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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

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 3d

The EU's General Court has upheld the EU/US arrangements for transfers of personal data to the US. Analysis by Dr Samira Allioui: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

The General Court of the European Union upholds the Data Privacy Framework

Dr Samira Allioui , Research fellow, Centre d'études internationales et européennes, Université de Strasbourg Photo credit : Ibrahim...

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 13h

How can China impose export control on goods it doesn't make? Control of transit?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump announces he's putting a bajillion percent tariff on China

It has just been learned that China has taken an extraordinarily aggressive position on Trade in sending an extremely hostile letter to the World, stating that they were going to, effective November 1st, 2025, impose large scale Export Controls on virtually every product they make, and some not even made by them. This affects ALL Countries, without exception, and was obviously a plan devised by them years ago. It is absolutely unheard of in International Trade, and a moral disgrace in dealing with other Nations.

Based on the fact that China has taken this unprecedented position, and speaking only for the U.S.A., and not other Nations who were similarly threatened, starting November 1st, 2025 (or sooner, depending on any further actions or changes taken by China), the United States of America will impose a Tariff of 100% on China, over and above any Tariff that they are currently paying. Also on November 1st, we will impose Export Controls on any and all critical software.

It is impossible to believe that China would have taken such an action, but they have, and the rest is History. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 13h

Counterpoint:

You absolutely do not have to hand it to enslavers

Wilson: Now, one of the things I want to do is say: I’m really glad that slavery’s gone, and good riddance. And I want to say that the Southern slave owner, who read the books of Ephesians and Colossians and 1 Timothy and treated his slaves decently, remembering that he had a master in heaven who he studiously tried to obey — what Paul said slave owners were supposed to do — I would say he was not an orc, and he is part of the reason why slavery ended. In other words, I would say he’s a good guy.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 15h

Can we compare the overall drop in illegal entry to the drop in the number of Syrian asylum-seekers?

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 15h

The Nobel prize for 🍑 kissing, even!

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 16h

It's not adopted yet! Taken off next week's agenda...

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 19h

This year has felt like 9 months of babysitting somebody else’s kid and they’re making you play a boardgame you don’t wanna play and making up the rules so only they can win and also they’re screaming the whole time and their parents aren’t coming home anytime soon and you’re paying them $150 a day

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Tom Jenkins @tomoljenkins.bsky.social · 19h

Denmark vs @europarl.europa.eu @consilium.europa.eu Judgement on Adequate minimum wages in the European Union Directive coming up on 11 November 🤞
H/T @stevepeers.bsky.social
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 19h

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Markus Frischhut @mrfrischhut.bsky.social · 20h

#InTodaysOJ on #EURLex, Commission Guidelines on measures to ensure a #highlevel of #privacy, #safety & #security for #minors online, Art 28(4) Reg (EU) 2022/2065

#onlineplatforms #AgeVerification #socialmedia

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EUR-Lex - 52025XC05519 - EN - EUR-Lex

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Markus Frischhut @mrfrischhut.bsky.social · 20h

#InTodaysOJ on #EURLex, Communication from the Commission – Guidelines to support the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2024/900 on the #transparency and targeting of #politicaladvertising

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 20h

European Parliament about to adopt its negotiation position on the proposed amendment to EU law on smuggling of migrants - which must then be negotiated with Member States. I commented on the Member States' position here - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 20h

What are the causes though? EU measures? The end of Assad meaning fewer Syrians leaving? A bit of both?

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 20h

Gibraltar suspends applications for residence after treaty news prompted flood of requests from Brits.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 20h

2/ As I explain in the blog post, I don't agree with their approach and would place more stress on Art 10 - a point which is not specific to offended Muslims, but goes back to earlier case law re offended Catholics - but the case law is what it is; I wonder how the UK court judgment addressed it.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 20h

I wrote this awhile back on similar issues (although one might argue that the nature of the insult is different); note that the ECtHR case law is inclined to balance Art 10 rights against Art 11 freedom of religion rights 1/ eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2018/10/free...

Freedom to insult? Balancing freedom of expression with religious tolerance in ECHR case law

Professor Steve Peers , University of Essex A recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights has raised again the questio...

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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 21h

Valdis Dombrovskis says the €140 billion loan to Ukraine could go ahead without switching sanctions from unanimity to qualified majority voting:

"Certainly, it's helpful to put the sanctions on a safer footing, but I would not see this as an insurmountable obstacle for the Reparations Loan."

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 21h

Just listened to Rob Jetten’s NRC interview a week ago; he expresses hope that European action will lead to lower illegal migration. But it already has! Asylum seekers are plummeting. This doesn’t seem to have broken through.

Europe’s astonishing drop in illegal migration

Europe’s big, invisible wall is slowing boat crossings by migrants

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22h

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 22h

I wonder whether Trump is currently being briefed on whether the Nobel Committee uses Dominion Voting Systems.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 23h

We don't know what the CJEU will say yet

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 23h

Putin's Russia, where famously there are no repercussions for criticising the govt /s

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

Pavel Durov tweeted this from UAE after making an immense fortune in Putin's Russia

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 23h

Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado wins

Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 23h

CJEU, upcoming

Nov 11th - judgment on Danish challenge to EU law on framework for minimum wage

Nov 13th - Advocate-General opinions on whether a) Spanish amnesty for Catalan politicians breached EU anti-terrorism law; b) Catalan govt breached EU fraud law

Nov 13th - judgment on non-EU volunteers

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Luise Quaritsch @luisequaritsch.bsky.social · 23h

Today, the EU’s Regulation on the Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising enters into force. From now on, political ads – notably both online and offline – will have to carry a transparency label with key information about why people are seeing the ad, who paid for it and how much. 1/

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

Pavel Durov tweeted this from UAE after making an immense fortune in Putin's Russia

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Meet the Press @meetthepress.com · 1d

Officials say court rulings and protests are part of an insurrection — which Trump's lawyers argued in court the Jan. 6 attack wasn't — as they consider invoking the Insurrection Act.

Court rulings, anti-ICE protests, Democrats: What the Trump administration sees as 'insurrection'

Officials say court rulings and protests are part of an insurrection — which Trump's lawyers argued in court the Jan. 6 attack wasn't — as they consider invoking the Insurrection Act.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

I see Robert Jenrick is supporting Hamit Coskun who is appealing his conviction by reference to the ECHR (which Jenrick wants to withdraw from).

Who knew that the ECHR could be useful, even to the anti-ECHR Hard Right?

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

I think there is a challenge for Mark Rowley and Shabana Mahmood in this celebration of their plans as further impunity for sustained racist hatred and harassment that they will need to navigate with great care

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