Absolutely flabbergasted by the cowardice of the Commission. No matter why the President is afraid of 'provoking' Orban, there's no justification for actively choosing not to stand up for the rule of law & fundamental rights.

Reporting by @euractiv.com and @krmcsngr.bsky.social for @politico.eu

From pariah to leading "the mainstream" on migration, alongside PMs Mette Frederiksen, Donald Tusk, and many others. The fast journey of Giorgia Meloni on the world stage...

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

In der ZEIT gibt es eine umfassende Recherche zu den neuen Babyglatzen, die schwer an die 90er erinnern und jeder, der auf antifaschistischen Demos etc. unterwegs ist, schon bemerkt hat. Das solltet ihr lesen, daher Geschenklink:

www.zeit.de/2025/17/deut...

[OUT] 'Reversing the Privatisation of the Public Sphere: Democratic Alternatives to the EU’s Regulation of Disinformation', new paper by @alvarooleart.bsky.social, FNRS postdoc at SciencePo ULB (Cevipol) in collab with Julia Rone, in Media and Communication
www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

🎯 How can political parties genuinely connect with young people?
After the 2024 European elections, it's clear that youth engagement—primarily online—needs a serious rethink.
🧵 A short thread on our latest piece for Social Europe ⬇️
📘 Read the full article:
www.socialeurope.eu/why-young-vo...

Reactionary centrism has been crucial in legitimizing the far right. They don’t only share a rejection of a truly inclusive democracy, but also a tendency to debate in bad faith. And yet, many liberals continue to engage with them, giving them legitimacy and amplifying their voice.

„Auch ich legte Blumen ab…auf dem Weg zum Bahnhof kamen mir so viele Menschen entgegen … mit Blumen in der Hand und Tränen in den Augen. Ich bin noch einmal umgekehrt. Noch einmal einfach nebeneinanderstehen. Zusammen traurig sein.“
🙏für den Text @valschnian.bsky.social

www.zeit.de/2024/55/ansc...

1️⃣ Recent media coverage in prominent English-speaking outlets suggests a growing divide between young women and men in political attitudes and voting behaviour. The simplified narrative is that young men drift right while young women lean left. But is this the case?
open.spotify.com/episode/4E2Z...

① 🚀 Policy Study Launch: From Post to Polls. 📅 Last Thursday, we unveiled the latest policy study examining how political parties engaged young voters on social media during the 2024 European election campaign and whether those efforts paid off. 📖 feps-europe.eu/publication/...

🏛️🧵The new Commission is describing threats to European democracy as mostly stemming from hostile foreign governments and playing out in the online information space. 1/

🚨🗳️ #Romania annulled its presidential election after allegations of a coordinated social media campaign boosted a pro-Russian candidate. In this @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social piece, DFRLab's @markscott.bsky.social unpacks how TikTok and others amplified the effort, much of it legal.

bit.ly/41tGzWS

With the annulment of the elections in Romania 🇷🇴 the request of the @ec.europa.eu to ‘freeze’ and hand over TikTok data to probe electoral interference has become even more important. #dataaccess

ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

TikTok violated the #DSA - again.

We found:

🚨 48 NEW murky accounts impersonating Călin Georgescu
🚨 49 political ads, violating TikTok's own policy

They were easy to find. So why wasn’t TikTok proactive⁉️

Details 👉 bit.ly/3OEOUza

@stiftungmercator.bsky.social

At the European Economic and Social Committee, with vital discussions on the central democracy-related project for the 2024-2029 European Commission. Together, we can forge a stronger and deeper European democracy. Forging the Democratic Shield! @epde.bsky.social #EuropeanDemocracy

Class consciousness still shapes voting, but in a different way than in the past. That's the key finding of a study with @thomaslux.bsky.social now out in English.

We chart how class identity, interests and status link with voting for the left and right in Germany. A🧵
library.fes.de/pdf-files/a-...

8. What I have come to realize, however, is that the fight against the far right is secondary to the fight to strengthen liberal democracy. These are related but fundamentally not the same struggles.

Das ist so gscheit, was die @nataschastrobl.bsky.social hier schreibt, unbedingt lesen!! Fehlt nur noch ein Follow-up-Artikel zur Rolle der Medien, und die Analyse ist komplett.

Die Politik hat in der Migration einen gefährlichen Kurswechsel vollzogen: Er verändert nichts an der Zuwanderung, verschlechtert aber die Integrationschancen für Geflüchtete.

Meine neue Kolumne:

www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...