According to the International Organization for Migration there have been 1,190 deaths of people crossing the central Mediterranean so far this year (not including this tragedy). Many others will have died without anybody noticing or caring.

Hungary, Idea Intézet poll: TISZA-EPP: 47% Fidesz/KDNP-PfE: 39% (-1) DK-S&D: 5% MH-ESN: 4% MKKP→G/EFA: 3% Jobbik-NI: 1% (+1) +/- vs. 31 October - 07 November 2025 Fieldwork: 27 November - 04 December 2025 Sample size: 1500 ➤ europeelects.eu/hungary

A quarter of Poles now favour leaving the EU, a much higher figure than before, according to a new poll. Among supporters of the right-wing opposition, 43% now favour "Polexit" while 44% want to remain in the EU.

A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle

We are deeply concerned for the health of Qesser Zuhrah, who has been on hunger strike for 46 days. We join those calling on the government to act now, and address the serious concerns raised by lawyers acting for the prisoners.

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

Why do citizens who say they support democracy tolerate leaders who dismantle it? Delighted to share my paper “Framing Democracy: How Elite Discourse Shapes Citizens' Understandings of Democracy and Enables Backsliding” is forthcoming in World Politics...(1/5, link at the end)

🚨 The latest conclusions say the EU will trigger Article 20 of enhanced cooperation to ensure that any mobilisation of EU resources to guarantee joint debt "will not have an impact on the financial obligations of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia," as previously reported by Euronews.

;Eliminating funding for 3* research in the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) would benefit Russell Group institutions by about £50 million a year, suggests modelling into how potential changes to funding formulas may play out.' 1/3

New article from @nottspolitics.bsky.social's Dr Fernando Casal Bertoa ➡️ 'Does institutional design matter? Constitutional regime types and party system closure in Asia' Read it here 🔗 tinyurl.com/3p4rakxe

🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion (2 years) We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald. ✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group

Humans are now the minority online

📚 The production is complete. The eBook is now available and released on Oxford Academic by this month. The print copies are available in January. Thanks again to all authors and OUP, a timely publication on the fifth largest EU member state and the fastest-growing economy 👇🏽

Why crises don’t make the EU stronger, for @euradio.bsky.social euradio.fr/emission/2jL..., and @casmudde.bsky.social on the year ahead

It’s a shame that hiring freezes and compulsory redundancies never hit senior management - the only group universities could do with less of.

Warning ⚠️ don’t say you did not see it, in IT @casmudde.bsky.social explains Trump’s Strategy, working with those European countries that wish to consolidate their national greatness and resist against the current European trajectory (Hungary, Italy) - that has already shifted @internazionale.it

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The saddest, or most infuriating, part of it is that it is so predictable and preventable.

Manfred Weber, head of EPP, the conservatives group in EU parliament, tells Bild the 2035 ban on combustion engine cars, agreed by the parliament just three years ago, will be modified, paving way for continued sale of hybrid cars. Victory for German car industry www.theguardian.com/business/202...

New on #FirstView - "Justifying and Negotiating Responses to the Radical Right: The Case of the Swedish Labour Movement and the Intra-Organizational Arena" - shorturl.at/gh3qc by @slsalo.bsky.social, @jensrydgren.bsky.social & @podmalm.bsky.social

🚨🚨Major publication news; my article titled "The European Public Prosecutor's Office: Supranationalism, Sovereignty and Legitimacy" has now been published in the latest issue of #EuropeanLawReview. Short 🧵

"Of the 1,022 members of the university community who took part in the vote, 983 (96.2 per cent) voted that they have “No Confidence” in Professor Canagarajah. Meanwhile, 39 (3.8 per cent) expressed confidence in his leadership." www.leicester.news/leicester-un...

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Europe’s Foreign Policy Is Broken by Design—Here’s How to Fix It

Come on drug lords, robber-barons, mafiosi, modern slave traders, just a million dollars and citizenship is yours!

"London had around 104 homicides last year. Let’s put that number into context – New Orleans had 124 homicides last year. That might make London look just a little bit safer than New Orleans, but here’s the thing – more than nine million people live in London, but only 360,000 live in New Orleans."

Soon, there will be twice as many rejoin than stay out voters in the UK. If Trump continues like this it might be very soon.

