Markus Haverland
mhaverland.bsky.social
Markus Haverland
@mhaverland.bsky.social

Political Science Prof|Erasmus University Rotterdam|European Union Politics and Policy

Political science 66%
Business 11%
Great @theguardian.com piece by @catherinedevries.bsky.social:

"attention itself has become a strategic battlefield of int'l politics.
Attention wars aren't won by reacting faster.
They're won by deciding what deserves focus.
Europe (..) needs to outplan" Trump.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump wants our attention. Let’s stop falling for his geopolitical clickbait | Catherine De Vries
Whether he’s targeting Greenland, tariffs or Iran, Trump’s agenda is to distract – because a Europe that is always reacting is never planning, says political scientist Catherine De Vries
www.theguardian.com
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

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This one is making the rounds.

But after a tense 🇪🇺 vs 🇺🇸 week it is needed.

Healthier, less poor, fairer, more equitable, safer.

🇪🇺 not perfect. But pretty good!
Amazing chart with horrible acronyms - for the first time in my living memory, unemployment in Northern Europe and Southern Europe seems to have converged. Seemed unthinkable during the Eurozone crisis.
Captain it's Wednesday
Official confirmation is now here - exploration team to land already tomorrow:
Official confirmation of German participation in European troop deployment to Greenland. First Bundeswehr soldiers to arrive tomorrow. 🇪🇺 / NATO solidarity in action.
One of my favorite clips about the Mercator projection:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-...
Joint statement by 4 former officials in Democratic and Republican Administrations—including four NATO Ambassadors, 3 Assistant Secretaries of State for Europe, and 3 NSC Senior Directors.

Excellent opening in particular.
America’s Strategic Alliance with Denmark and NATO
A statement by 14 former officials in Democratic and Republican Administrations—including four NATO Ambassadors, 3 Assistant Secretaries of State for Europe, and 3 NSC Senior Directors
newsletter.ivodaalder.com
Fun fact for a pub quiz for EU nerds:

Made the calculation for today's Mercosur vote. It is not only unusual for such a major step to be adopted just above the threshold for an absolute majority. It is also the first case I could find where the old, pre 2014 weighted votes would have produced a No.
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

So true!
Talking about political events when writing a polisci paper:

"while the general relationship may be multicausal, I can offer a compelling causal argument and robust evidence for why X causes Y."

Talking about political events when talking to journalists:

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Talking about political events when writing a polisci paper:

"while the general relationship may be multicausal, I can offer a compelling causal argument and robust evidence for why X causes Y."

Talking about political events when talking to journalists:

Extremely relevant publication of a colleague of mine. Could not be more timely!
Today Europe’s Nuclear Umbrella is officially out.
The book examines how nuclear sharing is contested across Europe, and why governments stick with these policies even when they’re deeply unpopular.
www.cambridge.org/nl/universit...
Europe's Nuclear Umbrella | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org

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If you’re in The Hague: join the official book launch on 10 February 2026.
I’ll be discussing the book with Sico van der Meer, Michaele de Goeij, and Linde Desmaele.

More info: www.eur.nl/en/essb/even...
Book Launch: Europe’s Nuclear Umbrella
On Tuesday 10 February 2026, Dr. Michal Onderco will present his latest book “Europe’s Nuclear Umbrella”, recently published by Cambridge University Press.
www.eur.nl

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Today Europe’s Nuclear Umbrella is officially out.
The book examines how nuclear sharing is contested across Europe, and why governments stick with these policies even when they’re deeply unpopular.
www.cambridge.org/nl/universit...
Europe's Nuclear Umbrella | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
The Donroe Doctrine: Extortion, Extraction, Exploitation (and Extradition, if needed).
The Trump doctrine exposes the US as a mafia state | Jan-Werner Müller
The Venezuela incursion is in line with this logic, made even plainer as the US eyes Greenland
www.theguardian.com
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."

surreal times

dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
With the decision to make available a €90 billion loan to Ukraine, the EU has lived up to its commitment to continue supporting the country.

Will this be sufficient for Ukraine to win the war? No.

But still, the European Council of 18 Dec. warrants cautious optimism.

Why?👇
Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇

Working on EU economic governance, competitiveness, monetary or fiscal policy? Join us at the SGEU Conference in Catania! One week left to submit a panel/paper proposal.

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🌍 #SGEU26 @ecprsgeu.bsky.social Section seeking Panels & Papers
💰 Economic Governance, Competitiveness, Monetary and Fiscal Policy
🪑 Fabio Franchino & @mhaverland.bsky.social
⌛⬇️ Deadline: 10 Dec buff.ly/6FuqLhw

#EU #CallforProposals #Polisky
Economic Governance, Competitiveness, Monetary and Fiscal Policy
13th Biennial Conference of the Standing Group on the European Union, 1 – 3 July 2026, Università di Catania
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🤩 Party positions in the 2024 European Parliament 🇪🇺!
I merged the CHES expert survey with EP composition data to visualize the political space of the current EP. The graphs make the center of gravity in the EP quite clear, on multiple dimensions and policy issues.
dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/

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This is an excellent thread on the polls and the upcoming Dutch elections by one of the foremost scholars of Dutch politics @tomlouwerse.nl 👇
This is the final 'poll of polls' before the Dutch elections. Three parties at the same level, and two more not much smaller. Given the high percentage of late deciders and voters in doubt, the outcome is still very much uncertain. 🧵
The Peilingwijzer poll of polls for the Netherlands has been updated to include the latest polls of Verian/EenVandaag and Ipsos I&O.

📊 📈 All graphs & figures: https://peilingwijzer.tomlouwerse.nl/
Driven by fear of the far right, the EU is losing its compass, whether on migration, climate or Gaza. By undermining its own principles, Europe weakens its global position and risks losing not just dignity but political agency.

With @jannikjansen.bsky.social:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If Europe keeps placating its own far right, how can it possibly stand up to Trump? | Thu Nguyen and Jannik Jansen
European leaders’ weakness is undermining the democratic principles on which the EU was built, say Thu Nguyen and Jannik Jansen from the Jacques Delors Centre
www.theguardian.com

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Excellent!

“Counting U.S.-led buys on the list … the total comes to about €6.8 billion, around 8 percent of Berlin’s plan, with the rest overwhelmingly going to European industry.”

www.politico.eu/article/germ...
Germany’s €80B rearmament plan sidelines US weapons
A procurement plan obtained by POLITICO shows Berlin’s rearmament spree will overwhelmingly benefit European industry.
www.politico.eu
LUBACH @lubach.nl · Sep 19
Jimmy Kimmel’s show has been cancelled - The New Disney #Trump #JimmyKimmel #Disney #LUBACH
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11
In de eerste weken van de verkiezingscampagne zien we weer te veel voorbeelden waarin peilingen verkeerd gebruikt worden door interviewers, duiders, en journalisten.

Daarom hierbij tien vuistregels om de peilingen wijzer te duiden, en om elkaar op aan te spreken.

stukroodvlees.nl/peilingen-du...
Peilingen duiden: 10 essentiële vuistregels voor duiders - StukRoodVlees
Zetelpeilingen worden vaak misbruikt. Een tiental vuistregels om je publiek niet voor te liegen met non-nieuws.
stukroodvlees.nl