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Steve Peers

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Professor of EU and Human Rights Law, Royal Holloway University of London. Usual disclaimers.

Steve Peers is a British academic and an expert on the European Union. He is a professor in the Department of Law and Criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of EU Justice and Home Affairs Law and The Brexit: The Legal Framework for Withdrawal from the EU or Renegotiation of EU Membership. .. more

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 7d

The EU's General Court has upheld the EU/US arrangements for transfers of personal data to the US. Analysis by Dr Samira Allioui: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

The General Court of the European Union upholds the Data Privacy Framework

Dr Samira Allioui , Research fellow, Centre d'études internationales et européennes, Université de Strasbourg Photo credit : Ibrahim...

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 2h

French PM Sébastien Lecornu said today in his first speech to parliament that he plans to freeze an unpopular law that raised the minimum retirement age until the next presidential election in 2027.

French PM to freeze retirement reform in bid to save government

Sébastien Lecornu is handing the Socialist Party a major win.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 2h

A tale as old as time: Guy uploads his entire stash of 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy network so he can train an AI to "make better 'robot pornography,'" gets caught, gripes that the DOE (which is charged with maintaining nuclear secrets) is "spying on him a little too much."

Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 3h

the press release suggests that they don't expect the cap to be filled www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 3h

his summer, I went to Panama and met Jharana, a 33-year-old from Nepal who had been deported there in a group of 300 others — the 1st group to be sent to a third country. I wrote about what happened to her and others over the year for
@nymag.com -->

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What Happened to The Migrants The U.S. Dumped In Panama?

Nearly 300 people were sent to a country they’d never lived in. The journey didn’t end there.

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 3h

New statement of changes to the immigration rules. Commencement dates set for changes to graduate visas, new English language requirement for skilled visas, capped expansion (?!?) of High Potential Individual route and more www.gov.uk/government/p...

Statement of changes to the Immigration Rules: HC 1333, 14 October 2025

Statement of changes to the Immigration Rules published on 14 October 2025.

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RSA - Refugee Support Aegean @rsaegean.org · 4h

BREAKING - Justice Delivered: ECtHR condemns Greece for the 2018 #Agathonisi #refugee #shipwreck

The @echr.coe.int delivered a judgment today against #Greece relating to the death of sixteen people in the 2018 shipwreck of Agathonisi.

👉 rsaegean.org/en/ecthr-con...

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 4h

Although the transition period rules mean that passports might still be stamped during this period eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

Regulation - EU - 2025/1534 - EN - EUR-Lex

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 4h

On the specific point about providing biometric data on exit, Art 4.2 says that the biometric part may be wholly waived by Member States for the first 60 days (taking us to December 11th).

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 4h

According to the transition rules, the EES doesn't apply yet at all border crossing points (Art 4), and there are transitional provisions on pre-EES entries (ie Art 5.4 implies that having an entry stamp in the passport within the 90/180 day rule is sufficient)
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Regulation - EU - 2025/1534 - EN - EUR-Lex

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 5h

soz lads but if you're still on X you're feeding into Musk's wealth which is being used to fund Tommy Two Names' legal fees, and if you still continue using X, you're fine with that

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 5h

Investors are betting big bucks on the idea that AI will create an explosion of leisure time...e.g. it was a key part of the public rationale for the massive $55bn takeover of video games maker Electronic Arts. But are they right?? (short thread linked to my column today www.ft.com/content/4011...)

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 6h

I’m seeing pieces and posts today about how useful digital ID could be in navigating bureaucracy etc. Yes. It would. That, however, is *not* how the government tried to sell it to us. Instead, they portrayed it as a tool to stop illegal working and curb illegal immigration. 1/4

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, not keen on the "Pam Bondi dressed as a prostitute" memes either

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 6h

That's... not how nationalisation traditionally works?

They are aware that we had water and electric bills prior to privatisation, right? It doesn't just become a service like the NHS (nor should it - surely everyone can see the incentive issue there!)

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European Court of Human Rights @echr.coe.int · 7h

Georgia v. Russia (IV) - Russia must pay Georgia over 253 million euros for breaches of human rights caused by hardening of boundary lines after 2008 conflict hudoc.echr.coe.int/fre-press?i=...
#ECHR #CEDH #ECHRpress

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 7h

EU Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi faces allegations of involvement in espionage by Hungary against the European Union.

ALBERTO ALEMANNO (@alemanno.bsky.social) explains why the Várhelyi Affair is a test of institutional self-defence – and how the EU can respond.

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Quote: “The Várhelyi affair poses a question the Union has never had to answer so starkly: What happens when a member state treats the institutions it helped create not as a common project, but as hostile territory to be infiltrated and undermined?”

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 7h

The European Commission is set to miss its own legal deadline on announcing which EU countries should receive help with their migration issues — and it’s not particularly worried.

European Commission delays decision on migration assistance

Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner confirmed a delay and gave no indication of when an agreement would be reached.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 7h

Important to see the shooting feet policy as a tool to run faster

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 8h

Righty-o.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 7h

I'm not a grand strategist but perhaps the US may regret putting all its economic eggs into a single AI basket it needs Chinese cooperation to weave.

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Prof Dr Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche @mlbg.bsky.social · 7h

ECtHR, 14 Oct. 2025, F.M. & others v Greece, App. no 17622/21 The authorities' failure to act in response to a shipwreck off the coast of Greece violates the ECHR Article 2
hudoc.echr.coe.int/fre?i=001-24...

HUDOC - European Court of Human Rights

The HUDOC database provides access to the case-law of the Court (Grand Chamber, Chamber and Committee judgments and decisions, communicated cases, advisory opinions and legal summaries from the Case-L...

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 7h

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 8h

Righty-o.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8h

Brexit is Farage and his fellow Brexiters' shitstorm to own. He/they can't be allowed to just pivot from heckle to heckle and bad idea to worse - while blaming everyone else - without consequences.

So the suggestion that Labour are going to amplify that truth is to be welcomed.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 8h

Nigel Farage wasn’t telling the truth on Laura Kuenssberg

Reform claim they were obstructed. There’s only one problem: they never made any inquiries.

Nigel Farage wasn't telling the truth on Laura Kuenssberg

Reform want to be obstructed by council workers, but they have to try first

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 9h

🚨🚨"If the Tory party wants to be once more in the 21st century the party it was in the 20th — a natural home for successful people — it must again become a place in which pro-Europeans are not only welcome but can hold high office. " @stephenkb.bsky.social on #brexit & the Tory party:

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 10h

This is the inevitable outcome of relentless anti-immigration political rhetoric and a media environment which disproportionately amplifies the voices of racists, giving the indication that they are the "voice of the public" rather than the minority they are.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 10h

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information

Defense department policy requires outlets to vow not to obtain unauthorized files and restricts access to some areas

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11h

Immigrant advocates have been thrown to the ground, pepper-sprayed, and tailed in their cars by officers in an apparent attempt to intimidate them, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. One tells her: “It's never been this bad.”

‘It’s Never Been This Bad’

Immigrant advocates face escalating consequences and threats from the president.

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