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This week we discuss the EU's corona response in our wonderful reoccurring section, this is not it chief!Support us on Patreon!WE HAVE A T-PUBLIC STORE what a fashionable way to support our podcastWe now have a website that you can find here!Feel free to send us an email at PreviouslyInEurope@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @PrevInEuropeIf you can please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and if you can't do that tell a friend, this stuff really helps us outAlso, have you considered Matteo Renzi?That is not it chiefIsn't this exactly what the EU should be for?Well.. yeah probably, but it's the exact kind of thing some members would resist. Healthcare is weirdly absent and explicitly down to the member states. It's basically optional:"Union action, which shall complement national policies, shall be directed towards improving public health, preventing physical and mental illness and diseases, and obviating sources of danger to physical and mental health. Such action shall cover the fight against the major he

Man this corona shit is wiiiiild!!! I hope Hugh can come back :|

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This week we discuss points based immigration systems and why they're not the best idea.. but more importantly why the aim of the UK's new one will not be fairness and merit.Support us on Patreon!WE HAVE A T-PUBLIC STORE what a fashionable way to support our podcastWe now have a website that you can find here!Feel free to send us an email at PreviouslyInEurope@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @PrevInEuropeIf you can please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and if you can't do that tell a friend, this stuff really helps us outAlso, have you considered Matteo Renzi?That is not it chiefPoints Bases Immigration SystemsPoints based systems always confused me because I thought markets were good, no? At least that's what I was told... The concept of points based systems come from Australia and Canada, which both prior to their points based system had a very heavy "white person" bias... which the points system was meant to eliminate... Enter Brexit - the premise of this part of the Brexit promise relies on either

Support us on Patreon!WE HAVE A T-PUBLIC STORE what a fashionable way to support our podcastWe now have a website that you can find here!Feel free to send us an email at PreviouslyInEurope@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @PrevInEuropeIf you can please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and if you can't do that tell a friend, this stuff really helps us outAlso, have you considered Matteo Renzi? ## That would be nice### Rent ControlRepeatedly in European elections and at more local levels the need for increased rent regulation or some form of temporary controls to balance out a difficult housing market: - Irish election 2020 this was a major issue with Sinn Féin using it as their main issue - London's mayor is talking about it heavily now as he's up for election in May - Berlin legislature passed a freeze which is now in effect (https://www.dw.com/en/berlins-new-rent-freeze-how-it-compares-globally/a-50937652) - Spain brought in new rules for contract length minimums and yearly increase caps (https://english

Support us on Patreon!WE HAVE A T-PUBLIC STORE what a fashionable way to support our podcastWe now have a website that you can find here!Feel free to send us an email at PreviouslyInEurope@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @PrevInEuropeIf you can please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and if you can't do that tell a friend, this stuff really helps us outAlso, have you considered Matteo Renzi?No Election Left Behind2020 Irish Electionshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Irish_general_election https://www.irishtimes.com/election2020/results-hub

Support us on Patreon!On this week's episode, we deal with the Italian Regional Elections and the idea that maybe this isn't the glimmer of hope you, the New York Times, think it is.WE HAVE A T-PUBLIC STORE what a fashionable way to support our podcastWe now have a website that you can find here!Feel free to send us an email at PreviouslyInEurope@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @PrevInEuropeIf you can please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and if you can't do that tell a friend, this stuff really helps us outalso have you considered Matteo Renzi?That is not it chiefLargely a discussion of why people seem to be jumping the gun on the enormous apparent failure of Salvini to win in a left wing stronghold, spurred in part by this NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/world/europe/italy-election-Salvini.html?emc=rss&partner=rss### Sardines Movement There's no good evidence the protest movement has the kind of traction compared to the media coverage it gets. We get it, we don't like Salvini eit

Support us on Patreon!WE HAVE A T-PUBLIC STORE what a fashionable way to support our podcastWe now have a website that you can find here!Feel free to send us an email at PreviouslyInEurope@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @PrevInEuropeIf you can please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and if you can't do that tell a friend, this stuff really helps us outAlso, have you considered Matteo Renzi?Podcast ScopeA Matteo Renzi podcast for those who run the personality death cult fetishising Renzi’s record as PM of Italy…The scope of the podcast is to cover events and causes relevant to a European progressive outlook. Basically is positive change happening, if not why? Especially for 2020 what can look like or is being portrayed as positive change may not actually be that.We do not cover terrorism.We do not exclusively cover the Brussels BubbleWe cover certain elections and not others.Things that need explainingThe importance of national elections in countries that are small or don’t seem like they’d be important

