@gillespittoors.bsky.social
Lecturer @ KU Leuven | Research Fellow @ GASPAR UGent | formerly EPRS, RUG & ULB | working on multi-level & transnational politics in the EU | history enthusiast | active in teaching politics & qualitative methods | 🇪🇺🏳️🌈
It was fun discussing this great paper by @gillespittoors.bsky.social and @alvarooleart.bsky.social
🔜 Next in #ECPRSeminars of the Young ECPR Network on Europeanisation (YEN)
🧠 Examine how Volt Europe is trying to build the first truly pan-European party & why it may not transform EU politics
💻10 Feb, 14:00–15:00 GMT
🎙️@alvarooleart.bsky.social @gillespittoors.bsky.social @lucykinski.bsky.social
🛎️ Next in #ECPRSeminars of the Young ECPR Network on Europeanisation (YEN)
🎙️@alvarooleart.bsky.social @gillespittoors.bsky.social @lucykinski.bsky.social discuss how Volt Europe is trying to build the first truly pan-European party - & why it may not transform EU politics
💻 10 Feb, 14:00–15:00 GMT
🛎️ Next in #ECPRSeminars of the Young ECPR Network on Europeanisation (YEN)
🎙️@alvarooleart.bsky.social @gillespittoors.bsky.social @lucykinski.bsky.social discuss how Volt Europe is trying to build the first truly pan-European party - & why it may not transform EU politics
💻 10 Feb, 14:00–15:00 GMT
Now it's really done: the liberals of Renew Europe joins the EPP and the Socialists to delay the ratification of the EU-US trade deal. The three centrist parties have a majority in the chamber to make it happen.
The European Parliament is NOT voting this deal.
Mocht een links politicus nog maar een fractie van de bullshit hebben verkocht als Francken in zijn loopbaan al heeft gedaan niks of niemand had hem of haar nog ernstig genomen. Maar rechtse politici als Francken hebben een medialicentie om zonder consequenties eindeloos bullshit te verkopen.
🛎️ Next in #ECPRSeminars of the Young ECPR Network on Europeanisation (YEN)
🎙️@alvarooleart.bsky.social @gillespittoors.bsky.social @lucykinski.bsky.social discuss how Volt Europe is trying to build the first truly pan-European party - & why it may not transform EU politics
💻 10 Feb, 14:00–15:00 GMT
The immigration doom loop in full swing.
Chasing the xenophobes is a doomed strategy both economically *and* politically.
(1/3)
archive.ph/pyVLg
Stuur Europese troepen naar Groenland
Mijn column in @nrc.nl
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
Looking at Belgium as I always do … interesting that regional attachment is lower in Flanders than in Wallonie (national attachment also lower). Antwerp province is <5 for all three presumably because everyone is attached to ‘t Stad or to Mechelen…
VS used: gewoon een eenmalige zak geld.
It's not very effective.
Denemarken used: sociale zekerheid en schoolsysteem.
It's super effective.
📣 Call for #ecprgc26 Panels and Papers
💥 Challenges to Representation and Democracy in a Transnational Space
🪑 @lucykinski.bsky.social & @gillespittoors.bsky.social
⏰ Deadline: 9 Jan buff.ly/2f4vWD3
#Polisky #democracy #europeanpolitics #partysystems #europeanunion #eu
“Woman dies”. The chief of police used the phrase, “She lost her life”.
She was shot twice. She was killed. She was murdered.
A small number of people whose extreme wealth exerts a political gravitational force that distorts the entire political system is bad, actually. It has been recognized as a threat to free liberal republican government since the first time it emerged in the Gilded Age.
#cartoon #palestine (via www.lectrr.com)
Why are the Ukrainians & Europeans allowing the Americans to push them to make concessions to Russia?
1. The US National Security Strategy clarifies that Trump's US supports Russia & not Ukraine or Europe. /1
4. Trump has not extracted a single concession from Putin. As long as Putin does not get full control over Ukraine, he will turn down any proposal from anybody. Trump has no answer to that, so he is not a relevant party to any negotiation about Ukraine. /3
Je moet weten: Dirk Van Damme wordt betaald door het kabinet Demir. Hij is voorzitter van de projectgroep over de uitgaventoetsing arbeidsmarktgerichte opleidingen.
In die hoedanigheid ontvangt hij jaarlijks een vergoeding van 12.382,15 euro.
De schaamteloosheid 😂😂😂😂
Het Vlaams Mensenrechteninstituut velde 2 interessante oordelen over lesopnames als 'redelijke aanpassingen' en @vetobe.bsky.social (meer bepaald @eliasfret.bsky.social) schreef daarover een helder en evenwichtig stuk (waarin ook ik langskom, naast andere collega's) ⚖️
www.veto.be/sociaal/wann...
It's the thought that counts #AcademicChatter
Apparently it can always get worse. The full version of the new U.S. National Security Strategy, aptly named “NSC-1488” by the wags, calls for actively pulling Poland, Austria, Hungary and Italy from the #EU. And supporting far right.
US sides with Putin.
notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/10/f...
🚨🚨This is worse than we could have imagined: Full version of #Trump's national #securitystrategy reportedly calls for “pulling Poland away from #EU”. 🧵 notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/10/f...
the way that ai is being advertised now is that everyone has to pretend to be incompetent and incredibly incapable and useless at everything
Ik heb droevige protestjes met een handvol 'bezorgde burgers' gezien die door politiek en pers werden binnengehaald als stem van het volk. Waar is de aandacht als er 8000 mensen staan te protesteren voor investeringen in onderwijs en onderzoek?
Leave X now. It's now or never. Politicians, journalists please go.
Why do you sponsor and sustain a criminal mind who thinks he is brilliant but wants us to live on Mars because his father liked a book on Mars. Who is a Russian asset. Who lacks empathy:
🚨🚨Major #EU news: More than 80 percent of Europe’s companies will be freed from environmental reporting obligations after @europarl.europa.eu and @consilium.europa.eu reached a deal on a proposal to cut green rules on Monday. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
The way I'd put it is that there's currently a global struggle between democracy and nationalist gangster-capitalism, that this struggle is simultaneously unfolding both within and between states, and that the US currently sits at its epicentre
This seems incredible to read, as it could come straight out of an Orbán 2015-16 speech, but this has actually been a dominant position within the broader U.S. Right for decades. 🧵