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Joris Larik

@jorislarik.bsky.social
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Associate Professor & Director of Education | EU external relations, global governance & the law | Leiden University College The Hague & Europa Institute, Leiden University www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffm…

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Arnout Brouwers @abrouwers.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Neonborden met ‘billions and billions spent’ erop gaan geen vijanden afschrikken. Over de worsteling van herbewapening tijdens een militaire transformatie. Molumn: Om te overleven, moet ‘Europa’ politiek en militair snel opnieuw worden uitgevonden www.volkskrant.nl/cs-bfca115e/
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Om te overleven, moet ‘Europa’ politiek en militair snel opnieuw worden uitgevonden
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 01/05/2026
Today, the EU-Mercosur agreement begins to apply provisionally. The benefits are real and visible as of now. Tariffs start falling. Companies are gaining access to new markets. Investors have the predictability they need.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 18/04/2026
It began with coal and steel. But from the very start, our Union was always meant to be much more. 75 years ago, in Paris, with the signing of the Treaty of Paris, Europe chose a different path. One of unity over division, of peace over war.
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 18/04/2026
75 years ago, the Treaty of Paris was signed, establishing the European Coal and Steel Community. Six countries joined forces to build a shared market, choosing cooperation over conflict. Born from the desire for peace after WWII, this treaty laid the foundation for the Union we know today. 🇪🇺
A black-and-white photo of the signatories of the Treaty of Paris, from left to right: Paul van Zeeland, Belgian Minister for Foreign Affairs; Joseph Bech, Luxembourg Minister for Foreign Affairs; Joseph Meurice, Belgian Minister for Foreign Trade; Carlo Sforza, Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs; Robert Schuman, French Minister of Foreign Affairs; Konrad Adenauer, German Federal Chancellor; Dirk Stikker, Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs; And Johannes van den Brink, Dutch Minister for Economic Affairs. The picture is from 1951 but there is a cake sticker with a ‘75’ candle on top, and colourful bunting sticker hanging above.
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Arnout Brouwers @abrouwers.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Molumn. Oekraïne belichaamt nu de hoop voor een vrij, zelfredzaam Europa www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...
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Oekraïne belichaamt nu de hoop voor een vrij, zelfredzaam Europa
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Joris Larik @jorislarik.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Interview in het FD over nauwere samenwerking ("enhanced cooperation") in de EU na de top van Alden Biesen. Kortom: een goede strategie om momentum te creëren, maar “het zou jammer zijn als dit geen tussenoplossing blijkt, maar een toestand van toenemende versplintering." fd.nl/politiek/158...
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Verlamde EU wil doorpakken en zet kopgroepen in om dwarsliggers te omzeilen
Unanimiteit verlamt vaak de besluitvorming in Brussel. Met kopgroepen kunnen lidstaten alvast vooruitlopen en treuzelaars onder druk zetten om aan te haken. Er zijn ook risico’s: ‘Het zou jammer zijn als een Europa van meerdere snelheden geen tussenoplossing blijkt, maar een toestand van toenemende versplintering.’
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Andrius Kubilius @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu · 14/02/2026
Historic day!🇪🇺🤝🇨🇦 Amidst global shifts, Canada and the EU are strengthening ties when needed most. Pleasure to sign w Minister McGuinty important agreement under the #SAFE instrument this morning! It will boost our industries & security, strengthen our defence cooperation & economic ties.
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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Today in @theguardian.com, I argue that Donald Trump’s foreign-policy playbook is increasingly about attention capture, or what I call geopolitical clickbait. Plus I outline why this matters for Europe & what to do about it. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump wants our attention. Let’s stop falling for his geopolitical clickbait | Catherine De Vries
Whether he’s targeting Greenland, tariffs or Iran, Trump’s agenda is to distract – because a Europe that is always reacting is never planning, says political scientist Catherine De Vries
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Joris Larik @jorislarik.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
“Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.” Scary stuff.
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Andrius Kubilius @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu · 26/01/2026
There is no break on #SAFE! 🚀 8 more national investment plans approved just now. ~€75B in #EUDefence funding, moving us closer to collective strength. ⏩ What’s next: Council decisions for fast disbursement. And we continue working on the remaing plans.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 26/01/2026
The display of the flags of the EU, the EU Military Staff, and our maritime missions ATALANTA and ASPIDES at India’s Republic Day is a powerful symbol of our deepening security cooperation. It will culminate tomorrow in the signature of our Security and Defence Partnership.
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António Costa @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu · 26/01/2026
Good to see a contingent representing the European Union, led by Colonel Spruijt acting on behalf of the EU Military Staff, at the #RepublicDay parade.
