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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 9h

I have thoughts about Russians' opinions at this stage but I think I'm going to keep them to myself.

Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As thousands of asylum-seekers are on waiting lists for emergency accommodation in Brussels, Belgium's far-right migration minister forces the closure of 130 shelter places just as winter approaches.

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is an utterly shameful decision by the EU, under French pressure. What do they think this signals to Putin?

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Another ridiculous foreign policy debate we don't need and nobody's asked for

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The EU might have to slash its development aid by 40% but what the Commission are worried about – at least per Politico, which is not a trustworthy source – are cuts to its overhead.

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

European Commission President von der Leyen, having made a big show of how Mladić's glorification in Serbia was unacceptable, will skip Belgrade AND SARAJEVO on her Western Balkans tour – in light of their upcoming elections 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If these EU capitals believe that Trump's Sharpie signature is worth anything and will protect them from tariffs, they're completely delusional. There's much to criticize about VDL's presidential style but this is not the time for status quo fetishism or policy inertia.

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

More than a year ago, Germany suspended family reunification for persons with temporary protection. Now there's growing disquiet about the impact on family life even within Germany's governing coalition (in German).

tagesschau.de

Kritik an Aussetzung des Familiennachzugs wächst

Seit mehr als einem Jahr ist der Familiennachzug für subsidiär Schutzberechtigte ausgesetzt. Was das für Betroffene bedeutet und warum es auch innerhalb der Koalition Kritik daran gibt. Von Bianca Sch...

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Good reporting from @nikolajnielsen.bsky.social for @euobserver.com. Just as the Migration & Asylum Pact has entered implementation, the Commission – pushed by member states such as Greece – is already looking how to hollow out the right to protection even further. euobserver.com/237848/von-d...

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

European Commission President choosing to deliver her criticism of Serbia for the Ratko Mladić funeral in French is the most tone-deaf Brussels bubble thing imaginable.

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As always, the far-right ministers in Belgium’s federal government are focused on the questions that really matter to the country.

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Huckabee is obviously completely clueless and merely parroting Dodik’s talking points (if this tweet is even accurate), but this will further inflame the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (and is probably intended to do so).

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A bunch of EU member states have had enough with the European Commission’s foot-dragging over trade with occupied territories. As long as VDL continues shielding Netanyahu such bilateral measures are the main avenue for sanctions.

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

By the time of their next attempt the Commission will get it right

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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“There are certainly individual extreme right politicians, but overall, the AfD is more or less in the political center” Overall, in Sachsen-Anhalt, almost *half of all voters* agree with this statement. Just think about how far the normalization has progressed, 81 years after the end of WWII #ltw

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Belgium’s far-right defense minister claims the AfD’s result is the “legacy” of Merkel’s refugee and energy policies. He has no business commenting on the domestic politics of a neighbor and ally.

X post by Belgium’s defense minister with a bar chart showing the new parliament in Sachsen-Anhalt with his comment that this is Merkel’s legacy

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It’s a terrible idea for European Commission President von der Leyen to visit Serbia in October, just weeks after a quasi-state funeral for a man convicted of genocide and on the eve of a general election. My comments for @rferl.org.web.brid.gy (in Serbian) www.slobodnaevropa.org/a/srbija-eu-...

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Da li je zbog Srbije dovedena u pitanje regionalna turneja Fon der Lajen?

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 04/09/2026

As ministers from #Austria, #Denmark, #Germany, #Greece & #Netherlands discuss offshore #ReturnHubs, they need to commit to the guardrails necessary to prevent setting up human rights black holes: risk assessments, independent monitoring, enforceable rights clauses & public scrutiny. #Migration

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Kurt Bassuener @kurtbassuener.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My @dpcglobal.bsky.social colleague to @guydelauney.bsky.social on Mladic death, particularly on the role of indoctrination via education in BiH in war crimes denialism. 👇

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Still waiting for specifics on these “return hubs.” I’ll believe they can work when they do.

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Emil Kerenji @emilkerenji.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The images and news from Belgrade are sickening. So expected, yet so vomit inducing. How retraumatizing this must be for the victims. Serbia only wields state attributes when the time comes to worship the genocide committed in its name. Nothing more to say. May his memory perish from this earth.

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yarmouk – besieged by Assad, occupied by ISIS, and almost completely destroyed by Putin – is slowly coming back to life. In French.

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The EU faces three immediate foreign policy challenges and one longer-term – each one critical on its own: Palestine, Russia, Trump, China. None of them – not one – would be helped by institutional tinkering. Institutional reform of the EEAS is overdue but it won't solve these problems.

