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The Hague Signs On: What a Dutch 'Yes' to an EU Social Media Age Really Buys
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Spent a decade inside the European Commission as a policy advisor before deciding the institution needed an honest critic more than another loyalist. Knows where every body is buried in the Berlaymont building.
29 articles · ~116 min total reading
The cabinet's endorsement of an EU-wide minimum age for social media accounts is not a policy. It is a negotiating position dressed for arrival in Brussels.
The 17 August guidance treats energy security spending as a special case. What that means for the Stability Pact — and for Gulf gas contracts — is not small.
