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Magnus Lund Nielsen
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Politics Journalist at @Euractiv.com 🇩🇰🇪🇺 ✍️All things Parliament, Commission, Brussels and beyond 🇬🇱 ✉️ [email protected]
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Vestager’s shoes were always going to be hard to fill.

But it’s worse than I feared.

Can we bring her back? I don’t see a problem with having two Danish commissioners 😁 🇩🇰
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It’s not a criticism. If anything, it’s refreshing that some countries don’t pretend the rotating presidency is more than what it is.
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Blogging all day from the EU leaders’ summit in Brussels

Migration, Middle East, and Merz on debut

Tune in 👇
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I’m back at the European Parliament in Strasbourg in glorious sunlight for two days of reporting for Euractiv with @magnuslundnielsen.bsky.social

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This seems bad. Pro-Russian parties (ST!/SV/AJ) polling at a combined 17,5% in an EU capital.
Latvia, SKDS poll:

Riga city council election

LPV (PfE): 22% (new)
P (Greens/EFA): 14% (new)
NA (ECR): 13% (new)
JV (EPP): 11% (-4)
ST! (→NI): 11% (new)
SV/AJ (ECR): 8% (new)
S (S&D): 6% (-11)
...

+/- vs. 2020 election

Fieldwork: May 2025
Sample size: 1,462

➤ europeelects.eu/latvia
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Absolutely incredible twist in the plot here.
“If they’d explained everything about Brexit, I’d probably have voted Remain!”

@lewisgoodall.com visits The Talbot in Blackpool, the UK’s first Reform pub, where the owner regrets Brexit - but stops short of blaming one of the key figures who sold it to him: Nigel Farage.
🚨🚨 Hungary "has significantly deviated from the model of a constitutional democracy" according to EU Court's advocate general.

The AG slams Hungary's anti-LGBT law in her opinion in Commission v Hungary (’Values of the European Union’).
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Har for nylig læst at Rusland manglede flydele.

Men nu har de åbenbart masser af flydele….
It is. He acknowledges that you can't draw conclusions on what a body of 720 MEPs think based on their 21 MEP sample.
He downright acknowledges that the data cannot be used to conclude what the Burson report claims - that based on the data you can say substantial about what "MEPs think". And that's exactly what the report does no less than three times.
Nicoletta enjoying her holidays:
🇺🇦The June 13th Home Affairs Council agenda confirms earlier reports: a one-year extension of temporary protection for Ukrainians is on the table, backed by a recommendation from member states outlining a roadmap to exit the TPD.