Editor’s observe: Within the spirit of diversifying and experimentation, we have partnered with the reporters behind the Euroscopic podcast, who shall be bringing a weekly conversational evaluation of the highest EU tales, coupled with interviews with a few of EUobserver’s reporters on the tales we have revealed. I will let the type hosts, Martin Gak and William Glucroft, take it from right here:
Little or no occurs rapidly within the European Union. How a lot Germany has to do with that could be extra correlation than causation, although the parallel is robust. For a coalition authorities that got here into energy on the finish of 2021 “daring extra progress,” it has taken greater than half its time period to do what many comparable nations have already achieved. Pot is, lastly, kind of authorized. Regardless of the political, financial, and social repercussions now, it will likely be a aid to cease listening to about each step of the tortured legislative course of that was required to cross a reasonably delicate reform.
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Germany have to be smoking one thing, although, as a result of a significant state-backed financial institution thought it was a good suggestion to freeze the belongings of an anti-Zionist Jewish peace organisation. It is a extremely uncommon transfer that feels like a previous Germany — and Sparkasse, the financial institution, has been reasonably tight-lipped as to why it did so. Theories abound, nevertheless, and the incident dovetails with the larger silencing marketing campaign the German state and its affiliated establishments have waged in opposition to Israel critics. The chair of Jewish Voice for Simply Peace within the Center East joins us to debate the state of affairs.
In any other case, there are native Turkish elections to debate. And Bulgaria and Romania be part of the Schengen membership. Largely, anyway. Plus, what “Pfizergate” tells us in regards to the European Fee and its chief, Ursula von der Leyen.
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