Jacob Öberg
@profjacob.bsky.social
PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social; Professor in EU Law/Deputy HoD at @sdu.dk. EU & #brexit nerd. #Ukraine supporter. Member @ec.europa.eu's expert group on EU Crim Policy. Author of "Normative Foundations of EU Criminal Justice" @hartpublishing.bsky.social
🚨🚨" Trump is a narcissistic, psychopathic bully. But a weak one. I started listening to Trump’s speech at Davos with anger and outrage. As he went on, I slowly felt a growing sense of relief. I realised that all his bullying, taunts and threats reflected weakness. " @alexhh.bsky.social nails it:
January 22, 2026 at 6:40 AM
🚨🚨" Trump is a narcissistic, psychopathic bully. But a weak one. I started listening to Trump’s speech at Davos with anger and outrage. As he went on, I slowly felt a growing sense of relief. I realised that all his bullying, taunts and threats reflected weakness. " @alexhh.bsky.social nails it:
🚨🚨As much as I love the European Court of Justice, I think it is a massive geopolitical own goal by @europarl.europa.eu to send the #Mercosur agreement for review by @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social on the compatibility with the EU Treaties. 🧵
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January 21, 2026 at 3:55 PM
🚨🚨As much as I love the European Court of Justice, I think it is a massive geopolitical own goal by @europarl.europa.eu to send the #Mercosur agreement for review by @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social on the compatibility with the EU Treaties. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-m...
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“It’s a very different situation to last summer, when it was just a trade dispute,” one of the diplomats said. “Countries said they don’t want to engage in a dispute over whether tariffs should be 10 or 15 percent, particularly when we’re dependent on the U.S.
January 21, 2026 at 6:56 AM
“It’s a very different situation to last summer, when it was just a trade dispute,” one of the diplomats said. “Countries said they don’t want to engage in a dispute over whether tariffs should be 10 or 15 percent, particularly when we’re dependent on the U.S.
🚨🚨"Years of careful diplomacy, billions of dollars in trade, are now at risk because senators and representatives who know better have refused to use the powers they have to block him. Now is the time." @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on the Republicans as the last barrier to stop #Trump the madman.
January 20, 2026 at 7:56 AM
🚨🚨"Years of careful diplomacy, billions of dollars in trade, are now at risk because senators and representatives who know better have refused to use the powers they have to block him. Now is the time." @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on the Republicans as the last barrier to stop #Trump the madman.
🚨🚨Excellent and nuanced long #tradesecrets piece by trade opiner @alanbeattie.bsky.social with a lot of food for thought on the EU's response to #Trump tariffs.
No easy options ahead but I would (and I think Alan agrees here) vote for triggering the #tradebazooka (aka the #ACI instrument):
No easy options ahead but I would (and I think Alan agrees here) vote for triggering the #tradebazooka (aka the #ACI instrument):
January 19, 2026 at 2:10 PM
🚨🚨Excellent and nuanced long #tradesecrets piece by trade opiner @alanbeattie.bsky.social with a lot of food for thought on the EU's response to #Trump tariffs.
No easy options ahead but I would (and I think Alan agrees here) vote for triggering the #tradebazooka (aka the #ACI instrument):
No easy options ahead but I would (and I think Alan agrees here) vote for triggering the #tradebazooka (aka the #ACI instrument):
🚨🚨"A Year of Living Dangerously in Trump’s America". Grim but great @bylinetimes.bsky.social report by @alexhh.bsky.social on life in #Trump's America.
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January 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
🚨🚨"A Year of Living Dangerously in Trump’s America". Grim but great @bylinetimes.bsky.social report by @alexhh.bsky.social on life in #Trump's America.
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"It is at the request of Denmark that Sweden is sending personnel from the Armed Forces."
January 14, 2026 at 5:29 PM
"It is at the request of Denmark that Sweden is sending personnel from the Armed Forces."
