#Magnus Brunner

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Austria's Changing Position on Romania and Bulgaria's Schengen Membership

Austria’s Stance on Romania and Bulgaria’s Schengen Membership Austria’s newly appointed EU Commissioner for Migration, Magnus Brunner, has recently advocated for the full membership of both Romania and Bulgaria in the Schengen Area. For the past two years, Austria has been blocking these countries from achieving complete Schengen status, which is vital for ensuring the free movement of…

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Austria nominates Finance Minister Brunner as European Commissioner

The Austrian government nominated conservative Finance Minister Magnus Brunner as its next European Commissioner, Chancellor Karl Nehammer announced.

Magnus Brunner is an experienced government politician with a high level of expertise in finance, economic and competition policy at national and European level.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stated that she would invite member states to submit two names of candidates for commissioner, one male and one female. In nominating Brunner, Austria joins a number of countries, including France and Slovakia, that have rejected her request.

Countries are expected to propose candidates to the Commission in the coming weeks. After receiving the names, the EU will begin a months-long process of vetting candidates for conflicts of interest before EU lawmakers question them in hours-long hearings about their plans.

The candidacy of Austria’s 52-year-old Brunner still has to be formally endorsed by a cabinet decision and a main committee of the lower house of parliament. However, both ruling parties agreed, making those decisions largely a formality.

Austria’s next parliamentary elections will take place on 29 September, with the next EU Commission to be formed and operational by October.

Nehammer’s office stated that Brunner’s appointment was an independent decision, refuting reports that it was part of a package of appointments to be jointly agreed, including the appointment of the next governor of the Austrian National Bank.

Economy Minister Martin Kocher remains the favourite to head the central bank. Meanwhile, the term of office of the current governor Robert Holzmann runs until 31 August 2025.

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TAZ Balance PercyJackson AU

A complicated version of the au where

Merle and Barry are Grover and lowkey

Magnus is also grover but Magnus is also percy and Lucretia is defo annabeth but Taako is Luke but like I think he also goes with them on the quest-

And Taako of course is Luke because I imagine his betrayal of the gods is Taako poses as 'son of hermes' but he's actually son of zeus because his sister Lup(thalia) died yknow and of course hes pissed at their dad so he is willing to do anything to bring her back

Magnus obvi the strongest is Percy who is also sassy and what the fuck is going on -

Davenport is mister brunner

Merle and Barry works best as Grover because of Merle's love and preach for peace and getting along while Barry holds the most regret for being unable to protect/save Lup from her fate.

And of course Lucretia is Annabel - the smartest of the group who wants to be acknowledged for all she does and also of course she was there when the Lup incident happened.

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Von Asyl bis Klima: Was sich Österreich von Dänemark abschauen will

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Von Asyl bis Klima: Was sich Österreich von Dänemark abschauen will

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Finanzprokurator Peschorn sprach im U-Ausschuss vernichtendes Urteil über COFAG und Co.

Unzensuriert:»Gleich die erste Befragung im COFAG-Untersuchungsausschuss hat die schlimmsten Verdachtslagen über das Wirken der schwarz-türkisen Clique rund um die ÖVP-Finanzminister Gernot Blümel und Magnus Brunner bestätigt. http://dlvr.it/T3l5Nr «

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Wenn Sie Steuern zahlen dann steigen die Staatsschulden enorm in die Höhe.

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Proposal for 'Return Hubs' for Asylum Seekers Raises Controversy at EU Hearing

Return Hubs for Asylum Seekers: A Controversial Proposal During his confirmation hearing at the European Parliament on Wednesday, Magnus Brunner, the 52-year-old Austrian nominee for European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration, asserted that the establishment of “return hubs” outside the European Union to accommodate rejected asylum seekers could be achieved in a humane and legally…

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Romanian PM: Schengen land border to be applied by Easter

Romania would have access to the Schengen land border by the end of December, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said, according to Euractiv.

Ciolacu said COREPER could decide on Romania and Bulgaria joining Schengen with land borders early next month. This would mean that controls at land borders would be abolished in March, allowing Romanians to travel across the EU without border controls by Easter 2025, 20 April.

During the Easter holidays, Romanians will very likely be able to travel within the Schengen Area.

Interior Minister Cătălin Predoiu welcomed the statement of Magnus Brunner, Austria’s appointed Commissioner for Home Affairs and Migration, during a hearing in the European Parliament’s LIBE committee. Brunner spoke in favour of Romania and Bulgaria joining the Schengen land border area as soon as possible.

Discussions and negotiations are still ongoing.

At the same hearing, Bulgarian MEP Emil Radev expressed concern about the need for additional funding for border security in countries like Bulgaria.

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Sat down to watch ep 2 of Percy Jackson and realized I never posted my thoughts on the first episode! Oops. I hadn't intended to basically liveblog it but alas. Oh well, figured I'd post it anyway!

