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4 Aug, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Can we stop this? The EU system is similar to the US one (ESTA). The US one started in 2008. It is no coincidence that the EC stated its intention to examine the possibility of introducing an electronic system of travel authorization for the EU in... 2008 /1
Here's the 2016 feasibility study. Written by PwC ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/s… /2
And you know what? The UK will launch its own system just like that. So: spite and divisiveness on the part of the UK? No. Similarly following the same models schengenvisainfo.com/news/uk-to-lau…
The only thing that all of this has to with Brexit is that we decided to be a third country.

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Some afterthoughts on the flooding in Germany that I think have not been stressed enough - but are important, whether for Germany or the UK or Canada or... anywhere really (short thread)
The debate about the floods have been difficult at times, there's been a lot of criticism of insufficient warnings. And I don't want to debate that away, but it misses an important point. /2
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Let's start off with some very very very basic facts: treaties are instruments concluded by two or more parties. The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties actually defines them (I'll spare you details)
Treaties are binding. Art. 26 VCLT. Pacta sunt servanda.
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Top 10 fully vaccinated countries: 1) Malta (80.98%), 2) Iceland (73.98), 3) Seychelles (69.29%), 4) UAE (68.1%), 5) San Marino (67.18) 6) Chile (61.37) 7) Bahrein (60.79) 8) Israel (60.61) 9) Uruguay (59.59) 10) Aruba (58.93)
Source: World in Data.
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A maybe-not-that curious observation on vaccination (though more interested in the federalism issue) with a question for historians on Eastern Europe. Let's start with some data from Germany (thread)
As Germany crossed the point of 60% of the population vaccinated once, let's look at the significant differences amongst German Länder
The first 8 Länder - all from former West Germany. The lowest 4 from East Germany (Germany has 16 Länder). West Germany ranges from 57.9% (Bavaria, shame on you) to 69% (Bremen). East Germany from 50.9% (Sachsen) to 58.5% (M-V) if you do not count Berlin at 59.1%.
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19 Jul
What Lord Frost describes is not just the EU approach - but also the traditional UK approach. Indeed, the FC(D)O lays implementing legislation to parliament before ratification precisely for this reason - and the UK then becomes less flexible.
In fact, it describes normal treaty processes and a long-term reality of treaty law: there's lots of discussions about treaty-making, but once made treaties are relatively inflexible. /2
Treaty parties are trying to change this to some extent - which is why they establish treaty bodies with powers to change the content of the treaty a bit. But this comes with its own downsides. /3
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The EUCivPro mechanism has been invoked
Ein herzliches Merci an die luxemburgischen Freunde
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