🚨🚨 Powerful statement by @un.org experts condemning the large scale military action carried out by the United States against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the bombardment of Caracas and other cities and the forcible abduction of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife:
January 8, 2026 at 8:08 AM
🚨🚨 Powerful statement by @un.org experts condemning the large scale military action carried out by the United States against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the bombardment of Caracas and other cities and the forcible abduction of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife:
🚨🚨"Trump’s pursuit of an illusory sphere of influence is unlikely to bring us peace or prosperity—any more than the invasion of Ukraine brought peace and prosperity to Russians- and this might become clear sooner than anyone expects." @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on #Trump's invasion of Venezuela:
January 6, 2026 at 5:41 AM
🚨🚨"Trump’s pursuit of an illusory sphere of influence is unlikely to bring us peace or prosperity—any more than the invasion of Ukraine brought peace and prosperity to Russians- and this might become clear sooner than anyone expects." @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on #Trump's invasion of Venezuela:
🚨🚨"The authors of this document don’t know much about Europe, or don’t care to find out. Living in a fantasy world, they are blind to real dangers. They invent fictional threats. " @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on how ’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.
December 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🚨🚨"The authors of this document don’t know much about Europe, or don’t care to find out. Living in a fantasy world, they are blind to real dangers. They invent fictional threats. " @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on how ’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.
🚨🚨Today’s #US foreign policy has abandoned the post-World War II "consensus on allies & the value of defending freedom, instead revolving around transactions and deal-making, wielding tariffs to punish or reward, and defining allies based on financial benefit rather than shared democratic value".
December 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
🚨🚨Today’s #US foreign policy has abandoned the post-World War II "consensus on allies & the value of defending freedom, instead revolving around transactions and deal-making, wielding tariffs to punish or reward, and defining allies based on financial benefit rather than shared democratic value".
“From the bottom of my heart, I’m a convinced transatlanticist. But what is so important? [What’s] important is that … we take pride in being the European Union, that we look at our strength and that we deal with the challenges that we do have,” she said. /6
December 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“From the bottom of my heart, I’m a convinced transatlanticist. But what is so important? [What’s] important is that … we take pride in being the European Union, that we look at our strength and that we deal with the challenges that we do have,” she said. /6
🚨🚨Major publication news; my article titled "The European Public Prosecutor's Office: Supranationalism, Sovereignty and Legitimacy" has now been published in the latest issue of #EuropeanLawReview. Short 🧵
December 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🚨🚨Major publication news; my article titled "The European Public Prosecutor's Office: Supranationalism, Sovereignty and Legitimacy" has now been published in the latest issue of #EuropeanLawReview. Short 🧵
🚨🚨"Elon Musk Has Made X a Threat to Democracy and His War on the EU Proves It". Caroline Orr Bueno has an excellent report here on how #Musk has turned #Twitter/#X into a tool for foreign #interference which monetises and weaponises a global network of disinformation. bylinetimes.com/2025/12/08/e...
December 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🚨🚨"Elon Musk Has Made X a Threat to Democracy and His War on the EU Proves It". Caroline Orr Bueno has an excellent report here on how #Musk has turned #Twitter/#X into a tool for foreign #interference which monetises and weaponises a global network of disinformation. bylinetimes.com/2025/12/08/e...
Proposed by COM last February, the omnibus is designed to address businesses’ concerns that the paperwork needed to comply with EU laws is costly and unfair. Many companies have been blaming Europe’s overzealous green lawmaking and the restrictions it places
December 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Proposed by COM last February, the omnibus is designed to address businesses’ concerns that the paperwork needed to comply with EU laws is costly and unfair. Many companies have been blaming Europe’s overzealous green lawmaking and the restrictions it places
🚨🚨Witkoff & Kushner represent profound corruption: "They are using the tools of the American state in a manner that happens to benefit their friends & business partners, even while they do terrible damage to American allies, American alliances & America’s reputation." @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🚨🚨Witkoff & Kushner represent profound corruption: "They are using the tools of the American state in a manner that happens to benefit their friends & business partners, even while they do terrible damage to American allies, American alliances & America’s reputation." @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
🚨🚨Great detailed legal and policy analysis by @stevepeers.bsky.social of the @ec.europa.eu decision to fine #X also providing some important context of the importance of the decision in light of the substantially deteriorating EU-US relationship. eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
December 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM
🚨🚨Great detailed legal and policy analysis by @stevepeers.bsky.social of the @ec.europa.eu decision to fine #X also providing some important context of the importance of the decision in light of the substantially deteriorating EU-US relationship. eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
Peskov cautiously welcomed this aspect of the plan, calling it “gratifying on the one hand.”
