National vetoes are the EU version of the Senate filibuster. A committed qualified majority could use any broadly popular issue to break the rule forever.
Tooze projecting the loss of his house to a climate event and then finding solace in the arms of his new chinese partner after a long spell of depression onto his analysis of Weltpolitik, shows again to never forget that one's heros are always still menschlich, like all of us.
Quite funny that the US meatpackers used their market power to impose reality denying price controls on the cattle ranchers. Only waking up when the shelfs start to be empty. If they had not done it to max their profits, the late Soviet Union would have been proud.
How long till Witkoff gets the treatment by the EU that the US is giving to the ICC prosecutors?
After 40 years of almost zero marginal cost and constant deflationary capital goods the US tech sector seems to not know how to deal with those basic business concepts anymore.
Das "Wir" der deutschen Manager und Unionspolitiker sollte zum Unwort des Jahres werden.
Generative AI seems to do to the wider population and economy what social media did to journalists and the news business. No replacement, just psychosis and financial destruction.
Tooze's "fairly reliable points" 2 & 3 in his chartbook 413 look like the hinge points of our near future. In my opinion the US economy will not shrug off the AI miss-investments and Trump fallout, and Xi's next stimulus boost will be on Taiwan. Who knows, but deffo not reliable.