Anders Larson
@thisisanders.bsky.social
Chronically ill legal professional |
Occasional expert |
American | British | European
Echter Wiener | Citoyen | Philadelphian
European Federalist | #Renaissance | #Libdems
Occasional expert |
American | British | European
Echter Wiener | Citoyen | Philadelphian
European Federalist | #Renaissance | #Libdems
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This is why this should never have gotten started. It‘s an absolute mess that he cannot communicate to others because he doesn’t have a handle on it himself.
December 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is why this should never have gotten started. It‘s an absolute mess that he cannot communicate to others because he doesn’t have a handle on it himself.
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I kept reading. I am going to be as charitable as I can under the circumstances: this is a disaster.
December 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I kept reading. I am going to be as charitable as I can under the circumstances: this is a disaster.
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“Birthright subjectship only applied if your parents were under the protection of the sovereign, and if your parents had come unlawfully, without invitation... without safe conduct, they would not have been under the protection of the sovereign,” Wurman said.
www.thecentersquare.com/national/art...
www.thecentersquare.com/national/art...
Supreme Court could redefine 14th Amendment application
(The Center Square) - The U.S. Supreme Court will decide a case in 2026 challenging President Donald Trump’s authority to end birthright citizenship.
www.thecentersquare.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
“Birthright subjectship only applied if your parents were under the protection of the sovereign, and if your parents had come unlawfully, without invitation... without safe conduct, they would not have been under the protection of the sovereign,” Wurman said.
www.thecentersquare.com/national/art...
www.thecentersquare.com/national/art...
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Emmanuel Macron peut-être fier de son bilan:
La France tient bon dans la zone euro avec une croissance de 1% au 1er semestre 2025 et un chômage stable. Nobel de physique et d’économie décernés à Michel Devoret et Philippe Aghion, ainsi que les JO de Paris et la réouverture de Notre-Dame.
La France tient bon dans la zone euro avec une croissance de 1% au 1er semestre 2025 et un chômage stable. Nobel de physique et d’économie décernés à Michel Devoret et Philippe Aghion, ainsi que les JO de Paris et la réouverture de Notre-Dame.
December 30, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Emmanuel Macron peut-être fier de son bilan:
La France tient bon dans la zone euro avec une croissance de 1% au 1er semestre 2025 et un chômage stable. Nobel de physique et d’économie décernés à Michel Devoret et Philippe Aghion, ainsi que les JO de Paris et la réouverture de Notre-Dame.
La France tient bon dans la zone euro avec une croissance de 1% au 1er semestre 2025 et un chômage stable. Nobel de physique et d’économie décernés à Michel Devoret et Philippe Aghion, ainsi que les JO de Paris et la réouverture de Notre-Dame.
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Les Allemands sont inquiets du risque de fuite d'informations sensibles à cause de la présence de l'AfD aux réunions sur la sécurité européenne (Forum de sécurité de Munich en février 2026).
Les Français avec 15 RN au sein de la commission de la défense nationale et des forces armées (dont un VP)..
Les Français avec 15 RN au sein de la commission de la défense nationale et des forces armées (dont un VP)..
December 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Les Allemands sont inquiets du risque de fuite d'informations sensibles à cause de la présence de l'AfD aux réunions sur la sécurité européenne (Forum de sécurité de Munich en février 2026).
Les Français avec 15 RN au sein de la commission de la défense nationale et des forces armées (dont un VP)..
Les Français avec 15 RN au sein de la commission de la défense nationale et des forces armées (dont un VP)..
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The revocation of citizenship is a fundamental and brutal discretionary power of the state.
One of the more depressing themes in recent judgments is how the courts nod-along and shrug when faced with this brute exercise of fundamental power, rather than subjecting this power to anxious scrutiny.
One of the more depressing themes in recent judgments is how the courts nod-along and shrug when faced with this brute exercise of fundamental power, rather than subjecting this power to anxious scrutiny.
December 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The revocation of citizenship is a fundamental and brutal discretionary power of the state.
One of the more depressing themes in recent judgments is how the courts nod-along and shrug when faced with this brute exercise of fundamental power, rather than subjecting this power to anxious scrutiny.
