Irony: I could not access my own comparative paper on the Pirate Party so had to ask for a colleague to download it for me. Anyway, the paper is out and I actually like it: link.springer.com/article/10.1... It's also a return to PhD times when I had to explain I do not study *real* pirates!

summary of last week's//last few decades' events

super interesting! @alvarooleart.bsky.social

fantastic piece by colleagues @jeberle.bsky.social & Daniel Sitera on how small member states facilitated the deregulatory turn in EU digital policy. A much needed CEE perspective beyond the usual suspects of France and Germany! @gorwa.ca @bencrum.nl @timoseidl.bsky.social

NEW OPINION PIECE OUT NOW Daniel Šitera and myself take a different look at the "deregulatory turn" in EU digital policy. Building on our academic research, we argue that the key enabling role of smaller EU states have been largely overlooked. #digitalsovereignty Link in first comment.

📢 We’re hiring @vuamsterdam.bsky.social PhD position in my ERC project: Welfare State Transformation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Interested in how AI is reshaping labor markets, social protection, and the politics of redistribution? Apply here: lnkd.in/eCcAXsaS Please share widely!

Working on industrial policy, AI, green policy, space policy, security, strategic autonomy? Join us for the 2026 UACES, where we explore these topics in a comparative East-West perspective & account for the diversity of European state preferences! @eli-gateva.bsky.social @tudzarovska.bsky.social

𝗨𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗦 𝟱𝟲𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀 Theme Track 1: Beyond The East West Divide: EU Strategic Autonomy Convenors: @juliarone.bsky.social, @eli-gateva.bsky.social and @tudzarovska.bsky.social Read more about our themed tracks: www.uaces.org/themedtracks... #UACES2026

Next week our UACES network "Rethinking Europe' East-West Divide" holds its annual conference! After the 2024 kick-off in Oxford, in 2025 we are at Charles University Prague discussing Security, Strategic Autonomy and Enlargement! Join us if you are around! & let us know if you have relevant work!

Read @robin.berjon.com on cloud infrastructure Europe must embrace a “break-and-build” strategy: “break” entrenched monopolies and “build” its own digital infrastructure and addressing on a sector-by-sector basis @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/5baiDt6?refe...

New paper on a new topic in @policyr.bsky.social I analyse the EU’s AI Act and its place in the global governance of the AI. Examining the economy of AI + the contents of the Act, I conclude that expecting a ‘Brussels effect’ is neither apt nor useful. …. policyreview.info/articles/ana...

Álvaro @alvarooleart.bsky.social were really lucky to have the chance of discussing RECLAIM's recommendations on the digital information sphere with @juliarone.bsky.social. What are the ideas still outside the box on (dis)information regulation?

Join us for the VICES workshop on the Externalities of EU's digital transition for (semi)peripheral countries! From lithium mining in Serbia to Hungary's contested battery bet and data extractivism and neo-colonialism in the Global South. The bad examples are many. But maybe also the alternatives?

very happy to be part of this report by the fantastic Critical Infrastructure Lab & REDE. The title of my short essay is "We have never been sovereign? EU’s Digital transition from a CEE perspective" www.criticalinfralab.net/wp-content/u... It's not a bad read for an academic text :)

I'm desperate to read in-depth analyses of Israel's war with Iran & potential consequences. It seems to be really (!) important. But I don't see much. Is this the result of algorithmic filtering, people being less active on Bluesky or low salience? I'm sure it's not because non-experts have shut up

"Europeans have reverted to instinctive support for Israel, championing its right to self-defence despite U.S. intel indicating that Iran is not actively pursuing nuclear weapons. What Europe is really backing is Netanyahu’s survival quest and dreams of remaking the Middle East" 🧵👇

I am very excited to be in Amsterdam at the VU next week thanks to @juliarone.bsky.social . Am also giving a lecture in Utrecht the previous afternoon. Always a delight to be in Holland.

Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media? Join us next Friday, May 16, 3pm at the VU Amsterdam to discuss Nick Couldry's new book "The Space of the World" with the amazing @couldrynick.bsky.social @alvarooleart.bsky.social, Pascal Koenig and Fieke Jansen! www.eventbrite.com/e/tickets-th...

VU protest march through the Zuidas #WOinActie #DoeHetNiet @vuamsterdam.bsky.social #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs

🚨 Want to join me at the Technical University of Munich? I’m hiring a PhD student (100%) in the area of the political economy of technological change! 📅 Apply by 18 May | Start Date: July (flexible) 🔗 More info & how to apply: hfp.heyrecruit.de?page=job&id=... ❓Reach out if you have any questions

Read this paper👇

Sick & tired of tech oligarchs & how disinformation is monetised? Check out the paper by Julia Rone (and follow her on Bluesky!) & I published today in @cogitatiomac.bsky.social: “Reversing the Privatisation of the Public Sphere: Democratic Alternatives to the EU’s Regulation of Disinformation” 👇

First post on Bsky after a very successful detox from social media. Paradoxically, a post on our paper with @alvarooleart.bsky.social on how the EU failed to invest in alternatives and why it *did not* become a normative leader in regulating Tech. Out today: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...