Paying for posts on Facebook and TikTok, sharing disinformation, manufacturing polls, preparing for question election integrity. The Moldova elections on September 28 are targeted for interference. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Trump regime is seeking "regime change in Europe" former Chatham House director Robin Niblet tells the New York Times. This American-led global far right movement is turning into the Comintern of our times, warns Dutch historian @luukvmiddelaar.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/w...

It's particularly rich that a think tank directly funded by an authoritarian government, which has systematically dismantled academic freedom in Hungary, is lecturing others about "academic independence." The only one literally paid to produce propaganda here is the report's author.

Emboldened by the Trump 2.0 administration, Orban-funded "researchers" are laying the ground for questioning some of the key tenets of European integration.

🧲 We are hiring! ✨ PhD position to join @dec-gr.bsky.social 🏁 4-year FPI contract 🎓 Pol Sci / Social Sci background + Master’s + English 📧 Send expression of interest with CV and motivation letter to [email protected] 🔗 tinyurl.com/yc3epmv2

Poland downs drones after Russian airspace violation

🚨🚨Great news: @ec.europa.eu is devising a scheme to transfer almost €200 billion in #Russian immobilized #assets to rebuild #Ukraine at the end of the war. www.politico.eu/article/eu-m...

Putin repeats that he will stop the war against Ukraine if there will be an agreement ‘to eliminate all primary causes of the conflict’. Putin needs to remember that the only ‘primary cause’ for Russia’s aggression against Ukraine is the authoritarian & aggressive Putin regime itself. 1/2 ⬇️

This image is from 1952. When 🇪🇺 Unity was not just an ideal, but a need. And still It. It illustrated the first speech of Jean Monnet as President of the High Authority (predecesor of the European Commission). www.linkedin.com/posts/pablop...

Looking forward to getting my hands on the important new book on the "good change" in Polish politics by the Stanley Duo @benstanley.eu

Great work! Well done @bertous.bsky.social and co-authors on writing the paper that was needed on Spanish politics; but I will continue to translate SALF as the Party's Over 😝

A lot of us responded by becoming feminists Or what some men like to call killjoys, hysterical, unhinged, absurd etc

So, European and EU politics folks, this 👇 is where we need your newest work to be submitted and discussed next year @epssnet.bsky.social first conference in Belfast! I am happy to co-chair the section with Bjorn Hoyland, and looking 👀 forward to your submissions.

🇵🇱⚖️Adam Bodnar is out as the Polish Minister of Justice/Prosecutor General, why? First, being a good academic/human rights defender doesn't necessarily make you a good politician; second, you can't please everyone who wants to be pleased; third, timid people aren't suited for savage times. 1/

Freedom comes in many shapes - including the freedom to travel and work across the EU 🇪🇺 On World Population Day, find out how many Europeans live in another EU country 👇 🔗 Read more: europa.eu/!xrnGxX

🎉 New research alert! My study with the great @ilketoygur.bsky.social has just been published in JEPP @jeppjournal.bsky.social‬: "Does climate policy backlash fuel Eurosceptic vote? Exploring the link in the European Parliament elections" www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... (THREAD)

🚨🚨 The new battlefield is online and the stakes are democratic sovereignty. #kremlin is investing million of dollars on bombarding social media with disinformation and manipulative propaganda. The great #informationwar has just begun. www.politico.eu/article/vlad...

On 23 June, the EU and Canada signed a new Security and Defence Partnership, marking a new chapter in their cooperation on shared security challenges. The EU and Canada stand united for peace, security and a rules-based international order. Read more: europa.eu/!dDwvkp @kajakallas.bsky.social

🚨🚨This went under the radar a bit (given all #trump non-sense), but I think it is hugely significant that @ec.europa.eu yesterday proposed the first-ever #EU #SpaceAct. 🧵https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1583

Congrats to @nenaoana.bsky.social, Marcello Natili and his moustache for new smarticle in @jeppjournal.bsky.social on public support for the EU during crises. A short 🧵: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Even so, when Europeans are angry or scared—which is often—they don’t yell “Let’s leave!” like Hirschman thought they might. No. They basically say: “More Europe! Now! But with less meetings, and ideally someone who knows what they’re doing.” So instead of exiting, they’re voicing.

I welcome today's decision paving the way for Bulgaria to join the Eurozone. The euro brings prosperity and stability. This is another great leap for the people of Bulgaria and Europe following the country's entry to the Schengen earlier this year 🇪🇺🇧🇬

📢 Job Alert | Political Science The Social Sciences Dept. at @uc3m.es is hiring a *2-year fixed-term faculty position* in Political Science. 📅 Deadline: June 14, 2025 🚀 Start date: Jan 1, 2026 📬 Questions? [email protected] 🔗 Full call & application: www.uc3m.es/ss/Satellite...

