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Søren Torbjørn Svendsen

@sorentsvendsen.eurosky.social
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Underviser i historie og samfundsfag. Forperson for Historielærerforeningen for stx & hf -> @historielaerer.dk Likes and reposts doesn't equal agreement. #skolechat #dkhist #dkøko #dkpol #uddpol #histmed #30DayChartChallenge 🇩🇰🇫🇴

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Guillaume Desbrosse @desbrosseg.bsky.social · 4h
🛰️ Il y a 69 ans, le 4 octobre 1957, l'URSS lançait Spoutnik 1 : une boule de 58 cm qui faisait « bip-bip ». Ce qu'on sait moins : ce bip est à l'origine de la navigation par satellite, l'ancêtre du GPS de ton téléphone. Une histoire de déjeuner entre physiciens 🧵⬇️ 📷 NASA
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 13h
"Americans are more likely to have placed a bet than to have read a book in the past year" Online sports betting increases the likelihood of bankruptcy and cientists view gambling addiction as a public health issue, linked to anxiety, depression & suicidal ideation www.npr.org/2026/10/02/n...
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After bankruptcy, he was banned from sports betting sites. Then he discovered Kalshi
The dark side of the prediction market boom is becoming more clear: Experts say the sites have become go-to outlets for gambling addicts to relapse as the companies avoid state consumer protections.
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 4h
✍️ How diesel found itself at the heart of geopolitics. And why Donald Trump is taking a leaf out of Putin and Xi's playbook. A simple explainer edconway.substack.com/p/the-diesel...
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The Diesel Weapon
Why a rather unglamorous fuel is suddenly at the centre of a transatlantic power struggle, and why this matters for all of us
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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 15h
There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re...
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 18h
This is the way.
Graph showing: Monthly fleet composition of passenger cars: Denmark
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Stanis Elsborg @staniselsborg.bsky.social · 16h
Another #ManCity connection worth revisiting. In 2020, Abu Dhabi’s state-owned Mubadala, where City’s Chairman is CEO, committed $2bn to a strategy led by Silver Lake, a shareholder in City Football Group. Mubadala also invested in City’s then sleeve sponsor Nexen Tire in 2017.
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Søren Torbjørn Svendsen @sorentsvendsen.eurosky.social · 17h
Så absurd en situation man stiller en stor gruppe mennesker i. #dkpol www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
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Se, hvem fik næsten statsborgerskab? Muslimer, europæere eller unge født i Danmark
De var godkendt til statsborgerskab, men så faldt loven bort. Nu venter de uden at kende de nye regler. Se, hvem de er.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 21h
In the Biden administration, l led the team that developed what was arguably the first White House “AI safety” framework, the AI Bill of Rights. David Robinson, author of this forthright and sobering essay about risk culture at OpenAI and in Silicon Valley was on that team.
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Libre @libre.reverie.house · 22/04/2026
Folks in dismay of the Quiet Posters feed who want an alternative can now use Quiet Mindscape from @reverie.house It will surface everyone you follow whom posts about once per day or less, and ignores any replies. Feel free to enjoy it.
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Niels Erik Kaaber Rasmussen @nilleren2030.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kan krigen i Ukraine og de geopolitiske spændinger ligefrem accelerere den grønne omstilling i Europa? Kom med til netværksmøde om energiuafhængighed, sikkerhed og Europas strategiske handlefrihed den 8. oktober hos FN-forbundet i Kbh: www.fnforbundet.dk/arrangemente...
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Netværksmøde: EU’s energi-uafhængighed og sikkerhed — FN-forbundet
NETVÆRKSMØDE FOR CIVILSAMFUNDET. Vi sætter fokus på energiuafhængighedens betydning for EUs fremtidige sikkerhed og grøn omstilling. Mødet er åbent for alle med interesse i emnet.
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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 20h
20% mass reduction in 5 (!!!) years! Frightening things happening on our planet.
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Mike K. Olsen @mikeolsendk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Dyreste vinter i fire år på vej: Her kan du spare
En dyr vinter står klar med højere elpriser. Privatøkonom kommer med sine bud på, hvor der kan spares.
