From climate rules to migrant quotas, Brussels is quietly retreating on policies once sold as non-negotiable—revealing how power, not principle, ultimately shapes EU decision-making.
“What we have here is a vast political machinery that is quite the opposite of the definition of civil society. It does not represent certain groups of society, but a closed institutional elite in Brussels.”
The six-month inquiry comes after revelations that hundreds of thousands in EU subsidies were channelled into campaigns shaping farming and nature laws.
Fault lines continue to show themselves in the European Parliament, as the EU finally realises the folly that is its latest iteration of its Green Deal rules.
