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CrisMystik
2mo ago
Is it too much to ask to consider that the people on the banknotes are/will be depicted because they are European, and not because they come from any member State in particular?
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CrisMystik
2mo ago
The underpinning ideology is that Europe (meaning the EU) should have no history, no culture and no identity because they are monopoly of the member States/nations. And, as always, if you put a monument or person from some country in t
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CrisMystik
2mo ago
Yes, it was the second reading; because of that, the motion for rejecting the Council common position was not approved, since it received a majority, but not an absolute majority, of votes
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CrisMystik
2mo ago
The new reading will happen if the Council rejects the amendment approved by the Parliament. When it does they have 6 weeks to negotiate, and then 6 weeks to approve the result of negotiations, if any. Basically, the hope is that the Counci
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CrisMystik
2mo ago
One thing that should be noted is that, since the Parliament has been able to approve an amendment by absolute majority (which explicitly excludes E2E chats), the procedure is not over and the law is still not enacted, a third reading is st
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CrisMystik
2mo ago
The urgency procedure is not the issue here, the problem is that this was Parliament's second reading, and the treaties (article 294 TFEU) say: > Second reading > 7. If, within three months of such communication, the European
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CrisMystik
2mo ago
The urgency procedure has nothing to do with the absolute majority requirement. It's necessary because, in the second reading, the Parliament should have an absolute majority to reject or amend the Council (i.e. the governments of the
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CrisMystik
2mo ago
The Parliament has many committees that do exactly what you're saying, while the Council meets in various configurations of national ministers depending on the law being voted on
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CrisMystik
2mo ago
The first sentence is correct, but > The Council decided Chat Control was on the agenda The Council is different from the European Council (yes, the treaty drafters were not much creative in naming institutions), the latter is composed
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CrisMystik
2mo ago
MEPs are directly elected by citizens, not governments. It's the Council instead where representatives (ministers) of all national governments sit
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CrisMystik
2mo ago
The ordinary legislative procedure applies to both: - Chat Control 1.0 (now expired): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A... - Chat Control 2.0: https://eur-lex.europa.eu&#
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2mo ago
This is completely wrong. Under the ordinary legislative procedure (used for Chat Control 1.0 & 2.0) the Commission proposes an act, then the Council and Parliament can approve it, reject it or amend it. The act can be approved only if
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CrisMystik
2mo ago
In that case you're against the people currently in government, not the body itself, i.e. some people against Chat Control ask for the dissolution of the EU, but would they ask for the dissolution of their national state if a similar l
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2mo ago
> the head of the EC, Ursula, is impossible to dethrone by the people via democratic vote or protest The Commission can be dismissed by the Parliament, with a majority of its members and 2/3 of votes cast
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CrisMystik
5mo ago
It's not as complete as the compiler proposed by this article, but there is a tool for Italian laws which can, among other things, recognize (parse) and apply amendments: https://igsg-marker.gitlab.io/
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CrisMystik
3y ago
I use Bird in Rome and it's the operator whose scooters I see the most around. However, it could also be due to the fact that the municipality has enacted strict rules allowing only 3 companies to operate and forcing a certain number o
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CrisMystik
3y ago
> The other 26 are selected by the Council of Ministers, without Parliamentary oversight. No, after the European Parliament has approved the proposed President of the European Commission and the Council has chosen the other 26 commission
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3y ago
What's the problem with the Lisbon Treaty?
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CrisMystik
4y ago
In my country, Italy, all online public services already must accept government-issued digital IDs only, by law. They come in two forms: SPID (which is just username and password + TOTP, issued by private companies on behalf of the State, b