Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Prof Dr Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche @mlbg.bsky.social · 2d

HELP ! Question on German aliens law. When was the family reunification for the subsidiary protection beneficiairies introduced ? I would appreciate to have son intel on the modification of the Section 36 of the residence act. Thx !

1 4 1

Adelina Marini @adelinamarini.bsky.social · 5d

In my region, they're constantly moving the border to other places and then returning

Adelina Marini @adelinamarini.bsky.social · 5d

and that's my experience as a mid-aged blonde woman. My son is constantly subjected to questions about where he was and what he was doing on his way from work in the Netherlands. He's a young brown-hair man with a beard

Adelina Marini @adelinamarini.bsky.social · 5d

oh, that's a thing from the past as well In Bayern, there are police checkpoints on smaller roads as well It feels disturbing driving by while looked at with suspicion by a man in a military uniform with an automatic weapon

2

Adelina Marini @adelinamarini.bsky.social · 5d

For anyone who's travelled by car and, obviously a train or bus, the borders are visible and present. Schengen seems like a good memory from a past long gone. It's frustrating that the media music's still on while the EU is hitting the iceberg

Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 5d

German newspaper FAZ has an article about the Bundespolizei controlling trains at Freilassing

It’s done in this cheery way, almost propaganda like. Oh the intellectual policeman! Oh the tourists they need to check. One little line on someone being annoyed

#Schengen

www.faz.net/aktuell/reis...

Grenzkontrollen in Bayern: Unterwegs mir der Bundespolizei

Seit Mai kontrolliert die Bundespolizei an der Grenze zu Österreich jeden Zug, der nach Bayern rollt. Nicht immer gelingen dabei große Erfolge. Aber dass die Nationengrenze nun wieder erlebbar ist, sp...

www.faz.net

1 1

Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 5d

German newspaper FAZ has an article about the Bundespolizei controlling trains at Freilassing

It’s done in this cheery way, almost propaganda like. Oh the intellectual policeman! Oh the tourists they need to check. One little line on someone being annoyed

#Schengen

www.faz.net/aktuell/reis...

Grenzkontrollen in Bayern: Unterwegs mir der Bundespolizei

Seit Mai kontrolliert die Bundespolizei an der Grenze zu Österreich jeden Zug, der nach Bayern rollt. Nicht immer gelingen dabei große Erfolge. Aber dass die Nationengrenze nun wieder erlebbar ist, sp...

www.faz.net

9 18 70

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 8d

EU immigration law - Dutch court asks whether it was legal under EU law to issue an entry ban to British conspiracy theorist David Icke - curia.europa.eu/juris/showPd...
(An entry ban in the Schengen Information System in principle bans entry into any Schengen state)

curia.europa.eu

2 9 18

Adelina Marini @adelinamarini.bsky.social · 9d

A great article putting the finger right at the problem with political advertising and regulation. Attention to the importance of theorising is commendable. Made me think how far behind we are in our understanding of technological developments & their impact on #democracy eucrim.eu/articles/reg...

Regulating Political Advertising in the EU

In April 2024, the European Union’s Regulation on the Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising (PAR) entered into force. In further efforts to ensure a transparent, safe, predictable and tr...

eucrim.eu

1

Transparency International EU @transparency-eu.bsky.social · 12d

Today is Universal Access to Information Day. But instead of being open towards its citizens, the European Commission has actually made it harder for outsiders to follow how it makes decisions.

It's time for the EU to stop hiding behind rules that block transparency.

3 5

Adelina Marini @adelinamarini.bsky.social · 21d

The fascists are showing their real faces. No more pretense. Orban and his government have no place in a Union built on the ashes left by Nazism and faschism

Euronews @euronews.com · 21d

Hungary will replicate a policy announced by US President Trump, and designate Antifa a terrorist organisation, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday.

Antifa, short for "anti-fascist,” is an umbrella term for far-left-leaning militant groups and is not a singular entity.

