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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Why thank you, EU drugs agency, I WAS looking for weekend-away recommendations

Ketamine use in European cities, Bristol way out ahead

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

chance to deploy one of their lesser-used tags

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Not according to the BBC it isn’t

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Carlo Comporti is not the first person I have seen confusing the Council of the EU and the European Council He is, however, the first sitting chair of an EU agency to do so

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

EU Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra is spending Monday at a primary school and at a European Parliament debate, and I think you can make your own punchline here

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here depicted reading a Vlaams Belang election pamphlet

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The European Commission’s internal processes for agreeing documents ate cumbersome and lengthy. None of them, apparently, prevents a piece of legislative guidance being published *in the Official Journal* with a fairly obvious typo in the title eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/4...

Communication from the Commission – Guidance on Article 26 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1735 on establishing a framework of measures for strengthening Europe’s net-zero zero technology manufacturing ecosystem and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1724

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I have combined my two favourite nerderies: crosswords, and EU politics www.contexte.com/eu/article/p...

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A fitting tribute by Sky News: getting basic facts about the EU wrong

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

New EEAS chief is Kallas Jr, gone on retransformation (5,9)

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

TIL that the song You Can Call Me Al, which is an absolute banger, was inspired, indirectly but remarkably, by the avantgardiste composer Pierre Boulez

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

More highly educated people use AI more, both for professional and personal reasons, says the @ec.europa.eu

Graph showing AI use by age and educational level, taken from the European Commission economic forecast of 21 May

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

It is 2026, and all of Europe recognises the supremacy of EU law. All? No, one indomitable law firm, etc etc

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Hardly the oddest thing in this whole saga but ... Mathias Döpfner's leading example of a self-evident fact is ... not even true? The biggest democracy in the world is India. jewishinsider.com/2026/04/poli...

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I’m getting them when I pause the telly

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

In Brussels’ Parc Royale, you can tell it’s spring

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The lineup at Glastonbury this year looks pretty decent

A leaked list of emissions trading system benchmarks from the European Commission

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I’m not making any specific accusations but the City of Paris has a minister responsible for both funerals and sustainable food

Portrait de Antoine Guillou
Espaces verts et bois, Alimentation durable, circuits courts- Axe Seine et canaux, affaires funéraires

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The European Parliament will next week debate the situation of the rule of law in the United States (!)

Topical debate requested by a political group (S&D) (Rule 169) - State violence in Minneapolis and the rule of law in the United States

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Guess Germany’s leading insurer hired the Abrdn consultants huh

Your contract is changing name: Allianz Excellence becomes Allianz Xcellence

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Responding to a SpAd's all-caps email with "this is really helpful" is just the most Civil Servant thing that ever Civil Servanted

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Don't bogart that joint position, my friend (A case being ruled at the ECJ next week)

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

In France, they don't say "medical problem", they say "fashion opportunity"

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Lads I just saw the best sign ever

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Rule number one of crisis comms: put everything out there. Yet it's hard not to conclude that one of these two people, Commission senior official Sannino or anonymous spokesperson, is being deliberately misleading here. (from @eddywax.bsky.social and @nicolettaionta.bsky.social)

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The Commission will propose something to the Commission? Now that's what I call a #circulareconomy

In particular, the Commission will propose, in the first half of 2026, the Commission to introduce restrictions on the export of scraps and waste of permanent magnets on the basis of a thorough assessment as well as targeted measures on aluminium scrap.

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

My Charles and Di wedding mug (age 41) has outlasted my Charles coronation mug (age 2 and a half). Not sure what to make of this fact

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

The cosmetics store round the corner is offering astonishingly bad advice

Sign saying : don’t put on your skin anything you wouldn’t eat

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

After the environment council negotiated for roughly 20 hours on Tuesday/Wednesday, now it's the Parliament's turn to figure out its position on a planned 90% emissions cut for 2040. I'm not saying MEPs are copying the member states' homework, but they've even reproduced their typos

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Top marks to the European Commission here; this was indeed the first question on which I was seeking an answer in relation to the 2026 fishing opportunities for EU-managed stocks in the Atlantic and Skagerrak-Kattegat waters

Commission press release: Questions and Answers on the 2026 fishing opportunities for EU-managed stocks in the Atlantic and Skagerrak-Kattegat waters
Why is the Commission proposing fishing opportunities for EU-managed fish stocks in the Atlantic and Skagerrak-Kattegat waters?

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Ah yes, that longstanding Grauniad contirbutor, Goerge Monbiot

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Somewhere, somehow, the ghost of Bertrand Russell raises an eyebrow

Telegraph headline: Trump could offer refugee status to Europeans who oppose migration

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Jack Schickler @jackschickler.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Belgians “have none of that painful wish to make a good impression typical of some small nations … their standards in certain respects - food and drink, for example are high ones …. Do not believe disobliging propaganda, chiefly French, about them.” A 1968 analysis that stood the test of time