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Wim uit Voorhout @wbcs99twit.bsky.social · 1d

In het verkiezingsprogramma had JA21 een verlaging van de vennootschapsbelasting tot 20% (links). In de doorrekening een verlaging naar 22% (rechts). Hoezo? Waarom? Wat is er gebeurd?

[De 21 in de naam van JA21 is dan wel weer wel het gemiddelde van 20 en 22]

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Wim uit Voorhout @wbcs99twit.bsky.social · 9h

Samenvattend: de effecten van de verkiezingsprogramma's op het begrotingssaldo in 2030 variëren van een verslechtering van 25 miljard euro voor de PVV en 23 miljard euro voor de SP tot een verbetering van 3 miljard euro voor GroenLinks-PvdA en Christen-Unie.

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 1d

Just listened to Rob Jetten’s NRC interview a week ago; he expresses hope that European action will lead to lower illegal migration. But it already has! Asylum seekers are plummeting. This doesn’t seem to have broken through.

Europe’s astonishing drop in illegal migration

Europe’s big, invisible wall is slowing boat crossings by migrants

economist.com

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 1d

It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.bsky.social · 1d

(And I suspect that “empfehlenswert” is the FAZ’s choice, which your friend simply did not delete.)

Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who might send you something, I think that bad reporting is worth keeping track of too. I know much more about Thames Water than The Guardian does, but I still read its reporting so that I can see the state of public debate.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.bsky.social · 1d

That and $5 buys you a coffee at Starbucks.

balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/reve...

Balkinization: Reverse Marbury

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting post about Kayfabe, populism, and the constitution. ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/10/09/a...

Alan Greene: Bringing facts to a vibes fight: Kayfabe and debates on the UK and the ECHR

It is now 25 years since the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) entered into force and far from this endurance cementing its legitimacy, the judicial protection of human rights in the UK finds itself in t…

ukconstitutionallaw.org

Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.bsky.social · 2d

Ukraine might as well offer to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize each year for the next ten years...

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent News that Charles Grant is here. Everybody interested in Britain‘s Relations with Europe (and the EU more generally), do follow @cergrant.bsky.social

Armida van Rij @armida.bsky.social · 2d

Welcome Charles Grant @cergrant.bsky.social to Bsky! This means the whole @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social research team is here - make sure to follow for their excellent analysis.

@cerianbond.bsky.social
@elisabettaco.bsky.social
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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.bsky.social · 2d

This is pretty damning too. The role of the Court of Appeal in English criminal law is urgently in need of review. What is the use of them if they almost never step in? (See also: why juries ought to have to give reasons.)

barristerblogger.com/2025/10/08/p...

Peter Sullivan: wrongly gaoled for 38 years by junk science and a complacent justice system

Just before midnight on Friday August 1st 1986 Diane Sindall, a 21 year old florist, ran out of petrol on a Birkenhead roundabout. She got out of her car and went to look for a 24 hour petrol stati…

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.bsky.social · 2d

Ja, dat wel. Maar als hij een bericht citeert waar wel netjes "Europees Parlement" staat vind ik dat nog niet zo erg. (En parlement zeggen als je de meerderheid van het parlement bedoelt ook niet.)

Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.bsky.social · 2d

This @nrc.nl reconstruction of the case against Karim Khan QC at the ICC is extremely damning. It is very thorough, and unless some serious exculpatory evidence comes to light he will surely have to resign and answer charges. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Misbruik, manipulatie en achterdocht in de top van het Internationaal Strafhof in Den Haag

VN-onderzoek: Tegen de hoofdaanklager van het Internationaal Strafhof loopt een onderzoek van de Verenigde Naties – een naaste medewerker beschuldigt hem van seksueel misbruik. Dit ging een rol spelen...

www.nrc.nl

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.bsky.social · 2d

Dat is te makkelijk. Wie zich door lobbyisten laat inpakken mag daar best voor bekritiseerd worden.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 2d

Second, Benedict Anderson's famous "Imagined Communities"

is.muni.cz

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 2d

Came across full versions of two classic books on nationalism, so thought I would share them.

First, my all-time favorite: Eric Hobsbawm's "Nations and Nationalism since 1780."

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4d

THE SECRET PROJECT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS IS FINALLY LIVE

CHECK IT OUT

outsidersartsclub.com

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Geert Van Calster @gavclaw.bsky.social · 3d

Blogged.
The Courts at Amsterdam do not imo have the right moves in appeals decision viz locus damni jurisdiction in #TikTok collective claims.
gavclaw.com/2025/10/08/t...

The Courts at Amsterdam do not imo have the right moves in appeals decision viz locus damni jurisdiction in TikTok collective claims.

I have reported before on the jurisdictional issues of collective action under Dutch law, viz both the GPDR (Article 79; 80) and Brussels Ia. See in particular my post on the claim against TIKTOK a…

gavclaw.com

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.bsky.social · 3d

I’m reading some academic literature today, and despairing at its lack of relevance for my actual work.

Small example: no, you can’t have unilateral and coordinated effects at the same time, but you can have *risks* of both at the same time. And risk is usually the best we can do anyway.

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Nadim Mansour @nadimmansour.bsky.social · 3d

‘Land van herkomst’? Zegt Derk Boswijk hier nu dat joodse Nederlanders buitenlanders zijn?

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Terry Reintke @terryreintke.bsky.social · 3d

When Ukrainians fight for freedom, they fight for all of us.

One day, I want to see Ukrainian colleagues sitting with us in this chamber.

Building a stronger and more united Europe.

Together.🇺🇦🇪🇺

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.bsky.social · 3d

Uiteraard. Why bother? Ik zou het hem gunnen dat het hem net zo min wat kan schelen of anderen hem voldoende Nederlands vinden als ik.

de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · 3d

Schrijver Rasit Elibol: ‘Ik ben er wel klaar mee om continu te bewijzen dat ik net zo Nederlands als jullie ben’

www.volkskrant.nl

Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me more about gay pride in Hungary...

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.bsky.social · 3d

Fortunately the football supporters who go to national team games are usually middle-aged dads with their sons from the countryside. Not typically hooligans.