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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Wat is dit nou weer voor logica? Daar worden de grondrechten wel heel drastisch bij een (blijkbaar) private onderneming op het bord gelegd. (De uitgeschreven uitspraak in de zaak Wakker Dier v NS is gisteren pas gepubliceerd. Ik was nieuwsgierig wat de basis was van hun claim. Dit is het.)

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Ik denk dat politici als aanjagers en prominente deelnemers van het publieke debat meer ruimte moeten krijgen om hun mening te uiten, maar omgekeerd ook meer moeten accepteren. Dat zie je bijvoorbeeld ook terug in de rechtspraak over VvMU en laster.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

Bij een bedreiging, wat dit evident niet is. Derksen zegt niet dat hij iemand geweld aan zal doen, en je kunt ook niet in redelijkheid volhouden dat hij anderen oproept om dat te doen.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

How did I not know about this Belgian exclave in the Netherlands? Baarle gets all the attention…

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

…and here is the follow up, from the same (presumably fictional) Scarlett Knight.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

This is what I get, about the consultancy where I used to work. Also with follow-ups sometimes. Fortunately Gmail has learned to route them straight into the spam folder.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Mean does equal average. Those are synonyms.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Since we’re talking about the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework again, now is as good a time as any to remind everyone what it says about the EU’s own resources in art. 311 TFEU. (It says that that’s basically how the EU is meant to be funded.)

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

Zo te zien heeft de bezorgde journalist van het AD niet meegekregen dat er helemaal geen trein naar Ter Apel gaat. Dit is de trein naar Emmen. (Maar dat is natuurlijk een minder interessante kop.)

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026

The exact phrase he used was an “outer rim around Europe”, which would include both the UK and Canada. (And potentially others.)

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026

We have no way of knowing how many of the lawsuits Rowling threatened to fund had any merit. But on the topic of anti-SLAPP statutes, they typically allow for even non-frivolous lawsuits to be dismissed. Eg the bill currently before the UK House of Lords:

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

The odd thing is that that's the problem that choosing Sir Keir Starmer was supposed to fix. Labour went with someone who had an impressive career outside of politics. Now they're back to this:

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 27/07/2026

Not to be cynical, but that sounds like a highly successful SLAPP to me.

On Tuesday, the Charity Commission opened a compliance case into Amnesty International UK. This followed Amnesty’s self-referral to the Commission following the significant backlash it received for a now-withdrawn report published on its website. That report had sparked controversy for labelling over one-hundred gender critical organisations as being part of an ‘Anti-Rights Movement’.

One such organisation listed by the Amnesty International UK in the report was Beira’s Place – a female-only sexual violence support centre founded by JK Rowling in 2022. Following the publishing of the report, Beira’s Place threatened to take legal action against Amnesty, alleging the report to have been defamatory and demanding a retraction and apology. JK Rowling herself then offered legal funding to any groups that had been named by Amnesty in the report.

Amnesty swiftly withdrew the report, explaining that it had failed to go ‘through the established internal review processes that are in place to ensure consistency, accuracy and alignment with Amnesty International UK’s position.’ It has added that it is ‘engaging fully’ with the Charity Commission’s investigation.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026

The 12 fastest ever times on Alpe d’Huez. 🤔

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026

Yesterday was the 15th anniversary of the day when I splurged and bought a 1st class ticket to go from Florence to Pisa airport, only to discover that Trenitalia had forgotten to attach a 1st class carriage. As you can see, all the 1st class passengers could claim the price difference back. 😇

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 20/07/2026

However much I am told that the UK doesn’t have a presidential system, I can’t help but notice that the highlighted bit is pretty much verbatim what American conservatives say when they explain why their president must be able to hire and fire officials without restrictions.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 04/07/2026

Just like it’s worth remembering that words are elastic. When people talk about “all men”, they rarely mean literally everyone. That is as true today, of all days, as it was 250 years ago.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 31/05/2026

I always like this picture of Otto von Habsburg (who died in 2011) with his great-uncle emperor Franz-Joseph II (of Sissi and becoming emperor in 1848 fame).

