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Stein Arne Brekke

@brekke.it

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 · 18/09/2025

Det ser ut til at det fungerer fint med Bluesky også. Ikke verst. @aslakr

Sitat-tooten (sitooten?) til Aslak Raanes som den vises på Bluesky, gjennom Bridgy.fed. Den siterte posted til Mastodon-teamet vises som en sitert post på Bluesky, mens posten til Renaud Chaput vises som en lenke til Mastodon siden han ikke har skrudd på bruen til Blluesky.

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Stein Arne Brekke @brekke.it · 09/09/2025

Forhåndsstemte MDG fra utlandet, det føles godt! @slaeg

Ralph fra the Simpsons smiler forsiktig og vinker til kamera. Det står "I'M HELPING" ovenfor ham i tykke hvite bokstaver.

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Stein Arne Brekke @brekke.it · 24/04/2025

@bergenpix Not completely unlike Copenhagen's Tuborg bottle, which was erected in 1888 and is still standing today. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuborg_Bott…

Tall monument shaped as a bottle of Tuborg beer. Drawing from the 1888 Nordic Exhibition.

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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 · 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 · 10/06/2024

We might, for example, ask how the #UK Supreme Court is performing in terms of gender #equality at the bench. The results are not uplifting: After a slight improvement in the late 2010s, around half the judgments (48%) published since 2020 are signed by panels of exclusively male justices…

The presence of female justices in the judgments of the UK Supreme Court over time since 2009. Most years, just less than half the judgments of the Court are signed by male-only panels.

There is no obvious time trend over time, but the situation seemed to improve slightly between 2018 and 2020, before getting worse again after Covid.

It is exceedingly rare for women to serve together on the bench. Most judgments are resolved in chambers of five justices, a larger chamber of seven is normal but not the default.

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