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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 3h

A violent and coordinated youth uprising? Listen to each country’s protesters, not the voices telling us Europe is ungovernable. That’s exactly the picture Europe’s enemies want to paint. Read my latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 22h

As expected, the youth protests got hijacked by third countries that dislike the EU, what it stands for and democracy When the legitimate exercise of freedom of expression get weaponised to weaken EUropean democracies

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 19/10/2026

Wrong Madame @nathalieloiseau.bsky.social EU Member States and the EU institutions themselves are required to protect & promote EU values as in Article 2 TEU including democracy, rule of law and human dignity, as held by the EU Court of Justice in Comm vs Hungary This applies to France too, Mme

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 19/10/2026

Europe's youth protests are NOT one movement, but they share some grievances and tactics - through a subtle process of imitation fuelled by media coverage. This narrative of a pan EU revolt fueled by the hard right & hard left is deeply misleading as claims that these protests are migration related

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 19/10/2026

Europe's youth protests are NOT one movement, but they share some grievances and tactics - through a subtle process of imitation fuelled by media coverage, as shown below (source: @theguardian.com). Yet how pan-European this phenomenon is remains to be seen... substack.com/@albertoalem...

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 19/10/2026

What’s behind youth protests across continent? These are multi-factorial phenomena that require great epistemic humility and caution when unpacking them. Here’s some of the seemingly common concerns - that should not be dismissed simply because they have been hijacked by violent groups

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 19/10/2026

A word of caution - for @euronews.com Portraying Europe's youth protests as a coordinated pan-European revolt is tempting, and misleading. It plays into the hands of those who want to weaken European democracy.

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 19/10/2026

What, if anything, do Europe’s youth protests have in common? Portraying these mobilisations as a coordinated “pan-European revolt” is not only misleading. It risks playing into the hands of those seeking to weaken European democracy. Read my latest albertoalemanno.substack.com/p/what-europ...

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 18/10/2026

When our political future is distorted by Zuckerberg’s META (boycotting Lula) and Musk’s STARLINK (boycotting Ukrainians’ resistance) to please TRUMP, our collective dependencies on the US have now become a democratic and security risk! www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 18/10/2026

How to explain the sudden youth protests across Europe? It’s now a single coordinated movement, but these mobilizations share some common grievances and tactics Interview with @aljazeera.com

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 17/10/2026

The story is not about Europe going to the right (that’s largely happened), but whether EU integration process can survive as a result. Here’s my latest: albertoalemanno.substack.com/p/can-the-eu...

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 17/10/2026

Last chance to submit your abstract to HEC Paris conference on Legal Mobilisation in the EU. Apply by Monday 19 October please to be considered. www.hec.edu/en/faculty-r...

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 17/10/2026

For too long the EU Commission has tolerated border checks being reintroduced illegally by its a member states. This is not set to change as the commission systematically fails to ensure the effective implementation of EU law across the Union in a climate of impunity. @magnusbrunner.bsky.social

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 16/10/2026

Italy and Spain removed the border checks reintroduced after Ceuta. That’s what our complaint vs @magnusbrunner.bsky.social asked for, but they were never justified. They set a negative precedent for the integrity of the rule of law, by unveiling how compromised EU Commission is vis a vis its MS

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 16/10/2026

Can the EU Survive a Hard-Right Takeover? As the EU enters an unprecedented electoral supercycle, the question is whether it can defend its integrity as the forces challenging it gain influence over its institutions. Read my latest albertoalemanno.substack.com/p/can-the-eu...

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 13/10/2026

Europe’s aversion to regulation is now rivalled only by that of Silicon Valley’s tech billionaires. No coincidence. The latter stand to be among the biggest beneficiaries of the EU’s deregulation wave. Europe calls it competitiveness. Big Tech calls it a win.

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026

I filed a request for access to ALL notifications re: the reintroduction of border controls by Italy, Spain, Austria & Sweden following the events in Ceuta, as I suspect none of these justifications has provided evidence proving the existence of a "threat" justifying them @magnusbrunner.bsky.social

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026

Praising Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay for her “moral clarity” is easy but acting on it is harder, isn’t it, President von der Leyen? The EU continues trading with illegal Israeli settlements, economic ties that risk enabling the very unlawful situation the ICJ says states must not support

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026

Yet another EU government reintroducing border controls by invoking Ceuta as “threat” justifying its checks. The threat is manifestly inexistent as no secondary movements exist. After Italy, Spain and Austria got a free pass from @magnusbrunner more governments contribute to dismantle Schengen.

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 06/10/2026

Today I challenge the Draghi Consensus in the @financialtimes.com “Faster uptake of AI is not an economic strategy if the benefits concentrate while its costs fall on workers and communities” www.ft.com/content/40cc...

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 05/10/2026

French government’s accusations against La France Insoumise have put a little-used EU mechanism back in play. Regardless of their merits, its invocation shows that the EU’s values regime is acquiring a new role. Read my latest albertoalemanno.substack.com/p/can-france...

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 05/10/2026

BREAKING : Spanish PM calls for snap elections, the ultimate gamble by Pedro Sanchez, fighting again for his own political survival

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 05/10/2026

A little-used EU oversight mechanism has gone mainstream, but risks being misused. ECRA MEPs want a 19 Oct plenary vote asking the EU parties Authorities to check whether the European Left Alliance respects Art. 2 TEU, after French PM's office alleged LFI organised school protest

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 02/10/2026

Unease and protest are spreading across Europe, in different forms. France: students in the streets. Spain: tenants organising, while the right turns hawkish against them. These movements may shape the 2027 elections.

