Karsten Meijer

@karstenmeijer.bsky.social

Constitutional law, European defence, and democracy under pressure. Researching how states share power without losing legitimacy. Visiting Fellow @Ceps.eu Phd researcher and lecturer at @uvalawschool.bsky.social Lecturer and Nederlandse Defensie Academie

LOVE this! Deep dive into the options (possibilities and constraints) for European Defence. For the modern reader 😀 It follows on from the authors analysis of a specific branch of this design portfolio, but here you get the whole menu verfassungsblog.de/european-def...

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Karsten Meijer@karstenmeijer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

European defence cooperation is accelerating but mostly through coalitions of the willing Happy to share a new paper with @stevenblockmans.bsky.social, forthcoming in European Law Review, on differentiated integration and a new European defence architecture Preprint papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Thank you, Commissioner Kubilius. It was a pleasure. We will soon publish a more comprehensive analysis of the institutional models for a European Defence Union and will be sure to share it with you.

Andrius Kubilius@andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu · 3mo ago

Very good & important analysis and answers to my questions regarding the path towards the European Defence Union. Thanks to @stevenblockmans.bsky.social & @karstenmeijer.bsky.social for intellectual input - a new intergovernmental treaty is the best way! ⬇️ verfassungsblog.de/european-def...

Het grote gevaar voor Europa komt van binnenuit, ziet de Italiaanse EU-expert Nathalie Tocci. ‘Er is niets minder patriottisch dan de rechtse patriotten die de imperiale VS omarmen.’ Hoe verder, nu we niet meer kunnen rekenen op het Amerikaanse bondgenootschap? www.groene.nl/artikel/de-a...

De EU is een vredesproject dat niet is toegerust op een wereld van oorlog, ziet politicoloog Nathalie Tocci

Het grote gevaar voor Europa komt van binnenuit, ziet de Italiaanse EU-expert Nathalie Tocci. ‘Er is niets minder patriottisch dan de rechtse patriotten die de imperiale VS omarmen.’ Hoe verder, nu…

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Highly recommend this FT piece by adamtooze@bsky.social arguing that only a truly integrated European army can solve Europe’s defence problem. Even if one disagrees with the conclusion, the stakes for the EU’s institutional balance are enormous. www.ft.com/content/2445...

Only an army — and true integration — will solve Europe’s defence problem

Atlanticists fear this would hasten America’s departure from the continent, but what is the alternative?

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“Donald Trump and his second administration are accomplishing what seventy years of French or German diplomacy could not. By treating the EU not as a partner but as a delinquent debtor, the US has inadvertently supplied the one ingredient the European project always lacked: necessity.”

RUSI@rusi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

'By treating the EU not as a partner but as a delinquent debtor, the US has inadvertently supplied the one ingredient the European project always lacked: necessity.' writes William Dixon, RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, in the latest RUSI Commentary.

Okay, I went there. It's time to reconsider a European army. I outline what it could look like. Hint: It doesn't replace Europe's big militaries but serves as a pan-Euro compliment. I sketch out some ideas what it could look like. It is time for some out of box thinking. www.csis.org/analysis/why...

Why It’s Time to Reconsider a European Army

Europe defending itself with separate militaries, without U.S. support, is neither logical nor practical. It is time to reconsider a common European army.

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"But what history teaches us is that the best strategy is not to resist the revolutionaries but to hijack their revolution. In doing this, Europe’s success will mostly depend not on its ability to resist but on displaying a talent to surprise." www.ft.com/content/3507...

Europe should hijack Trump’s revolutionary plans for the world

Liberal nationalists must respond with imagination to US policies rather than gripe at being cut out of Ukraine talks

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