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That's me inelgible for a US visa then. #T1D

I also cringe and not just about UK Gov. Partner countries do not "pay into the EU budget" and the FT should know this. They pay into particular funds and those contributions have to stay inside those funds. #AssignedRevenue

EU demands UK pay into budget as part of relationship ‘reset’ Growing tension between London and Brussels just six months after summit set out to build stronger ties

FT reporting that the Brits want to rejoin Erasmus+ but with a 50% rebate. I'll just let that sink in #EUreset #Erasmus on.ft.com/43d4lGI

I dunno but maybe there is an opportunity if the Conservatives don't fully fold into Reform for them to survive as a 10-15% party like LR in France.

Lib Dems take Bromsgrove seat after Reform resignation Sam Ammar wins a Worcestershire County Council by-election in Bromsgrove South ward.

Reform's Councillor Gaynor Jean-Louis was elected in May and resigned in September having never attended a Council meeting www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Petition: Fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people – keep covid boosters 'Protect the NHS' and 'Save Lives' by continuing to fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people, including most previously shielded as CEV, rather than limiting them to over-75s, care hom...

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

EU considers withholding funds from countries that don’t fix pension systems Brussels fears Europe’s aging population will cause fiscal crises unless member countries address unsustainable retirement systems.

The European Commisson should steer well clear of adding pension reform as an item of conditionality to the #EUbudget #MFF www.politico.eu/article/eu-f...

EU considers withholding funds from countries that don’t fix pension systems Brussels fears Europe’s aging population will cause fiscal crises unless member countries address unsustainable retirement systems.

The European Commisson should steer well clear of adding pension reform as an item of conditionality to the #EUbudget #MFF www.politico.eu/article/eu-f...

Edward VIII, maybe, but I'm always surprised by how little the British know about the King of Italy who appointed Mussolini and signed the racial laws.

I suppose adding the letter B to orgia might not help.

Conference on 50 years of the budgetary Treaty of Brussels | Other events | Events | CONT | Committees | European Parliament All the available information relating to other public CONT events involving external speakers. Links to programmes and contributions from speakers.

A few weeks ago at @cont.europarl.europa.eu I was honoured to present research on the #EUbudget audit and #discharge for 1996 that led to the resignation of the @ec.europa.eu in 1999. www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/e... @euauditors.bsky.social @rhulpir.bsky.social #BrusselsTreaty1975

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At the start of September, I was very pleased to give a paper at the UK PSA Teaching & Learning Conference. My talk focused on my experience of taking undergrads to Brussels to visit the EU's institutions and to evaluate de-colonisation at the Africa Museum in Tervuren. @rhulpir.bsky.social

Excellent but what about the EP's offices in the Member States plus in London and Washington?

All European Parliament committees are now on Bluesky.

As a seat, it's typical for a Reform win with the LibDems coming second and the Conservatives third.

It covers Salisbury Plain, stretching into the Marlborough Downs.

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In the local elections of 2025, all wards/divisions in his constituency saw Reform winning in three of them and the challenger in the rest. Only two, around the more genteel Marlborough, look possible for the LibDems, plus a LibDem hold near Salisbury.

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11-post thread that describes the violent but gradual establishment of fascism in Italy during the 1920s with no single Enabling Law. It may be a more valid comparator for today's challenges than the rapid establishment of authoritarianism in Germany in 1933.

Law of 17/05/28, no. 1019, changes the electoral law for the 1929 elections so that a single list of 400 candidates presented by the Fascist Party is approved in a plebiscite by the people.

Decree of 28/08/31, no. 1227, requires university professors to swear an oath of loyalty to fascism.

11/11

Decree of 06/11/26, no. 1848 allows prefects to ‘dissolve political parties and organisations that work against the regime’ and to send regime opponents into internal exile.

Three days later, Parliament voted to expel from its membership all opposition parliamentarians.

10/11

Law of 03/04/26, no. 563, bans strikes and allows only “legally-recognised” trade unions, that is those that the industry bosses had accepted on 02/10/25.

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Law of 31/01/26, no. 100, parliament grants the government to legislate by decree without parliamentary oversight.

Law of 04/02/26, no. 237, provincial + communal councils are dissolved and replaced by government-appointed prefects and mayors.

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Law of 24/12/25, no. 2263 - Parliament votes to remove its power of no-confidence over the government.

Law of 31/12/25, no. 2307 for press censorship. Requires newspaper editors to be approved by judges. From 11/03/26 the government-appointed provincial prefects oversee this process.

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After the Matteotti murder, BM assumed personal responsibility for the situation later in 1924, as part of a quasi-admission of his role in it.

Law of 26/11/25, no. 2029 -Parliament votes to place all public associations and the press under police scrutiny.

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By this stage, there had been 4 to 5 years of militia violence, starting with the fascists in opposition and then in government. From 1922 until the electoral suppression of spring 1924, M led a shaky coalition that relied on the support of non-fascists. 5/n

Once parliament returned, Socialist parliamentarian Giacomo Matteotti denounced the violence of the electoral campaign. He was then beaten to death by a squad of fascists in June 1924. 4/n

From October 1922, M led a right wing coalition government that included non-fascists. 18 months later, the next elections were held under a hyper majoritarian system. M forms his next government alone. 3/n

1921: the last free elections under PR produced a polarised parliament with governments under unstable Liberal leadership until the March on Rome in October 1922. Fascist street violence had already been around for a few years. 2/n

The rise of authoritarianism and autarky. Italy, 1921-26, is a more relevant comparator than Germany in 1933. By 1926, fascist totalitarianism was in place. In a climate of militia violence and several fascist laws from 1924, the dictatorship took hold and not through a single Enabling Act. 1/n

And to digital taxation, except the Commission has removed any such proposal from the table.