RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹
@ricsilvestre.bsky.social
Social-Liberal. Europeanist. Atlanticist. Researcher and author in political science. Co-host of the 'Liberal Europe Podcast', a project supported by the European Parliament. Opinions my own.
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Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."
Summer2026. Stephen Miller tells ICE to do something horrific. People take to the streets. Army is deployed. Riots ensues. Trump uses the Insurrection Act. Republicans in Congress "trust the President". Elections are cancelled. @ec.europa.eu does and says nothing. #USA stops being a full democracy.
While the #Trump Admin declares war on liberal democracies, the @ec.europa.eu and the @europarl.europa.eu need to make the #EuropeanUnion the beacon of democracy in the world. I suggest creating a modern infrastructure for free information to replace the #USA lead. liberalforum.eu/updates/a-st...
A Strong European Voice: Defending Global Freedom - The European Liberal Forum
When attending the Black Sea Security Conference in Tbilisi in October 2024, a joint event led by the liberal Friedrich Naumann Foundation with the support of ELF, some ominous shadows loomed large. G...
liberalforum.eu
December 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
While the #Trump Admin declares war on liberal democracies, the @ec.europa.eu and the @europarl.europa.eu need to make the #EuropeanUnion the beacon of democracy in the world. I suggest creating a modern infrastructure for free information to replace the #USA lead. liberalforum.eu/updates/a-st...
Enquanto #Trump declara guerra às democracias liberais, a @ec.europa.eu e o @europarl.europa.eu têm de fazer a UE o farol da democracia no mundo. No @eurliberalforum.bsky.social sugiro criar uma infraestrutura moderna de informação, substituindo a liderada pelos #USA. liberalforum.eu/updates/a-st...
A Strong European Voice: Defending Global Freedom - The European Liberal Forum
When attending the Black Sea Security Conference in Tbilisi in October 2024, a joint event led by the liberal Friedrich Naumann Foundation with the support of ELF, some ominous shadows loomed large. G...
liberalforum.eu
December 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Enquanto #Trump declara guerra às democracias liberais, a @ec.europa.eu e o @europarl.europa.eu têm de fazer a UE o farol da democracia no mundo. No @eurliberalforum.bsky.social sugiro criar uma infraestrutura moderna de informação, substituindo a liderada pelos #USA. liberalforum.eu/updates/a-st...
LOL (roubado da espelunca ao lado)
December 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
LOL (roubado da espelunca ao lado)
In Brussels for the presentation of the book "Trump, Putin and their puppets" by MEP Helmut Brandstätter, an organization @neoslab.bsky.social and @eurliberalforum.bsky.social. I had the opportunity to express my concern about the @ec.europa.eu trying to deal with Trump as "business as usual".
December 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
In Brussels for the presentation of the book "Trump, Putin and their puppets" by MEP Helmut Brandstätter, an organization @neoslab.bsky.social and @eurliberalforum.bsky.social. I had the opportunity to express my concern about the @ec.europa.eu trying to deal with Trump as "business as usual".
Em Bruxelas para a apresentação do livro "Trump, Putin e suas marionetas" do MEP Helmut Brandstätter, uma organização @neoslab.bsky.social e @eurliberalforum.bsky.social. Tive a oportunidade de expressar a preocupação de ver a @ec.europa.eu a tentar lidar com Trump como "business as usual". #Europa
December 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Em Bruxelas para a apresentação do livro "Trump, Putin e suas marionetas" do MEP Helmut Brandstätter, uma organização @neoslab.bsky.social e @eurliberalforum.bsky.social. Tive a oportunidade de expressar a preocupação de ver a @ec.europa.eu a tentar lidar com Trump como "business as usual". #Europa
It is VERY OBVIOUS!! @ec.europa.eu @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @kajakallas.bsky.social. Be a "territory" of America, doing what we tell you to do, buying what we tell you to buy, having the freedoms we allow you to have. THIS...WILL...NOT... PASS with Europeans! Act accordingly, please!
December 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
It is VERY OBVIOUS!! @ec.europa.eu @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @kajakallas.bsky.social. Be a "territory" of America, doing what we tell you to do, buying what we tell you to buy, having the freedoms we allow you to have. THIS...WILL...NOT... PASS with Europeans! Act accordingly, please!
December 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
December 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Nothing more to add. #EuropeanUnion #Europe @ec.europa.eu @aldeparty.bsky.social @reneweurope.bsky.social
I believe we have reached a turning point where Europe needs us to trust in it, to speak loudly and clearly about European values, and not fall into the trap of those who want to destroy it. How could it survive if its own inhabitants either hate it or are demoralized and scared?!
