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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 21h

Anne's full article, explaining why Machado deserved the Nobel Peace Prize is available here: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Why María Corina Machado Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize

The Venezuelan opposition leader shows why participation matters.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 21h

🚨🚨"We’ve only known the state deciding for us. Now it’s going to be the other way around. We’re going to have the society in power and making their own decisions & the state at its service.” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social recounts her interview with María Corina Machado, the Nobel Peace Prize winner.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23h

🚨🚨Good news: The European Union has signaled it will not give in to pressure from Washington to tear up its #green rules in order to firm up a deal on #tariffs, @ec.europa.eu trade chief @sabineweyand.bsky.social has said to EU Member States. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...

EU refuses to bow to Trump demands to tear up business rules

Brussels has signaled it won’t yield to U.S. pressure to ignite a bonfire of green regulations as part of their trade deal, a top official tells diplomats.

www.politico.eu

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Siue Allen @sitebadger.bsky.social · 22h

Longish thread but an easy and punchy read outlining EU resistance to ‘temper tantrum Trump’s’ tariffs.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23h

🚨🚨Good news: The European Union has signaled it will not give in to pressure from Washington to tear up its #green rules in order to firm up a deal on #tariffs, @ec.europa.eu trade chief @sabineweyand.bsky.social has said to EU Member States. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...

EU refuses to bow to Trump demands to tear up business rules

Brussels has signaled it won’t yield to U.S. pressure to ignite a bonfire of green regulations as part of their trade deal, a top official tells diplomats.

www.politico.eu

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Anna Jerzewska @annajerzewska.bsky.social · 23h

Great, now if they could also maybe confirm whether or not we're going ahead with deforestation in less than 100 days and whether or not companies need to spend time and money on getting ready, that would be super helfpul.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 23h

On tariffs, there wasn't a lot the EU (or anyone else) could do to push back on the US damaging itself. On regulation, a lot more important to draw the line as is happening

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23h

🚨🚨Good news: The European Union has signaled it will not give in to pressure from Washington to tear up its #green rules in order to firm up a deal on #tariffs, @ec.europa.eu trade chief @sabineweyand.bsky.social has said to EU Member States. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...

EU refuses to bow to Trump demands to tear up business rules

Brussels has signaled it won’t yield to U.S. pressure to ignite a bonfire of green regulations as part of their trade deal, a top official tells diplomats.

www.politico.eu

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🇪🇺 #AgainstLies 🦋 @againstlies.bsky.social · 23h

Good

There is only one way to stand up to fascism - no appeasement.

It may be painful, but that is the lesson from the last century and today in Ukraine.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23h

🚨🚨Good news: The European Union has signaled it will not give in to pressure from Washington to tear up its #green rules in order to firm up a deal on #tariffs, @ec.europa.eu trade chief @sabineweyand.bsky.social has said to EU Member States. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...

EU refuses to bow to Trump demands to tear up business rules

Brussels has signaled it won’t yield to U.S. pressure to ignite a bonfire of green regulations as part of their trade deal, a top official tells diplomats.

www.politico.eu

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Katie Cannon @katiecannon.bsky.social · 23h

Governments should only write regulations that create more markets for AI & crypto

And American corporations

Governments should not write regulations to protect the public

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23h

The EU did, in the framework agreement published in August, commit to addressing U.S. concerns regarding its supply chain transparency law as it launches a major new deregulation drive designed to simplify rules and boost economic competitiveness. According to another official, that is being seen

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23h

via @gabrielgavin.bsky.social , @mariannegros.bsky.social, @koenverhelst.bsky.social, @camgijs.bsky.social & @pieterhaeck.bsky.social @politico.eu

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23h

The meeting of the European Council will consider how to “reassert Europe’s interests, values and regulatory autonomy.” /ends

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23h

We are fully enforcing the rules all the time, and everybody can be ensured on that.” According to a draft agenda obtained by POLITICO, European leaders are set to discuss the need to double down on policies in the face of pressure from across the Atlantic at a summit in Brussels later this month.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23h

