Maarten Vink

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · Nov 13

Good morning and blue skies over Villa Schifanoia!

Welcome to everyone new on BlueSky and 🙏 for following me.

Short intro: I am a 🇳🇱 prof at the #EUI 🇪🇺 based at a beautiful campus in the hills outside Florence 🇮🇹. I am a #polsky by training and interested in all about #citizenship #migcitsky.

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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project

You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!

⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 1d

💯 agree. The VAR offside lines need 95% confidence intervals.

Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 1d

Team hiking’s company and lunch surely difficult to beat today 😉

Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 1d

Check out this trail from @Wikiloc! loc.wiki/t/239544658?... (Monteloro)

Monteloro

Monteloro Hiking trail in . Download its GPS track and follow the itinerary on a map. Monteloro loop, passing by Seminario di San Filippo Neri. Start/end at parcheggio. Lunch at Ristorante da Orlando.

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 1d

Another gorgeous autumn day in the hills around Florence 🍂

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

🚨BREAKING: A civil rights organization sued the Trump administration Saturday over a new policy barring nonprofits from helping new U.S. citizens register to vote. The lawsuit calls the policy part of a “broader effort to ensure that new Americans cannot exert their democratic will on the nation.”

Lawsuit Blasts Trump’s Bid to Keep New Citizens From Registering to Vote

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 2d

📝 New Blog on the MER dataset

What is the state of migrant electoral rights across the globe❓ by Hannah Segers

🌍📊 MER shows that while more countries grant migrants voting and candidacy rights, millions remain excluded, highlighting inequalities in democratic participation 🗳️

tinyurl.com/2uye2frs

What is the state of migrant electoral rights across the globe? - Globalcit

Hannah Segers (University of Vienna) In an increasingly interconnected world, migration continues to transform societies, economies, and political landscapes. With around 300 million people living out...

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 3d

This is accurate.

Here is a serious and rigorous analysis in @thelancet.com, backing up the claim. —> www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 4d

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 3d

thanks for the Friday fun @podmalm.bsky.social 😂

Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 3d

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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 3d

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 3d

Here a link to the article with the corrected Figure 1: www.bruegel.org/first-glance...

The real obstacle to EU capital market integration is unreformed pension systems

Private pension savings in EU countries are limited by pension system design, meaning far less money than there could be for capital market investment

www.bruegel.org

Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 3d

Good to see that @bruegel.org now corrected the labels in this plot. But not very classy to just delete the original post and ignore a friendly comment pointing out a possible error. That's not how we (should) do things here @bsky.app. People make errors so just acknowledge and correct.

Original Figure 1 with red bars labelled as Private/Funded entitlements

Corrected version of Figure 1 with red bars labelled as Unfunded entitlements

Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 3d

Really, what is wrong with people?

In Finland, persons who do not have any income other than unemployment benefit or social assistance will no longer be eligible to naturalize.

@globalcit.bsky.social

www.dailyfinland.fi/national/457...

Finland further tightens citizenship law

The four-party alliance government led by the Kansallinen Kokoomus (National Coalition Party-NCP) further tightened the requirements for acquiring Finnish citizenship. The

www.dailyfinland.fi

Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 4d

I think the colour/labels are mixed up in this plot. The red bars should denote the ‘Unfunded entitlements’, not? The Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark are countries with high private/funded entitlements. See also Figure 2.

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Migration & Global Governance Research Group(MiGo) @migo-ceu.bsky.social · 4d

📢 Event alert 📢

Join us for a lecture by Rainer Bauböck, in which he builds on a recent debate at @globalcit.bsky.social by exploring the motives behind reparative citizenship and its normative value."

📍 D109 Central European University, Vienna
📅 01 December 2025 | 10:50 am

Reparative Citizenship: Offering Membership as Compensation for Historic Injustice

events.ceu.edu

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 5d

Full moon over Florence 🌕

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Jo Shaw @joshaw.bsky.social · 5d

Are you a PhD or early career researcher in EU law and politics? Come to the Europa Institute of the University of Edinburgh to give a paper at our PhD/ECR Workshop on the topic of "Defending the European Union". Dates: 23-24 April 2026. Details here: www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 5d

Citizenship in the News 📰🇪🇸

Spain grants citizenship to descendants of civil war’s International Brigades: About 32,000 volunteered to fight Franco dictatorship

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Spain grants citizenship to descendants of civil war’s International Brigades

About 32,000 volunteered to fight Franco dictatorship, including 2,500 men and women from Britain and Ireland

www.theguardian.com

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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 5d

Applications are now open for the UCD Iseult Honohan Doctoral Scholarship 2026!

📚 Full PhD funding in Politics & International Relations or Quantitative and Computational Social Science at University College Dublin

🕔 Deadline: 30 Jan 2026, 5 pm (Dublin)

www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...

Iseult Honohan Doctoral Scholarship - UCD School of Politics and International Relations

www.ucd.ie

Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 6d

Dank, goed om te horen.

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 6d

Zojuist reactie ingediend bij de internetconsultatie voor zeer problematische wetsvoorstel om de verblijfstermijn voor naturalisatie te verlengen van vijf naar tien (!) jaar.

Hopelijk verdwijnt dit in de prullenbak zodra er een nieuwe regering is. Bij deze argumenten daarvoor.

lnkd.in/ddJeFyjt

Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 7d

Via Boccaccio 🍂

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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 7d

✨ GLOBALCIT Seminar ✨

Join Eline Westra as she explores Surinamese-Dutch resistance to dispersal policies in the 1970s–80s and their broader implications for race, community, and integration in the 🇳🇱

🗓️ Thur 6 Nov 2025 | 12:00–13:00 CET
📍 Schifanoia, Mansarda

Register 🔗 tinyurl.com/3hbf4jxa

Resisting dispersal: alternative visions on diversity and community in postcolonial Netherlands

Join Eline Westra as she explores Surinamese-Dutch resistance to dispersal policies in the 1970s–80s and their broader implications for race, community, and integration in the Netherlands.

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 7d

If you're in Florence this week, join us on Thursday @eui-eu.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social for this month's citizenship seminar on Resisting dispersal: alternative visions on diversity and community in postcolonial Netherlands, with Eline Westra (Leiden Uni).

www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

Resisting dispersal: alternative visions on diversity and community in postcolonial Netherlands

Join Eline Westra as she explores Surinamese-Dutch resistance to dispersal policies in the 1970s–80s and their broader implications for race, community, and integration in the Netherlands.

www.eui.eu

Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 9d

Not so great after all

Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 10d

This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”"

www.prb.org/resources/se...

Graph showing life expectancy trends in 23 higher income countries between 1980 and 2024. Life expectancy increased over time in all countries. In 1980, the US is in the middle of the pack, but their life expectancy gains were slower than that of other countries, and by around 2002, the US had the lowest life expectancy of all countries. Over the next 20 years, US life expectancy increasingly tracks away from the trajectories of other countries, as their life expectancy stalls while other countries life expectancy continues to climb

Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 9d

Making the American Passport Less Great

The US, which topped the index in 2014, has dropped out of the top ten for the first time since the Henley Passport ranking began in 2006.

www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 9d

From yesterday: Briefing: immigration and nationality options for children in care | Nath Gbikpi

Briefing: immigration and nationality options for children in care - Free Movement

This post looks at the options for regularising the immigration status of a child in care. Some options are open to all children, while others are

freemovement.org.uk

Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 10d

How to alienate people and lose human capital.

John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 10d

NEW from me:

Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.

That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027!

📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences

Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!

Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd

#EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity

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