You mean Coman vs Romania?
Yeah we need the Commission to actually start imposing consequences when member states blatantly ignore ECJ rulings...

Which country will think to more or less remove all residence requirements to issue marriage licences, so that they can profit from "marriage tourism" from their neighbours?

The key parts are as you wrote, a) whether the interpretation will be that they are complying by recognizing a foreign marriage as a civil union (in this case the ruling would have no effect to Italy or Hungary for example) and b) if the members will comply, especially the 4 with no civil unions.

It is of course amazing news, but will it be implemented, or ignored like in the case of Coman vs Romania, in which Romania refuses to comply with the ECJ decision for 7 years now?

And not even a hint of discussing how to decouple our tech and finance infrastracture from being 100% reliant on the US, so that they cannot punish European citizens on a whim this way...

It is much better in my opinion. Everyone sticks to their beliefs. And in the end if it's the beliefs of the EPP + the far right who are the majority, and the people "suffer" because of it...maybe they shouldn't be handing them majority?

Long term, it's better to get the much worse and showcase to the people what voting EPP gets you. Run in every national election until 2029 with "vote EPP, get Orban and AfD" until EPP starts seeing the electoral damage.

The 2nd.

What's the point of a "centrist coalition" if all the legislation advancing is right wing because EPP keeps blackmailing "do as I say or I vote with the far right" ?

Montenegro is realistically the only one who can.
Moldova only if there is a Cyprus-type solution (aka freeze) for Transistria.
The rest no, too much bad blood with some EU members and prejudices against them (which they don't do much to change).

Wilders lost...but to JA21 and FvD.
The far right percentage (including SGP too) remained stable vs 2023 in the Netherlands.
The voters just switched parties, not views - and this is a long-term problem.

It's all but sure now Dave, D66 is back ahead after Amsterdam updated with their final count, and the remainder of the vote is 90% abroad (horrible for PVV)!

We are in a Catch-22:

Pro-Federalism change won't come from within, because the national leaders do not want to cede power to the #EU. And it is not coming from the voters, who don't understand that their grievances with the EU is because the union is not federated enough.

Yes they can.
And this poll is the first one showing a majority for D66-GL/PVDA-CDA-Volt + CU/50Plus or PvdD

This is actually 100% fair, this should be a joint EU power move signalling Russia is considered out of the international law governing capital. Not just optics while Belgium bears the risks.

Because Belgium wants guarantees that they will not be liable to compensation to Russia in the future (most assets are through a Belgium-based company), other EU members are not giving them, and (infuriatingly) we refuse to consider the international laws regarding finance non-applicable on Russia.

Because they got bought by a Hungarian oligarch last year.

There is a solution to this, but EU leaders don't have the balls: announce that Putin's plane will not be allowed to pass through Ukrainian or Polish airspace to land in Budapest.

France has a particularity though - the people always hate the leader, and what they want seems to be to ignore the financial and demographic reality, and keep an 80s welfare state no matter what. This will eat any president who doesn't go along with this lunacy.

I wouldn't say the far left is strong though, they are just very loud because of Gaza. They don't have particularly strong numbers.

The far right on the other side feels emboldened to get an ever larger share of the pie thanks to the cowardice of parties like VVD, PP, M etc. who welcome them...