There are now also rather clear orders and advisory opinions by the ICJ laying out that this is in breach of international law

If we expect AI to resolve climate change… brace for AI to eventually spit out ‘well, it might have worked if you hadn’t abandoned any thought about co2 in developing ai data centres, you fools’

This is actually a really interesting phenomenon well worth in-depth reporting:(1) What is the idea of diversity and identity of the incredibly diverse, migrant-origin elite that seems to embrace nativism? and(2) How do they feel about so many in their movement regarding THEM as part of the problem?

The attacks on diversity in the U.K. come from quite surprising people. Ms Braverman is a Buddhist with two Indian parents, Mr Braverman is a migrant from South Africa. They are a model example of U.K. diversity.

Somaliland is now recognized by Israel

free speech news

You want to set a sign that US companies, too, have to abide by our laws if they operate here? Follow @hateaid.org - they fight for rights in the digital space and have just been sanctioned by Trump.

Christmas in Trump’s America: The US administration sanctions individuals fighting hate on the internet, amongst them a German who received the Bundesverdienstkreuz for her work. www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amer...

Well, at least you can count on their incompetence… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

From earlier this year - analysis of the legal status of Greenland, by Prof Ulla Neergaard

Trump named a special ambassador who sees his task as advancing the annexation of Greenland. A breach of international law. And no, not a joke. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hilarious.

Putin messed up when he decided to invade Ukraine. But boy does he run circles round Trump!

That's not how the EU works - and it isn't how this worked. Whatever you think of the German back and forth on the issue (I personally hate it) - Germany cannot and did not decide this on its own. As always there were countries for and countries against this.

Trump's attempt to focus attention on the Clinton-Epstein link is a stark reminder of just how hold Donald Trump is: Clinton has been out of office for a quarter century. Students who graduate now were born after Clinton retired. Donald Trump is older than Clinton.

An article that brings you back to the good old days of Brexit with its warped and at times strange arguments. I have a question at the end, so please bear with me, but I'll highlight some examples: /1

Just to point out that it is often said about China that it prefers negotiating one on one with smaller countries to bring to bear its power differential.

Here's a quick reminder of the composition of the economy of countries that are all too often perceived as agricultural: Italy: 65.6% services, 21.7% industry - 2% agriculture France: 70.4% services, 17.5% industry - 1.4% agriculture Austria: 65.3% services, 23.1% industry - 1.2% agriculture

The Grand chamber of the CJEU decided the ultra vires review case concerning the Polish Constitutional Court curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...

Two take-aways: 1) The UK system is not set up for this. 2) Lab-LD-G is at 49, Ref-Con at 45.

EU-Mercosur is, my apologies, a no-brainer. The US no longer wants a close relationship with Europe. Everyone is shouting for diplomacy and engaging with others. But quite frankly: who would those others be outside Europe if we are not ready to engage with South America?

EU trade policy Member States and European Parliament agree on EU legislation on safeguard clause for EU farmers if EU/Mercosur trade agreement is approved - but this is separate from the issue of whether the Member States will approve the agreement itself - www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

The Trump administration continues to destroy US science and leadership with their ideological climate-science denial. Note that they want to move "vital functions" such as weather modeling elsewhere -, but good luck with your modeling, if scientists cannot base it on what science tells them.

Tagesschau, you should know better. Fratelli d’Italia is not ‘center-right’. www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/w...

UK politics currently seems to have two certainties: "Brexit was a mistake and closer relations are in both the UK's and the EU's interest" and "Farage will be the next PM". Go figure. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Trump’s redistricting fight continues. Needless to say that there was a time when this type of federal threat against states - in their own field of competences - was regarded as problematic.

The same document also reveals that Trump wants no European country at the big boys table he calls c5: US, Russia, China, India, Japan. Sorry Telegraph. This isn’t about making Europe great. /1

An excellent contribution to the echr debate. Pretty much incontrovertible on treaty law, pointing out the hard choices on substance.

I could not agree more with David on the need for meaningful parliamentary scrutiny. I have seen very little discussion of what the us-uk deal means for the NHS.

So… what is the justification for this? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Dmytro Firtasch will not be extradited to the US. Much about the proceedings is quite stunning. The current decision is by the Court of appeals, confirming a municipal court decision /1 wien.orf.at/stories/3333...

The office giving legal advice to the US state department (L) is shedding staff www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

One wonders what exactly people will be looking for… to my US friends: please consider online participation or holding conferences in Europe.

I welcome a more open debate about moving closer to the EU. But please be aware that there is no off-the shelf customs union one can join. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

There are very few binary regulatory choices. What targets to set doesn’t seem to be one of them.

Breathtaking, but now expected.

On Farage and his support: I fear the group of people that wants all foreigners to leave the U.K. but draws the line at racism is not as large as the press seems to assume.

The much-discussed US national security strategy. I want to raise one question that I have not seen discussed /1 www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

I understand why the UK could not investigate Russian interference in Brexit: because the outcome would have raised the question of a remedy. But the choice not to investigate left and leaves the uk vulnerable to future influence campaigns.

If general AI will have a sense of humour, it‘ll laugh that rich people worked so hard ruining their health, family and our environment all to create an algorithm that replaces them. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Writing an exam and just came across David Frost arguing that Brexit was a success in January 2025 - and among his "Have we forgotten how it used to be" there's this: "Oh, and the six million (it turned out) EU migrants. Can we really have forgotten all this? Don't we remember how bad it was? /1

After decades of "no, the EU should not do defense, we have NATO for that" - what the hell did y'all expect? Time to buckle up and change.

Some cool news: together with the TU Wien we run a two-year M.Sc. (TU & DA) in Master in Environmental Technology and International Affairs. Its goal is to enable students to actually resolve sustainability problems. The master combines social and hard sciences - here's the curriculum. /1

The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research has published a paper on the impact of Brexit siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

Join us at the Diplomatische Akademie on 2 December when we review the COP30 with Brazil's ambassador to Austria Edoardo Paes Saboia, the head of Austria's COP30 delegation Cornelia Jäger /1

The Guardian reports that large parts of southern Europe are drying up. And just in case you are not sufficiently worried: Their definition of southern Europe includes Germany and the South of the UK. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I prefer the old group of billionaires who thought they'd use their money to combat risks to mankind. Bezos strictly limits his long-term thinking to building a clock. Otherwise he buys pointless space flights at enormous costs to the environment and destroys our information environment.

Not just the end of an era, but actually quite devastating news for anyone interested in the UK. Few people (including native Brits) have the capacity to explain the UK like AD. She has an eye for the problems - but always with deep sympathy, profound knowledge and a desire to truly understand.

The press release in the CJEU same sex wedding case curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...

I am sorry to say: even if it is not accepted. The mere fact that Trump & Vance put a deal on the table in which the US is conceived as a) benefiting financially from a deal akin to capitulation and b) the US is the neutral party mediating between Russia and Nato destroys us leadership.