Ricarda Nierhaus
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CEE politics & EU institutions
I guess the only thing standing between today‘s agreement and the EP having to sue the Commission again over premature release of funds is…hope?
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John Morijn
about 1 month ago
Good
@politico.eu
piece about releasing EU funds to Hungary with my quotes based on research co-published with Princeton's Prof Kim Scheppele at
@verfassungsblog.de
(
verfassungsblog.de/unfreezing-e...
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@jeppjournal.bsky.social
(
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
).
www.politico.eu/article/magy...
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Magyar’s EU reset heads for Brussels reality check
The Hungarian leader has made the release of EU money central to his post-Orbán reset, but the Commission wants him to deliver on reforms first.
https://www.politico.eu/article/magyars-eu-reset-heads-for-brussels-reality-check/
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Christopher Miller
about 1 month ago
Confirmed to me by President Zelenskyy's office and Ukraine's Air Force: Russia overnight launched an "Oreshnik" intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) capable of carrying multiple conventional or nuclear warheads.
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Politicisation and urgency leading to shortcuts in the legislative process. The pros & cons of the Omnibus approach will need to be assessed in the long term, but this goes on the cons list.
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Jakub Jaraczewski
2 months ago
🇪🇺🏳️🌈⚖️🇭🇺 A legal earthquake - CJEU finds Hungary to have violated EU law on multiple counts with its anti-LGBT+ legislation (as expected) but also for the first time in history, in an EU law-reshaping precedent, finds Hungary to violate Art 2 TEU in a self-standing manner.
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To the point.
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David Kaye
3 months ago
for sure, congratulations to magyar. but the real heroes imo are those in civil society & journalism & rank-and-file opposition & academia who have fought against the disintegration of rule of law, the weaponization of the courts/media, & so much more for so long. 🇭🇺
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NOELREPORTS
3 months ago
A Russian drone struck an ambulance in Sumy region during the ceasefire, wounding three medics, after a prior attack killed an evacuation team carrying wounded soldiers.
#Ukraine
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VSquare.org
3 months ago
The Orbán government is once again using authoritarian tactics to target our journalist Szabolcs Panyi, whose reporting exposes truths inconvenient to the regime.
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Statement on Smear Campaign Against VSquare Journalist - VSquare.org
The Orbán government is once again resorting to authoritarian tactics to target a journalist whose reporting exposes truths inconvenient to the regime.
https://vsquare.org/statement-on-smear-campaign-against-vsquare-journalist/
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Great to see the new Framework Agreement being put into the wider context of interinstitutional dynamics. And I would love to see the keyword „bicameral“ appear more often in other articles about EU governance as well.
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Centre for European Reform
4 months ago
As EU governments look to spend more on
#defence
to better deter security threats from Russia & others, a lack of public support for the spending trade-offs involved risks triggering a political backlash. New
@centreeuropeanref.bsky.social
paper by
@armida.bsky.social
Read here:
buff.ly/CqgCMt8
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Lucas Guttenberg
4 months ago
That was always the risk in going for the solution based on EU debt rather than using the Russian assets. The assets would have required QMV, the debt needs unanimity regardless of the fact that it would be carried out by enhanced cooperation. France et al knew that risk and went for it anyway.
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The sense of optimism present at our workshop in Chișinău really left a lasting impression on me. All of the knowledge & experience is there, Western experts (or even policymakers) just need to pay attention.
dgap.org/en/research/publications/countering-hybrid-threats
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4 months ago
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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦
5 months ago
2 important rule of law related opinions today with one by AG Capeta the most important as it more broadly concerns undue politicisation of EU’s rule of law toolbox with enforcement or lack thereof dependent on (disguised) reasons of political expediency
democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/lau...
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New paper in our
@dgap.org
project "European Zeitenwende": insights about different perspectives on European defence from Northeast to Southwest. Authors
@aagilli.bsky.social
,
@nicolekoenig.bsky.social
& Margarita Šešelgytė argue for strategic empathy +operational solidarity
dgap.org/en/research/...
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European Cohesion for Security and Defense
The practical response by European countries to Russia’s war on Ukraine has been uneven, with frontline states in the north and east showing much greater resolve. Disagreements about burden sharing fo...
https://dgap.org/en/research/publications/european-cohesion-security-and-defense
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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦
5 months ago
NGOs are being blacklisted in the open by Orban's Soviet-style "SPO" and yet the
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
@ec.europa.eu
has repeatedly - and irresponsibly IMO - failed to apply for interim measures in its pending infringement action
@tinekestrik.bsky.social
@michaelmcgratheu.bsky.social
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Institutions matter:
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Olivia Kortas
5 months ago
In diesen Tagen, in denen Kyjiw in Teilen kollabiert, wächst in mir eine Furcht: dass die Worte, die wir aus der Ukraine in den Westen schicken, verhallen. Ich habe einen sehr persönlichen Leitartikel geschrieben, aus einer Stadt am Rande der humanitären Katastrophe:
www.zeit.de/2026/05/kyji...
