Jacob Öberg

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Rwanda takes UK to court over contentious migrant deal Rwanda accuses the UK of "intransigence" and says London owes it millions of pounds over a controversial migration agreement.

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This is known in technical legal terms as taking the piss

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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Europe can’t defend itself without the US, NATO’s Rutte warns The EU should stop dreaming of creating a European pillar for NATO and continue to build ties with the U.S. despite Trump, the alliance secretary-general said.

🚨🚨 #NATO SG Mark #Rutte is to my mind massively undermining European #unity and efforts to build up their #defence and #security in what I see as a statement which only plays in the hands of #Putin and #Trump. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-defense-nato-mark-rutte-us-politics-threats-gdp/

Public Goods and Harm as Justificatory Frameworks for Supranational Criminalisation This chapter looks at how we should judge whether the EU is justified in using criminal law. Instead of relying only on what the EU Treaties say, it takes a broader view. Here, normative means not jus...

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@alexsobel.co.uk This thread of life with ltd energy & Russian attacks inKiev is awful. I know you’ve organised trips to Ukrainewith help in the past. Are you & yr team organising anything at the moment? They feel forgotten as Trumpdiverts attention creating criseselsewhere

The Telegraph’s political editor is saying, more subtly, what others are saying brutally.

a phd

What Rutte does not seem to get is that the USA will not defend Europe anyway. Doesnt matter what Europe wants.

And of course Europe can defend itself.

Removing US as World Cup host would be eminently sad – and entirely justified | Alexander Abnos A country where safety is under threat from federal violence on the streets is not fit to stage soccer’s showpiece event

Removing US as World Cup host would be eminently sad – and entirely justified | Alexander Abnos

It rather looks as if 🇺🇸 has moved the goal posts on the 🇺🇦 peace deal, caving into territorial demands by 🇷🇺 that the whole of Donbas should be ceded to Russia….more land than Russia has seized in its illegal war.

What’s the justification?

I can’t see that sticking.

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An utter embarrassment to Europe, brazenly parroting Kremlin talking points as Russia carries out a brutal genocide in Ukraine

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27 January 1933 | A German Jewish boy, Lutz Ludwig Grünstein, was born in Berlin.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from the #Theresienstad ghetto on 9 October 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
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Trump is trying to give Russia exactly what they want & call it a ‘peace deal.’ It’s in fact a guarantee for a bigger war.
Donbas is Ukraine’s main line of defense. The region is heavily fortified & holds Russia back from attacking the rest of Ukraine, & from there the EU.

When will we learn to not put nihilistic cowards in charge of everything that matters

Rutte is absolutely wrong to say this. Europe can't defend itself on its own, until it has to. What then? As Ukraine learned, you don't have those kinds of choices.

It seems pretty clear Jacob is right here. If EU countries reach 4% of GDP expenditure on defence, the bloc will have ~matched US levels, and if it builds its common market for defence, it would also be comparable in terms of efficiency. So, I don’t see how Rutte’s “dream on” message holds water

The Man Who Broke Europe

It 'fits' his career as Dutch PM, where he oversaw the Ukraine referendum on EU membership in 2016, preceding Brexit and Trump, and his covid strategy, which was 'a silent Nexit' of sorts - all feeding the illiberalization of his party, Dutch govt and politics, in line with current US foreign policy

Job protection ?
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Rutte does what Rutte has been doing for over a decade. Undermine the EU.

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perspective for identifying common EU interests that warrant protection through crim law. Secondly, the chapter offers a detailed analysis of #EPGs as a justificatory basis for EU intervention in criminal law before concluding with a critical assessment of the potential limitations of this approach.

particularly the #harm criterion established in Article 83(1) TFEU. While acknowledging its significance as a foundational principle of EU criminal law, I argue that the harm criterion should be complemented by a (European) hashtag#publicgoods framework, which provides a valuable

The first part evaluates the legitimacy of EU criminal law through the lens of criminal law theory, with particular focus on the scope of harm-based accounts of criminalisation. Additionally, it considers the constitutional constraints on deeper integration in EU criminal justice,

Here, the term normative is understood broadly, encompassing not only legal rules and principles but also rationales drawn from moral and political philosophy, political economy, public choice theory, and economics. /3

edited by Jannemieke Ouwerkerk, Konstantinos Zoumpoulakis, Jeroen ten Voorde & myself. My chapter reflects on what should be the appropriate hashtag#normativeframework for assessing the legitimacy of EU action in hashtag#criminallaw, moving beyond the justifications prescribed by the Treaties. /2

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