🇪🇺🏳️🌈⚖️🇭🇺 A legal earthquake - CJEU finds Hungary to have violated EU law on multiple counts with its anti-LGBT+ legislation (as expected) but also for the first time in history, in an EU law-reshaping precedent, finds Hungary to violate Art 2 TEU in a self-standing manner.
And may I also register doubts? we have serious storage issues for preservation. Most media are outdated or dysfunctional after 10 years.
Fortunately the attention span of minors these days is strictly limited to 1:30
The AfD's position on Europe make very little sense (it argues for "more nation state", but thinks the council is not sufficiently democraticlly legitimised. It also claims that for the EP, though that is directly elected, but who cares about reality?)
Developments in Germany are as illogical as those in the UK. The population is upset that the CDU (probably by mistake) reactivated the obligation for people subject to a potential draft to get a permission to leave the country for longer. And now the AfD is overtaking the CDU. It wants the draft.
so you’re doing what we should now call a Boris Johnson (which really is a reverse Henry VIII)?
A serious question: is there anyone with a good ethical record who manages to be on good terms with Trump for a longer period of time or are the two mutually exclusive?
Ethics in the Trump era: there’s a risk Starmer will fall over appointing a guy with Trumpian ethics only for the UK to elect a guy with Trumpian ethics instead.
For what it’s worth, I agree with you.
Oh yes, absolutely. But I remember that panic of governments when Trump I was elected and nobody seemed to have the phone number of anyone who mattered. And even now you suddenly have Switzerland conducting diplomacy via Infantini of all people.
There's a bit of me that wonders whether behind some of this there is a problem we fail to discuss: countries were scrambling to find people who had or could develop a direct line to Trump. Someone in his circle. And what a circle that is...
Amazing. When I heard Trump say that when he read the order I never thought they’d actually try this…
The main phenomenon in the UK is the fragmentation of the party system. The electorate is actually quite stable and split in half (Ref+Con are at 47, Lab+Green+LibDem at 46), but with this fragmentation elections are more of a lottery in a two-party FPTP system.
CRAG 2010 is insufficient - and parliamentary scrutiny is vital. Another illustration of how the whole system can be sidestepped.
I would argue that this still triggers the 6 month term even though the wording of the notice differs. The alternative would be that the MoU runs out immediately as it does not renew, so that the weaker wording would have the stronger effect which cannot be the intention of the drafters.
My reading of 9(3)
The Italy-Israel defence MoU. Italy has given notice that it will not be extended. My understanding is that this it the notice under Art. 9(3), so it will lose its effect in 6 months. www.normattiva.it/do/atto/cari...
The Israeli finance minister attacks Merz, Trump insults Meloni. Things really seem to fall apart for the right-wing populists.
"Progressive" is a relative term. It will not surprise you to learn that Americans for Tax Fairness calculated at tax rate of 0.98% for Bezos. americansfortaxfairness.org/wp-content/u...
One might argue that threatening war crimes and violating human rights of migrants are matters of morality as well as politics. Questions of aggression and just war have occupied the church for centuries. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
We are exposed non-stop to glossy versions of ‘this is the wonder of what life can be. For others.’ You play piano? Here’s how Lang Lang does it. You dance? Here’s a five minute sequence of the bolshoi. Learn languages? Here’s a luxemburgeois speaking 15 languages without accent
I think that’s a part of it - and it’s worse: social networks make us post versions and moments of our lives that make us even unhappier. Facebook? ‘why is their family so much happier’ Linkedin? ‘how are they so successful’
On France’s shift to Linux. It’ll be interesting to watch the tag on effects: with the public sector preferring other products, what will universities and companies do? www.heise.de/news/Frankre...
From a short-term perspective I understand how Trump can think of his blockade of the strait of Hormuz as the right move. But we should not forget that Iran blocking the strait of Hormuz was a disaster scenario - and now somehow Iran has outsourced that blockade to the US.
Indeed, EU law *literally* protected Magyar from prosecution by Orbán, who wanted to prosecute him - but Magyar is an MEP, and the European Parliament refused to waive his immunity balkaninsight.com/2025/10/10/m...
You can follow the results for Hungary here. Looks very much like Tisza has won. Tight for a supermajority. And of course we don't know how Orban will react.
europeelects.eu/2026/04/04/n...
Trump, Vance, Netanyahu, Putin, Le Pen and the AfD have left us with no shred of a doubt of at least one thing tonight:
They have all lost. Congratulations to Hungary.
After making ICE the largest law enforcement agency in the US and everything that happened, 44% of the US population approves of Trump's immigration policies.
