Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺

Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law @HECParis | Democracy Fellow @Harvard | Founder @TheGoodLobby @EurJRR | Formerly @EUCourtPress | #YGL #EYL

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Europe doesn't need to become America to succeed:

Supporters of deregulation want Europe to be more like the US. But that would serve only American interests.

My latest in @guardian today
https://t.co/grUFaIETNq

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

@j_2ross The best proof it exists of the EU itself.

Eyes on the ball

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

When national interest primes over European general interest, again and again

[Bloomberg @business]

The German government said it agreed with France to halt a €100 billion ($115 billion) joint fighter-jet project after persistent disputes and delays since it began nearly a decade ago https://t.co/Zo28zlTm4l

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

« In practice, Ukraine is being offered everything except membership itself,”

Ukraine’s Ambassador to the EU Vsevolod Chentsov told Playbook @POLITICOEurope

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Here’s how Europe’s far-right governs the EU with @EPP - exactely as predicted in June 2024

https://t.co/Wq5VRB8k7a

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Sometimes fringe argumenta on the progressive left become reality:

What we know about the plan to give Americans an equity stake in AI via @FT
https://t.co/mI5heVAemp

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Italy’s political tectonic plates are shifting ahead of 2027:

1. Pro-European PD moderates moving to liberals in the EU Parliament
2. Hard-right defectors from Lega & FI rallying behind Vannacci’s Futuro Nazionale: sovereigntist, homophobic, pro-Putin.

Result: a cleaner but more fragile left, and a right flank Meloni can no longer contain ahead of 2027 elections (francesization of Italian right)

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Italy’s political tectonic plates are shifting ahead of 2027:

1. Pro-European PD moderates moving to liberals in the EU Parliament
2. Hard-right defectors from Lega & FI rallying behind Vannacci’s Futuro Nazionale: sovereigntist, homophobic, pro-Putin.

Result: a cleaner but more fragile left, and a right flank Meloni can no longer contain ahead of 2027 elections (francesization of Italian right)

[Alan Friedman @alanfriedmanit]

Italian politics is looking like a cocktail shaker right now, with moderate @pdnetwork pro-European parliamentarians leaving to join liberal @democrats_eu and opportunist extreme right wingers leaving @forza_italia and @LegaSalvini to join a homophobic pro-Putin nutcase general.

[EUobserver @euobs]

“The attack on NGOs is an attack on democracy itself.” 🔎

Civil Society Leader, Alberto Alemanno, warns that Europe's growing hostility toward civil society groups is no longer a fringe phenomenon, it's moving into the political mainstream.

Read the interview 👉 https://t.co/vPOvJZjSlq

#EU #politics #EUobserver #EuropeanUnion

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

“Let Buenos Aires become for AI what Amsterdam was for the age of sail — the place where the legal imagination caught up with the technological moment, and the world was changed” - Javier Milei (!) https://t.co/RgC58gp5jJ

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

A new @POLITICOEurope investigation reveals that Czech MEP Alexandr Vondra (ECR) failed to disclose his chairmanship of The Prague Centre for Transatlantic Relations, a think-tank with links to the defence, automotive and fossil fuel industries.

Vondra is actively shaping EU defence, climate and transport policy. He is a shadow rapporteur on the CO2 standards for cars and vans, as well as on the Defence Omnibus and Military Mobility files. Despite these responsibilities, he declared no conflict of interest and tabled amendments that would benefit corporate interests.

Why does this matter?

This is the DEREGULATION playbook in action:

1. rolling back on existing standards of protection
2. doing so in the name of competitiveness
3. while failing to disclose industry ties.

EU's ethical and integrity rules are not fit for purpose: MEPs self-declare conflicts of interest, but in the absence of an independent verification body, there barely no sanctions for omissions.

Time to stop pretending that self-regulation in the European Parliament is sufficient when the stakes: defence policy, climate law, industrial standards, are this high.

A complaint drafted by Transparency International and supported by The Good Lobby LobbyControl & co was submitted to the EU Parliament

https://t.co/wwL97JKuH4

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

One extra euro of GDP in education and health has three to four times less material footprint and energy consumption than one extra euro of GDP in the manufacturing sector. So that’s why the sectoral shifts are hugely important https://t.co/bguJWLwa0O

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

A new @POLITICOEurope investigation reveals that Czech MEP Alexandr Vondra (ECR) failed to disclose his chairmanship of The Prague Centre for Transatlantic Relations, a think-tank with links to the defence, automotive and fossil fuel industries.

Vondra is actively shaping EU defence, climate and transport policy. He is a shadow rapporteur on the CO2 standards for cars and vans, as well as on the Defence Omnibus and Military Mobility files. Despite these responsibilities, he declared no conflict of interest and tabled amendments that would benefit corporate interests.

Why does this matter?

This is the DEREGULATION playbook in action:

1. rolling back on existing standards of protection
2. doing so in the name of competitiveness
3. while failing to disclose industry ties.

EU's ethical and integrity rules are not fit for purpose: MEPs self-declare conflicts of interest, but in the absence of an independent verification body, there barely no sanctions for omissions.

Time to stop pretending that self-regulation in the European Parliament is sufficient when the stakes: defence policy, climate law, industrial standards, are this high.

A complaint drafted by Transparency International and supported by The Good Lobby LobbyControl & co was submitted to the EU Parliament

https://t.co/wwL97JKuH4

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Here’s the Spanish opposition leader calling for more EU deregulation, as Merz, Meloni do non stop asking von der Leyen to deliver. Only Trump wins, we Europeans lose and will soon find out

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

There’s no way the EU would sign the US-EU deal today, now way… https://t.co/jXCEzKFKRT

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Now that Hungary drops its veto on enlargement, the majority of member countries will no longer be able to hide behind Orban…

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

@chaferox Well said - vertigo

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Now that Hungary drops its veto on enlargement, the majority of member countries will no longer be able to hide behind Orban…

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

EXCLUSIVE: Hungary has signaled it will drop its long-standing opposition to Ukraine’s bid for EU membership, allowing it and Moldova to begin formal negotiations to join the bloc in the coming days, four diplomats told POLITICO. https://t.co/B4jaW4lByv

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Here’s the Spanish opposition leader calling for more EU deregulation, as Merz, Meloni do non stop asking von der Leyen to deliver. Only Trump wins, we Europeans lose and will soon find out

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

EU looks more attractive in Donald Trump’s ‘crazy world’ - be it in Iceland or Norway.

I bet for new EU members by the end of 2027, but for this we need EU reforms - the ultimate taboo https://t.co/BCJ01hh0B1

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

@Colin00007 2013

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

EU looks more attractive in Donald Trump’s ‘crazy world’ - be it in Iceland or Norway.

I bet for new EU members by the end of 2027, but for this we need EU reforms - the ultimate taboo https://t.co/BCJ01hh0B1