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A sad day: Germany's Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung is closing its office in Georgia because it has become impossible for the foundation to do its work in Tbilisi. www.kas.de/de/pressemit...

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Die Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung schließt ihr Auslandsbüro in Tiflis

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 9h

🍂🌞 23 Celsius on 2nd October in Poland means people in tank tops and shorts share a reality with senior citizens who have broken out their fur coats, woollen hats and gloves. (Yes, BlueSky, I know that elderly people feel temperatures differently from eldritch millennials)

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 10h

🇵🇱⚖️⛽🦹‍♂️ Two events in Poland that are primarily about something entirely else but also about the ongoing instrumentalisation of constitutional law - the story of fugitive former deputy MoJ Romanowski and a court granting him safe passage, and the windfall tax and President Nawrocki's sudden 180 on it.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🇪🇺 Having endured my share of aggravating "not border checks" courtesy of DE/PL law enforcement, I wholeheartedly support this action by @alemanno.bsky.social and his team, with support from luminaries of EU law. Schengen is meaningless if you need to pass the "white/not white" test along the way.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Of course this being Bluesky, I got hit by a complaint that I didn't preface this thread with a trigger warning for animal cruelty.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🇵🇱⚖️🦤What do the European independence of the judiciary and a sexual assault on an ostrich have in common? Polish rule of law crisis. No, it's not a joke; the Appeals Court in my hometown of Poznań struck down a lower-court judgment because a neo-judge sat on the panel in a, erm, curious case.

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Islamic State jihadists are currently storming Tahoua city en masse, likely a second assault on the airport is the plan. So it begins. #Niger

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🇵🇱🌆 Last moments of summertime.

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 30/09/2026

❗“The ECHR is not a constraint on British security. It is one of its foundations,” write 3 former Independent Reviewers of Terrorism Legislation👇 🔗 www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a... via @lawsocietygazette.bsky.social “Walking away would not make Britain freer. It would make Britain weaker.”

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The ECHR is not a constraint on British security. It is one of its foundations

Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest post-war achievements.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Marc Thiessen, using a photo of 1944 Warsaw and pretending it's 1945 Dresden to dunk on *checks notes* Piers Morgan, who, incredibly, is not on the wrong side of things for once regarding Israel and Gaza, is peak 2026 Twitter.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...

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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups

The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🇱🇹🇪🇺⚖️🇵🇱 Lithuanian CJEU judge explains the court's order in Polish, a glorious display of how the EU brings people closer (and keeps a spark of The Commonwealth of Two Nations alive).

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Only good toddlers with guns can stop evil toddlers with guns, remember.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🇪🇺⚖️ - Call for Participation - Deadline 18 October! The next edition of the European Rule of Law Conference, organised by re:constitution (@democracyreporting.bsky.social + Forum Transregionale Studien), will take place on 11 and 12 May 2027 in Brussels. Link: www.reconstitution.eu/veranstaltun...

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arnisatepelija.bsky.social @arnisatepelija.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Vučić's resignation is a chronicle of a resignation foretold: a long-awaited move answering the pulsing rage of the protests that followed the deaths of 16 people in the collapse of the Novi Sad railway station roof in November 2024. It leaves a rule of law wreck track behind too.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Event organisers: we will happily cover your travel! We just booked you a flight to and from Warsaw :) Me: *sigh* (thank heavens for the 24h grace period for most airlines)

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🇩🇪🇵🇱 Comments under the Polish broadcast of ARD (Radio Cosmo) material about the new Berlin councillors with Polish roots are ofc 60+ yo Polish immigrants who say that all these parties (CDU, Greens, Linke) are worth shit and AfD is the only hope for Germany as it will get rid of the Muslim filth.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🇫🇷🛫 Seasons change, years go by, CDG is still one of the worst airports on the planet, relative to the size and importance of the city it serves.

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Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The IRGC ops in Europe have all been in UK bcs its basically the sole country on the continent with a large Shia population (Iranian, but also Iraqis and Pakistani) sympathetic to the IR that it can tap into to build cells.

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Stefan Czerniawski @pubstr.at · 27/09/2026

No, that is not the difference at all. The difference is that Poland and Russia had and have radically different political and social cultures, which led to radically different behaviours and policies. They were both countries with agency, not puppets of external forces.

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Russia has condemned Poland's removal of a Monument of Gratitude to the Red Army, calling it “barbaric” and “sacrilegious” The monument has been the subject of a longrunning legal and political battle amid moves in Poland to “decommunise” public spaces, especially after Russia's invasion of Ukraine

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Russia condemns Polish city's "barbaric" removal of Monument of Gratitude to the Red Army

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This take falls apart the moment you realise that the same Jeffrey Sachs brand of economic shock therapy generated today's Poland (notwithstanding all the damage the shock did). But hey, Western leftists were never great at understanding the region.

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

After the initial furor at the idea of a Linke led govt in Berlin, the tide started to turn publicly a few days ago and now the SPD has agreed to talks over the formation of a Red-Red-Green government.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🇫🇷👣 Conclusion from four days of walking across Paris: the locals don't as much walk from place A to place B as they are having an existentialism discourse with the pavement.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🇬🇧🇵🇱🫜 Bad week for Brits and food in Poland: first the whole "Auschwitz food is too pricey" story, and now I see that somebody from the land of jellied eels and marmite has a problem with Radish and Cream McMuffin in Polish McDonald's.

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Polish government has granted same-sex couples who married abroad the same tax rights as other married couples. It follows an EU court ruling ordering Poland to recognise such marriages, even though domestic law does not allow any form of same-sex union.