One of the more depressing themes in recent judgments is how the courts nod-along and shrug when faced with this brute exercise of fundamental power, rather than subjecting this power to anxious scrutiny.
And "higher education" (alongside education) includes R&D, innovation and commercialization, IP, startups and spin-offs, academic networks, the creatribve arts, global collaboration, and the *global* economic, cultural, and social impact these institutions have, btw.
What is also fascinating about Blue Labour or Brexiter Tory is they keep handwaving at Germany or China without looking at why specific sectors are still competitive in both. Probably because the emphasis on higher engineering and design skills contradicts UK elite self-hatred of higher education
December 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
And "higher education" (alongside education) includes R&D, innovation and commercialization, IP, startups and spin-offs, academic networks, the creatribve arts, global collaboration, and the *global* economic, cultural, and social impact these institutions have, btw.
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What it’s not Belgium winning or Germany losing, but Europeans moving forward together?
Let’s tone down, and ponder who we are and where we’re going
www.politico.eu/article/bart...
Let’s tone down, and ponder who we are and where we’re going
www.politico.eu/article/bart...
Winners and losers of EU’s make-or-break Ukraine summit
Ukraine finally got its money after a 16-hour meeting of EU leaders, but not everyone was victorious.
www.politico.eu
December 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
What it’s not Belgium winning or Germany losing, but Europeans moving forward together?
Let’s tone down, and ponder who we are and where we’re going
www.politico.eu/article/bart...
Let’s tone down, and ponder who we are and where we’re going
www.politico.eu/article/bart...
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Important point from Martin. I do think there is may be some template function here.
Even if it largely uses the existing routes to do common issuance and thus with unanimity (witness Orban et al folding there), some holdouts get compensated so it's a bit Eurobonds with a coalition of the willing.
Even if it largely uses the existing routes to do common issuance and thus with unanimity (witness Orban et al folding there), some holdouts get compensated so it's a bit Eurobonds with a coalition of the willing.
8. An additional bonus is the innovation of issuing Eurobonds with a mechanism to remove financial obligations from a few recalcitrant holdout countries. This is good for the EU both for the increase in the amount of safe assets available and for the precedent it sets. /
December 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Important point from Martin. I do think there is may be some template function here.
Even if it largely uses the existing routes to do common issuance and thus with unanimity (witness Orban et al folding there), some holdouts get compensated so it's a bit Eurobonds with a coalition of the willing.
Even if it largely uses the existing routes to do common issuance and thus with unanimity (witness Orban et al folding there), some holdouts get compensated so it's a bit Eurobonds with a coalition of the willing.
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Passing new legislation „in record time“ is not a good thing if the impacts/consequences are unclear.
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
Safe third country: Council and European Parliament agree on new EU law restricting admissibility of asylum claims
The Council of the EU and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on a regulation regarding the application of the safe third country concept.
www.consilium.europa.eu
December 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Passing new legislation „in record time“ is not a good thing if the impacts/consequences are unclear.
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
There is a hard truth here. Either the EU moves toward genuine federation or it does not. If not, then the € is as good as it is going to get, to the systematic disadvantage of certain MS whose normalcy is treated as pathological by a currency union shaped by "Frugal" fiscal and monetary preferences
Germany keeps playing chess against itself in Europe. Only reason Meloni can torpedo a deal on Russia's reserves is because Germany allows the ECB to cap Italy's yields. Europe's dysfunction starts and ends with the ECB. Time for Germany to say what's what.
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/why-euro-b...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/why-euro-b...
December 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
There is a hard truth here. Either the EU moves toward genuine federation or it does not. If not, then the € is as good as it is going to get, to the systematic disadvantage of certain MS whose normalcy is treated as pathological by a currency union shaped by "Frugal" fiscal and monetary preferences
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Also making the point in today's Guardian piece that the sight of global companies working overtly with the US government to coerce a UK government desperate for positive headlines about investment is a hugely worrying precedent which we need to be discussing.
December 18, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Also making the point in today's Guardian piece that the sight of global companies working overtly with the US government to coerce a UK government desperate for positive headlines about investment is a hugely worrying precedent which we need to be discussing.
