#Unanimity

Filipe Brito Bastos

Rules of procedure - QMV and unanimity - exist for a reason. Can we really imagine a scenario where the frugals, knowing they'd be outvoted anyway, would become more cooperative?

Charlotte Gracias

Epidemiologists, epidemiological statisticians, microbiologists, mathematicians and many other scientists and academics the world over have repeatedly warned that the #lockdown is precisely the wrong thing to do.https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical

The Supreme Court granted President Clinton’s petition for certiorari to hear the Paula Jones case, then ruled against him 9-0. Similarly, Trump will likely lose the Manhattan DA case by

Jakub Jaraczewski

So, the German presidency proposal for a #ruleoflaw conditionality. (1/X)1. It's an attempt at compromise (surprise!) that's also implementing the recent EUCO conclusions without twisting them. Hat's off to the

How to write a Marxist academic critique of anarchism:1. misrepresent anarchist authors through selective quotes. 2. quote what historic Marxists wrote about anarchism and treat it as automatically true or

Lucas Guttenberg

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The negotiations on the Recovery Instrument (RI) and the EU's long-term budget - the MFF - are heating up. A (long) overview on what's at stake, who has how

Laura Kuenssberg

This is messy. 1. Originally GM submitted bid for 90m to be able to keep paying staff whos jobs on hold equivalent of furlough until end financial year, based on

Lucas Guttenberg

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The presidency proposes to have the Council instead of the @EU_Commission approve national Recovery and Resilience Plans to unlock RRF money; even wants unanimity for this and cites

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About Two Krishna Janmashtami Dates Most of the time : Rules for Krishna Ashtami nirnaya are quite complex which are explained in Dharma Bindu: page 8-9 , DHARMA SINDHU: Prathama

The Opposition has informed the public that despite the proposed #20A's very profound impact on the whole country:(a) It isn't being allowed adequate time for debate in the House, with

Lucas Guttenberg

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So let's take a walk through the fairly complex construction that is the @EU_Commission's Recovery Instrument proposal. As a diligent bureaucracy, the Commission has done a good job to slice

Lucas Guttenberg

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The #EUCO deal is a mixed bag. The Recovery Instrument is nothing short of a historic step. But the MFF is mediocre and a missed chance. And the eternal rule

Leonard Seabrooke

My piece in Politiken today: Political action against tax havens is setting the stage for a morality play that will expose hypocrisies in European tax policy. Different policy positions taken

EU foreign policy: ending the unanimity requirement by introducing some sort of majority voting (QMV) on foreign affairs has become the next holy grail in the debate. Quick thread.https://twitter.com/rdanielkelemen/status/130930879175475609

Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥

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GORSUCH IS LOVE "instead of the mistrial he would have received almost anywhere else, Mr. Ramos was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole." https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-5924_n6io.pdf #cjreform "

Sophie Pornschlegel

So after spending a few hours trying to get through the maze of publications on #NextGenerationEU & revised #MFF proposal (thanks @EU_Commission for this beautiful bureaucratic construction), here's my 2