A short clip from an interview where I discuss my recent paper, The silent coup: the European Commission’s power grab, in which I explain how Ursula von der Leyen exploited the Covid-19 and Ukraine crises to spearhead a dramatic expansion of the powers of the Commission.
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Thomas Fazi
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