Marco M.

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EU law @ EUI ☕ 📍Florence

Bei konservativer Heuchelei zuckt normalerweise kein Medium mit der Wimper. Dass es bei Jens #Spahn anders ist, zeigt das Homophobie wohl nach wie so kampagnenfähig ist, dass sie selbst Konservativen zum Problem werden kann.

💥🇭🇺🗳️First results of the Hungarian parliamentary elections are in: with 14.72% counted, the opposition leads with mandates nearing a two-thirds majority. Everything points to Viktor Orbán’s defeat and Péter Magyar becoming Hungary’s next prime minister.

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An impressive piece: «One European foreign minister, who asked not to specify their country, recalled a discussion with Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, that became heated: “I’m old enough to remember 2003, and back then I was one of those who believed you,” the minister told Blinken.»

A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them

Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...

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The EU has just published the final version of the Article 122 Regulation that, as of today, indefinitely immobilises the Russian assets. It sets three key conditions to release the €210 billion: 1) Russia ends the war 2) Russia pays reparations to Ukraine 3) Russia is no longer an economic threat

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Breaking EU rule of law protection news Late on Thursday, the NL Parliament, by majority, instructed the NL government to initiate *Article 259 TFEU State-to-State infringement proceedings against Slovakia* over its recent constitutional change to limit LGBTIQ-rights & to deny supremacy of EU law

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A temporary installation covers the front doors of Santissima Annunziata in Florence with the thermal blankets used to warm up migrants rescued at sea. In a surreal twist, members of Fratelli d'Italia say this is "disrespectful and aesthetically disgusting". www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6365...

Italy: Art Installation regarding migrants at Florence Basilica sparks controversy

An installation dedicated to migrants in Florence inaugurated on March 25, at the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata, has sparked a political controversy.

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Last year the German Federal Administrative Court ruled that anonymous applications under the Freedom of Information Act are inadmissible. Jannis Krüßmann and I wrote a (German) blog post on how the court's reasoning does not hold for environmental information. Since today we know: AG Medina agrees

The word ‘applicant’ in Article 2(5) of Directive 2003/4, read in the light of Articles 2 and 4 of the Aarhus Convention,

must be interpreted as meaning that it is not limited to a natural or legal person identified by that person’s actual name and/or a current physical address but also includes an anonymous or pseudonymous person and/or an applicant whose contact details are identified by email only.