This week we discuss the fun that is the ongoing French protests and papa Macron's pension reform plansSupport us on Patreon!WE HAVE A T-PUBLIC STORE what a fashionable way to support our podcastWe now have a website that you can find here!Feel free to send us an email at PreviouslyInEurope@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @PrevInEuropeIf you can please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and if you can't do that tell a friend, this stuff really helps us outAlso, have you considered Matteo Renzi?Show NotesThis would be niceGood French Pension ReformPapa Manu's planThis was a core part of Macron's presidential and subsequent parliamentary majority campaigns for en Marche - reform the "unfair" pension system.So why is it unfair?Well:It's much more complicated than most countries - there are 42 different systems (sort of) so Macron wants to bring this into one, sounds sensible (https://www.thelocal.fr/20191211/how-do-french-pensions-compare-to-the-rest-of-europe)This is arguably unfair to many groups - because

This week we discuss the new Austrian government coalition, it might be fine but it's more likely to be the centre-right's new strategy to consume and hijack the green wave.Support us on Patreon!WE HAVE A T-PUBLIC STORE what a fashionable way to support our podcastWe now have a website that you can find here!Feel free to send us an email at PreviouslyInEurope@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @PrevInEuropeIf you can please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and if you can't do that tell a friend, this stuff really helps us outAlso, have you considered Matteo Renzi?## Also happening### Austrian Government Formation### Green is good?Queue Gordon Gecko meme...So how has this affected Kurz's politics?Kurz on doing the media rounds made it clear he mainly cares about migration and that's his focus. He also made sure to shit on those helping migrants in the Mediterranean by saying they cause more deaths than they prevent. One NGO called him "baby hitler" based on the Bild interview he did.More recently he's launch

This week we discuss the Croatian presidential election and the possibility of Spain finally getting a governmentSupport us on Patreon!WE HAVE A T-PUBLIC STORE what a fashionable way to support our podcastWe now have a website that you can find here!Feel free to send us an email at PreviouslyInEurope@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @PrevInEuropeIf you can please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and if you can't do that tell a friend, this stuff really helps us outAlso, have you considered Matteo Renzi?No Election Left BehindCroatian Presidential ElectionShow NotesAlso happeningSpanish Government FormationRejected!So as expected they lost the initial vote where they needed an absolute majority... Their plan is to make agreements with enough regional parties in order to pass the second vote to form a minority government where abstentions don't count in the final tally (so they just need a simple majority); however...They need quite a few to abstain (>20 by my count but please correct me somebody, They got

Junker: The Good, The Bad and The FunInspired by Junker writing the Politico newsletter on his last day in office. He was being a bit retrospective so we thought it would be a good opportunity to fawn over/shit on himThe GoodJunker was elected with the Spitzenkandidaten - where he was the EPP's lead candidate. Which compared to Mr Goldman Sachs (Barroso) was an improvement. Also look at the shit load of infographics they produced to show how cool they were: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta-political/files/key\_figures\_for\_the\_eu\_2014-2019\_en.pdf?utm\_source=POLITICO.EU&utm\_campaign=56ef0a5c3b-EMAIL\_CAMPAIGN\_2019\_11\_29\_05\_42&utm\_medium=email&utm\_term=0\_10959edeb5-56ef0a5c3b-190266981 Some of that is fine/accurate... but certainly not all. Let's focus on the actual good stuff: Media accessibility: Junker did seem to actually want to engage with the public and make the EU more accessible. Come up a lot in the "fun section" but he made a lot of public appearances where he

Yup, an election sure did happen, and now we have to talk about it. Sorry.Support us on Patreon!WE HAVE A T-PUBLIC STORE what a fashionable way to support our podcastWe now have a website that you can find here!Feel free to send us an email at PreviouslyInEurope@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @PrevInEuropeIf you can please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and if you can't do that tell a friend, this stuff really helps us outAlso, have you considered Matteo Renzi?

