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Irish. EU Advocacy for @article19.bsky.social in Brussels. Prior - international dev/affairs in Mumbai and MENA - Beirut, Baghdad, Amman, Berlin, London. #humanrights #foreignaffairs #techpolicy #EUaffairs #mediafreedom Views mine.
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled.
A truly extraordinary moment.
We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
Act like it.
The problem with the Iranian regime strategy is that it doesn't seem to have any other options available for scenarios where an oil price spike does not stop US and Israeli attacks.
Market actors might be making the same mistake.
Jae - do you think any of this is related to what is happening in Palestine?
Ok geopolitical experts tell me: is it possible we're in a situation where Trump wants to TACO, and the Iranians/Israelis won't let him?
Not the only issue, but the plaintiff in this case appears to have relied on some fake judgments due to use of AI 🙄
What Israel/US is doing to Iran is horrifying but it doesn’t compare to what Israel, with full US support, is doing to Lebanon and Palestine. Not even close x.com/mamoun_linda...
The success of the DMA regime will depend on many factors, and one of them is the role of civil society in shaping the agenda and the narrative.
Konstantina Bania and I have invited to very noticeable speakers to discuss.
🟢 full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf9o...
Many thanks @oandriychuk.bsky.social - it a fun and wide-ranging discussion!
This is absolutely INSANE! Israel has attacked Israel and Lebanon, unprovoked, but for the EU Hezbollah is the problem. 🤷♂️
If your business model doesn’t work without your company becoming an accessory to murder, then you are not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
Quite. @martinsandbu.ft.com "The war on Iran has again exposed the EU’s impotence, not just over world affairs but over its own economic prospects...they risk entrenching rather than reducing the bloc’s vulnerability." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
A critical journalist and migration activists targeted in the same #Paragon spyware attack. Who had the means & motive: the Italian government. No-one else has a motive, and spyware is expensive and not sold to normal citizens. Like in other EU countries spyware is being used for political purposes.
So Axel Springer has bought the UK’s Telegraph?
Makes sense.
Our big @ecfr.eu 360° reaction piece to the Iran conflict, assessing regional & global positioning, risks and implications as the war plays out in devastating fashion across the Middle East - and beyond ecfr.eu/article/a-wa...
"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.
if people are using classified information to place bets, then theoretically others can analyze betting behavior to find signals that reveal classified information.
Utterly hopeless. EU’s complete lack of integrity and courage has hugely contributed to this. As a European, beyond ashamed. Pathetic.
But fundamentally, this shows why first past the post isn’t fit for purpose. If the government doesn’t introduce proportional voting, a far right party could win the next general election outright on a minority of the vote.
Gotta say the BBC radio 4 today description of Trump’s State of the Union as some sort of mild mannered, well orchestrated speech doesn’t tally at all with the clips I’ve watched
Listening to Sarah Smith talking so effusively about Trump’s speech can’t help thinking about *that* lawsuit….
Several European countries are considering social media bans for children. We must regulate platforms, not children.
I urge caution:
✅ Focus on "safety by design"
✅ Demand algorithmic transparency
✅ Enforce the #DSA & #HumanRights standards
Read my Shout Out👇
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
This is exactly it @martinsandbu.ft.com "Aiming solely for resilience obscures any consideration of countervailing power that Europe itself possesses and could wield against others." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Albert Füracker needs to resign for his lies and utter incompetence. Great reporting. www.golem.de/news/digital...
EPP targeting S&D-led Spain is also not new, see derailed Ribera hearing. But turning RoL protection partisan by naming Spain and not e.g. EPP-led Greece, ranked 89th on RSF press freedom index (even HU ranks 68th) & 48th on WJP rule of law index, does RoL no service: www.eppgroup.eu/newsroom/rul...
In documents produced in US litigation, we've gotten a small window into how online platforms measure harms and their mitigations. Why aren't DSA risk assessments -- which are designed for just this purpose -- actually assessing risk?
While Amazon touts the surveillance state enabled by its Ring cameras, remember...
Amazon's U.S. tax bill dropped by 87% in 2025, mostly thanks to Trump's tax cuts.
Meanwhile, its profits jumped by 45% to nearly $90 billion — and it announced 30,000 job cuts.
Is this the world we want to live in?
When EU leaders meet tomorrow to discuss the EU’s competitiveness agenda, they should stop chasing ghosts and confront the real problem Europe‘s economy is facing.
Our latest for @politico.eu with @nilsredeker.bsky.social and @sandertordoir.bsky.social 👇
just a reminder that the united states is essentially operating a network of torture camps holding individuals in arbitrary detention, without access to appeal and rarely to counsel.
“The issue, as so often, is not machine intelligence; it’s the foolishness and delusion of humans.”
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
Good essay "I proposed that this was similar to the appeal of “effective altruism”, the neo-utilitarian moral theory popular among students and tech bros, which reduces moral questions to basic calculations of effectiveness. “Exactly,” he said. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...