China, the US, & the far-right are all eating away at our continental capacity, civic space & polity. 90s deregulation, 00s atlanticist neoliberalism and modern-day Euroskepticism all point away from the EU while our citizens want more EU, more than ever. I am not optimistic.
Today's European Council marks the first gathering of EU leaders facing war from Russia & betrayal from the US
It will test national leaders' egoisms while exposing the limits of increasingly intergovernmental decision-making under pressure
Europeans (and non-Europeans) are watching
#EUCO
It will test national leaders' egoisms while exposing the limits of increasingly intergovernmental decision-making under pressure
Europeans (and non-Europeans) are watching
#EUCO
December 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
China, the US, & the far-right are all eating away at our continental capacity, civic space & polity. 90s deregulation, 00s atlanticist neoliberalism and modern-day Euroskepticism all point away from the EU while our citizens want more EU, more than ever. I am not optimistic.
Schlimmverbessern 101: Legislative predictability is more important for business than performative deregulation.
In a funny/tragic twist, it turns out the car lobby is now angry at the EU for getting rid of the 2035 internal-combustion engine ban.
That's the problem with giving in to lobbyists: whatever you do, it's never enough.
www.ft.com/content/5265...
That's the problem with giving in to lobbyists: whatever you do, it's never enough.
www.ft.com/content/5265...
Carmakers sour on EU’s ‘disastrous’ petrol engine rule changes
As details have become clearer, executives warn the easing of the combustion engine ban would lead to more expensive vehicles
www.ft.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Schlimmverbessern 101: Legislative predictability is more important for business than performative deregulation.
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Good. Go for it! But an Ukraine eurobond needs to be joint & several liability (that is, federal), issued by the EU Commission, paid for by genuine own resources not MS GNI contributions — so not like the previous NGE effort that encumbers national treasuries.
www.euractiv.com/news/belgium...
www.euractiv.com/news/belgium...
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Good. Go for it! But an Ukraine eurobond needs to be joint & several liability (that is, federal), issued by the EU Commission, paid for by genuine own resources not MS GNI contributions — so not like the previous NGE effort that encumbers national treasuries.
www.euractiv.com/news/belgium...
www.euractiv.com/news/belgium...
Schlimmverbessern 101: Austria acted early with higher wages (and support measures for energy costs, etc.), which helped households absorb initial cost shocks. But the result was that prices got “stuck” higher, so the intervention has made inflation more persistent in AT than elsewhere.
Zum Vergleich: Euro Raum im Schnitt: 2,4%
Die Inflation ist im November im Vergleich zum Vorjahresmonat bei 4,0 Prozent gelegen und damit den dritten Monat in Folge unverändert hoch.
December 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Schlimmverbessern 101: Austria acted early with higher wages (and support measures for energy costs, etc.), which helped households absorb initial cost shocks. But the result was that prices got “stuck” higher, so the intervention has made inflation more persistent in AT than elsewhere.
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Zum Vergleich: Euro Raum im Schnitt: 2,4%
Die Inflation ist im November im Vergleich zum Vorjahresmonat bei 4,0 Prozent gelegen und damit den dritten Monat in Folge unverändert hoch.
December 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Zum Vergleich: Euro Raum im Schnitt: 2,4%
There are two immediate points: 1. Farage being a far/hard-right figure is already factored-in, and any attempt to brand him as such is like branding McDonalds as junk food. 2. Apologizing would hurt his political brand as someone who unapologetically speaks there mind.
“What disturbs us is less what happened years ago, hurtful as it was, but rather your refusal to acknowledge your past behaviour or apologise for it”
If Farage was made to acknowledge his past behaviour or apologise for it, his career would have ended years ago.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
If Farage was made to acknowledge his past behaviour or apologise for it, his career would have ended years ago.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage told to apologise by 26 of his school contemporaries
Open letter to Reform UK leader expresses ‘dismay and anger’ at his response to racism and antisemitism allegations
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
There are two immediate points: 1. Farage being a far/hard-right figure is already factored-in, and any attempt to brand him as such is like branding McDonalds as junk food. 2. Apologizing would hurt his political brand as someone who unapologetically speaks there mind.
