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466. #BrexitReality “Before Brexit a lot of UK's hospitality workforce was made up of workers from overseas, including from the EU, but hundreds of thousands of foreign workers have left

Just out in @jepp_journal - "The European Union's authoritarian equilibrium" - my article explaining why autocratic member governments like Orbán's can endure so comfortably within the EU. Warning to fellow

1. Quick : an @EPP government - Orbán autocracy in Hungary- is detaining citizens & opposition activists who criticize regime on social media. Reminder his govt is still defended

15. If 27 national constitutional courts could judge the scope of EU's competences in their countries, then EU law would mean different things in different countries - & so would

1. A long on what is going on & what is at stake in dispute between @EUCourtPress & @EU_Commission & German @BVerfG. It is a showdown over question of

Many have been rightly criticizing the EU for its disjointed response to Coronavirus, for not doing enough to help Italy etc. But note that the US federal gov, which has

With his corona coup, Orbán abandoned any pretense of being a democratic leader. Given that his electoral autocracy was already secure, why did he risk inflaming tensions with the EU