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Stromausfälle in Kyjiw: Für Freiheit frieren
In der Eiseskälte nahezu vergessen: ein Hilferuf unserer Korrespondentin Olivia Kortas aus Kyjiw
https://www.zeit.de/2026/05/kyjiw-stromausfaelle-ukraine-russland-infrastruktur
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Kate from Kharkiv
5 months ago
In Odesa russia struck an apartment building, killing at least 3 people‼️ The search and rescue operation is still underway.
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We're currently on season 10 of "don't underestimate the European Parliament"
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Janis Kluge
5 months ago
Trump's Greenland narrative is almost a 1:1 copy of Putin's Crimea narrative: "It belonged to us in the past. Stupid leaders gave it away for no good reason. Now we want it back. We need it for our security. We need to protect it. It will be best for the people who live there."
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Euractiv
5 months ago
Parliament says Commission’s ‘Democracy Shield’ against disinformation too weak
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Parliament says Commission’s ‘Democracy Shield’ against disinformation too weak
Russian interference and Big Tech pose ‘dangerous cocktail’, rapporteur warns
http://dlvr.it/TQTbsZ
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Michal Ovádek
5 months ago
a footnote to this discussion is that the EP acquired the power to request these opinions from the CJEU only in 2003, along with the general power to request the annulment of EU legislation
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Ian Bond
6 months ago
Reflections on the European Council decision to borrow €90 billion and lend it to Ukraine. Tl; dr: Ukraine benefits, but not enough; Putin & Trump will be encouraged; the EU & individual member-states have shown that it’s still too easy to intimidate them. 🧵1/13
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Szabolcs Panyi
6 months ago
💥Pro-Russian far-right leader George Simion may have lost Romania’s presidential race, but the online campaign machine behind his rise helped Karol Nawrocki win in Poland—and is now powering the populist Law and Justice’s comeback push. Check out our new investigation & follow
@vsquare.bsky.social
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How Romanians Helped Conservative Brothers in Poland Win Elections - VSquare.org
We go behind the scenes of the “MEGA” movement and reveal European Trumpists between Bucharest and Warsaw.
https://vsquare.org/how-romanians-helped-conservative-brothers-in-poland-win-elections/
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Lucas Guttenberg
7 months ago
Is Germany again dragging its feet and undermining a "simple" solution to the Ukraine financing problem, instead pushing the ubercomplex reparations loan? It's a tempting eurocrisis reflex that if only there were a will in Berlin, there would be a better way. But there isn't. Here is why:
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Verfassungsblog
7 months ago
The EU’s proposed Reparations Loan – using immobilised Russian assets to support Ukraine – raises major legal and financial questions. PETER VAN ELSUWEGE analyses the risks, Belgium’s objections, and what’s at stake ahead of the December European Council.
verfassungsblog.de/on-the-legal...
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Democracy Reporting International
7 months ago
⚖️ Passionate about the
#RuleofLaw
? We are hiring a Research Officer to join our team in Berlin! If you have: a strong legal background; a deep understanding of the EU’s Rule of Law landscape; and experience working with media, policymakers or social media then apply before Dec 19 👉
bit.ly/48H2QT5
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Nathalie Tocci
7 months ago
Europeans lull themselves into the belief that Trump is unpredictable. This is strangly reassuring, but wrong. The
#NSS
is only the latest confirmation that Europe is, at best, alone. My piece @ForeignPolicy
foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/05/n...
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Does Europe Finally Realize It’s Alone?
