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Mats Engström
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Senior policy fellow ECFR, IEEP Associate. These are my personal views.
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Mats Engström @matsengstrom.bsky.social · 2d
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INTERVIEW: ‘Take it off the table’: Union chief urges Brussels to protect workers’ rights | Euractiv
The Commission's €2 trillion EU budget proposal is also "too small" and could spell "disaster" for European regions, said Esther Lynch, head of Europe's largest trade union organisation
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Teresa Ribera @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu · 2d
What if we complement the Paris Agreement with a treaty of non-proliferation of fossil fuels?, Susana Muhamad, former minister of Colombia raises the question as a need for effectiveness.
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Susana Muhamad, politóloga y activista climática: “El Acuerdo de París no está funcionando”
La exministra colombiana de medio ambiente impulsa la creación de un tratado internacional de no proliferación de combustibles. “Hay una dependencia de todo el sistema financiero y político de las ren...
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 5d
Elon Musk promises to do to Wikipedia what he did to the federal government www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/elon...
Elon Musk promises to do to Wikipedia what he did to the federal government
Wikipedia is one of the 10 most popular websites on planet Earth and, in this reporter's opinion, one of humanity's greatest modern achievements of the digital age. It's the closest we've gotten to…
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Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · 5d
Czechia, 89,14% polling places counted:

National parliament election

ANO-PfE: 36.02% (+8.9)
SPOLU-ECR|EPP: 22.22% (-5.6)
STAN-EPP: 11% (n.a.)
Piráti-G/EFA: 8% (n.a.)
SPD-ESN: 8.02% (-1.5)
Auto-PfE: 7% (new)
Stačilo!-NI|S&D: 4% (n.a.)
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+/- vs. 2021 election

➤ europeelects.eu/czechia
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 6d
According to early reports, EU citizens were kidnapped in international waters, brought to a prison known for its human-rights abuses, and interrogated for hours without access to food, water, or consular assistance. This has got to have consequences.
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 6d
Swedish 🇸🇪 PM Ulf Kristersson continues to have no opinion about whether Swedish citizens should be kidnapped in international waters: www.dn.se/varlden/sven... I don’t think we’ve ever had such a spineless government.
Svenska aktivister förda till ökenfängelse vid Gaza
Tio svenska medborgare som rest med i konvojen till Gaza har frihetsberövats och förts till Ketziotfängelset i Negevöknen.
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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 6d
Does the astounding corruption of the Trump family actually have a plus side? Whereas previous US administrations have been in the pocket of the pro-Israel lobby, Trump has been bought by the Gulf states, so there may finally be some balance. Corruption as interest aggregation?
How Fury Over Israel’s Qatar Attack Pushed Netanyahu on Gaza
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 8d
🚨New Publication 🚨
Europe’s #EnergySecurity on the path to climate neutrality. Devising a resilience strategy for the mid-transition.

Policy brief by @agoraew.bsky.social and @ecologic.eu
I co-authored with 🙏 @marcogiuli.bsky.social Frauke Thies & Krisztina Zálnoky .
www.ecologic.eu/20204
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Europe's energy security on the path to climate neutrality
The EU must rethink its energy security in light of increasingly renewable, decentralized, and electrified energy systems. Energy security already benefiting from the early start of the energy transit...
www.ecologic.eu
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Carina Blomcrantz @blomcrantz.bsky.social · 7d
”Regeringskansliet har blivit en bunker. Den enda informationen om myndighetens arbetssätt och processer kommer nu från tidigare politiskt anställda som efter avslutad anställning i Regeringskansliet kan sälja sina kunskaper på lobbymarknaden.”

