Spread the word. I've had the privilege of working for @cergrant.bsky.social, @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social's founding director, for 13 years. After 28 years in charge, he will step down at the end of the year. It will take someone with outstanding qualities to replace him. Details on our website.

🎓Die Auswahlkommission für das @collegeofeurope.bsky.social kommt diese Woche im Generalsekretariat der #EBD zusammen, um die deutschen Bewerberinnen und Bewerber für das kommende Studienjahr auszuwählen. 🇪🇺 Die @netzwerk-ebd.de organisiert das Verfahren seit 1949 & begleitet die Studierenden. #EUSky

Neue EU to go-Folge im Kasten! 🎬 Diesmal mit @ph-jaeg.bsky.social zum Industrial Accelerator Act, Made-in-Europe-Klauseln und wie der europäischen Industrie geholfen werden kann. Stay tuned!

There is a great sense of urgency for the EU to become more competitive in the digital sector and boost AI innovation. In a new policy brief, I argue that the Commission’s Digital and AI Omnibus proposals are, however, unlikely to achieve any of those goals. 🧵⬇️ www.delorscentre.eu/en/publicati...

📅 Deadline extended to 30 March 2026! Apply for the 5th Henrik Enderlein Prize, honouring our founding director’s legacy of European engagement & academic excellence. €10,000 award by @hertieschool.bsky.social, @sciencespo.bsky.social, @diplo.de & the French Ministry for Europe & Foreign Affairs ⬇️

Are you an outstanding European researcher under the age of 40, working on questions relevant for both the academic community and for public affairs and social cohesion in Europe? Then apply for the Henrik Enderlein Prize! Deadline on 30 March, more info here: www.hertie-school.org/en/henrik-en...

Unsere Co-Direktorin Thu Nguyen @onethuthree.bsky.social diskutiert morgen auf der 75‑Jahre‑Jubiläumsveranstaltung des Auswärtigen Amtes @diplo.de in einem Panel mit Expert:innen aus Diplomatie und Forschung über die Zukunft der deutschen Außenpolitik. 📺 Livestream ab 9 Uhr:

Nächten Dienstag gibt es wieder ein EU to go-Frühstück! Diesmal wieder bei ☕️ und 🥐 und mit den tollen @judithkohlenberger.bsky.social und @marcusengler.bsky.social zur EU-Migrationspolitik: Abschotten oder Anwerben? Hier anmelden: www.delorscentre.eu/de/veranstal...

Kommunalwahlen, Endergebnisse: Frankreich ist mehrheitlich mitte-rechts in der Fläche, links in den Großstädten, und es gab Trostpreise für die Ränder und Renaissance. Die wichtigsten Ergebnisse und ihre Folgen: 🧵 www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...

Nächten Dienstag gibt es wieder ein EU to go-Frühstück! Diesmal wieder bei ☕️ und 🥐 und mit den tollen @judithkohlenberger.bsky.social und @marcusengler.bsky.social zur EU-Migrationspolitik: Abschotten oder Anwerben? Hier anmelden: www.delorscentre.eu/de/veranstal...

☕🥐Jetzt noch schnell anmelden zum ersten EU to go Frühstück des Jahres: EU to go. Migration: Abschotten oder Anwerben? mit @judithkohlenberger.bsky.social und @marcusengler.bsky.social am 24. März! @dezim-institut.de 👉 www.delorscentre.eu/de/veranstal...

We were honoured to welcome Roberta Metsola, @president.europarl.europa.eu, to @hertieschool.bsky.social for an interactive Q&A session with students on the future of #Europe, moderated by our acting co-director Thu Nguyen, @onethuthree.bsky.social.

Thank you @president.europarl.europa.eu for being at @hertieschool.bsky.social @delorsberlin.bsky.social today to discuss the future of Europe with our students! 🇪🇺

The enthusiasm, curiosity & honesty of the next generation is exactly what Europe needs right now. Inspiring to speak with these young people in Berlin about how to strengthen democracy, fight disinformation, bring Europe closer, and create opportunities for them to study, work & build careers 🇪🇺🇩🇪

Outgone @hertieschool.bsky.social president @corneliawoll.bsky.social welcomes European Parliament president @president.europarl.europa.eu Prof. Woll says as many leaders as we’ve hosted here before, President Metsola is the first representing 450 million people. @onethuthree.bsky.social chairing.