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A Brussels classic: respond to a political challenge with institutional tinkering Raise your hands if you think the EU's foreign policy problems are primarily institutional (Not saying institutional reform isn't needed but it can't be the main, or sole, remedy) www.ft.com/content/1e55...

ft.com

EU accelerates plans to break up diplomatic service

France and Germany drive push for reform as pressure mounts on Brussels to find budget savings

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

One of the most horrific stories I’ve ever reported was published this weekend. Please, everyone privileged in this world, read it and really think about what it means not to have freedom of travel. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

irishtimes.com

‘It was day 13 or 14 when people started dying’: More than 200 set sail for Europe. Only 36 survived

A harrowing story of death and survival on the Atlantic migration route from west Africa, ‘the deadliest in the world’

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Calling BS on this framing (by Springer-owner Politico). A think tank losing a source of income is not "being silenced."

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Good point by Zoran Kusovac: “By giving Ratko Mladić a state funeral with honours, instead of throwing him into a dark pit where he belongs, Serbia is admitting that what he did was done under Serbian orders, which is plain stupidity.”

observer.co.uk

Butcher’s burial: Ratko Mladić pours salt in old wounds, ...

The upcoming state funeral of a man convicted of war crimes is a reminder of how many still deny the Bosnian genocide

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Powerful opinion piece by Nidžara Ahmetašević on how Mladić’s death doesn’t change anything as the fascist project he fought for has prevailed around the world. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Interesting review by @dpcglobal.bsky.social's Kurt Bassuener of a key text on democracy throughout history, plus a look at what lessons it might hold for Trump 2.0

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Not only is the crime of denial everywhere, Vučić – the Europeans' best pal in the region – is giving him a state funeral. Even though Serbia supposedly had nothing to do with the genocide in Bosnia, nothing at all

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Just checked with people who sit at Ghent University's board of governors: Fake News. Disciplinary proceedings against Nathan Cofnas are still ongoing. (Make of the other communication what you will)

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This passage left me baffled. Is the Times suggesting Witkoff and Kushner are normal diplomats? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/u...

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It's almost like the Trump administration is working for Putin

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edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The commander of the UN peacekeeping forces, Thom Karremans, holding a glass of rakija, with smiling Ratko Mladić, while his soldiers were carrying out genocide a few miles away. Srebrenica, July 1995.

Photo of meeting in July 1995 -- Left side Mladić, smiling, 2nd from right Thom Karremans, commander of the UN peacekeeping forces, holding a toast drink while Mladić's soldiers were carrying out genocide a few miles away

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

As sure as night follows day, a minister of the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina has announced a commemoration Sunday in Han Pijesak, Mladić's wartime command post, to "honor the Serbian fighter" (not naming Mladić because that would be war crimes glorification, a crime in Bosnia).

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Ostojić: Naredne nedjelje okupljanje svih koji poštuju lik i djelo srpskog borca (VIDEO)

Ministar rada i boračko-invalidske zaštite Republike Srpske Radan Ostojić najavio je da će u Han Pijesku u nedjelju, 30. avgusta, biti održan sabor na kojem će se okupiti demobilisani borci, ratni voj...

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The leader of the free world will address the European Parliament next month. EU leaders wasted 8 months not heeding Prime Minister Carney's call at Davos for an alliance of middle powers to stand up to the big bullies – the US, China, and Russia.

theglobeandmail.com

Carney to address EU Parliament in push to grow non-U.S. ties

U.S. President Donald Trump repeated his view Wednesday that Canada doesn’t have anything that the U.S. needs

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

More Balkan insanity from Trump-aligned outlets in Washington: "Serbia’s population is largely Christian, and pro-Israel, making them much more aligned with the principles of America than with China or Russia. ... For Israel, a nation that’s regularly treated with contempt by the many...

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J. Olaf Kleist @jolafkleist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

📙 „Europa neu schaffen: Wie wir Flüchtlingsschutz gestalten und Demokratie erhalten” von acht Migrations- und Fluchtforscher*innen gemeinsam verfasst – jetzt gedruckt und ab 26.08.2026 im Buchhandel. www.picus.at/produkt/euro... Vorbestellungen sind bereits möglich!

Foto vom Buchcover "Europa neu schaffen"

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My feelings exactly (not that my feelings are particularly important in these grim times)

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Prof John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Europe: this is how you deal with Trump.

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