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DN Debatt Repliker. ”Antingen förstår Regeringskansliet inte – eller så vilseleder man medvetet”
Två professorer: Regeringskansliet har blivit en bunker som lämnar icke-svar på ett påtagligt demokratiskt problem.
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Mats Engström @matsengstrom.bsky.social · 8d
Now Ursula von der Leyen speaks openly about deregulation. The economic case is weak, to say the least. Not to mention the commitments in the treaties to protection of workers, consumers and the environment. ("we all agree we need simplification, we need deregulation”) ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Speech by President von der Leyen at the Copenhagen Competitiveness Summit
The Commission has been in office for 9 months now. You know that we have prepared our term by asking Draghi and Letta to prepare their reports. And the diagnosis was absolutely crystal clear, also th...
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Mats Engström @matsengstrom.bsky.social · 8d
Now Ursula von der Leyen speaks openly about deregulation. The economic case is weak, to say the least. Not to mention the commitments in the treaties to protection of workers, consumers and the environment. ("we all agree we need simplification, we need deregulation”) ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Speech by President von der Leyen at the Copenhagen Competitiveness Summit
The Commission has been in office for 9 months now. You know that we have prepared our term by asking Draghi and Letta to prepare their reports. And the diagnosis was absolutely crystal clear, also th...
ec.europa.eu
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Peter Lundberg @peterlundberg.bsky.social · 8d
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 8d
When RUSI writes this it’s actually a big ol’ warning sign
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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 8d
'Partners will need to be prepared for the use of US military power in a way that is deeply uncomfortable' writes @mtsavill.bsky.social in the latest RUSI Commentary.
Not Business as Usual: Why Trump’s War Department Rhetoric Matters
Much of the language coming out of the gathering of US military leaders this week could be dismissed as political spectacle. But international partners of the US should take seriously the US Administr...
www.rusi.org
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Mats Engström @matsengstrom.bsky.social · 9d
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Omvandlingstryck stärker både gröna industrier och EU:s säkerhet - Altinget
I en tid av växande militärsatsningar hotas gröna investeringar att trängas undan. EU riskerar att förlora både miljöambitioner och innovationskraft om politiken formas allt mer på storföretagens vill...
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Mats Engström @matsengstrom.bsky.social · 9d
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Omvandlingstryck stärker både gröna industrier och EU:s säkerhet - Altinget
I en tid av växande militärsatsningar hotas gröna investeringar att trängas undan. EU riskerar att förlora både miljöambitioner och innovationskraft om politiken formas allt mer på storföretagens vill...
www.altinget.se
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Mats Engström @matsengstrom.bsky.social · 9d
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Dix ans après leur arrivée en Suède, le parcours chaotique des mineurs isolés
En 2015, le royaume scandinave accueillait 163 000 demandeurs d’asile, dont 35 000 mineurs isolés, la plupart originaires d’Afghanistan. Aujourd’hui encore, beaucoup craignent d’être expulsés.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 10d
President Trump’s new order to “counter political violence” is really a mandate to police speech. Protected advocacy becomes “radicalization.” Criticism becomes “justifying violence.”

This is an attack on the First Amendment, not on political violence, argues @walterolson.bsky.social:
President Trump Plans To Investigate and "Disrupt" Opposition Speech
A new executive order signals the White House’s intent to use law enforcement to investigate and disrupt networks and organizations Donald Trump and allies consider responsible for encouraging political...
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Contexte Environnement @envi.contexte.com · 11d
La révision du règlement #Reach ne passe pas l’étape du comité d’examen interne de la Commission et plonge dans le flou

www.contexte.com/fr/actualite...
a man in a black tank top runs over a hurdle
ALT: a man in a black tank top runs over a hurdle
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Daniel Ekman @dekman.bsky.social · 10d
Detta!
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Nathan Hamelberg @nathanhamelberg.bsky.social · 10d
Tips till Agendaredaktionen:

Exakt ALLA människor är blandade.

Om ni menar något specifikt så säg vad (det finns en massa begrepp ni kan använda er av, klass, landsändar, etnicitet, mobilitet, bostadsområden, gentrifiering, stadsplanering). Om ni menar ras men inte vet hur ni ska säga det, avgå
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Mats Engström @matsengstrom.bsky.social · 11d
Danish minister Lars Aagaard Möller hoping for #climatelaw #2040 agreement at extra Environment Council after leaders meeting 23-24 Oct. #THINK2030
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Mats Engström @matsengstrom.bsky.social · 11d
The EU needs a review clause to adapt the path to 2050, says Krzysztof Bolesta at the #THINK2030 conference. Might well happen in the #climatelaw negotiations, but with what scope? #Parisagreement
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Mats Engström @matsengstrom.bsky.social · 11d
Far-right populist parties in Europe have found climate policies a good way to win voters, similar to migration and anti-EU, notes @lykkefriis.bsky.social when introducing the #Think2030 conference. @ieep.eu @concito.bsky.social
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Mats Engström @matsengstrom.bsky.social · 11d
www.scmp.com/opinion/comm...
Editorial | Asia’s green revolution owes heavy debt to Yu Kongjian
The architect, who died in a plane crash in Brazil, was the driving force behind ‘sponge cities’ that have been embraced across the globe.
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Mats Engström @matsengstrom.bsky.social · 11d
Ökat elbehov är inget självändamål. Repris apropå SvD idag. www.svd.se/a/zgaXwK/sve...
”Sveriges klimat­strategi börjar i fel ände”
DEBATT. Sveriges klimatpolitik bör sätta resurs­effektivisering i första rummet, i stället för att på otillräckligt underlag planera för en extrem ökning av elproduktionen. Det skriver Mats Engström.
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Ola Spännar @olaspannar.bsky.social · 11d
SVT avslöjar nazistiskt terrornätverk som planerat attentat i Sverige och Europa i oktober ifjol. Ledaren är en 35-årig amerikan som just dömts i Brasilien. Genom en sluten chattgrupp på Signal har han instruerat 149 följare om bombtillverkning och måltavlor

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Unik inblick i nazist-nätverk visar terrorplaner mot Sverige
En koordinerad attack mot synagogor, moskéer och mediehus skulle lamslå Europa förra året. SVT kan nu avslöja att ledaren för ett högerextremt digitalt terrornätverk har dömts i Brasilien för att ha p...
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Mats Engström @matsengstrom.bsky.social · 12d
Tension over deforestation. www.politico.eu/article/euro... #Ribera #Roswall #Weyand
Don’t abandon forest law over IT problem, Ribera urges Commission
Vice president of the EU executive says computer issues not good enough reason to further delay anti-deforestation law.
www.politico.eu
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