MEPs-turned-lobbyists will have a harder time getting back to business under the new rules aimed to curb corruption in Brussels in the fallout of Qatargate.
Those previously hailing the reform as a step against right-wing populism are now flustered by the notion that they too will undergo the same scrutiny of their revenue sources.
“The name of the game is containment now,” German MEP Markus Ferber said, referring to the fear that’s spreading faster than the actual problem.
Undercover investigation helped crack down on the conspirators, just two days after the White House warned the plot was underway.
“Asking the Council of Europe to institute reform and correct direction is really like asking the proverbial fox to guard the hen house,” Dr. Joanna Williams, the author of the report argued.
Legal bottlenecks allow migrants to apply for asylum in multiple member states, but the Commission promises that the problem will be addressed in the upcoming Immigration and Asylum Pact.
“Europeans, you’ll have to change your sneakers to military boots in the coming decades,” a senior security expert said at the conference aimed to decipher the geopolitical shift of the coming decades.
Democrats see Russia as the devil, Republicans don’t, indicating how ‘America First’ transformed into a modern anti-war movement.
In contrast to Bern’s apparent reluctance to allow arms exports to Ukraine, a recent poll showed that half the country supported more flexible rules regarding neutrality.
Another €2 billion was pledged under EU Foreign Affairs chief Josep Borrell’s three-step plan to solve the ammunition problem, involving significant production overhaul.
The Commission aims to make the regulation mandatory for all email and messaging apps currently in use. According to critics, Chat Control would effectively mean “the end of privacy of digital correspondence” in the EU.
ChatGPT keeps sending EU lawmakers back to the drawing board, as regulating a technology whose implications cannot be fully grasped yet can be quite tricky.
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