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«A revolution will never be possible in Brussels, because we all know each other» «A revolution will never be possible in Brussels, because we all know each other» «A revolution will never be possible in Brussels, because we all know each other»
06 November 2024
Europe
Politics
USA

The defeat of the progressives, who in Europe have begun to tear their clothes off and scream the end of the world because of Trump’s victory, without realizing that this is an opportunity for the EU to become something serious. That is: to become a real state, capable of being a state. That is: to have at least a common defense, a parliament with the right of initiative, a central bank capable of acting as lender of last resort, a common debt and a common industrial policy capable of boosting internal demand, without wasting time behind the antics of Lindner, Ferber and other austerity-minded Germans, or the green stupidity of the Greens and Timmermans. Finally, do the most important thing: acknowledge your roots. All the most democratic and federalist constitutions in the world. From Switzerland’s to America’s, are not ashamed to guard the Word of God while allowing freedom of religion

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30 October 2024
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Europe

What a surprise! Just a few days before the commissioners’ hearings. And after the EPP had finally begun to emerge from the all-green and civil rights bubble it had got itself into. Out comes a clockwork investigation against Weber and the EPP. Who knows if this too will be a bubble that will evaporate like the others.

30 October 2024
Country
Europe

European Commission on Tuesday (29 October) confirmed tariffs of up to 35.3% on Chinese-made electric cars, wrapping up a consultation period launched in October last year to establish whether Beijing’s subsidies had undercut European competition. A senior Commission official told reporters in Brussels there were persisting “broad disagreements over each and every fact” and “legal argument” around the original issue of subsidies – and how these were characterised

29 October 2024
Georgia
Politics

The calm before the storm – Thousands of Georgians gathered in front of the national parliament in Tbilisi to demand the annulment of the election result, which saw the pro-Russian ‘Georgian Dream’ garner an absolute majority of votes. And what about reactions here? From Europe, solidarity, but no political action. So the Georgians who would like to be part of the EU will inevitably feel betrayed, and also inevitably end up in the arms of Moscow

22 October 2024
Country
Europe
Policy

The axis works – The European Parliament on Monday rejected, with 319 votes against, a request to debate the consequences of Friday’s Rome court ruling nixing the transfer of the first dozen migrants to a new processing centre in Albania. The request was presented by the Greens group and supported by Liberals and Socialists. But on the other side the Popular-Patriots-ECR axis proved to be stronger than expected

21 October 2024
Asia
Politics

Down to the last vote – In an incredible coup de theatre, the pro-Europeans take the lead in Moldova, but the country is split down the middle. Premier Sandu, winner of the elections with 42% (but with a runoff to face), denounces three hundred thousand votes bought from Russia. Heavy accusations made when the vote seemed to be going ‘No’. Now, however, all is silent: the country and the region remain with bated breath waiting for a definitive outcome. Tbilisi also watches from a close distance

16 October 2024
Economics
Europe

The return of austerity? – 2025 will be a decisive year for the Continent’s economy. The usual suspects will have to comply with the new rules: Italy is required to improve its structural primary balance by about 1.08 per cent of GDP per year to meet the new parameters. France and Spain will have to make an annual adjustment of 0.94 and 0.89 per cent of GDP, respectively. Blood and tears again, like ten years ago

14 October 2024
Poland
Society

Even the “European Donald” is obsessed with borders – Tusk plans to temporarily suspend the right to asylum to combat irregular immigration from Russia and Belarus: ‘We know very well how it is used by Lukashenko, Putin… by people smugglers, people traffickers’. For the Polish PM it is a win-win situation: he deals a blow to his eastern enemies and in the meantime exploits them to appease the internal conservative opposition. Truly machiavellian…

10 October 2024
Europe
Society

BUBBLEFLASH – Everyone take cover! – The special train returning to Brussels from Strasbourg caught fire. The entire European bubble evacuated and awaiting instructions from the authorities. Meanwhile, meetings cancelled and dinners postponed

07 October 2024
Asia

While the world speeds ahead in the race for battery supremacy, Europe seems to be warming up for a sprint—on a treadmill. Despite lofty green goals and endless summits, the continent’s progress on battery production has been more of a leisurely stroll. Chinese companies accounted for over 80% of global shipments of key lithium-ion battery components in 2023, expanding their footprint further up battery supply chains on strong electric vehicle sales in the country.

