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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And as a major and well-deserved slap in the face to #Trump and #Rubio the #NobelPeacePrize has been awarded to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, an #ICC judge "with exceptional courage and integrity who has led the way towards a more comprehensive global legal order".

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🚨🚨The #Baltic States Prepare for War: #Lithuania, #Latvia, and #Estonia are readying themselves to fend off a #Russian attack—with the help of the #UnitedStates, or without it. Great piece by @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My 4 year old daughter which I think already vastly exceed the intelligence levels of the orange man (sorry for the bragging) was far more inventive by suggesting "fake intelligence" and "weird intelligence". God and all my kids already think #trump is like the most stupid man on the planet.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🚨🚨 "there seems to be no sense of urgency about anything: about tackling the far right, about protecting liberal norms of governance, about challenging the immigration panic, about improving relations with the EU, or about recalibrating geo-political strategy." @chrisgrey.bsky.social

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The current Swedish Prime Minister, Ulf #Kristersson, leader for Moderaterna has also resigned from his position officially to leave the forming of the new Government to the Chairman of Parliamentary Assembly:

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The result are divided as follows split on mandate per party:

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I have a forthcoming paper on the legal and political dimensions of the extending the #EPPO's remit which notably looks at #EUsanctions as a case study so more on this topic very soon from me:

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The attacks come as #Ukraine celebrates its #IndependenceDay on Aug. 24, marking 35 years since Ukraine declared independence from the Soviet Union. Strikes on Ozon logistics hubs in recent days follow a weeks-long campaign of attacks on Russia's largest online retailer, Wildberries.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🚨🚨This is good but the condemnation from the EU came out much stronger in the @eudiplomacy.bsky.social statement which clearly pointed out US as the responsible party here:

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Anton Moiseienko has written a great chapter in our new forthcoming @hartpublishing.bsky.social volume titled "Sanctions in the EU Legal Order" explaining the complex legal and political details on how to address Frozens Russian Assets and ensuring reparation to Ukraine.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

🚨🚨" far-right and MAGA politicians, influencers, and podcasters will immediately use the most divisive language possible in order to make voters as angry as possible, as fast as possible, regardless of what actually happened. " Strong piece by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu on FR reactions to #ceuta:

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Peter's letter also contains a great chart based on the #brexit impact analysis by Jun Du, @shepotylo.bsky.social & Yujie Shi who demonstrate how regulatory barriers led to a huge fall in the variety of different products being traded between the EU and UK.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

on to strengthen its position in the world. Energy independence in particular has grown as a topic of importance for Europeans, against a backdrop of increased energy prices in the aftermath of U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Brexit has reduced trade in nearly every sector of the UK economy. This decline in UK-EU trade is visible across most goods and services sectors. Among goods imports from the EU, the largest estimated losses have been in #chemicals and #pharmaceuticals, down about 24 %, and in machinery, down 26 %.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Leaving the single market has done more damage than leaving the customs union. The costs of leaving the CU, which affect trade in goods, were smaller than those of the SM. Across all goods trade, leaving the customs union reduced UK exports to the EU by about 4 % and UK imports from the EU by 1 %.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

#Brexit has substantially reduced UK trade with the EU in both goods and services, and on both exports and imports. The hit to trade from leaving the EU has been large. Overall, they find that Brexit has reduced total UK exports to the EU by about 12 % and total imports from the EU by about 16 %. /3

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

🚨🚨New study by @johnspringford.bsky.social & @antonspisak.bsky.social @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social titled "The cost of #Brexit, ten years on: The impact of leaving the customs union and single market on UK trade". 🧵

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Coors welcomed the initiative as "an extremely valuable start," but said policymakers are still operating under the assumption that key infrastructure projects will arrive on schedule. "Any good idea is now blocked by the certainty, on paper, that everything will be on time".

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🚨🚨" Every step will depend on the EU side, which holds most of the cards. So the British have also to understand where other Europeans are coming from, how their complicated union really works and what is, to put it bluntly, in it for them." Great piece by @fromtga.bsky.social on UK #rejoin:

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Chart 7: Net immigration surged, but is now falling Post-Brexit, despite the promises of the leave campaign and the Conservative government, net migration to the UK rose sharply, reaching a record high of almost 1m in the year to June 2023. /9

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Chart 6: Brexit support has faded Public support for Brexit has steadily fallen since the 52%-48% leave vote. Polling last month by @yougov.co.uk shows 70% of Britons support a closer relationship with the EU without rejoining the bloc, its single market or customs union. /8

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Chart 5: Employment has suffered. Britain emerged as the worst-performing country in the #G7 for the pace of its recovery in workforce participation after the easing of Covid restrictions, with rising ill-health pushing up economic inactivity.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Chart 4: Uncertainty sapped business investment: investment is estimated to be close to 18% lower than it would have been under remain and productivity up to 4% lower, reflecting reluctance to invest in equipment and projects due to the uncertainty. /6

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Chart 3: Trade has suffered from more border friction Brexit involved erecting trade barriers, which has hit goods exports. The EU is still the UK’s largest trading partner: in 2025, exports to the bloc were worth £385bn (41% of all UK exports) and imports £474bn (49% of the total). /5