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Søren Torbjørn Svendsen @sorentsvendsen.eurosky.social · 19h
Rigtig fin artikel med flere gode grafer, der viser udvikling i modellernes arbejdsrum og kompleksitet, der gør at de ift. tidligere i labgt højere grad trækker på andre dele end GPU'erne (eller lignende). Hukommelse (der spiller en central rolle ift. rammen foe kontekstvinduet) er særlig vigtig.
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Veli-Pekka Kivimäki @vpkivimaki.bsky.social · 20h
Working for an intelligence service in this day and age, I can relate to this meme.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Recently I've been learning to play the piano (very fun!) and now Facebook is convinced that I want to buy whatever this is supposed to be
Why are there so many black keys just everywhere and so unevenly spaced
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Søren Torbjørn Svendsen @sorentsvendsen.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
3. oktober -> tysk nationaldag. Genforeningen for 36 år siden.
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 27/09/2026
The Dutch government is creating its own national operating system based on Linux. The new OS will be called DAWO and will be based on NixOS, a Linux distro that started as a research project at Utrecht University in the early 2000s tweakers.net/reviews/1533...
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Nederland maakt soeverein alternatief voor Windows en Office op basis van Linux
De Nederlandse overheid maakt een eigen digitale werkomgeving op basis van de Nederlandse Linux-distributie NixOS. De ontwikkelaars geven een kijkje in de keuken.
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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 30/09/2026
Inspector Smile is ready for science! 🫡 This is Smile’s first ultraviolet view showing an auroral substorm. With the ultraviolet camera now operational, Smile becomes the first spacecraft since 2008 to capture the full ring of northern lights around the north pole in ultraviolet light. 🔭 🧪 ☀️
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026
This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
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Søren Torbjørn Svendsen @sorentsvendsen.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Infrastrukturen til et agentisk internet er bygget. Spørgsmålet er hvad forbruget vil blive - både ift. modeller, som Epoch AI herunder vurdere, men også ift. funktionalitet. Er det køb af varer/service - forbrug? Jagten på kærligheden? Virksomheders produktivitet? Forskning? Bureaukrati?
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Baltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 27/09/2026
‘Golden arches theory’ is still not aging well, as this McDonalds warehouse burns in Ukraine after a Russian attack. Let’s talk about this. Thomas Friedman came up with the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention in the 90s, arguing that countries with McDonalds don’t fight each other. 🧵..
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Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a bit of a story to how we obtained this 1961 report on nuclear weapons in space (and another from 1963 that we will write about later). The existence of these nukes in space studies has been known for decades, but almost all of them are classified. I FOIA'd several of them a decade ago.
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Søren Have @sorenhave.dk · 02/10/2026
Whoops.
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CSIS Korea Chair @korea.csis.org · 02/10/2026
📢 What Should Korea's Take on "the Asian NATO" Be? In a new @csis.org commentary, former ROK Ambassador to the U.S. Ho-Young Ahn suggests that Korea should reinforce existing partnerships while keeping an “Asian NATO” as a long-term possibility. 🔗 Read More: www.csis.org/analysis/wha...
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What Should Korea’s Take on “The Asian NATO” Be?
An Asian NATO is unlikely to be institutionalized in the near future. However, keeping the issue alive can serve as an aspirational goal. That aspiration will push Korea to further strengthen all the ...
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Norway has been an interesting case study in how far lab leak conspiracy theories can spread in the media because of just a few commentators - who are so far over their skis that they'd make Holmenkollbakken jumpy - dominating the discourse. It won't last. www.journalisten.no/nar-mainstre...
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Når mainstream media fremmer konspirasjons­teorier
Jeg har lenge irritert meg over hvordan den såkalte lab leak-teorien er blitt presentert i norske medier. Teorien dreier seg om at covidpandemien stammer fra et virus som lekket fra et laboratorium i ...
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Mike Schmitt @mikeschmitt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My latest, with Klaudia Klonowska, asks when States may be responsible under international law for AI-related conduct by private firms and armed groups during an armed conflict. lieber.westpoint.edu/artificial-i...
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Lieber Studies Non-State Actor Attribution Volume Series - Artificial Intelligence and Attribution of Non-State Actors’ Conduct to States - Lieber Institute West Point
This post catalogs the bases for attribution of non-State actor conduct and asks how the fact that conduct involves AI affects attribution.
