I consider myself super lucky to live in #Madrid, a city which is both beautiful and sunny AND is home to #MESS - a top notch community in empirical social sciences. Thanks to the organizers of #MESS2025 for 2 very intense days of discussing great research and networking w/ lovely people 🥰

‼️On Friday, Alberto López on "How Group Affinities Explain the Rise of Conservative Gays"‼️ Join us at 12.30 -- is open to everyone!! 🧐🤗

"For the government it’s quite mad to keep using X. It’s active participation in its own destruction and against its own interests. I cannot fathom the logic of doing it. It would be like a Reform government communicating entirely through the Guardian comments section." 👏 @samfr.bsky.social

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“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

Starts with B, ends with rexit…

Interesting contrast: government leaders rejecting EU funded drone walls, while embracing EU funded anti-migrant walls. 😒

💥🔎 On X/Twitter, Visegrád24 became famous for its anti-Muslim and anti-migration stance as well as waves of disinformation. A recent report brings to light people, funding and political actors tied to their Central Europe-based but international network. @vsquare.bsky.social

Just discovered this fantastic oral history of the Brussels media bubble 🇪🇺 thanks for sharing!

📢 Call open! We are hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher for the EU-funded project TaCT-FoRSED, which studies how conspiracy theories affect democratic attitudes. ℹ️ Info: tauler.seu-e.cat/detall?idEns... 🔗 Application: seleccio.uab.cat/seleccio/log...

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Per usual, we start the new academic year @ic3jm.bsky.social with the permanent seminar dates marked in our calendars as 🔝 priority

Ursula von der Leyen says a "part" of the €140 billion reparations loan for Ukraine will be used "for procurement in Europe and with Europe". "Importantly, there is no seizing of the assets. Ukraine has to repay the loan if Russia is paying reparations," she says. Mark Rutte, by her side: "If!"

🚨 BREAKING: The pro-EU Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) is firmly in the lead of Moldova’s election, with around half of votes counted so far and PAS-sympathetic constituencies still to tally. Full story: www.politico.eu/article/poll...

You have work on politics in Europe, European integration or the EU? Submit it to next year's @epssnet.bsky.social conference section on "European and EU Politics“ 👇 @bjornhoyland.bsky.social & I are open to diverse proposals with a European dimension.

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...