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Ville Savoranta

@villesavoranta.bsky.social
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Knowledge & lessons officer at the European External Action Service (EEAS). Crisis management, political geography, EU in the world. Occasional musings on dad stuff and serious/fun games.

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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Sad news from the US, as Tom Lehrer has passed away and now we've lost the greatest political-musical satirist of all time. Though admittedly this is not a huge genre. And to think he made all his songs in 15 or so years over half a century ago. I'm still listening. youtu.be/EJAD2csTQ8A?...
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Tom Lehrer | “Who’s Next”
YouTube video by Musical Comedy
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Elsa ja Helsingin Sanomat kysyivät vaikeita, kiitos siitä! Juhlistin vastaukseni lopussa vielä suomalaista laajan turvallisuuden yhteistyötä, mikä jäi pois näköjään.
hs.fi
Lasten tiedekysymykset | Mikä on maailman vaarallisin maa?
Lasten tiedekysymykset kertoo myös, miten bakteerit ja virukset liikkuvat, miksi isovarvas on muita varpaita isompi ja miksi kalat eivät tule vedessä ruttuisiksi.
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Its not just Russia. The push to defund the BBC, the Finnish YLE, US NPR etc is all part of an international illiberal movement, whose leaders sit not just in the Kremlin, but also in the white house and even in the Finnish government.
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Excellent read two months before my own parental leave. States ❤️
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
European rearmament might be a lot easier if we had not scrapped the WEU as a defence alliance 14 years ago. Potential lesson there on terminating international governance structures that could instead be just suspended.
en.m.wikipedia.org
Western European Union - Wikipedia
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
We either pivot hard now for european sovereignty, and support Ukraine, or try to muddle through the Trump term and get pulled into the same decline the US is facing.
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Simple steps for european digital sovereignty.
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This is starting to look like state capture.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
It is not Zelensky and Ukraine that should be thanking the West. It is the West that should be thanking Zelensky and Ukraine.
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I said this half jokingly, but now with even Friedrich Mertz comparing interference from the US to that from Russia, we should see a broader defence against disinformation and cognitive warfare, even from the US. Right? Yeah not holding my breath.
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Mood at work today:
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Edward Hunter Christie @ehunterchristie.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
1-4 On the Trump Admin's approach to Ukraine: Here are the elements of US pressure against Kyiv we've seen: - Time pressure - No NATO prospect - No troops - Proposal to grab UA's minerals with nothing in exchange - No clarity on weapons - USAID support stopped
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
With the redeployment of EUBAM Rafah after 17 years, the EU is using a civilian mission as a very focused crisis management tool with direct impact through the medical evacuations.
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Topical conference, just 10 kilometers from the russian border. At 80 years, I wonder if is it new or old?
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I would have maybe waited to hear Trumps inaugural speech before posting this…
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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Now more than ever, it’s imperative that we stop using the misnomer ‘natural disasters’. Humans have their fingerprints all over the LA catastrophe.
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
These russian cable cutting ops have at least demonstrated the fragility of international governance. We’ve had treaties protecting submarine cables since the 1880s, yet can’t do much when their not respected.
nytimes.com
Finland Seizes Ship After Undersea Power Cable to Estonia Is Cut
The country’s prime minister said the incident, the latest in a series of disruptions to undersea infrastructure, underscored the danger of a so-called Russian shadow fleet.
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Good to see that we are finally addressing the regional cliques in EU security and defence, but these differences run deep enough to not be solved with a few meetings and pressers.
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Poikkeuksellinen mahdollisuus päästä komentamaan ja nakittamaan meikäläistä, kunhan palaan joskus Suomeen. Toki muutamaa muutakin maailmanrauhan maalailijaa.
cmcfinland.fi
Kriisinhallintakeskuksessa avoinna johtajan virka - CMC Finland
Sisäministeriön yhteydessä toimivassa Kriisinhallintakeskuksessa on haettavana johtajan virka, joka täytetään enintään viiden vuoden määräajaksi. Virka pyritään täyttämään 1.3.2025 alkaen tai sopimuks...
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RE-ENGAGE @re-engage.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
RE-ENGAGE is now on Bluesky! We are a Horizon Europe-funded project exploring how the EU can refine its foreign policy toolbox to promote democracy and resilience in its neighbourhood during times of war and geopolitical tensions. Follow us for news, events and publications: re-engaging.eu
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Key post for understanding (and advising!) the future of European security. There’s more to #CSDP than just defence 😉
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
2,5 years in to the war and were still addicted to Russian gas. What a failure.
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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I agree with both of them. JEF leaders, who met in Tallinn this week, said that Ukraine’s victory is vital to all our security. They’re right - but most European governments, including the UK’s, aren’t acting as though they agree. With Trump about to take office, Europe needs to step up, quickly.
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Question for 2025 to follow-up on; is the EU different, or will its contribution to crisis management and peace support further diminish as the Union focuses on its own security? Obviously this has already been a trend since 2015 to some degree.
