Jacob Öberg
@profjacob.bsky.social
PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social; Professor in EU Law/Deputy HoD at @sdu.dk. EU & #brexit nerd. #Ukraine supporter. Member @ec.europa.eu's expert group on EU Crim Policy. Author of "Normative Foundations of EU Criminal Justice" @hartpublishing.bsky.social
Pinned
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Wherein “free speech” is the ability to fly swastikas and sieg-heil in public, but not to protest and video-type jack-booted thugs trampling all over human rights, due process, and the rule of law. I’m sure Europeans will be thrilled!
🚨🚨 "Surprise, surprise". 👇👇
FT exclusive:
“The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.”
via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues
“The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.”
via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues
February 9, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Wherein “free speech” is the ability to fly swastikas and sieg-heil in public, but not to protest and video-type jack-booted thugs trampling all over human rights, due process, and the rule of law. I’m sure Europeans will be thrilled!
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🚨🚨" Some leaders have chosen to hunt them down and deport them through operations that are both unlawful and cruel. My government has chosen a different way: a fast and simple path to regularize their immigration status." Spanish PM Pedro #Sanchez on why #migrants are essential for Western society:
February 6, 2026 at 7:50 AM
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Trumpfler's Masterplan revealed:
Mach' Europa wieder Nazi!
Mach' Europa wieder Nazi!
🚨🚨 "Surprise, surprise". 👇👇
FT exclusive:
“The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.”
via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues
“The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.”
via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues
February 6, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Trumpfler's Masterplan revealed:
Mach' Europa wieder Nazi!
Mach' Europa wieder Nazi!
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Good EU news. Thanks @profjacob.bsky.social. What should the head of government of an EU country do where about half a million people live who are indispensable for the daily life of everyone? They work in care, in companies, in agriculture, and integrate into community life.
February 8, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Good EU news. Thanks @profjacob.bsky.social. What should the head of government of an EU country do where about half a million people live who are indispensable for the daily life of everyone? They work in care, in companies, in agriculture, and integrate into community life.
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However, they don't have a residence permit. They don't have the same rights as citizens nor the same duties. There are quick and uncomplicated ways out of this dilemma. Spain's way is to grant up to half a million undocumented migrants temporary residence permits
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Excellent @nytimes.com opinion piece offering both pragmatic and morally compelling reasons why Spain has chosen a different path than many other Western societies in addressing immigration and migration countering the despicable #maga narrative : www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
Opinion | I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:36 AM
However, they don't have a residence permit. They don't have the same rights as citizens nor the same duties. There are quick and uncomplicated ways out of this dilemma. Spain's way is to grant up to half a million undocumented migrants temporary residence permits
bsky.app/profile/prof...
bsky.app/profile/prof...
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As goes the Washington Post: US democracy takes another hit under Trump
@theguardian.com
JOHNSON’S RESPONSE MAY GO DOWN IN THE ANNALS OF AMERICAN MEDIA HISTORY:
“I WAS JUST LAID OFF BY THE WASHINGTON POST IN THE MIDDLE OF A WARZONE.”
“I HAVE NO WORDS.“
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
@theguardian.com
JOHNSON’S RESPONSE MAY GO DOWN IN THE ANNALS OF AMERICAN MEDIA HISTORY:
“I WAS JUST LAID OFF BY THE WASHINGTON POST IN THE MIDDLE OF A WARZONE.”
“I HAVE NO WORDS.“
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
February 8, 2026 at 7:59 AM
As goes the Washington Post: US democracy takes another hit under Trump
@theguardian.com
JOHNSON’S RESPONSE MAY GO DOWN IN THE ANNALS OF AMERICAN MEDIA HISTORY:
“I WAS JUST LAID OFF BY THE WASHINGTON POST IN THE MIDDLE OF A WARZONE.”
“I HAVE NO WORDS.“
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
@theguardian.com
JOHNSON’S RESPONSE MAY GO DOWN IN THE ANNALS OF AMERICAN MEDIA HISTORY:
“I WAS JUST LAID OFF BY THE WASHINGTON POST IN THE MIDDLE OF A WARZONE.”
“I HAVE NO WORDS.“
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
🚨🚨 "Surprise, surprise". 👇👇
FT exclusive:
“The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.”
via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues
“The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.”
via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues
February 6, 2026 at 5:56 PM
🚨🚨 "Surprise, surprise". 👇👇
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FT exclusive:
“The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.”
via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues
“The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.”
via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues
February 5, 2026 at 11:39 PM
FT exclusive:
“The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.”
via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues
“The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.”
via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues
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Sanchez is right: the choice is btwn "becoming closed & impoverished societies or open & prosperous ones". In the Routledge Guide to the European Union, 2nd ed, I wrote that countries discouraging migrants wd be losers; those that welcomed them & fitted them into economies & societies wd be winners.
