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Spent a decade inside the European Commission as a policy advisor before deciding the institution needed an honest critic more than another loyalist. Knows where every body is buried in the Berlaymont building.
27 articles · ~108 min total reading
The Commission's Monday disbursement to Czechia and Spain closes one chapter of NextGenerationEU and quietly opens a harder one on what conditionality has actually bought.
An €84 million Danish scheme, approved on a routine daily notice, tells you more about where industrial policy is heading than any speech in Strasbourg.
The fifth NextGenerationEU disbursement to Poland closes a chapter on rule-of-law conditionality. It also opens a longer, quieter one about what the Commission is willing to police
