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Rónán Riordan (He/Him) @ronanriordan.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

It such a pleasure to rediscover the joy of writing and research after the close of another teaching period

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Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

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Thu Nguyen @onethuthree.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This week in Germany, a court ruled that the rejection of three migrants at the German border violated EU law. The interior minister, supported by the chancellor, sees no reason to change his policy. The judges on the case are facing defamation and threats. Worrying development for the rule of law.

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Observant @observant-um.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Will we need to start bringing consent forms to every interview? Read the first editorial of our new editor-in-chief Wendy Degens: www.observantonline.nl/english/Home...

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 02/06/2025

Nine member states have launched a direct attack on the ECtHR and its migration and asylum standards. SILVA STEININGER (@silviasteininger.bsky.social‬) asks: What are human rights for, if not to protect the rights of foreign criminals? verfassungsblog.de/letter-human...

Zitatkachel der Autorin Silvia Steininger mit dem Inhalt: "From the publication of the letter [...] to its populist tone and lack of legal clarity, it is apparent that the letter is not sufficient to account for an actual attempt at institutional reform (so far)."

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 20/05/2025

A clear majority of EU member states has supported a Dutch proposal for a review of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, RTÉ News understands

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EU member states support review over EU-Israel agreement

A clear majority of EU member states has supported a Dutch proposal for a review of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, RTÉ News understands.

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Rónán Riordan (He/Him) @ronanriordan.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Some people seem to dislike the Court’s reasoning in Malta but agree CBI is (morally?) wrong. If we agree the reasoning’s weak but the outcome right (which I don’t) Q = should courts pursue (what’s seems to be) policy-orientated (moral) outcomes?

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Globalisation and Law Network (Maastricht) @glnmaastricht.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

📢 Globalisation & Law Network Seminar 📢 Join tomorrow Thu 17 April (11:00–12:30 CET) for a talk by @gamzeerdemturkelli.bsky.social: “Governing Public Goods through Multistakeholder Partnerships: Human Rights Accountability and Beyond” 📍 Online/InPerson 🔗 Register: lnkd.in/euUzzaTy

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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Rónán Riordan (He/Him) @ronanriordan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Submitted my passport renewal on Friday, all done online with my iPhone in 10 minutes. Checked my application status just now: Dispatched. Irish Passport Service is killing it with digitalisation.

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Rónán Riordan (He/Him) @ronanriordan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I am disconnected from Irish politics these days, but the speaking rights dispute seems about the long game? People keeps asking what deal they have with Lowry, but is it not also about demographic shifts: FF & FG continue to govern in the future by securing majorities in Dáil supported by IND's?

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Globalisation and Law Network (Maastricht) @glnmaastricht.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

📢 Next Session! 📢 🔜 @filipebritobastos.bsky.social (NOVA University Lisbon), presenting his book: 📝 “Judging Composite Decision-Making: The Transformation of European Administrative Law” 📅 Date & Time: 3/04/25, 11:00 - 12:30 CET 📍 In Person & Online 💻 🔗: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/globa...

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Silvia Steininger @silviasteininger.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

okay academic confessions: I am in this business for over a decade now and I still don't know how to do those star asterisk at your name for the bio footnote. I have to copy paste it from earlier articles, all the way going back to my first blog post from sometime like 2013 or so.

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Globalisation and Law Network (Maastricht) @glnmaastricht.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

📢 Next Seminar 📢 This Thursday we welcome @barendvanleeuwen.bsky.social for a deep dive into: 📝 “Repositioning Free Movement of Services: A Substantive Perspective on the Structure and Dynamics of the Internal Market” 📅 20 March 2025 | 11:00 - 12:30 CET 🔗 More info: lnkd.in/euUzzaTy

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Globalisation and Law Network (Maastricht) @glnmaastricht.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

🤓 🗣️ 📗 Check out our new blogpost looking back on the seminar with Maja Sahadzic, Ph.D., who shared insights from her ongoing research on the rule of law & technology: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/globali...

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Globalisation & Law Network seminar with Maja Sahadžić

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Donal Coffey @donalcoffey.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Yesterday marks 10 years since people decided constitutional remedies shouldn't get in the way of a good story, aka the Court of Appeal judgment in Bederev.