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European Economic and Social Committee @eesc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Travelling across the EU should be better protected. At our #EESCPlenary, we adopted recommendations calling for: 💶 clear information on the final price; ♿ accessible and inclusive services; 📱 a single European booking and ticketing framework. 🔗 link.europa.eu/Qhwkhy
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Hans Kristensen @nukestrat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thank you to @davekearnjr.bsky.social for raising these points relevant to the debate about nuclear options. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/H6RJT... The problem is not lack of options but those advocating for more by creating doubts about those that already exist.
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Limited nuclear war and the defense of Taiwan
This article assesses proposals to address the challenge of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan with the threat of first use of tactical nuclear weapons by the United States. While it is not clear that a ...
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Søren Torbjørn Svendsen @sorentsvendsen.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Interessant hvordan de kommer til at implementere dette. Atmosphere er - for dem der ikke kender det - navnet på den protokol Bluesky er bygget på. Her kan man bygge en masse andre applikationer. Der er allerede mange - fx streaming, blogs og link-værktøjer og mange andre.
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Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) @ihrdc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Iman Sadeghi, a 20-year-old blogger detained in connection with the January 2026 protests in Kashan, Isfahan Province, faces a prison term of 12 years, six months, and one day on charges related to his media activities and online posts.
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Ara Kharazian @arakharazian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: AI Spend FALLS in the latest Ramp AI Index. Price cuts, in addition to cheaper and more efficient models at standard and lite levels, are pushing down the cost of using AI. And it’s not open-source. This decline is driven by competition between OpenAI + Anthropic. via ramp.com/data/ai-index
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Hans-Henrik Jensen @hhjensen.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Når man kan se at noget virker, bør man holde fast i muligheden. Omkring 7% af befolkningen er ordblinde - og den nuværende mulighed hjælper mange, som tager gymnasiale enkeltfag. Epx må ikke være en stopklods for deres muligheder. #uddpol @uddannelsesmonitor.dk
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Rektor, elev og forperson: Vi taber guld på gulvet, hvis vi fjerner muligheden for at lave ordblindeklasser fra 2030
Regeringen og partierne bag reformen bør bevare muligheden for at bruge ordblindeundervisning sammen med gymnasiale enkeltfag, så ordblindeklasserne kan fortsætte.
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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 02/10/2026
Europe didnt just experience an exceptionally hot summer in 2026. It experienced a summer where multiple climate extremes reinforced each other. First - temperature records were broken at daily, monthly and seasonal scales across Europe Read more: climate.copernicus.eu/summer-revie...
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Frederik Bové @fbbove.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naza' er en god film, der ikke bare afdækker, hvad der virker som systematiske krigsforbrydelser, den dykker også ned i det nye og anderledes ved det. Masseovervågning + algoritmer + dehumanisering er en virkelig creepy cocktail. pov.international/naza-blotlae...
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NAZA blotlægger Israels krigsmaskine af overvågning og algoritmer • POV International
Dokumentarfilmen "NAZA" viser det israelske system bag bombningen af Gaza frem i al sin gru. Den viser en ny og foruroligende blanding af masseovervågning, algoritmer og dehumanisering, skriver filman...
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Frederik I. Pedersen @3ffip.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
+29.000 jobs uden for landbruget i USA sept. 2026 Konsensus +90.000 Men som @mikaelmilhoj.bsky.social siger i artiklen er usikkerheden +/- 120.000. Så for alle praktiske formål ikke nogen signifikant forskel. Om det er en Fæl skuffelse kan så diskuteres....
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨 Just in: G7 leaders agree on a coordinated release of 100 million barrels over four months, including a "frontloaded substantial diesel release within the first 20 days". Full statement.
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G7 Leaders’ Statement on global energy security and market s
Read the statement.
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 02/10/2026
We will reveal the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize in just one week! Stream the announcement live on www.nobelprize.org. Quick facts: - Number of peace prizes: 106 - Individuals awarded the peace prize: 112 - Organisations awarded the peace prize: 28 - Youngest laureate: 17 - Oldest laureate: 86
Announcement graphic for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, scheduled for 9 October at 11:00 CEST, displayed on a dark green background.
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Søren Torbjørn Svendsen @sorentsvendsen.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Så er mu.social appen klar i butikken 🥳 i en tidlig udgave :) Dette opslag er skrevet fra appen. Og der kan redigeres i opslaget 🙂 (dette er en redering).
