“In its drive to compete with Washington and Beijing, the EU is radically reshaping how it makes its laws, at the risk of producing legislation that is less grounded, protective and legitimate.” My latest albertoalemanno.substack.com/p/deregulati...

The EU deregulation machine has found its next target: protected wildlife. Under pressure from industry, member states want easier licenses to build industrial projects even if this entails killing species protected under EU law. What comes after “simplification” risk becoming extinction.

The EU deregulation machine has found its next target: protected wildlife. Under pressure from industry, member states want easier licenses to build industrial projects even if this entails killing species protected under EU law. What comes after “simplification” risk becoming extinction.

The best move on Europe Day is for each and every European public voice to join W Social. Spread the word and see you on W! Vive l’Europe

The best move on Europe Day is for each and every European public voice to join W Social. Spread the word and see you on W! Vive l’Europe

Happy Europe Day! Happy Europe Day! Europeans want a stronger Europe more than ever, as surveys show. And yet our leaders remain unable or unwilling to turn that public demand into action. That gap between what Europeans want and what their leaders deliver is citizen power Europe lies

Europe caves in to Trump and fossil fuel companies’ demand (AGAIN): The EU Commission is preparing unlimited exemptions from methane rules justified by the Hormuz crisis. No matter IEA data says the opposite policy makes energy sense.

⚖️ Is the EU strengthening better lawmaking - or weakening its safeguards? Our latest blog unpacks key takeaways from The Good Lobby webinar on the new Better Regulation Toolbox. 🔗 Read more: thegoodlobby.eu/the-new-eu-b... @alemanno.bsky.social @transparency-eu.bsky.social

What happened in Bucharest is a political first: the last great taboo of European politics is gone. Even the left teaming up with the hard right. What comes through it next is the real question for Europe’s politics.” My take for the FT #Romania www.ft.com/content/0d5d...

Fascinating split in EU politics over America 🇺🇸🇪🇺 Von der Leyen’s EPP pushes for immediate ratification of the US trade deal, even if only the far right backs it, to show Trump Europe is in line Center-left & left: enough is enough. The transatlantic fault line is now inside the Parliament itself

Fascinating split in EU politics over America 🇺🇸🇪🇺 Von der Leyen’s EPP pushes for immediate ratification of the US trade deal, even if only the far right backs it, to show Trump Europe is in line Center-left & left: enough is enough. The transatlantic fault line is now inside the Parliament itself

Missed our webinar on the new EU Better Regulation Toolbox? Watch the recording: change.thegoodlobby.eu/membership-r... Read Prof. Alemanno’s analysis: verfassungsblog.de/deregulating... @alemanno.bsky.social @transparency-eu.bsky.social

🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇸 German chancellor #Merz unable to reform at home will hand Brussels a wish-list identical to what #Trump has been demanding for months. A coincidence or a warning sign for Europe? #EUreform #EUcomission #FarRight @alemanno.bsky.social albertoalemanno.substack.com/p/merz-wants...

The U.S. is unilaterally escalating trade pressure on the European Union with new tariffs, highlighting how fragile the EU-US Tunberry arrangement was and reinforces criticism that the EU conceded too much without securing reliable enforcement.

“Deregulating Better Regulation” Read my preliminary analysis of the 2026 Better Regulation Communication laying down how the EU intends to design, implement and enforce EU law from now onwards verfassungsblog.de/deregulating...

Congratulations to @JoaoCravinho freshly appointed the new Rector of @collegeofeurope.bsky.social

“Deregulating Better Regulation” Read my preliminary analysis of the 2026 Better Regulation Communication laying down how the EU intends to design, implement and enforce EU law from now onwards verfassungsblog.de/deregulating...

Today the EU Commission unveils how it plans to write laws going forward (spoiler: by entrenching the omnibus method) Join us on Thursday, 30 April, 4.30–5.30 pm CEST to unpack what it means for EU policymaking and Europe's regulatory power 📝 REGISTER here: lnkd.in/eCEfmC92 📖 READ lnkd.in/e_km9iVi

Today the EU Commission unveils how it plans to write laws going forward (spoiler: by entrenching the omnibus method) Join us on Thursday, 30 April, 4.30–5.30 pm CEST to unpack what it means for EU policymaking and Europe's regulatory power 📝 REGISTER here: lnkd.in/eCEfmC92 📖 READ lnkd.in/e_km9iVi

How paradoxical to see Americans rejecting data centres, while Europeans competing to attract them. This is part of Europe’s inferiority complex. Attracting hyperscaler infrastructure feels like securing a seat at the AI table. Yet this will backfire with the public

Merz Wants to Dismantle the EU Commission. So Does Trump. Read my latest

True: the EU’s mutual defense clause (Art. 42.7) is legally stronger than NATO’s Article 5. Yet it was designed as NATO’s plan B, and lacks operationalisation and leaves national discretion. Now, with Trump torching NATO, EU must remedy it www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Manfred Weber’s anti-fascist stance in @La_stampa today is an offense to his electorate and partisans who resisted nazi fascism. His group voted 19 times with hard right since 2024 www.lastampa.it/editoriali/l...

Manfred Weber’s anti-fascist stance in @La_stampa today is an offense to his electorate and partisans who resisted nazi fascism. His group voted 19 times with hard right since 2024 www.lastampa.it/editoriali/l...

