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Pekka Pohjankoski

@pekkapohjankoski.bsky.social
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Lawyer and legal academic (PhD) @ Turku Uni, researching EU law + legal and intellectual history. Studied @ Harvard, Helsinki, Sorbonne. Formerly civil servant @ EU Court, FIN MFA.

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Pekka Pohjankoski @pekkapohjankoski.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Art 122 TFEU ftw 👌🏻 www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
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EU agrees to indefinitely immobilise €210 billion of Russian assets
The EU has decided to keep the assets of the Russian Central Bank immobilised for the foreseeable future. The ban, which is based on a provision for economic emergencies, pushes back against external attempts to release the €210 billion in assets before Ukraine is compensated.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 04/08/2025
The full list of all 18,500 children killed in Gaza, in video form. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
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Pekka Pohjankoski @pekkapohjankoski.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
In peak-of-summer interview my comments to Finnish News Agency (STT) on Poland’s decision to reintroduce border checks on its German and Lithuanian borders (in 🇫🇮). 🇩🇪 🇱🇹 🇵🇱🇪🇺🚨🚔 ⚖️🎤☀️ www.ksml.fi/uutissuomala...
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Puola aloittaa rajatarkastukset Saksan ja Liettuan vastaisilla rajoillaan – onko kyse uudesta normaalista Euroopassa?
Puola aloittaa maanantaina väliaikaiset rajatarkastukset Saksan ja Liettuan vastaisilla rajoillaan estääkseen laittoman maahantulon.
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Pekka Pohjankoski @pekkapohjankoski.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
A very insightful piece on weaponizing and undermining the nature of 🇺🇸 legal pro bono work www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/o...
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Opinion | There’s a Darker Reason Trump Is Going After Those Law Firms
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Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Brilliant piece-one of the best on the overall meaning of Donald Trump’s second term. verfassungsblog.de/trump-2-0-as...
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Trump 2.0 as ‘Dual State'?
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Euronews @euronews.com · 08/05/2025
Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp said his government is "drawing a line in the sand" over the Gaza humanitarian aid blockade, which he says goes against international humanitarian law. #EuropeNews
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The Netherlands pivots on Israel, asking for EU trade deal review
Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp said his government is "drawing a line in the sand" over the Gaza humanitarian aid blockade, which he says goes against international humanitarian law.
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Pekka Pohjankoski @pekkapohjankoski.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
European Parliament and the power of the purse 🇪🇺💶 👛 www.euractiv.com/section/defe...
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Metsola to Commission: Change legal basis for €150bn defence fund or face EU court - Euractiv
Metsola has threatened legal action against the Commission for invoking an emergency clause to bypass Parliament oversight.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 04/05/2025
"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
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Pekka Pohjankoski @pekkapohjankoski.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
New publication! 🇪🇺⚖️🔔 I recently published in Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law (MJECL, open access) the piece "Bolstering federal execution of EU law: Case C-123/22 Commission v. Hungary (Reception of applicants for international protection II)" 🧵 1/3
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Pekka Pohjankoski @pekkapohjankoski.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
In our lifetime, it’s never been as easy to know where the right side of history is www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...
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Behind Trump’s Deal to Deport Venezuelans to El Salvador’s Most Feared Prison
New details deepen questions about the deportations, showing that El Salvador’s president pressed for assurances that the migrants were really members of the Tren de Aragua gang.
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Pekka Pohjankoski @pekkapohjankoski.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
And today #EU Court of Justice did just that 👌🏻✨ A very important judgment! curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
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CURIA - Documents
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27/04/2025
For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel. Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare. Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.
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For nearly 60 days, Israel has blocked food from Gaza. Palestinians struggle to feed their families
For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other item has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel.
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Pekka Pohjankoski @pekkapohjankoski.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
The ⁦EU Court of Justice‬⁩ will have a wonderful opportunity to empower the #EU #citizenship in its upcoming judgment while condemning the system of the Maltese ‘golden’ passports, the corrupt character of which is well laid out by ⁦‪@FT‬⁩ #EUlaw 🇪🇺⚖️ www.ft.com/content/b6ac...
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Maltese ‘golden’ passports were sold to Russians with Ukraine war links
Paid-for citizenship that could be banned by European court was handed to people who later faced sanctions
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Pekka Pohjankoski @pekkapohjankoski.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
’Governments consistently fail to recognise “that a citizen with a legal problem needs to be treated, like somebody with a health problem”’ www.ft.com/content/1db3...
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Broken Justice: how Europe let its courts decay
Underfunding of the continent’s justice systems is a threat to democracy, senior lawyers warn
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KSV @ksvesq.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Not only does this entire article send shivers up my spine, but I learned this morning that Clay was also fired from his job after this article came out. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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The Courage to Be Decent
The goal isn’t to police all behavior at all times. It’s to make us fearful to the point that we police our own behavior.
