More in today's interview with @tokfm.bsky.social (in PL 🇵🇱)

audycje.tokfm.pl/podcast/1810...

🫤 Not so great…
- #Climate goals - yes, but less of a priority now
- “Could be worse” rhetoric on trade deal with the #USA
- Little space for the #SocialUnion
- Very brief on #enlargement

💥 Great!
- Defending #democracy and #theruleoflaw, conditionality mechanism
- Supporting local and independent #media
- #Housing
- Holding the Israeli government accountable for #Gaza

💡Other issues:
- #Migration: “human but not naive”
- #Digital: time for a European AI
- #Agriculture: protecting farmers from unfair trading practices
- #Energy: no Russian fossil fuels - clean European energy instead, including nuclear power

➡️ Focus on hard policies:
- #Security and #Defence supporting Ukraine, investing in the defence potential of the EU
- #Competitiveness inside and outside of the EU - further development of the Common Market
- #Trade - aware of the hostile US trade tariffs, developing alternative trade relations

As food for thought, read my Policy Brief about the strategy of the European Commission to protect the rule of law and how to boost the impact of financial conditionality.

➡️ www.epc.eu/publication/...

Join us online next week at the @epc-official.bsky.social for a conversation about the use of the existing toolbox and recent developments in Member States, risks and opportunities for the rule of law in the EU 🇪🇺

➡️ Wednesday, 16 July, 14:00 - 15:00
➡️ www.epc.eu/publication/...

Innocracy25 will continues through the day, the complete programme is available here: innocracy.org/programm/

I had the great pleasure and honor to moderate the opening session on the breakdown of liberal democracies across countries with Josephine Ortleb MdB, Jürgen Czernohorszky, Executive City Councillor in Vienna, und Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook of the Bertelsmann Stiftung.