Truly historic & moving scenes from the inaugural session of the Hungarian Parliament. A children’s tambura band from a tiny village playing a folk song often described as the unofficial Roma anthem. MPs were tearing up & so were many more of us watching. After all those years of hate. 🎥 telex.hu

From @courthousenews.bsky.social on today's CJEU opinion on the Italy/Albania migration deal - with critical comments from me (see also my thread, starting with my pinned post) www.courthousenews.com/eu-court-adviser-backs-italys-migrant-centers-in-albania/

JD Vance accuses EU of ‘interference’ as he visits Hungary to help Orbán win election

The worst fucking screenplay ever written about something that never happened from inside the drunken mind of the least qualified Cabinet member in human history. He is the black hole of political leadership.

De Belgische democratie is aan vernieuwing toe. Wees erbij en bespreek samen hoe het beter kan!

Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Important perspective from Greenland.

Imagine being foolish enough to trust Vladimir Putin when he says he has no plans to attack, invade, or occupy Europe.

Het parlement heeft eindelijk een verenigde positie op Gaza en eist sancties tegen Israël. Onze resolutie veroordeeld het brute geweld tegen de burgerbevolking en het saboteren van een tweestatenoplossing door Israël moet onmiddellijk stoppen. Maar we moeten veel meer doen. 1/3

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola rejected a bid by right-wing factions to hold a minute of silence today for slain US conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.

a new edition of the banking union case law tracker is out: www.linkedin.com/posts/profre...

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

De fitis: geen fitness-app (enfin, misschien ook wel... 🤔), maar een groengeel, melancholisch zingend verenpakketje van ca. 10g 💚💛

My take on the "what's the point of pointing out facts" argument is a) *someone* might be influenced b) the truth has an intrinsic value (and I can't understand why some people think otherwise) c) yes it's not the only argument d) it's nihilistic to shrug and make no effort to assert it

Reporter: What’s going on with those posts on X that are clearly trolling the president? Newsom: I hope it’s a wake up call for the president. I’m just following his example. If you have issues with what I’m putting out, you sure as hell should have concerns with what he’s putting out

Great response to this. You don't get to ask Newsom about his posts and pretend Trump isn't doing the same thing multiple times a day.

"Haalbaar en betaalbaar!" Ow nee wacht: dat is een argument dat ze enkel gebruiken tégen beleid dat poogt de klimaatverandering die ons allen bedreigt te temperen. Niet om belastingsgeld over de balk te smijten ten behoeve van enkelingen. www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

the technology that will save us all /s

EU’s ex-top diplomat says von der Leyen ‘complicit’ in Israeli war crimes in Gaza

🚨 On the agenda of today's EU Commission meeting: proposal to partly suspend Israel from the EU Horizon research programme (Would need qualified majority vote of Member States)

11.11.11 vraagt Tomorrowland Israëlische dj te schrappen: "Hij ondersteunt genocide" vrtnws.be/p.mRvXKYnKN?t=175... @vrtnws.be

EU Commission to ask CJEU to rule on whether the latest attempt to draft a treaty for EU accession to the ECHR is compatible with EU law

Much has been said and written about yesterday’s advisory opinion of the #ICJ on the obligations of states in relation to the fight against #ClimateChange. What I find truly remarkable is the last paragraph on judicial self-restraint and on climate as a global challenge

The assumption that the Council can only suspend the association agreement with Israel through a unanimous vote, is erroneous in my opinion. In this post for @verfassungsblog.de I try to spell out why that is the case.

100% www.standaard.be/opinies/weg-...

The CLEER Summer School on EU External Relations at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel is well under way. Currently @ramseswessel.bsky.social on the #CFSP

Semi-structured interviewing is an ever-more common method in (sociolegal) research. Yet, few lawyers are trained in social scientific methods. Hopefully, this piece answers some initial methodological questions and/or makes more people curious about interviews as method in legal research! 🤓☺️

On account of being very tired of all this and trying to write a presentation on exporting to the US for Tue (which will for sure be out of date by Tue) I'm just going to repost stuff on last night's reversal, sorry, "clarification".

