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The promise of free movement - CEU Review of Books In Europe without Borders (Princeton University Press, 2025), Isaac Stanley-Becker explores the contested creation of free movement for goods and people in the Schengen area. Eike Klages describes the...

New review out now!

In Europe without Borders (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2025), Isaac Stanley-Becker explores the contested creation of free movement for goods and people in the Schengen area. Eike Klages reviews the book.

Read the review here: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/the-p...

With neonicotinoid pesticide ban, France’s birds make a tentative recovery - study Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades

With neonicotinoid pesticide ban, France’s birds make a tentative recovery - study

Ksi Lisims LNG Makes Federal List of ‘Nation-Building’ Projects | The Tyee The prime minister sidestepped questions about US ownership and First Nations opposition at a northern BC presser.

In Terrace yesterday, Prime Minister Mark Carney sidestepped questions about US ownership and First Nations opposition to the Ksi Lisims LNG export terminal, which has been added to a list of projects the feds plan to expedite.

My latest for @thetyee.ca.
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Ironically, PM Carney skipped COP30 in Brazil, to announce that the federal government will fast-track the American-owned Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas project in British Columbia. 👎😒

Media release> dsfdn.org/CarneySkipsC...

"He says plug-in solar systems do not produce as much energy as a full rooftop solar array.

But they cost much less, can be installed on balconies or in yards with little or no expertise, and can be easily taken down and reinstalled...So they’re ideal for renters or low-income households."

PhD Studentship on Family Separation, funded by ERC - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - RHS PhD Studentship on Family Separation, funded by European Research Council Call for Applications, deadline - 1 March 2026 This is a call for expressions of interest for a European Research Council-fund...

An excellent PhD opportunity for someone to work on family separation during WW1 or WW2. I've done some research on Italian emigrant families separated when the father was serving in the Italian Army and it's a really fascinating area of study. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/phd...

Not any more I guess :(

It makes me so sad. An institution I used to really respect, an intellectual home when I taught at IUS.

Yet again, denounced by students and disciplined by a cowering university administration. Shades of the cultural revolution.

Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson

University lecturer suspended at Indiana university for suggesting link between "make America great again" slogan and white supremacy: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Limburg demands answers over U.S. whitewashing of Black history at WWII cemetery The province of Limburg has asked the American ambassador to the Netherlands to replace the information panels about Black soldiers in the visitors center of the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margr...

Meanwhile, in my neck of the woods, the US has removed information on black soldiers from the Margraten war cemetery. nltimes.nl/2025/11/10/l...

Le Collège de France annule un colloque sur la Palestine « en réaction à la polémique entourant » l’événement Le Collège de France « ne prône, ni n’encourage, ni ne soutient aucune forme de militantisme », a affirmé l’établissement qui assure de sa « stricte neutralité (…) au regard des questions de nature po...

Maccarthysme : cédant à la pression du ministre de la recherche, lui-même cédant à la pression des soutiens de Nétanyahou, le Collège de France, jusqu’ici lieu de liberté académique, annule un colloque sur la Palestine conçu par l’historien Henry Laurens.
www.lemonde.fr/education/ar...

Still relevant.

An important initiative

This is terrible news and more evidence (as if we needed it) that the media is anti-meritocratic. Teen Vogue did amazing political work.

Evidence of mass killings by RSF in El-Fasher, Sudan, are chilling. They must be a wake up call for the rest of the planet too. Countries must be pressured to stop sending weapons into their proxy war in Sudan. It starts with acknowledging the horror.

IDF legal chief avoided Gaza war crimes probes, citing right-wing backlash, sources say After Resigning Last Week Over the Sde Teiman Affair Leak, the IDF Legal Chief, Senior Sources Told Haaretz, Used 'Various Pretexts to Avoid Opening or Advancing Investigations 'Into Numerous IDF Abus...

This is how it's going with domestic investigations. It's not. It's exactly what "unwilling or unable" is made for. #WarCrimes #Gaza #IHL #Israel
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Morgen (dinsdag 4 november) om 16.00 op het IISG.

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📣 3 post doc roles on GreenFrontier @erc.europa.eu project - fantastic opportunities to work on an exciting project on socio-ecological relations in Italy, Spain & Poland. And best of all, a chance to work with @georgeiorda.bsky.social as team lead #PoliticalEcology #Conservation ⬇️

While their reluctance to cut ties until now was frustrating, on the plus side, they really did set up a framework for considering such questions and cannot be accused of sloppiness or unfairness.

My employer, @maastrichtu.bsky.social, has done the right thing and suspended collaboration with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem after a Human Rights and Due Diligence committee established their close ties to the Israeli army. #BDS www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/um-deci...

A Sudanese mother holds her child moments before being executed by the Rapid Support Forces militia.

What is happening in Sudan is not just a war… It is a humanitarian wound, a mother’s cry, a nation’s sorrow calling on the world not to remain silent.

Independent Thinking: Europe after the Dutch elections. Goodbye far right? Not so fast Centrists are set to take power in the Netherlands after Geert Wilders suffered a setback. But the hard right remains influential.

www.chathamhouse.org/2025/10/inde... Foreign commentary on the Dutch elections. From Chatham House 1/n

us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Migrante Netherlands is organizing a webinar this Saturday on the decision of the Public Prosecutor's Office that there was no labour exploitation of Filipino and Indonesian cleaners in the case brought against Saints & Stars Gym in Amsterdam.

‘They killed civilians in their beds’: chaos and brutality reign after fall of El Fasher Thousands have fled the North Darfur city in terror with stories of the Rapid Support Forces attacking and killing civilians

‘They killed civilians in their beds’: chaos and brutality reign after fall of El Fasher

Panel at the faculty of arts and social sciences at Maaastricht University on the Dutch elections

Gaining insights into the Dutch electoral system, voter behavior, and the trends we can see with these elections @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social @bettovanwaarden.bsky.social @luanarusso.bsky.social @historikarin.bsky.social

Recovering the hostages was never the aim of Netanyahu and his fascist coterie.

There Is No Peace in Gaza Since President Trump announced his plan for a ceasefire, people I know have been killed. One relative described torture during a year in Israeli custody.

There Is No Peace in Gaza

Since President Trump announced his plan for a ceasefire, people I know have been killed. One relative described torture during a year in Israeli custody.
@mosababutoha.bsky.social

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Trump says he's hiking 'tariff on Canada' by 10% 'over and above' what it pays now | CBC News U.S. President Donald Trump has announced on social media he will be increasing “the Tariff on Canada” by 10 per cent “over and above what they are paying now" because of an advertisement by the Ontar...

What's the US so pissed off about? Canada is just pushing regime change in a foreign country... 😆 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

YouTube video by Ep Wesseling Write my name door Projectkoor Groningen voor Gaza

Palestinian poet Zayna Azam's poem Write My Name was set to music and performed a month ago by hundreds of ordinary people in a public square in Groningen. Beautiful and ever timely.
youtu.be/9m27USdH7ms?...