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GDP per person, #EU 20 years after!
#enlargement convergence vs. East/West divide via ⁦Les Echos⁩ :

#EUWatch : According to the IMF’s latest European Economic Outlook, mimicking the subsidies-laden US Inflation Reduction Act would permanently decrease EU GDP by 0.6%.

SUBSIDIES = SLOW GROWTH.
ft.com/content/0ee289…

It’s one thing being a candidate, another one to have a program- what is it for #VDL ?
On the unpredictability of the #EP - yes it will be flexing its muscles to show its relevance; it will be a secret ballot too to make the vote even more uncertain. A suivre…

TRUE. There will be no easy return to 2019. The #EU trade policy has radically changed putting a quest for #autonomy at its heart. We need to find a new consensus among #MS on the #EU tradepolicy with growth, competitiveness and economic efficiency as it main goal again👇

„Být politicky vlevo dříve znamenalo přijímat obětavá opatření na podporu méně majetných. Nyní znamená kritiku klíčových civilizačních výdobytků – od myšlenky objektivní pravdy po ideu mezinárodního práva – na základě druhořadého relativismu“ ❗️❗️

Being on the left used to mean taking self-sacrificing measures to support the less well-off. Now it tends to mean producing critiques of key civilisational achievements - from the idea of objective truth to that of international law - on the basis of a sophomoric relativism.

EXACTLY👇
'I still think that the relative weight of European elections is increasing. These elections had practically no importance 15 yrs ago; today they are not crucial but their weight in the lives of each of us is increasing'
giuliano da empoli via Le Figaro
#EP #powers #scrutiny

La Belle Saison, finally ! 🤩
#morningrun #Ixelles

European social democracies amassed huge welfare systems last 30 years because they relied on someone else for security (USA), someone else for manufacturing (China), and someone else for cheap commodities (Russia).
What do you think will happen to this model without all of it?