.
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How much has the EU changed since Jan 20, the day the UK left. As ever, notes and links although I drift a bit into the old opt-outs…
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There’s been a lot happening and I have not been watching. Here’s my notes as I look to catch up. …
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This article has become my notes on the TEU/TFEU. It started on the limitations that the EU’s principle of Subsidiarity places on it, I was specifically interested in the limitation it places on the member states. Sadly there are none, Here are my notes …
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