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Alberto Alemanno
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Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, HEC Paris & College of Europe, Bruges

Democracy Fellow, Harvard University & Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies Minda de Gunzburg at Harvard University

Founder, The Good Lobby
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Alberto Alemanno is an academic, author, public interest lawyer, and civic entrepreneur. He is Jean Monnet Professor in EU Law at HEC Paris since 2009, permanent Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, School of Public Policy, and at the College of Europe in Bruges. In 2024/25 he is a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. .. more

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · Nov 23
Ursula von der Leyen knows that her new commission will need support from the kind of hard-right parties it once swore to shun.

My latest for @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
For the first time in its history, we could be looking at a genuinely rightwing European Union | Alberto Alemanno
Ursula von der Leyen knows that her new commission will need support from the kind of hard-right parties it once swore to shun, says Alberto Alemanno of HEC Paris
www.theguardian.com

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 10h
As expected, Peter Magyar - Orban’s opponent - intends to :

- suspend military aid to Ukraine
- maintain energy dependency on Russia
- put Ukraine’s membership to a referendum in Hungary

That’s the new Hungary

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 10h
Really? If there’s one political ‘leader’ who’s proactively dismantled the EU is Manfred Weber - from enabling Viktor Orban, flirting with far-right parties and now governing with them in the EP to scrapping the green deal and next I’ll be the digital rulebook

He should act on what he preaches!
onethuthree.bsky.social Thu Nguyen @onethuthree.bsky.social · 12h
EPP leader Manfred Weber just gave a very good keynote speech on the future of Europe in Berlin tonight, putting forward seven principles for a stronger EU.

Quick thread:

Reposted by Alberto Alemanno

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Thu Nguyen @onethuthree.bsky.social · 12h
EPP leader Manfred Weber just gave a very good keynote speech on the future of Europe in Berlin tonight, putting forward seven principles for a stronger EU.

Quick thread:

Reposted by Alberto Alemanno

euobserver.com
euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 19h
Over one hundred legal experts have warned that the EU’s Omnibus I package, which cuts green and social reporting rules, breached EU law and was "likely to be annulled" if adopted.
Deregulation plans break EU law, legal scholars warn
Over one hundred legal experts have warned that the EU’s Omnibus I package, which cuts green and social reporting rules, breached EU law and was "likely to be annulled" if adopted.
euobserver.com

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Laurent Pech

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 1d
“The Omnibus fails to meet the constitutional standards the EU’s own legal order demands”.

That’s the conclusion reached by legal opinion endorsed by 100+ academics warning the Parliament about this dangerous precedent.

Read the opinion 👇 #Omnibus #CSRD #CSDDD

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Reposted by Alberto Alemanno

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 3d
Well the EU is our governments

Reposted by Geert Van Calster, Laurent Pech

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 4d
As predicted, the EU is ready to dismantle its Digital Rulebook as it did with the Green Deal.

It does so upon US administration’s demand and under Big Tech pressure.

It’s a self-inflicted political decision putting the EU on a deregulatory turn on.ft.com/47vqFOl
EU weighs pausing parts of landmark AI act in face of US and Big Tech pressure
Brussels is set to water down part of its strict digital rule book as it aims to make bloc more competitive
on.ft.com

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 5d
“Everything the EPP farts becomes Parliament’s position.”

anonymous EU Parliament official after a glass of wine - reports @gerardofortuna.bsky.social #playbook - amen

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 5d
No government in the world operates with 2 alternative parliamentary majorities based on political convenience. Yet von der Leyen does precisely this, shifting from pro-EU mainstream majority to far-right (Venezuela) majority with impunity

She might do so again

www.politico.eu/article/epp-...
EU’s biggest political group bets on far-right support to cut green rules
Push to slash red tape drives an ever-bigger wedge between Europe’s traditional centrist coalition.
www.politico.eu

Reposted by John L. Cotter, Laurent Pech

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 5d
How is the EU Parliament selecting experts to its public hearings and seminars?

AFCO first disinvited me from a public hearing on EU electoral law, and then created the conditions for @profpech.bsky.social to step back seminar thegoodlobby.eu/how-the-eu-p...
How the EU Parliament Selects its Experts? | The Good Lobby
Recent incidents involving the EU Parliament's AFCO Committee have raised questions about the instrumentalisation of parliamentary procedures.
thegoodlobby.eu

Reposted by Giuseppe Martinico

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 6d
What if EU simplification agenda is exactly what Trump wants from Europe? A self defeating move depriving itself of its only super-power
Listen to @euscream.bsky.social with @jameskanter.bsky.social

Reposted by Geert Van Calster, Alberto Alemanno

Reposted by Paul D. Grauwe

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James Kanter @jameskanter.bsky.social · 7d
My 10 cents: Europe could do the innovation and even the military innovation talked about by @eurobriefing.bsky.social if only Europe would stick to its, well, guns. For a deep dive on the EU chainsaw and why it's the wrong policy at the wrong time check out this episode with @alemanno.bsky.social.
Ep.121: Ungoverning the EU
Alberto Alemanno on an unwelcome Transatlantic alignment.
euscream.com

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 9d
What if Europe is dismantling itself the way Trump dismantled America amid the ongoing deregulatory roll-back - you just haven't noticed?

Listen to @euscream.bsky.social latest show with @jameskanter.bsky.social and me

euscream.com/pod-ep-121-u...
Ep.121: Ungoverning the EU
Alberto Alemanno on an unwelcome Transatlantic alignment.
euscream.com

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 9d
Giving up an undertaking because there are too many obstacles is often a serious mistake: these obstacles are, on the contrary, the rough edges to which the action can attach itself.

Jean Monnet