Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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In Belgium? This is the COVID app for you. Prenez soin de vous et des autres. Zorg voor jezelf en voor anderen. coronalert.be
Thu 1 Oct 2020 · on Twitter
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Links from the week of 28 September 2020
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Links from the week of 21 September 2020
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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Hard to disagree with this. It seems like a coalition with no separatists in it is determined to prove the separatists’ point, that Belgium no longer works at federal level. plus.lesoir.be/326405/article…
Mon 21 Sep 2020 · on Twitter
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King gives Belgian government negotiators 48h more to finalize new government (after 150+ days, what difference does 2 more make anyway): plus.lesoir.be/326489/article…
Mon 21 Sep 2020 · on Twitter
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« A jouer avec le droit, les démocraties risquent de perdre leur âme » — via @LaMatinale_M lemonde.fr/idees/article/…
Wed 23 Sep 2020 · on Twitter
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Here’s an article for hardcore governance nerds on how the election in the US could be thrown into confusion by badly written laws. (One for you @CfPS_Ed). Fascinating and worrying. lawecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewconten…
Wed 23 Sep 2020 · on Twitter
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Don’t be fooled by remdesivir Trump’s got
She’s still, she’s still Margaret De Block.
Joke by @d4nf0x
Thu 24 Sep 2020 · on Twitter
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62% of Swiss voters, and 19,5 cantons vote against ending free movement with the EU. swissinfo.ch/fre/votations-…
Sun 27 Sep 2020 · on Twitter
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TBF parts of Belgium can’t even work out whether they lay claim to themselves (love ya…
TBF parts of Belgium can’t even work out whether they lay claim to themselves (love ya, though, 🇧🇪😘) h/t @lituainianach)
Delighted to see there’s no revanchism in the Grand Duchy, @LucDockendorf
Sorry, wait. What’s the deal with Ireland there? I’m reasonably sure that quite a few Irish people would say that the North is … I’m not going to get into that.
Wait, and the Western Balkans. Something’s not quite right here…
Originally posted as a thread of 4 tweets on Twitter on 18 September 2020. View the original thread.
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Links from the week of 14 September 2020
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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Britain breaking international law: inside the Overton window.
Britain being part of a democratic union with 27 of its neighbours, building the unity of its own continent: outside the Overton window.
ft.com/content/e3e26a…You would think that if there is one thing we’ve learned in the last two decades, it’s that reasonable compromise with nationalists is neither possible nor desirable, because they always find new grievances. Clearly not.
Wed 16 Sep 2020 · on Twitter
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Moi non plus mais… plus.lesoir.be/325350/article…
Wed 16 Sep 2020 · on Twitter
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31 December will mark the end of a beautiful dream of European unity: dhnet.be/regions/bruxel…
Thu 17 Sep 2020 · on Twitter
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So the party that drove the creation of Europe’s single market is now a Fidesz clone…
So the party that drove the creation of Europe’s single market is now a Fidesz clone, smashing up laws, delegitimising opposition and feeding off hardline nationalism. twitter.com/Conservatives/…
If you’re watching this from Brussels (well, from one of the bits of Brussels where you have the power to do things about it, unlike my living room) how can you look at this and see a potential partner, now or in the future?
And if you’re looking at it from Dublin or Belfast, how can you think other than this U.K. government wants a hard border on your island, no matter what the cost?
Originally posted as a thread of 3 tweets on Twitter on 14 September 2020. View the original thread.