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2e kamer uitslagen @2ekamer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Motie: 21501-20-2374 Europese Raad Motie van het lid Erkens c.s. over in de Raad steun uitspreken voor het voorlopig in werking laten treden van het EU-Mercosurakkoord tweedekamer.nl
Uitslag van Motie: 21501-20-2374
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Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com · 22/01/2026
Agriculture is only a tiny part of EU-Mercosur free-trade agreement • EU tariff cuts on Mercosur-made meat will apply only to small share of European imports • Real economic rationale of deal could lie in industrial and services trade, as well as mineral products www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
"Think the unthinkable". Yesterday's speech by German Foreign Office State Secretary von Geyr expresses the horror at both Trump's Greenland threats and the "Board of Peace" by many in German foreign policy establishment. Both named alongside Russia's war against Ukraine as turning points.
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Joris Larik @jorislarik.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Relatedly, given the serious "Battle of Hoth" vibes of the whole Greenland crisis, we should consider renaming it the "trade ion cannon"...
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Joris Larik @jorislarik.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I thought about this comment a lot. In a way, I think it's been genius to give it this catchy (albeit ridiculous) nickname: It captures the EU's economic power & ways to leverage it in an imaginative way that actually gets media and policymakers' attention. The "bazooka" is the massage!
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Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I think deterrence... worked. Europe's response was actually strong. They sent forces to Denmark, they threatened to retaliate with tariffs, they talked about selling US debt, they made markets nervous and it looked like Trump TACO'd... for now.
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Tobias Bunde @tobiasbunde.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The feeling is mutual. We don‘t recognize the United States anymore. And it breaks my heart. Greetings from Europe!
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Trump on NATO: "The problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100% but I'm not sure that they'd be there for us, if we gave them the call". We did get the call on 9/11. 26 NATO members sent troops to defend the US. Hundreds died doing so. It was the only time Article 5 has been activated.
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Joris Larik @jorislarik.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Then again, why even suppress it anymore? As someone recently radicalized by Mark Carney, I’d say take down the signs and stop living within the lie. Laugh at what’s laughable.
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Joris Larik @jorislarik.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
He is literally fighting windmills. www.bbc.com/news/live/cj...
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Trump says 'Europe not heading in the right direction' as he addresses world leaders at Davos
It comes after Trump says he will add a 10% tariff to goods imported from eight European countries that oppose his plan to take over Greenland.
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Joris Larik @jorislarik.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Yes, but... bsky.app/profile/jori...
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Joris Larik @jorislarik.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
[6/] ➡️ ...even if some violations of EU primary law are found, it may be possible to remedy them without fully unpacking the agreement and/or discontinuing provisional application. [the end]
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Joris Larik @jorislarik.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
[5/] ➡️ ...while having to study further the issues raised, I am not too worried that the Court will find the EU-Mercosur Agreement incompatible with the EU Treaties. It confirmed CETA's compatibility with the EU Treaties in 2019 in Opinion 1/17 (see also Opinion 2/15 on broad EU trade powers.)
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Joris Larik @jorislarik.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
[4/] ➡️ ...this does not delay the provisional application of the agreement (not subject to EP consent), which was going to be a longer interim situation anyway. CETA between the EU and Canada has been provisionally applied since 2017 and, and trade between the two sides has thrived in the meantime.
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Joris Larik @jorislarik.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
[3/] ➡️ ...waiting for the ruling will at least delay the possibility for the entry into force of the agreement. HOWEVER, to quote Scott Bessent for once, I think we (including our Mercosur partners) can "sit back and let things play out", because...
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Joris Larik @jorislarik.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
[2/] If you support the agreement as a sign of strengthening ties with like-minded countries in geopolitically turbulent times, this is bad news, because... ➡️ ...the agreement cannot enter into force if the Court rules that it is incompatible with EU constitutional rules. and...
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Joris Larik @jorislarik.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The European Parliament just voted to request an Art. 218(11) TFEU opinion on the EU-Mercosur Agreement; as is its constitutional prerogative. www.politico.eu/article/eu-m... [1/]
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EU-Mercosur trade deal stalled as MEPs send it for judicial review
Opponents of the Latin American accord prevail, potentially delaying it for up to two years.
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Joris Larik @jorislarik.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This speech was so great, PM Carney deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature! 🏆 Seriously though: This was a tour de force. Uncomfortable, clear-eyed, but not at all hopeless; with lots to think about for policymakers, international lawyers, IR theorists, integration theorists, and many more.
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Joris Luyendijk @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Nothing demonstrates the mental colonization of the European mind better than the ease with which Americans have been able to spread the myth over here that America, out of the goodness of its heart, has been "paying for Europe's protection".
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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Denmark and Greenland are not alone. Good to see my colleagues Troels Lund Poulsen and Vivian Motzfeldt. Arctic security is a shared transatlantic interest, and one we can discuss with our US allies. But tariff threats are not the way to go about this. Sovereignty is not for trade. (1/2)
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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America? 2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America? 2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?
