Toby Vogel 🇪🇺

@tobyvogel.bsky.social

Third-country national in Brussels writing on EU policies and politics, Balkans, migration, democracy, information manipulation. Former reporter (RFE/RL, European Voice). Co-founder @dpcglobal.bsky.social. Views personal; em dashes mine.

Denying family reunification to those with protection in Germany is a cruel, largely performative policy with a negligible impact on overall numbers (up to 1,000 people/month) but which is likely to produce worse integration outcomes in the medium term.

InfoMigrants@infomigrants.net · 2d ago

It's been a year since the German government introduced a stop on family reunifications. The policy, which was meant to be temporary, has meant that thousands have been barred from being reunited with their spouses, children and parents.

It will be interesting to see how the EU institutions treat the Montenegrin language *in practice* once the country joins. Will Croatian interpreters and translators need to sit an exam if they want to add Montenegrin? In any case, the institutions will struggle to find qualified staff.

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Another thought re international High Representative. The Bonn powers are vested in the officeholder personally, not the institution, and Dayton doesn't foresee an acting or interim High Rep. Does the PDHR now hold the Bonn powers? Wouldn't that open up any actual use to legal challenge?

"Nothing to add" from the European Commission to a call from the EPP – the party of the Commission President and the European Commissioner for migration – to abolish subsidiary protection, which accounted for roughly one-quarter of people receiving status last year.

Happening today: a former British colony, scarred by the colonial legacy and ultimately partitioned, hands over the Presidency of the Council of the EU to another former British colony scarred by the colonial legacy and ultimately partitioned But keep talking about how great empire was