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"Suggesting that a state might withdraw from the ECHR or ignore CJEU rulings – even if done insincerely for short-term political gains – only normalises the agenda of the far right and reinforces the impression that euroscepticism and anti-immigrant positions were legitimate from the outset" 💯
As Donald Tusk’s rhetoric increasingly echoes Orbán, WOJCIECH ZOMERSKI sounds a warning for democratic restoration:
No force is immune to populism’s temptations, including those who claim to rescue us from it.
verfassungsblog.de/populism-pol...
No force is immune to populism’s temptations, including those who claim to rescue us from it.
verfassungsblog.de/populism-pol...
December 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"Suggesting that a state might withdraw from the ECHR or ignore CJEU rulings – even if done insincerely for short-term political gains – only normalises the agenda of the far right and reinforces the impression that euroscepticism and anti-immigrant positions were legitimate from the outset" 💯
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2/ China.....maybe its not just "cheap labor" and "subsidies"
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/c...
Why Can’t the U.S. Build 5-Minute E.V. Chargers?
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
2/ China.....maybe its not just "cheap labor" and "subsidies"
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/c...
Pages can be turned very easily...
Poland's Donald Tusk says yesterday's Ukraine peace talks in Berlin were a "breakthrough" because, "perhaps for the first time, it was so clearly visible that the Americans, Europeans and Ukraine are on the same side".
He said that the US is offering strong security guarantees to Ukraine.
He said that the US is offering strong security guarantees to Ukraine.
Zachód tworzy wspólny front wobec Rosji. Tusk mówi o przełomie
Poniedziałkowe rozmowy w Berlinie przyniosły — zdaniem premiera Donalda Tuska — jakościową zmianę w podejściu Zachodu do wojny w Ukrainie. Szef polskiego rządu podkreślił, że po raz pierwszy tak wy...
businessinsider.com.pl
December 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Pages can be turned very easily...
My first British Christmas since I was a bairn.
December 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
My first British Christmas since I was a bairn.
I usually say that every innovation now makes sense if you realise it's designed for Mars and not Earth, but I still don't understand the point of hands-free driving. Can anyone illuminate me on why we are going all in for it?
Rivian's "Universal Hands Free" feature kicks off an "Autonomy+" subscription. Here's how it compares to Tesla, GM and Ford.
insideevs.com/news/781655/...
insideevs.com/news/781655/...
Here's How Much Rivian's Tesla FSD-Fighting Feature Will Cost And What You Get
Rivian's 'Universal Hands-Free' feature kicks off an 'Autonomy+' subscription. Here's how it compares to Tesla, GM and Ford.
insideevs.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I usually say that every innovation now makes sense if you realise it's designed for Mars and not Earth, but I still don't understand the point of hands-free driving. Can anyone illuminate me on why we are going all in for it?
YES
Lawyer Sues The IRS, Demanding It Recognize Pets As Legal Dependents
Lawyer Sues The IRS, Demanding It Recognize Pets As Legal Dependents
Pets run many human households, but when tax season comes, they don’t count—no matter how dependent on you they are. A lawsuit filed by Amanda Reynolds seeks to change that.
www.forbes.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
YES
How many more people need to say it...
Das Problem ist nicht, dass es in Europa an Ideen oder Ehrgeiz mangelt. Es ist einfach nicht möglich, Innovationen zu kommerzialisieren, da uneinheitliche, restriktive Vorschriften von 27 verschiedene Regierungen behindern.
🎶 Wenn ich König von Europa wär' ... 🎶
www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/S...
🎶 Wenn ich König von Europa wär' ... 🎶
www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/S...
So könnte Europa im KI-Wettrennen bestehen
Europa hat Top-Talente, mehr Einwohner als die USA und jede Menge Ideen. Trotzdem dominieren die Tech-Riesen aus dem Silicon Valley den Kontinent. Für einen europäischen KI-Champion braucht es mehr Ge...
www.n-tv.de
December 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
How many more people need to say it...