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Stein Arne Brekke

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Norwegian political scientist with a professional interest in European integration. Passionate about human rights and wealth distribution. Believer in degrowth and […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ eupolicy.social/@brekke, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Stein Arne Brekke @brekke.it · 6h
Shocking news out of Roskilde University: Last December, Professor Michelle Pace was fired from the university for being outspoken against genocide. A favourite professor amongst students, her main offence is allegedly to have invited said students to a breakfast meeting […]
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Stein Arne Brekke @brekke.it · 04/10/2026
Heads up to academics fed up by exploitative publishing practices: This survey from the @EUCommission touches not only only upon copyright and AI, but also some important proposals related to copyright and academic publishing. Worth a look. #openaccess
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026
Member state representatives of the #ICC voted to remove the global tribunal’s chief prosecutor Friday, nearly 2 years after #SexualMisconduct allegations against him first emerged, 2 diplomats confirmed to AP. British barrister #KarimKhan was accused of sexual misconduct with a female aide […]
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Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen @silje-hermansen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Investigate Europe covers my favourite topic: the inner workings of the EU's top court. #CJEU rulings affect stock markets and government policies, so judges' personal investments and political standing raise questions about how their (appearance of) impartiality. tinyurl.com/ubeub9rj
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Top EU judges financial holdings raise troubling questions
More than 40 per cent of jurists at the Court of Justice have declared private financial interests, with some working on cases concerning industries where they hold shares. A new Investigate Europe in...
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Stein Arne Brekke @brekke.it · 11/06/2026
RE: curia.social-network.europa.eu/@Cur… Good news for the Europeans out there still working to defend international law and human rights: The #CJEU just ruled that being on an American sanctions list is not sufficient reason for banks to refuse people from opening […]
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Stein Arne Brekke @brekke.it · 29/01/2026
RE: darmstadt.social/@zarasophos/115977… Excellent opinion piece about European tech sovereignty in social media. Our dependency on American big tech is rarely driven by a lack of better alternatives, but rather by path dependency and a lack of willingness to use the […]
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Johan K Sch @johank76.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026
What's the best textbook – or at least a decent one – on contemporary philosophy of social science? @academicchatter @politicalscience @internationalrelations @philosophyofscience
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Konstantin Macher @pneutig.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2026
Because of the newest escalation by the US on Greenland, tariffs on those opposing annexation, a majority in the European Parliament is ready to block the US-EU trade agreement & call to activate the EU's 2023 Anti-Coercion mechanism. This would allow restrictions on 'intellectual property' […]
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Jonas Bornemann @jonasbornemann.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Big news on the liability of Frontex and the burden of proof in cases of alleged pushbacks: curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...
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Stein Arne Brekke @brekke.it · 15/12/2025
RE: legal.social/@verfassungsblog/11571… There's not much reason for optimism about international politics these days, but here's at least some good news about the #EU Court of Justice: it turns out the #ECJ is more dedicated to individual rights than anything else, in spite […]
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ECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We are very excited about our #ecprgc26 Section on "Judicial Politics in an Age of Democratic Contestation" chaired by @thaliagerzso.bsky.social and @johank76.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... and hope to see you all in Kraków (8-11 September 2026)!
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Judicial Politics in an Age of Democratic Contestation
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Stein Arne Brekke @brekke.it · 20/10/2025
Interesting piece from Joachim Baumann and co-authors about replacing humans with LLMs for text annotation for academic purposes. Replicating a handful of published social science studies they find that "with just a handful of prompt paraphrases, virtually anything can be presented as […]
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I'm teaching my judicial politics module at UCL again this term which means that I'm keen on new resources for students. In particular, let me know if you published a dataset on courts/judicial politics/legal mobilization and it is not yet listed here: michalovadek.github.io/judicial-pol...
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Data resources – POLS0113: Judicial Politics
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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025
The take-home message: Overall, mobilization against EU legislation, implementation, and enforcement is growing, but the salience and polarisation of the respective Court proceedings depends on how much authority the EU wielded in these domains in different […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]
Table showing the main direct action procedures with litigant constellations and authority dimensions
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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025
In "Authority transfer and governmental legal contestation before the court of justice of the EU", @jonasbornemann.bsky.social and I ask a simple question. Does the transfer of authority to EU institutions shape Member States' (MS) legal contestation before the Court of Justice of the EU? We […]
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I have a new paper out in @wepsocial.bsky.social looking at immigration rulings in the UK (doi.org/10.1080/0140...). It's a short read, but the two main findings are: 1) the success of an immigration appeal depends a lot on who the deciding judge is 2) BAME women are (surprisingly) strict judges
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Judicial diversity and immigration appeals: evidence from the United Kingdom
Almost all studies of judicial behaviour and diversity conceptualise judges’ race and gender as independent, additive variables. Specifically, black and female judges are often seen as more liberal...
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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2025
#Hungary is violating #EU law by cracking down on #LGBTQ+ content children might be exposed to, a top adviser at the European Union’s highest court @Curia said on Thursday. Hungary “has significantly deviated from the model of a constitutional #democracy,” the Advocate General Ćapeta found […]
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Stein Arne Brekke @brekke.it · 21/05/2025
It's a good day for obscure international courts, as the often neglected EFTA Court made front-page news in Norway over its judgment in 'Norwegian State v Greenpeace Nordic'. The head of #Greenpeace is quoted calling the court "the most important tribunal #Norway must deal with as an EEA country".
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
For this week in EU politics, Hungary's Viktor Orban backs the losing anti-Hungarian nationalist candidate in Romanian presidential elections and therefore incurs the wrath of a winning Romanian pro-EU coalition that includes the Hungarian minority's UDMR party
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Stein Arne Brekke @brekke.it · 12/05/2025
This Sunday, presidential elections offer #Poland a chance to finally rid the Law and Justice party from power. For the Court of Justice, this would mean the end a long standing but rarely discussed blockage of judicial appointments: brekke.it/?p=content&id=2024-11-18-…
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Polish non-appointments
For years, Poland has refused to appoint judges to the Court of Justice of the European Union. In this blog post, I investigate what is going on with the lack of Polish appointments to the CJEU.
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Stein Arne Brekke @brekke.it · 01/05/2025
As a political scientist dabbling with EU law, it is often painfully clear that lawyers are needed to make sense of certain legal concepts. Thankfully my #EUI co-authors just finished hand-coding more than 3000 CJEU judgments, all open access! doi.org/10.1177/2755323X251337809
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Spook-ass, Christ oh boo! boo! @loukas.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
With over half the votes counted Finland's far-right party seems to have collapsed at the local level, down to less than half of its 2021 vote.
Screenshot from linked page. Headline FinlandVotes counted 55.5%

