What a moment! The European Parliament just voted in favor of transnational lists— to make our elections truly European🇪🇺
Citizens can cast
🗳 1 vote for national parties
🗳 1 vote for corresponding euro-parties
For a strong parliamentary democracy & a genuine EU public sphere
Excellent! A crucial step towards a more democratic EU ♥️🇪🇺
RT @SophieintVeld: Yes!! @europarl_en votes for transnational lists for the European elections! 🥳🇪🇺 A modest but crucial step towards a more democratic Europe @GuyVerhofstadt @sandrogozi
Prime Minister #Draghi just called for the elimination of unanimity voting in EU foreign policy decisions in our chambers. The European Parliament agrees.
Getting rid of destructive national vetos is crucial for our security.
My op-ed on this👇
RT @RenewEurope: These are our priorities for this #EPlenary session:
🔵 War in #Ukraine: economic & social consequences for the EU & the impact of the war on women
🔵 Mario Draghi will come to the Plenary on Tuesday
🔵Conference on the #FutureofEurope
🔵 Electoral Law
🔵 Freedom of Press
18 years ago today, Hungary joined the European Union. A beautiful, historic day.
We now know we can never take this achievement for granted— and we have to fight every day for our European future.
Highly alarming news about #LGBTQ rights in Romania.
And also something we have been telling the @EU_Commission for ages: if you fail to stand up against autocratization in one member state, it will spread to others. https://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-politic-25523895-senatul-adoptat-tacit-proiect-lege-anti-lgbt-depus-sapte-parlamentari-udmr-similar-celui-din-ungaria-lui-viktor-orban.htm
RT @alemannoEU: As the Conference on the Future of Europe comes to an end, what can we reasonably expect?
(Spoiler: a fight over whether, how, and on what to re-open the Treaties NOW)
🧵 #CoFoE
The EU takes action against the autocratization of a member state— and it is a historic step.
But for the #RuleOfLaw mechanism to become a credible deterrent, it needs to be more timely and more transparent.
RT @VeraJourova: Today, we send a notification letter to Hungary formally activating the budget conditionality procedure.
We identified issues that might be breaching #RuleOfLaw in HU and affect the EU budget.
Hungary will …
The fact that #Gazprom still has a lobbyist with access to the European Parliament is mindblowing. https://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/consultation/displaylobbyist.do?id=622135013267-04
All their lobbying privileges must be suspended— NOW!
RT @salima_yenbou: 🇪🇺 Avec @IoanDragosT & 65 eurodéputé-es, j'ai écrit à @eucopresident @vonderleyen @JosepBorrellF concernant les viols de masse perpétrés en Ukraine 🇺🇦 par l'armée russe 🇷🇺
Nous appelons à un travail d'enquête approfondi sur le terrain pour permettre à la justice d'être rendue !
Devastating news. #OsmanKavala is sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment. This is a politically motivated attack to silence a high-profile government critic & crush dissent in Turkey.
Europe needs to raise its voice. @RenewEurope @EP_HumanRights
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61218241
RT @steph_sejourne: Today’s victory of President Macron in France and the defeat of PM Jansa in Slovenia confirm our new era of European politics.
An era of renewal, confidence in our values and unprecedented economic and environmental ambition.
More than ever, long live Europe!
🇪🇺🗳🇪🇺
Slovenia 🇸🇮 ousting its wannabe autocrat is excellent news for the #RuleOfLaw & our fight to stop the Orbanization of Europe.
Well done 👏
RT @ijoveva: According to exit polls, Slovenia has ousted illiberal populist with a large majority.
Unexpected huge turnout. The people have spoken.
On this day, after two years, Slovenia begins to reverse its devastating drift toward illiberal autocracy.
Never again!
A victory for Europe,
a defeat for Putin.
Congratulations to @EmmanuelMacron & all our @RenewEurope colleagues in France!
#presidentielles2022
One of the highlights of the campaign was meeting @TheDailyShow crew on the Danube bank. Their Hungary special is now out!👇🎥
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-YuZPT1NzM
As I told @jordanklepper— we’ll keep fighting, because our country deserves so much better.
RT @YlvaJohansson: Systematic rape is one of the most repulsive weapons of #war, aiming to hurt and terrorise. Victims of the Russian warcrimes fleeing #Ukraine need special care and support. I’m working with @JanezLenarcic, @SKyriakidesEU, @helenadalli to coordinate efforts to meet their needs.
At today’s EP hearing, we had the distinct honor to listen to @kalponaakter— former child worker, now director of Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity
She warned us that @EU_Commission’s proposed due diligence directive may fall short of its goal if its scope is not widened
Beyond that Russian loan, there was this one too👇Those trying to destroy Europe have a vested interest in a Le Pen victory— they even invested in it #Ledebat
RT @katka_cseh: Bank partly owned by oligarch Lorinc Meszaros propped up pro-Kremlin, far right Le Pen with a huge loan. This basically means Orban funneled HU taxpayer funds to her
It’s not a business decision (makes zero business sense)— it’s political interference in a key …
What an inspiration.
@lugaricano👏
RT @TimTkehoe: Luis Garicano @lugaricano will give the first in-person seminar at the Kyiv School of Economics after it was closed during the Russian invasion: "Liquidity and Sanctions: Putting the European Economy on a War Footing"
Well done, Luis!
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