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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

BREAKING: The US Supreme Court just ruled Trump’s tariffs are illegal. So why is the EU Parliament about to vote on the Turnberry deal that endorses them? Europe is preparing to legitimise what America’s own courts have struck down. cnn.it/4bZtaLo

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

"Treason for money" pretty much sums up the awful mess presented by the Trump administration as a "Peace plan for Ukraine".

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Tilman @tilmane.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

If #Europe wants #Putin to agree to a ceasefire, the easiest way is: - Give a lot of #Taurus - 20x investment into #Ukraine #Drone production - Set up Air defense for Western #Ukraine - Stop oil and gas traffic in baltic - Tariffs on all remaining LNG, Oil imports www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Setback for Europe after Trump insists Ukraine has ‘immediate’ peace talks with Russia

Zelenskyy had no choice but to accept Putin’s invitation to talks, diplomats say

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/05/2025

Trump, on the leader of Russia: "Putin is tired of this whole thing and he’s not — he’s not looking good. And he wants to look good” It's hard to imagine a more fundamental misunderstanding. No, Putin is not "tired of the whole thing" - the war is the only thing keeping his economy going

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Of course. We may still be able to make Trump think it is in his own interest to protect NATO allies in Europe. But we cannot make him commit. We must expect that he or someone like him will be the President of the USA until some very significant institutional reform is completed. So NATO is dead.

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Would it be possible for the EFTA countries to sue the EU Commission and/or Council for failure to secure that Hungary abides by the EEA?

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Dániel G. Szabó @gszd.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

@politico.eu: "The bill says threats to national sovereignty include influencing public opinion, promoting democratic debate, or challenging state-defined values like Christian culture and traditional family roles."

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Orbán’s Fidesz party proposes Russia-style crackdown on Hungary’s civil society

The new bill fits into a pattern of democratic backsliding for the Central European country.

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The nasty Trumpist bait and switch.

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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

"If you give in to extortionists, they’ll extort you and others for more ... Which brings me to @columbiauniversity.bsky.social’s president and trustees, who today surrendered the university’s #academicfreedom to the Trump regime" robertreich.substack.com/p/the-shame-...

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The shame of Columbia University

In surrendering to Trump, it's opening all universities to Trump's tyranny

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Dead kangaroo walking! The "Constitutional Tribunal" made to serve the former Polish gov under PiS is slaughtered by CJEU.

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I disagree with @frankfukuyama.bsky.social Fascism is essentially syncretic. Opportunistic use of lies is the core of Fascism. A dangerous mistake suggesting that it can be fought by identifying inconsistency, falsehood, immorality. But it feeds itself on it. www.persuasion.community/p/making-the...

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Making the World Safe for Criminals

The United States is undergoing repatrimonialization as we speak.

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

EUROPE AFTER AMERICA The US is cutting off all aid and intelligence assistance Ukraine in order to pressure Ukrainians and other Europeans in general to accept an agreement on Russian and American terms. 1

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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

MASSIVE FISCAL PACKAGE OUT OF BERLIN: 12-20%+ of GDP. - 500 billion fund for public investment - All defence spending above 1% of GDP not counted for debt brake. - Federal states can borrow 0.35% p.y. for investment. Germany is back - economically and militarily. 1/x

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GAU @deaidua.org · 01/03/2025

Germany's Minister of Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock has just given a really remarkable, nearly 12-minute speech on yesterday's events at the White House in support of #Ukraine. I have translated a large part of the speech for you. PART 1 OF 7

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The world is capsizing. This absolutely gut-wrenching bullying of President Zelenskyy by President Trump and Vice-President Vance is the utterly shameful end of the road for the USA. Where do we go from this? The only answer is Europe. Everything Europe can do. Now. www.bbc.com/news/live/c6...

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Trump tells Zelensky 'make a deal or we're out' in angry White House meeting - follow live

A joint news conference is cancelled after the US president calls his Ukrainian counterpart

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

@sophieintveld.bsky.social has been the most prescient and tireless defender of democracy and rule of law in Europe for more than two decades. Listen to her.

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RECLAIM @reclaim-eu.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

So far, 14 EU Member States have joined the lawsuit—Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal—along with Norway and the European Parliament. The deadline is in 4 hours.

