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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025

Since the turn of the century, the Commission has famously litigated ever fewer infringement cases. When the Commission was still increasing the number of cases, MS did not respond with more opposition right away. Later on, they continued to oppose the […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]

Plot showing the number of infringement proceedings, interventions per infringement case, and percentage of interventions for the Commission. Please refer to paper for detailed image description.

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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025

MS also increasingly litigated against EU-level implementation decisions until the early 2000s, when the Commission relaxed its control over agricultural policy and subsidies. These policy areas are responsible for 3/4 of all annulment cases against the EU […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]

Plot showing Actions for Annulment against Administrative EU Acts. Please refer to paper for detailed image description.

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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025

EU legislation is subject to increasing legal mobilization in response to the pooling and delegation of law-making powers to the EU. Recently, mobilization has plateaued, but this may change as the new MS grow more confident. The corresponding annulment […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]

Plot showing the number of actions for annulment against legislative acts. Please refer to the paper for a detailed image description.

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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 · 05/03/2025

I'll save this in my teaching folder to illustrate why we distinguish between mean and median. via @tofugolem

Sarah Sanders ©
@PressSec
The average American family would get a $4,000 raise under the President's tax cut plan. So how could any member of Congress be against
it?

Ken Tremendous
@KenTremendous
Person #1 gets $100,000
Persons #2-25 get jack shit
The average person got $4000
That's how, you disingenuous weenie

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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2025

From a schoolbook that was already old when I used it.

Aphotograph showing two men in office attire leaning over the console of an old school mainframe computer. the console looks like the combination of a desk and a cupboard. In the background you see large cupboard-shaped mainframe computers with electromagnetic tape. The caption reads (translation): The German IT center in Darmstadt is furnished with a large computing machine of the IBM 790 type. Here, two technicians are checking the device at the console.

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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2025

@kagihq "Spinach", by contrast, works quite well, although the intermediate step is a bit awkward. (h/t @johl ) It generates sparql queries and pulls the requested information from wikidata.

query: who s the current austrian judge at the ecj?

anwer: The current Austrian judge at the European Court of Justice is represented by the entity Q59140719. This judge started their position on 20 March 2019, nominated by the First Kurz government, and replaced Maria Berger.

query: which label is associated with entity Q591407197?

answer: The label associated with the entity Q59140719 is 'Andreas Kumin'. He is the current Austrian judge at the European Court of Justice.

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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2024

Still in Northern Germany with the extended familiar. Someone decorated the young pine on my daily birdwatching constitutional.

Christmas decorations in a young fir tree

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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2024

[Botany/entomology question] Dear entomologists, which pest (sorry for the normative term) could cause this crumpling of leaves, and how? There are several wasps and hornets flying in and out of these structures? Do they forage on the pest?

Head of a wasp, partly hidden beneath crumpled leaves.

crumpled leaves of fraxinus pennsylvanica (?), legs of a wasp can be seen upon close inspection

fraxinus pennsylvanica (?), one twig has crumpled leaves

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