07 October 2024
Country
Europe

Keep calm and carry on. That seems to be Brussels’ motto after another far-right election victory in Europe, this time in Austria. Herbert Kickl and his anti-migrant, Russia-friendly Freedom Party (FPÖ) came out on top in Sunday’s vote but are likely to be kept out of government. EU diplomats and o­ ci als have in turn downplayed the direct impact of Austria’s election result on Europe

01 October 2024
Economics

What do we do with the Chinese, tax them on electric cars or not, who knows! Some yes, some no. As usual, there is a nice little theatre going on in the INTA committee of the European Parliament

30 September 2024
France

Are you mad? – Thierry Breton bears a grudge against the world, and it is hard not to pity him. The man who wanted to fight against the American big tech companies (also the protagonist of a personal feud against Elon Musk) now has a word for everyone: ‘I have always defended a sovereign and independent Europe, but I fear that this vision is no longer at the heart of the new team’s priorities,’ he declared. The burn of being left out by Lady Ursula at the last second is painful, but even more so of being betrayed by his own countrymen

30 September 2024
Senza categoria

The wave that won’t stop growing – Another headache for future European balances. In Austria, the far-right FPÖ won 29.1% of the vote, an increase of thirteen points since the last election. Something already seen in Germany, where the AfD overtook both the socialists and the conservatives in the recent local elections. An ultra-conservative government in Vienna seems unlikely at the moment, but never say never…

27 September 2024
Economics
Europe

While many sectors of German and Frugals’ politics are obsessed with green craziness (like stopping the production of endothermic engines from 2035) and insist on obstructing a common European debt, as opposed to what would be needed to revive a real European industrial policy and stimulate domestic demand, American politics is mapping out its own industrial future at the expense of Europe. Explain that to Lindner, Merz and Ferber that are causing an economic recession and in the end give votes to AfD. Teutonic flexibility is well known, as is the damage it has already repeatedly done to Europe and its unity. ….

24 September 2024
Italy
Politics

Better late than never – Weber, unlike the CDU hawks, really believes in a united Europe and from Naples he argues that the end of the Baltic shrunkenness era is here: it’s time to put the Mediterranean back at the centre. Immigration without integration has woken everyone up from hibernation

23 September 2024
Europe
Politics

Lady Ursula unchained – The new Commission, despite numerous appeals to give it a collegial character, will see a wild Lady Ursula, the real leader of the executive. During the last legislature the “German” traction ensured unity and coordination in action. This time, the impression is that the various commissioners are watertight comports whose only task is to follow the programme already drawn up by Mario Draghi…

19 September 2024
Economics

The EPP invites Draghi to present the report on competitiveness in Parliament, pretending to support it. However, they become divided over the issue of common debt, with the hawk Ferber making it clear that it’s not up for discussion. Meanwhile, the Greens also voice their concerns about the backtracking on decarbonization efforts

17 September 2024
Country
Europe
France
Senza categoria

It seems like our favorite French president’s inner circle is getting quite the shuffle. Breton is out, and Séjourné, the most Macroniste of them all, is in. Because nothing says transparency and political progress like a good old-fashioned game of musical chairs at the European Commission. It’s not like Europe has bigger issues to tackle, right? But hey, at least Paris got what it wanted.

16 September 2024
Country
Europe

Thierry Breton, the outgoing European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, has resigned. In the resignation letter he shared on X, Breton claimed that von der Leyen had recently pressured France to withdraw his candidacy as the country’s nominee for the European Commission, in exchange for a more influential role. Breton accused von der Leyen of acting “for personal reasons that you never directly discussed with me.” So far, neither the French government nor von der Leyen have commented

10 September 2024
Country
Germany

We are in the final comic moments: the CDU – after voting in the European Parliament for a ban on internal combustion engines from 2035, and after having forced even other EPP delegations that were against it at the time to do the same – changes its mind and shifts into reverse gear. Did they have to wait for the collapse of the car industry to realize this? What strategists! In the face of Draghi’s statements, Ehler and Schwab make statements cloaked in mock enthusiasm, emphasizing only the part that interests them and the frugals: innovation and the domestic market. No mention of the importance of a common debt. 

