So painful to ride Amtrak again after coming back from France (or most European countries). Our trains are a national embarrassment. Late, slow, and just bad.
R. Daniel Kelemen
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McCourt Chair at the McCourt School of Public Policy @Georgetown University. Non-resident Senior Associate @CSIS. EU politics, policy & law. www.rdanielkelemen.com
![🎉 The European Parliament decided to ask the Authority for European political parties and European political foundations (APPF) to open an investigation on whether ESN Party properly ensured that its member parties complied with EU values. As the first such vote, this is an important step for the enforceability of this verification process and a confirmation that facts found by the APPF can legitimately give rise to a formal investigation.
❔ *What's next?* The APPF will now "inform [ESN] without undue delay, invite it to submit its observations and give it the opportunity to introduce measures to remedy the situation within one month", after which the APPF will "submit the observations made by [ESN] and, where applicable, the [corrective measures taken] to the committee of independent eminent persons" for its opinion to be given within two months. Then the APPF will decide whether to de-register ESN, a decision the Parliament and Council can veto.
⚠️ The European Commission still hasn't appointed its members on the committee of independent eminent persons.
❔ Not that this changes anything, but it remains to be seen whether the Commission and/or Council will likewise ask the APPF to open the verification procedure, or whether their decision-making process will stop.
👉 For more details: https://edcstiftung.eu/post/compliance-eu-values-esn](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kcz2hjvdkkjs64n6y57uq35w/bafkreiaos2ped74t67u4t2dlznxgdnorg5j7osvs2kjhe2rl6pdb6pcapa)
