Potentially this gives an opening for VVD to enter in a coalition with them after all.

Dutch exit polls show potential clear 4-party centrist majority. D66 currently 27 seats in exit polls (out of 150), PVV second with 25. #NL #dutchelections #NL2025

Morgen kunnen we kiezen. Voor nog meer chagrijn en haat, óf voor hoop, samenwerking en vooruitgang. Het is tijd om de bladzijde-Wilders om te slaan. Stem morgen want samen laten we zien: het kan wél.

Opinie van @dickzijp.bsky.social en @mtschaefer.bsky.social. onder meer naar aanleiding van uitzending @nieuwsuur.nl en column van DUB-campuscolumnist.

Siri, show me how a narcissist or sociopath might respond to the death of a dear family friend and ally.

They published it, and it's even worse than I thought www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

EJ Antoni has never worked in statistics collection. He is 5 years out of his PhD. He's only ever written one economics paper. His explicit, only qualifications are that he works in ultra-conservative think tanks & believes Trump's conspiracies about the BLS. Grim stuff.

You can't make this up, continued... #"PhD level intelligence". #ai

Meta AI seems to be overcorrecting... But sure, current AI models have "PhD level intelligence".

Stanford is hiring: tenure-track, assistant professor position in Sustainable Food Systems. Please share! #academia

Trump pulls US out of Unesco in blow for UN culture and education agency

EU Commission president responds to Trump's latest tariff letter ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

I mean, if you want to be extremely charitable, it could be a way to raise revenue (i.e. tax your citizens), while potentially getting a small rebate through terms-of-trade. But then just come out and say that, rather than "there is no tariff if you grow the bananas (and the coffee etc) in the US"

Dutch cabinet in trouble as Wilders' PVV announces it is leaving the coalition.

The EU's hand suddenly looks much stronger. Good that it didn't fall for the empty 50% threat and hasn't caved in any way.

So if you are a foreign government negotiating with the Trump administration about the IEEPA "Liberation Day" tariffs, and the tariffs have now been struck down (pending a probable appeal), it may be time to recalibrate your negotiating position.

My take on today's US court tariff ruling. This is an excellent opportunity for the EU and other trading partners to quit preparing packages of concessions, tell Trump to shove it and get on with trading without the US. First 300 clicks free. It being 3.42am here in London, I am now going to bed.

Latest episode in Trump trade wars: www.politico.eu/article/trum...

Leges sine moribus vanae.

In Europe, it's (rightly) a big scandal if members of European Parliament are found to have secretly taken money, gifts or holiday trips from foreign powers. In the US, the current President is overtly accepting a huge Qatari plane...

At the #EUSA conference @eustudies.bsky.social keynote, @katemcnamara.bsky.social just delivered a very stimulating lecture on the emerging EU military-industrial complex. I'm sure this will be much discussed at the reception and beyond after its publication in JEI.

Interesting anecdote: the US Mint uses EU-made machines and technology to mint US dollars. Goes to show how integrated and co-dependent the US and the EU are.

Excited to hear about the EU-US transatlantic relationship from the EU Ambassador at the #EUSA conference in Philadelphia.

Against expectations, Merz failed to be elected #Chancellor in Germany (got only 310 votes instead of 316 required after coalition members defected). Uncharted territory, though he seems intent on a second vote in the coming days. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

"Breakfast can symbolize an entire nation: the full English, the French omelet, Belgian waffles". Sorry, @theatlantic.com, but I have to emphatically dispel the notion that Belgians eat waffles for breakfast. Waffles, in Belgium, are a sweet afternoon snack or a dessert.

Dutch satire hitting where it hurts "The US is relieved no precious minerals were hit, only Ukrainian civilians and buildings".

Geen studentensportvoorzieningen meer. Geen studium generale meer. Geen universiteitsmuseum meer. Geen publiekslezingen meer. Geen hortus meer. Dan ook geen Bildung meer. Geen universiteit meer. Eppo maakt echt alles kapot. 🤬 delta.tudelft.nl/article/kabi...

Who’s the whistleblower? Daniel Berulis — a senior DevSecOps architect at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), formerly with TS/SCI clearance. He just told Congress the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) pulled off a covert cyber op inside a federal agency.

The lesson here is clear. There isn’t such a thing as compromising a little bit on your core values. It’s an all or nothing kind of thing. All universities need to take note and organize a response that’s not giving in to the authoritarian impulses of the administration.

3) Related to #2, pending massive fiscal expansion in Europe needed to finance continental defense will enlarge the pool of euro assets as alternatives to UST (nowhere near enough to rival UST, but the market for euro securities will continue growing, esp. if --> fiscal union) 3/9

With US treasuries sell off, reupping this. Euro is too small to replace or even rival the dollar as global reserve currency, but the EU/ECB can do a lot to grow the international role of the euro and stabilise global financial system (which draws on @jvtk.bsky.social et al's work)

Could the Trump tariffs jolt France and others to geopolitical sense on the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement?

De Eerste Kamer heeft zojuist ingestemd met de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs.

"The tail end of George W. Bush’s administration was not a great time for Democrats trying to argue, “I supported an Iraq War, but not this Iraq War.” Pro-tariff Democrats might find themselves in a similar spot." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

A tongue-in-cheek comment on the fact that supposedly, woke is the source of all evil (and Trump was going to "save" the economy)

If it wasn't so sad it would have been funny.

For those listening to this rant, those numbers are not tariffs. The European Union, e.g., has weighted average tariff rates of ~ 3% and arguably lower on US goods. So they are clearly including VATs and who knows what else? This false reciprocity is nonsense. For more: www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

OK so the baseline is you get at least a 10% tariff no matter what and then it's higher according to his bogus reciprocity. So it's a sort of hybrid between across-the-board and fake reciprocal.

Happy to be visiting @ceps.eu with our PPE students from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social to learn about protests in Georgia and Serbia and their road to EU accession.

Researchers benefit from coordinating on a place to post and discuss their latest research. It looks like Bluesky is becoming that place. #econsky

Quite a wake-up call. "Zum Teil ist es letztlich so, wie man Deutschland 1932, '33, '34 verlassen hat. Meine Großmutter verließ Berlin mit meinem Vater 1939. Es ist also eine Familientradition.""- Jason Stanley

US pauses its obligatory contributions to the WTO www.reuters.com/world/us-sus...

You can't make this up

🚨 Big SCOOP 🚨 Tax revenue could fall by as much as **10%** this year, per sources, as taxpayers and businesses see the Trump admin as less likely to challenge tax cheats. That'd be **$500 BILLION** in lost revenue. It'd nearly double the tax gap in a single year.

In this blog, we discuss the intuition behind and implications of our (and other people's) research on institutional design of IOs published in ISQ (@isanet.bsky.social) and elsewhere.

"It’s a no-brainer for Canada to confront rather than placate Trump, since he demanded first the impossible and now the unconscionable. He’s moved on from targeting almost non-existent fentanyl smuggling to make a literally existential demand of annexing Canada"

From @scottlincicome.bsky.social: "Things Everyone Should Know about Trade Deficits: They don’t hurt jobs or growth, aren’t trade or economic scoreboards, and can’t be fixed by tariffs."