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Links from the week of 7 September 2020
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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Pendant deux mois, que 1.500 PVs pour les sans-masques sur la territoire du @VilleBruxelles. J’en vois dizaines par jour, la police rate une bonne affaire. plus.lesoir.be/323507/article…
Mon 7 Sep 2020 · on Twitter
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You’d have to say that the Treasury Solicitor (more important than it sounds) quitting is a sign that UK is in “deliberately breaking international law” territory, rather than @GeorgePeretzQC‘s more hopeful saber-rattling scenario from yesterday. ft.com/content/6186bf…
Tue 8 Sep 2020 · on Twitter
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This is a good speech by @RobertBuckland gov.uk/government/spe…
Tue 8 Sep 2020 · on Twitter
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Links from the week of 31 August 2020
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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If I had a euro for every time someone asked me why @demsoc doesn’t have a podcast, I’d have … well, let’s not get hung up on the details. Just listen to our @_AnnieCook_ talking to @CorynBarclay about participatory budgeting in #fife overcast.fm/+SESF_j9rg
Mon 31 Aug 2020 · on Twitter
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.@jeremydoku is absolutely ace by @tmkz9 on @totalfriteball link.medium.com/NgyutUwPq9
Tue 1 Sep 2020 · on Twitter
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Cheering on Great Britain’s voice of trade in his battle against the evil forces of *checks notes* old people and *turns over page* doctors. theguardian.com/australia-news…
Wed 2 Sep 2020 · on Twitter
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David Graeber, ugh. 59 is no age. RIP. nrc.nl/nieuws/2020/09…
Thu 3 Sep 2020 · on Twitter
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Sure it’s an ad but I liked this video with Arno and Zwangere Guy. Particularly since Arno still being around is such a (happy) surprise. youtu.be/jF1Wxmqxt8k
Thu 3 Sep 2020 · on Twitter
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Headline is a bit clickbaity – interesting on the need for a European public sphere, though in honesty I’m not sure a new social network is a slam-dunk. dw.com/en/johannes-hi…
Sun 6 Sep 2020 · on Twitter
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Nationalists love the problem of multiple demoi. Democrats try to solve it. plus.lesoir.be/323237/article…
Sun 6 Sep 2020 · on Twitter
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I thought it was interesting that @egbertlachaert specifically set 2030 as the planning…
I thought it was interesting that @egbertlachaert specifically set 2030 as the planning horizon for the next government. Triple significance: 1. Two election cycles so they clearly want to build a relationship that lasts (and with 80 seats if standaard.be/cnt/dmf2020090…
they can pull back the nationalists and far right/left in 2024 they could get a very comfortable majority; 2. significant climate change action will need to have happened by then, particularly around cars; 3. 2030 is Belgium’s 200th anniversary, by using that date
specifically they distinguish from the nationalist parties who will almost certainly not want it acknowledged or celebrated – while they can put forward a vision of a modernised country (with a constitutional reform at the point of the 2024 election bedded in).
Not that this means it will all happen, but after the last two years of drift it’s a welcome level of ambition. Will be looking to see what @PaulMagnette and Conner Rousseau can achieve on the social democratic side of the ledger with the Greens.
Originally posted as a thread of 4 tweets on Twitter on 5 September 2020. View the original thread.
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Interesting – though you have the connected-vessels problem that the more potential power…
Interesting – though you have the connected-vessels problem that the more potential power it has, the more its field of action will be constrained. t.co/sdNo7W7Wxr
I agree that treaty changes are needed, but they probably need to emerge from a broad process in the Conference (particularly the citizen parts where I suspect citizens will want a more streamlined Europe than nation state governments do).
I think if we get stuck on treaty changes as the goal, rather than the treaty as a mechanism to bring about particular policy and governance goals for Europe, we end up with something that inspires 600 people in Brussels and no-one else.
Originally posted as a thread of 3 tweets on Twitter on 4 September 2020. View the original thread.
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This is a good article but it’s not “squeaky bum time” or any other matey football…
This is a good article but it’s not “squeaky bum time” or any other matey football metaphor. It is a serious supply chain crisis that is the deliberate consequence of the Government’s choices, and which voters in the referendum were told would not happen. twitter.com/Joe_Mayes/stat…
The fact that the Government was elected and its leading members won a referendum makes it worse not better because the prospectus they sold was clearly false. The next few months are an accountability moment – and the UK political/media system needs to step up to it.
As we’re seeing in the US, Hungary and Poland, political systems are not broken by individual actions, they are broken when systems don’t defend themselves by delivering accountability for damaging actions.
Originally posted as a thread of 3 tweets on Twitter on 3 September 2020. View the original thread.