10 September 2024
Europe

In the end, round and round, the only way for the EU to survive is to be a STATE: and that means issuing common debt and having a single defense, possibly with a parliament that has the right of legislative initiative like all parliaments in the world, along with the possibility of challenging the Government, with a normal majority and that is the Commission. There was no need to bother poor Draghi with this, it was already known! The problem is that Germany and other EU northern countries do not get it. Who knows if they will get it now that they are starting to close factories and put people on the streets? History teaches that they are always too late. But this time there may be a small margin…

06 September 2024
Country
Europe

“IF THESE REFORMS ARE NOT CARRIED OUT, EUROPE IS FINISHED” – MARIO DRAGHI PRESENTS HIS REPORT ON COMPETITIVENESS TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND SOUNDS THE ALARM TO THE GROUP LEADERS: “GREAT CO-RESPONSIBILITY AND GREAT COOPERATION ARE NEEDED” – THE MEPS APPLAUDED IN THE FACE OF THE HORROR SCENARIO OUTLINED BY “MARIOPIO”, WHO MAKES NO CONCESSIONS TO THE SOVEREIGNISTS SUCH AS MELONI, SALVINI AND COMPANY- THE REPORT WAS DRAFTED ON BEHALF OF THE EU COMMISSION, AND WILL SERVE AS AN ‘AGENDA’ FOR URSULA BIS

05 September 2024
Europe

The holidays are over and the appointment circus in Brussels has begun again. Despite the advance of the ultra-right in Germany, the method of solving problems remains the same and does not focus on the causes, but rather on the usual bubble problems: gender balance in the formation of the College of Commissioners. So much so that Romania had to change gears and appoint Roxana Mînzatu instead of Victor Negrescu.

04 September 2024
Country
Germany
Society

The ultra-right’s boom in Germany shakes the heart of Europe. In last sunday’s vote AfD was the first party in Thuringia, and second in Saxony, marking the first victory of a far-right party in a German state since World War II. Today no one wants to deal with them, a party that still has neo-Nazi overtones, so it will stay out of the decision room. But for how long? Lorenzo Castellani, historian and political scientist at Luiss-Guido Carli University in Rome, analyzes its success and what it will bring in the near future

30 July 2024
Germany
Politics

Big troubles in Germany – From being an undisputed power in the European economic system, Berlin is finding itself fragile and vulnerable to the billows of global instability. In the mid-1990s, as the European Union went from one crisis to another, there was one constant: Germany, and in particular Angela Merkel, its chancellor, the star around which the rest of Europe orbited. But now the Deutschland Model devoured itself, appearing increasingly bewildered and unable to define itself amid the East-West rift but especially in the competition between the United States and the China-Russia bloc

29 July 2024
Europe
Society

Being anti-Ursula does not automatically mean being anti-EU. There are currently five governments in the Council that are directly or indirectly linked to the ECR. The “cordon sanitaire” criteria cannot be maintained in the Council. In the new geopolitical context, territorial control is an indispensable condition for the existence of the Union, especially on some key issues, like migration and defence. And if Trump wins again, even more so… it will mean: common debt!

25 July 2024
France
Politics

All against the center – It seems that everything is backfiring on Macron: in France, the far right and the far left (i.e., Le Pen and Melenchon) are reportedly ready to cooperate for the sole purpose of abolishing the hated pension reform law. A handshake that no one expects: another consequence of the dastardly moves of the Petit Napoleon, now increasingly backed into a corner

22 July 2024
Politics

Is Europe changing strategy in Syria? There is also Italy as well as Slovenia, Slovakia, Croatia, Greece, the Czech Republic, Cyprus and Austria, among the signatories of the letter sent to Joseph Borrell for a new strategic approach in the Syrian area. The document proposes to review and evaluate the results obtained so far, “the effectiveness of our actions and tools the options to adjust our approach.”