Okay, Alex, it's a pleasure to have you back, man, especially before the end of this roller coaster

year. How are you, dude? Hi, Victor. I'm doing fine, and I'm also, I also hope that Brussels

is doing fine and you're doing fine. Listen, Brussels is doing amazing. We're all very happy that

this year is coming to a close. We're all getting our, you know, bucket doing amazing. We're all very happy that this year is coming to a close.

We're all getting our bucket lists ready. We're making new year's resolutions and we're not alone in this.

Because the European Union is also making new year's resolutions.

And those New Year's resolutions are basically a bunch of pieces of legislation that are going to come out next year.

And that is the topic for today.

Thank you. Just to give people a bit of context, and this is, of course, not for EU policy nerds, but just for the regular listener, at EU level, the one institution that has a right to propose new legislation is a European Commission. That's why we're talking about the European Commission. There is also the European

Parliament and the European Council, but it's basically the Commission that prepares all the

policy initiatives. So they work out all the policy, all the details, and then they put it out

on the table, then the Council and the Parliament needs to approve. They make comments and make suggestions, but it's basically, you know, on the side of the European

Commission to do a lot of these things.

So it's an EU commission show, so to say.

Yeah, it's a one-man show, woman show, we should say, since the president of the European

Commission is a woman, Ursula von

the Line, for the first time in the history of the European Union. So it's actually a very

interesting point of time. I don't know, before zooming in, if we actually zoom out for a second,

I think it's very interesting to reflect on what this European Commission

and this European Parliament, this European Council, what they have been through. Because I was

actually reflecting about this myself before recording. And I realized that this European Commission started in 2019

right like a new batch of members of the European Parliament were also elected at the end of

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