David Carretta
@davidcarretta
Journalist in Brussels. Following the EU bubble for Radio Radicale and Il Foglio.
Another precooked Eurobarometer with silly questions to have the answers the European Commission wants. Who would answer “Strengthen resources allocated to law enforcement”? Still, the social media ban for kids is not so popular.
“UNO is a popular card game whose objective is to be the first player to get rid of all the cards in their hand”.
Why the Europeans voters should elect their MEPs if Roberta Metsola and a bunch of groups leaders are allowed to adopt a document that was not public, that was not discussed in advance and that engage all the European Parliament on a long list of legislative files?
Why? Does her team really think that she looks smarter or younger or whatever?
Il Mattinale Europeo è online. L’analisi: “Von der Leyen può gestire più di una crisi alla volta?” Nelle brevi: Nato, Libano, Dombrovskis dice no sul Patto, Ungheria sotto accusa. Con @cspillmann.bsky.social e @grimmse.bsky.social 👇 davidcarretta.substack.com/p/von-der-le...
Finally. Some action by the European Commission on the addictiveness of TikTok. Its design is illegal. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Will Ursula von der Leyen speak and act to defend one of her former commissioners?
Vucic: I got a message from Moscow now Von der Leyen: Oh, well, let's wait till we are (out of the camera's view).
No comment from Ursula von der Leyen's Commission on Trump's new national security strategy that represents a direct attack on European liberal democracy.
Failure at the European Council on the loan of 140 billion euros with Russian sovereign assets. Back to "options" (note the plural) to be discussed in December. What a disaster.
Failure of the motions of censure initiated by the two extremes against Ursula von der Leyen. The President of the Commission gets more votes than in July.
Trump loses the Ryder to Europe. Putin loses Moldova to Europe. Good night.
Viktor Orban is against the EU rearm plan. Hungary abstained on the SAFE instrument. But Orban asked for the loans and he will receive 16,2 billion. We can call him “Pecunia non olet Viktor”.