It was such an honour to host Commissioner Albuquerque at @uc3m.es and for her to engage with our master students in such a constructive way

Writing in a second language? Welcome to the elite club of "I know exactly what I want to say, but my grammar doesn't." A short 🧵 for students, early career researchers, academics & writers generally (forged in frustration & finesse). Full 🔗 : catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/the-hidden...

To mark the 75th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, the European Parliament is introducing the European Order of Merit. It is the first official European distinction of its kind, honouring individuals who advance European integration and values.

The long-term EU budget must be more ambitious and meet the expectations of EU citizens, MEPs from the budget committee say. They have set out Parliament's priorities for the next multiannual financial framework, or MFF for short. 🔗 Read more 👉 europa.eu/!HmjC34

New from Anu Bradford, @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social & I in Foreign Affairs: As the US pressures the EU to surrender its rights-based regulatory power, we show that this fight stretches back decades, what the EU stands to lose & how to revive what makes it great: www.foreignaffairs.com/europe/europ...

Journalists used to ask how to quit technology. Now they ask how to quit America. I cannot blame them. This unAmerican life: can you really divest yourself of everything from the US? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

Europeans can’t vote in the US but they do vote with their feet/flights ↘️ on.ft.com/42Itt8c

Josef Janning wrote in a recent issue of Internationale Politik that the EU is closer to failing than ever before. I disagreed and got to write for why I think the opposite. Precisely because Europe has never had so few alternatives as it does right now, it is not going to fail.

🤦🏼 WHOOPS — An economist whose work Trump used to calculate the tariffs says they massively screwed up the math: “I would strongly prefer the policy be scrapped entirely, but barring that Trump should divide the results by FOUR.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

The European Union’s response to US tariffs could include regulating the use of data by American big tech groups, France’s finance minister said in an interview with the JDD newspaper

Excellent by @faisalislam.bsky.social, eg: “The US economy did very well [from free trade]. The problem …was that it was not evenly distributed among sectors. And what the US lacked was levels of redistribution and adaptation to spread that wealth across the country.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Pascal Lamy is right: “Trump learned to do business in the New York mafia-influenced real estate market based on extortion – you hit and keep hitting for as long as you do not get a good price for stopping. Showing your muscle, it seems to me, is the way to transact with him and his people.”

🇫🇷🇪🇺🇺🇸 The war begins. President Emmanuel Macron has just called on big European  businesses to freeze all investments in the United States in retaliation for the “brutal and unjustified” import duties imposed by Donald Trump. 1/

The ERC have given me 5 years to figure out what Europeans really think about democracy. If you would like to come and join me in the endeavour, then I am currently hiring a postdoc @sotonpolitics.bsky.social. Deadline: 30 April | Details here: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #polisky

An interesting non-paper from London: ”The UK has circulated plans for European countries to establish a “supranational institution” that jointly purchases military equipment, stockpiles weapons and helps to finance large-scale rearmament across the continent.”

Because your chicken is dipped in chlorine and your beef is injected with human growth hormones 🤦‍♂️

This month @ecprsgeu.bsky.social online seminar will take place on the 22nd of April (4 to 5.30 CET). @mlorimer.bsky.social will present her research "Ideologising Europe and Europeanizing Ideology: Political Party Ideologies and The European Union" Register here to attend ecpr.eu/Events/297

Euro surges toward five-month high after Trump ‘Liberation Day’ speech

For 80 years, US foreign policy consensus has been: - democracy/rule of law - defending allies - free trade - global institutions European and Asia-Pacific democracies have been huge beneficiaries => we need a new political and institutional framework otherwise Trump will divide and rule us

BREAKING: “Europe has everything it needs to make it through the storm. We are in this together. If you take on one of us, you take on all of us” Ursula von der Leyen President of the European Commission 👏

🚨🚨 "Sometimes the good folks win": liberal Susan Crawford beats Musk-backed candidate Brad Schimel in the most expensive judicial election in US history. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

BREAKING: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen and 8 former MEPs from her National Rally party has been found guilty of embezzlement. This will likely mean she is barred from being a candidate in the next presidential election.

Interesting addition: SPD wants to enshrine in the coalition agreement a clause rejecting any cooperation with the far-right (ECR, PfE, ESN) in the European Parliament. Looks like a nod to Manfred Weber to me.

The coalition of the willing in Paris.

Trump's top national security officials laid bare their disdain for Europe in a top-secret group chat that was leaked when a journalist was mistakenly added to the conversation.

There were quite a few things that people told me that we just didn’t have room for in this story about how the US immigration crackdown is worrying scientists: www.nature.com/articles/d41... Here's a thread with a few of them: