Georg E. Riekeles 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Proud European, ex-Brexit negotiator EU_Commission now thinktanker @epc_eu - interested in #tech, norms & power and most things EU #TheFutureisYours- own views.
Mar 5, 2022 18 tweets 11 min read
🇪🇺🇺🇦👇important contribution. Start of debate forcing itself onto #EU agenda when Leaders meet for 'Growth summit' in Versailles next week.
Personally I have no doubt a "doubling-down" on EU #borrowing capacity in time will be necessary -- but not necessarily as proposed. As a quick take, I think @benjaminhaddad @maxbergmann's proposal:
- lacks ambition in the most adverse scenario (1⃣) (obvious)
- faces question about EU borrowing priority in world we are waking up to tomorrow (2⃣);
- requires discussion of European defence fundamentals (3⃣).
May 27, 2021 9 tweets 4 min read
On @euronews today commenting on major crisis in #EU - #Swiss relations.

Interview by great @Brusselsness

👇 🧵on why this breakdown & what next, in 8 points 1/ This is obviously sovereignty vs economy all over again.
 
Swiss focus on freedom of movement, “benefit tourism”, pressure on wages & “foreign judges”
 
I think🇨🇭have bad case- EU has been accommodating & numbers don’t add up to problems they pretend. But again, it’s politics.