David Bokhorst

Fascinating read.

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Three ‘don’ts’ to protect Greenland from Trump When confronting the Greenland crisis, the EU should apply lessons learned from the lopsided US-EU trade negotiations

On #Greenland, Europe has more leverage than it seems. Lucid @bruegel.org piece by Moreno Bertoldi and Marco Buti. www.bruegel.org/first-glance...

GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER:

“.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish ..

“.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”

How Cities Like Amsterdam Are Reshaping Welfare State Reform How large cities like Amsterdam drive social investment, innovate welfare policy, and shape national debates through local experimentation.

New on the Social Policy Blog:

"Amsterdam and the New Frontiers of Welfare State Change: How Cities are Shaping the Social Investment State” by David Bokhorst, Meike Bokhorst, and Tijn Croon.

socialpolicyblog.co.uk/2025/12/18/a...

Thanks, will look at it. Certainly US is dysfunctional. Availability of welfare state services in Finland as the explanatory factor?

Fascinating article. Basic income experiments do not yield the predicted positive results, this Dutch newspaper article sums up the evidence and only in poorer countries do you see significant differences vis-a-vis the control group.

Trump Pushed Out A 'Stunning' Number Of Federal Workers — And Now We Know Exactly How Many “We’re seeing the arson of our government,” warned Max Stier of Partnership for Public Service, which has been tracking people's lost jobs since January.

ICYMI: Trump has just about decimated the federal workforce, with more than 199,000 people pushed out since Jan, per a new report.

Nearly 10% of the entire federal civilian workforce gone.

“The services that Americans have come to expect are not going to be there.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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De belofte van 650 miljard: heeft het coronaherstelfonds Europa echt geholpen? Coronaherstelfonds: Vijf jaar geleden werd in een marathonvergadering in Brussel besloten honderden miljarden euro’s te steken in het opbouwen van de Europese economie met een nieuw fonds, het Coronah...

Ik sprak met NRC over hoe we aan moeten kijken tegen succes en falen van het Corona Herstelfonds van de EU, het resulteerde in deze gebalanceerde analyse: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Europese Commissie had een grote kans om tot daadwerkelijke hervorming te komen van MFK, maar lijkt toch weer voor het oude recept te kiezen.

New paper out in Journal of Social Policy - Looking at the rising role of cities in the social investment welfare state. As new challenges - like shortages - loom, cities are innovating to find practical answers, setting new policy norms along the way: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Kabinet waarschuwt opnieuw de Kamer vandaag dat als belangrijke wetstrajecten rondom de arbeidsmarkt (Vbar en wet BAZ) controversieel worden verklaard, Nederland kan worden gekort op het Europees Herstelfonds (600 mln per gemiste mijlpaal).

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on the next EU budget: "Last time, we had a leading role in the Frugal Four. Next time, we will have a leading role in another group."

"We will be tough, but being a part of the Frugal Four is no longer the right place for us."

De visie vanuit Zuid Europa, met knipoog naar de EW cover van aantal jaar geleden over de harde werkende Noordeling en het luie Zuiden.

New US Senate bill could wreck Russia, but damage EU economy In a bid to isolate Moscow, a new bill in the US Senate threatens to impose 500% tariffs on any country that buys Russian fossil fuels. If implemented as intended, the plan could ravage several EU countries. #EuropeNews

A new bill rapidly making its way through the US Senate threatens to devastate Russia. But also parts of the European Union economy.

I break down the Graham-Blumenthal bill.

'op basis van' moet natuurlijk zijn 'met aandacht voor ', excuus. Bottom line: uitstekende column.

Column van @sanderschimmelp.bsky.social dit keer op basis van het ESB stuk van mij en Anton Hemerijck, cool om te lezen. esb.nu/nederland-zo...

EU source:
“Can he not just f*** off and let us have a Friday”
#Trumptariffs

Europese Rekenkamer: coronaherstelfonds ‘compleet absurd’ De Europese Rekenkamer onderzocht de effecten. En ja hoor: niet te meten. Een slechtere reclame voor nieuwe eurobonds is er niet. ✓ Lees meer.

ECA seems to have just put a bomb under the future of the performance-based model of the RRF with their latest report, and Dutch media is loving it. "RRF is 'completely absurd' " www.ewmagazine.nl/buitenland/n...

indications that China is considering to rebalance its growth model

ook interessant om eerst te betogen dat RRF "ultra vires" is om in de zin daarna te betogen dat het de eerste keer is dat art. 122 van het verdrag werd gebruikt.

mooi interview, met plezier gelezen

Sunshine, birds and flowers everywhere, today is my last working day @eui-eu.bsky.social Badia Fiesolana, one of the most beautiful campuses in Europe. I will miss this place.

Well written! The Economists love letter to 'the European model'

Greek 10-year bond yield is lower than US, UK and Australia.

What about them fetas?

Trump wants Europe to buy more US farm goods. It can’t. There are insuperable market, phytosanitary and political obstacles — and it could get worse.

This piece from Politico from a couple of weeks ago is really good - on why Europe does not want to import agricultural products from the USA (for good reason): www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Learned recently that the European Commission has its own internal AI tool, based on thousands of EC documents and implementation documents of reforms and investments at MS level. New research papers that will come out should be very interesting.

EU researchers pay attention. As just announced in our @eui-eu.bsky.social conference on the Recovery and Resilience Facility: there will soon be a call for papers for a major evaluation conference at the European Commission in early 2026 on the effects of the RRF.

Exactly! There is no trade-off between welfare and warfare, this false narrative won't gain the EU much support. The more generous welfare states of Europe also do a lot better economically (GDP/Competitiveness) and with labour shortages, now is the time to improve social policy, not cut them.