Join my conversation with Prof Stephen Coutts today at 2.30 in 🇧🇪Brussels and online: lw.zoom.us/j/9188973281... My position on the unhinged Court showing Europeans zero respect by substituting reasoning with awkward propagandistic slogans has not changed: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Paper now available here democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/lau... For those of you familiar with the EU's rule of law toolbox, you can go straight to the section offering concrete/multiple examples of timid use, misuse and non-use of the main EU prevention/monitoring & response/enforcement tools

Join my lecture at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social 🇨🇳Ningbo on Wednesday, if you are in town. I draw on 2 articles, inter many alia: @annualreviews.bsky.social (Law and Social Science) www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... & ELRev papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (w Íñiguez) @ceudeminst.bsky.social

EU Commission spokesperson on tech. The difficulty here is that the Commission sent X a provisional finding of breach of the Digital Services Act 16 months ago, and has done nothing since. So why take this expression of concern seriously?

My 2 quick takes: 1/ Awkward & unsustainable for ECtHR to simultaneously demand rapid remedial action and then repeatedly adjourn; 2/ EU has unlocked EU funding last year yet ECtHR confirms systematic rule of law issues not addressed. Who’s correct? hint: Strasbourg based institution

The book co-edited by @petrabard.bsky.social & @jkrommendijk.bsky.social is here❗️Congrats to editors, whose intro also appeared as @ceudeminst.bsky.social WP❗️ My own contribution is on CJEU's "supremacy Rule of Law" opportunism and its effects: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @profjacob.bsky.social

The book co-edited by @petrabard.bsky.social & @jkrommendijk.bsky.social is here❗️Congrats to editors, whose intro also appeared as @ceudeminst.bsky.social WP❗️ My own contribution is on CJEU's "supremacy Rule of Law" opportunism and its effects: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @profjacob.bsky.social

🇨🇭If you are in Geneva today, come to my talk at Centre Sidjanski. I cover the illiberal turn of EU citizenship and present 2 recent co-esited volumes. Have a look at the two introductions: 📍Cambridge papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 📍Bloomsbury papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @ceudeminst.bsky.social

Off to Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in 🇮🇹Pisa today to celebrate the work of Prof Palombella with a handful of wonderful scholars and practitioners. Proud to represent Central European University at such a remarkable gathering alongside Prof. Sajó❗️

Off to Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in 🇮🇹Pisa today to celebrate the work of Prof Palombella with a handful of wonderful scholars and practitioners. Proud to represent Central European University at such a remarkable gathering alongside Prof. Sajó❗️

🇪🇺EU Lawlessness Law comes to 🇮🇹Pisa, please join me, Francesca Biondi, Giacomo Delledonne and others at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna to discuss the Lawlessness conceptualization of EU migration "management" proposed by @sarahganty.bsky.social and yours truly: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🇪🇺EU Lawlessness Law comes to 🇮🇹Pisa, please join me, Francesca Biondi, Giacomo Delledonne and others at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna to discuss the Lawlessness conceptualization of EU migration "management" proposed by @sarahganty.bsky.social and yours truly: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🚨🚨 @ec.europa.eu accused of setting ‘dangerous precedent’ in foreign interference plan by showing an ominous deference to #US interests. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/euro...

It is an honour to share the podium with Prof. Carl Baudenbacher at the Dorchester in London🇬🇧: all you needed to know about Commission v Malta and CJEU's assault against EU citizenship law and solidarity. Background paper, co-authored with Íñiguez (ELRev): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Have to agree with @alemanno.bsky.social. Reliance on omnibus legislation erodes rule of law in its law-making aspects & will have to be critically reviewed in next edition of the @ceudeminst.bsky.social rule of law clinic report on the EU Cc @profkochenov.bsky.social @grabowskamoroz.bsky.social

🚨🚨 I am very delighted to peer over my proofs to a new quite comprehensive article analysing the European Public Prosecutor's Office ( #EPPO) to be published in the December issue of #europeanlawreview. 🧵

1st big Russian-language interview on🇪🇺EU's lawlessness law. Based on research w @sarahganty.bsky.social I explain how EU law opens the door to unaccountable outsourcing of crimes on🇪🇺Union's behalf, which led to more than 30.000 deaths over the last 10 years: t-invariant.org/2025/11/bezz...

1st big Russian-language interview on🇪🇺EU's lawlessness law. Based on research w @sarahganty.bsky.social I explain how EU law opens the door to unaccountable outsourcing of crimes on🇪🇺Union's behalf, which led to more than 30.000 deaths over the last 10 years: t-invariant.org/2025/11/bezz...

While the @consilium.europa.eu’s deriliction of duties continues, Orban has further strengthened his control of country’s media ecosystem ahead of next elections. Reminder: Orban’s Hungary now an electoral autocracy whose last free and fair elections took place in 2010…

Some of us predicted this outcome from the very launch of this EU rule of law reporting tool. See eg @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social writing in 2020 eulawlive.com/op-ed-you-ca...

Former Belgian minister and European Justice (!) commissioner Didier Reynders officially suspected of money laundering www.standaard.be/binnenland/e...

