Poetin-apologeet Tom Sauer pleit bij @deafspraak.bsky.social weer eens voor capitulatie van Oekraïne.
Merijn Chamon
@merijnchamon.bsky.social
Professor of EU Law @ Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Visiting Professor @ College of Europe
If there are still sane governments within the EU, they should pull their forces together and put an end to the frugal madness. It's economically insane, politically stupid, and geopolitically irresponsible. My editorial via @wort.lu www.wort.lu/meinung/leit...
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This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal
OTD in 1938 Hitler gave a speech demanding the Sudetenland be handed to Germany. He said his countrymen were being mistreated and needed protection. Also promised it was his last territorial demand. He was lying. Imagine that happening today.
No please don’t! European language policy should not become a vehicle through which national governments Europeanise unresolved domestic deals.
You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?
The Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract shows
The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.
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If you are an academic still on X, you are facilitating a guy who aims to destroy you
Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 2mo ago'mere' authoritarians seek to capture the state & a few key sectors for fascists, every institution must brought low & made complicit in the new social order
More from Krasny Bor, Russia. The Wildberries facility is now fully engulfed in flames. #Russia
Here we go, the Spanish language version of the declaration on Ceuta and Melilla attached to the treaty on Spanish accession to Schengen
Nacho Quesado@nachoquesado.bsky.social · 2mo agoYou should dig out a copy in Spanish for all the right wing Spanish politicos who mysteriously also seemed to be unaware of any of this.
In January, I stopped using X as a communication channel because the platform facilitated the creation of illegal and deeply harmful images by its AI tool, Grok. I am renewing my call for all governmental and parliamentary communications to stop using X. The platform continues to facilitate
1/3Well done! @ec.europa.eu right to impose €890 million #Googlefine for DMA breaches. Dominant gatekeepers cannot favour their own services or prevent app providers from pointing users to cheaper alternatives. BUT: #Google fine must not become pretext for US tariff retaliation
New Euro banknotes are coming. The @ecb.europa.eu just release the final 10 designs, and there are some really nice ones included. Full detail here, including a poll to give your opinion: www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknot...
Tributes to David Kleimann, who left the trade scene far too soon. ielp.worldtradelaw.net/2026/07/reme...
Remembering David Kleimann
The trade community mourns the loss of David Kleimann, a formidable trade expert and friend. David was most recently at S-Curve Economics, but also held posts at ODI, Bruegel, and Georgetown Law, amon...
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Kort gesprek op Radio 1 (De Wereld Vandaag) over het einde van de Franse "Code Noir" van 1685 ⬇️ www.vrt.be/vrtmax/luist...
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Truly historic & moving scenes from the inaugural session of the Hungarian Parliament. A children’s tambura band from a tiny village playing a folk song often described as the unofficial Roma anthem. MPs were tearing up & so were many more of us watching. After all those years of hate. 🎥 telex.hu
From @courthousenews.bsky.social on today's CJEU opinion on the Italy/Albania migration deal - with critical comments from me (see also my thread, starting with my pinned post) www.courthousenews.com/eu-court-adviser-backs-italys-migrant-centers-in-albania/
EU court adviser backs Italy's migrant centers in Albania
The European Court of Justice is examining whether Italy's migrant detention centers in Albania are legal. A court adviser says they are, but critics warn that would be the “death of the right to asyl...
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JD Vance accuses EU of ‘interference’ as he visits Hungary to help Orbán win election
JD Vance accuses EU of ‘interference’ as he visits Hungary to help Orbán win election
US vice-president rails against ‘bureaucrats in Brussels’ interfering in Sunday’s vote as he arrives in Budapest
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The worst fucking screenplay ever written about something that never happened from inside the drunken mind of the least qualified Cabinet member in human history. He is the black hole of political leadership.
De Belgische democratie is aan vernieuwing toe. Wees erbij en bespreek samen hoe het beter kan!
Sophie in't Veld@sophieintveld.bsky.social · 8mo agoDe democratie is van ons allemaal! Daarom gaan @dejongliberalen.bsky.social @jonggroen.bsky.social @jsgent.bsky.social #JONGCD&V @voltbelgium.org in debat over de broodnodige democratische vernieuwing, na key-note speech van #Jan-Baptist-Lemaire. Kom ook en discussieer mee op 18 februari in Gent!
Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
!["On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: “America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions.”1
More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President Washington’s vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. See 8 U.S.C. § 1254a (TPS statute). It provides humanitarian relief to foreign nationals in the United States who come from disaster-stricken countries. It also brings in substantial revenue, with TPS holders generating $5.2 billion in taxes annually. See Part VI.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has a different take. [screenshot of tweet].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/bafkreicrroq5taft777rmau2ffjlsphbcatlxnwwigf2yekoke533yycim)
![has terminated every TPS country designation to have reached her desk—twelve countries up,
twelve countries down. See Section IV.A.2. Her conclusion that Haiti (a majority nonwhite
country) faces merely “concerning” conditions cannot be squared with the “perfect storm of
suffering” and “staggering” “humanitarian toll” described in page-after-page of the Certified
Administrative Record (CAR). See Section IV.A.3.a. She ignored Congress’s requirement that
she “review the conditions” in Haiti only “after” consulting “with appropriate agencies.” 8
U.S.C. § 1254a(b)(3)(A); see Section IV.A.1. Indeed, she did not consult other agencies at all.
See id. Her “national interest” analysis focuses on Haitians outside the United States or here
illegally, ignoring that Haitian TPS holders already live here, and legally so. See Section
IV.A.3.b. And though she states that the analysis must include “economic considerations,” she
ignores altogether the billions Haitian TPS holders contribute to the economy. See id.
The Government’s primary response is that the TPS statute gives the Secretary
unbounded discretion to make whatever determination she wants, any way she wants. And, yes,
the statute does grant her some discretion. But not unbounded discretion. To the contrary,
Congress passed the TPS statute to standardize the then ad hoc temporary protection system—to
replace executive whim with statutory predictability. See Section I.A.
As to irreparable harm, the Government contends that, at most, the harms to Haitian TPS
holders are speculative. But the Department of State (State) warns [screenshot]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/bafkreid3cmawech25ummuj2tjvgxsrvufma2kmrijlfpglalwddd3qkikq)
Important perspective from Greenland.
Imagine being foolish enough to trust Vladimir Putin when he says he has no plans to attack, invade, or occupy Europe.
Het parlement heeft eindelijk een verenigde positie op Gaza en eist sancties tegen Israël. Onze resolutie veroordeeld het brute geweld tegen de burgerbevolking en het saboteren van een tweestatenoplossing door Israël moet onmiddellijk stoppen. Maar we moeten veel meer doen. 1/3
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola rejected a bid by right-wing factions to hold a minute of silence today for slain US conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
Uproar as EU Parliament declines to hold minute of silence for Charlie Kirk
Right-wing lawmakers pushed for a tribute to the U.S. conservative influencer who was shot dead.
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Israëls geschiedenis toont: soms zijn de terroristen van vandaag de staatslieden van morgen
Twee Israëlische premiers waren in hun jonge jaren betrokken bij terroristische aanslagen, schrijft Guy Vanthemsche. We moeten de terreurdaden van Hamas veroordelen, maar de oorlog in Gaza is geen strijd tussen de Duisternis en het Licht.
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