Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺
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Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law @HECParis | Democracy Fellow @Harvard | Founder @TheGoodLobby @EurJRR | Formerly @EUCourtPress | #YGL #EYL
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Why are EU leaders rushing to deregulate at the exact moment Trump is demanding Europe dismantle its regulations? This should make you suspicious: If America is pushing Europe to abandon its regulatory superpower over 450 million consumers, it's because they're terrified of what it means for US companies. Europe has immense power here. We could exclude Big Tech from our markets entirely if they don't play by our rules. Instead? EU leaders are voluntarily gutting laws on tech, but also climate, chemicals, doing Trump's work for him. Paradoxically, the EU simplification drive won't free Europe from Americ: it will make Europe even more dependent. To know more I recommend you to listen to the latest episode of EU Scream with James Kanter
Alberto Alemanno37,466 views • 9 months ago
What if Europeans could vote for EUROPEAN - not national - parties? #EUCO
Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺13,988 views • 9 months ago
You probably didn't notice, but the EU is fundamentally changing how it makes laws, and this affects all of us. It started last year under the so-called "simplification agenda." Politicians from left, centre, and right asked the EU to lower its standards on climate, environment, and digital policy to unleash the EU economy. They did so by skipping public consultations in the name of urgency, prompted by the Draghi Report and under pressure from President Trump, who was speaking on behalf of America's most powerful companies. Now our national leaders want to make this emergency approach THE NEW NORMAL. The Commission has launched a "Better Regulation" consultation - open until tomorrow (February 4th) - that would NORMALIZE the urgent procedures that led to simplification. Hidden behind technocratic language, this proposal would dramatically reduce citizen and civil society input, as well as the evidence-gathering traditionally required to create or revise EU laws. Their justification? A "volatile geopolitical environment" requires speed and flexibility. Under this proposal, the Commission alone would decide when evidence matters, when public input is needed, and when scrutiny applies. But there’s more. During next week's European Council on February 12th will see Germany and Italy push for an even more dramatic power grab. Their joint paper proposes an "emergency brake" that would allow national governments to veto any proposal that creates "burden” (which remains undefined, unassessed) at their discretion. They also demand a "strict principle of discontinuity" under which national leaders, not the legislative process, decide what survives by systematically withdrawing proposals they deem outdated. They want Parliament and Council amendments monitored for "additional burdens" before they can proceed. This is a coordinated assault on how the EU makes decisions. At the exact moment Europe needs strong democratic institutions to face external threats, our national leaders are dismantling the framework that protects European citizens and markets. The Commission and Parliament are quiescently accepting their subjugation to intergovernmental control. That's why, together with dozens of academics, we submitted observations to the Commission's consultation, denouncing the pervasive constitutional consequences of this new normal. You can read it here: and share your own experience and perspective
Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺10,271 views • 6 months ago
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