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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹

@ricsilvestre.bsky.social
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Social-Liberal. Europeanist. Atlanticist. Researcher and author in political science. Co-host of the 'Liberal Europe Podcast', a project supported by the European Parliament. Opinions my own.

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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 17h
It is always such a treat to be in Łódź with my friends at liberte.pl/o-fundacji/ on the amazing Freedom Games. This was a panel with A LOT of correct predictions (a year ago) about the #EuropeanUnion #USA relationship (some by me). #Portugal
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fucking unbelievable!! And the @houserepublicans.bsky.social think this totally normal. #USA
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Disgraceful. Shameful. And @houserepublicans.bsky.social think this totally normal. #USA
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The disgrace never ends. #USA
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thank you Madam Commissioner @hennavirkkunen.wsocial.eu, @ec.europa.eu. Stand strong! Don't cede.
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At the @eurliberalforum.bsky.social Fall General Assembly in Brussels with the welcome from the President of the Board. #liberalism #Europe
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rapporteur for the "Future of EU-US relations – cooperation or competition?" group in the "Stronger Europe for a Stronger NATO" event from @reneweurope.bsky.social and @eurliberalforum.bsky.social at the @europarl.europa.eu. We should strengthen our capabilities while maintaining the relationship
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Relator para o grupo de trabalho "Future of EU-US relations – cooperation or competition?" no evento "Stronger Europe for a Stronger NATO" do @reneweurope.bsky.social e @eurliberalforum.bsky.social no Parlamento Europeu. Devemos fortalecer as nossas capacidades enquanto mantemos a relação.
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On 15/9, #Trump said there is "new" information that members of the Democratic Party were involved in an attempt to assassinate him. Investigations in Congress?! Political and social calls for justice?! Nah! As usual the President of the #USA is making stuff up. cnnportugal.iol.pt/eua/assassin...
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A 15/09, Trump disse haver "novas" informações que membros do Partido Democrata estiveram envolvidos numa tentativa de o assassinar. Investigações no Congresso?! Revolta social por justiça? Nah! Como é habitual, o presidente dos #EUA alucina coisas. Op-ed na CNN🇵🇹 cnnportugal.iol.pt/eua/assassin...
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No evento "Stronger Europe for a Stronger NATO", organizado pelo @reneweurope.bsky.social e pelo @eurliberalforum.bsky.social. É um privilégio estar de volta a Bruxelas e ao Parlamento Europeu para uma conversa crucial e urgente e que precisa ter eco em #Portugal.
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In the Stronger Europe for a Stronger NATO event from @reneweurope.bsky.social and @eurliberalforum.bsky.social. A privilege to be back in Brussels and the @europarl.europa.eu for a crucial and pressing conversation.
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We...are...so...fucked. #Europe #USA
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I HAVE BEEN WARNING ABOUT THIS SHIT!! #Europe #EuropeanUnion #USA
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Pois!! #Europa #UniãoEuropeia
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Não!!! Nada de sinistro aqui! #Portugal
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Feel vindicated @ec.europa.eu @europarl.europa.eu @hennavirkkunen.wsocial.eu! Next time the #EuropeanUnion detractors accuse the Union of "just being a regulatory power", tell them to take a hike!
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have been calling for more integration between #Canada and the #EuropeanUnion, especially after Carney’s speech in Davos. It is good to see the @ec.europa.eu and @europarl.europa.eu welcoming Canada as a “member of the family.” Let's go now! Op-ed on CNN 🇵🇹 cnnportugal.iol.pt/canada/uniao...
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Eu andava a pedir uma maior integração do Canadá na União Europeia há algum tempo, principalmente depois do discurso de Carney em Davos. Bom ver a @ec.europa.eu @europarl.europa.eu receberem o Canadá como um “membro da família”. Agora, em frente! Op-ed na CNN🇵🇹 cnnportugal.iol.pt/canada/uniao...
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European News @eunews.social · 21/09/2026
European far-right movements exploit fears of economic decline by falsely blaming migrants for falling living standards. The real cause of this hardship is corporate greed. To defeat the far right, Grace Blakeley argues, the left must challenge corporate power and prioritize economic affordability.
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Grace Blakeley: Economic hardship doesn't create the far right. But it wins them supporters
European far-right movements exploit fears of economic decline by falsely blaming migrants for falling living standards. The real cause of this hardship is corporate greed. To defeat the far right, Grace Blakeley argues, the left must challenge corporate power and prioritize economic affordability.
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
O meu retorno ao comentário em estúdio na CNN🇵🇹 com a apresentação de factos que mostram que as eleições na Rússia não são livres nem democráticas. O que não vemos é o povo russo a ter a coragem de protestar como acontece na Geórgia ou na Sérvia cnnportugal.iol.pt/videos/infel...
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My return to in-studio commentary on CNN🇵🇹, presenting facts that show the elections in #Russia are neither free nor democratic. What we don't see is the Russian people having the courage to protest, as happens in #Georgia or #Serbia. cnnportugal.iol.pt/videos/infel...