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Joris Luyendijk @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I suspect the vast majority of those Americans assume that one day they can simply say 'reset' to us, and all will be well. It won't be. America has never ever threatened a European democracy with invasion. Until now. We are in a new era.
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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Agree with @gideonrachman.bsky.social excellent column. European appeasement hasn't worked. It's time to try a different approach.
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Tobias Gehrke @tobiasgehrke.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Good moment to repost my paper from last year, mapping the cards Europe could play in response to US coercion. Most of them could be played via the anti-coercion instrument. Digital services charges and (de facto) export controls are the keys. ecfr.eu/publication/...
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Brussels hold’em: European cards against Trumpian coercion – European Council on Foreign Relations
Faced with an aggressive United States, Europe has more leverage than it realises. Across trade, technology, infrastructure, finance and people-to-people relati
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
An Élysée spokesperson said on Sunday that President Emmanuel Macron will ask the EU to activate its Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI) – dubbed the bloc’s trade “bazooka” – if new US tariffs materialise.
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EU trade ‘bazooka’ back on the table, as Greenland tariff threat blows up US deal | Euractiv
French President Emmanuel Macron will ask the EU to activate its Anti-Coercion Instrument if new US tariffs materialise
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Joris Larik @jorislarik.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
It’s still all sad, also at a collective psychological level. But this sums it up very nicely. Something cracked indeed. The European reaction, even from voices normally tending to disagree, seems pretty unanimous to me. Enough is enough.
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Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
In sum, Europe has little to lose in hitting back hard. The hope here is Europe hits back hard and prompts Trump to deescalate, just as he has done on China. Thus by escalating Europe is also creating a pathway to deescalate this crisis.
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Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Feels like something cracked today in the transatlantic alliance. Europeans have been swallowing their pride, bitting their tongues, and bending the knee. That strategy may have bought them time but it has now clearly failed. It also had a major cost - it has made the WH think Europe will cave. 1/
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
This is pretty much the only post anyone should need to understand that Farage is a traitor, a conman and a populist simpleton who must *never* be given power.
Nigel Farage MP •
• 08/05/2025
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We have a pro-British American President in the White House.
Striking our own deal with America is another benefit of Brexit.
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(Photo of Farage)
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Joris Larik @jorislarik.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Dutch Foreign Minister calls U.S. tariff threats over Greenland “blackmail”, “incomprehensible” and “ridiculous”. The Netherlands will not call back its soldiers dispatched to Greenland. A joint EU response is in the making. Good to hear this strong and clear language! 💪 nos.nl/l/2598674
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Nederland reageert op Trumps heffingsplan: 'chantage' en 'onbegrijpelijk'
De demissionaire minister reageert op het plan van de VS om Nederland 10 procent importheffing op te leggen, als reactie op het sturen van twee militairen naar Groenland.
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Rob de Wijk @robdewijk.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Nu keihard in EU-verband terugslaan!
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Trump komt met importheffing voor onder meer Nederland vanwege Groenland
De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft handelsheffingen aangekondigd voor een aantal Europese landen, waaronder Nederland, vanwege de spanningen rond Groenland. De importheffing bedraagt 10 proce...
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Time for the EU and UK to impose targeted travel bans on key figures in the Trump regime. They shouldn’t be able to holiday in Paris while planning an invasion of Greenland.
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Tobias Bunde @tobiasbunde.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Don't underestimate how serious the #Greenland issue is for Europeans. Manfred Weber, President of the EPP, has now said the European Parliament would not vote on the EU–U.S. trade deal and hinted at the EU’s “bazooka”: the Anti-Coercion Instrument. www.politico.eu/article/eu-u...
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EU-US trade deal ‘on hold’ after new Trump tariffs
The pact, designed to avoid hefty tariffs on European exports, cannot be passed in light of Washington’s threats against Greenland, lawmakers say.
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The right reaction to Trump by the EP INTA chair @bernd-lange.bsky.social: 1) the US is in breach of the Turnberry deal: the EU cannot implement it now /1
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Bernd Lange, the chair of the European Parliament's trade committee, calls on the European Commission to "immediately" start proceedings on the Anti-Coercion Instrument in response to Trump's latest tariff threat.
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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Europe has to stand up to Trump. Use the Anti-Coercion instrument. There's no other way Weakness will only invite more
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Joris Larik @jorislarik.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Wat de EU & lidstaten in hun arsenaal hebben tegen de VS: ➡️ Antidwanginstrument (importheffingen & andere econ. sancties) ➡️ Digitale belasting voor 🇺🇸 techbedrijven ➡️ Sancties tegen ophitsers zoals Stephen Miller in de 🇺🇸 regering ➡️ EU-missie in Groenland (elke lidstaat stuurt min. één militair)
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António Costa @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu · 17/01/2026
The EU stands in full solidarity with Denmark and the people of Greenland. Dialogue remains essential, and we are committed to building on the process begun already last week between the Kingdom of Denmark and the US.
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