Washington’s new National Security Strategy ratifies an adversarial relationship.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/05/national-security-strategy-2025-trump-europe-russia-ukraine-war/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=bmF0aW9uYWwtc2VjdXJpdHktc3RyYXRlZ3ktMjAyNS10cnVtcC1ldXJvcGUtcnVzc2lhLXVrcmFpbmUtd2Fy&pid=PNIIg2Uhiq5yk80
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Thu Nguyen
7 months ago
Good to see
@europarl.europa.eu
refer to principle of solidarity in its resolution on Hungary calling for triggering of Art. 7(2) TEU. With
@dimitrispieker.bsky.social
and Ulrich Karpenstein, we argued that new Art. 7 procedure should be initiated against HU based on breaches of solidarity in CFSP
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Katalin Halmai
7 months ago
🗳️Again, a 2/3 majority backed the report condemning the Orbán government’s rule-of-law violations in the EP: 415 in favour, 193 against, 28 abstentions. As the abstentions aren’t counted in the tally, the 2/3 majority stands, just as it did 7 years ago with the
@judithsargentini.bsky.social
report
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At least one EU institution has its priorities straight. The EP has been consistent on this since 2018
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7 months ago
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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦
7 months ago
At long last, some enforcement by Commission re Slovakia's backsliding with letter of formal notice sent yesterday for breach of several fundamental principles of EU law, particularly the principles of primacy, autonomy, effectiveness and uniform application of EU law
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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November infringements package: key decisions
Overview by policy area\n\nIn its regular package of infringement decisions, the European Commission takes legal action against Member States that fail to comply with their obligations under EU law. T...
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/inf_25_2481
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Tineke Strik
8 months ago
Orbán’s hateful policies have real personal consequences. This is especially the case for Hungarian LGBTQIA+ people, who have been scapegoated by the Orbán government and are being portrayed as a threat to children – an implication that is simply wrong and disgusting.
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Review of Democracy
8 months ago
🎙️ In our new podcast,
@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social
examines the progress of undoing the consequences of eight years of illiberal rule in Poland, and the challenges that lie ahead. 🇵🇱🇵🇱🧑⚖️ 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉
tinyurl.com/2ywn387b
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Jannik Jansen
8 months ago
Today’s Omnibus vote has rolled over an already perforated cordon sanitaire in the European Parliament. For the first time, the EPP sided with far-right groups on a file key to the Commission’s agenda. Make no mistake: this was no accident and it’s unclear whether the centrist coalition can recover🧵
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ECFR
8 months ago
Lethargy has become Europe’s strategic flaw, writes Nicu Popescu
@ecfreuropeansec.bsky.social
https://bit.ly/4p6XIhI
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From climate to defence, inertia could be the EU’s undoing
Europe’s strategic reports are filled with urgent calls for speed and agility. But amid fierce global competition, Europe is still lecturing while other major players deliver results…
https://bit.ly/4p6XIhI
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Katalin Halmai
8 months ago
‼️The EP's patience has run out. In a resolution to be adopted today, the LIBE Committee states that the EU Council (=Member States) itself is violating the rule of law by delaying further action against
#Hungary
under Article 7 procedure 🧵
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Jannik Jansen
8 months ago
While the European Council in Brussels took the spotlight, this week's events in Strasbourg should set off alarm bells. The European Parliament slamming the brakes on the first “Omnibus” package isn’t just a hiccup – it’s a symptom of strain in the EU’s democratic engine. A thread 🧵
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Nicolai von Ondarza
10 months ago
The more I think about it, the more outrageous I find this. Hungary, which increasingly blocks or frustrates an effective EU foreign and security policy, is now the second largest recipient of EU defence loans. In absolute terms it is second only to France, in relation to GDP to Latvia.
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Anastasia Pociumban
12 months ago
Looking for a student/project assistant to support the Eastern Partnership Think Tank Network at
@dgap.org
. Work on
#EU
policy,
#Ukraine
,
#enlargement
& regional shifts. Tasks: newsletter, website, events. DM me if interested or share!
dgap.org/de/dgap/jobs...
,
dgap.org/de/dgap/jobs...
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Student Assistant for the Eastern Partnership Think Tank Network (m/w/d)
To start on 01/09/2025 and limited to 31/12/2027, we are looking for a Student Assistant (m/w/d; 50%, based on TVöD E5), Reference Number 11-2025 to offer organizational, administrative, and content-r...
https://dgap.org/de/dgap/jobs/student-assistant-eastern-partnership-think-tank-network-m-w-d
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Sarah Bressan
about 1 year ago
Those who call the shots and those who call out the big shots? :) @ Kiel International Seapower Symposium 2025
@alanderminna.bsky.social
@sophiewitte.bsky.social
@salisbot.bsky.social
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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦
about 1 year ago
7 years of Article 7 proceedings & media coverage still inaccurate: Today's (toothless) hearing i) not about whether to strip Orban of its EU voting rights - sanctioning arm of Art 7 not activated and ii) not about moving to the sanctioning arm of the procedure
verfassungsblog.de/is-article-7...
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