December 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Nothing more to add. #EuropeanUnion #Europe @ec.europa.eu @aldeparty.bsky.social @reneweurope.bsky.social
INFINITE SCREAM!!! #EuropeanUnion #USA
Europe has been underestimating its own power, especially towards Russia.
We should be more self confident.
The United States is still our biggest ally.
And it's in the interest of the U.S. that we work together.
Extracts from my intervention at the 2025 Doha Forum ↓
We should be more self confident.
The United States is still our biggest ally.
And it's in the interest of the U.S. that we work together.
Extracts from my intervention at the 2025 Doha Forum ↓
December 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
INFINITE SCREAM!!! #EuropeanUnion #USA
Fui ao esgoto deixar uma mensagem carinhosa para o "genial, fantástico, maravilhoso, super" espécime da humanidade que esperamos sufoque numa morte dolorosa em Marte (quando lá chegar )
December 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Fui ao esgoto deixar uma mensagem carinhosa para o "genial, fantástico, maravilhoso, super" espécime da humanidade que esperamos sufoque numa morte dolorosa em Marte (quando lá chegar )
isto...AO MESMO TEMPO que o babuíno laranja ameaça tirar jogos de Estados Democratas, que são os que têm melhores estádios e audiências. E a FIFA, como outros, quer agradar a este anormal, que depois vai fazer o que bem lhe apetecer.
Q: Mr President, have you been told that you're going to receive the inaugural FIFA peace prize today?
TRUMP: I have been told. There's a rumor about it. That would be a great honor.
TRUMP: I have been told. There's a rumor about it. That would be a great honor.
December 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
isto...AO MESMO TEMPO que o babuíno laranja ameaça tirar jogos de Estados Democratas, que são os que têm melhores estádios e audiências. E a FIFA, como outros, quer agradar a este anormal, que depois vai fazer o que bem lhe apetecer.
What a timely conversation to have with Eloi, after we just came from spending several hours in a electric blackout in the Iberia Peninsula. We go into the needs for an improvement of the energy interconnections in the #EuropeanUnion. Great stuff on a crucial topic.
How can Europe build an electric grid ready for the future?
🎙️ @ricsilvestre.bsky.social speaks with Eloi Borgne, Policy and Research Officer at ELF. They discuss the core ideas behind the paper and what it will take to future-proof the EU’s electric grid.
🎧 Tune in now: bit.ly/4pLs8Ge
🎙️ @ricsilvestre.bsky.social speaks with Eloi Borgne, Policy and Research Officer at ELF. They discuss the core ideas behind the paper and what it will take to future-proof the EU’s electric grid.
🎧 Tune in now: bit.ly/4pLs8Ge
December 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a timely conversation to have with Eloi, after we just came from spending several hours in a electric blackout in the Iberia Peninsula. We go into the needs for an improvement of the energy interconnections in the #EuropeanUnion. Great stuff on a crucial topic.
Uma conversa oportuna com o Eloi, depois de termos passado várias horas num apagão em #Portugal. Falamos sobre a necessidade de melhorar as interligações energéticas na União Europeia. Excelente conversa sobre um tema crucial.
How can Europe build an electric grid ready for the future?
🎙️ @ricsilvestre.bsky.social speaks with Eloi Borgne, Policy and Research Officer at ELF. They discuss the core ideas behind the paper and what it will take to future-proof the EU’s electric grid.
🎧 Tune in now: bit.ly/4pLs8Ge
🎙️ @ricsilvestre.bsky.social speaks with Eloi Borgne, Policy and Research Officer at ELF. They discuss the core ideas behind the paper and what it will take to future-proof the EU’s electric grid.
🎧 Tune in now: bit.ly/4pLs8Ge
December 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Uma conversa oportuna com o Eloi, depois de termos passado várias horas num apagão em #Portugal. Falamos sobre a necessidade de melhorar as interligações energéticas na União Europeia. Excelente conversa sobre um tema crucial.
"If we surrender our standards, we surrender our sovereignty.
If we give in to populism, we do not regain control, we lose it." DAMN RIGHT!! We need more #EuropeanUnion leaders saying this!
If we give in to populism, we do not regain control, we lose it." DAMN RIGHT!! We need more #EuropeanUnion leaders saying this!
If we surrender our standards, we surrender our sovereignty.
If we give in to populism, we do not regain control, we lose it.
A democratic, green, social and competitive Europe is not only possible. It is necessary. 3/3
If we give in to populism, we do not regain control, we lose it.
A democratic, green, social and competitive Europe is not only possible. It is necessary. 3/3
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"If we surrender our standards, we surrender our sovereignty.
If we give in to populism, we do not regain control, we lose it." DAMN RIGHT!! We need more #EuropeanUnion leaders saying this!
