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Steve Peers
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Professor of EU and Human Rights Law, Royal Holloway University of London. Usual disclaimers.

Steve Peers is a British academic and an expert on the European Union. He is a professor in the Department of Law and Criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of EU Justice and Home Affairs Law and The Brexit: The Legal Framework for Withdrawal from the EU or Renegotiation of EU Membership. .. more

Political science 73%
Law 14%
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The EU's Court of Justice has confirmed that beneficiaries of temporary protection in the EU must be allowed to apply for other forms of protection.

Analysis of the judgment, by Dr Meltem Ineli Ciger: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/11/misr...
EU Law Analysis
Misreading the Temporary Protection Directive? The CJEU sets the record straight on access to subsidiary protection in Framholm (C-195/25)...
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The far right is thriving in many places, unfortunately...

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OBR calls in cyber expert over botched release of Budget analysis
OBR calls in cyber expert over botched release of Budget analysis
Rachel Reeves's statement was thrown into chaos after journalists were able to access the document early.
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Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...

(from my presentation at the IMF last week)

according to the article, '693,000 people emigrated from the UK, up by 43,000 on the previous year.' Some will be international students finishing courses/graduate visas, of course.

one for IPSO? @jdportes.bsky.social

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The Brexodus continues.

“Overall, the provisional figures show 70,000 more EU nationals left than arrived, while 109,000 more British nationals left than arrived. By contrast, the net migration figure for non-EU nationals was 383,000.”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
UK net migration drops sharply to 204,000 in year to June - live updates
The Office for National Statistics says the fall is driven by fewer non-EU nationals arriving for work and study, and a
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Report on the application of EU law on combating CSA material online - ec.europa.eu/transparency...
Register of Commission Documents
ec.europa.eu

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Labour's proposed extension of the waiting time for Indefinite Leave to Remain may not go down well with their voters, writes @heather-rolfe.bsky.social ukandeu.ac.uk/labour-risks...
"We will always be on the side of working people", Farage's 'Letter to the Nation' says today.

What he neglects to admit is that Reform plans to cut £300+ billion from the public services that these "working people" rely on every day.

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For non-EU nationals, the drop in students seems to be slowing - good news for universities. Work visas continue their precipitous fall. Less good.

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"It’s not the job of the Commission to negotiate return hubs", says EU Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner in sit-down interview with Euractiv.
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Net migration fell sharply agaim to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, having been 344k in 2024 and 848k in 2023. But falling immigration has been the biggest secret - and it is time for the media and political debate to catch up with this change
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UK net migration fell to 204,000 in year to June - live updates
Net migration, the difference between those entering and leaving the country, was 345,000 in 2024 according to revised figures.
www.bbc.co.uk
"The projection [of net 340k] would undermine Sir Keir Starmer’s election manifesto pledge to reduce net migration". (Telegraph). He inherited 844k!
We have found a number of procedural shortcomings in how @ec.europa.eu prepared legislative proposals that it considered urgent.

The proposals concerned:
☑️ Corporate sustainability (Omnibus I)
☑️ Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
☑️ Countering migrant smuggling

www.ombudsman.europa.eu/press-releas...

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1/ We’ve just launched a new in-depth resource that examines global counter-terrorism and security networks.

It provides an evidence base for how these security norms are implemented, their effects on human rights and how we can push for change.

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We’ve seen claims online that asylum seekers are being given Freedom Passes for free London travel.

They may be eligible if they meet location, age or disability criteria which apply to all Londoners. There’s no special provision for asylum seekers.
Are asylum seekers given Freedom Passes for free travel in London? – Full Fact
There is no specific provision for asylum seekers to get free travel in London but they may be eligible for Freedom Passes like any other Londoner.
fullfact.org

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🚨 New analysis of #Pact and #EU asylum governance 🚨

Which lessons to be drawn from the Dublin system for the implementation of the New Pact’s solidarity mechanism? This paper analyses all transfers that took place between 2008 and 2024 in the EU.

www.epc.eu/publication/...
Towards a Fairer EU Asylum Policy: Lessons from the Dublin system for the EU’s Solidarity Mechanism
On 11 November 2025, the European Commission released its first European Annual Asylum and Migration Report as part of the new policy cycle introduced by the EU’s Pact on Migration and Asylum. The Commission examined the asylum, migration and reception situation across the EU and found that four member states are under ‘migratory pressure’, and 14 others either ‘at risk’ or facing a ‘significant migration situation’.
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🚨🚨"Whatever the reason Witkoff is prolonging the conflict. He is not promoting peace. If this were a normal American administration, he would be fired immediately. But nothing about this negotiation, or this administration, is normal at all." @anneapplebaum.bsky.social's damning verdict on #witkoff.
New net migration figures at 930am.

Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023

56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down

2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same

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Over 1.4 million people with disabilities in the EU live in institutions.

Many face neglect, abuse, and even violence.

The latest report from @fra.europa.eu shows how we can change this.

Find out more: fra.europa.eu/en/news/2025...

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Brunner rules out EU-led return hubs: In today’s edition: Magnus Brunner defends Europe’s hard-edged migration shift as he rewrites the asylum rulebook, MEPs brace for a pre-Christmas immunity vote tied to Qatargate, and Big Oil drags the EU to court over its new carbon-storage mandate
Brunner rules out EU-led return hubs
In today’s edition: Magnus Brunner defends Europe’s hard-edged migration shift as he rewrites the asylum rulebook, MEPs brace for a pre-Christmas immunity vote tied to Qatargate, and Big Oil drags the EU to court over its new carbon-storage mandate
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"A new poll suggests nearly half of Britons think there are more migrants in the UK illegally than legally, but in reality just 7% arrive through irregular channels"

Charlie Angela on how sensationalist reporting in the right wing press is fuelling falsehoods and misconceptions

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A member of the FBI threatened Thomas Massie's staff with criminal investigations, if he didn't "straighten up and play ball".
After 30 years in prison and 25 years on Louisiana's death row, Chris Duncan walked out of Angola today a free man.

"I'm cruising down a highway," he texted me. "Most glaring emotion is shock."
I know who Nus Ghani MP is - not because we always agree - but because she’s been serving her constituency (as well as lewks) since 2015.

Who the hell is Lucy White?!

Ah, a quick google search reveals her as a rentagob for GB ‘news.’

I know which one is qualified to chair the budget debate.

Indeed how many students (and colleagues) would fall within the definition of these groups that he appears to detest?
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!

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48-46%. She has an excellent chance of picking up that seat. Let's Goooooo!!!

#USDemocracy

www.newsweek.com/democrats-cl...
Democrats close to flipping Trump Tennessee District—Poll
Aftyn Behn was just two points behind Matt Van Epps in a district Donald Trump carried by 22 points in the 2024 presidential election.
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Nus Ghani MP - the Deputy Speaker - moved to the UK as a small child. She has been elected by the voters in Wealden in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024

More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain