Steve Peers

Steve Peers

@stevepeers.bsky.social

Professor of EU and Human Rights Law, Royal Holloway University of London. Usual disclaimers.

68,246 Followers 41,061 Following 15,254 Posts Joined Aug 2023
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Insurance is not a magic risk removal pot. If the odds of your ship being sunk are high, you will have to pay for it, and if that cost is too high, you won't sail. Govt can try to pay for it but they have no credibility and anyway who would want to volunteer for a kamikaze oil export mission.

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2 hours ago

Once again, Badenoch endorses Mahmood's "earned settlement" proposals.

If the government - against public opinion and all the evidence - continue to pursue them, they will be explicitly allying themselves with Lam and Jenrick's ethnonationalist agenda.

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Chris "Wrong" Trump Sec of Energy tumbles the price of crude oil with wrong information only to cause it to spike after retracting his "X" comment. Can America not see how absolutely unqualified this admin - from Top down - in unqualified to lead. They are destroying our economy & our government.

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"It's actually good when your monthly gas costs go up by 50% because that means someone else is making that much more money now"

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The police had done nothing for six months, even though this was a terrorism matter, and then rushed through a charge without the requisite decision from the attorney general. There was then an attempt to reissue the charge even though they knew it was a day late. And the CPS, rather than accepting defeat at first instance, devoted time and resources to an appeal, even though the applicable law was long settled.

Terrorism law should be taken seriously. It is a special body of law in respect of dealing with particular threats. But the case of Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh shows two things. It shows the lack of seriousness with which the police take terrorism legislation, and it shows the utter seriousness of the CPS in trying to protect itself.

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What the botched prosecution of Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh says about the police and CPS

A series of unforced errors show that terrorism law is not taken seriously by those who should be enforcing it

By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

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Here's a new one: ICE detained a man in Utah who had been arrested for a suspected drug sale ... that turned out to be dried pinto beans.

Utah case was dropped but the man, who arrived in US as a minor and has deferred action, was transfered to ICE.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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EU asks Ukraine to allow inspection to oversee damaged pipeline As the Hungarian veto on the €90 billion loan for Ukraine drags on, the European Commission has formally proposed an inspection to check the damage on the Druzhba pipeline at the core of the dispute. ...

Full story: the European Commission asks Ukraine to allow an inspection of the damaged Druzhba pipeline.

The Commission has no track record in fact-finding missions of this kind and needs Kyiv’s permission to visit the site.

It’s a new attempt to lift Hungary’s veto.

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ICE detainee in Arizona dies after not receiving medical attention for severe tooth pain Emmanuel Damas, a Haitian asylum seeker, was being held at the Florence correctional center before he died

A Haitian asylum seeker detained by ICE died after being refused timely medical attention for a severe toothache.

At least 40 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office — a two-decade high.

The monstrous cruelty of Trump's police state knows no bounds.

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MAGA's rhetoric of western civilizational emergency is so weird. They look at ICE arresting grandmothers and they see the ancient Greeks defeating the Persians or the Franks stopping the Islamic invaders in 732.

Everyone else sees ICE arresting grandmothers.

newrepublic.com/article/2076...

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A map of the Strait of Hormuz with a handsaw cutting off the inconvenient peninsua

My contribution to this reasoned debate. (Sorry, Dubai, it's not personal.)

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4 hours ago

In Feb 2022, as Vladimir Putin announced to his bunch of alcoholic sycophants that he's about to embark on a three-day adventure to take Kyiv and kill Zelenskyy, none of these knobs had the courage to tell him that this won't end up the way he thinks. But at least he didn't choose their footwear.

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Russian fossil-fuel daily revenues up 14% since start of US-Israel attack on Iran Russia has earned an estimated €6bn in fossil-fuel, or €510m per day, since the attacks on Iran, according to a new analysis published on Thursday.

Russia has earned an estimated €6bn in fossil-fuel, or €510m per day, since the attacks on Iran, according to a new analysis published on Thursday.

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🚨 Just in: the European Commission has formally proposed to send a fact-finding mission to the Druzhba pipeline in Ukraine.

The Commission is already in touch with the Ukrainian government to make this happen. No more details for now.

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After the extreme right PfE group, with EPP support, secured text attacking NGOs and promoting a far-right narrative on Frontex, we voted against the report on the European Ombudsman's 2024 activities.

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@inta.europarl.europa.eu expected to vote on Turnberry Agreement on 19 March, ending stalemate triggered by a US Supreme Court ruling that overturned tariffs imposed by the Trump administration Chair @bernd-lange.bsky.social reported as saying www.euractiv.com/news/europea...

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First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

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Two of these panellists lost to the Greens after young voters did exactly the opposite of what this panel claims

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a kind of 'child protection by design' rule

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Matt, you're shouting at hedgehogs

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It's being presented by e.g. Goodwin as part of a 'war against the past', but these people evidently don't know much about the past: as a boy I used to collect old farthings (yes, I was a peculiar child) which had had a wren on them from 1937, replacing, gulp, Britannia!

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5 hours ago

There's simply no way of predicting these things

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6 hours ago

An excellent idea.

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Data protection law can be/is also enforceable by private claims though.

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national govts can amend national crimnal law (if necessary) in the meantime while the EU works on harmonising it

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woke!

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Can this be a solution?

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OFCOM earlier today

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It's part of a broader proposal to replace the current Directive on CSA/CSAM - I don't think the whole thing can be agreed overnight

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It's part of negotiations (now at trilogue stage) on this proposal to replace the Directive on CSA/CSAM - arts 82.2 and 83.1, ie criminal procedure re victims and substantive criminal law on sexual exploitation of children - eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

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CJEU, external relations/transport law

Advocate General's opinion: EU still does not have exclusive competence to sign aviation treaties without Member States' participation
infocuria.curia.europa.eu/tabs/documen...

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