nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/940f3e77bfed9ed1 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260730s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/940f3e77bfed9ed1 doi eng 342 23 Perugini, Marco Author aut Binding Without Debating - How the EU Joined America’s Chip Architecture Through the Back Door Perugini, Marco Verfassungsblog 2026-07-30 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In early June 2026, the COREPER authorized the European Commission to formalize the EU’s participation in Pax Silica, the US-led semiconductor supply-chain initiative. By June 26, the European Union was a formal signatory. The process was orderly. It was also, by any meaningful democratic standard, invisible. No European Parliament debate preceded the authorization. No impact assessment was published. No connection was drawn to a parallel development: the entry into force of the GENIUS Act, the US stablecoin law. The EU bound itself to one American architecture while remaining structurally exposed to another. CC BY-SA 4.0 Article 218 TFEU Committee of Permanent Representatives EU GENIUS Act Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation MiCA Pax Silica Tether semiconductor supply-chain initiative stablecoin law (DE-588)10290611-7 gnd EU Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/binding-without-debating/ raw object