This week’s Euroscopic podcast will be out soon. For those who already want a taste of it (or actually like to read), here’s what’s on the menu:
Amuse-bouche
Is covid back? Hard to say. At least, talking about covid is back.
Starter
Everyone’s favorite private military contractor mercenary group just can’t catch a break. First, it gets turned into cannon fodder in Ukraine. Then it stages a half-assed coup, before being driven into Belarus. Then its boss falls out of the sky. Now, the UK wants to call it a terrorist organization.
What’s next for Wagner?
Primo
And what’s next for Ukraine’s civilian military leadership? Out with the old, in with the new, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy looks to clear out the alleged corruption cobwebs.
Secondo
What happens at a small-town, Bavarian festival stays at a small-town, Bavarian festival. Unless it’s election season and you’re looking for small-town votes. From Hubert Aiwanger to Friedrich Merz, Germany’s center-right keeps looking — or at least sounding — more and more just like the far-right.
That seems to fit a pattern across Europe.
Nachtisch
Speaking of which, the French who are so secular they’ve made a religion out of it banned the abaya. Now they have to enforce it. How’s that going?
Doggy bag
Is it still news to say Spain doesn’t have a government yet? Not really, but the developments have been interesting to watch. New demands just in.
Meanwhile, more on the EU’s efforts to rein in Big Tech, as the DSA/DMA move closer to full implementation.
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