International relations

The US Supreme Court’s decision this week in Trump v. Slaughter, giving the US president the power to control supposed-to-be independent agencies set up and funded by Congress, may be as profound internationally as it is domestically. In his newsletter, the economist Paul Krugman calls the president’s new power “dictatorial”, and notes the Court’s exception for the Federal Reserve. Krugman highlights the importance to average citizens of the Federal Trade Commission, which oversees consumer protection and the US’s meager privacy law. It is one of the agencies Trump now fully controls. At day later, at Euractiv, Claudie Moreau reported that as a direct result Max Schrems and his NGO, noyb, is preparing a legal challenge to the three-year-old EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Quick recap. This is the third time Schrems, an Austrian citizen, is challenging a formal legal arrangement for permitting data flows from the EU to the US. The saga began in 1998, when the EU Data Protection…