Doris
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Doris
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💚💛🖤 #bvb #TeamHabeck Doris@kasimir21. https://t.co/fKuV6FZQjn
Friedrich Merz lobt sich in der Sommerpressekonferenz für seine Kürzungen, als hätte er gerade ein nationales Meisterwerk vollbracht. Aus meiner Sicht ist das die höchste Form politischer Selbstbeweihräucherung: Er feiert Belastungen, verteidigt Einschnitte, und wundert sich dann ernsthaft, warum die Stimmung im Land im Keller liegt. Niemand ist überrascht, dass Merz laut Berichten die niedrigsten Zustimmungswerte seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen hat und 86 % der Bevölkerung unzufrieden sind. Und trotzdem steht er da, schwingt große Töne, als wäre er der strahlende Held einer Erfolgsgeschichte, die nur er selbst sieht. Aus meiner Sicht ist das nicht nur Realitätsverlust – das ist politisches Kabarett auf Endstadium-Niveau. Bei solchen Werten sollte Merz weniger reden und sich eher fragen, ob ein freiwilliger Rücktritt nicht die einzige Leistung wäre, die ihm wirklich Respekt einbringen könnte.😌
On Thursday, the European Parliament “adopted” the extension of Chat Control 1.0. This is the temporary suspension of the EU’s ePrivacy rules that allows tech platforms to mass-scan citizens’ private communications, ostensibly to detect child sexual abuse material. “Adopted” is placed in quotation marks here because the word implies something that conspicuously failed to happen: a majority of MEPs voting in favour. In fact, 314 MEPs voted to reject the text, against 276 in favour. And yet it passed anyway. This was made possible through a procedural sleight of hand worthy of Brussels at its most cynical. The file was rammed through under an “urgency procedure”: European Parliament President Roberta Metsola unilaterally reopened a dossier that MEPs had already rejected in March, and the Council conveniently bounced it back at the start of the summer recess, when securing attendance is hardest. Rejecting it a second time would have required not a simple majority but an absolute one: 360 votes. The law was therefore approved despite a majority of MEPs voting against it. The regulation will now remain in force until April 2028, buying time for negotiations on its even more ambitious successor, Chat Control 2.0. As German MEP @FabioDeMasi noted following the vote, Chat Control is a “legislative zombie” — a measure the European Parliament has rejected multiple times, revived again and again until the desired outcome emerges. This episode should give pause to those who insist that the EU’s democratic deficit could be cured by handing more power to the European Parliament. Here is that very institution’s president working with the Council to resurrect a file the Parliament itself had buried. If this is how the Parliament operates, empowering it further would only deepen this democratic deficit, lending a thicker veneer of legitimacy to what remains, at bottom, an executive-bureaucratic machine that treats votes as obstacles to be engineered around. Continue reading here: unherd.com/newsroom/eu-ch…