A lovinDublin headline: "on this day 10 years ago, Ireland legalised Class A drugs for 24 hours"

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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

"This attempt to restrict #AcademicFreedom and #FreedomofSpeech has now reached Finland. The University of Helsinki has already been issued demands to remove terms like ‘climate change’ and ‘egalitarian society’ from Fulbright scholarship announcements" www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

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Petition to defend academic freedom against US interference

Nearly 900 scientists have signed a petition demanding that UNIFI, the Council of Rectors of Finnish Universities, and Arene, the Conference of Finnis...

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

@privateeyenews.bsky.social on top form as usual this issue.

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Rónán Riordan (He/Him) @ronanriordan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

If the proposed Irish rules for warnings labels on alcoholic beverages are a barrier to the free moment of goods, undermining Cassis etc like Italy, France, & Co. argue, are the French warning labels on wine for pregnant women not equally such barriers?

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Rónán Riordan (He/Him) @ronanriordan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Look I as everyone knows I dislike @deutschebahn.com and I'm already 2.5 hours behind schedule BUT Irish rail could never. A full dining car that has pretty decent coffee, breakfast, lunch, & dinner while travling at 200km/hr +, not too shabby... Ireland really needs to get its act together.

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Lucas Lixinski @heritagelaw.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I’m very excited to discuss this project @pablo1981.bsky.social and I cooked up a while back with the nice folks at GLaw - we’re going to have a great time unpacking the politics of international legal cooperation and how states hide behind multilateralism to persecute political opponents

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Globalisation and Law Network (Maastricht) @glnmaastricht.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

🚀Globalisation & Law Network Seminar Series🚀 This week we're excited to welcome @pablo1981.bsky.social and @heritagelaw.bsky.social to discuss: 📝 "Making the World Safe from Politics? Multilateral International Extradition Law in the 20th Century" 📅 20/02 | 11:00 – 12:30 CET 👉 lnkd.in/euUzzaTy

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Globalisation and Law Network (Maastricht) @glnmaastricht.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

🚀Globalisation & Law Network Seminar Series🚀 This week we're excited to welcome Maja Sahadžić (Utrecht University) to discuss: 📝 "Technology and antidemocratic practices, between centrality and peripherality" 📅 20 Feb 2025 | 14:00 - 15:30 CET More info 👉 lnkd.in/euUzzaTy

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Rónán Riordan (He/Him) @ronanriordan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Whats happening in Germany to academic debate is alarming. Where is Art 5(3) GG these days. If every academic event going against the mainstream view is consistently shutdown/moved online because of security issues you've fundamentally failed to protect the spirt of the law. "Rechtsstaat", really?

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Globalisation and Law Network (Maastricht) @glnmaastricht.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

🚀Globalisation & Law Network Seminar Series🚀 We’re excited to welcome @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social to discuss: 📝 The EU’s Human Rights Responsibility Gap: Deconstructing Human Rights Impunity of International Organisations 📅 6 Feb 2025 | 11:00 - 12:30 CET More info 👉 lnkd.in/euUzzaTy

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Thu Nguyen @onethuthree.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

This afternoon, CDU Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz gave a keynote speech on foreign and EU policy at @koerberip.bsky.social. A thread on his main points on the EU and Germany's role in it:

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Globalisation and Law Network (Maastricht) @glnmaastricht.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

🌍✨ Hello, BlueSky! We’re the Globalisation & Law Network, exploring how law is evolving in a ever more globalised world 🌐⚖️🇪🇺 From EU to global and national systems, we explore key challenges shaping governance today. Follow us for insights and events! 🚀📖 👉 @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social

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Sophie Pornschlegel @sophiepornschlegel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

3) What Trump means for 🇪🇺: He is no transatlanticist, but a transactionalist. Expect negotiations w/ 🇷🇺 & 🇺🇦; tariffs that will badly effects our economy; interference with our electoral processes & blackmail on our relations w/ 🇨🇳. He will want us to deregulate on tech & climate.

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Rónán Riordan (He/Him) @ronanriordan.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

A thought on the day of Trump's Inauguration: I asked Alexa to define democracy & free speech. She gave what I would say are fairly good answers. However, when I asked what is hate speech she said "Hate speech is a term with varied meaning and has no single consistent definition."

