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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Well, they won the first and lost the second of the two elections they needed to win. Much of the damage done by PiS since 2015 will be cemented.

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Some of them also would consider the possibility that they might end up in jail?

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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 · 29/11/2025

Irrelevant for the question of whether we should support Ukraine with all our resources, but highly relevant for the question of whether or how we should include them in the EU. Not wise to offer a seat and veto power in the Council anytime soon.

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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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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Tja. Et parti er parti som støtter en fascist er ikke nødvendigvis fascistisk. De kan selvsagt støtte fascisten som det minste ondet. Men hvordan er det mulig å forstå USA slik?

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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 · 12/03/2025

Indeed. So no, Canada will not become a member of the EU. And Scotland will probably not detach itself much more from England. Unless they discover a new gigantic gas field or something similar...

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Would be genuinely interesting to learn about the constitutional position of the First Nation people in such a context. The relationship between the constituent nations and polities, the states, and the union in the EU as of now is very complicated. And I think likely to change in the years to come.

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Iver Ørstavik @iverorstavik.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I hope my fellow Europeans would not see that as a ground for exclusion.

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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 · 11/03/2025

But does it define "European"? Values, culture, and institutions are the important criteria. Canada have all, and more than for example Hungary under Orban?

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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

Everything we have must now be used to prevent this from happening. United we stand, divided we fall. 11

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

Whether this cooperation succeeds or not is crucial for the future of Europe. If the nations of Europe assess the situation from the point of view of how each can best save itself from the rocks we have ahead of us, then the fleet of European nations will scatter and be defeated. 10

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

Putin, Trump, Vance, and Musk's next goal is to sabotage the Europeans cooperation to save Ukraine, which is taking place in the EU and the coalition of the willing assembled by Macron, Starmer, and Merz/Scholz, all declared as political adversaries by one of these three men. 9

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

Hungary is already an electoral autocracy, and has been for a long time. Poland was very close to consolidating itself as such. Slovakia is in acute danger. The risk is significant that Italy, France, Austria, the Netherlands and others will move in the same direction in the coming years. 8

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

Then the rule of law and democracy will collapse at the member state level, when states are hit unequally by waves of refugees, the costs of rearmament, economic burdens on ordinary people, painful choices made by governments in completely uncharted waters, fear and lies. 7

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

A collapse of Ukraine clearly has the potential to destroy rule of law and democracy in Europe. First at the supranational level, by paralyzing the EUbCouncil and rendering the EU Commission incapable of enforcing European law because the necessary cooperation with EU member states fails. 6

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

Trump sees alternative gains in cooperation with Russia. So do several European states, most obviously Hungary and Slovakia, and a strong opposition in several other countries. 5

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

This is not the situation now. The possible or probable expansion of the crisis in Ukraine is dividing NATO member states. The US under Trump is the dominant member and does not consider itself threatened by Ukrainian collapse. 4

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

The declaration was tested after 9/11, a situation that was shocking and frightening, but not really threatening to any of the NATO states, all of which had a common interest in thwarting Islamist terrorism, and which did not risk anything existentially by the current intervention in Afghanistan. 3

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

The US is not necessarily our enemy yet, but we must understand the following: Article 5 of the NATO pact is no longer trustworthy. It was a declaration of how we would jointly handle a possible future crisis that assumed common interests in such a crisis. 2

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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

It feels like the world is capsizing. Absolutely gut-wrenching. Where do we go from this? The only answer is Europe. Everything Europe can do. Now.

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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

Also advocate for all Russian assets frozen in Europe to be invested in the protection of Ukraine, which would amount to approximately 300 billion USD.

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

Advocate for the profits from the Norwegian Pension fund (in reality an oil revenue fund), since the start of the war to be spent for the defense of Ukraine. The sum available is approximately 550 billion USD.

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

All Russian assets frozen in Europe should also be invested in the protection of Ukraine, which would amount to 300 billion USD.

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

The profits from the Norwegian Pension fund (in reality an oil revenue fund), since the start of the war should be spent for the defense of Ukraine. The sum available is approximately 550 billion USD.

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

Two things we may do is advocate for the following:

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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 world has become a significantly more dangerous place in a few short years. We must now take this seriously. The time for quarreling over inconveniences in the back seat must be over. 16

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