Der erste von 2 Wahlgängen der Kommunalwahl zeigt ein gemischtes Bild: - mitte-rechts dominiert wie üblich in der Fläche, hat aber Mühe in den Städten - linke Kräfte dürfen u.a. auf Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Straßburg, Nantes, Lille hoffen 🧵(1/) www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...

We are delighted to welcome Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, at the Jacques Delors Centre at the Hertie School for a discussion on the future of Europe next week. Join us! Spaces are limited, link for registration: www.delorscentre.eu/en/events-at...

After months of wrangling and an epic list of delays, the Commission has finally released its Industrial Accelerator Act. This could turn into one of the EU’s most consequential industrial policy files in years - and the proposal is honestly not a bad place to start. Some quick thoughts:

I have just held a call with President Pedro Sánchez to express the EU’s full solidarity with Spain. The EU will always ensure that the interests of its Member States are fully protected.

Wichtiger Beitrag von @wernertyann.bsky.social im Tagesspiegel heute, wie die Bundesregierung das letzte Amtsjahr von Macron noch für gemeinsame 🇩🇪-🇫🇷 Vorstöße nutzen kann und sollte

Ich durfte heute einen Gastbeitrag für den Tagesspiegel beisteuern: es geht um Macrons verbleibende Macht in seinem letzten Amtsjahr, und wo er noch etwas bewegen kann. Spoiler: Vieles ist noch möglich, aber bei Weitem nicht mehr alles. Details im Artikel: www.tagesspiegel.de/internationa...

Das war ein Meilenstein: Präsident Macron hat eine "vorgerückte" französische Abschreckung (dissuasion avancée) verkündet. Deutschland ist privilegierter und ambitioniertester Partner, andere europäische Länder ebenfalls dabei. Hauptpunkte 🧵

Strategically it’s incredibly clever the EU is eroding the key levers of the green transition. As a net oil and gas importer being susceptible to repeated geopolitical supply and terms of trade shocks is just such a great place to be.

Scholarship opportunity! @delorsberlin.bsky.social is offering a scholarship that aims to support an exceptional student passionate about European public policy and planning to pursue a Master of International Affairs at @hertieschool.bsky.social next AY: www.hertie-school.org/en/study/fun...

Bemerkenswertes Interview über die zusehends radikalisierte Mitte www.zeit.de/2026/10/bija...

"Es gibt in den Verträgen keine Möglichkeit, einen Mitgliedstaat rauszuschmeißen." Co-Direktorin @onethuthree.bsky.social spricht mit dem @zdfde.bsky.social über Ungarns Blockade der EU-Sanktionen gegen #Russland und die Handlungsoptionen der #EU. 👉 www.zdfheute.de/politik/ausl... #Ungarn

Beim Neujahrsempfang haben wir jetzt eine Podiumsdiskussion u.a. mit @onethuthree.bsky.social & @danielfreund.bsky.social

Perhaps a good time to bring up again our proposal with @dimitrispieker.bsky.social and Ulrich Karpenstein on how to suspend Hungary’s voting rights based on a breach of solidarity in CFSP: www.delorscentre.eu/en/publicati...

The entire point of debating frozen assets for months was to get around Orbán’s veto. Either Hungary moves - or that option should be back on the table.

This marks a new level of escalation by Orbán. In December, he agreed to allow the other member states to proceed with the loan through enhanced cooperation - without Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. Hungary is vetoing a decision in which it would not even participate.

Tomorrow in two weeks, the JDC and @hertiecfr.bsky.social have the honour to welcome Tamara Ćapeta, Advocate General at the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social, for a keynote on the #EU as a constitutional democracy! 📆 27 Feb ⏰ 3 - 4.30pm 📍 @hertieschool.bsky.social 👉 www.delorscentre.eu/en/events-at...

