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Professor EU law. In the past ICT and trade business, EU treaties negotiator, EU judge, screenplay author. I endorse nothing quoted.
May 28, 2019 4 tweets 2 min read
The democratic swindle of the #spitzenkandidat .
(expanded version).
#democracy #EUelections2019
linkedin.com/pulse/democrat… "Legally, the European Council makes the proposal, and the Parliament votes on it. The Treaty does NOT say that the European Council may propose only candidates who have been presented before as spitzenkandidat. Such process would illegally limit the European Council’s power.
Oct 30, 2018 10 tweets 3 min read
A few thoughts on @piris_jc useful comment about my linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… . "Both U.K. and EU agreed (...) that the three land borders betw U.K. and EU had to be fixed in WA not in Future Relations Treaty. Nothing new. Franklin please try to help and find solutions". 8 pts As usual, tweets not adapted to such debate, but :
1) Even if this does not appear to JC, I AM looking for solutions, but from a different place. Preferably, these solutions should be (a) legal and (b) sustainable in the long term.