Júlia Pőcze

A bit of a throwback to our 2030 vision for the European Rule of Law (including timing the annual reports more wisely and making them bigger, bolder and more comprehensive), read it here:
www.ceps.eu/ceps-publica...

As the European Commission published its sixth annual Rule of Law Report today, check out this report by Sergio Carrera, Julia Pocze & Davide Colombi.

It argues for a radical reassessment of the EU approach & outlines 5 priorities to address its growing rule of law deficit.

READ 👉 bit.ly/45ZfMnA

Ein Tweet mit dem Text: "She’s back. Annika Brockschmidt, a failed German TV reporter who’s carved a lucrative niche peddling anti-Americanism to Germans (and famously wrote an entire book about American politics without setting foot in the country), is now predicting the demise of American democracy." Darunter ein Screenshot aus einem Interview mit dem Text: "Siehst du die USA auch in der letzten Phase ihrer Demokratie? Brockschmidt: Ja. Ich versuche es positiv zu formulieren: Wir sollten nicht davon ausgehen, dass die amerikanische Demokratie automatisch ihrem Ende entgegengeht. Auf kurze Sicht sieht es aber nicht gut aus."

Kurzer persönlicher throwback als ich 2023 Annika Brockschmidt interviewt habe und ein US-Österreichischer Journalist und mittlerweile Chefredakteur diesen Ausschnitt genommen hat, um sie auf Twitter lächerlich zu machen. Ich glaub da brauchts eh keinen Kommentar mehr.

I had the pleasure of joining my @ceps.eu colleagues at @ilgaeurope.bsky.social’s #Equality Fundraiser last week. More than a very fun afterwork, it was the opportunity to connect and show my organisation’s and personal support to ILGA-Europe invaluable work!

Consider supporting them!

@ilgaeurope.bsky.social is doing invaluable work to protect the rights, freedom and safety of *all* members of the LGBTIQA+ community, advocating for better, more inclusive policies, banning harmful practices, raising awareness and providing legal support. And they need donations more than ever.

I was happy to rep @ceps.eu at ILGA Europe's fundraiser last week with @brusselsfog.bsky.social, @jullib.bsky.social and @davidecolombi.bsky.social

From Chaber's fantastic speech to drag kings, it was a life-affirming experience.

If you can, please consider donating! www.ilga-europe.org/donations/

Today, an estimated 180.000 people marched in Pride in #Budapest to reclaim the right to freedom of assembly despite a government ban. Congrats to the organisers #BudapestPride and thanks to all in the community and allies who showed up with Pride!

👀🇨🇳 Despite Viktor Orbán’s ban, Budapest Pride drew a record 100–200K in a city of 1.7M. Marchers defied threats, but new Chinese facial recognition tech was deployed—potentially enabling (up to) €500 fines for participants.

A police van with cameras was parked to record everyone passing by.

In this year's Budapest Pride, the spirit of Stonewall lives on. Pride is more than a celebration: it's about standing up to oppressors and never giving up on justice and equality.

Proud of my hometown - thank you to the organisers and everyone who refused to back down! Time's up, Viktor!

This is a good idea and more people should champion it. You don't stop being a citizen because you're incarcerated. In fact, we should be making every effort to ensure people in prison know that they will always be part of society.

I’m inspired by the words of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, the winner of last night’s mayoral primary election in New York City.

Our system may be under attack by Big Money and demagogues, but let his victory serve as a reminder that power belongs to the people.

National Limits, European Claims: The Ultra Vires Conflict in EU Constitutional Law (part 1) Dr Benedikt Riedl , Mjur (Oxford),  postdoctoral researcher and academic assistant at the Chair of Public Law and Legal Philosophy (Prof D...

Should EU law, or national law, take precedence in the event of a conflict?

Analysis by Dr Benedikt Riedl, in two parts

Part 1 - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/nati...

Part 2 - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/nati...

📢⚖️ In our new episode of Voices From Ideas Lab, Tom Parker is joined with Sergio Carrera to discuss the fundamental rights of migrants and the consequences of a lack of law enforcement.

🎥 WATCH HERE: bit.ly/4k0JQm6
🎧 LISTEN HERE: bit.ly/3ZARs7x

🔴 LIVE NOW / Our event with the Network of Afghanistan Diaspora Organisations in Europe (NADOE) and the support of the City of Brussels has kicked off!

Kristine Hansen, NADOE's Network Coordinator for Scandinavia is providing her opening remarks

LEARN MORE 👉 www.ceps.eu/ceps-events/...

🔴 LIVE NOW / Ahmad Wali Ahmad Yar, postdoctoral researcher at VUB, is now providing an overview of the 45 years of war and instability in Afghanistan and its impact on the diaspora abroad.

🔴 LIVE NOW / Our panel discussion has started! Our speakers will bridge their lived experiences to a broader discussion on EU-level integration efforts.