February 6, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Sanchez is right: the choice is btwn "becoming closed & impoverished societies or open & prosperous ones". In the Routledge Guide to the European Union, 2nd ed, I wrote that countries discouraging migrants wd be losers; those that welcomed them & fitted them into economies & societies wd be winners.
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If only this brilliant article on the positives of immigration had been written by Kier Starmer @mrjamesob.bsky.social instead of publicising the policy stopping asylum seekers using taxis for Doctor and Hospital appointments.
Excellent @nytimes.com opinion piece offering both pragmatic and morally compelling reasons why Spain has chosen a different path than many other Western societies in addressing immigration and migration countering the despicable #maga narrative : www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
Opinion | I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:08 PM
If only this brilliant article on the positives of immigration had been written by Kier Starmer @mrjamesob.bsky.social instead of publicising the policy stopping asylum seekers using taxis for Doctor and Hospital appointments.
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Hi Keir when we voted for change this is what we wanted not more Cruella Braverman
February 6, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Hi Keir when we voted for change this is what we wanted not more Cruella Braverman
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@marcishore.bsky.social I don’t know if you have seen this, but this gives me hope: bsky.app/profile/prof...
February 6, 2026 at 3:39 PM
@marcishore.bsky.social I don’t know if you have seen this, but this gives me hope: bsky.app/profile/prof...
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This explains that utterly mental Telegraph headline yesterday.
February 6, 2026 at 2:22 PM
This explains that utterly mental Telegraph headline yesterday.
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Fuck yeah Spain. Nothing to stop Ireland doing this, with the exception of needless right wing cruelty.
February 6, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Fuck yeah Spain. Nothing to stop Ireland doing this, with the exception of needless right wing cruelty.
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Exclusive: interview with David O’Sullivan, Eu Russia sanctions envoy. He believes sanctions now having “significant impact” on Russia economy with oil revenues down, interest rates in double digits and inflation high
February 5, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Exclusive: interview with David O’Sullivan, Eu Russia sanctions envoy. He believes sanctions now having “significant impact” on Russia economy with oil revenues down, interest rates in double digits and inflation high
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The new draft Regulation on the return of migrants introduces return hubs, reduces protections, and aims to speed up and simplify the return process.
BERND PARUSEL warns that this new approach weakens human rights standards and punishes desperate people.
verfassungsblog.de/a-draconian-...
BERND PARUSEL warns that this new approach weakens human rights standards and punishes desperate people.
verfassungsblog.de/a-draconian-...
February 6, 2026 at 10:08 AM
The new draft Regulation on the return of migrants introduces return hubs, reduces protections, and aims to speed up and simplify the return process.
BERND PARUSEL warns that this new approach weakens human rights standards and punishes desperate people.
verfassungsblog.de/a-draconian-...
BERND PARUSEL warns that this new approach weakens human rights standards and punishes desperate people.
verfassungsblog.de/a-draconian-...
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Required watching for the EU bubble - investigative format "ARD Monitor" has done a research on the omnibus vote in the European Parliament and the origins of majority of the centre-right EPP with the far-right groups last November:
Monitor: Rechtsextreme jubeln: EU-Brandmauer gefallen? - hier anschauen
Unionsparteien und Konservative im EU-Parlament warfen zuletzt den Grünen vor, gemeinsam mit der extremen Rechten gestimmt zu haben.
Sie selbst bestreiten jede planmäßige Zusammenarbeit mit rechtsext...
www.ardmediathek.de
February 6, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Required watching for the EU bubble - investigative format "ARD Monitor" has done a research on the omnibus vote in the European Parliament and the origins of majority of the centre-right EPP with the far-right groups last November:
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EU tech law
EU Commission preliminary finding that TikTok has breached Digital Services Act re 'addictive design' ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
EU Commission preliminary finding that TikTok has breached Digital Services Act re 'addictive design' ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Commission preliminarily finds TikTok\'s addictive design in breach of the Digital Services Act
Today, the European Commission preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design.
ec.europa.eu
February 6, 2026 at 11:19 AM
EU tech law
EU Commission preliminary finding that TikTok has breached Digital Services Act re 'addictive design' ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
EU Commission preliminary finding that TikTok has breached Digital Services Act re 'addictive design' ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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We have opened an inquiry into the use of artificial intelligence by external experts in the evaluation of EU funding proposals.
