Spain summarizes the special regime applying to Ceuta and Melilla.

Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, UE y Cooperación de España@exterioresgob.bsky.social · 4d ago

#ExterioresExplica El Acuerdo de Schengen suprimió en 1995 los controles fronterizos entre países UE y estableció controles en sus fronteras exteriores. Ceuta y Melilla tienen un régimen específico con controles de viajeros hacia la península ⤵️ exteriores.gob.es/es/Comunicac...

The open letter of 22 European Heads of State / Government on the situation in Spain. Just to make that clear: I think anything but solidarity with Spain in a difficult situation, which Spain manages surprisingly well, is scandalous. www.governo.it/en/articolo/...

Italy and Denmark put forward letter to EU leaders, signed by 22 Heads of State and Government

The letter sent to the President of the European Council, António Costa, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the current President of the Council of the European Union,...

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From the Agreement on the Accession of Spain to Schengen, available at eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

#Ceuta & #Schengen 1. Travellers can cross from Morocco into Ceuta w/out a Schengen visa, but that doesn’t grant entry into mainland Spain or rest of Schengen 2. Moving from Ceuta to mainland Spain involves border controls - a passport/ID check - since it means entering Schengen.

There are so many questions regarding what just happened. 60000 migrants came to Ceuta, half of them have already left again. What seems unlikely is that one Spanish judgment created a relevant pull factor (I love to think so many people are so well informed about new cases, but no) /1

Felix Zimmermann@felixzimmermann.bsky.social · 5d ago

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FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"

Time and again climate change is treated as though it were binary: we cannot prevent it, so ok, it’s there let’s embrace it. That’s entirely wrong: it is a sliding scale. We cannot prevent 1.5 degrees. But maybe 3? Or 5?

The conflict between the US and its ally France over the extention of the mandate of Volker Türk www.france24.com/en/france/20...

US walks out of UN Security Council meeting as France condemns rights vote

The United States walked out of a UN Security Council meeting on Monday during France's remarks on Ukraine, escalating a public dispute between the longtime allies over human rights. The move followed...

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Can we critically evaluate the comment? The acknowledgment seems to be that for the first time tech owners acknowledge there are technologies that will eliminate more jobs than they create. Rather than humans receiving pay, AI companies and robotics companies will receive licence fees. /1

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

HANNITY: Elon Musk talked about Americans not even needing to save for your retirement like we have historically because of the abundance AI will create. Do you believe that? BESSENT: I do, but I think I would change the timeline. Elon is so far ahead of the curve

An important inquiry - constitutional safeguards in the UK

David Anderson@bricksilk.bsky.social · 2w ago

The House of Lords Constitution Committee is starting a wide-ranging inquiry into strengthening our constitutional safeguards - as proposed by (Lord) Peter Hennessy. Look East, look West, and see the urgency. Written evidence requested by 28th of September. committees.parliament.uk/committee/17...

The Delhi Court judgment on OpenAI, LLM training, copyright and fair use chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/wp-content/u...

Dear press, please be aware that companies and CEOs putting out news might just take a dramatic angle out of self-interest. For example: after Mythos made headlines for breaking into systems, what news item would you want if you were OpenAI?

The Executive Order through which the US administration imposes its views on history on the Smithsonian - highlighting an essential para. / 1 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

A quick overview over Trump's world-wide tariffs and the courts. Trump first used IEEPA to impose tariffs. Scotus said no in Learning Resources v Trump. /1 www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

After a brief excursion to the World Cup (apologies), this account will go back to focusing on international and EU law, posting links to the original sources and at times short commentary.

The new 301 tariffs - Trump's memorandum www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Actions by the United States in the Investigations under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 of the Acts, Policies, and Practices of 60 Economies Related to the Failure of Each Economy to Impose and ...

MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE Subject:       Actions by the United States in the Investigations under Section 301 of the Trade Act

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The Austrian Volker Türk will remain High Commissioner for Human Rights for another 4 years. The UNGA voted 144 for, 10 against. Among the no votes and urging members to vote against Türk were Russia, the US and Israel. www.tagesschau.de/ausland/volk...

Mandat von UN-Menschenrechtskommissar Türk um vier Jahre verlängert

UN-Menschenrechtskommissar Volker Türk bleibt weitere vier Jahre im Amt. Gegen den Widerstand Russlands, Israels und der USA hat die UN-Generalversammlung mehrheitlich für eine Mandatsverlängerung ges...

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Karim Khan is ousted as Chief Prosecutor of the ICC www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jul...

Karim Khan ousted as prosecutor of international criminal court

Member states vote to remove British barrister after allegations of sexual abuse

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Lieutenant General Admiral makes me think of Major Major Major Major. It's not his fault. I apologize.

The FBI was tipped off about Siad in 2016. And yet - he had not yet been questioned by investigators. How is that not a huge scandal in which reporters interview every FBI officer and French police officer? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Model scout for Jeffrey Epstein found dead at his home near Paris

Daniel Siad faced allegations of rape and trafficking in France and appeared in more than 1,000 documents in Epstein files

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Another Epstein ‘model scout‘ has been found dead. And one more thing /1 www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...

»Modelagent« mit engen Verbindungen zu Epstein: Daniel Siad tot aufgefunden

Daniel Siad bezeichnete sich als »Model-Scout« und soll zahlreiche Frauen an Jeffrey Epstein vermittelt haben. In Frankreich liefen Ermittlungen gegen den 69-Jährigen. Nun wurde seine Leiche in seinem...

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Saudi Arabia, it turns out, will possibly get civilian uranium enrichment facilities from the US. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Saudis and US strike deal for kingdom to enrich uranium, reports say

Donald Trump said to have approved agreement to help kingdom make fuel for civilian reactors, which observers fear could pave the way to a nuclear weapon

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The EU decision to postpone the U.K. EU meeting was, unsurprisingly, correct - and the irritation with it somewhat confusing. It would have been a meeting full of ‚we cannot really say‘s www.politico.eu/article/eu-r...

Britain’s Brexit Minister Nick Thomas-Symonds axed in reshuffle

The close ally of Keir Starmer was delivering the prime minister’s reset with the European Union.

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Fascinating. Much less space for the players than in France England. As though there are 6 more players on the field.

Whatthehellisgoingon?

I expected England to defeat Argentina and then to lose against a stellar France. Clearly I don’t know anything.

The risk we won’t see fair and free midterm elections is significant. And I am not sure Europe is ready for that. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump accuses China of election meddling and questions voting security ahead of midterms

China said Trump's claims were fabricated and US Democrats said he was paving the way to undermine November's elections.

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Normalising insider trading. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump Media to sell fast feed of key posts to Wall Street

Trump Media is launching a fast, paid feed of the its social posts for Wall Street traders.

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Gleichschaltung of foreign journalists: the US limits visas of journalists to 240 days. Extendable, but media organizations fear pressure to report in line with Trump‘s wishes. www.spiegel.de/ausland/usa-...

USA beschneiden Visa-Regeln für ausländische Studenten und Journalisten

Die Trump-Regierung beschränkt die Aufenthaltszeiten für Studierende und Medienvertreter in den USA. Die Organisation Reporter ohne Grenzen äußerte sich empört und warnte vor einer Einschränkung der P...

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The final will be adidas v adidas, match for third Nike v Nike.