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hermanbeun.bsky.social
Herman Beun
@hermanbeun.bsky.social
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- EU politics formerly @ 🇪🇺 Parliament, 🇳🇱 parliament, 🇳🇱 Court of Auditors, Clingendael Institute, Sustainable Finance Lab - 17th c. Dutch/Flemish (mennonite, family) history - chaos sive natura - Den Haag 🇳🇱 / Genève 🇨🇭 - 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇸🇪🇳🇴 Écr.l'inf.
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Herman Beun @hermanbeun.bsky.social · 19h
For the Handkes of this world Dahrendorf wrote Versuchungen der Unfreiheit, Die Intellektuellen in Zeiten der Prüfung (2006)
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Herman Beun @hermanbeun.bsky.social · 20h
Alles wat de Duitse inlichtingendiensten hier zeggen over Duitsland is natuurlijk ook van toepassing op Nederland. Misschien ware het toch maar beter geweest als @nieuws.nos.nl de woordvoerster van Poetin in Nederland (tevens lijssttrekker FvD) vandaag geen podium had gegeven
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 20h
Should also be of interest for a wider European audience - excellent summary by @nicolange.bsky.social on the public hearing of German intelligence services and their assessment regarding Russian influence/hybrid operations in Germany and amongst European allies:
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Nico Lange @nicolange.bsky.social · 1d
Die 10 wichtigsten Punkte aus der öffentlichen Anhörung der Nachrichtendienste BND, BfV und MAD: 🧵
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Herman Beun @hermanbeun.bsky.social · 21h
Was Handke a Milošević lover before the FAZ was critical of him, or did the animosity between them exist earlier already?
But yeah, weird how people who have a valid point sometimes radicalise, perhaps especially if they are practically alone to make that point?
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Herman Beun @hermanbeun.bsky.social · 1d
In het huidige politieke klimaat maakt dit 50Plus wel tot een van de stabielste partijen
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Herman Beun @hermanbeun.bsky.social · 1d
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 1d
Ursula von der Leyen spoke with Olivér Várhelyi on Sunday.

She asked “the Commissioner whether he was aware of any recruitment attempt by Hungarian intelligence services targeting European Commission staff” and “the Commissioner he was not aware of these attempts,” her spokesperson says.
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Herman Beun @hermanbeun.bsky.social · 1d
Chef's kiss
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Herman Beun @hermanbeun.bsky.social · 1d
Agreed. There's a good book by @merijnoudenampsen.org and Bram Mellink on neoliberalism in the Dutch context: "Neoberalisme, een Nederlandse geschiedenis"
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Herman Beun @hermanbeun.bsky.social · 1d
Rather remarkable that he made an audio-autobiography like this? I may have a look (listen) but on the other hand hardly manage to stay up to date with the podcasts I follow 😬
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Herman Beun @hermanbeun.bsky.social · 1d
It's funny how thinkers like Enzensberger, when they talk about media see government (even secret service) controlled propaganda as the main danger. Of course a sign of the times without social media, but it made us blind for the dangers of market driven amplification of individual anger
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Tom Louwerse @tomlouwerse.nl · 1d
Uitspreken coalitievoorkeuren staat ver af van volwaardig stembusakkoord
www.montesquieu-instituut.nl/9394000/1/j9...
Uitspreken coalitievoorkeuren staat ver af van volwaardig stembusakkoord
In de aanloop naar de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen van 1972 presenteerden PvdA, PPR en D66 een gezamenlijk programma met als ondertitel ‘Regeerakkoord van de …
www.montesquieu-instituut.nl
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Herman Beun @hermanbeun.bsky.social · 2d
I think I found it: www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/eur...

(whole article accessible in archive.ph)
The Third Way and Liberty: An Authoritarian Streak in Europe's New Center
A curious authoritarian streak runs through the Third Way rhetoric of Tony Blair and other European leaders. The new center is ominously silent about freedom.
www.foreignaffairs.com
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Herman Beun @hermanbeun.bsky.social · 2d
(will try to find that Dahrendorf piece about 3rd Way totalitarianism for you)
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Herman Beun @hermanbeun.bsky.social · 2d
I do wonder about those parliamentary firewalls etc. They are indeed bad: research shows voter trust in parliaments increases the more election systems are proportional. But all of those walls have been in place for ages. Perhaps they also lulled politicians to sleep over what was brewing in society
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Herman Beun @hermanbeun.bsky.social · 2d
Oh yes, Dahrendorf. Such a true European also in his life story. I once decided years ago the world needed me to write his biography as a PhD, only to find out there was a very thorough (of course) German one already, so that never happened
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Herman Beun @hermanbeun.bsky.social · 2d
I'm glad I'm not alone feeling 'neoliberalism' is too much of a catch-all term :) I do like interpretations blaming a basically hayekian understanding of public policy that was (is) very wide-spread among politicians from right to left expecially since the 90s - but that's mostly 3rd Way too anyway
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Herman Beun @hermanbeun.bsky.social · 2d
And unscrupulous propagandists and their enablers, plus very broadly in media and politics an inadequate awareness of the weaknesses of existing democratic practice and how to strengthen and protect it.
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Herman Beun @hermanbeun.bsky.social · 2d
Oh yes, true, future historians will probably settle on the conclusion it was 3rd Way TINA followed by (the) 2008 (austerity response) that fucked things up, plus the social and psychological effects of COVID lock-downs, and (in Europe) the post-UKR energy and inflation crisis of course.
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Herman Beun @hermanbeun.bsky.social · 2d
Always the subtle diplomat, isn't he
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Herman Beun @hermanbeun.bsky.social · 2d
Me too, do let me know if/when you are in Europe as I would really enjoy that! (afraid I'll not be visiting the US under Trump unfortunately)

Also, forgive me for slow/delayed replies as I'm also watching the first big TV debate of this Dutch election campaign so my brain is a bit split
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Herman Beun @hermanbeun.bsky.social · 2d
Mélenchon Roi Infiniment, I think it means 🤔
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Herman Beun @hermanbeun.bsky.social · 2d
*LFI of course, not MRI (no idea where that came from)
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Herman Beun @hermanbeun.bsky.social · 2d
Bontenbal zelfs :-p Nieuwe spelling denk ik
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Herman Beun @hermanbeun.bsky.social · 2d
And I don't know what a (French) left-win foreign policy would look like. I would trust PS on this, but definitely not MRI for instance.
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Herman Beun @hermanbeun.bsky.social · 2d
Anyway, Macron (and not just him, and not just in FR, unfortunately) is still making the same mistakes of course. I heard one of the FR demonstrators last weeks say "On n'a que la rue pour nous exprimer", that is indeed the problem. (My hobby horse: Europe would improve with Swiss direct democracy)
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De Speld @speld.nl · 2d
Kijker waant zich even in heerlijke jaren 90 met debat tussen PvdA, VVD, CDA en D66 #RTLDebat
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