1 4

Euronews @euronews.com · 21d

Hungary will replicate a policy announced by US President Trump, and designate Antifa a terrorist organisation, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday.

Antifa, short for "anti-fascist,” is an umbrella term for far-left-leaning militant groups and is not a singular entity.

49 46 81

Adelina Marini @adelinamarini.bsky.social · 23d

We definitely live in the Upside Down, where police protects criminals, hate speech, and violence from those who speak the truth instead of the other way round

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 23d

BREAKING: Police have reportedly confiscated an advertising van displaying a photograph of Donald Trump with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

This story is developing

1 3

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 23d

BREAKING: Police have reportedly confiscated an advertising van displaying a photograph of Donald Trump with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

This story is developing

22 36 67

Adelina Marini @adelinamarini.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you very much! I am aware and I wrote a piece on the issue, which I sent to @verfassungsblog.de more than a month ago, but regretfully it hasn't been published. It's a very important and much needed development for the clarification of the #EPPO Regulation and the rule of law more broadly

1

Adelina Marini @adelinamarini.bsky.social · 23d

The #GAC discussed the #RuleOfLaw yesterday and, while it's positive that the ministers acknowledged the importance of RoL, there is one crucial element missing in this press release (and probably the discussion as a whole): #enforcement. www.consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/...

General Affairs Council

The Council started preparations for the October 2025 European Council and discussed legislative programming, the rule of law situation in the EU and the general trend of rule of law in four candidate...

www.consilium.europa.eu

1 3

Adelina Marini @adelinamarini.bsky.social · Aug 20

Superstition may be important for some, but a much bigger problem is the fact that #Hungary is ideologically aligned with #Russia, thus not offering a neutral or at least a friendly ground. The fact that Trump even proposed Budapest as a venue speaks volumes

Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · Aug 20

Budapest? Not everyone may remember this, but in 1994 Ukraine already got assurances of territorial integrity from the US, Russia and the UK. In Budapest. Maybe I’m superstitious, but this time I would try to find another place.

1

Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · Aug 20

Budapest? Not everyone may remember this, but in 1994 Ukraine already got assurances of territorial integrity from the US, Russia and the UK. In Budapest. Maybe I’m superstitious, but this time I would try to find another place.

54 470 1.6K

Jasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social · Aug 18

As of today, Bosnian Serb secessionist Dodik has been definitively removed from BiH public office. It is not only the most significant political event in the country in decades, it’s also the first time since 1986 (!) that he will be without a publicly funded post in BiH.

2 5 24

Adelina Marini @adelinamarini.bsky.social · Aug 16

Finally some reactions! Regretfully, it's unlikely that the @eppgroup.bsky.social will have the courage to defend its own statute #Serbia #peacefulprotests #dictatorship

S&D Group @socialistsanddemocrats.eu · Aug 16

The violent assault on Serbian MP Peđa Mitrović, beaten with iron batons by Vucic-aligned forces and left with head injuries, is unacceptable. Crackdowns on peaceful protestors and political repression have no place in a democracy.

1

S&D Group @socialistsanddemocrats.eu · Aug 16

The violent assault on Serbian MP Peđa Mitrović, beaten with iron batons by Vucic-aligned forces and left with head injuries, is unacceptable. Crackdowns on peaceful protestors and political repression have no place in a democracy.

1 10 22

Adelina Marini @adelinamarini.bsky.social · Aug 15

This statement is somewhat disputed by the facts on the ground. Border controls within #Schengen are not only still there, contrary to CJEU judgments and a recent judgment by the Münich Administrative Court, but they are getting further strengthened. Not much to celebrate

European Commission @ec.europa.eu · Aug 15

More than 450 million Europeans. 29 countries. 1 shared freedom.

This year, we mark 40 years of Schengen!

The Schengen Agreement has reshaped how over 450 million Europeans live, work and travel.

