Jack Schickler
@jackschickler
Obtained by Contexte. Managing editor for energy. Previously Euronews, CoinDesk, MLex and general policy wonk. Brussels-based. Tips?
The European Commission’s internal processes for agreeing documents ate cumbersome and lengthy. None of them, apparently, prevents a piece of legislative guidance being published *in the Official Journal* with a fairly obvious typo in the title eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/4...
I have combined my two favourite nerderies: crosswords, and EU politics www.contexte.com/eu/article/p...
A fitting tribute by Sky News: getting basic facts about the EU wrong
TIL that the song You Can Call Me Al, which is an absolute banger, was inspired, indirectly but remarkably, by the avantgardiste composer Pierre Boulez
More highly educated people use AI more, both for professional and personal reasons, says the @ec.europa.eu
It is 2026, and all of Europe recognises the supremacy of EU law. All? No, one indomitable law firm, etc etc
Hardly the oddest thing in this whole saga but ... Mathias Döpfner's leading example of a self-evident fact is ... not even true? The biggest democracy in the world is India. jewishinsider.com/2026/04/poli...
I’m not making any specific accusations but the City of Paris has a minister responsible for both funerals and sustainable food
The European Parliament will next week debate the situation of the rule of law in the United States (!)
Responding to a SpAd's all-caps email with "this is really helpful" is just the most Civil Servant thing that ever Civil Servanted
Don't bogart that joint position, my friend (A case being ruled at the ECJ next week)
In France, they don't say "medical problem", they say "fashion opportunity"
Rule number one of crisis comms: put everything out there. Yet it's hard not to conclude that one of these two people, Commission senior official Sannino or anonymous spokesperson, is being deliberately misleading here. (from @eddywax.bsky.social and @nicolettaionta.bsky.social)
The Commission will propose something to the Commission? Now that's what I call a #circulareconomy
My Charles and Di wedding mug (age 41) has outlasted my Charles coronation mug (age 2 and a half). Not sure what to make of this fact
The cosmetics store round the corner is offering astonishingly bad advice
After the environment council negotiated for roughly 20 hours on Tuesday/Wednesday, now it's the Parliament's turn to figure out its position on a planned 90% emissions cut for 2040. I'm not saying MEPs are copying the member states' homework, but they've even reproduced their typos
Top marks to the European Commission here; this was indeed the first question on which I was seeking an answer in relation to the 2026 fishing opportunities for EU-managed stocks in the Atlantic and Skagerrak-Kattegat waters