If we give in to populism, we do not regain control, we lose it." DAMN RIGHT!! We need more #EuropeanUnion leaders saying this!
Quando a União Europeia se esforça para responder ao apelo das localidades de serem mais involvidas nas decisões que as afectam/ When the #EuropeanUnion aims to respond to the call from local communities to be more involved in decisions that affect them. @reneweuropecor.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Quando a União Europeia se esforça para responder ao apelo das localidades de serem mais involvidas nas decisões que as afectam/ When the #EuropeanUnion aims to respond to the call from local communities to be more involved in decisions that affect them. @reneweuropecor.bsky.social
Assim é que eu gosto 😀
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Assim é que eu gosto 😀
Ouvem?? Lá ao fundo?? Aqueles que querem destruir a União Europeia e fazer uma "união de nações" onde a França e a Alemanha sob o domínio de fascistas iriam parar todas as ajudas para #Portugal? Ouvem-nos?
Bruxelas elege para apoio corredores de eletricidade e hidrogénio em Portugal
Bruxelas elege para apoio corredores de eletricidade e hidrogénio em Portugal
A Comissão Europeia escolheu hoje dois corredores de eletricidade e de hidrogénio que abrangem Portugal como projetos de interesse comum e mútuo para receber apoio da União Europeia (UE).
www.lusa.pt
December 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Ouvem?? Lá ao fundo?? Aqueles que querem destruir a União Europeia e fazer uma "união de nações" onde a França e a Alemanha sob o domínio de fascistas iriam parar todas as ajudas para #Portugal? Ouvem-nos?
A ouvir o @timmiller.bsky.social do @thebulwark.com sobre a vida democrática de um partido (nesse caso dos Democratas) que deve ser polémica, vibrante, acesa, e que é isso que os eleitores querem, pensei nos dois partidos liberais em #Portugal, onde é exigida conformidade e obsequidade
November 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
A ouvir o @timmiller.bsky.social do @thebulwark.com sobre a vida democrática de um partido (nesse caso dos Democratas) que deve ser polémica, vibrante, acesa, e que é isso que os eleitores querem, pensei nos dois partidos liberais em #Portugal, onde é exigida conformidade e obsequidade
LOL! Lá vai à "vida" a ideia de uma Visegrád unida no iliberalismo e anti-Europeísmo. #Europa
Presidente polaco cancela encontro com Orbán após visita do húngaro a Moscovo
Presidente polaco cancela encontro com Orbán após visita do húngaro a Moscovo
O Presidente polaco, Karol Nawrocki, cancelou um encontro com o primeiro-ministro húngaro, depois de Viktor Orbán se ter reunido com o Presidente russo, Vladimir Putin, em Moscovo, na sexta-feira, foi hoje anunciado.
www.lusa.pt
November 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
LOL! Lá vai à "vida" a ideia de uma Visegrád unida no iliberalismo e anti-Europeísmo. #Europa
@reneweurope.bsky.social @aldeparty.bsky.social @svenjahahn.bsky.social @valeriehayer.bsky.social Can we have, at least, the liberals and democrats in the @europarl.europa.eu with a condemnation of this? Please??
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
@reneweurope.bsky.social @aldeparty.bsky.social @svenjahahn.bsky.social @valeriehayer.bsky.social Can we have, at least, the liberals and democrats in the @europarl.europa.eu with a condemnation of this? Please??
Ei!! @ec.europa.eu, @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu, @kajakallas.bsky.social, @president.europarl.europa.eu, are you, as representatives of the #EuropeanUnion, take a position on this!? For Rule of Law? International rules? Human rights?! Something, FFS!!
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Ei!! @ec.europa.eu, @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu, @kajakallas.bsky.social, @president.europarl.europa.eu, are you, as representatives of the #EuropeanUnion, take a position on this!? For Rule of Law? International rules? Human rights?! Something, FFS!!
Ei!! @ec.europa.eu, @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu, @kajakallas.bsky.social, @president.europarl.europa.eu, are you, as representatives of the #EuropeanUnion, take a position on this!? For Rule of Law? International rules? Human rights?! What are we doing here?!
November 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Ei!! @ec.europa.eu, @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu, @kajakallas.bsky.social, @president.europarl.europa.eu, are you, as representatives of the #EuropeanUnion, take a position on this!? For Rule of Law? International rules? Human rights?! What are we doing here?!
The #USA is in the hand of barbarians
SCOOP: For the Trump admin's Sept. 2 strike targeting 11 men on a boat suspected of ferrying drugs, SecDef Hegseth gave an order, officials say, to kill them all. When two men were still alive, orders were given to strike again, finishing them off.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The #USA is in the hand of barbarians