Steve Peers

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

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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

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 4d

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)...

eulawanalysis.blogspot.com

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 3h

Very good. EU member states are obliged to recognise same sex marriages of EU citizens who have exercised free movement rights.

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 7h

CJEU, free movement law/LGBT rights

New judgment: Member States (in this case Poland) are obliged to recognise same sex marriages of EU citizens who have exercised free movement rights curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...

Press release summary of the judgment. Full text in the link.

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 4h

Linehan found guilty of criminal damage, not guilty of harassment
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Graham Linehan cleared of harassing trans activist but guilty of damaging phone

Comedy writer Graham Linehan

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4h

‘A nucleus of a community’: the five-hour stage play about Dungeons & Dragons

In Initiative, a group of young people in the early 2000s finds themselves via the role-playing game, the latest example of its undying popularity

www.theguardian.com

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Alderik Oosthoek @alderik.bsky.social · 5h

“The investigation, which accused the tech giant of using “misleading and aggressive” commercial practices to get users to link services like Maps and Search, thus violating Italian consumer protection rules, struck at conduct that is also covered by the [DMA].” www.politico.eu/article/goog...”

Google’s compliance with EU’s Big Tech rules gets Italian redesign – POLITICO

Google’s Italian settlement on consent forms highlights the quiet power member states wield in ‘gold-plating’ EU rules.

www.politico.eu

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EU Court of Justice @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social · 5h

⚖️ Judgment in Case C-713/23 Wojewoda Mazowiecki:
Can a Member State refuse to recognise a same-sex marriage concluded in another Member State?

🎥 💬 Judge Jan Passer explains — with subtitles in all EU languages 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1...
📰 PR 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 5h

Here's the transcript. When I say ‘we had a convicted reality star’, you can add ‘who now rules as the most openly corrupt president in American history’ in your head.

downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 6h

Presumably the news outlets can just say it was non-hurtful banter?

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 6h

Reform Party threatened legal action for critical news stories
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media

Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls

www.theguardian.com

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 6h

🎤"We're living in a Ctrl+Alt+C bubble
🎵 We're trying to spend our way out of trouble"

A young Billy Bragg. The original lyric is "We're living in a North Sea bubble", from the eponymous song on the "Don't Try This at Home" EP

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 6h

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 6h

Out on the town having the time of my life doing some non-hurtful antisemitic banter with a bunch of Jewish friends. They're all just out of frame, laughing too

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 6h

There will be plenty in this Budget to cause frustration, but if, as is expected, the Chancellor lifts the pernicious two-child benefit limit, it will be a transformational moment for hundreds of thousands of children and their families. There is much more to do but this should be celebrated.

Rachel Reeves' budget decision could help 40,000 Merseyside kids

As build up to the hugely anticipated budget continues, there is one big decision that could have an enormous impact here on Merseyside

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 6h

Reform Party threatened legal action for critical news stories
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media

Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls

www.theguardian.com

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 7h

Guy who followed me on LinkedIn got furious once when I couldn't answer his question on some obscure point of international law. It was like he wanted a refund. Ok mate, but I never promised to do that, and you didn't pay me anything anyway

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 7h

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 7h

All the supposedly progressive people saying 'Nigel Farage's racism doesn't matter. His fans love it'.

It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 7h

If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.

We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media

Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls

www.theguardian.com

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 7h

In Slovakia, the law newly allows priests to enter hospitals without any restrictions.

HENDRIK DRÖßLER & RICHARD PATASSY stress that the law omits reference to a patient’s consent, warning that the ECHR prohibits improper proselytism and requires clear consent:

verfassungsblog.de/greys-autono...

“Ministers and bishops tell patients that ‘nothing will happen without your consent’. Strasbourg, however, has made clear that intent is not enough – the law must protect.”

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 7h

This week I am writing about obeying illegal military orders.

Happy to hear any informed views and of any interesting/useful information, on or off record.

DMs open.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 8h

Not main point (see my other post) but depressing that Phillips happily regurgitates entirely fictional numbers invented by far-right trolls on X and attributes them to "experts" {and Times is happy to print this slop]

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She has made a start on trying to reduce numbers of those here unlawfully. Bizarrely, we do not even try to estimate how many illegal immigrants there are. Others know — the Americans reckon they have 13.7 million. It matters greatly. The 40,000 or so returns claimed by the Home Office would be impressive if our number were 100,000. But since most experts would put it nearer to two million its efforts seem limp.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11h

A conversation, some legal analysis, and a brief discussion of the crazy investigation into Senator Kelly, as Trump’s need to take revenge on people who refuse to treat him like a king becomes increasingly all-consuming for him. joycevance.substack.com/p/explanatio...

Explanation: The Comey and James Prosecutions, Dismissed Without Prejudice

Preet's and my conversation and more

joycevance.substack.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13h

1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.

For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇

Article excerpt: Shortly after 8 a.m., Carreto’s phone rang. It was Carlos, telling her an officer with the Florida Highway Patrol had pulled over the truck on Interstate 4 near Tampa. The stated reason: cracks in their windshield. But Carreto was worried. She knew Florida police were collaborating with federal immigration authorities. Her fiancé was undocumented. She says she rushed to the scene and made it there just before the immigration officers.

As she feared, Matias had been detained. But to her surprise, so had Carlos. He was just a kid. (ProPublica is only identifying Carlos by his first name because he is a minor.) Carlos was in high school. He’d been living in the United States for over two years and was working toward applying for legal status to stay long term. The government had given her, a legal resident, custody of him. Now he was in handcuffs. Why would they take him too?

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15h

As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.

Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111

www.nytimes.com

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 15h

JUST IN: Judge Chutkan orders expedited processing of a FOIA request for files related to DOJ's handling of the Epstein files. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah you think the Middle East is full of White people.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 16h

Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...

In the lawsuit, Garza alleges Bally said Campbell's makes
"highly processed food" for "poor people" and made several derogatory comments about Indian employees, calling them "idiots."
"We have s--t for f**king poor people. Who buys our s--t? | don't buy Campbell's products barely anymore. It's not healthy now that I know what the f—'s in it," part of the recording said. "Bioengineered meat -- I don't wanna eat a piece of chicken that came from a 3-D printer."

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 17h

Just a jaw-dropping paragraph in Trevor Phillips's column for The Times.

This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school.

And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...