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- God hearing Percy's very baby voice reading the book's intro gave me chills. That was fantastic

- I love how they immediately set up the Mist

- Blackjack? :o

- Percy actually playing Mythomagic, that's cute. I think I like him not knowing about it all in TTC better (mostly cause he keeps getting annoyed at it) but this is neat. Maybe he's embarrassed by it like how people try to ignore their Hamilton phases lol

- Sequence between Sally and bby Percy was perfect btw, god

- Not feeling this mr Brunner yet, too dignifed for a guy who dresses up in armor and swings a sword around in class, but lets see what happens when the horse comes out

- Percy and Grover trading sandwiches, babies <3

- Did they not animate the water grabbing Nancy or was that just me

- Hang on, that was it? Ms Dodds looked so cool but there was no sense of urgency whatsoever with that fight? And Riptide just? Shook? Did it pop out on its own? Is the sword alive now? Dont Magnus Chase me btw OTL

- IDK it almost feels like it was an accident? I liked how in the books Percy messily but instinctively knew what to so. And that's not how the Mist works, people would definitely see SOMETHING jumping Percy

- I like that Percy's wearing a blue shirt tho

- ... also was that Rick Riordan

- That's some unnecessary drama between Percy and Grover :/

- Lowkey sad they cut everything about Percy genuinely trying his hardest to study for Brunner's class and failing. Chiron also didn't make that big of a blunder in the show either.

- That said I like Percy fidgeting with his hands in that scene

- I also wish he had failed school bc of his anxiety and dislexia frankly, as well as just showing more of how big of a troublemaker he was BEFORE the museum tour, not bc of the Nancy situation. Guess it was cut for time?

- Wait. we skipping the Fates? Seriously??

- Eddie! Kinda like what they did with him actually, before he kinda just let Gabe do whatever he wanted with Percy and only piped up when it started to get ugly.

- Okay so Gabe IS abusive - I like the line about picking up Sally's cellphone - but also kinda? Not as bad as he should be? I guess this is "aggressively mortal" and enough to mask Percy's scent? idk Gabe's behavior explained Percy's attitude so well but since he's been stripped of a lot of said attitude I guess this is consistent?

-  Sally hiding away and feeling the rain was nice. Feels like she's hiding away from all the mess that is her marriage. Also Poseidon maybe? They DO call him Stormbringer in the book - kinda ironic here tho since we know it's been raining a lot bc Zeus is mad lmao. I also love how young she looks since she was basically a teen mom

- That said I wish we'd seen how angry Gabe and the situation had made Percy instead of him just looking like a lost puppy. Just him angrily stomping to his room then immediately RELAXING when he saw his mom would have been perfect.

- ... do we really need another diAngelo reference. Again. I liked that Nico and Bianca were just random kids in the books at first y'know.

- No seriously between this, Mythomagic and a potential Blackjack... Dont Marvel this, show, PLEASE dont "I understood that reference" me 40 million times :/

- ... Sally is? Shutting Gabe up? Making him say please? Book Gabe would never ever let them go to Montauk after that, lmao. Is this really the kind of guy you're gonna MURDER at the end of the season?? Does it really warrant THAT? With this setup, it feels like it's leading up to ditching his crumpled backside with humiliation and hundreds of thousands of dollars in bills for all the appliances, not actual death. It just doesn't feel like either Percy or Sally are truly at the end of their rope with him.

- Idk I thought they were going to start with more subtle signs of abuse and then have that /moment/ when Percy realizes Gabe has been hitting Sally, and all the subtlety would fade away. Book Gabe is worse, but you get the feeling of Percy being used to it. It makes the moment he realizes it's much worse hit like a gut punch, which is what I expected them to emulate. Guess that's that then :/

-  Percy still looks like a confused puppy instead of being relaxed with Sally/angry at Gabe/happy about Montauk. Pls don't let this become a trend I know Percy being clueless and dumb all the time is a sin the later books did to him but,,, not here,,, not with this,,,

- it took me a moment to realize that was Kronos bc that did NOT sound like what a voice that seemed to come from the bowels of the earth should lol

- Ok, so I guess Sally crying while Percy's asleep is proof she's been holding back a lot. Maybe they had her stand up to Gabe as a hint that she's desperate and it's not something she usually does? That recontextualizes things, but, idk. Still think it would hit harder if they had made Gabe more menacing. You don't need to keep the physical abuse, but, idk, just shoot the same scene with Gabe's lines having more venom to them instead of that condescending vibe. Or at least not end it feeling like Sally "won" the argument, which is what it felt to me. Gabe at least coming out on "top" would tie it up more neatly imo. Maybe the line about not a scratch on the car or else?

- Unless she's crying cause she knows she's about to loose Percy. mmmmm.

- Interesting that they changed it from Percy always knowing Montauk was where Sally and his dad met.

- Btw Percy's actor is KILLING IT here

- Oh. Oh! So Sally's the one telling him? Oh, I'm gonna miss the mystery and terror of realizing a monster is after you, almost being FORCED to accept it. The absolute shock of seeing Grover with goat feet. The surrealness of being told the greek pantheon is real just after your mom dies, that distinct feeling of Percy barely believing it bc he feels like he's in a daze after he looses Sally.

