1. It came up this morning as a EU note....they are working on an agenda where the EU could stage a crisis call, and then hand production companies in various countries....an order to produce X, at x-rate.
The wording? The original request would be voluntary, but the EU is writing the code where it would not be voluntary.
Where this leads to? Well....you could have some EU bureaucrats say that there is a shortage on diesel, and then order certain facilities in France and Germany to produce x-amount.....at x-profit. The company could argue with 'no', and demand more profit. At that point, with the wording....the EU could in theory take control of the production business.
It begs a lot of questions, and they have not handed the draft to individual countries to review. My humble view is that a minimum of three countries will refuse to accept this idea.
2. It came up as a discussion item today....who will go to Gorbachev's funeral in Russia, and will Putin ease restrictions.
Under normal conditions (no war), I think the entire cabinet of the German government would have boarded one single plane and gone to the funeral in mass. Currently? I doubt if Scholz goes, and it might only be a bare minimum of folks.
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