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Looking to see here, who we recognize in Syria…
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Lot of discussion on the EU response to developments in Syria. Might be a good time to revisit this report from a few years back, comparing approaches in Iraq and Syria, including #CSDP deployment…
clingendael.org
Band-aids, not bullets
This report analyzes the relevance of the foreign policy interventions of the European Union institutions (Council, Commission and External Action Service) in the Syrian and Iraqi civil wars in the br...
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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The end of Assad’s dictatorship is a positive and long-awaited development. It also shows the weakness of Assad’s backers, Russia and Iran. Our priority is to ensure security in the region. I will work with all the constructive partners, in Syria and in the region.
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I’m looking at this in the middle of Brussels and missing the green bits 🥹
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
If the EU still holds ambition as a global actor, it should take on the mantle of building this movement by practically operationalising the Unions core values in its foreign policy.
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Another sign that Europe needs to clean house if it really wants to promote its values in the world. Sorry for the pun.
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The fact that the EEAS is unable to reliably stream Kaja Kallases inaugural address to staff to EU delegations is a demonstration of just how basic things we need to improve on.
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Hey its us!
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Let’s see if the georgian governments pivot impacts the EU monitoring mission. 16 years on the ground.
eumm.eu
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European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Exactly the type of practice the EU should also foster through civilian #CSDP missions as part of security sector reform. But for some reason we don’t.
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
It hasn’t been a fun year. ”The proposed cuts come after the EU’s External Action Service (EEAS), the bloc’s diplomatic arm, blew past its budget for 2024. It was on track to do even worse next year thanks to rising costs and inflation, forcing reductions.”
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
How unfortunate.
semafor.com
Bluesky boom worries Chinese media | Semafor
State outlets, which put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Musk’s social media platform, have recently seen their growth plateau.
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Tobias Pietz @topietz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Is there something like "FollowFriday" here on #Bluesky? Or a "Starter Pack Friday" rather? We'll as I have updated this one, I am sharing it, again. #FF #PeaceOperations #CrisisManagement #Peacebuilding #Peacekeeping #EU #UN #AU Tell me if I miss anyone in this massive increase of users lately.
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Euroopan rajalla? @euroopanrajalla.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Istanbul governor is punishing everyone by closing metro stations and tram stops in Beyoğlu in order to prevent women from marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Incredibly sad. www.gazeteduvar.com.tr/istanbulda-b...
gazeteduvar.com.tr
İstanbul'da bazı metro ve tramvay istasyonları kapatılacak
İstanbul'da, 25 Kasım Kadına Yönelik Şiddete Karşı Uluslararası Mücadele Günü kapsamında kadınlar Beyoğlu'na eylem çağrısı yaparken İstanbul Valiliği metro hatlarını kapatma kararı aldı.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/11/2024
Fires, first aid and guns: meet the Finnish women training for war with Russia
theguardian.com
Fires, first aid and guns: meet the Finnish women training for war with Russia
Anxious Finns are learning how to survive in the wild in preparation for an invasion by their hostile neighbour It is Friday night on a forested military base in western Finland. A group of women dressed in camouflage with matching purple beanie hats…
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
You can get anything you want…
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
In case interested; the EU commission is looking for scientific research administrators in several fields. Deadline for applications is December 10th.
eu-careers.europa.eu
Scientific research administrators | EU Careers
Do you have experience in scientific research? Would you like to start an international career within a multicultural and diverse team? If yes, then read on.
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
With all the negative climate related news lately, I’m reminded of the failure of priorities in the current guidance on environmental and climate aspects in EU civilian #CSDP. Instead of integrating the topic in our SSR mandates, we’re mainly focusing on our own footprint.
coe-civ.eu
Operational Guidelines for Integrating Environmental and Climate Aspects into Civilian CSDP Missions
These guidelines are a follow-up to the 2020 Climate Change and Defence Roadmap and aim to provide a basic toolbox for the integration of environmental and climate aspects into civilian CSDP missions....
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Let’s see how many state parties will respect and support the warrants?
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I’m very curious of the para on cooperation in CSDP in the partnership declaration. Japanese personnel in EU CSDP operations?
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
While the focus is still very much on the armed conflict in Ukraine, we should recognize the wider and more longlasting societal and value struggle that the fighting is a part of. Well supported and engaged civil society is a key pillar in that struggle.
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I guess it’s time to give bluesky another try. 🤗
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Ville Savoranta @villesavoranta.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
Had a chat with the DCAF about youth, peace and security. I’m still amazed how state-centric peace operations and other crisis management interventions still are, considering the demographics of many countries where they operate.
open.spotify.com
Donors Talk SSR – Youth, peace, and security
Listen to this episode from DCAF - Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance on Spotify. This episode features Ville Savoranta, Policy Officer with the Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability (CP...
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