Happy to be featured alongside other colleagues in this end of the year piece on the #Trump's effect on European politics in @politico.eu

Cards on the table: By locking in the Russian assets for good, the European Union is finally playing hardball. And it offers a preview of what life could look like without unanimity in foreign policy. My weekend analysis.

The EU just decided to indefinitely immobilise Russian assets. This ensures that up to €210 billion in Russian funds stay on EU soil, unless Russia fully pays reparations to Ukraine for the damage it has caused. (1/2)

If European Digital Sovereignty is to mean anything, it ought to mean NOT posting on a platform owned and run by a fascist intent on undermining the EU! And don't give me the bullshit you have to be there for "balance" or "reach" - the rules are stacked against you from the outset

New paper! @william-dinneen.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social Yiqing Xu and I use GPT to code 91k articles from 174 polisci journals (2003–2023)and track research designs, transparency practices, and citations. How has the credibility revolution reshaped the discipline? doi.org/10.31235/osf... 🧵

Scathing view on the first year of vdL II: "Today the only tangible result [von der Leyen] consistently produces is the dismantling of what she built in her first term—above all the Green Deal, but also Europe’s economic and digital sovereignty."

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🌟 JOB ALERT! 🌟 I’m hiring 1 postdoc for my ERC project ECONENGAGE (@ Gothenburg 🇸🇪)! Starting ca. Aug '26! Congenial colleagues + int'l & supportive environment. 💸 for conferences + workshops! Lots of professional networking opportunities with scholars! Deadline Jan 7th. Apply! (see more below 🧵)

It's corruption only it comes from the Corruptian Mountains of Eastern Europe, otherwise it is just a sparkling gold bar.

Not hard to make profit margins over 30% if you don't pay people who produce the content you sell, and their employers pay you for access

🚨🚨"Welcome to the new European Parliament". In the year and a half since the far right surged at the EU election, Brussels’ mainstream forces have been anxiously wondering if the center can hold. Yesterday, they discovered it couldn’t. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Yesterday will mark a major turning point – the collapse of the European Parliament's decades-old centrist governing majority. It's the end of an era, and the beginning of another.

The outcome illustrates the willingness of the center-right @eppgroup.bsky.social to abandon its traditional centrist allies and press ahead with the support of far-right groups to pass its deregulation agenda, setting a precedent for future lawmaking in Parliament for the rest of the mandate. /2

🚨🚨Breaking and bad #EU news: Lawmakers in @europarl.europa.eu agreed today to exempt more companies from green reporting rules after the center-right, right-wing and far-right groups allied to pass the EU’s first omnibus simplification package. #omnibus 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/epp-...

And here is the second, 'Mr. Hyde' part of today's votes - where the EPP sides with the far-right, ranging from the ECR, to Orban & Le Pen's 'Patriots for Europe' and the AfD's 'Europe of Sovereign Nations' for a centre-right to far-right majority on the Omnibus 'deregulation':

First part of today's partially shizophrenic votes in - where the EP plenary, based on the 'von der Leyen' majority against the far-right, voted in favour of the 90+% carbon reduction goal for 2040.

If today’s vote on Omnibus I passes with EPP+ECR+Patriots support, it establishes the operational majority for the rest of von der Leyen's term This will have major economic and societal consequences at the time these groups chose Trump over the EU thegoodlobby.eu/the-eu-far-r...

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