Re: On the return of the interventionist state 7 fact-check

2021-09-15 Thread János Sugár
At 1:23 PM +0200 9/15/21, Andreas Broeckmann wrote: Dear David, please, fact-check; this is incorrect: the most powerful decision-making body in the EU is the European Commission is comprised of unelected officials You may see deficits in the following procedure, but there are in fact

POWERS OF TRUTH: China, Tech, Art and Resistance (October 1-3, Berlin & Online)

2021-09-15 Thread Tatiana Bazzichelli
Dear all, I would like to inform you that the full programme of our conference POWERS OF TRUTH: China, Tech, Art and Resistance is online. You are welcome to attend in person at Kunstquartier Bethanien - Berlin, or online, on streaming on October 1-2, 2021 (+ workshops on September 22 and October

Re: On the return of the interventionist state 7 fact-check

2021-09-15 Thread d . garcia
Hi Andreas, many thanks for the detailed fact-check and yes I should have been more careful. I do recognise that calling the Commissioners "unelected" was simplistic given that there the EU parliament must approve the appointments presented to them. But if I am honest this generally seems

Re: On the return of the interventionist state 7 fact-check

2021-09-15 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
Dear David, please, fact-check; this is incorrect: > the most powerful decision-making body in the EU is > the European Commission is comprised of unelected officials You may see deficits in the following procedure, but there are in fact elections and democratic confirmations: "The

Re: On the return of the interventionist state

2021-09-15 Thread d . garcia
Thanks Paolo for this very interesting article. Just a few questions that I imagine will be answered by reading the book. I am unclear what is meant here by ‘the state’. Is it interchangeable with ‘government’? Does the argument that neoliberalism (market fundamentalism) is being replaced by