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Giacomo Benedetto

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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
These #donations to #Reform have already gone through and the legislation is creating a short-term incentive for more large donations. The law should also radically cap national campaign spending.
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Happy Festival of the Recruitment
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Giving evidence last year on how financial rule breaking in 1996 led to the resignation of the European Commission in 1999 www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/e...
Gabriele Cipriani and Giacomo Benedetto
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Welcome to England. A first glimpse of spring but with no right to roam.
Woodland and daffodils but with sign saying private, no public access.
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Jean Monnet Chair, RHUL @jeanmonnetrhul.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I am delighted to have been nominated for a @royalholloway.bsky.social Education Excellence Award. One of the comments from a nominating student said: 'From facilitating the greatest and most inspirational lectures and seminars... 1/2
Education Excellence Award 2025, banner.
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I was just going through my old files when I found this: my calling out of Matt Goodwin on twitter from January 2017.
A thread on twitter between Matthew Goodwin and Giacomo Benedetto
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Jean Monnet Chair, RHUL @jeanmonnetrhul.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This evening I attended a rejoin #Erasmus+ celebration at Westminster addressed by Europe Minister Nick Thomas-Symonds MP @europeanmovement.co.uk
Photo of people in a room
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
If a Latin American head of state can be kidnapped, the same can happen to the head of government of a NATO country.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Bulgaria joins the eurozone as its 21st country after formally adopting the euro.
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Jean Monnet Chair, RHUL @jeanmonnetrhul.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Some good news: UK to rejoin #Erasmus+ but let's cautiously wait until details are published tomorrow. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
In 2014, 24 MEPs were elected for #UKIP. In 2019, only 3 were reselected for the Brexit Party: Farage himself, Gill and one other www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d... 1/2
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UK to hold inquiry into foreign financial interference in domestic politics
Review, which will focus on effectiveness of political finance laws, follows conviction of former Reform politician for accepting bribes
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FEPS Europe @feps-europe.eu · 16/12/2025
🇪🇺🇬🇧At the 11th edition of the Oxford Symposium, the 3rd panel discusses redefining the state & public policies: 🔺 Giacomo Benedetto 🔺 Andy Western MP 🔺 Maria Jepsen @eurofound.europa.eu 🔺 Pascal Smet 🔺 @afscharian.bsky.social 🔺Joni Smith 🔺 @francoisbalate.bsky.social 👉 bit.ly/GreatUnravel...
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I am very pleased to have taken part in the @feps-europe.eu Oxford Symposium 2025 feps-europe.eu/event/11th-o... 1/2
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11th Oxford Symposium - Foundation for European Progressive Studies
FEPS, Progressive Britain, and the Karl-Renner-Institut are proud to co-organise yet another edition (11th) of […]
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
#NigelFarage reference in a 2014 Guardian interview with UKIP's founder Alan Sked, 1/2
Text from Guardian interview with Alan Sked
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Poland‘s Vice President Radoslaw Sikorski absolutely torches Elon Musk.
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I'll not forget what Alan Sked told me at the LSE about the attitudes that Farage had when he and Sked first met in the early 1990s, a decade after the reported incidents at Dulwich www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing
The Reform UK leader doubts people can recall their abuse from years ago. I’ve never forgotten his – it felt malicious
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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 05/12/2025
Dans le Nord, des activistes anglais d’extrême droite veulent stopper les migrants
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Dans le Nord, des activistes anglais d’extrême droite veulent stopper les migrants
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
#Salzburg
View of Salzburg
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action... (from my presentation at the IMF last week)
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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Regional government elections are being held today in Veneto, Puglia & Campania. If things go as predicted there should be easy wins for the centre-right in Veneto & the centre-left in Puglia. Campania should also go to the centre-left by a smaller majority. Voting continues tomorrow until 3 p.m.
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Urne aperte in Veneto, Campania e Puglia: oggi e lunedì si vota
Il presidente uscente Luca Zaia ha votato a San Vendemiano accompagnato dalla moglie
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russia bribes
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Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes
The judge tells Nathan Gill his actions were a "grave betrayal" of the electorate's trust and inflicted "profound harm".
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
There is a perception that #Erasmus-plus is only for middle class language students @labour4europe.bsky.social. The new proposal is open to negotation but it is clear about including 'Learning mobility of vocational education', Art. 4(1)b: eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten... 1/3
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IMMC.COM%282025%29549%20final.ENG.xhtml.1_EN_ACT_part1_v9.docx
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
FT reporting that the Brits want to rejoin Erasmus+ but with a 50% rebate. I'll just let that sink in #EUreset #Erasmus on.ft.com/43d4lGI
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EU demands UK pay into budget as part of relationship ‘reset’
Growing tension between London and Brussels just six months after summit set out to build stronger ties
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The European Commisson should steer well clear of adding pension reform as an item of conditionality to the #EUbudget #MFF www.politico.eu/article/eu-f...
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EU considers withholding funds from countries that don’t fix pension systems
Brussels fears Europe’s aging population will cause fiscal crises unless member countries address unsustainable retirement systems.
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The European Commisson should steer well clear of adding pension reform as an item of conditionality to the #EUbudget #MFF www.politico.eu/article/eu-f...
politico.eu
EU considers withholding funds from countries that don’t fix pension systems
Brussels fears Europe’s aging population will cause fiscal crises unless member countries address unsustainable retirement systems.
