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Dave Keating
@davekeating.substack.com

🤦‍♂️JFC they already can intervene it's called the vote in the 🇪🇺Council. No EU legislation gets passed without the national governments approving it. Our national leaders in Europe are either idiots or liars. And I don't think they're idiots.

POLITICO Europe@politico.eu

EU capitals must be able to intervene to stop new legislation from Brussels if they say it’s too burdensome for governments and businesses, the leaders of Germany, Italy and Belgium wrote on Monday.

politico.euGermany, Italy request ’emergency brake’ power to stop new EU lawsFriedrich Merz, Giorgia Meloni and Bart de Wever said Brussels must accelerate business simplification efforts.
David Mac Dougall
@davidmacdougall.bsky.social

Presumably the 3 leaders don't know this, nobody in their cabinets knows this, none of their special advisers knows this... otherwise... why would they put out a letter that's so blatantly wrong? What is the motivation here, to demand something that can easily be shown they already have?

Dave Keating
@davekeating.substack.com

Because it's a cheap ploy to distract their citizens from the real problems caused by these national leaders. And they can get away with it because the education systems designed by these very same national governments deliberately keep their citizens ignorant of how the EU works.

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