As your entire Continent waits with bated breath for Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the European Union deal with Wednesday, there’s excellent news for these of you who simply can’t get sufficient of the SOTEU (as all of the cool children name it) — a board recreation! Made by the European Fee itself!
Making a board recreation isn’t straightforward however this one has the added benefit of coming from the EU’s high chuckle manufacturing unit, the Fee. As a result of, because the previous saying goes, “should you’re laughing, you’re studying.”
Enjoying the “von der Leyen Fee 101” recreation entails the downloading of two PDFs, one of many recreation board and the opposite that includes the questions and solutions. All it’s worthwhile to present is a cube and a gaggle of pals with in-depth information of EU policymaking (summer season 2019-present). Then you definitely roll the cube and reply questions on a wide range of sizzling subjects.
These embody: “Evaluation of defence funding gaps and proposals of additional measures to strengthen Europe’s defence industrial and technological base;” “Adoption of an motion plan on stopping cash laundering and terrorist financing” — as a result of nothing says enjoyable like “terrorist financing;” — and “The Fee proposes the creation of the HERA incubator.”
We gained’t give away the solutions as that might spoil your enjoyable, however right here at POLITICO we performed the sport and might neither affirm nor deny that we did fairly badly. A few of the questions have a number of alternative solutions, which helps. However others don’t. And whereas some solutions are straightforward — “Who was on the EU aspect main the negotiations on the withdrawal of the U.Ok. from the EU?” is a gimme — others are considerably tougher.
The reply to the query “What’s vocational training and coaching?” is 72 phrases lengthy and it’s not clear from the principles should you want all 72 of them with the intention to roll the cube once more.
The winner is the primary particular person to achieve the end line — and the prize is that you just grow to be an govt vice chairman within the subsequent Fee (possibly)!