Tory incompetence under Johnson and Sunsk cost you and me almost £11bn official report shows. “The main issue to come out of study was "the scale at which people were prepared to pull a fast one and make money out of the taxpayer in a crisis". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ministers also established a list of "safe" countries, including Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, Tunisia. Agencies will process asylum claims from these nationals more quickly. Notably, several of these score very low on democracy and human rights indexes. 🧵 4/4 ourworldindata.org/grapher/demo...

brink of collapse and led her own political family, the center-right @eppgroup.bsky.social l to team up with the far right to get the deal over the line. The new law, the first of many so-called #omnibus simplification bills, will massively reduce the scope of

Germany, France and Italy are all suffering from erosions to civic freedom, according to a report by the global civil society alliance, CIVICUS, published on Tuesday.

Hungarian government-funded propaganda accounts post glossy “This is Viktor Orbán’s Hungary. What do you notice?” videos from downtown Budapest — where Orbán’s family runs luxury hotels. But here’s what a regular major Budapest junction, Bosnyák Square, actually looks like from the tram stop.

After the little Musk-Sikorski spat this, and Musk's statement to abolish the EU (after the Commission fined X), let's ask ourselves simply: HOW ARE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONERS USING X NOW? In this 🧵 I'll document it, Commissioner by Commissioner. When did they last post? How often do they post?

And, of course, both @ec.europa.eu and @europarl.europa.eu are still creating content for Elon Musk's site. Rule of thumb for representatives of democratic institutions: If you wouldn't give an interview to an ultranationalist far-right newspaper, you shouldn't be on X either.

It's a very normal day over at the other site.

Elon should understand that this our continent and we have our rules here. If Musk feels like he does not want to abide by these rules with his platform, he might as well pull Twitter from the EU market. Personally I do not think that the EU would suffer that much from it.

Beauvoir was the third woman to win the Goncourt since it was founded in 1903. Only 14 of the 114 winners have been women. When the Goncourt was first run in 1903 its jury was entirely men. The Prix Femina was created in response with an all woman jury. 3/3

Happy national day to all Finns!   🇫🇮 & 🇪🇺: The city of Oulu is the European Capital of Culture for 2026. Its culture programme will revolve around the theme of cultural climate change.   For info about the Council in Finnish → link.europa.eu/jdQWYB

These 2,900 individual billionaires could lose 75% of their wealth and still be richer than 4 billion people. Inequality is eating the whole world alive.

Moscow mocks EU deliberations over frozen assets, saying attempts to seize them will provoke a severe reaction.

The EU Commission unveils the legal proposals to fund Ukraine's financial needs putting forward two options: joint borrowing (which requires unanimity in the European Council) and reparation loans using immobilized Russian assets (which can be voted by qualified majority)

🇪🇺President von der Leyen's VP once again criticising her leadership - this time on the "red-tape-cutting" omnibus exercise which is being partly driven by VDL's promises to Trump in Scotland. We saw what happened to the last person who dared to do that (Breton).

📢 New #OpenAccess! Why do some professors appear in the media far more than others? #RH_Heiberger @BasHofstra #S_Unger find both patterns of cumulative advantage & gender inequality, with men more likely to become “short-listed”! ➡️ Read it ungated at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf037 image.png

We have a deal 👍👏 @eu2025dk @EP_Trade @EP_Industry @DanJoergensen @Trade_EU on phasing out of Russian fossil fuels We pave the way for more energy security&stop funding Russia’s war machine.For too long, Russia has used its gas&oil as leverage to undermine EU‘s stability (1/2)

The investigation is ongoing to clarify the facts and assess whether any criminal offences have occurred. The investigation is also supported by Belgium’s investigating judge in West-Flanders (district of Ypres). Here is the EPPO Press release: www.eppo.europa.eu/en/media/new...

Normative power Europe. No. 😔

At last! Continued British participation in Esrasmus was part of the Withdrawal Agreement, signed by Johnson, but which he later, in a fit of cultural vandalism, refused to implement once Brexit was enacted www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The classic early retirement story! @will-davies.bsky.social & I wrote about this movement & all its contradictions back in 2020. doi.org/10.1080/1753... I assume FIRE has been turbocharged post-pandemic, with the combo of job disillusionment & asset appreciation.