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
A few weeks ago at @cont.europarl.europa.eu I was honoured to present research on the #EUbudget audit and #discharge for 1996 that led to the resignation of the @ec.europa.eu in 1999. www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/e... @euauditors.bsky.social @rhulpir.bsky.social #BrusselsTreaty1975
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Conference on 50 years of the budgetary Treaty of Brussels | Other events | Events | CONT | Committees | European Parliament
All the available information relating to other public CONT events involving external speakers. Links to programmes and contributions from speakers.
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Jean Monnet Chair, RHUL @jeanmonnetrhul.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
At the start of September, I was very pleased to give a paper at the UK PSA Teaching & Learning Conference. My talk focused on my experience of taking undergrads to Brussels to visit the EU's institutions and to evaluate de-colonisation at the Africa Museum in Tervuren. @rhulpir.bsky.social
Person standing in front of PowerPoint screen.
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
All European Parliament committees are now on Bluesky.
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
11-post thread that describes the violent but gradual establishment of fascism in Italy during the 1920s with no single Enabling Law. It may be a more valid comparator for today's challenges than the rapid establishment of authoritarianism in Germany in 1933.
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The rise of authoritarianism and autarky. Italy, 1921-26, is a more relevant comparator than Germany in 1933. By 1926, fascist totalitarianism was in place. In a climate of militia violence and several fascist laws from 1924, the dictatorship took hold and not through a single Enabling Act. 1/n
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I was delighted to present my experience of leading a study trip for students to Brussels.
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Jean Monnet Chair, RHUL @jeanmonnetrhul.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The #UACES2025 @uaces.bsky.social conference drew to a close today. I was very pleased to present a paper on the EU's future financing. #EUbudget #OwnResources www.conftool.org/uaces2025/in... cc: @rhulpir.bsky.social
Listing for a conference paper
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Did the pool of potential switchers Cons (ex-Remainer, one nation) => LibDem already reach its ceiling in 2024? LibDems may still gain some Cons seats through Cons vote loss to Reform rather than LibDem vote gain.
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Jean Monnet Chair, RHUL @jeanmonnetrhul.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I am very honoured to be chairing the first plenary session at the #UACES2025 @uaces.bsky.social conference about the 75th anniversary of the #SchumanDeclaration #SchumanPlan hosted by @ljmuofficial.bsky.social cc: @rhulpir.bsky.social @royalholloway.bsky.social www.conftool.org/uaces2025/in...
Conference listing for a plenary session
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Salisbury by night
Salisbury Cathedral at night
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The UK constitution is even more vulnerable than the US constitution: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
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The UK constitution is more vulnerable than the US constitution
In the face of an illiberal, radical assault, what has happened politically in America could easily happen in the UK
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
A monument that includes memory of the resistance. Note the flag, the language, and the years. Morts pour la patrie et la liberté. 1915-1918 1940-1945
A war memorial in French and an Italian flag.
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
An interesting question: how high is the denial of evolution in The Netherlands, a rational country that has a hardcore Calvinist minority? Do the Spanish and the Italians accept evolution more than the Dutch? @joostvanspanje.bsky.social
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Why many Americans still think Darwin was wrong. Answer in short: Protestant fundamentalism and general idiocy. theconversation.com/why-many-ame...
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Why many Americans still think Darwin was wrong, yet the British don’t
Fundamentalists don’t necessarily examine evolution and then reject it; they tend to start with the conclusion that it must be false and work backwards.
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Pablo Perez @pablopereza.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
15 July 1964 | Costa/ENEL ruling. Or how an unpaid electricity bill led to one of the key principles of EU law. A groundbreaking case that established the principle of primacy of EU law over the laws of member states. #EUHistory 🧵🇪🇺
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
3rd Reading of the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers Bill) in the Lords, 21 July 2025. bills.parliament.uk/bills/3755/s...
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House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill 3rd reading - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill 3rd reading sittings
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
I am delighted that this is now published in @wepsocial.bsky.social : our assessment of the 2020 negotiations on #RuleofLaw #conditionality and grants vs loans in the #RRF. #FunctionalSpillover #EUbudget
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Jean Monnet Chair, RHUL @jeanmonnetrhul.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Last month I was very pleased to host a Jean Monnet seminar in London on the democratic versus audit-based accountabilities within the EU's finances #EUbudget. Thanks to María-Luisa Sánchez-Barrueco, Andreea Hancu Budui, and Paul Stephenson for their papers. 1/2
Four people standing in front of a PowerPoint screen
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
#EUbudget #MFF is Denmark now less frugal than Germany? #Geopolitics 1/2 www.euractiv.com/section/econ...
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Denmark open to bigger EU budget - Euractiv
Copenhagen will not "stand in a corner” with frugal EU countries on other controversial issues such as common debt during its forthcoming Council presidency, Denmark's EU envoy said.
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Exam boarding survival is complete
Royal Holloway Founders' Building
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Exam Boarding this morning...
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
An FoI request is doing the rounds on whether we include trigger warnings on the readings that we recommend for our students.
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Giacomo Benedetto @gbenedetto.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Neil Kinnock: Labour is 100% wrong on #Reform www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...
prospectmagazine.co.uk
Neil Kinnock: Labour is ‘100 per cent wrong’ to fight Reform UK on its own turf
The former Labour leader on his party’s ‘mortally stupid’ strategy to combat Reform
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