Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺

Only a citizen-driven EU, accountable to its elected legislature, could possess the capacity and mandate to tackle the bloc’s many current and future challenges, from its security to its expansion to the East, in a geopolitically shuttered world . My latest @ProSyn prosyn.org/PQEUNDe #EuropeanElections #EUCO

@georgebernhard @stuartmjohn There’s plenty these days. It’s holidays’ season

@stuartmjohn @alemannoEU I'm an EU citizen, and I've never met anyone who's annoyed about this. I've seen a number of imbeciles doing performative outrage about it, though.

The complete Brexiteer travel experience: enjoy everything the EU built, then find one mildly annoying thing and write a column about it!

@IdafeMartin We got another genius today :

Un señor profesor de Estudios Estratégicos, uno de estos republicanos estadounidenses alérgicos a la UE, recibiendo una sarta de palos como un pobre troll ultra. Lean las respuestas. Porque además le caen desde todos los colores políticos europeos.

3. Circular economy signalling: The measure is framed as part of the EU’s broader plastics strategy, alongside bans on cutlery, straws, and eventually fresh produce packaging.

2. Recycling efficiency: When caps detach during disposal, they escape recycling systems entirely. Tethering ensures the cap is collected and processed with the bottle.

This reduces pollution and was voted by a majority of national governments and members of the EU Parliament. Your EU bashing is cheap and factually incorrect. Enjoy Europe before returning to Trumpland

@CarloBasile17 Genius

@alemannoEU Since when do plastic bottles reduce pollution ? Are they collected and recycled in the EU ?

@leemakiyama 🤦

@alemannoEU Someone sent me this from the internets. It’s terribly unfair and inaccurate description but the rest of the world wouldn’t laugh unless they thought there is an ounce of truth in it.

The U.S. is unilaterally escalating trade pressure on the European Union with new tariffs, effectively sidelining the spirit of prior agreements and raising doubts about their durability. This move highlights how fragile the arrangement was and reinforces criticism that the EU conceded too much without securing reliable enforcement.

@WallStreetMav Any evidence ?

@alemannoEU The EU has not followed through on the agreed upon trade deal. Of course there needs to be a retaliation. The EU is an unreliable ally and trade partner.

Congratulations to @JoaoCravinho freshly appointed the new Rector of @collegeofeurope!

“Deregulating Better Regulation” Read my preliminary analysis of the 2026 Better Regulation Communication laying down how the EU intends to design, implement and enforce EU law from now onwards verfassungsblog.de/deregulating-b…

The Commission just presented the most structurally ambitious reform of EU policy-making since the Better Regulation Agenda in 2002, and the most ideologically charged. Where previous reforms improved the BR toolkit as a governance instrument, this one repurposes it entirely, deploying it simultaneously: •to erode procedural safeguards (two-tiered IAs, formalised derogations, flexible consultation) •to systematically dismantle parts of the existing acquis (Deep Cleaning) •to centralise implementation and enforcement (what I’d call the federal turn) Combined with the anti-gold-plating drive and the formalised derogation powers, the Communication effectively creates an institutionalised channel through which external (including the US administration) deregulatory pressure can be translated into EU legislative action, with reduced procedural safeguards and limited independent oversight. Thread follows. Full Communication: commission.europa.eu/document/downl…

Today the EU Commission unveils how it plans to write laws going forward. After 10 omnibus packages passed without proper impact assessments or public consultation — justified by urgency and geopolitical shifts — the question is simple but consequential for 450 million citizens: Will the Commission codify democratic safeguards, or institutionalise their absence? The continued embrace of omnibus packages and "reality checks" as standard tools - as confirmed in "One Europe, One Market" suggests the 2025 approach is being entrenched, not corrected. As Commissioner @VDombrovskis releases the Better Regulation Communication today, join us on Thursday 30 April, 4.30–5.30 pm CEST to unpack what it means: 🎓 Claudio Radaelli — Professor of Comparative Public Policy, @EUI_EU and the most prolific and cited scholar in the field 🏛️ Elizabeth Golberg — former Director of Smart Regulation, @EU_Commission, who shaped the Better Regulation agenda from within the Secretariat General 🔍 Shari Hinds — Senior Policy Officer, @TI_EU, tracking democratic accountability in EU lawmaking ⚖️ Alberto Alemanno — Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, HEC Paris and Founder @TheGoodLobby, who coordinated a submission by 50+ law professors on codifying Better Regulation as a constitutional requirement 📖 Background reading: lnkd.in/e_km9iVi 📝 REGISTER here: lnkd.in/eCEfmC92

What an excellent question, indeed