Expect more partisan conflict over the digital omnibus in the European Parliament mirroring last week's controversial vote on the "green omnibus".

Does the cordon sanitaire keep withering away in the face of the dergulatory agenda?

Importantly, however, there is a convergence on a deregulatory agenda, not least as France seeks to boost its AI hopeful Mistral.

Today, the European Commission unveils its "digital omnibus" proposal including deregulatory measures regarding AI, data protection etc.

www.politico.eu/article/the-...

Or more academically, @adler-nissen.bsky.social & Kristin Anabel Eggeling have detailed how different understandigns of digital sovereignty derailed GAIA-X: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Franco-German disagreement over what entails and how to achieve digtial sovereignty has previously hampered the success of cloud initative GAIA-X, which remained behind expectations.

www.politico.eu/article/anat...

But even as they try to speak with one voice, German and French interpretations of the means and ends of digital sovereignty are still not aligned.

Merz: "Digital sovereignty cannot be achieved through regulation and subsidies."

www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...

But to what extent does it make sense to transpose the concept of a "government/von der Leyen" coalition to the European Parliament? The EU is not a parliamentary system.

So if I submit two papers, only one can be accepted. Co-authors need to decide now who presents a paper?

Are you aware of the new/forthcoming Korean adaptation of The Ax by the great Park Chan-wook?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKZp...

(Talking AI, YT just put a weird translated audio over it that I couldn't turn off and hope isn't shared)

Thanks for the shoutout! Your paper sounds super interesting, will read it soon!

Residential mobility also matters: Urbanites who grew up in rural areas but later moved to cities are less polarised. Divided loyalties dampen affective divides — helping explain why ruralites are consistently more polarised than urbanites. 5/7