This week we discuss the Romanian presidential election results a little late and the brain dead state of NATO (for like 20+ years)Support us on Patreon!WE HAVE A T-PUBLIC STORE what a fashionable way to support our podcastWe now have a website that you can find here!Feel free to send us an email at PreviouslyInEurope@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @PrevInEuropeIf you can please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and if you can't do that tell a friend, this stuff really helps us outAlso, have you considered Matteo Renzi?No Election Left BehindRomanian Presidential Electionhttps://www.eurotopics.net/en/230152/iohannis-the-favourite-in-romania-s-runoff-vote?zitat=230105&pk_campaign=rss-en&pk_kwd=2019-11-11#zitat230105That Would Be NiceNAT-NONATO ( North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is stupid... There.. that'll teach 'emMacron is sort of on point...Macron is being whiney... But also has some good points. If you ignore the American imperialism angle, what exactly is the point of NATO?Is it to defend

This week we discuss the ongoing fallout of the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Why hasn't Joseph Muscat resigned? Several people close to him have either been arrested or resigned. Support us on Patreon!WE HAVE A T-PUBLIC STORE what a fashionable way to support our podcastWe now have a website that you can find here!Feel free to send us an email at PreviouslyInEurope@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @PrevInEuropeIf you can please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and if you can't do that tell a friend, this stuff really helps us outAlso, have you considered Matteo Renzi?Also HappeningDaphne Caruana Galizia's Murder

On today's episode, we talk about the Belarussian Elections in our No Elections Left Behind section and in Also Happening we discuss the conditions leading to the UK electionSupport us on Patreon!WE HAVE A T-PUBLIC STORE what a fashionable way to support our podcastWe now have a website that you can find here!Feel free to send us an email at PreviouslyInEurope@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @PrevInEuropeIf you can please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and if you can't do that tell a friend, this stuff really helps us outAlso, have you considered Matteo Renzi?

Pedro Sánchez is a very clever boy who neglected to realise the Spanish people didn't want 4 elections in 4 years Support us on Patreon!WE HAVE A T-PUBLIC STORE what a fashionable way to support our podcastWe now have a website that you can find here!Feel free to send us an email at PreviouslyInEurope@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @PrevInEuropeIf you can please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and if you can't do that tell a friend, this stuff really helps us outAlso, have you considered Matteo Renzi? ## No Election Left Behind### Spanish Elections### Just keep repeating "Sanchez is weak on Catalonia"The narrative from the C's consistently since April's election was that Sanchez wasn't to be trusted with not allowing Catalonia a real referendum and I don't know... beating the already imprisoned leaders? Hunting down the rest harder..?Everyone on the right jumped on board during the debate. Vox claimed it was a coup...https://www.dw.com/en/spain-sanchez-casado-clash-on-catalonia-during-tv-debate/a-51113

Where is the von der Leyen Commission? The answer is very unsatisfying...Support us on Patreon!WE HAVE A T-PUBLIC STORE what a fashionable way to support our podcastWe now have a website that you can find here!Feel free to send us an email at PreviouslyInEurope@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @PrevInEuropeIf you can please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and if you can't do that tell a friend, this stuff really helps us outAlso, have you considered Matteo Renzi?Also HappeningWhere be the Ushi Commission?FranceMacron nominated a comically corrupt individual for their commissioner.Stepped down from Macron's government over EU funding investigation (which to be fair she came out of fine)She was taking thousands a month for work with a think tank while an MEPHer portfolio was enormous. Apparently they interpreted "internal market" as being able to apply to almost anythinghttps://www.politico.eu/article/frances-commission-pick-sylvie-goulard-rejected-by-parliament/Macron did not take it well... implying it w

It's not actually a special it's a regular episode BUT we did want/need to talk about the recent-ish elections in Kosovo, Poland and Switzerland so here it is, have at it!Support us on Patreon!WE HAVE A T-PUBLIC STORE what a fashionable way to support our podcastWe now have a website that you can find here!Feel free to send us an email at PreviouslyInEurope@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @PrevInEuropeIf you can please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and if you can't do that tell a friend, this stuff really helps us outAlso, have you considered Matteo Renzi?## No Election Left Behind### Kosovo Electionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Kosovan_parliamentary_electionThe election was called in July, when outgoing Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, resigned in the face of new war crimes proceedings, according to news reports. He was a former commander in the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) which fought for independence from Serbia and was twice acquitted under former proceedings in The Hague.With his governing

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