That’s a TRAP Ambassador! It’s a sale and lobbying pitch designed to deepen Europe’s energy dependence on the US, with demands to weaken EU methane standards as the price of entry. The real AI energy race is won by cheap, scalable, clean power not premium-priced imported LNG.

That’s a TRAP Ambassador! It’s a sale and lobbying pitch designed to deepen Europe’s energy dependence on the US, with demands to weaken EU methane standards as the price of entry. The real AI energy race is won by cheap, scalable, clean power not premium-priced imported LNG.

Are we Europeans truly free? The twin shocks of Trump’s coercion and Putin’s aggression have delivered an uncomfortable answer: we are significantly less free than we believed, says @alemanno.bsky.social, Jean Monnet Professor at HEC Paris and Democracy Fellow at @harvard.edu. Join us for his talk!

“Mettendo il veto contro le sanzioni Ue a Israele, Tajani assegna all’Italia un ruolo stile Ungheria”: intervista al giurista Alberto Alemanno

The European Council is showing its limits, but its dysfunctional nature is what its architects intended when they surreptiously set it up in 1974

The Baltics could be the target, Putin might be tempted, and our allies are currently in a tough spot - warns Landsbergis landsbergis.com/the-baltic-s...

National governments are handing out fuel tax breaks to fight the energy crisis, costing billions benefiting the wealthy, and killing electric. In 2022, the EU taxed energy windfall profits and raised billions overnight. Oil companies are still profiting @vonderleyen still silent.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

EU governments’ failure to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement does not erase Israel’s obligations under international and EU law. Those obligations persist and are currently being breached. My take for ⁦‪@Mediapart‬⁩ www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

Whatever membership Ukraine gets, this moment is forcing the EU to do what it always resisted: unbundle membership from an all-or-nothing affair. Time to apply the same logic to the Western Balkans? #EUCO

Bulgaria elects its former President and pilot as new PM with an absolute majority. He’s a nationalist, EU-sceptical & against supporting Ukraine, but less rebellious than Viktor Orban also because Bulgaria is even more dependent on EU than Hungary #EUCO www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Spain - European independence’s champion - is allowing more than 70 Huawei products in their critical infrastructure, including defense. This doesn’t replace but substitute one dependency with another - China for America theobjective.com/economia/tel...

Europe has about 6 weeks of jet fuel left, but we’re on the Titanic apnews.com/article/iran...

I got a confession to make. Despite the relief at Orbán’s defeat, I remain deeply cautious about what this vote actually means. A thread. 🧵

This victory came too late. And that’s on European leaders. EU rule of law conditionality did work. Freezing funds helped. But it came too timidly, too slowly — held hostage by leaders unwilling to confront a fellow head of government. The lesson must now apply faster. Slovakia is next.

I got a confession to make. Despite the relief at Orbán’s defeat, I remain deeply cautious about what this vote actually means. A thread. 🧵

Orban is out but defeating him at the ballot box is not the same as dismantling Orbanism. The illiberal infrastructure, that is the captured judiciary, the loyalist media landscape, the Fidesz-aligned oligarchs, the constitutional hardball in Basic Law, doesn’t disappear with a concession call

Orban is out but defeating him at the ballot box is not the same as dismantling Orbanism. The illiberal infrastructure, that is the captured judiciary, the loyalist media landscape, the Fidesz-aligned oligarchs, the constitutional hardball in Basic Law, doesn’t disappear with a concession call

What if Sánchez’s rapprochement to China isn’t diversification but a new dependency, and worse, one that splits Europe while China watches? Every member state running its own trade policy is exactly the fragmentation Beijing (plus Washington and Moscow) want. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Why Hungary (and the EU) need a redemocratisation plan My take on the Hungarian elections published across 20 media outlet, from El Pais to Libération open.substack.com/pub/albertoa...

Why Hungary (and the EU) need a redemocratisation plan My take on the Hungarian elections published across 20 media outlet, from El Pais to Libération open.substack.com/pub/albertoa...

La UE necesita un plan de ‘redemocratización’ de Hungría - escribo hoy en @elpais.com Si gana las elecciones, la oposición heredará toda la arquitectura institucional manipulada; derrotar a Orbán no sería lo mismo que neutralizarlo elpais.com/opinion/2026...

What’s killing NATO isn’t the European refusals to access to US bases, but Trump’s unilateral decision to redefining NATO as a US force-projection tool rather than a collective defense arrangement. That’s the constitutional coup against the alliance. Europe didn’t break NATO, Trump did.

Hongrie : l'illusion du changement - Ma tribune dans @lalibre.be www.lalibre.be/debats/opini...

What’s killing NATO isn’t the European refusals to access to US bases, but Trump’s unilateral decision to redefining NATO as a US force-projection tool rather than a collective defense arrangement. That’s the constitutional coup against the alliance. Europe didn’t break NATO, Trump did.

Whose Europeans are the most concerned about Trump’s America? Yet more evidence that Spanish PM Sanchez - not the @partido-popular.bsky.social nor VOX - is leading the way in interpreting public sentiment

European national leaders need a Plan B when it comes to their security and defense. Anyone? Unmissable opportunity