Comparison to 2021 Municipal Elections.

Bar chart shows Finns party down 7.5 to 7
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
made a few small updates to my assembly line of automated data trackers, from national vetoes of EU action to predicting the CJEU's caseload this year. All the links can be permanently accessed from here: michalovadek.github.io/tools.html any suggestions are welcome
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Stein Arne Brekke @brekke.it · 24/01/2025
Late last summer, following a change of staff, I was asked to coordinate the master's programme in EU politics at Uni of Copenhagen. This included creating a specialization course, which is how I ended up exposing a whole bunch of unsuspecting master's students to the judicial politics of the EU.
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Johan K Sch @johank76.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2025
PhD and postdoc opportunities at GU www.mothugg.se/2025/01/06/phd-and-p…
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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/12/2024
New preprint by Jonas Bornemann and yours truly. We argue that Member State litigation is increasingly politicised as a result of the EU’s growing authority to make, implement, and enforce binding rules, and in line with how EU institutions assert this authority in practice. The analysis is […]
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Stein Arne Brekke @brekke.it · 18/11/2024
Although Poland's policy of non-appointment to the CJEU has gone under the radar of most observers, it might very well constitute the first real instance of backlash against the European court. I explore this further in this blog post […]
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Stein Arne Brekke @brekke.it · 15/11/2024
The European Court of Justice consists of 26 judges; one from each #EU member state. ...wait, what? Poland has, for years, refused to appoint judges to the #CJEU, leaving the 27th seat of the Court empty. 🧵: 1/8 #ECJ #Poland #EUlaw #Europe #RuleofLaw #EU
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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2024
The disconnect between the facts of what actually happened collected by The Guardian and the political reaction to the violence in #Amsterdam is jaw-dropping. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/…
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Stein Arne Brekke @brekke.it · 07/11/2024
The #Tisza Party has taken Hungarian politics by storm this year. This is the first time I'm seeing it outperform #Fidesz in the polls in #Hungary. 🇭🇺 It's still a long way to go before the election, but today is a good day for a reminder that democratic […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]
Poll from Europe Elects 28 October to 4 November 2024 of political parties in Hungary. The centre right Tisza Party comes in as the biggest party at 46%, before the authoritarian Fidesz at 39%. 

More liberal parties are not doing well, which in unsurprising given the authoritarian shift in Hungary.
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Stein Arne Brekke @brekke.it · 08/09/2024
For any employees of #CopenhagenUniversity out there who are uncomfortable with armed police being called to remove and arrest students peacefully protesting genocide on campus, you're in luck: There's a petition out there that might be just what you're looking for […]
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2024
Ted Chiang as eloquent as ever: "The selling point of generative A.I. is that these programs generate vastly more than you put into them, and that is precisely what prevents them from being effective tools for artists. [...] Many novelists have had the experience of being approached by […]
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Stein Arne Brekke @brekke.it · 28/08/2024
The Court of Justice of the European Union is not really a court in its own right. Rather, it's the name of the judicial branch of the EU, currently consisting of two separate courts: the European Court of Justice (27 judges and 11 AGs) and the General Court […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]
Except from Hix and Høyland (2022), stating that "The CJEU is composed of one judge per member state", and that  "the CJEU is adjusted by the General Court".

The CJEU is confused with the ECJ here. Except from Young and Roederer-Rynning in Wallace, Pollack, Roederer-Rynning, and Young (2020), stating that "The CJEU [...] is composed of one judge per member state". 

Again, this is using CJEU to refer to the ECJ specifically.
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Stein Arne Brekke @brekke.it · 08/07/2024
@dagb @Jostein Jeg er ikke noen stor fan av TikTok, men jeg tror ytre høyre trekker langt flere velgere i kategorien "60+ på Facebook" enn "25-18 på TikTok". Sosiale medier er et problem uansett, men om oppslutning om fascistpartier er et generasjonsproblem er det, så vidt jeg har sett så […]
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Stein Arne Brekke @brekke.it · 05/07/2024
@alexanderhay @Jonas_Bostrom You could still weight different regions differently, ensuring the same relative representation of Scotland/Wales/NI in PR as under FPTP. There are several ways of achieving this. In Norway votes are weighted by geography, meaning that individual votes in vast […]
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Stein Arne Brekke @brekke.it · 05/07/2024
@Jonas_Bostrom @alexanderhay It's also possible to make special rules for minorities within a PR system, such as with the Danish minority in southern Germany which is exempt from the 5% threshold for getting professional representation […]
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Stein Arne Brekke @brekke.it · 10/06/2024
Interested in empirical legal studies? I have just published a beginners' guide to collecting data from online sources, illustrated through the collection of data on the judgments of the UK Supreme Court! brekke.it/?page=content&id=2024-06-… The guide is inten…
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