that mean Ukraine needs longer time?

Nothing changes for the ascension of potential memberstates, like Moldova, Ukraine, Monte Negro. The requirements so far haven’t changed.

It’s only when new members " go Orbán" or rogue, after becoming full member that the EU could gain some power to fight the rogue member state, if this proposal or an ammendment of it is accepted

CONTEXT: In recent years, the EU has struggled to rein in democratic backsliding in several countries that joined the bloc in 2004, most notably Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.

The crisis has exposed the limited leverage Brussels retains once the accession process—already defined by exceptionally high admission standards—is completed.

PROPOSAL 1 ( leverage against backsliding by freezing funds) The paper aims to create leverage in the years immediately after accession by codifying a “non-regression clause” as a “binding norm” for new member states. Should regression happen, the EU would be empowered to take “protective measures” beyond the tools it has today, namely the infringement procedure and the freezing of funds.

PROPOSAL 2 ( no vetopower by a majority vote suspension) Additionally, the document proposes to simplify Article 7 of the EU treaties to deal with serious breaches of fundamental values.The document says the suspension of voting rights should be possible with just a 4/5th majority to enable faster action if a new member backslides.

Higher tariffs than in the EU might be one cause. Also especially the Swiss don’t like people showing off. Lastly, I haven’t checked the methodology of this study, but maybe statisical deviants etc.

Something like that, probaly. I tried to keep up with the whole debacle. Things that didn’t help was that it seems that they postponed the technical goals after the political intent was decided.So this divergence would later clash in the operational details and goals, another alleged issue was not sharing details (secrecy) , and lastly the clashing ego’s of CEOs.

Not all of the investment is necessarily lost of this 100B project (# supposedely so far 3.2 B was spend in development). There is speculation that the project could be restructured into two separate fighter jet programs, with France and Germany pursuing their own solutions. In this scenario, some of the joint research, technology, and industrial capacity developed so far could be divided or reused.

Also this project, while very important is one the many Franco-German projects.#add

The Iran situation probably didn’t help much. The important part is that employment rates keep growing overall.

Never tried Qwant, how does it compare to Ecosia or DDG?

It’s about the ratification of the ( ammended!) EU- US deal from last year. Nothing really new here, apart from the “Greenland clause” ofc.

This org article is Fake

It’s 100% non- sensical crap article. The article linking Politico is even worse.

Why would Magyar force out the president

Why not? The current President was appointed under Orban, whom has infected and corrupted most Top functions. Time to clean up:

“While mostly a ceremonial role, Hungary’s president is responsible for signing legislation into law and has the power to send bills passed by parliament to the constitutional court for review, raising concerns among supporters of the new government that he could use that power to obstruct its plans.”

Tnx, important context when properly finding solutions to tackle our privacy and consumers protection issues.

Translation pls. English speaking forum Also, original source link appreciated.

English speaking forum. Translation pls.

How many incidents of cars being used

It’s just bad people - oftentimes hired by certain regimes- deliberately hurting innocent pedestrians to create doubts and fear in" decadent & weak Western democracies", or so they call it.

Do I really have to spell it out like for a five year old?

Would be good if your comments were more nuanced and a bit more respectful every now and then. Your arguments about “Politico” holds also true for many other media outlets. It’s something others have already commented on in your post and comments. You keeps pushing your own agenda in this matter.

Most people here should be adults and are capable of making their own decision in what they read.

Wirh reference to the MV Hondius cruise ship, to contract the Andes virus one needs to inhale mouse (rodent) poopdust. What have they done or where have they camped, and how come they never noticed it? This expedition afaik occurs often and the crew is almost one for each passenger. I don’t get it, this virus is quite well known in Argentinian Andes region.

So I guess a tourist did stupid tourist things probably, or a passenger got it from a local (guide) and infected the other passengers, is my guess.

They have a proper Uni course for this. I dont think we have anything close to that, in Europe? Ofc, our spies are trained as well, afaik that’s up to specialised agencies.

That’s a good thing, kinda?

“Peacefull co-existence” should be.

But how rewriting the constitution will affect their relationship remains unclear for me. Except, that maybe it’s less confrontational on paper.

It’s remarkable how the talks between north & south suddenly worsened after 2023. And, they even demolished the building were they held the peacetalks.

ps: just realised this is wrong community for this post. Though S Korea is an ally ofc

Yeah, we’ll probably need to scale up critical infrastructure ( and thus our elektro industry) and/or diversify trade, as EU has recently been trying to do.

There is still one Belgian company producing solar panels Belga Solar fyi. Germany used to be leading like 20 years ago in it’s production, maybe they have one there too?

But at this point in time we should be more focusing on electro storage, as most of Europe already has ( 99% Chinese) solar pannels. Afaik, it will take still some years to extract thre critical components ( Scandinavia), which is currently the bottleneck in the battery proces iiuc.