Lake Konigsee on German-Austrian border © Adobe Stock, Michal Rezny

Lake at the border between Norway and Sweden © Adobe Stock, Wirestock

Mountain landscape in the Pieniny National Park at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. Pieniny Park is located on the border of Poland and Slovakia © Adobe Stock, proslgn

Flock of sheeps moving down a valley in the French Alps on border with Switzerland © Adobe Stock, Aide

3

Adelina Marini @adelinamarini.bsky.social · Aug 15

The silence of #EU institutions about the developments in #Serbia is deafening! The #EU seems completely disoriented lately, unable to recognise where its true strengths are - in defending and promoting the values of Article 2 TEU

balkaninsight.com/2025/08/15/s...

Serbia Clashes Escalate as Ruling Party Loyalists and Police Battle Protesters

As political confrontation continued in cities across Serbia, ruling party supporters clashed violently with student-led protesters and tried to attack journalists, while police used batons and tear g...

balkaninsight.com

3 2

European Commission @ec.europa.eu · Aug 15

More than 450 million Europeans. 29 countries. 1 shared freedom.

This year, we mark 40 years of Schengen!

The Schengen Agreement has reshaped how over 450 million Europeans live, work and travel.

24 170 680

Adelina Marini @adelinamarini.bsky.social · Aug 6

Now that negotiations on the next #MFF are about to start, it's time to change the narrative from 'not giving more money to Brussels' to 'strengthen protection of EU money' by giving the #EPPO more powers and money. It's important for the #RuleOfLaw as well www.politico.eu/article/gree...

Greece’s Mitsotakis blocks probe into ministers over massive EU farm funds fraud

The prime minister is wielding his parliamentary majority to prevent a full-scale investigation into ministers suspected of wrongdoing.

www.politico.eu

1 7

Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · Aug 4

French experts, help me out! Working on party bans and need double check on French case. Would it be correct to classify Radical Unity, The French Work, Nationalist Youth, Third Way, Revolutionary Nationalist Youth and Desire to Dream as movements, whereas Civitas does classify as a political party?

1 3 1

EU Court of Justice @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social · Aug 1

#ECJ #AG Spielmann: The court reviewing the detention of a third-country national staying illegally must ensure that their removal is not prevented by the principle of non-refoulement #asylum 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...

Communiqués de presse - Cour de justice de l'Union européenne

Court of Justice of the European Union

curia.europa.eu

5 6

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · Jul 31

NEW FROM @reuters.com: Top U.S. law firms have sharply scaled back their efforts to challenge the federal government in court, especially on behalf of pro bono clients, in the face of threats from President Trump.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

97 580 1.1K

European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) @efjeurope.bsky.social · Jul 30

Following the publication of the so-called “transparency template” by @ec.europa.eu AI Office on 24 July, most #AI model providers will be required to publish summaries of training data as of 2 August 2025. But these templates still does not meet the expectations of the media and creative sectors 👇

AI: European Commission caves in to Big Tech to the detriment of authors

Following the publication of the so-called “transparency template” by the European Commissions AI Office on 24 July, most AI model providers will be ...

europeanjournalists.org

9 9

Adelina Marini @adelinamarini.bsky.social · Jul 25

A great thread on the change in the Ministry of Justice and what it may mean for the #RuleOfLaw restoration #Poland

Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · Jul 25

🇵🇱⚖️Poland has a new Minister of Justice, a very … colourful figure that heralds a new chapter in the Polish rule of law saga. Waldemar Żurek - a veteran judge and outspoken critic of the PiS government, harassed and intimidated, and likely tapped to bring about retribution against "Bad Guys". 1/

1 1

Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · Jul 25

🇵🇱⚖️Poland has a new Minister of Justice, a very … colourful figure that heralds a new chapter in the Polish rule of law saga. Waldemar Żurek - a veteran judge and outspoken critic of the PiS government, harassed and intimidated, and likely tapped to bring about retribution against "Bad Guys". 1/

4 22 77