"But on the other hand, we know that sometimes, while everything is conceptually beautifully written, what they call the deep state does things differently. That happens, too," he added.
"But on the other hand, we know that sometimes, while everything is conceptually beautifully written, what they call the deep state does things differently. That happens, too," he added.
December 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Peskov cautiously welcomed this aspect of the plan, calling it “gratifying on the one hand.”
"But on the other hand, we know that sometimes, while everything is conceptually beautifully written, what they call the deep state does things differently. That happens, too," he added.
"But on the other hand, we know that sometimes, while everything is conceptually beautifully written, what they call the deep state does things differently. That happens, too," he added.
🚨🚨 God #America, this is grim and a very stark wake-up call to European political ledaders on the (non) future of the "transatlantic alliance":
December 5, 2025 at 6:56 AM
🚨🚨 God #America, this is grim and a very stark wake-up call to European political ledaders on the (non) future of the "transatlantic alliance":
🚨🚨New @ukandeu.bsky.social blog by Nicholas-Bloom, Philip-Bunn, Paul-Mizen, Pawel Smietanka & Gregory Thwaites find (this seems to be the mainstream view) that there is evidence that #Brexit has had a large & persistent negative impact on UK #GDP, output and productivity summarising their new WP:
December 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
🚨🚨New @ukandeu.bsky.social blog by Nicholas-Bloom, Philip-Bunn, Paul-Mizen, Pawel Smietanka & Gregory Thwaites find (this seems to be the mainstream view) that there is evidence that #Brexit has had a large & persistent negative impact on UK #GDP, output and productivity summarising their new WP:
🚨🚨"In crisis after crisis, Europe’s role is not only small but shrinking still. The question is, when will Europeans decide they’ve had enough of this weakness and irrelevance?". Great piece by @sbeverts.bsky.social @euiss.bsky.social on "Europe’s psychology of weakness":
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 AM
🚨🚨"In crisis after crisis, Europe’s role is not only small but shrinking still. The question is, when will Europeans decide they’ve had enough of this weakness and irrelevance?". Great piece by @sbeverts.bsky.social @euiss.bsky.social on "Europe’s psychology of weakness":
🚨🚨I think this is very good and nuanced paper by @davidheniguk.bsky.social on the general #Brussels approach to EU-UK relationship in a geopolitical reality of many more pressing policy issues that the EU needs to resolve.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
🚨🚨I think this is very good and nuanced paper by @davidheniguk.bsky.social on the general #Brussels approach to EU-UK relationship in a geopolitical reality of many more pressing policy issues that the EU needs to resolve.
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🚨🚨"Whatever the reason Witkoff is prolonging the conflict. He is not promoting peace. If this were a normal American administration, he would be fired immediately. But nothing about this negotiation, or this administration, is normal at all." @anneapplebaum.bsky.social's damning verdict on #witkoff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:50 AM
🚨🚨"Whatever the reason Witkoff is prolonging the conflict. He is not promoting peace. If this were a normal American administration, he would be fired immediately. But nothing about this negotiation, or this administration, is normal at all." @anneapplebaum.bsky.social's damning verdict on #witkoff.
🚨🚨OBR: We expect UK & global trade intensity to fall in the coming years, as a result of the recent resurgence in global protectionism on top of the enduring effects of #Brexit. We have not changed our assessment that Brexit will reduce the level of UK productivity by around 4 % after 15 years.
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
🚨🚨OBR: We expect UK & global trade intensity to fall in the coming years, as a result of the recent resurgence in global protectionism on top of the enduring effects of #Brexit. We have not changed our assessment that Brexit will reduce the level of UK productivity by around 4 % after 15 years.
🚨🚨"It is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else." Excellent piece by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social:
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM
🚨🚨"It is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else." Excellent piece by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social: