"La cible des nationalistes n'est pas telle ou telle règle communautaire, mais bien l'Union européenne elle-même."
- @PaoloGentiloni, former Italian Prime Minister #Europeennes2019#Rome#VoteVolt
"La démocratie illibérale - sans Etat de droit, sans protection des minorités - n'est pas la #démocratie. Monsieur #Orban, vous allez contre les valeurs de l'Union européenne !"@PaoloGentiloni
"Quand nous parlons de politique mondiale, nous ne pouvons plus parler en tant qu'italiens ou français, mais en tant qu'#européens. L'Europe doit prendre sa place sur la scène mondiale !" @PaoloGentiloni
"D'ici 20 ans, nous aurons des #migrations économiques et climatiques - pas seulement à cause de guerres. Et nous pourrons les gérer, mais seulement si nous avons une réponse cohérente au niveau #européen." @PaoloGentiloni#Europeennes2019
Today, @POLITICOEurope's Playbook reports on two EU political alliances missing out on EU funds "because the paperwork is too complicated". A great opportunity to discuss the funding of #europeanparties! 🥳🇪🇺
A quick 🧵... 1/23
@euleftalliance @APPF_EU @EDC_eudemocracy
First of all, what are we talking about? This is about a special stream of European public funding set aside for #europeanparties and distributed every year. Out of that envelope, 10% is distributed equally to all parties and 90% proportionally to their number of MEPs. 2/23
But, actually, this turns out to be more about registration than funding. In the meantime, if you want to really understand the funding of European parties, hear this way 👇 3/23 epfo.eu/understanding-…
Over the past several years, @EDC_eudemocracy has made many, many requests to the European Parliament to access decisions by its Bureau on the funding of #europeanparties. These included decisions for funding (for the coming year) and final accounts (which wrap up the process).
Invariably, these documents were provided with heavy redactions over the parts covering the EP's reasoning for its decisions: we could see the outcome (amounts), but not how decisions were made. Until yesterday, the latest full document related to funding for 2015 -- 8 years ago.
To be clear, the point of this thread is *not* to argue that TNLs will make our common election less European, simply that they will not remedy the election's core deficiency (that national parties are in control) and that, therefore, they are not the right way forward. 3/25
Of course, "the @EU_Commission shall be completely independent" and "the members of the Commission shall neither seek nor take instructions from any Government". (Art. 17.3 TEU #LisbonTreaty). So there should be no need for #1country1commissioner rule. #IamEuropean 🇪🇺
Furthermore, "As from 1/11/2014, the @EU_Commission shall consist of a number of members [equal to] two thirds of the number of Member States" (Art. 17.5 TEU #LisbonTreaty)..... "unless the @EUCouncil [...] decides to alter this number". Which it did right away. #IamEuropean 🇪🇺