Damir Hadzic
@dahadzic.bsky.social
Bosnian in Amsterdam. International development and politics. 🐈 person and 🐶 owner. Antifa, naturally 😉Poguzija&ManUtd. Views and comments my own.
1/ The X account of Milo Lompar, one of the prominent faces of the student protests in Serbia and a regular speaker at their rallies, had this to share after Ratko Mladić's death. The problem with the Serbian student movement isn't just that they are also nationalists - they are dumb as a rock. ⬇️
I’m sure we’ve all paid $17 billion in settlement while denying any wrongdoing before, so no cheap shots about their supposed guilt please.
Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social · 3d agoMeta reaches $17 billion settlement in case involving childrens' use of its platforms www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...
OTD in 1989 around 2 million people formed a human chain through Estonia, Lithuania & Latvia to beg mother Moscow *not* to remove its troops which were genuinely invited in as a result of nothing to do with our first treaty with Nazi Germany OTD 50 years prior...
Escalating rage of figures like Ulf Poschardt, Douglas Murray or Rod Dreher as they absorb racist tropes of "Replacement Theory" comes from an inability to cope with a world where control of positions and power is no longer theirs by right to distribute within a socially homogenous elite conclave
Rule of law problems in Poland and Bulgaria are but the same. Using Poland to advocate for Western Balkan EU accession is wrong. Bulgaria and its western Balkan neighbours share much more in common when it comes to rule of law deficiencies - it's not about the primacy of EU law over national but 1/2
EUwatch 🇪🇺@euwatch.live · last wk.When it comes to Western Balkans and the rule of law, best should not be the enemy of good
📽 | Voluntarios de la Cruz Roja auxilian a los migrantes de Ceuta con alimentos y bebida social.elpais.com/29f…
The Guardian view on events in Ceuta: chaos and tragedy are weaponised by the far right | Editorial
The Guardian view on events in Ceuta: chaos and tragedy are weaponised by the far right | Editorial
Editorial: Instead of finger-pointing at Spain, mainstream EU leaders should be showing solidarity with its prime minister, Pedro Sánchez
theguardian.com
“Are you a communist?” “No I am an anti-fascist” “For a long time?” “Since I have understood fascism.” – Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
For the first time ever, Ukraine is joining the 🇪🇺 Civil Protection Mechanism as a provider of assistance. A 70-member Ukrainian firefighting team is on its way to France to help battle the wildfires.
The UK and EU are cursed to be the projection space for anxious American culture warriors who quickly lose interest once European realities get too complicated to fit simple American narratives.
And I have idea about baseball...
Field Of Dreams: Baseball Players Enter Cornfield
ALT: Field Of Dreams: Baseball Players Enter Cornfield
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✙ 𝐃𝐨𝐜 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 - 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🖇️ 𝟾𝟼𝟺𝟽@unauthorizedbeast.bsky.social · 4w agoFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Having lived through several wars in what was once known as Yugoslavia, this was the hardest part to explain to people from "the west" - the war is awful but it's not a movie where you constantly dodge bullets and move from one underground shelter to another. Life very much goes on.
Joris Luyendijk@jorisluyendijk.bsky.social · 4w agoWish more people understood this. The Ukrainian economy is functioning. Restaurants are open. You see electric cars. Factories are turning out good products, sometimes for export. The agricultural sector is huge. Ukraine is at war. But it is not a war zone. finance.liga.net/en/state-fin...
Brilliant piece from Erwan Fouéré on why the EU’s failures to resolve Balkan disputes undermines its credibility in the region and the enlargement process. balkaninsight.com/2026/07/22/e...
EU’s Failure to Address Balkan Disputes Undermines Its Credibility
Brussels’ double standards towards North Macedonia over its historical disagreements with Bulgaria reflect the EU’s wider failure to adopt a strategy that addresses various bilateral disputes in the W...
balkaninsight.com
How have ICC state parties responded to US sanctions against the Court? I examine this in a new paper (OA) in the Journal of International Criminal Justice, focusing on the 2025 ASP. Ultimately, I argue that while some states get the point, most fall alarmingly short. doi.org/10.1093/jicj...
Sanctioned Justice: State (Non)Responses to US Sanctions against the ICC
Abstract. Sanctions by the United States of America against International Criminal Court (ICC) judges and officials pose a fundamental challenge for the fu
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A French government X account breaks from the European Trump-charm approach in spectacular fashion.
Brnović, you say? Surely there's a link in MNE establishment. But also, this and 🦩 a major red flag for both MNE and AL when it comes to EU accession.
🇪🇺💶 The European Central Bank has presented 10 design options for the new euro banknotes. Eurozone citizens can vote on the options until September 21, after which the Governing Council will make a final decision "around the end of the year."
Spain are undeniable very good but their way of winning is so dull. Like spending a week watching a python digest a sheep.
And Europeans in particular need to stop assuming that there will always be an endless pool of migrants and refugees willing to move to Europe in sufficient numbers to cover widening labour market and demographic gaps. Structural trendlines are never endlessly linear.
France - England will be much better game than the finals.
I've seen here the English complaining about the quality of ITV commentary. Is this horor on BBC improvement?
I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.
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Jakub Jaraczewski@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 2mo ago🇷🇺 @economist.com gives voice to the poor people who suffer, such as a sanctioned Russian oligarch who parrots the usual Kremlin talking points: Russia is inevitable, a wealthy Russia is a wealthy West, a stable (imperial) Russia is better for everyone, etc. etc.
The positive of Balogun is it's the first time a Republican has intervened to reduce a black man's sentence.
If Iran had a sense of humor they'd name it the "Liberation Day Tariff".
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2mo agoTOLLS NOT ON THE TABLE BUT IRAN IS EXPECTED TO PROPOSE ENVIRONMENTAL, NAVIGATION AND SECURITY FEE, DIPLOMAT SAYS
