Federico D'Onofrio

Greek authorities have issued an European Arrest Warrant against Norwegian human rights activist Tommy Olsen, who leads the Aegean Boat Report, supporting migrants.

Isn't it incredible that the Spd accepts to be part of Merz's cabinet?

But if the data is conceptually and empirically so shaky why even bother to use to solve a problem (the rate of growth of technology) that is only apparent if we agree on the data themselves? Sometimes intellectual modesty seems better than "best guesses"

Der große Unterschied besteht darin, dass es heute keine rote Front, kein Bolschewismus und nicht einmal mehr eine Sozialdemokratie gibt.

Inside a Detention Site at the Heart of Europe’s Harsh New Approach to Immigration

On the hellish detention and deportation system built by EU countries. With quotes from the current and the former German chancellors expressing their commitment to the inhumane cruelty of this apparatus, described here in forensic detail.

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Insurance? We need a europe wide work and health insurance

And how can you preserve consensus for the eu if via state subsidies larger and richer countries can kill the business pf smaller ones?

Don t you think instead that more unified (financial) markets, tax codes, bankruptcy laws are needed? I experience the need for a single banking market and bankruptcy law in my daily life as an employee, cannot think how much entrepreneurs would need them

Le Parlement européen adopte définitivement deux textes-clés pour durcir la politique migratoire Ces textes, adoptés grâce à une alliance de la droite et de l’extrême droite, permettent notamment aux Etats membres de renvoyer des demandeurs d’asile vers des pays dont ils ne sont pas originaires, mais que l’Europe considère comme « sûrs ».

Le Parlement européen adopte définitivement deux textes-clés pour durcir la politique migratoire

They could be drawing lots, like the SNSF

Griechenland: Küstenwache kollidiert mit Migrantenboot in Chios - 14 Tote Nahe der griechischen Insel Chios ist ein Schiff der Küstenwache mit einem Boot voller Migranten zusammengestoßen. Zahlreiche Menschen starben, Retter suchen mit Wärmebildkameras nach Überlebenden.

Nahe der griechischen Insel Chios ist ein Schiff der Küstenwache mit einem Boot voller Migranten zusammengestoßen. Zahlreiche Menschen starben, Retter suchen mit Wärmebildkameras nach Überlebenden.

Europe will just turn into a bigger Hungary

When you eat an early dinner instead of lunch or a late lunch instead of dinner, is it "lunner" or "dinch"?

what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.

Funny. In Austria evening and early-morning courses are in high demand because students are at work during the central hours of the day

I think the caption in the alt text is wrong: it is not Napoleon's troops retreating. It's German ww1 soldiers! (sorry for being pedantic)

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and in the weak inclination of our population and our administration toward the abstract and toward theoretical and methodical research." 2/2 (R. Jeckel, 'Le Dr Georg Von Mayr', Journal de la société statistique de Paris, tome 52 (1911), p. 167-168

A great sentence on the limited impact of statistics on government: "Statistics is a science that must constantly fight for its right to exist: the reason for this lies in the aversion we feel in everyday life to being governed by theory, 1/2

My impression is that zombie regimes are much more characteristic of the 21st century than of the 20th. And it cannot be just because the agents of repression are stronger, while the protesters have not had any technological upgrades (which, incidentally, is not true).

I wonder how much this is the result of changes in the technologies of repression (which have undoubtedly improved), a specific lesson learned by these regimes from the fate of the USSR (compared to China), or something totally idiosyncratic. 3/3

The governments of Maduro and Assad had these characteristics, as did the Iranian regime. 2/3

I am thinking a lot about the category of zombie-regimes: regimes that rely on very little consensus, but in return maintain a very strong capacity for repression and the unity necessary to use it. Without consensus, the regime is paralyzed, but it is impossible to remove it. 1/3

Uno dei leader dell'AfD, dice che la repubblica federale è una delle forme statuali della Germania e viene usata contro il futuro dei tedeschi. Sembra un nazista che parla della repubblica di Weimar

"Die gegenwärtige Staatlichkeit [also die Bundesrepublik] wird offenkundig zum Kampf gegen eine deutsche Zukunft missbraucht." - Björn Höcke, 22.1.2026

Most of all, it feels like a return to the 1820s and 1830s: an alliance of the elites of the great powers meant to oppress everybody else.

Look who Italian Deputy PM Salvini has been hosting in his Ministerial office.

Separated by war — and by Schengen Designed to keep Europe safe, a security system is trapping Ukrainian ex-prisoners — including victims of Russian occupation — leaving families torn apart with no clear path out of legal limbo.

Ukrainian nationals serving sentences in Ukrainian prisons seized by Russian forces are being flagged in the EU’s Schengen Information System as potential threats to public order and internal security.

We want to know more! who is the student, who is the professor, is the poem really so bad?