Very remarkable to see that in quite a number of EU sanctions cases brought by non-sanctioned parties, the General Court skips admissibility and proceeds to dismiss on the merits in the interest of procedural economy (e.g. T-828/22, T-797/22, T-307/22) - Avoiding to have to deal with Plaumann?

Bon à savoir: ce réaménagement de la place Royale n’entraînera aucune désimperméabilisation. Les politiciens de cette ville ne l'ont toujours pas compris. Goed om weten: de heraanleg van het Koningsplein zal niets ontharden. De politici van deze stad hebben het nog steeds niet begrepen.

boy the "it was supposed to explode all the time, akshually" guys are going to have a hard time if this thing's a dud no amount of rosy Eric Berger ars technica columns will console them

In de VS lijkt de regering een rechterlijke uitspraak te negeren. Ik lees onderstaande en moet denken aan de *honderden* rechterlijke uitspraken i.v.m. opvang aan vluchtelingen die de Belgische Staat de voorbije jaren heeft genegeerd.

🚨MAJOR DEVELOPMENT Portugal has cancelled plans to buy F-35 fighter jets from the US and will look to replace their F-16s with European fighters. “We have to be able to count on the predictability of our allies, which is no longer the case with the United States."💥

I describe this in my Feb 24 paper based on quotes from White House officals at the time of the announcement. That confusion about this has persisted for so long is due to the deceptive nature of the "reciprocal tariffs" name and the general confusion about US trade policy in general right now.

Groot verlies voor de Nederlandstalige literatuur. Herman Brusselmans weet niet wat hij nog kan schrijven als hij "het met een puntig mes los door een joodse keel rammen" uit zijn oeuvre zou schrappen.

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The largest grocery store company in Denmark has started labeling goods so that shoppers can avoid American products

SitRep - 05/03/25 - Russia again attacked Odesa and Kryvyi Rih An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. As part of Russia's peace plan, they struck energy infrastructure in Odesa and killed people in Kryvyi Rih. REPOST=appreciated 1/X

To all the European leaders: KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON.

Daniel Cohn-Bendit👇 www.fr.de/kultur/danie...

Europe can’t rely on the strength of the transatlantic relationship to help contain Russia’s threat – it must lead from the front and be the true force of support that Ukraine needs. Not just for Ukraine’s sake, but for a free and sovereign Europe.

WAKE UP!!! ⏰ We have already been further: The European Defence Community was on its way in 1952 - just two ratifications are missing, bring them in and the EDC would be in force! We propose to take the EDC as a starting point for a new way of thinking about security in Europe.

Dies ist die letzte Chance für Europa zu handeln. Sonst wird unsere Sicherheit zur Verhandlungsmasse zwischen Trump und Putin. Beobachten und kommentieren reichen deshalb nicht.

Preparing Intro to EU law again. This year only 1 new case, but a significant one: Case C-123/22 on Hungary's deficient asylum policy where the Court went beyond what the Commission applied for and imposed a € 1 000 000 daily penalty payment. In addition, 6 260(2) TFEU cases are currently pending.

REALaw has entered the chat 💬 We look forward to (re)building our administrative law community here on Bluesky too. REALaw is an international peer reviewed journal that addresses all things about European and comparative administrative law ⚖️ www.uitgeverijparis.nl/en/tijdschri...

This sounds great but the devil is not only in the detail of arranging PPPs & off-budget vehicles to ‘make the EU great again’. EU structures, rules & procedures exist to ensure democratic oversight and judicial backstop. We shouldn’t lose sight of these in the flight forward suggested in this oped

🚨🚨 Breaking: The French Human Rights League (LDH) is asking the public to join them in a mass exodus of #X, formerly Twitter, on January 20. 🧵 www.euronews.com/next/2025/01...