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 21/05/2026

Hmmm... (From the new EHRC Statutory Code of Practice assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a0de6...)

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 13/05/2026

And this is what the government is saying about lobbying merger clearances being too difficult at the moment.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 13/05/2026

Here is the actual quote, in context.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 13/05/2026

My favourite bit from the King's Speech so far is that the government proposes to "clarify" the CMA's jurisdictional rules. At least we know that IBM approves of the idea that fewer of its acquisitions should be investigated by the CMA, and that it should be easier to lobby against the CMA.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 01/04/2026

Als je Trump bent zeg je dat het Congres niet bij wet een bevoegdheid die de grondwet aan de President geeft kan afpakken. Onderdeel (b) is natuurlijk wel een bevoegdheid van het Congres, maar je kunt je afvragen of er zelfs maar een cent belastinggeld nodig is om een verdrag op te zeggen.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 28/03/2026

Mooi artikel in het @nrc.nl vandaag. Deze laatste zin geeft een heel andere draai aan het stuk. Heeft de zoon misschien toch met een rooskleurige bril naar zijn ouders gekeken? www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 24/03/2026

Stel je voor dat je, als @tweede-kamer.bsky.social, een PVV’er als voorzitter van de vaste Kamercommissie Europese Zaken kiest. Dan ben je toch zeker wel een beetje in de war?

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 19/03/2026

Ik vraag me af of @tomjanmeeus.bsky.social op dezelfde planeet woont als ik. Hier op aarde gaan we al een kwart eeuw constant in debat met politici die niet in debat geloven, om kiezers te overtuigen die alleen maar verder radicaliseren. Laten we eens iets anders proberen.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 11/03/2026

No pound note will ever be as iconic as this.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 08/03/2026

Als Yesilgöz verstandig is, begrijpt ze dat al dit soort grappen leiden tot minder bereidheid bij haar coalitiepartners om deals te doen over rechts, en meer neiging om deals te doen met Klaver. Maar al op dag 1 na het coalitieakkoord liet de VVD zien dat ze dat niet begrijpen.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 08/03/2026

Voor de volledigheid, @sport.nos.nl, de ISU heeft wel degelijk een gedetailleerde regel voor inhalen bij schaatsen. isu-d8g8b4b7ece7aphs.a03.azurefd.net/isudamcontai...

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 04/03/2026

I suspect it's a coincidence. fd.nl/samenleving/...

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 20/02/2026

The pointlessness of (Schengen non-compliant) border checks illustrated. I’m on the motorway queuing before the German border checks (15 minutes delay). That white car can just drive across the border without ever seeing a customs officer.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 17/02/2026

For example, in my field, here is the dictum of the CJEU in Illumina v. Commission.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 16/02/2026

However much I appreciate @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social’s legal commentary, some of his opinions are quite unfortunate. You’d expect a career journalist to have more respect for the freedom of expression.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 13/02/2026

In E&W this came up Pal v Commissioner of the Police for the Metropolis (2018). Relying on the Supreme Court in SXH v Crown Prosecution Service (2017) the Court of Appeal was not keen, but it was not willing to rule out this argument either. (But held against dr. Pal.) www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 13/02/2026

I think this is something that a Chief Constable ought to take legal advice on (and presumably does). I see no indication in the Human Rights Act that police forces are not covered. Here is a quote from Nemtsov v. Russia (2014). www.bailii.org/eu/cases/ECH...

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 13/02/2026

Dat valt me toch tegen van de Rabobank. www.rabobank.nl/particuliere...

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 09/02/2026

Sure, Teletekst, het probleem met Bad Bunny was zijn “kritische houding”.

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 03/02/2026

I guess that depends on what the Commission means by "the single economic entity ultimately controlled by Mr. Musk".

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 31/01/2026

Matt Stoller isn't always worth reading, but today he has some @gilesyb.bsky.social level chart-ninja. I found this one particularly striking. www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-boomce...

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.eurosky.social · 30/01/2026

The new Dutch coalition agreement includes both a call-in power and a market investigation tool for the @autoriteitcm.bsky.social.

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