Europe and America collide at POLITICO 28

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

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56% : Isabel Riaño, director general for competitiveness and trade at the general secretariat of the Council of the EU ... spokespeople for António Costa Maria Tomasik and Beatriz Navarro ...
56% : Gabriel Zucman, director of the EU Tax Observatory, and Russian opposition leader Yulia Navalnaya, who were both speakers ...
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55% : Catalonia's EU Minister Jaume Duch Guillot ...
54% : Watch all the speakers here ... and check out this week's episode of EU Confidential, with host Sarah Wheaton reporting from the room at the P28.
53% : Along with ... a cast of diplomats including Marcos Alonso Alonso (Spain), Piritta Asunmaa (Finland), Alessandro Azzoni, Federica Favi, Marco Canaparo, Andrea Orizio and Giulia Massotti (Italy), Angus Cambell (Australia), Tamás Iván Kovács (Hungary), Saurabh Kumar (India), Lene Mandel Vensild and Fabrice Jacobsen (Denmark), Katarína Mathernová (EU ambassador to Ukraine), Daniela Morari (Moldova), Rita Adam (Switzerland), Faruk Kaymakcı (Turkey), Andrew Puzder, who was also a speaker, and Norman Thatcher Scharpf (U.S.), Vaqif Sadıqov (Azerbaijan) and Simon Draper (New Zealand) ... And more ... Benedetta Berti, secretary-general of the NATO Assembly ...
53% : Temasek's Eu Jin Chua ...
52% : AmCham EU's Malte Lohan ... and EPFIA's Nathalie Moll ...
51% : Commission Director General for Taxation and Customs Union Gerassimos Thomas ...
51% : MEP Anna Cavazzini; Former MEPs Maria Heubuch and Jordi Cañas; former POLITICOs Guilherme Prochnow and Aline Krebs; The Dial's Esther King; European Parliament's Andrew Hillman; Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa; BBC's Reeta Chakrabarti; AmCham EU's Malte Lohan.
50% : Celebrating Sunday: MEPs Vangelis Meimarakis and Michał Szczerba; Former MEP Daniela Aiuto; Former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt; Norbert Funke from the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Mongolia Regional Capacity Development Center; Ambassador Nawaf Alenezi, head of mission of Kuwait to the EU and NATO; EESC's Ewa Haczyk.
49% : The 39-year-old Gabriel Zucman, who shot to fame in his home country (and earned spot No. 15 in POLITICO's annual ranking of the 28 most powerful people in European politics and policy) for promoting a wealth tax, argued there was far less difference between the European and U.S. economies than Puzder had let on -- especially when the distortive effect of the wealth of America's billionaires is stripped out of the equation.
48% : Making it legal: Keeping the assets frozen "is a measure that is appropriate in order to avoid further repercussions of unprecedented magnitude on the economic situation of the Union caused by Russia's actions," the Commission wrote in the legal text, which adds a clause to the EU treaty's Article 122 on emergency powers.
48% : Why it matters: The EU executive proposed the legal mechanism to strengthen plans to mobilize the €210 billion in frozen Russian assets, most of which are held by the Belgian-based Euroclear.
47% : None of this deterred Andrew Puzder, Washington's envoy to the EU, from hammering home Trump's message about Europe's economic decline to the Brussels glitterati assembled at Autoworld Brussels, in the Parc du Cinquantenaire.
46% : The Socialist Costa, by contrast, has increasingly taken on the role of Europe's Greek chorus.
44% : In a letter addressed to Costa and obtained by Gabriel Gavin, Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico wrote that he would not "under any pressure, endorse any solution to support Ukraine's military expenditures in which the Slovak Republic would participate."
43% : EU capitals are set to formally sign off on a an emergency measure to make sure Russia's frozen billions aren't put into the defrost when the bloc's sanctions regime comes up for review, the Danish Council presidency announced on Thursday.
42% : News flash: Amid the transatlantic back-and-forth, von der Leyen let slip that some EU countries are asking for a second SAFE instrument -- a €150 billion mechanism to let EU states borrow cheaply for defense purposes.
40% : Member states should recommit to the 3 percent target for research spending -- a target the EU as a whole has so far missed.
37% : In a statement, Hungary challenged the decision on the grounds that it violates EU law and undermines the Commission's neutrality.
36% : Making it permanent: The move is meant to quash the risk that when the sanctions regime comes up for review every six months, one or several EU countries opposed to backing Ukraine (*ahem* Hungary; *cough* Slovakia) will veto the rollover, throwing the entire sanctions policy into disarray.

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