🇵🇱⚖️President Nawrocki vetoes the law reforming the National Council of Judiciary, dispelling any hopes the Polish government had of reforming the rule of law through new legislation. Major, but expected, defeat for the new MoJ Waldemark Żurek and his plans. 1/

📣 Call for submissions for the 5th #HenrikEnderlein Prize! 📆 Until 21 March, #EU scholars are invited to submit their work from #SocialSciences that demonstrates scholarly excellence and contributes to the public debate on the future of #Europe. Find out more 👉 www.delorscentre.eu/en/about/new...

Contrary to Trump administration claims that the European Commission is interfering in elections across Europe, the Commission has not yet published any DSA decision related to electoral processes and civic discourse, writes Luise Quaritsch.

Join our team! We are looking for a student assistant for our work on Franco-German relations. You will be part of our Pariser Platz Dialogue team and involved in organising our flagship events in Berlin and Paris. Deadline for application is 7 March: hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...

EPP targeting S&D-led Spain is also not new, see derailed Ribera hearing. But turning RoL protection partisan by naming Spain and not e.g. EPP-led Greece, ranked 89th on RSF press freedom index (even HU ranks 68th) & 48th on WJP rule of law index, does RoL no service: www.eppgroup.eu/newsroom/rul...

The EPP has a long tradition of shielding its own against EU scrutiny on the rule of law. It long protected Orbán when Fidesz was still member of the EPP, and now it is blocking rule of law fact finding missions to Meloni‘s Italy, who has become an important EPP ally.

Das klingt ganz gut. Wenn Deutschland sich bei der gemeinsamen Aufsicht jetzt tatsächlich bewegt, kämen bei der Kapitalmarktunion mal weg von Sonntagsreden und hin zu echten Integrationsschritten.

The debate really has evolved. Back in 2023, in the Franco-German report on EU institutional reform, we had this - onion-like - graph on how we envisioned a possible future of EU integration in different layers. It was not taken well at the time www.auswaertiges-amt.de/resource/blo...

Great thread of what a multi-speed Europe means in practice. It’s the key thing to come out of y’day’s informal EU summit on competitiveness: MS have given EU Commission the green light to explore different formats to move fwd on competitiveness& expect it to present a plan at March European Council

This framing of 'the EU has never done multiple speed Europe' seems like a product of way too short institutional memory. Since the 1980s, major EU integration often happened in avantgarde groups, be it the Euro, Schengen, EU Patent, EU Public Prosecutor. The real change is a different one.

Two-speed Europe, coalitions of the willing, core Europe - all different labels currently circling in the debate for same idea that way forward is no longer at EU27. But the how is important, and I think different people understand different things by the concept. Quick thread on legal options:

Yes and another potential one may happen in MEDEL case about Poland’s rule of law milestones. In both cases, political considerations corrupted the Commission’s decision making process (not that the Council objected). One may also mention end of CVM for 🇧🇬 🇷🇴, premature closure of Art 7 re 🇵🇱, etc

Adding to this excellent explanation of today's AG opinion that conditionality has been the EU's most powerful tool on rule of law to date. But the problems highlighted are not new. See an earlier assessment here www.cer.eu/insights/fre...

Perfect timing also to announce that AG Ćapeta will give a keynote speech at @delorsberlin.bsky.social on 27 February, followed by a panel discussion with @anabobic.bsky.social, Violeta Moreno-Lax and Mark Dawson. Register here: invitedu.to/_prg4o

A small bombshell on rule of law conditionality from Luxembourg today: Advocate-General Capeta finds in her opinion that Commission was not allowed to unfreeze EU funds to Hungary in December 2023 and proposes that the Court of Justice annul the decision: curia.europa.eu/site/upload/... Thread:

Signs that France is preparing for the possibility of a far-right presidency next year. The governor of the Banque de France is stepping down before the end of his mandate, allowing Macron to name a successor before the 2027 presidential elections www.reuters.com/business/fin...

This means that at least as far as the European Parliament is concerned, a core tenet of the EU's migration policy is now co-decided by the far-right, including its most extreme elements in the ESN, like the German AfD.

Further working on my analytical tool for EU-Analytics. If you look at the (just 11) main votes in the European Parliament on migration in this legislature, the EPP now votes more often together with the ECR, PfE and ESN than with its 'von der Leyen' platform partners: