EU’s inability to reform itself created a fertile ground for our enemies to do so for us : They want to bulldoze the EU, and rename it European Community of Nations (ECN) - and are doing so with current EU politicians’ placet and much EU funding desmog.com/2025/03/14/her…

Wow, Mario Draghi offers a more convincing recipe to rearm Europe than Ursula von der Leyen : 1. “We need to define a chain of command of higher level that can coordinate heterogenous armies” and can “separate itself from national priorities and function as a continental defense system”

Possibly one of the most dissonant EU Council in a decade: if each EU 'leader' has a different take on EU's future is because they exclusively speak to their national audience, without realizing current times present them ONE, EU-wide audience who will judge them #EUCO

Fascinating: Business associations more effective than the EU parliament to (reputationally) sanction Huawei for alleged corruption of a dozen MEPs Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) Transparency International EU politico.eu/article/huawei…

The EU’s Enduring Ethical Deficit in the Aftermath of Huawei HUAWEI exposes the EU Parliament’s ongoing failure to correct 2 structural flaws in its integrity: the contested nature of MEPs’ standards & the lack of an independent authority to enforce them. verfassungsblog.de/ethical-defici…

As the Huawei probe deepens, here’s a fresh analysis of the root causes behind EU Parliament’s enduring ethical deficit: - the contested nature of the ethical standards as they apply to MEPs - the lack of an independent authority to enforce them verfassungsblog.de/ethical-defici…

Behind Marine Le Pen’s embezzling trial lie two paradoxes of political Europe : 1. EU funds being given to historically fringe parties over decades (be it UKIP or RN) and being misused to turn them into mainstream parties with tacit approval by EU leaders 2. EU funds being

Does Le Pen’s verdict in France affect EU politics and how? 🧵 While Marine Le Pen isn’t a Member of the EU Parliament, her national political party (RN) is, being a member of ID at a times of the contested facts and in the new Parliament of Patriots for Europe. As such, RN

Always thrilled to teach democracy College of Europe, the oldest and unique post-graduate institute in European Studies (behind the EU).

Dear The Economist I still believe that it’s up to the French judicial system - not to public opinion nor a media (albeit authoritative) to apply French law Your opinion is pretty much in line with plutocratic voices & autocratic leaders economist.com/leaders/2025/0…

NEW PAPER --> Could Le Pen's misuse of EU taxpayers' money & the Huawei scandal have been prevented by a more solid EU public integrity framework? After 5 years of work spent designing a new EU ethical authority, here’s a preliminary analysis of such a new ghost entity: it was

It turns out that much of US’ frustration with EU trade flows hasn’t to do with tariffs (average 3%), but with non-tariff barriers - that is EU regulations US importers must comply with. By boycotting WTO the US missed the chance to shape those regulations in both TBT and SPS

I got a question for you: Who are the academics who most engage with society at large - be it policymakers, courts, nonprofits and the media? Please share their names with me here or at [email protected] 🙏

"Neil MacCormick: A Life in Politics, Philosophy, and Law" by (the ever-brilliant) Maks Del Mar Cambridge University Press cambridge.org/gb/universityp… I have been waiting for this one.

Thrilled to appear in the inaugural Forward Thinkers list, which spotlights voices shaping the future of global discourse!

Who are the Public affairs firms in Europe that enable pollution by lobbying for big oil? After one year of work, our research unveiled by ⁦The Guardian⁩ theguardian.com/environment/20…

The power cut in Spain and Portugal offers another COVID moment Regardless of its causes, this turn of events highlights the fragility of our infrastructure and overall unpreparedness to these scenarios

A more integrated grid between Spain/Portugal and the rest of Europe could have:

Paradoxically, Trump’s attempts to weaken America’s allies have energized them politically. I call it the Trump’s Boomerang Effect Think of Canada, the EU but also Mexico and Australia My latest for Project Syndicate prosyn.org/uhlm8jL