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 17/01/2025

Why is it *vitally important* to go and visit these places impacted by EU railway policy? (or, well, not helped because the policy is broken) Because you learn and see amazing things Have you ever been to Turmantas or Ormenio, to Seifhennersdorf or Zgorzelec? jonworth.eu/the-personal...

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The personal is political. Have you ever been to Seifhennersdorf, Zgorzelec or Ormenio? - Jon Worth

A Friday evening in early June. I am in a compartment in a delayed EuroCity train from München to Klagenfurt, and I am helping one of my fellow passengers in the compartment with their onward connecti...

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Rónán Riordan (He/Him) @ronanriordan.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

New side effect of working at @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social: I spend so much time surrounded by Italians that my MS Word has spontaneously decided that it too is in fact Italian, proceeded to change the default language to Italian, and now refuses to speak English

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Rónán Riordan (He/Him) @ronanriordan.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Really interesting thread on AMWD - AG recommending annulment of the act!

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Rónán Riordan (He/Him) @ronanriordan.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

As a non-resident Irish citizen I can’t vote in a general election for Dáil Éireann (lower house) BUT I can vote for the Seanad Éireann (Senate) because I’m a graduate of an Irish University 🤔 BUT my parents can’t elect senators despite living in Ireland because they didn’t go to university! 🤯

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Rónán Riordan (He/Him) @ronanriordan.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

The only Christmas present I ever want is for Ireland to join Schengen.

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Jacques Delors Centre @delorsberlin.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Did you know that the Jacques Delors Centre turned 10 this year? 🎉 Over the past year, we received many congratulatory messages, some of which we would like to share here - while saying thank you to everyone who contributed to our work over the past decade. 🙏 To the next 10 years - Santé & Prosit! 🥂

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Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

‘Ireland must go beyond strong statements’ – Irish barrister, Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh KC, advising South Africa in Israel genocide case, tells FLAC Annual Dave Ellis Lecture - Irish Independent www.independent.ie/irish-news/c...

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‘Ireland must go beyond strong statements’ – Irish barrister advising South Africa in Israel genocide case tells Dublin lecture

An Irish barrister working on a case in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Israel of Genocide said: “Ireland must go beyond strong statements.”

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Rónán Riordan (He/Him) @ronanriordan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Bring back turtlenecks. No longer will my neck be cold during the winter.

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Rónán Riordan (He/Him) @ronanriordan.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

For any political nerds out there, it’s Irish election season and RTE Radio One is covering all the counts across the Island. A rare chance to see how a state using PR-STV runs its democracy, its full of twists and turns as transfers get allocated and probably the most fun electoral system IMO

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sarahtas.bsky.social @sarahtas.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

First post here: very glad to have been part of the panel on accountability in European administrative law in the case of EU asylum and migration law at the Ius Commune Conference 2024. @andreinadeleo.bsky.social, Agostina Pirrello, Lynn Hillary and Imke Smets, chaired by Mariolina Eliantonio!

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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

if you work on or with European Union law, here is a bit of hot-off-the-digital-press, open-access research. I look at the gaps between Curia and Eur-Lex to understand how much of a problem using only one is, especially in English. tldr: it's not trivial doi.org/10.1017/elo....

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A note of caution on CJEU databases | European Law Open | Cambridge Core

A note of caution on CJEU databases

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Rónán Riordan (He/Him) @ronanriordan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I truly believe the most productive way to write is with a glass of wine in one hand and a cigarette in the other. Who wants to join my writing group?

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Rónán Riordan (He/Him) @ronanriordan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Full house for @eleanorspaventa.bsky.social (Università Bocconi) exploring the state of play for Fundamental Rights and CFSP at the Maastricht Centre for European Law

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Rónán Riordan (He/Him) @ronanriordan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Legal philosphers are hippies who's idea of a book club is a bar

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Jannik Jansen @jannikjansen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

After days of political brinkmanship, Brussels’ deadlock is over. Von der Leyen’s new Commission seems finally on track to take office Dec 1 – but serious doubts remain whether the compromises struck can truly end deep divisions within the EP’s informal coalition. Let’s unpack the deal 🧵:

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