On #WorldRefugeeDay, dive into our final ASILE project book on Global Asylum Governance and the EU's Role. It analyses the characteristics and impacts of existing and emerging asylum governance instruments & their practical implementation in selected countries. 👉 www.ceps.eu/ceps-publica...

“A Law Without a Way to Enforce It” - Bolts In North Dakota as elsewhere, Native voters face a triple threat: judges targeting the VRA, Trump officials hostile to discrimination laws, and a funding crunch depleting their work.

Federal courts have eliminated the right for tribal nations in North Dakota to fight discriminatory election laws, declaring only the Attorney General can sue under the VRA. Meanwhile, Trump's DOJ has abandoned enforcement of voter protections for marginalized groups: boltsmag.org/voting-right...

You can't ban love. You can't ban freedom. You can't silence a rainbow. 🌈

And despite the ban ordered by PM Viktor Orbán, the Budapest Pride will go ahead.

To queer communities in Hungary and across Europe: We see you, we support you, and we will not stay silent. ✊

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧ See you at the Pride 💚

Shameful from the EPP - the same group who vehemently opposes the 'ethics body', even in its watered-down form and generally resists calls for stricter ethical/transparency rules for MEPs.

Let's then investigate their 'occult' ties to various big corporations, shall we?

EU commissioner set to attend Budapest LGBTQ+ festivities in jab at Orbán The Hungarian government has moved to try to ban Pride under the pretext of protecting children.

European Commissioner for Equality Hadja Lahbib will next week attend Budapest Pride, an LGBTQ+ celebration that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has tried to ban.

EU Parliament creates official body to probe NGO funding It’s the latest of a series of moves by right-wing forces to increase scrutiny of nonprofits.

🚨NEW: the European Parliament will set up a working group to probe EU-funded NGOs, in move that saw the EPP side once again with the right-wing and far-right groups.

W/ @maxgriera.bsky.social

www.politico.eu/article/eu-p...

Quote from the article by authors SARAH OUŘEDNÍČKOVÁ & ZUZANA VIKARSKÁ: “The judgment opens a legal door but offers little warmth to those standing outside the traditional gender binary.”

T.H. marked an unspoken first at the ECtHR: it involved a non-binary applicant.

The Court found that sterilisation as a precondition for legal gender recognition violates Article 8.

SARAH OUŘEDNÍČKOVÁ and ZUZANA VIKARSKÁ explain what's amiss.

verfassungsblog.de/th-czech-non...

⚡️🏳️‍🌈After Viktor Orbán’s government passed an anti-LGBT law to ban the Pride march in Hungary, Budapest mayor Gergely Karácsony announced the city will officially organize Budapest Pride as a municipal event on June 28.

This means the ban won’t apply: police can’t disperse the crowd or issue fines.

Budapest has such an amazing and courageous mayor. Fighting for equal rights and freedoms for everyone, he has decided to organise the #BudapestPride on behalf of the municipality.

Preventing Orbán from refusing a permit, arresting or fining participants. Gergely Karácsony is a real democrat!

Hi everyone

I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests

I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

Schengen faces midlife crisis Temporary border controls are becoming a fixture in the EU’s borderless travel area.

The EU’s Schengen zone isn’t the young and sprightly free-travel area it once was.

Temporary border controls are becoming a fixture in the EU’s borderless travel area.

Why Orbán’s repressive laws attack Hungarians’ individual sovereignty and freedom. The so-called “transparency bill” is an attack on Hungarians’ sovereign independence.

Orbán’s repression is forcing the EU to develop new legal arguments, namely that the EU requires its member states to be “constitutional democracies that protect human rights”

I wrote about Advocate General Ćapeta’s opinion here for @tvpworld.bsky.social

tvpworld.com/87237168/opi...

Zitat aus dem aktuellen Artikel von Autor Constantin Hruschka: „Eine kohärente Umsetzung des Gesamtsystems kann nur durch umfangreiche Normwiederholungen im nationalen Recht gelingen.“

Gebietet das unionale Normwiederholungsverbot Zurückhaltung bei der Umsetzung der GEAS-Reform?

CONSTANTIN HRUSCHKA stellt klar: Die Komplexität der Reform spricht für eine umfassende nationale Gesetzgebung, um praktische Wirksamkeit und Normenklarheit zu gewährleisten.

‘Those who promote accountability, democratic values and human rights are branded enemies of the state’ CIVICUS discusses Hungary’s now-postponed foreign agents bill with Márta Pardavi, co-chair of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, a human rights organisation that defends human dignity through legal and...

Vote delayed ≠ threat gone
The proposed law targeting civil society, media, and democracy groups isn't dead—it's just on pause. The political intent to silence watchdogs remains crystal clear. lens.civicus.org/interview/th...