Niels Keijzer

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

We welcome the continued US efforts to bring peace to Ukraine.

The initial draft of the 28-point plan includes important elements that will be essential for a just and lasting peace.

We believe therefore that the draft is a basis which will require additional work.

link.europa.eu/FCPdy6

Turkey, the EU, and China in the world: Does Turbulence lead to Convergence?  - newettg November, 2025 Authored: Niels Keijzer, Melis Baydag (IDOS) In today’s geopolitically buzzing and unstable world, what seemed unthinkable one month ago can be old news only weeks later. A small […]

How are the 𝗘𝗨, 𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 adapting their international cooperation in a fragmenting world? Are their 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 converging or diverging?

Read the latest blog by @nikolajnielsen.bsky.social & @melisbaydag.bsky.social bit.ly/3K6tdJG (@idos-research.bsky.social)

📚 German–Moroccan cooperation
IDOS experts Annabelle Houdret & @mfurness.bsky.social argue that Germany should position itself as a partner that clearly defines its interests, combining strategic & economic cooperation with support for inclusive & #SustainableDevelopment. doi.org/10.23661/ipb...

A Journalist Asked Why Israel Isn’t Paying to Rebuild Gaza. It Cost Him His Job. Italy’s Nova news agency confirmed it let reporter Gabriele Nunziati go for asking a European official about Israel at a press conference.

“You’ve been repeating several times that Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe that Israel should pay for the reconstruction of Gaza since they have destroyed almost all its civilian infrastructure?”

‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Van Weel *petje op*, Van Weel *petje af*

What the datacenter boom means for America’s environment – and electricity bills In this week’s newsletter: from Google to Amazon to OpenAI, the economic and climate cost of datacenters continues to grow

AI boom needs more data centres, increased use of electricity and water

This is hardly accounted for in the EU's Apply AI strategy including the lack of strategy to tax the profits of corporations to pay for grids, pollution and extraction of water

See also @parismarx.com

EADI IOB Conference: Shaping Sustainable Futures. Global Challenges, (G)Local Solutions, 29 June to 2 July 2026 Antwerp, Belgium

Call for abstracts, Seed Panel:

Research Perspectives on the European Union’s Relations with the Global South

Conv. by Simon Lightfoot (@polisatleeds.bsky.social), @nielskeijzer.bsky.social (@idos-research.bsky.social) & María Santillán O'Shea @rielcano.bsky.social
www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...

📚 Die Debatte zur Neuausrichtung der deutschen #Entwicklungspolitik konzentriert sich bislang auf bilaterale Zusammenarbeit. Dabei ist die europäische Ebene zentral für die Umsetzung der entwicklungspolitischen Ziele der #Bundesregierung und sollte stärker einbezogen werden. doi.org/10.23661/ipb...

Leaders of Grenada, Ethiopia, Colombia, DRC, Angola, South Africa, Cabo Verde & Mauritania are in Brussels for VDL's Global Gateway Forum

From Europe, as well as commission, PM of Luxembourg and deputy PMs of Poland and Belgium. As an EU diplomat told me today, not a great look!

Kabinet haalt tóch 'enkele' zieke kinderen uit Gaza naar Nederland Het kabinet gaat toch enkele zieke kinderen uit Gaza naar Nederland halen. Om hoeveel kinderen het precies gaat, is niet duidelijk.

Eindelijk een teken van medemenselijkheid!

Pijnlijk dat VVD en BBB het eerst wekenlang hebben tegengehouden. Maar maatschappelijke druk werkt.

Dit is een goede eerste stap om ernstig zieke kinderen uit Gaza te helpen.

www.nu.nl/algemeen/637...

#NorDev25 is a great conference format and network of scholars, cool that you went there this year!

Don’t abandon forest law over IT problem, Ribera urges Commission Vice president of the EU executive says computer issues not good enough reason to further delay anti-deforestation law.

After Environment Commissioner Roswall delays EU forest law blaming IT issues, the Commission's VP Teresa Ribera tells us she's really not convinced.

“There may be [IT problems] — I don't know."

"I think that it is very controversial to give it up."

www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Trump’s ICE agents tried to kidnap a food delivery worker in Chicago - but the guy was too fast for them.

📣 High-level seminar in preparation of the EU-AU Summit-jointly organised by boell.de (Debt Relief for a Green and Inclusive Recovery (DRGR) Project), Caritas Africa, @caritaseuropa.bsky.social, @idos-research.bsky.social, @misereor.bsky.social and @ettg.bsky.social: 🔗 lnkd.in/e22j6qVi

The Flemish government’s unexpected decision not to renew IOB’s agreement puts €2.64M funding, 32 jobs, key programmes and global partnerships at risk. Support us! https://bit.ly/saveIOB

#saveIOB #developmentpolicy #developmentpolicy #iobcommunity

I've seen a few quotes and I for sure won't be watching it back, in case that helps

Turkish air surveillance systems to protect Polish and Romanian skies NATO will begin deploying Turkey’s advanced MEROPS surveillance system in Poland and Romania to boost early warning and response capabilities against escalating drone threats from Russia

Turkish air surveillance systems to protect Polish and Romanian skies

PM statement on the recognition of Palestine: 21 September 2025 Keir Starmer's statement on the Middle East.

Full text of prime minister's statement on the recognition of a Palestinian state www.gov.uk/government/s...

2025 State of the Union Address by President von der Leyen President von der Leyen delivered the first State of the Union Address of the 2024-2029 Commission. \n

I just go with the written speech, no need to make work harder than necessary: ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

I think VDL really needs something as heavy as reggaeton :)

We are pleased to invite you to join us in Istanbul at the event jointly organized by ETTG, Stiftung Mercator, IDOS and IPC, titled: "New Directions in Development: Comparing the Engagement of Turkey, the EU, and China with the Global South". Please click here to register: forms.gle/ig7RGR5CRuGi...

“.. Quite a hot mic moment on CCTV in Beijing today as Putin and Xi, both 72 years old, are caught casually talking about living to 150 and maybe forever thanks to organ transplants. (As picked up by Bloomberg.)”

(via @yarotrof.bsky.social)

So Weyand simply said the quiet part out loud, very much as expected.

Von der Leyen’s plane hit by suspected Russian GPS interference Officials suspect jamming operation forced jet carrying EU commission president to land in Bulgaria using paper maps

Von der Leyen’s plane hit by suspected Russian GPS interference on.ft.com/4p2wEAO

Brief stop for a cup of tea in London on my way to Liverpool to attend the #UACES2025 conference. Looking forward to several panels on EU development policy co-organised with Simon Lightfoot and Sebastian Steingass, also starring my @idos-research.bsky.social colleague @mfurness.bsky.social

Hahaha, I indeed don't come across "Dutch restaurants" all that much during my travels

A rally in Alaska ahead of the meeting between President Trump and Putin.