We have asked @ec.europa.eu and the SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA):
- if they set rules on the use of AI by evaluators
- if evaluators are required to disclose AI use
We have asked @ec.europa.eu and the SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA):
- if they set rules on the use of AI by evaluators
- if evaluators are required to disclose AI use
Ombudswoman opens inquiry concerning AI use in evaluation of EU funding proposals
The inquiry will focus on whether the institutions concerned put in place sufficient safeguards regarding the use of AI by external experts evaluating pro...
www.ombudsman.europa.eu
February 6, 2026 at 9:08 AM
We have opened an inquiry into the use of artificial intelligence by external experts in the evaluation of EU funding proposals.
We have asked @ec.europa.eu and the SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA):
- if they set rules on the use of AI by evaluators
- if evaluators are required to disclose AI use
We have asked @ec.europa.eu and the SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA):
- if they set rules on the use of AI by evaluators
- if evaluators are required to disclose AI use
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The EU Commission has preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act over its addictive design — infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications & hyper-personalized recommendations. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Commission preliminarily finds TikTok\'s addictive design in breach of the Digital Services Act
Today, the European Commission preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design.
ec.europa.eu
February 6, 2026 at 11:26 AM
The EU Commission has preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act over its addictive design — infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications & hyper-personalized recommendations. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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Too many articles about why Europe needs protecting, too many leaders seeking marginal gains in delivery in place of real vision.
I snapped and wrote something quickly about why we need instead the politics of optimism, adaptation, and creativity. www.linkedin.com/pulse/europe...
I snapped and wrote something quickly about why we need instead the politics of optimism, adaptation, and creativity. www.linkedin.com/pulse/europe...
European politics needs the dreamers of dreams
One story from two angles. From China the visionary, the man wanting to build a big company and after several false starts doing so in bringing low-cost electric vehicles to the world.
www.linkedin.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Too many articles about why Europe needs protecting, too many leaders seeking marginal gains in delivery in place of real vision.
I snapped and wrote something quickly about why we need instead the politics of optimism, adaptation, and creativity. www.linkedin.com/pulse/europe...
I snapped and wrote something quickly about why we need instead the politics of optimism, adaptation, and creativity. www.linkedin.com/pulse/europe...
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Have written about a week where the hypocrisy of much of the media was laid bare (and address mine).
I also write about the truth Starmer cannot say: he appointed Mandelson to the court of Trump not in spite of the Epstein connection but in a sense, because of it. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
I also write about the truth Starmer cannot say: he appointed Mandelson to the court of Trump not in spite of the Epstein connection but in a sense, because of it. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
What Starmer cannot say
The hypocrisy, in so many directions, the Epstein files reveal of the Westminster and the media class
open.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Have written about a week where the hypocrisy of much of the media was laid bare (and address mine).
I also write about the truth Starmer cannot say: he appointed Mandelson to the court of Trump not in spite of the Epstein connection but in a sense, because of it. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
I also write about the truth Starmer cannot say: he appointed Mandelson to the court of Trump not in spite of the Epstein connection but in a sense, because of it. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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🇪🇺 British officials fear that excluding the U.K. could lock its firms out of key supply chains and skew procurement decisions in favor of EU-based competitors.
🇬🇧 Britain needs Europe. We need deeper alignment with our largest market on goods and services.
❌ Brexit harms British business.
🇬🇧 Britain needs Europe. We need deeper alignment with our largest market on goods and services.
❌ Brexit harms British business.
Britain’s trade chief races to Brussels to avoid ‘Made in Europe’ shutout
U.K. officials fear that planned industry act could lock British firms out of key European supply chains.
www.politico.eu
February 6, 2026 at 10:11 AM
🇪🇺 British officials fear that excluding the U.K. could lock its firms out of key supply chains and skew procurement decisions in favor of EU-based competitors.
🇬🇧 Britain needs Europe. We need deeper alignment with our largest market on goods and services.
❌ Brexit harms British business.
🇬🇧 Britain needs Europe. We need deeper alignment with our largest market on goods and services.
❌ Brexit harms British business.
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Firmly worded, constitutionally significant letter to PM from the parliamentary intelligence committee: isc.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/u...
Spells out how it is for a parliamentary committee and *not* government to decide on what is in national interest.
Spells out how it is for a parliamentary committee and *not* government to decide on what is in national interest.
isc.independent.gov.uk
February 6, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Firmly worded, constitutionally significant letter to PM from the parliamentary intelligence committee: isc.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/u...
Spells out how it is for a parliamentary committee and *not* government to decide on what is in national interest.
Spells out how it is for a parliamentary committee and *not* government to decide on what is in national interest.
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