“Brussels is abusing its power,” PM Viktor Orbán said after the migrant redistribution scheme was pushed through by the majority. Poland and Hungary voted against it, while five other member states abstained.
The EU’s new ethics body to oversee corruption in Brussels “will not be toothless,” Commission VP Jourová promised, before having to admit that the agency won’t have real authority to hold Eurocrats accountable.
Medical personnel “literally approach everyone who may qualify for MAiD and ask them if they want to die,” the director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition said to explain the steep rise in numbers.
The opposition might be futile, however, as Central Europe will not be able to veto the package, Commissioner Johansson reminded the dissenting countries.
Details of the leaked plan align surprisingly well with the evidence produced by previous investigations, strongly pointing at Kyiv as the mastermind behind the sabotage. The U.S. knew but couldn’t, or wouldn’t, prevent it.
The green pass is just the first of many products of the new Global Digital Health Certification Network. “Forget dystopias by Orwell OR Huxley: Make it a dystopia by “Huxwell,” MEP Christine Anderson wrote.
“Twitter has chosen the hard way, they chose confrontation,” Commission VP Věra Jourová said, promising vigorous enforcement of EU law and a hefty penalty if Twitter’s compliance is deemed insufficient.
Over 16 thousand people are in need of evacuation from the “critical zone” on the Ukrainian-controlled bank, as Kyiv accuses Russia of “ecocide” to stall the counter-offensive.
Commission VP Věra Jourová urged that AI-generated information be labeled as such, and that restrictions be put on AI technology from being used to generate disinformation.
The announcement appears to be a swing at the EU’s new anti-disinformation efforts, as well as a bid to clear Musk’s name after a backlash over an increased compliance rate with removal requests.
Fifteen member states are in favor of extending the EU’s upcoming surveillance law to end-to-end encryption, while Spain would outright ban it in the entire EU.
The €500 million subsidy plan to boost domestic defense production—part of the wider €3 billion arms procurement scheme—can now be finalized during the Council’s upcoming July summit.