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Chart 2: UK growth has slowed. According to the OBR, the independent Treasury watchdog, the UK is on track to suffer a 4% hit to national income over a 15-year period but other observers show that GDP per head is between 6% & 8% lower than it would have been without Brexit. /4

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

has suffered, business investment and productivity growth have stalled, and families are on average thousands of pounds a year worse off. First chart: The pound is below its pre-EU referendum level:

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

as responsibility and transparency – into the online safety regime. These are essential to create a strong regulatory framework that can protect the public.” The government has said it recognised the dangers of online misinformation. /12

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Another described the #BlackLivesMatter campaign as a “terrorist group”, above a picture of Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner taking the knee. The analysis found that 6.5% of news-related posts in the Gorton and Denton groups amounted to misinformation. /9

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

MPs are concerned about the growing influence of unreliable online groups. With the decline and financial peril faced by local news outlets, inaccurate online forums are filling the void. One MP said the groups in his area were now read in far greater numbers than any local media outlet –

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

"But the post-Brexit immigration system has also allowed much higher non-EU migration, especially through work and study routes. This has more than offset the fall in EU migration in aggregate terms. The result has been a compositional change rather than a simple reduction in migration." /ends

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

referring to trade policy and the customs union. “Exactly the tools we decided not to join.” Norway is a Nato member but Trump’s push to assert control over Greenland — a semi-autonomous territory of fellow Nato ally Denmark has sparked fears in Oslo about US security guarantees that

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Russian propaganda on Bluesky first became notable during Germany’s elections last year, when the Kremlin sought to bolster Germany’s far right, led by the Alternative for Germany party, known as AfD. Joseph Bodnar, a researcher with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, an international organiz

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

She was on vacation on April 28 when her account was suspended after it posted a short video with a caption that said The New York Post had linked Ukraine to the man charged with trying to assassinate Mr. Trump last month at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

🚨🚨 #Bluesky is doing very well. @ec.europa.eu has changed some of their policies in respect of interaction with social media & are now prioritising #Mastodon, Bluesky & #linkedin. #X has been completely been removed from the "Follow" function (whilst FB & youtube is at the bottom of the page).

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

These are defined as a crime in the Greek law and in almost all the other members of the EU. No one in the world will convince [us] that these categories are part of job descriptions of politicians, here in Greece or somewhere in the EU.” /10

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

🚨🚨 #brexit "Those red lines were the right approach in 2024. .. But world events have moved more quickly than any of us could have expected so our ambition for the EU relationship needs to change too. At the very least, we need to have a conversation about membership." @marshadecordova.bsky.social

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Kos said Wednesday. Responding to reports France and Germany want to offer Ukraine “symbolic” membership in the EU, Kachka brushed away the idea. “The only model of accession that we pursue is a full classical, normal … accession to the European Union according to methodology,” he said.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

When Trump returned to the White House last year, it appeared he could turbocharge like-minded anti-immigration populist movements elsewhere that had struggled to gain power or respectability. The Trump admin even formalized its efforts to cultivate an international network of

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

For transparency campaigners, the move to government-controlled apps is long overdue. Democracy groups have lamented how end-to-end #encrypted communication and #cybersecurity policies such as disappearing messages on consumer apps have pushed important decisions into the shadows. /11

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

🚨🚨 "There is no escaping the trade-off between a political promise of undiluted national sovereignty & the blurring of borders required to maximise economic gains from integration..Or rather, there is an elegant solution to that problem..It is the model called membership. " @rafaelbehr.bsky.social

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

🚨🚨 "Orbán’s loss brings to an end the assumption of inevitability that has pervaded the MAGA movement...that illiberal parties are somehow destined not just to win but to hold power forever, because they have the support of the “real” people. " Great piece by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

to join the fighting against Iran. “We all want the war to end but we are not on the same page as the US,” said one official. Trump wants NATO to help, but the leaders remain resistant because “most Europeans were not informed beforehand and the Gulf has nothing to do with NATO".

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

in the democratic “checks and balances” pillar: independent NGOs and civil society being able to organise, challenge decisions and hold governments to account. Regressive legislation and strong penalties for attending banned protests were increasing

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

were neither improving nor deteriorating, the 800-page report said. Poland also fell into that category, with the prime minister, @donald-tusk.bsky.social trying to restore key elements of the rule of law – such as an independent judiciary- dismantled by the former Law and Justice ( #PiS) government

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

🚨🚨Excellent but grim read from @chrischirp.bsky.social on the impact of the #pandemic in the #UK. "failing to prepare over the spring and summer of 2020 and then to act quickly as the situation worsened transferred risk and suffering onto hospitals, staff, patients and families".

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Australian producers to continue using names including feta, halloumi and Parmesan. The issue was politically sensitive, with Australia’s European communities arguing they should be allowed to continue producing their food products under their original names.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

repeated disruptions to daily life. One resident of Russia’s Kursk region reacted to official claims that Ukrainian attacks had been repelled: "They say everything was intercepted — but there was no real protection at all. No air defense, no security. It’s just embarrassing."

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

military-related discourse and the sharpest reactions to attacks. "In these regions, we see the highest level of military-related discourse and the most acute reactions to events. Residents live in a state of constant anxiety due to regular drone attacks, air defense activity,

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu recently warned that "no Russian region can feel safe," while public reactions across regions suggest the war is no longer tied to the front line. /6

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