Het kabinet Jetten is 'Starmerite' (reactionair-centristisch) tot op het bot, en speelt ook hier extreemrechts in de kaart.
Met één verschil: in het VK vormen de post-centristische Groenen toenemend een alternatief ter linkerzijde - hier zit GL in een centristische sterfhuisconstructie met de PvdA.
06.02.2026 09:10 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Na corona dacht iedereen - ikzelf ook - dat het neoliberalisme over zijn hoogtepunt heen was. Met deze coalitie zien we echter een nieuwe neoliberale golf. Het is een en al dereguleren en korten op de verzorgingsstaat. Voor @groene.nl schets ik de parallellen met de BV-Nederland-gedachte uit 1982.
03.02.2026 12:42 — 👍 137 🔁 38 💬 12 📌 3
Today, the European Parliament voted to put the Mercosur trade agreement to the European Court of Justice for review.
It was a politically momentous decision, very tight and carried by an unusual majority, so it is worth looking a bit deeper into it.
21.01.2026 15:09 — 👍 186 🔁 86 💬 6 📌 7
The volume "Depoliticisation before Neoliberalism" is now published by Palgrave Macmillan.
In an online book launch event on Feb. 20, 12 o'clock (CET), we will discuss the results with special guests Prof Willibald Steinmetz (Bielefeld) and Dr Ruben Ros (Utrecht). See below to register.
11.01.2026 15:14 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Jervis Forum Review 157: Roos on van Zon, Heralds of a Democratic Europe
The democratic legitimacy of the European Union (EU) and its predecessor, the European Community (EC), has long been a focal point of scholarship across history, the social sciences, law, and philosophy.[1] In many of these studies, the European Parliament (EP) plays a prominent role, albeit largely after its first direct elections in 1979. In the deeply engaging book Heralds of a Democratic Europe: Representation without Politicization in the European Community, 1948–68…
Jervis Forum Review 157: Roos on van Zon, Heralds of a Democratic Europe
The democratic legitimacy of the European Union (EU) and its predecessor, the European Community (EC), has long been a focal point of scholarship across history, the social sciences, law, and philosophy.[1] In many of these…
08.01.2026 05:02 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Vrekkerig Nederland isoleert zichzelf binnen de EU - Maartenonline
Europese samenwerking is leuk, maar het mag niet te veel kosten. De Hollandse vrekkigheid binnen de EU heeft een prijs.
De Raad van State fluit minister Femke Wiersma terug omdat haar stikstofdoelen botsen met Europese natuurwetten. Historicus Bart Stol legt uit waarom Nederland op weinig steun kan rekenen als het door EU-regels in de knel komt. ‘De Hollandse vrekkigheid schaadt de Nederlandse gunfactor in Europa.'
22.12.2025 15:00 — 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
Really? I’d say that if anything, the decline of the Brussels effect is due to do with the EU’s lack of political will to wield its regulatory power and its open door policy to corporate lobbyists. Its still the largest consumer market, whatever an isolated downward line suggests
16.12.2025 07:04 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AI Guide for Managers – adopting and integrating AI in your work
2
I. Identifying work processes for AI integration
AI is a welcome opportunity for Commission staff to become more effective and efficient in daily work processes,
including new services that would not have been possible up to now. In encouraging its use, AI must be an
instrument of support for staff and for human-centric policy making.
Encourage active participation from your staff . Their involvement is essential in
accurately identifying the specific needs that AI can support meeting (also see II)).
High-Impact Areas for AI Utilisation
You may already have a concrete use case – get in touch with the to take it
forward. Or you are starting from scratch – check out the below table for concrete help:
Work Process AI Benefits Tools/Applications
Elaborating
Briefings
Faster, comprehensive first drafts of briefings (possibility to use
SNC* data)
First drafts of
documents
Faster first drafts (time-saving), AI tool as
sparring partner for generating and checking
ideas
(possibility to use
SNC* data)
Brainstorming/
analysis
Faster brainstorming (time-saving), AI tool as
sparring partner for generating and checking
ideas
(possibility to use
SNC* data)
Minutes
(Transcription)
Accurate, time-saving transcription AI transcription tools (e.g.
)
Preparing
Background Notes
Efficient generation of speaking points e.g.
(possibility to use SNC* data)
Summaries Quick, accurate summaries Summarisation tools (e.g.
)
(possibility to use SNC* data)
Policymaking Early-stage brainstorming for identifying/
substantiating potential policy problems;
Explaining/summarising legislative initiatives;
Analysing/summarising consultation activities
(possibility to use
SNC* data)
*SNC: sensitive, non-classified data
Bringing the disruption to Brussels: The European Commission encourages its managers to draft policy-making documents with AI, including "explaining/summarising legislative initiatives". According to a newly released Commission document, this will "boost your team's productivity". 🫢
15.12.2025 12:24 — 👍 14 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 8
This graph is also infuriating. Just an isolated downward line, no context. And how does this prove a reduction in regulatory influence? EU is still largest global consumer market
15.12.2025 10:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This article treats the EU’s diminishing regulatory power as structural (and politically neutral) consequence of its shrinking share of global GDP.
