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We'll work something out!

by Simon Usherwood

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Share as widely as you like: everyone's welcome (even gravel types)
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by Simon Usherwood — Reposted by: Simon Usherwood, Holger Nehring

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Interested in cycling and Europe?
Fancy talking with other researchers about how we might develop our work?

Then sign up for the launch webinar of a new network, Cycling Europe Study Circle, with me and @patrickbijsmans.bsky.social, on 24 October, 14-16 UK time

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by Simon Usherwood

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Too scared to ask
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by Simon Usherwood

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Today's moving-in day
Worcester college, Oxford
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Reposted by: Simon Usherwood, Nicolai von Ondarza

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Call for Papers for @ecpr.bsky.social @ecprsgeu.bsky.social section “Teaching in EU Studies in the Digital Age”

to explore how AI, digitalisation & new pedagogies are reshaping #EU Studies

more info: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
deadline: 10 December 2025
Teaching in EU studies in the digital age
European Consortium for Political Research
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by Klaus H. Goetz — Reposted by: Simon Usherwood, Simon Hix, Robert Huber

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What explains the rising turnout in recent EP elections?

@filipkostelka.bsky.social & @evakrejcova.bsky.social find that it's the strength of Eurosceptic parties at the national level. The more seats they hold in national parliament, the more mobilizing the EP election is

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Abstract of the article "Awakening the sleeping giant: rising Euroscepticism and turnout in European Parliament elections" by Filip Kostelka and Eva Krejcova. Published online first in West European Politics. Figure 1, displaying voter turnout in EP elections between 1979 and 2024. Figure 2, displaying Euroscepticism in national elections between 1974 and 2024. Figure 3, displaying predicted turnout at different levels of euroscepticism in national parliament.
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by Simon Usherwood

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This is the kind of thing that makes deepening relations with the EU more difficult for any govt: unease among MS that previous commitments aren't going to be upheld

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by Simon Usherwood

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Taking back control, while not increasing the capacity to take back control

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by Colin Murray — Reposted by: Simon Usherwood, Tom Griffin

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Today will see a flurry of speculative claims about the GFA & ECHR. Most significantly that rights weren't important/were late editions/didn't mean the whole ECHR in NI law. I'm begging journalists to push back. Civil Servants were planning for Labour's Rights Agenda for NI from the 1997 election:
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by Simon Usherwood

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First summary post of Wolfson report from @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social

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Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social · 2d
Full Wolfson report on ECHR withdrawal here

Will leave it to better informed people as to its merits

www.conservatives.com/wolfson-fina...
Wolfson Final Report | Conservatives
Wolfson Final Report
www.conservatives.com
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by Simon Usherwood

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Not good for anyone
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Pascal @pascallth.bsky.social · 2d
Political chaos in France as the PM, threatened by a censure vote, just quits

He only nominated government ministers last night..
www.leparisien.fr/politique/di...
DIRECT. Gouvernement Lecornu : le Premier ministre a remis sa démission à Emmanuel Macron, qui l'a acceptée
La première partie du gouvernement de Sébastien Lecornu a été dévoilée dimanche, avec des reconductions en pagaille, le retour surprise de B
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Political chaos in France as the PM, threatened by a censure vote, just quits

He only nominated government ministers last night..
www.leparisien.fr/politique/di...
DIRECT. Gouvernement Lecornu : le Premier ministre a remis sa démission à Emmanuel Macron, qui l'a acceptée
La première partie du gouvernement de Sébastien Lecornu a été dévoilée dimanche, avec des reconductions en pagaille, le retour surprise de B
www.leparisien.fr
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by Simon Usherwood

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Full Wolfson report on ECHR withdrawal here

Will leave it to better informed people as to its merits

www.conservatives.com/wolfson-fina...
Wolfson Final Report | Conservatives
Wolfson Final Report
www.conservatives.com
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by Simon Usherwood

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Today's constitutional
Farnham
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by Simon Usherwood

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Useful thread
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d
Support for staying in the ECHR has been rising (probably a Farage effect of solidifying the majority who oppose him, maybe Trump osmosis effect). Media and political opinion on the right believes there is a strong public desire to quit. Badenoch has now committed the Conservatives to quitting.
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Reposted by: Simon Usherwood, Tom Griffin, Margot C. Finn

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Support for staying in the ECHR has been rising (probably a Farage effect of solidifying the majority who oppose him, maybe Trump osmosis effect). Media and political opinion on the right believes there is a strong public desire to quit. Badenoch has now committed the Conservatives to quitting.
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by Simon Usherwood

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And off we go

#ECHR

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by Simon Usherwood

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Delighted to see Helen Wallace recieve her Honarary Professorship of @collegeofeurope.bsky.social

A true stalwart of European Studies, as a scholar and a teacher, and an inspiration to many colleagues, me included

@uaces.bsky.social
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by Simon Usherwood

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Today's constitutional
Spiegelrei, Bruges, including the flat I used to live in
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by Simon Usherwood

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Great to see so many people having views about SPS deals

Somewhat unsure whether the actual questions posed capture all that involves though

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by Simon Usherwood

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In other news, Bruges
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Reposted by: Simon Usherwood, Alison Phipps, Keith Lilley , and 2 more

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There have likely been 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25.

@gsoh31.bsky.social, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes, argues that the Higher Education system as we know it is coming to an end.
Where now for Britain’s Universities?
UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.
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by Simon Usherwood

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Bruges
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by Simon Usherwood

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Today's constitutional
Canal, Bruges
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by Simon Usherwood — Reposted by: Stacy D. VanDeveer

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It's #EPC day once again, so a reminder of who's coming and what's being discussed

PDF: bit.ly/UshGraphic131
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by Simon Usherwood

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Near enough

by Simon Usherwood

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Today's constitutional
The belfry, Bruges
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by Simon Usherwood — Reposted by: Anand Menon

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Right of @anandmenon.bsky.social to point that repurposing organisations is neither easy nor cost-free, although not impossible

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The European Union was designed for peace – it is never going to be a war machine | Anand Menon
Reacting to the Russian military threat would require the bloc to be agile and decisive. It is many great things, but it is not that, says Anand Menon, director of UK in a Changing Europe
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Reposted by: Simon Usherwood, Stephen M. Walt, Kori Schake , and 5 more

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It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here.

The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
Hegseth: "If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink, they you should do the honorable thing and resign."
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