meanwhile in 🇺🇸#Trump' la la land

The EU is finally moving to fix its oldest structural disease: the veto. On 15, 16 October the European Council gets a legal package from the Commission. It is designed to shift most decisions from unanimity to qualified majority voting. • Threshold: 55% of member states representing at least 65% of the EU population • Legal route: Article 48(7) of the Treaty on EU, no full treaty change required • Core target: actors like Orban, who currently hold the entire Union hostage with a single blocking vote Germany assembled the pressure coalition in September: France, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Romania. These eleven states will push others in October. Why? Because the reform still needs a one-time unanimous launch. The lawyers found a way to avoid unanimity for the actual decision-making afterward, but that first step remains. If no deal lands by the end of the year, they are also seeking ways around that procedural obstacle. The debate has concrete institutional stakes. Every delay on Ukraine aid, sanctions, defense procurement, and enlargement has been amplified by one or two Kremlin-friendly capitals. They abuse a system built for a smaller, more homogeneous Union. The veto stopped being a safeguard long ago. It became a weapon for moscovia's proxies inside the EU. The significance is concrete. Once qualified majority applies to foreign policy and security decisions, Budapest cannot block the next sanctions package. It cannot slow ammunition deliveries because the Kremlin asked nicely. That changes the speed of European support for Ukraine and the cost of moscovian influence operations across the continent. The legal creativity matters too. Article 48(7) is the passarelle clause. It was designed exactly for this kind of incremental shift without reopening treaties that would take years and give every obstructionist another veto over the process itself. The Commission lawyers are treating the EU's paralysis as the security threat it actually is. The October summit will show whether the member states are serious about defending their own decision-making capacity. Or whether they prefer to keep a system where one compromised politician can paralyze 450 million people. Ukraine is watching, and so is moscovia.

"To all Houthi terrorists, YOUR TIME IS UP..." –President Donald J. Trump

c'était cuit d'avance, comme prévu, et ce n'est pas prêt d'être réglé. A ce rythme là dans 2 ou 3 mois on y est encore. et des prix à la pompe qui ne reviendraient pas à la "normal" pendant 1 trimestre c'est tout 2026 qui sera impacté pour l'inflation globale... ça va être dur.

“Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP”

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Iran and Oman are discussing a permanent Strait of Hormuz transit toll system, with Iran proposing large fees on commercial ships and exemptions for allies like Russia and China. Source: Bloomberg