EU leaders should not lose their nerve amid U.S. attacks on the EU’s digital rulebooks, COM Executive VP @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social said in an interview Wednesday. “It’s important to stay calm, even if there are different kinds of attacks against this legislation,” she told POLITICO.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23h

blasted the EU’s green regulations while slashing rules designed to protect the environment & limit carbon emissions and other polluting gases for firms at home. Trump's team has also been pressuring the bloc to drop its digital regulations that they claim unfairly punish American tech firms.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23h

internally as an overture to Washington. However, American officials, backed by big business, are eyeing the proposals as a chance to push for legislation to be dropped that they see as unfavorable, and have launched a new impetus. Trump’s White House has consistently

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23h

The EU did, in the framework agreement published in August, commit to addressing U.S. concerns regarding its supply chain transparency law as it launches a major new deregulation drive designed to simplify rules and boost economic competitiveness. According to another official, that is being seen

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23h

refused to confirm receipt of the position paper from the U.S. He insisted the bloc is “focused on the faithful implementation of the EU-U.S. joint statement, which we believe is essential to preserving our unmatched transatlantic trade ... We are not rolling back on any of our laws.” /7

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23h

National capitals have not been given access to the negotiating paper sent by Washington, given the high stakes surrounding a trade agreement worth potentially trillions of dollars. Speaking during a press briefing on Thursday, the Commission's deputy chief spokesperson, @olofgill.bsky.social

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23h

the green rules was a negotiating tactic: “They have their red lines and we have ours.” The session at which Weyand spoke was held in a restricted format, reserved for the most sensitive discussions, and ambassadors were not allowed phones in the room. /5

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23h

Instead, the EU executive intends to act in line with the terms of a subsequent joint statement that does not foresee those concessions.

“We have always said — we are not negotiating on these issues,” said one COM official, while an envoy from one EU MS insisted the broadside against

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23h

White House branded the legislation “serious and unwarranted regulatory over-reach” that “imposes significant economic and regulatory burdens on U.S. companies.” The diplomats and officials told POLITICO that the Commission does not intend to act on the criticism in the document. /4

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23h

The paper, developed by #Trump’s administration, would commit Brussels to dropping rules requiring American firms to produce plans to fight climate change and end environmental and human rights violations in their supply chains. The Financial Times reported Wednesday that in the document, the

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23h

Speaking during a closed-door meeting of ambassadors on Wednesday, Sabine Weyand, said the executive will not use a document drafted by the U.S. as the basis for its negotiations, according to five diplomats and officials granted anonymity to discuss the restricted meeting with POLITICO. /2

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23h

🚨🚨Good news: The European Union has signaled it will not give in to pressure from Washington to tear up its #green rules in order to firm up a deal on #tariffs, @ec.europa.eu trade chief @sabineweyand.bsky.social has said to EU Member States. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...

EU refuses to bow to Trump demands to tear up business rules

Brussels has signaled it won’t yield to U.S. pressure to ignite a bonfire of green regulations as part of their trade deal, a top official tells diplomats.

www.politico.eu

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 1d

seeing that there is more chat about reunification in Ireland, post brexit, this might interest some.

TL;DR: brexit accidentally gave us a preview of what reunification might mean, economically. And it looks really good!

We're calling it a "Sochar Brexit"!

("brexit benefit" in Irish)

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screengrab from the ALL ISLAND ECONOMY financial report.

"The Projected Public Finances of the Early Years of a United Ireland
This report calculates the subvention in public finances likely to transfer to “Northern Ireland’ at the time of a United Ireland, based on the most up-to-date UK figures. It is the first peer-reviewed report to calculate the cost of unity over the first ten years, which takes account not only of the subvention, but necessary investment and gradual economic convergence with
the rest of the island. The report breaks down the key financial issues such as pensions, debt, defence spending, UK central costs and taxation to justify this figure and calculates that the cost of the subvention, currently paid by the UK, which will transfer to a United Ireland will be £1.5 billion pa – not the, often quoted, figures of £10b to £14b."

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Regrettably relevant research today

Disguised Repression: Targeting Opponents with Nonpolitical Crimes to Undermine Dissent
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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