Political Scientist @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
Democracy, European Union politics, Social justice, Digital governance, Political theory
I analyse the EU’s AI Act and its place in the global governance of the AI.
Examining the economy of AI + the contents of the Act, I conclude that expecting a ‘Brussels effect’ is neither apt nor useful.
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What does that say about the future of Europe and the world?
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A prism of both European politics and changing academia - and the loss of precious intellectual traditions
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What does that say about the future of Europe and the world?
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On the margins of the geopolitical changes, the shifts in the EU are also accelerating. In my newest EU-Analytics, I dug into all final votes from December 2025 – and the shift of power to the centre-right & far right is accelerating:
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People in Venezuela deserve to live free after years of oppression.
As the European Parliament has consistently affirmed, we do not consider Nicolás Maduro to be the legitimate, elected leader of Venezuela.
It does give further meaning though to the 'Venezuela majority' in which her European People's Party echoes the radical and extreme right voices of the ECR and the Patriots for Europe
Such weakness only risks making the Europeans more vulnerable (ie Greenland)
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It exists to restrain power and protect the weak from the strong.
When force replaces rules, sovereignty and legitimacy erode.
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People in Venezuela deserve to live free after years of oppression.
As the European Parliament has consistently affirmed, we do not consider Nicolás Maduro to be the legitimate, elected leader of Venezuela.
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On the other hand, to have fundamental decisions hinge on enhanced cooperation is a dangerous path for the EU to travel.
It will be unsustainable once Meloni sides with Orbán or Le Pen would come to power in France
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I have mixed feelings about the "solution" used yesterday to provide the 90 bn loan to Ukraine
On the one hand, this is the way that the European Council should have handled the Hungary-problem for long; much better than "bribing" them ...
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No force is immune to populism’s temptations, including those who claim to rescue us from it.
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This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
A short thread on how things stand as of 2024, with @chesdata.bsky.social, looking at salience, clarity, and unity of party positions towards the EU 🧵:
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Tomorrow the big HE strike! See you at Dam square!
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Striking thing is that my colleague Adam Tyler and I identified a similar 'Luddite coalition' against tech-run content filtering in the DSA
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I went through 51 final votes and 10 public Council votes for my latest EU-Analytics review – and found three different working majorities at play:
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I went through 51 final votes and 10 public Council votes for my latest EU-Analytics review – and found three different working majorities at play:
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There is so much work being produced, and so many competing demands on our time, that people rarely seem able to just closely read work and frankly say "yes, I believe this" or "no, I don't."
If we aren't doing this, what _are_ we doing?!
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What to learn from the Dublin system for solidarity in EU asylum governance? We recommend more transparency, better pressure assessment & prioritizing relocations from more to less pressured states.
@ftrauner.bsky.social & Philipp Stutz (VUB)
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