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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don't give up. Yes, #GenAI may be a compelling temptation and some students are giving their thinking over to it, in some circumstances. But it doesn't have to be that way. We know how to teach students to think critically and effectively. We can do this. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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How to stay smart in the age of AI: the science of critical thinking
There is growing concern that AI can blunt memory and reasoning. But science shows ways to keep the brain sharp.
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Jan Jensen @janjensen009.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Jeg forstår slet ikke det skøre forslag om at likvidere Radio IIII. Men der er stadig liv, også i Aftalt Spil, som denne gang går tæt på svindlerne i Manchester City. Og vi ærer journalisterne bag afsløringerne og her ikke mindst min ven og kollega, Nick Harris. radio4.dk/podcasts/aft...
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Aftalt spil - Skandalen i Manchester
Da de europæiske klubber for nylig holdt stor generalforsamling i København, sprang der en kæmpe nyhedsbombe: Premier League bekræftede nemlig, at en
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Klima-, Energi- og Forsyningsministeriet @klimaministeriet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
En ny retning for tekstilverdenen. Det nedsatte samarbejde om tekstiler har i dag lanceret en national handlingsplan for tekstiler, der skal skubbe på for mere bæredygtighed. Læs mere her 👇 www.kefm.dk/aktuelt/nyhe...
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The Government of the Faroe Islands @tinganes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🇫🇴🇩🇰🇬🇧 The Faroese phase of Exercise Lion Protector has successfully concluded.
 The JEF-led exercise brought together Faroese authorities, @RoyalMarines & @forsvaretdk to train side by side in Faroese conditions - strengthening cooperation, preparedness & interoperability.
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Europeana @europeana.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This October, for Black History Month, we're inviting you to explore the histories of Black people in Europe and beyond through Europeana's stories, exhibitions and curated collections. 👉 Explore here: www.europeana.eu/black-histor...
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Historielærerforeningen for stx & hf @historielaerer.dk · 02/10/2026
Lex.dk holdt oplæg på årets Historiedidaktik 2.0. Man kan finde folder om hvordan Lex kan bruges, slides fra oplægget samt opfordring til at melde sig til lærerpanelet her: mere.lex.dk/undervisning... #skolechat
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My new JOD piece arguing against the “cure polarization” approach to saving democracy.
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Søren Torbjørn Svendsen @sorentsvendsen.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
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Danske HF & VUC @danskehfogvuc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Vi runder ordblindeugen af med et vigtigt budskab: at vi i dag har ordblindeklasser, betyder ikke, at de også er der i fremtiden. Derfor opfordrer vi politikerne til at sikre, at vi også efter 2030 kan bruge ordblindeundervisning på enkeltfag. Læs mere her:
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Rektor, elev og forperson: Vi taber guld på gulvet, hvis vi fjerner muligheden for at lave ordblindeklasser fra 2030
Regeringen og partierne bag reformen bør bevare muligheden for at bruge ordblindeundervisning sammen med gymnasiale enkeltfag, så ordblindeklasserne kan fortsætte.
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Risto Uuk @ristouuk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I spoke with Lucilla Sioli, Director of the European AI Office at the European Commission, about how the Office is implementing the EU AI Act. This is the latest episode of The EU AI Act Conversations.
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Søren Torbjørn Svendsen @sorentsvendsen.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Ikke helt et klassiisk meme, men stadig et af de bedste nogensinde.
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Rikke Albrechtsen @rikkea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Jeg tror, de leger med ilden." Trump-syndrom, pressede flygtningesystemer og menneskerettighedskvaler var nogle af de ting, der mødte EU-parlamentarikere, da de rejste til Rwanda og Uganda for at se nærmere på kandidater til udrejsecentre #eu www.altinget.dk/eu/artikel/r...
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Rwanda-planer får EU-politikere til at komme med ny advarsel: ”Når jeg ser på de lande, ser jeg en tikkende bombe” - Altinget EU
EU-parlamentarikere har været i Uganda og Rwanda for at høre nyt om de samtaler om mulige udrejsecentre, som flere europæiske lande lige nu fører med dem. De frygter, at aftalerne vil forværre en alle...
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