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 01/10/2026

Today we filed a formal complaint against the European Commission for failing to protect our right to free movement. What’s a stake isn’t only Schengen but the rule of law in EU, what has led former Commissioner Josep Borrell, Nicolas Schmit, Laszlo Andor to join thegoodlobby.eu/the-commissi...

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 28/09/2026

Europe's offer of associate membership to Canada could serve EU integration more than the federalist dream, by renewing our understanding of interdependence in a post-Trump world. My latest for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e...

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 22/09/2026

17 EU governments have launched an alliance to stop themselves from adding national rules on top of common EU rules (gold-plating) This reveals the problem is national over-implementation, not EU rules themselves - as the Draghi boys like to repeat. Source @henryjfoy.ft.com @financialtimes.com

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 20/09/2026

Taken together, the electoral results suggest that Germany’s political centre is being squeezed from both ends. Die Linke is surging in Berlin as AfD gains elsewhere. The CDU/SPD are losing ground to both A warning to Germany’s traditional Volksparteien as vehicles of political representation

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 18/09/2026

More evidence of the Irish Presidency being captured by Big Tech

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 18/09/2026

Can Canada Become an Associate Member of the EU? And how would that look like?

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 16/09/2026

This State of the Union produced a familiar feeling: déjà vu, well-intentioned and naïve, as only we Europeans can be. It offered incremental progress where the moment demands a quantum leap. Read my latest on #SOTEU albertoalemanno.substack.com/p/europes-gr...

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 16/09/2026

The State of the Union was established to make Europe’s priorities more transparent and accountable, yet it never fulfilled that democratic promise. It should tell Europeans honestly what Europe can do and what it just can’t albertoalemanno.substack.com/p/what-the-s...

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 15/09/2026

While the EU spends this week's State of the Union talking about everything else, Italy has just reintroduced internal border controls with Spain for 3rd time without justification. The Commission is silent despite the manifest illegality of this, yet that’s @magnusbrunner.bsky.social job

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 15/09/2026

Almost half of Europeans surveyed say the EU has more influence over their country’s future than their own national government. That is a genuinely striking development and one that could fundamentally change how Europeans think about EU democracy. Source : @POLITICOEurope #playbook

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

No please don’t! European language policy should not become a vehicle through which national governments Europeanise unresolved domestic deals.

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

What to learn from Sweden, Saxony-Anhalt and beyond? Europe has too often responded to the far right by moving further right. But the answer to economic insecurity cannot be fewer protections, weaker public services & more deregulation. Read my latest albertoalemanno.substack.com/p/europe-is-...

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 13/09/2026

Come l’Unione Europea può esigere il rispetto dello stato di diritto ai propri Stati membri quando le proprie istituzioni non lo rispettano? Mia Intervista a AVVENIRE www.avvenire.it/politica/il-...

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 12/09/2026

It is becoming impossible to miss how Europe’s own Chicago Boys are turning the hard right’s surge into both alibi and accelerator: the response isn’t to rebuild the social protections people feel they have lost, but to speed up their dismantling, in the name of competitiveness #draghi #merz

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 12/09/2026

Kallas says an Occupied Territories trade ban would be a "principled stance" and crucially doesn't even need unanimity. Yet no EU proposal exists.

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 10/09/2026

Draghi mania got Draghi watchers and watchdogs to mesure the degree of implementation of his recommendations. No matter they lack a method, they contribute to Draghi mania as amplified by the holy triptic: FT, Economist and Le Monde (via the Rhine)

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 08/09/2026

The priority should be the re-establishment of the Schengen free-travel zone, dear Commissioner for Internal Affairs #ceuta

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

The AfD’s breakthrough in Saxony-Anhalt marks the collapse of the firewall to exclude the hard right and brings German politics closer to the reality already taking shape across Europe. READ my latest substack.com/@albertoalem...

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 06/09/2026

As expected, far-right AfD wins key German state election but may fail to secure majority The most damning number from tonight is that among workers in Saxony-Anhalt the AfD got 61%, CDU 10%. The party of labor is now the far right.

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 06/09/2026

Giorgia Meloni has brought unusual political stability to Italy. Three years on, many of the country’s structural problems remain unresolved. Read albertoalemanno.substack.com/p/italy-has-...

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 02/09/2026

It’s happening! 11 member states just said what many have thought for years: unanimity in EU foreign policy isn’t caution, it’s paralysis. With Matthias Goldman we mapped out how to actually end the veto de jure condito verfassungsblog.de/towards-qual...

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 31/08/2026

No, Iceland’s referendum result does not reject European integration but revamps the attractiveness of the country’s present EEA arrangement -single-market access, free movement, participation in EU programmes without a vote on EU rules My latest albertoalemanno.substack.com/p/a-lesson-f...

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 30/08/2026

If we’re Europe, we win - Enrico Letta

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 30/08/2026

Europeans, let’s stop to make us small #EFA26

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 30/08/2026

Iceland's NO isn't a rejection of Europe. It proves the EEA model - single market access and free movement, without EU membership or a vote on the rules - is SO attractive that even a rich, well-integrated insider picks it over joining. A lesson for EU enlargement (impasse), and for the UK?

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 30/08/2026

How did the Icelandic referendum go? Still to close to call, a sign of how divisive the issue has become for the country #iceland

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