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Michelle Everson
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Professor of Law, European and economic law are specialities; also sheep selfies.

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Andrew Duff @andrewduffeu.bsky.social · 1d
This is a very good review of how complicated it is to sequester Russian funds. Surely Belgium is right to prefer the EU to launch a genuinely federal eurobond to finance Ukraine. Doubtless Trump could be inveigled into bullying Orban to lift his veto ?
verfassungsblog.de Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 5d
The EU’s proposed Reparations Loan – using immobilised Russian assets to support Ukraine – raises major legal and financial questions.

PETER VAN ELSUWEGE analyses the risks, Belgium’s objections, and what’s at stake ahead of the December European Council.

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Quote: “The Commission’s proposal may be defensible under international and European law, though it remains on precarious legal ground.”

Reposted by Michelle Everson, Ben Tonra

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 1d
Germany seems more willing to call out Russia - today the government is accusing Russia of a large scale cyber attack on air traffic security and for disinformation campaign during the federal elections earlier this year:
Bundesregierung macht Russland für Cyberangriff verantwortlich
Die Bundesregierung wirft Russland einen großen Cyberangriff auf die Flugsicherung und eine Desinformationskampagne im Bundestagswahlkampf vor. Der russische Botschafter wurde ins Auswärtige Amt einbe...
www.tagesschau.de

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Michelle Everson @eversonmeverson.bsky.social · 1d
Deutschlandfunk doing nice work on exposing the US trips of AfD politicians; interesting shift of travel trips away from Russia to US. Can only hope BND (secret services) equally alert and efforts to declare AfD unconstitutional well grounded (that is difficult). Germany is key here.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d
The most shameful language point about school kids in the U.K. is not the number who speak English as a second language, but the number who don’t speak any language other than English.

Even more, the number of adults who don’t.

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 1d
If handing someone their arse, was a video clip

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Melissa Johnson, Michelle Everson

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 1d
The clear takeaway from today is that Donald Trump is not unstoppable and you are not powerless.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d
A split between the US and Europe will have to come:

Der Spiegel:

“Two villains, one goal.

“How Trump and Putin are attacking Europe.”
Cover of Der Spiegel: Trump with his hands on Putin’s shoulders as the Russian carves up a map of Europe

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Girl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 5d
This weekend I took the most #London photo ever.

Fox waiting for the last train.
Bushy looking fox sitting alone at the edge of a London Overground platform at night

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 5d
Why, in the war between Ukraine and Russia, is America the first to surrender?

-- a future Ukrainian proverb

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Michelle Everson @eversonmeverson.bsky.social · 6d
Ha. This is why Boycott - a truly terrible person in all ways - was always in the team. Fans tearing their hair out in bored frustration, but the 1970/80s Windies were at least occasionally denied.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d
Palantir sells AI tools that help law enforcement agencies like ICE analyze massive amounts of personal data.

It's a big reason why it is quickly becoming the most dangerous corporation in America.https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=4Ptdx0tQBOBOUin1
The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?
Robert Reich
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Michelle Everson @eversonmeverson.bsky.social · 7d
Good lord, is that genuine? Hard to believe, even of Pollard.

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Jan Skudlarek @janskudlarek.bsky.social · 7d
"Das ist nichts anderes als eine Kampfansage an die – ohnehin unter Druck stehende – demokratische Mitte in Europa."

Die USA wollen ihren hässlichen Ultranationalismus nach Europa exportieren - wer solche "wichtigsten Verbündeten" hat, braucht keine Feinde mehr.

www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
US-Sicherheitsdoktrin: Die Anti-Europa-Doktrin
Die neue Nationale Sicherheitsstrategie der USA ist ein weiterer brutaler Weckruf. Und eine Kampfansage an die demokratische Mitte in Europa.
www.zeit.de

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 8d
It's revealing about taboos around racism that the visceral bullying racism of schoolboy Farage cuts through while the much more consequential thinly veiled racism of adult Farage doesn't. Many people need that veil and flinch when it's removed. You can advocate racist policies but not say the words

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 8d
column maybe coming on this but I don't hugely care about what 61-year-old Farage got up to at school? and I think that Fleet Street finally gunning for him is symptomatic of a culture where the gotcha/scoop factor matters so much that hidden past actions are seen as worse than current, public ones

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 9d
Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Michelle Everson, Andrew Perchard

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 9d
Crypto-investor who lives in Thailand gives record-breaking donation to Reform UK, to help it win power in a country he doesn't live in.

Britain's political funding laws are a charred and smoking ruin. Ducking change was a catastrophic mistake by Labour.
www.ft.com/content/db73...
Reform UK gets record £9mn donation from Christopher Harborne
Nigel Farage’s party attracts far more funding than both Labour and the Conservatives
www.ft.com

Reposted by Patrick Dunleavy, Lesley A. Hall, Michelle Everson

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 9d
So the Daily Mail owner's wife has just given £50,000 to Nigel Farage's Reform UK

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 11d
Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 11d
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 12d
Just sent off to the publisher, and coming your way next year - the 3rd edition of the commentary on the EU citizens' Directive, by Jonathan Tomkin, Elspeth Guild and myself (publisher - Oxford University Press)
a cartoon cat is laying on top of a laptop .
Alt: Pusheen the cartoon cat is laying on top of a laptop, completing the new edition of its tome on the EU Cat Citizens Directive.
media.tenor.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13d
"'History’s eyes are on the Supreme Court,' she said.

'This court will have to decide, is it going to be the court that puts an end to American democracy as we know it'..."

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Reposted by Andrew Scott, Michelle Everson, Justin Lewis

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 15d
”Reform UK's barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don't play the bullies game." Martin Shipton from @nation.cymru on being bullied by Reform's lawyers: www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nat...
Reform UK’s barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don’t play the bully’s game
My news organisation, Nation.Cymru, was threatened with legal action over a story involving Nigel Farage’s party in the Senedd. Instead of hiring our own lawyer, we simply told them to go away, writes...
www.thenerve.news

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 15d
A remarkably decent lineup for this fundraiser on Dec 4th, if you're in the vicinity of London town:

www.jokepit.com/comedy-in/lo...
Stand Up for Gaza
BOOK NOW! Stand Up for Gaza on Thu 4th Dec 2025 7:30pm (London) at COLAB Tower, London SE1 9HB, UK
www.jokepit.com

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Policy Commons @policycommons.bsky.social · 15d
You might find some more in our collection . . . (356 think tanks based in Europe) policycommons.net/search/?i=or...
Log in | Policy Commons
policycommons.net

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John Q. Public @publius24.bsky.social · 15d
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization

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Michelle Everson @eversonmeverson.bsky.social · 16d
Could be a Spurs fan?

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 16d
‘The clip, which appeared on live television, shows the President of the United States snapping at a female reporter “Quiet, Piggy!”’

From the new Private Eye, out now.