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Le pantouflage (revolving doors) à la Commission Européenne n'est pas un bug, c'est une feature du système extractif. Quand les régulateurs de demain sont les lobbyistes d'hier, l'intérêt général est bypassé par design. Nous devons auditer ces trajectoires comme des failles de sécurité majeures. #RevolvingDoors #UE #Lobbying #Corruption #ReVolt

Aral Balkan Nov 19

Your daily reminder that @EUCommission are only cunts on days with names ending with day.

“The European Commission will launch its long-awaited bid to simplify digital rules in an effort to reduce the regulatory burden on businesses and to promote European start ups in the global artificial intelligence race.”

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/1119/1544678-simplification-digital-rules/

#EU #BigTech #AI #bullshit #institutionalCorruption #lobbying #revolvingDoors #EUCommission #spinelessToadiesInSuits

Aral Balkan Nov 7

Regulating Big Tech is like regulating a malignant tumour. You don’t regulate a malignant tumour. You cut it out, with enough of a surgical margin to ensure you get every last putrid bit to avoid regrowth.

(This is moot, of course, as we’re not even regulating Big Tech, we’re feeding it with subsidies, government contracts, and access to national healthcare and other sensitive data while the folks who should be regulating them eye their next lucrative gig beyond the revolving doors of their lobbies.)

#BigTech #capitalism #cancer #regulation #institutionalCorruption #lobbying #revolvingDoors #extinctionStageCapitalism

Paula Simoes Jun 7, 2025

"durante este período" #RevolvingDoors Original post: ciberlandia.pt/@marado/1146...

RESPOND_EU Apr 22, 2025

What happens when citizens and experts rethink corruption together?

RESPOND's Co-Creation Workshops did just that—challenging assumptions and uncovering new perspectives. Can shared reflection lead to better policies?

🔗 https://www.eu-respond.eu/news/report-on-respond-co-creation-workshops/

#RESPOND #Corruption #CoCreation #SocialResearch #CitizenVoice #RESPONDProject #Horizon #Europe #CoCreation #Corruption #PublicPolicy #Governance #SocialResearch #EUProjects #HorizonEurope #PoliticalFinance #MediaCapture t #Lobbying #RevolvingDoors

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Aral Balkan Apr 20, 2025

@gigi I guess that would depend, in part, on how many folks at @EUCommission are looking to work at those corporations as their next gig.

#institutionalCorruption #revolvingDoors

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Félicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱Mar 31, 2025

"From North Africa to the Gulf, the UAE has aggressively expanded its counter-revolutionary strategy in the wake of the Arab Spring"
by Andreas Krieg: https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/abu-dhabi-built-axis-secessionists-across-region-how 🧵

#geography #CivilWar #Africa #Emirates #oilAndGas #internationalTrade #interference #allies #Houthis #MiddleEast #RedSea #Dubai #AbuDhabi #UAE #Yemen #MuslimBrothers #terrorism #counterTerrorism #salafists #mercenaries #stateViolence #imperialism #fossilFuels #civilWar #PersianGulf #Gulf #geopolitics #hegemony #MAE #Sudan #Egypt #MENA #geoStrategy #sanctions #LNG #military #nuclear #power #longRead #lobbying #foreignPolicy #USA #Libya #influence #development #revolvingDoor #revolvingDoors #Clinton #Trump #Harvard #Wimbledon #ManchesterCity #foreignInfluence #arms #armsTrade #normalisation #SaudiArabia

How Abu Dhabi built an axis of secessionists across the region

From North Africa to the Gulf, the UAE has aggressively expanded its counter-revolutionary strategy in the wake of the Arab Spring

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Félicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱Feb 21, 2025

Long read: How a peripheral state can leverage its wealth, strategic geography and alliances to exert outsized influence on regional and global affairs

"How the UAE can simultaneously be both a subject of imperialism and an agent of imperialist practices within its spheres of influence while challenging traditional imperialist actors": https://www.tni.org/en/article/the-emerging-sub-imperial-role-of-the-united-arab-emirates-in-africa

@israel @geography 🧵

The emerging sub-imperial role of the United Arab Emirates in Africa | Transnational Institute

The United Arab Emirates has become a sub-imperial power in Africa, investing in ports, airports and infrastructure projects to extract resources and increase its global political and military influence. Understanding the UAE’s role in reshaping regional geopolitics is critical for resistance and justice movements to challenge imperialist power structures effectively.

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)Jan 17, 2025

Of course Breton came straight from the private sector to join the Commission originally, so it's no great surprise. But it's another reminder that the Commission's ethics and #revolvingdoors rules & enforcement need a LOT more work. corporateeurope.org/en/2019/11/t...

Thierry Breton, the corporate ...

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tuxwise 🇺🇦Dec 6, 2024

(13/N) The sixth, and last, category of adversaries:

“They”

“They” want to define boundaries and acceptable behavior for the masses, as well as monitor compliance on a large scale, and enforce it on an individual level.

As a consequence, permanent mass #surveillance of all types of assets is a means of monitoring the compliance of the majority, and of detecting deviant behavior. Legalizing more and more monitoring options becomes a goal, including international partnerships on information exchange. Depriving you of your assets, temporarily or permanently, is a means of enforcing your compliance or obedience. The mere threat of this can be sufficient to create a #ChillingEffect.

State-sponsored actors (such as hacker groups) and nation-state threat actors (in the form of intelligence services, law enforcement, censorship offices, and other #government agencies) fall into this category. It also includes #companies that have either a monopoly, or a significant share of an oligopolistic market, or portfolio of services specifically targeted at the public sector.

While the entities in this category may seem wildly heterogeneous at first, remember that there are #RevolvingDoors between them, for swapping their respective “ex” members. Beyond lobbying, there is also a complex, ongoing collaboration between many of them, which has been described as “grey intelligence”, “grey policing”, “public-private partnership”, etc.

Start of this thread:
https://mastodon.de/@tuxwise/113503228291818865

#ThreatModeling #4D

tuxwise (@[email protected])

(1/N) With more challenging times ahead, the #4Ds will become more important, too: ✋ **Defend** your boundaries: know what matters to you, and properly safeguard it – instead of being an alert-driven option tinkerer. 🪪 **Define** yourself: use multiple identities that focus on a single purpose each – instead of having everything you do, have and think linked back directly to you. 👑 **Decide** like a sovereign: get to know your needs, and what meets them best – instead of sacrificing them to the interests of others. 🌐 **Dwell** the space: seek community, practice solidarity and citizenship – instead of being beaten a little later than others, in a glorious bunker. In the future, I'll post a few ideas and suggestions based on the 4Ds. BTW, I have dropped the adjective "#digital" from my vocabulary. There is no more separate "digital sphere" or "cyberspace" that wasn't part of our everyday lives. #privacy #security #anonymity

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