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Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🎙️It is time for #Schengen to have its ‘Whatever it takes’ moment: both European countries and their adversaries should know that Schengen is here to stay and that it will be defended when necessary. #CERpodcast with @caminomortera.bsky.social & @cerianbond.bsky.social Listen here: buff.ly/7FTFb0v

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Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ceuta was not a migration crisis, but a crisis of trust. Europe's leaders should stop weaponising #Schengen against each other lest the EU’s adversaries copy them. New @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social insight by @caminomortera.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/4EPyJMj

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Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🎙️ In #Ceuta, European countries have used #Schengen against each other, instead of trying to defend it. This will not have been unnoticed in Washington, Rabat, Beijing or Moscow. 🎙️ New #CERpodcast with @caminomortera.bsky.social & @cerianbond.bsky.social Listen here: buff.ly/7FTFb0v

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A short thread below. On a more personal note, this marks my return to @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social as a non resident* associate fellow. I will be publishing a piece on this very soon. And many more to come!

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It has been more than a month since 80,000 people crossed from Morocco into Ceuta in 48 hours. In Spain, the crisis is far from over. But what are the consequences for Schengen? In this podcast, I explain what happened, why and what it means to Europe's borderless area.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I wrote it here, too. bsky.app/profile/cami...

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The most important thing about Schengen is that it’s a shared border without a state behind it. Rather like the euro: a currency without one either.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Hoy ha salido otra vez el tema de los interruptores.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Si no sabes qué opina España sobre cualquier tema europeo, siempre haz lo que diga Francia y no contradigas a Alemania. Durante demasiado tiempo, esa fue, casi exclusivamente, nuestra posición en la UE. Muchos trabajamos para cambiarla. No deberíamos volver atrás.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

A great essay by Charles Grant, where he dares questioning the zeitgeist: the going may be tough, but there are reasons to be optimistic about Europe. Europe’s future: Grounds for hope? - Annual report 2025 www.cer.eu/about/annual...

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Europe’s future: Grounds for hope? - Annual report 2025

The CER's annual report features an essay which analyses the many problems the EU faces, but concludes that it is not doomed.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Utterly late to this, but I am only at Merkel in her late 20s in ‘Freedom’ and this book is already teaching me more about the geopolitics of Europe over the past 20 years than any brainy conference or paper would.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Now that I finally got some time to sit down this year, I am at last diving into this. As a Brussels veteran, I’ve been wary to open it. I have always had a complicated relationship with Merkel’s European legacy. Wonder whether this book will help.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Ok, slightly revising this. Drove at rush hour for the first time today and the pixie thing looks like a piece of cake in comparison. More juicy updates like this one coming soon.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I moved to Africa. And I am growing out my pixie. No doubts as to which one of the two will be tougher.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Buscando apoyo para mi obsesión con el irritante anuncio de los interruptores, una amiga ingeniera me enseñó este otro. Y ahora me preocupa que la Generación Z no sólo no sepa lo que es un interruptor, sino tampoco de dónde viene la energía fósil. youtu.be/7glyTv7Wm1E

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Nos transformamos en Moeve

YouTube video by Moeve

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Or a piece on how there are way too many men pulling the strings of power so the democratic deficit is not only a fallacy, but a phallacy. True fact, albeit an unintended one.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

True. Which is even more appalling, because it is a direct translation from French that makes even less sense in other languages.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

And it can even be a phallacy, so it appeals to Gen Z and boost some TikTok algorithm

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Did you mean “fallacy” or is that quite a racy double entendre?

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

As I cannot edit this. Of course I meant fallacy, although there is probably a case to bring feminism into this and apply the below term. Thanks @alanbeattie.bsky.social

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Keep up with me, because I am soon doing one of that awful ✨personal news✨ posts and will be heading to some place where having coined a European political science term that nobody understands will come in handy.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

There is a motion of confidence (which should be called a motion of no confidence if we were speaking English in Brussels, but hey) against Ursula von der Leyen going on right now that you probably do not know and do not care about. And rightly so, because it will fail. But

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Artículo 14 de la Constitución española: Los españoles son iguales ante la ley, sin que pueda prevalecer discriminación alguna por razón de nacimiento, raza, sexo, religión, opinión o cualquier otra condición o circunstancia personal o social.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Y los interruptores igual interrumpen la corriente. Pero que no sé, igual en TikTok todavía no lo saben y lo petáis.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Este anuncio no se entiende en la radio, igual en la tele sí (me diréis vosotros). En cualquier caso, me radicaliza contra la Generación Z: si hablas así, eres del 2000, guiri, o imbécil. youtu.be/oD-SLUBfcI0?...

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¿Alguna vez te has preguntado por qué se llaman interruptores?

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¿Alguna vez te has preguntado por qué se llaman interruptores?

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Lowkey I will need to reinvent myself yet again in a few months so I told my husband I am done with trying to be clever I want to be very pretty instead and he laughed but I am damned serious.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Yo no pensaba que me iba a hacer una conversa de Madrid y aquí estoy, fan fatal y víctima del marketing con veinte años de retraso.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I’ve been doing crises for work since 2014. This is the first time I go through one without the Internet. Still trying to gauge whether that is a good or a bad thing.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

May you *not* live in interesting times.

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

In short: you can now uninstall Safari.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

The Papal conclave is expected to start between the 6th and 12th of May. Eurovision is between the 13th and 17th of May. Social media is about to get very confusing.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Spain´s Prime Minister announces Spain will reach 2 per cent of defence and security spending in 2025.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I live in fear of opening this letter.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Mi padre dice que todos los vecinos del portal trabajan en bolsa de 19h a 23h, pero porque las bajan.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Been thinking lots about this. Since I’m crap at money (a must for a think-tanker),I haven’t looked at my British pension fund for a while. So I may now need to add Trump to the list of people who owe me money: Truss, my eldest, and, in a story for another day since I’m new here, Yannis Varoufakis.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

And the bond market. Of course, the bond market.

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