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
FOR...THE...WIN!! #Canada
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
WHAT..THE..FUCK..ARE..WE..DOING..HERE?! "the report (...) had been generated with the help of AI (...) inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Acossado, desesperado, encurralado, estúpido... vai começar a descompensar "big time" nas próximas semanas. #USA #Trump
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Em 2024, em Bruxelas, eu fiz este argumento num evento de Techno-Politics. O exemplo que eu estou a dar na foto é de uma superAI poder entrar na Bolsa de NY, apagar todos os registos comerciais e de transações, e criar uma crise sem precedentes para a humanidade.
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This...is completely insane!. I am still reeling from seeing this video from @chrislhayes.bsky.social on MSNow. We are on the precipice of something terrible happening very shortly. www.ms.now/all-in/watch...
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‘Like the dinosaurs getting loose in Jurassic Park’: Hayes on cases of AI programs going rogue
Chris Hayes breaks down the recent instances of AI agents going rogue amid growing calls for guardrails on the AI industry.
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I hope the center will support Gabriel. I know it's going to be hard (too much connected to Macron) but I think he would be a great Presidente for #France
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Lembro-em de estar na rádio Observador e estar uma politologa (não me lembro do nome, sorry) a dizer "Graças a deus que temos Trump, que ao tirar Maduro do poder, deu a oportunidade para o país poder ter eleições e comandar os seus destinos". #Portugal
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ei! #Iceland! You up?!! #EuropeanUnion #Europe
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Vou ficar aqui sentadinho à espera de todos os meus "compadres" de esquerda aqui no Bluesky venham dizer que esta é uma boa medida. Algo para equilibrar os "estão a destruir o Estado", "são uns fascistas" e "querem só dar lucros ao privado". Essas coisas. #Portugal
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Adding to "perceptions," we now also have to contend with "vibes" in politics. Op-ed for CNN🇵🇹 where I argue that mainstream governing parties should not abandon their commitment to public service and responsible governance to cater to the "vibes" of the moment. cnnportugal.iol.pt/extrema-dire...
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A juntar às "perceções", agora também temos de lidar com os "vibes". Neste op-ed (CNN🇵🇹) argumento que partidos do “arco da governação” não devem abandonar matrizes de serviço público e responsabilidade de governação, para atenderem aos “vibes” do momento. #Portugal cnnportugal.iol.pt/extrema-dire...
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The #USA has a president that is not only a maniac, but loosing his (few) mental capacities rapidely. And no one, particularly @houserepublicans.bsky.social will do anything about it until the bitter end.
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Interessante ver como o as eleições de uma região da Alemanha tem cobertura "wall to wall" nas TV's de #Portugal, já a derrota do bloco com a extrema-direita na Suécia... 🦗🦗
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
MORTINHO!! Mortinho agora para ver todos os membros do "comentariado" em #Portugal a explicar que o resultado das eleições na Suécia é porque... é porque!!! É porque... estes partidos do centro???... (checks notes)...os suecos que não veem as suas "ansiedades econômicas"???... é porque!!
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
👀!!! #Sweden #EuropeanUnion
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🤞🤞🤞 #Sweden #EuropeanUnion
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ei, @kajakallas.bsky.social @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @ec.europa.eu How can you continue to think that #Trump is in anyway interested in helpink #Ukraine? Stop feeding this charade! Start acting accordingly and stop giving any credence to what this opportunit, passing for a diplomat, says.
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
LET'S GO!! #EuropeanUnion #Canada 🇪🇺&🇨🇦!
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ei #Iceland! Hellooooo?? 👏👏👏ei, Icelanders?! You guys up?? #EuropeanUnion
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Let's go!!! #EuropeanUnion #Canda 🇪🇺&🇨🇦
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Como convicto defensor da ideia de haver um referendo de reunificação...cala-te, imbecil!!
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
With the submissive or active complicity of the Republican Party and backed by the fanaticism of his cult-like following, #Trump is achieving what Al-Qaeda tried to accomplish through terrorism on 9/11: the end of #US global hegemony. CNN Op-ed on CNN🇵🇹 cnnportugal.iol.pt/eua/torres-g...
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Com a cumplicidade submissa ou ativa do Partido Republicano e apoiado pelo fanatismo do seu culto de seguidores, #Trump está a concretizar aquilo que a Al-Qaeda tentou alcançar pelo terrorismo no 9/11: o final da hegemonia mundial dos #USA. Op-ed na CNN🇵🇹 cnnportugal.iol.pt/eua/torres-g...
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 09/09/2026
Labs csn but they did the safety tests with basic measures off. They didn’t even care. The cybersecurity community are going nuts over this
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I once said this is Brussels...and I was almost "eaten alive" by the audience.
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
WHAT...THE...FUCK!!! @nytimes.com
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RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 @ricsilvestre.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
oh...my...cat!! MADE OF WIN!
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