It doesn't mention the corporate lobbyists and captured politicians that spent years trying to weaken it. very misleading.
15.12.2025 08:22 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
YouTube video by fern
The Dumb Design of Modern Cars
Er is zoveel mis met moderne auto's, maar laat vooral fietsers een helmpje dragen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HauQ...
05.12.2025 12:12 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Opinie | Hoe een mini-kabinet het hoger onderwijs sloopt
Dit demissionair kabinet voert ingrijpende onderwijsbezuinigingen door, zonder benodigd mandaat. Dat moet stoppen, zeggen Rens Bod, Remco Breuker en Ingrid Robeyns.
"Het is een democratische absurditeit die we ondertussen bijna normaal zijn gaan vinden: een demissionaire regering die nauwelijks een zesde van de Tweede Kamer vertegenwoordigt, maar die wel doorgaat met beslissingen die diep ingrijpen in de toekomst van ons land. [..]"
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
03.12.2025 16:19 — 👍 187 🔁 89 💬 16 📌 9
European Law Open: Volume 4 - Issue 3 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - European Law Open - Volume 4 - Issue 3
New issue dropped! Thanks to @sarahvahed.bsky.social @cgoanta.bsky.social @koenvanzon.bsky.social @whommes.bsky.social @historikarin.bsky.social @whommes.bsky.social @lolaavril.bsky.social and the others for some brilliant work.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
02.12.2025 15:56 — 👍 7 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
‘As with climate change, the focus on consumers deflects scrutiny that should be directed towards industry. Not only do companies help establish false representations of consumer wastefulness, they are themselves waste creators on a gigantic scale.’
Brett Christophers:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
20.11.2025 15:30 — 👍 29 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 1
🚨 Brussels, today 🚨Ursula! Stand up for Europe – not for Trump’s tech bros!
As the EU unveils its “Digital Omnibus” today, we're rolling out billboards calling on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to stop bending to US and Big Tech pressure and enforce our digital laws #StandUpUrsula✊
19.11.2025 09:51 — 👍 103 🔁 60 💬 3 📌 8
Another piece from the special issue on EU legal history 'from below' that is nicely coming about on first view: the story of Helen Marshall's unlikely (but major) contribution to EU law.
19.11.2025 11:10 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Het enge is: de minister komt lekker meekeuvelen. Die formatie gaat mij niet snel genoeg
14.11.2025 22:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Extreem zorgwekkend, gezien de dereguleringsgolf die er nog aan komt. De bescherming van alles wat kwetsbaar is moet wijken voor bedrijfswinsten...
13.11.2025 16:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
“The Omnibus fails to meet the constitutional standards the EU’s own legal order demands”.
That’s the conclusion reached by legal opinion endorsed by 100+ academics warning the Parliament about this dangerous precedent.
Read the opinion 👇 #Omnibus #CSRD #CSDDD
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
10.11.2025 06:33 — 👍 34 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 5
Van chipmaker tot schuilkelder | Radboud Universiteit
CPG-onderzoeker Koen van Zon schrijft in dit artikel over de politieke onrust in 1952 en het ontstaan van de Wet beschikbaarheid goederen.
Met een wet uit 1952 ontketende demissionair Minister Karremans een internationaal handelsconflict rond chipmaker Nexperia. Die wet is tekenend voor de Koude Oorlog van toen, maar ook voor de uitdagingen voor Nederland nu, zo blijkt:
www.ru.nl/onderzoek/on...
07.11.2025 08:25 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Een compliment aan de VVD
30.10.2025 12:45 — 👍 941 🔁 419 💬 53 📌 78
Sterker nog, inmiddels kunnen we ook BBB wel tot het radicaalrechtse blok rekenen, en de VVD staat er ook met één teen, dan wel één been in. Het blok is gegroeid en het raam van Overton is een stuk naar rechts verschoven.
30.10.2025 08:10 — 👍 218 🔁 77 💬 18 📌 5
Slotsom, als je de poppetjes mag geloven die SBS heeft ingeschakeld: we willen minder migranten, tenzij we ze kunnen gebruiken, maar ze mogen niks, vooral niet wonen, en we willen ze niet zien, anders herkennen we ons land niet meer.
Wat een collectieve verdwazing, wauw…
#SBSDebat
23.10.2025 19:30 — 👍 607 🔁 131 💬 19 📌 5
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Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw); macroeconomics, economic policy, public finance, political economy, meta-science.
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