✨Budapest Forum again on 18-19 September! Those who will be with us for sure: Mikuláš Dzurinda Anne Applebaum Alberto Alemanno Alice Evans Gergely Karácsony Vladimir Milov Nathalie Tocci Ambassador David Pressman Mikal Hem ✅ More details and registration: budapestforum.org

Elon Musk is out of control. Here is how to rein him in in 6 steps. Are you ready? theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

From gender inequality to countries’ discrimination: Why is von der Leyen pressuring only smaller EU countries to pursue her goals? This level of selective interference is again unprecedented politico.eu/article/von-de… cc: ⁦Nicholas Vinocur ✍️⁩ #vonderleyen

Remember? The choir was that the Italian government would have been penalised for not supporting vdL 2.0 Now the Italian candidate Commissioner is set to get the economy (!) euractiv.com/section/eu-ins…

On the key challenges of VDL 2.0' first 100 days Special thanks to: Alberto Alemanno & Gesine Weber kathimerini.gr/world/56319689…

The Metsola exception boils down in granting her husband unlimited access to power, the most valuable (sellable) currency in Brussels What looks physiological (their marriage) may suddenly turn abnormal (their shared interests) from ethical perspective politico.eu/article/robert…

🇪🇺 What are the political affiliations of the European Council membership? A useful snapshot (set to change as more governments are formed or crumble and elections due) #EUCO Credits: Europe Elects

Von der Leyen complaints about EU governments nominating predominantly male candidates, yet if she was serious about this she could still block the formation of the College of Commissioners until each MS proposes two candidates - a male and female #vonderleyen

What does a male dominated EU Commission mean for Europe? My take for Agenzia ANSA #VonDerLeyen Ansa.it ansa.it/english/news/2…

Today’s EU leaders are so retró Credits: Greens/EFA in the EU Parliament 🌍

I am delighted to announce that I'll be spending a sabbatical year Harvard University where I have been appointed a Democracy Fellow at the Harvard Ash Center Center for Democracy, and Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. In this dual

More drama around the composition of Ursula von der Leyen commission: Instead of asking all EU member states’ governments to put forward two candidates - male and female - (as Art 17.7 allows her to do), von der Leyen is selectively making such a request only to some MS. This may be

Is the new East Germany politics an outlier or rather a return to the European norm? It’s not the material conditions driving the vote to the far right, but a history and sentiment of loss accelerated by demographic drop #germany #afd #thuringia on.ft.com/3MwQHp4

Hey, Euractiv: your photo of the day portrays my high school's gate... that was in 1989!

There’s something for everyone in the Draghi Report #DraghiReport

Germany temporary controls to ALL its land borders represents a manifestly disproportionate breach of the principle of free movement within the #Schengen area It won’t fly under EU law, yet - as Austria docet - will this dissuade Scholz from going ahead? on.ft.com/3ZmaTl1

After letting through over 40,000 illegal migrants over the years, #Hungary now threatens to transport "illegal migrants" from the Hungarian-Serbian border to…Brussels! This would be done in retaliation against the imminent €200 million EU fine reports Katalin Halmai