Dominic Kraemer

Opinie | Rob Jetten en de oude machtspartij die zichzelf iets te enthousiast feliciteerde Machtige Tijden: Een progressieve kandidaat-premier van een behoudend land. De kans op een groot politiek waagstuk. De VVD die hem tot een keuze uit twee kwaden dwingt. Klassieke nijd die elk moment…

De progressieve liberaal Jetten moet straks werken met een parlement met een rechts-conservatieve meerderheid. „Ziehier de uitdaging van Jetten: een progressieve premier in een behoudend land.”
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Tired: in the face of fascism we must Decide to Win by moderating our positions on key issues

Wired: let’s just run a hot guy with an Argentinian hockey player as a boyfriend

🗳️ First exit polls from the Netherlands: Wilders’ PVV appears to shrink from 37 to 25 seats. Make no mistake — the far right remains strong. Support hasn’t disappeared; it’s shifted across parties. The Dutch political landscape is more fragmented than ever — and the far right is no exception. 🇳🇱

God i can't recommend this episodes enough!!!
Did i hear that right? 38 million empty houses across Europe!?!

Who Does It Best? — The Europeans

It’s here!!

We've just released the first two parts of our new series, Who Does It Best?

At a time when so many people feel their governments aren’t taking care of them, we asked: how do policies really shape our daily lives? And who’s getting it right?

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🚨BREAKING: The metropolitan police
arrest a man for carrying a copy of our magazine. This is a threat to both journalism and freedom to protest

About to be the family that owns TikTok.

Tune in for bionic elbows, Eurovision crises, wandering Elk and a monk who makes soups.

(I had a lot of fun recording this episode with @ninaism.bsky.social)

And I am only now just remembering that it was you who tipped us off about the sourdough library! Thanks so much for the tip! Karl is amazing.

The Diane Abbott row shows how impoverished Britain’s conversations about race have become | Jason Okundaye We should be able to discuss the different ways in which minorities are racialised in a thoughtful – and sometimes confronting – way, says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye

The Diane Abbott row shows how impoverished Britain’s conversations about race have become | Jason Okundaye

Toxic chemicals, abortion rights, and a Nazi-era train law — The Europeans Depending on where you are in Europe, your right to a safe abortion — and reproductive care in general — can vary dramatically. This week, we speak to pioneering abortion activist Rebecca Go...

🚨 NEW EPISODE

A great conversation for you this week: Abortion rights pioneer Rebecca Gomperts, founder of Women on Waves and @aidaccess.bsky.social, on why she's still hopeful for reproductive rights despite the crackdowns we're seeing around the world.

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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.

🚨🚨 Symbolically significant move by Equality EU Commissioner @hadjalahbib.bsky.social to attend Budapest #pride festival sending a very clear message to Hungarian PM Órban who has tried to ban the festival. /1 www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

New episode ready for your ears! I try to explain why the Dutch government collapsed, and Katy tries to explain why bear meat might soon be on the menu in Slovakia...

Little update on Facebook's decision to shut my account.

“Wilders walks away again: are men too emotional for political responsibility?” 😆

The modern condition of waking up to horrible news from all over the world and just having to shove that all back down and get on with your silly little job 😞

🇵🇱⚖️🗳️ The rule of law repair process in Poland just got incredibly more difficult. I expect President Nawrocki to be even less cooperative than Duda, as Nawrocki will work hard for a PiS parliamentary election victory. Tough times ahead. 1/

This brings us one step closer to a legal victory that is aimed at ensuring that the Pride march in Budapest will be held peacefully and lawfully on 28 June!

AP reporting Red Cross hospital in Gaza saying at least 21 people killed and another 175 injured in Gaza as they went to receive aid from an Israeli-backed foundation.

This week I had the most delightful chat with Ursula Heinzelmann about asparagus. A dreamy podcast guest speaking on the most delightful of topics.

okay this has gone on long enough I am really going to need either the ECHR or the EHRC to change their fucking name

The Hungarian draft law on ‘transparency in public life’ must not be adopted, say PACE monitors Eerik-Niiles Kross (Estonia, ALDE) and George Papandreou (Greece, SOC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Hungary, have made the follow...

The Hungarian bill on "transparency in public life" [the Starve and Strangle Law] must not be adopted, say @coe.int PACE monitors. "As proposed, the bill would make it impossible for civil society organisations and independent media outlets to operate, let alone exist." pace.coe.int/en/news/9893...

“A voting reveal should not leave viewers fearing for a contest’s future; a music competition should not be at a point where the human catastrophe inflicted by the military of a participating country has to be mentioned – or worse, cannot even be mentioned – by commentators on air.”

Tens of thousands protest against cabinet’s Israel stance - DutchNews.nl Tens of thousands of people marched through the centre of The Hague on Sunday to protest against the right-wing cabinet’s position on Israel and the war in Gaza. The organisers called on the Dutch gov...

Over 100.000 people on the street today in The Hague to protest against the right-wing cabinet’s position on Israel and the war in Gaza

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Romanian Presidential candidate George Simion seems to be doing the Trump 2016 thing of claiming he has won even though exit polls suggest he probably/possibly hasn't. This tactic is however rather undermined by the fact that he used the flag of Chad instead of Romania.

Most. predictable. gender. reveal. ever.

Labour is handing this country on a silver platter to Reform. People do not vote Labour because they hate immigrants and want Reform-lite. They vote Labour because they want it to make a positive difference to their lives.

It was a pleasure speaking to one of Europe's greatest historians on the show this week.
- Can anything good come from Trumpism for this continent? - Does it matter if we talk about different things when we talk about Europe?
Tune in to hear @fromtga.bsky.social's answers to those Qs +many more

No surprise that the Daily Telegraph are jumping on that anti-renewables train

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