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Pekka Pohjankoski @pekkapohjankoski.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
An incredibly outspoken, powerful opinion that deserves to be read first-hand
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 11/04/2025
NEW 🧵 The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border. Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Professor criticizes various judicial behavior: Gets accused by right-wing judges and commentators of jeopardizing judicial independence and even provoking death threats against specific federal judges. Speaker of the House proposes dismantling federal courts: Crickets.
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 29/03/2025
The Trump administration's assault on the rule of law is increasingly focusing on institutions of knowledge and law. VICKI C. JACKSON (@harvard.edu) on a "multipronged attack", why knowledge institutions are crucial for democracies - and why it is time to resist. verfassungsblog.de/education-de...
Quote from the article: It is a time for courage and for the institutions of knowledge, of law and lawyers to resist – clearly, and repeatedly, for all have a stake in preserving knowledge-related freedoms and the rule of law
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
A must read from the incomparable @tribelaw www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Donald Trump is seeking to erase the United States as we know it | Laurence H Tribe
What we are currently living through is nothing less than an erasure of the building blocks of our republic – a distortion of what it means to be American
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
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Pekka Pohjankoski @pekkapohjankoski.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
How to uphold #primacy of #EU law? Increasingly the answer in practice has been: via offsetting. I wrote an Op-Ed for EU Law Live on this! Open access for the next few days: eulawlive.com/op-ed-guaran...
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Op-Ed: “Guaranteeing Primacy of EU Law via offsetting, again: General Court upholds the Commission’s Recovery of EUR 320 million in Interim-Measure Penalties (T-830/22 & T-156/23, Poland v Commission;...
Introduction: Poland’s Last-Ditch Challenge to Primacy of EU Law On 5 February 2025, the General Court confirmed in T-830/22 & T-156/23, Poland v Commission, and T-1033/23, Poland v Commission …
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Pekka Pohjankoski @pekkapohjankoski.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Trump administration assumes wartime powers (Alien Enemies Act 1798) for internal peacetime policies (immigration). What could possibly go wrong? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
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A judge moves to immediately halt deportations, ordering any planes be turned around.
The order declared that unauthorized Venezuelan immigrants who are at least 14 years old and part of the Tren de Aragua gang can be “apprehended, restrained, secured and removed.”
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Pekka Pohjankoski @pekkapohjankoski.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
International or constitutional currents? My talk (in 🇫🇮) *The Finnish Legal Order and the Currents of European Integration: From Free Trade to Federative Constitution* at Finnish Lawyers’ Association Feb event is available here (from 1’04”56): tinyurl.com/4c3rs343 🇪🇺🇫🇮⚖️🌊🎤🎥 #EU #constitutionallaw
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Pekka Pohjankoski @pekkapohjankoski.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
One prosecutor is standing up against the destruction of democracy www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Danielle Sassoon’s Letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Annotated
Danielle R. Sassoon, who resigned Thursday as Manhattan’s U.S. attorney, writes to Attorney General Pam Bondi to explain her refusal to drop a corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York.
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Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights @eci.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Thank you all for joining the book launch of 'The Dynamics of Powers in the European Union' co-edited by Päivi L-S, Christina Eckes and Anna Wallerman. And thanks to the great discussants @jekantol.bsky.social , @pekkapohjankoski.bsky.social, @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu, Joni Heliskoski.
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Pekka Pohjankoski @pekkapohjankoski.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
As #fathersday approaches, our book on The #RuleOfLaw’s Anatomy in the #EU is now available also in *paperback*! 🎁📚👴🇪🇺⚖️ www.bloomsbury.com/us/rule-of-l...
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The Rule of Law’s Anatomy in the EU
This study, with its approach rooted in EU law and its clear focus on conceptual underpinnings, grapples with one of the most challenging questions facing const…
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Pekka Pohjankoski @pekkapohjankoski.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
I wrote an Op-Ed for EU Law Live on the Medel judgment and who has locus standi to plead the ‘general good’ before the #ECJ 🇪🇺⚖️ eulawlive.com/op-ed-standi...
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Op-Ed: “Standing for the Rule of Law? Judge Associations’ locus standi before EU Courts in Medel (T-530/22 to T-533/22)” - EU Law Live
Should judge associations have standing to challenge EU measures which allegedly breach judicial independence and the rule of law? This is the question to be decided on appeal by …
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Pekka Pohjankoski @pekkapohjankoski.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
Outside my temporary home office for #Christmas the avocados and oranges are ripening 🥑 🍊🎅🏻 #Porto
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 01/12/2023
Finland recently closed its land border crossing points with Russia given its reported instrumentalization of migrants. PEKKA POHJANKOSKI on the difficulty of heeding national security concerns while upholding the right to asylum in this context. verfassungsblog.de/a-borderline...
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A Borderline Case : When National Security and the Right to Asylum Conflict
On 28 November 2023, Finland decided to close all its […]
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Pekka Pohjankoski @pekkapohjankoski.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
I wrote down some thoughts on the legal issues regarding the instrumentalization of #migrants on #Finland’s eastern #border for @Verfassungsblog Ajatuksia #itäraja n maahantulotilanteen oikeudellisista haasteista ⚖️ 🇫🇮🇪🇺🇷🇺
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