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I have now settled there analogies debate. What we see is Versailles, München, and Molotov-Ribbentrop rolled into one as gunboat diplomacy by proxy.

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

THE ROAD AHEAD The dismantling of democratic rule of law twe see in the US now has already been carried out in Hungary, and was well on its way in Poland. Hungary is sinking ever deeper and deeper into swamp. Poland is struggling to get out, but it is very complicated to repair the damage done. 1

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

ON THE EDGE The ongoing moves suggest destruction of US constitutional democracy is the main plan. Without executive officials loyal to the Constitution and the courts, there is nothing the latter can do. Words a heartbeat or the ever lower hurdle of the 25th Amendment away from the President:

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Øivind Bergh @essensielt.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

You don’t need more proofs that Elon Musk is insane. He is.

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

This is a fellow citizen you should listen to. Keep your X account if only to follow @rumeliobserver

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

After a month in front of the gates of Purgatory: Trump cannot be elected for a third term. He will most likely lose the legislative majority in 26. There are only two years to fight like Hell. We can all do that, with a little help from our friends.

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The Polish government will ignore rulings by the Constitutional Tribunal and Supreme Court chambers manned by political appointees, relying only on independent courts' interpretations of the Polish constitution, on CJEU and ECtHR. oko.press/rzad-nie-bed...

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Rząd nie będzie publikował wyroków TK. Nie uznaje też decyzji neo-KRS i wyroków neo-sędziów SN

Rząd Tuska przyjął uchwałę, któraj jest sygnałem, że wyroki TK, decyzje nielegalnej KRS i orzeczenia neosędziów SN nie wiążą.

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

There is a special place in hell for people like Schröder and Scholz.

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Luise Quaritsch @luisequaritsch.eurosky.social · 13/12/2024

🏛️🧵The new Commission is describing threats to European democracy as mostly stemming from hostile foreign governments and playing out in the online information space. 1/

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

How to avoid the Polish trilemma of choice between 1) a judiciary distorting the system from the top, 2) an executive choosing to apply only some rulings of the highest court, and 3) a legislature breaking the law to restore it? In a state of exception, all depends on the wisdom the Sovereign.

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The political cartoon of the year. Or at least of the season.

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Francesco Nicoli 🇪🇺 🎓 @francesconicoli.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Time to talk about EU defence. in the past years, we conducted extensive research on the topic. What do we need? What Europeans want? How to deliver it? let's dive in. 1/2

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The oligarchy is killing democracy in the US, outlet by outlet.

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

First we take X, then we take TikTok, and perhaps we will see Putin beaten in Romania, Georgia, and Ukraine, in 2025? Perhaps even in the USA? ? There are cracks now, and light seeping in. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

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EU demands 'urgent' answers from TikTok about Romanian election

A series of declassified documents suggest TikTok was exploited by a "state actor" to influence the outcome of Romania's presidential election. #EuropeNews

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This decision must be backed up at all cost! @ec.europa.eu

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Suspension from the UN security council of any state with military forces engaged in another state without UN sanction or invitation from recognized authorities would at least be entirely sensible? No indicted criminal can sit with veto power in the jury to judge his case. youtu.be/QkxS93HjtN8?...

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Poland’s FM calls for Russia's expulsion from the UN Security Council | World News Tonight

YouTube video by TVP World

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The brutal force applied to suppress democratic dissent in Georgia must stop immediately! humanrightshouse.org/statements/g...

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Frederik D. Tunnat @frederiktunnat.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

This is the kind of employee Trump is looking for. He can blackmail them at any time to do what he wants, even if they don't want to. Hitler did the same thing and had the biggest criminal cabinet in the world

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Safely beyond the reach of any conceiveable Russian conquest, Olaf Scholz campaigns on the pledge that he will coldly watch his neighbor being crushed before he assumes any risk on behalf of Germany?

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

The terrifying state of affairs: Russia rationally doubts that the Americans will provide sufficient assistance for all European Nato members, while we in irrationally presume they will. Beggars aren't choosers.

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

A very difficult conversation on how hard it can be to maintain ones humanity after being severly victimized. Frivolous comments to this one are NOT welcome. youtu.be/D-5cuqyRM9w?...

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Dr Gabor Mate answers question about October 7th during conference

YouTube video by Middle East Eye

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