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Poland extends tax rights to same-sex couples with foreign marriages

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today's entertainment is watching big and small c conservatives begrudingly high five Mamdani over free MET opera tickets as a means of saving Western Civilisation and lambasting that right-wingers don't do such stuff and promptly getting torn apart by far-right ghouls and goons in the comments.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺🇵🇱 My quick and dirty takeaway from conversations with French journalists/academics/policymakers in Paris is that France needs to get out of the "everything to the east is for Germany to handle, we don't need to concern ourselves with it" frame of mind much faster.

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In a further escalation of the crisis around Poland's Constitutional Tribunal, prosecutors have charged two senior court officials over their role in preventing new judges from taking up their positions. Meanwhile, the chief justice has launched proceedings against three other judges.

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Polish constitutional court officials charged with preventing entry of new judges

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 24/09/2026

The fire at a Starlink ground station near Warsaw yesterday night was an act of sabotage and part of hybrid warfare against Poland, Digital Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said this morning.

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Poland says Starlink fire was sabotage

The digital minister has previously warned that his country faces some 2,000–3,000 cyberattacks on its infrastructure daily.

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Katalin Halmai @eublogo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‼️Népszabadság is returning on 8 October, exactly ten years after Orbán’s government shut it down. I was the paper’s Brussels correspondent when it was closed. For those of us who witnessed the destruction of Hungary’s independent press from the inside, this is a deeply personal moment. 2/1

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tony Blair 🤝 Viktor Orbán "The EU should be an Europe of sovereign nations"

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🇫🇷🇵🇱 Paris 🤝 Poznań "We have a neighbourhood with a German name" (Oberkampf / Grunwald)

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

*Central and Eastern Europe enters the chat*

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tony Blair rejoins the growing voices of those calling for an abandonment of Labour EU red lines and reversing Brexit. But in a symbol of all that was wrong with the Remain campaign, he does so saying the UK should only rejoin if its demands on EU reform are met 🧐

So, this is not about rerunning the debates of 2016 but taking a new approach rooted in the reality of 2026.

There is no point in inching towards Europe as we feel what British public opinion might accommodate. We should be clear that we want back into a formal relationship with the EU. But it must be a Europe on a credible path to reform, a Europe of nation states, a Europe capable of being a genuine global power. Otherwise, though Britain should continue to cooperate with the EU where it is in our mutual interest to do so, and though we should always remain open to changing circumstances, Britain will show that it can and is prepared to remain independent.

Tony Blair, Executive Chairman

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🇧🇪🚅🇫🇷 Took a Eurostar to Paris and I'm happy to confirm that the 300 km/h speed and acceptable onboard WiFi are the only good things about this product. In anything else, be it legroom, prices, flexibility and food, PKP is miles ahead.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Never thought that I'll live long enough to hear JR-M implicitly admit that Darek from Świebodzin is worthy of becoming an Englishman yet here we are.

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fast forward less than a month, and MCC Brussels is relaunching itself re-branded as "FSI Freedom & Sovereignty Initiative". Again under the leadership of Frank Füredi, with much of the same people, and clearly looking for funding in the far-right media ecosystem.

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

BOOOOM "Euro area output growth hits near three-and-a-half year high in September. New #export orders increased for the second month running, after having decreased in each of the 53 months prior to August." Source: www.pmi.spglobal.com/Public/Home/...

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re:constitution @reconeurope.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

💡Shedding light to the unpredictable future of rule of law at the ERoL Talks 2026 in Brussels! We are proud to see speakers and moderators from our re:constitution community and other experts contributing to debates on RoL regarding: 🛡️ Defense spending 🇪🇺 Enlargement 💶 Budget conditionality 🤖 AI use

A woman in a red dress talking through a microphone to a crowd of people in a conference room filled with participants. A Power Point slide is being projected that has the title "Opening Remarks".

Three people are speaking on a stage with chairs and a coffee table. There is a screen right next to the stage, on which another speaker is being projected. The woman on the stage in the middle of two other speakers are speaking thorugh a microphone.

Fourteen people are sitting around a white table. A woman to the right side of the table is speaking, while the others are listening to her.

Twenty people are sitting together in a large room. There are four speakers sitting behind a table facing the crowd. The woman to the left side of the table is speaking, whule others are listening.

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Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Romanian politics: Calin Georgescu gets arrested and uses his spotlight to declare that the far-right AUR, who supports him, technically, and its leader George Simion, who did a "we are all Georgescu" schtick, are vile agents of "The System" and the Deep State

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🇪🇺⚖️ Our 2026 Rule of Law Talks at @epc-official.bsky.social kick off with @grimmse.bsky.social moderating an opening panel with @onethuthree.bsky.social @avalaina.bsky.social and @epd.eu Thijs Berman on where the rule of law is in Europe and where it's headed.

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We've been telling Poland's story for over a decade to a growing global audience. But, as a small non-profit media outlet, we can only do this with the support of our readers. Please donate to the Notes from Poland foundation to help us continue our work: notesfrompoland.com/donations/su...

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🇩🇪✈️🇧🇪🇱🇻 *blinks* I'm flying from Frankfurt to Brussels with Lufthansa, but actually with a Latvian mostly state - owned airline that's in the midst of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy story.

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Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Russian Federation, national parliament election today: Europe Elects is not reporting results to avoid legitimizing a manipulated vote. #Duma2026

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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Trump administration is preparing to sanction the ICC as a whole and cut it off from everyday financial transactions, insurance providers and IT services and products, which would leave the court unable to operate, Reuters reports.

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Trump administration prepares sanctions against International Criminal Court, sources say

President ‌Donald Trump's administration has prepared sanctions against the entire International Criminal Court and plans to announce them soon, two sources familiar with the matter said, a move that ...

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