The Good Lobby Profs

The Good Lobby Profs mobilizes academic expertise to counter major rule of law violations, abuse of power within and across Europe. An initiative @thegoodlobby

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

As predicted, the Trump Boomerang Effect played out in Canada and today in Australia :

It kills the popularity of Trump-aligned cheerleaders worldwide

https://t.co/pOpgKhWTnc @ProSyn

[Project Syndicate @ProSyn]

From @EmmanuelMacron and @_FriedrichMerz to @Keir_Starmer, European leaders are responding to @realDonaldTrump’s relentless attacks by intensifying efforts to reduce their dependence on the US, notes @HECParis’s @alemannoEU. https://t.co/6d0L8MTAjI

[Project Syndicate @ProSyn]

.@realDonaldTrump’s aggressive trade policies have damaged the popularity of far-right politicians across Europe.

Even previously staunch Euroskeptics now speak in pan-European terms, observes @HECParis’s @alemannoEU. (https://t.co/g6Ig8rhwMB)

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

You - not ‘Europe’ - makes our days dark. Nobody force you to stay with us!

[The Good Lobby Profs @GoodLobbyProfs]

RT @alemannoEU: The EPP’s choice to celebrate its Messe In Valencia, Spain sounded preposterous, given the past floods under the clock of l…

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

The power cut in Spain and Portugal offers another COVID moment

Regardless of its causes, this turn of events highlights the fragility of our infrastructure and overall unpreparedness to these scenarios

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Who are the Public affairs firms in Europe that enable pollution by lobbying for big oil?

After one year of work, our research unveiled by ⁦@guardian⁩ https://t.co/9JObSKcWHz

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Not only Hungary is free riding on the EU by receiving more funds than it contributes to but also intends to hurt EU taxpayers by lifting Russia sanctions!
https://t.co/qaBcuXEoSz

[Pablo Pérez @PabloPerezA]

The day Europe began to weld peace into steel | 18 April 1951 - the European Coal and Steel Community is born.

Here, some curiosities you might not know about the Treaty of Paris that gave birth to the 🇪🇺 of today.

#EUHistory 🧵

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

„Dieses Urteil wird die bereits gespaltene französische Gesellschaft weiter polarisieren“, mahnt Alberto Alemanno, Dozent für EU-Recht an der HEC Business School in Paris https://t.co/lOb6wQ5B6F

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Thrilled to appear in the inaugural Forward Thinkers list, which spotlights voices shaping the future of global discourse!

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

I am sad to learn that Claus-Dieter Ehlermann has passed away.

Claus was one of the historical figures who shaped EU integration through law.

He was Director General of the European Commission's Legal Service, but also spokesperson of the Commission President, Director General of the Directorate General for Competition, and the 1st WTO Appellate Judge (for the EU).

I had the incredible privilege of interviewing - and spending time with - Claus in the early 2000s, when I was a PhD student

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

I got a question for you:

Who are the academics who most engage with society at large - be it policymakers, courts, nonprofits and the media?

Please share their names with me here or at [email protected] 🙏

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

“European Commission slammed for 'opaque' funding of NGOs”
- BUT today's EU Court of Auditors report concluded that :

“We did not find a single case during our audit of an NGO breaching EU values". Unlike what many MS are doing these days! https://t.co/FSIskjwHRf

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

If “Brussels” is so mean to you, why don’t you just leave the EU?

Be serious and consistent.

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Wow: the number of EU Commission meetings with external stakeholders have more than doubled than at this point during the last Commission mandate.
Yet increased transparency has also revealed the Commission's increasing corporate bias:

only 16% meetings with nonprofits @TI_EU #ngos https://t.co/X9Ti6TTk0u

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Fascinating developments:

New EU Ombudsman opens investigation into revolving doors (as key enabler of latest scandals)

Danuta Huber, former MEP, joins KREAB (lobbying firm)

Bardella calls for a new Parliamentary committee on ethical standards

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

It turns out that much of US’ frustration with EU trade flows hasn’t to do with tariffs (average 3%), but with non-tariff barriers - that is EU regulations US importers must comply with.

By boycotting @wto the US missed the chance to shape those regulations in both TBT and SPS committees. Self inflicted damage

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Looks like the tariffs may go down in history as yet another announcement falling short of real implementation

Wait and see appears the right approach : let US republicans, US consumer confidence and global markets do the job

Much ado about nothing? Loss of trust will stay

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

NEW PAPER --> Could Le Pen's misuse of EU taxpayers' money & the Huawei scandal have been prevented by a more solid EU public integrity framework?

After 5 years of work spent designing a new EU ethical authority, here’s a preliminary analysis of such a new ghost entity: it was agreed one year ago but it hasn't seen the light of the day (due to an EPP-led Venezuela majority voting against its implementation)

https://t.co/lMoPdm0GcW #LePen #Huawei