It is an honour to share the podium with Prof. Carl Baudenbacher at the Dorchester in London🇬🇧: all you needed to know about Commission v Malta and CJEU's assault against EU citizenship law and solidarity. Background paper, co-authored with Íñiguez (ELRev): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Come to my talk in 🇩🇪Leipzig tomorrow (Wednesday) if you are in town: I plan to sketch the main idea underpinning the forthcoming @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social monograph. For an ages-old thought-trigger, see this paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @ceudeminst.bsky.social

🇪🇺My podcast on EU Lawlessness Law 📻Please listen on Spotify‼️: spotify.link/kjMtUAGPUXb 📍Rule of Law Report is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 📍EU Lawlessness Law--here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 📍Commission v Malta analysis--here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @profjacob.bsky.social

2nd edition of the report, #RuleofLaw beyond the EU Member States: Assessing the Union’s Performance 2025, is out democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/rol... Report offers a concise assessment of the EU’s performance across several fields including justice system; anti-corruption; checks & balances

🇪🇺My podcast on EU Lawlessness Law 📻Please listen on Spotify‼️: spotify.link/kjMtUAGPUXb 📍Rule of Law Report is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 📍EU Lawlessness Law--here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 📍Commission v Malta analysis--here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @profjacob.bsky.social

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

🇪🇺My podcast on EU Lawlessness Law: 📻Please listen on Spotify‼️: spotify.link/kjMtUAGPUXb 📍The Rule of Law Report is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 📍EU Lawlessness Law is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 📍Commission v Malta analysis is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

@kaiserkuo.bsky.social: We have witnessed not merely the rise of another great power,but a fundamental challenge to assumptions long embedded in Western thought—about development,political systems,and civilizational achievement itself.We simply haven’t yet found the intellectual courage to face it.

A brilliant take by the brilliant Prof Schedler of 🇭🇺 @ceudeminst.bsky.social in @timeshighered.bsky.social on the demented absurdity of eurocentric and politicised @horizoneu.bsky.social funding. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/hori... @weareceu.bsky.social

A brilliant take by the brilliant Prof Schedler of 🇭🇺 @ceudeminst.bsky.social in @timeshighered.bsky.social on the demented absurdity of eurocentric and politicised @horizoneu.bsky.social funding. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/hori... @weareceu.bsky.social

@kaiserkuo.bsky.social: We have witnessed not merely the rise of another great power,but a fundamental challenge to assumptions long embedded in Western thought—about development,political systems,and civilizational achievement itself.We simply haven’t yet found the intellectual courage to face it.

Either the EU "enforces the 'beyond doubt' standard of commissioner independence with meaningful consequences — including the unprecedented step of leaving Hungary's commissioner seat vacant — or it tacitly admits that this principle has become a polite fiction that [EUMS] may violate with impunity"

If in🇭🇺Budapest on Oct 21 join @prener.bsky.social and I at @ceudeminst.bsky.social Count Kalergi Seminar dedicated to Christian's recent work on Mobility Capital @weareceu.bsky.social @basheska.bsky.social @mpc-eui.bsky.social

interest in Botswana CBI programme - but note figures represent early expressions of interest rather than formal applications.

🇪🇺EU's own good practice is to fly ICC arrest warrant recipients home by private jet and give them all the love. "Do what I say--do not do what I do" undermines EU's credibility. @omershatz.bsky.social

🇪🇺EU's own good practice is to fly ICC arrest warrant recipients home by private jet and give them all the love. "Do what I say--do not do what I do" undermines EU's credibility. @omershatz.bsky.social

🇪🇺EU's own good practice is to fly ICC arrest warrant recipients home by private jet and give them all the love. "Do what I say--do not do what I do" undermines EU's credibility. @omershatz.bsky.social

I mean how can such a body be considered a court within the meaning of EU law...? cc @kimlanelaw.bsky.social @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social @profkochenov.bsky.social @grabowskamoroz.bsky.social @tjmcintyre.com

Important but arguably flawed ruling with rule of law implications as this is possibly the 1st time a non-EU body manifestly lacking characteristics of a court IMO - US Data Protection Review Court - is nonetheless recognised as a court within meaning of EU law... www.politico.com/news/2024/01...

🇺🇸🇸🇰🇭🇺🇵🇱 Once again, NGOs in the US would benefit greatly from talking to civil society in Hungary, Poland, Slovakia (and several other places) about how to deal with a government that's hostile to the part of the third sector that doesn't align with its ideology. 1/

The new editor of CBS News looked at political violence in America, and confidently identified the "biggest culprits": the universities. This is the perspective that Weiss is being hired to bring to a hard news outlet. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-worst-...

Can unlawfully appointed judges still serve as part of the court administration? Critical view of recent CJEU case law, by @profkochenov.bsky.social - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/10/fake...

Among the worst 🇪🇺CJEU decison in years is this: That a known impostor apponted in breach of Art 19 TEU harrasses real judges has nothing to do with judicial independence. Thank you, @cjeu.bsky.social, the law is now clear! @profjacob.bsky.social @profpech.bsky.social @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social

Among the worst 🇪🇺CJEU decison in years is this: That a known impostor apponted in breach of Art 19 TEU harrasses real judges has nothing to do with judicial independence. Thank you, @cjeu.bsky.social, the law is now clear! @profjacob.bsky.social @profpech.bsky.social @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children. This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Join my talk at 🇬🇧Tomorrow: TG15 5-6pm Oct 2, City Law School. I will draw on this chapter for @petrabard.bsky.social & EU Law Analysis, thank you, @stevepeers.bsky.social❗️The chapter is on @ssrn.bsky.social : papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @ceudeminst.bsky.social

Join my talk at 🇬🇧Tomorrow: TG15 5-6pm Oct 2, City Law School. I will draw on this chapter for @petrabard.bsky.social & EU Law Analysis, thank you, @stevepeers.bsky.social❗️The chapter is on @ssrn.bsky.social : papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @ceudeminst.bsky.social

NYT in 2028: “Some legal experts have argued a dictatorship is not compatible with the US Constitution”

💡There's still time to register for 'Autocratic Legalism Meets Supranational Opportunism' w/ Profs @profkochenov.bsky.social, @azmanova.bsky.social @faheye.bsky.social & F. Strumia 🙏Join us at @thecitylawschool.bsky.social! @citystgeorges.bsky.social @ceudeminst.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social