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Jakub Jaraczewski

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🇵🇱🇩🇪🇪🇺 Research Coordinator at @democracyreporting.bsky.social, working on re:constitution programme - rule of law in the EU. Lives on a Berlin-Poznań-Warszawa train. Usual disclaimers. He/him. Full-time nerd. Big fan of bios longer than 160 characters.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · Nov 13

Seems like the new craze here is to make a starter pack. So, for those you trying to make sense of the hr/dem/rol landscape in Poland and lost as to how many Supreme Courts the country has, here are some quality people to begin with.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 57m

You're becoming more Central/Eastern European, good.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 3h

Wait until Reform says "well that's because Poland exported all its criminals and mentally unstable people here", because that's guaranteed to pop up at some point.

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 3h

Elon Musk invested so much in warping the political opinions of his AI, and yet grok remains a fan of European Union membership as a key factor of Poland's economic success compared to the UK.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 3h

🇺🇸 I have zero sympathy for Trump going after people who wronged him, but is there anybody in the recent history of American politics who played their hand of cards more badly than James Comey?

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 5h

🇪🇺⚖️On 20 October, join us for the online launch of the STARLIGHT 2.0 project, our new undertaking together with @hertieschool.bsky.social and @hungarianhelsinki.bsky.social on strengthening strategic litigation on the rule of law and fundamental rights in the EU!

Democracy Reporting International @democracyreporting.bsky.social · 6h

🇪🇺 The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights is a powerful tool. Yet too often underused.

Join our webinar to learn how our new project STARLIGHT 2.0 helps lawyers, NGOs & rights defenders make the Charter work in strategic litigation. ⚖️

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 6h

Free wine in this economy? No wonder it sold out.

Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 9h

I mean, some have been very successful - the Hungarian Helsinki Committee has done an amazing job on analysing the developments and raising awareness of them abroad. I think that some of the biggest Hungarian challenges are the usual ones - Hungary is one country and Budapest is another one.

Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 12h

"How we didn't do what we should have done" is also a lesson.

Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 1d

Admittedly it took us almost 20 more years to get there, but now the chicken has come home to roost.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 1d

We're already home!

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 1d

Look, I'm taking the high road here, I'm not blasting the French government for failing to come up with a Polish version of that page.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d

icymi - “Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including… a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.” www.afr.com/companies/pr...

Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report

Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.

www.afr.com

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 1d

Exceptionalism is helluva drug.

Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 1d

Please honk only if the French manage to write something correctly in English, not the other way round. ;-)

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 1d

Hostile rhetoric? ✅Funding diverted to organisations supportive of the government? ✅ Dogwhistling at that one George guy? ✅ SLAPPs? ✅Minimising civil society input in legislation? ✅There are a lot of ways of constraining civic space that don't involve arresting people and closing down orgs. 3/

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 1d

There's just way too much of the current rule of law crisis in the US that's a copy-paste of something that happened before elsewhere (with some local American variations) yet a lot of reaction boils down to a combination of "I can't imagine it could happen here/it has never happened before" 2/

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 1d

🇺🇸🇸🇰🇭🇺🇵🇱 Once again, NGOs in the US would benefit greatly from talking to civil society in Hungary, Poland, Slovakia (and several other places) about how to deal with a government that's hostile to the part of the third sector that doesn't align with its ideology. 1/

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 1d

⚖️🗳️Our annual report covering 2024 is out - as the space for our work shrinks outside of Europe, our activities in the Old World are expanding, in particular in EU and Ukraine. Sadly, I didn't make it to the group photo :(

Democracy Reporting International @democracyreporting.bsky.social · 2d

From Kyiv to Kinshasa, Beirut to Berlin, we monitored AI chatbots, exposed fake TikTok accounts, supported Ukraine’s reforms, and strengthened youth, women, and civil society participation in 2024 🤝

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Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social · 2d

#Czechia’s elections mark a populist shift, but Babiš now faces a hard path to form a government. The further he’s pulled to the right, the greater the risk of EU fragmentation.

Quick @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social reaction from @zecsaky.bsky.social

Read here:

CER quick reaction: The Czech elections

Czechia’s elections mark a populist shift, but Babiš faces a hard path to form a government. The further he’s pulled to the right, the greater the risk of EU fragmentation.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 2d

Whoever gives me a Monday morning 6:30 AM train that arrives in Berlin at 9 AM for 10 EUR gets my vote. Sadly, it appears that RegioJet wants to skip the crucial railway and culture hub of Świebodzin along the way, depriving travellers of the view of Giant Jesus Statue and a chance to talk to Darek.

Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 2d

I really should have checked before posting more often - DB ICE3 Neo is now undergoing tests on CMK, Poland's high-speed, high-capacity north-south track running from Warsaw to Katowice. No word on when DB wants to make their high speed CEE expansion a reality, tho.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 2d

🇵🇱🇨🇿🛤️🇩🇪 Polish railway regulator OKs an expansion of Regiojet operations in Poland from December 2026 including, crucially for me, a Warsaw-Poznan-Berlin connection, starting with 3 trains daily. DB, you better hurry up with your ICE from Germany to Poland idea.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 2d

Le ttuce?

Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 2d

Can't hear you over the sounds of Sowietskoje Igristoje opening.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 2d

Just look at Hungary - a role of model of political stability and predictability, sadly(?) that might soon come to an end.

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