Exciting announcement!

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@D1
Thanks for the questions! These might be a bit too heavy for these kind of lighthearded YouTube videos, but it's important to answer them.

What I can tell you about suspending the trade agreement with Israel:
The EU did put forward a proposal here, but in these highly political matters of foreign affairs you need all countries to agree, and Hungary was blocking the whole thing.
With Viktor Orban leaving office today, there's renewed hope that the EU will be able to act.

[elcelio@mastodon.uno]

@hpod16

Remember to put links to your social network accounts in the description of your videos.

You are welcome.

[elcelio@mastodon.uno]

@luca @hpod16

I support this

[nmba@mstdn.ca]

@hpod16 @EUCommission
Are the EU and China having any serious discussions about working together to end the russian invasion? The USA cannot solve that problem anymore.

[luca@sironi.xyz]

@elCelio @hpod16

in this way we speak about the #fediverse to a different, mostly unaware, larger audience, without speaking about the fediverse.
Like it's a normal, obvious thing

[technik@social.colectif.de]

@hpod16 @ui3o

maybe coop with the @funfacts_de
or @sascha

they got it running
@funfacts
#peertube
#edu
#EU_policy

[rozeboosje@masto.ai]

@hpod16 @EUCommission I think the requirement that it should be in the actual continent is arbitrary and unnecessary, and already stretched by allowing applications from Turkey and Georgia. Technically, Armenia shouldn't be able to apply, nor Greenland but that is ludicrous. In other "european" endeavours we already allow for participation by non European countries. Why not in this one? I'd LOVE to see Canada and Australia join.

[caprarius@piaille.fr]

@hpod16 @EUCommission Nice work.
I'm sure this has been already treated elsewhere but a reminder of the different EU bodies (EC, Council, …), their members, their functions, the way each acts could be a good subject.

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@Caprarius
That’s a good idea! Just a back to basics - how does the EU work?
Lord knows we all need it, even I get things wrong still, and I’ve been in Brussels for 10 years

[elcelio@mastodon.uno]

@hpod16
I think uploading 5 videos at the same time is a bad strategy.

[mxhdroom@mas.to]

@hpod16 @EUCommission Well done; subscribed!

[changaco@diaspodon.fr]

@hpod16 I'm not really the target audience, but well done.

If I may nitpick: I'm not sure it's wise to refer to Article 7 as a “last resort”. It might be possible for a member state to effectively kick itself out of the EU, by violating the treaty in such an unacceptable way that the other members unanimously agree that it is no longer in the EU. Article 60 of the Vienna Convention (https://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/1_1_1969.pdf) would probably be the legal basis for such a decision.

[veza85ue@eupolicy.social]

@rozeboosje Buona Giornatta dell'Europa.

Why?

@hpod16 @EUCommission

[rozeboosje@masto.ai]

@Veza85UE @hpod16 @EUCommission I think they are economically strong countries and well aligned with European values. Why not?

[veza85ue@eupolicy.social]

@rozeboosje Because we're not a mini UN, nor a theme park with trade agreements? We're a common culture bound by a shared legal framework. It seems staggeringly arrogant to me to assume resource-rich countries on other continents would even WANT to be under the jurisdiction of the CJUE. Also: are we TOO functional right now? Are our institutions working SO well that we need to add lawmakers from 10 timezones away with 0 interest in Europe to our legislative process? #CanadaJar

@hpod16

[veza85ue@eupolicy.social]

@hpod16 *sigh* drops 1 in the #CanadaJar

@EUCommission

[trezzer@social.linux.pizza]

@hpod16 Always fun to see a mastodon avatar suddenly animate

[rozeboosje@masto.ai]

@Veza85UE @hpod16 IF they show interest, why not? If they don't, grand. We can have, and are making great progress toward having, good trade agreements with such countries and I would be more than happy to also see freedom of movement between us and them.

[veza85ue@eupolicy.social]

@hpod16 Same issue here, but I'm a one-trick poney, don't even need to say what question I want answered, do I? #WTFisTheCouncil
@Peperlito

[veza85ue@eupolicy.social]

@rozeboosje Because they're not European.

Freedom of Movement is one of the 4 freedoms under our Treaties. It's not free. There are tradeoffs. You're supposed to pool sovereignty to participate in the Single Market, it's overseen by Courts under law. Btw, Canada has 0 business being in the SM since Manitoba and Québec trade less freely with each other than Sweden and Bulgaria do inside the SM.

Why would any EUropean want to dilute the EU, plus extra vetoes in the 2 Councils?

@hpod16