In the 2024 #EuropeanElections, the voting age was 16 in Belgium, Germany, Malta and Austria. In Greece, it was 17.
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In the 2024 #EuropeanElections, four countries has a voting age of 16.
In which country was the voting age 17?
PS: this is a scheduled post, I’m doing a week away from the internet. If you know the correct answer pls leave it in the comments for the others, but with content warning “spoiler”. Thx!
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Brexit has reduced UK trade openness, foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, and immigration growth. New border frictions and higher transport costs pose new barriers to trade, and FDI inflows are unlikely to return to levels reached in the 1990s and 2000s.
Brussels has stepped up its investigation into the role of X in European politics by requiring the social media platform to hand over internal documents regarding its recommendation algorithm
https://www.ft.com/content/a6dc562c-4fa0-4ec6-9f3a-ad3be594bc7c
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Opinion about @eu:´It is time for the newly-elected parliament to exercise its own democratic mandate by ensuring that the new commissioners prioritise democracy as a central value both at EU level and in the member states.´
https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar158bd696
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Next week, when the European Parliament holds hearings for commissioners-designate, it should insist that they recognise the erosion of national democracies as a profound, home-grown threat to the Union and promise to tackle it head-on with the powerful tools already at their disposal, write four professors of international law at Princeton, Georgetown, Dublin and Hertie universities.
European Commission fails to present a team on time
The European Union @eu is primarily governed by a "European Commission". The latter is a college of 27 people who jointly exercise the executive powers at the Union [confederal] level. It operates as a cabinet government, with one member ("Commissioner") per country – including Slovenia:
"Ljubljana is the only EU government yet to formally nominate a commissioner after swapping its male candidate Tomaž Vesel for a woman, Marta Kos. Kos’ nomination isn’t complete until a parliamentary committee signs off on it. That committee is chaired by a Janša ally, whose party is refusing to schedule the meeting, as things stand. […] The opposition […] wants to force the government to say the quiet part out loud: that Vesel didn’t want to resign but was forced to by Golob, who himself was pressured by von der Leyen."
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1/4 🚨 This week, media reported about another European Parliament MEP being targeted by #spyware - just two weeks before the #EuropeanElections took place.
The attack shows:
❌ no one is immune to intrusive #surveillance
❌we need an EU-wide ban on spyware
https://edri.org/our-work/will-the-brussels-spyware-scandal-finally-convince-the-eu-to-act/
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