- I do like the delivery of the scene tho, Sally is very awkward, it does feel like she rehearsed something akin to this and is so tense she cant get it out like she wanted. relatable lmao

- AGAIN SCOBELL IS KILLING IT GO BABY GO

- Loved the way Sally teared up too - really in line with the book - tho that would have stopped Percy dead on his tracks, he wouldn't push her like this, even if he was frustrated. It was another sign that Sally was at the end of her rope, how Percy refused to push her as most kids would bc he loved her so much and knew she was already so fragile thanks to Smelly Gabe

- I thought Grover felt a little too... Grown up I guess? But y'know what, I'm warming up to this cadence of his voice. Makes sense since he's like 28

- The "happy" music feels so offfffff,,, definitely missing the terror and urgency here. big sad

- Yea ok nvm Grover is wayyy too in control here. what did they do to my scaredy baby where is his anxious chewing and the bleating where IS IT GIVE IT TO ME

- Also he's 24? Huh, I guess I need to double check later

- ONCE AGAIN where is the sense of fear it's just Percy tilting his head and realizing its the Minotaur in one go like?? he's not even standing up??? /I/ barely noticed anything except for a vaguely bull shaped blob chasing after them

- No "shh!! names have power". I expected it since its a rule dropped after series 1 but I always liked it :(

- When is Grover gonna freak out or bonk his head and pass out pls he's too in control of the situation here ;-;

- Is it just a Giant Bull now? And did they decide to make Zeus 0.2% less of a jerk than he is and not have him crash the car?

- Oh! Grover is down at last! Okay, at least there's thaaaaaand he's up again. GREAT :/

- Sally's speech is great but once again ZERO sense of urgency. She can back and forth with Grover for minutes while a GIANT MONSTER is right after them. Also why is she making Grover promise to keep Percy safe? I thought it was at least leading up to a River Styx oath to set up the series but no??? This feels kinda ooc of her? Are they doing away with the Council of Cloven Elders and having THAT be the reason Grover goes with Percy bc. I would not like that.

- Okay, kinda warming up to the Minotaur design. Wish they kept the half-human bit of it but anthro cow works too. Fun fact I occasionally imagined Bessie being the one with long ears so this threw me off for a bit lol

- Not sure about how to feel about Sally being the one to tease the Minotaur with the coat. I GUESS its not too different from Sally being the one to tell Percy to jump sideways, but the thing is I don't like how giving that to her left Percy's own confrontation with it

- Like he just CHARGES IT, that's supremely stupid :/ Percy actually thought strategically about it even if he was terrified and angry, he was able to control himself enough to be smart about it!

- We also miss out on him doing it bc he already lost his mom and couldn't loose Grover

- Also did he hit it with Riptide in that lateral move he does in the book? Isnt that THE move that kills it?

- Riptide is being your resident Spidey-Sense again BUT AT LEAST THE SWORD GLOWS ITS BEAUTIFUL I'M SO HAPPY.

- I actually had a moment of "oh, they made it sparkle?" and then it hit me that its the celestial bronze glow and I cheered lmao. I expected it to be a little more subtle so it took me a second but this is SO COOL.

- I like that they still have Percy climb on its back but it feels too sanitized: grabbing the horn, being able to hold on with just your knees on to a slippery animal IN THE RAIN in order to have a cool stab-in-the-head shot.

- Like the sequence isn't BAD, per se, it just lacks that frenzied, barely thinking, just surving, angry and hurting vibe of the book. It's like they sucked all of the emotion out of it even tho its more or less accurate.

- No Percy dragging Grover down to camp, crying, calling for his mom? CRIMINAL. You cast a little kid! Let him be a little kid!!

- At least the credits are pretty

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Final thoughts: I guess I shouldn't have been surprised, but I sort of expected that, given how much Riordan shows up in the credits, this would have been more book-accurate. And even if it wasn't, he went off about how the actors may not look like the characters, but they embody the "feel" of them, and that's enough, which so far holds up - Walker Scobell being the absolute winner so far, kid can ACT - with the notable of exceptions of Grover (too in control, too serious, not really the scaredy but brave satyr he is), Chiron (yea, he definitely feels too old and dignified for my tastes. He feels like someone who teaches theory, not practice.) and Smelly Gabe.

So I think I expected the same out of the show. But I actually think it's more akin to the Hunger Games: pretty accurate if you go through it scene by scene, but with so much nuance, emotion and context missing.

Regardless of how negative this sounds, I actually enjoyed the episode! It just caught me off guard, how... lifeless is a bit harsh, it's more like a lot of the emotion was sucked out of quite a few scenes, it felt like they were just hitting plot points I guess? Regardless, I'll adjust my expectations accordingly. I DO genuinely like the THG movies, and I assume if I apply the same separation between adaptation and book to this show it'll be a lot more fun.

(The one thing I wont forgive is the score tho. It's SO generic. Almost like a discount superhero theme at times. Sad.)

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Austria launches Green Budgeting Alliance at COP28

Austria has established a Green Budgeting Alliance that will promote green budgeting to bridge between budget and climate policy, Magnus Brunner, Austrian Finance Minister, who is heading his county’s delegation to COP28, told the Emirates News Agency (WAM). “The method of Green Budgeting is still in its early stage. Therefore, we think that peer-to-peer learning between Parties with the aim of…