louisdrounau

louisdrounau, 5 months ago to hungary

There we go: autocrat gets €10bn, reluctantly agrees to negotiations that will take years, and immediately re-imposes his veto for aid to Ukraine.
Maybe an extra €10bn before the next #EUCO?
#Orban #Hungary
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/14/world/europe/eu-ukraine-hungary-aid.html

louisdrounau, 6 months ago to Denmark

A great loss for #Denmark?!
Someone evidently forgot Art. 17 TEU: "The Commission shall be completely independent. [Its members] shall neither seek nor take instructions from any Government or other institution, body, office or entity."
It's not the "transnational Commission"...

louisdrounau, 7 months ago to climate

The sad truth is: young people can do all the protesting they want to alert about the #ClimateEmergency (and they should!), as long as they don't vote, they won't replace climate-denying geezers who actually pass laws.

+14 points is good, sure. But 42% is not. #FridayReflections