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Steve Peers
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Professor of EU and Human Rights Law, Royal Holloway University of London. Usual disclaimers.

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Steve Peers is a British academic and an expert on the European Union. He is a professor in the Department of Law and Criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of EU Justice and Home Affairs Law and The Brexit: The Legal Framework for Withdrawal from the EU or Renegotiation of EU Membership. .. more

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 1d
Frontex before the EU courts

Analysis of the two recent big losses in court for the EU border control agency, by Antje Kunst - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/01/fron...
Frontex before the EU Courts: Damage, Causation, and Liability under Article 340(2) TFEU
Cases: Hamoudi v Frontex    (C-136/24 P) and WS and Others v Frontex (Case C-679/23 P)   Antje Kunst* Photo credit : Rock Cohen ...
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 2h
The UK left six years ago, and as a Member State it opted out of key integration measures rather than block them. And it wasn't the UK, for instance, that voted against Maastricht, or Nice, or the Constitutional Treaty, or Lisbon...

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 2h
OTOH I don't think so

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 2h
That's not what the bill would do.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 2h
Ireland also produces whiskey...

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 2h
There were sanctions placed on the whole country.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 3h
Brexit law

Government plans to propose bill to provide framework for 'reset' with EU - www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer prepares for parliamentary battles over imminent EU ‘reset’ bill
Planned legislation could hand ministers significant powers to forge closer regulatory ties with Brussels
www.theguardian.com

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 3h
Neville Chamberlain walks among us
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The defeatists masking as realists are already calling for Europe to just abandon Greenland to the US.
An X post by Wolfgang Münchau arguing the Europeans should just accept US capture of Greenland.

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 3h
The defeatists masking as realists are already calling for Europe to just abandon Greenland to the US.
An X post by Wolfgang Münchau arguing the Europeans should just accept US capture of Greenland.

Reposted by Steve Peers, Anders Nilsson

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Tom Dreisbach @tomdreisbach.bsky.social · 3h
I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day.

Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.

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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 3h
It's now unconscionable for the government to be posting on X.

X is not a neutral utility, it is far, far darker: an environment that shapes behaviour, rewards cruelty, and normalises abuse.

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Abuse thrives where the government tweets – why it's time to quit X now
The use of AI tool Grok to generate en masse intimate images of real women and girls is sickening.
open.substack.com

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 3h
So what’s going to happen with the (illegal) boat strikes? Will they continue or will they stop now that Maduro is gone? Will Trump now pretend that drug smuggling by water has ended?

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 3h
Journalists are doing their job

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 3h
Do the Nobel rules even allow it?

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 4h
What is just crazy about this, aside from the need for this statement at all, is that Greenland already IS in the US sphere of influence. It's far cheaper for the US, in material, security, and reputational terms, to have Denmark continue administering Greenland and work within NATO on security.
nvondarza.bsky.social Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 4h
Joint Statement of major EU/NATO countries on Greenland, together with Denmark:

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4h
Joint Statement on Greenland 🇬🇱
stm.dk/statsministe...

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 4h
She’s pitching the Nobel like it’s a timeshare in Aruba.
She’s pitching the Nobel like it’s a timeshare in Aruba.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 4h
Trump administration says it's vital for US security to take Greenland. And yet

-Denmark has offered US anything it wants in boosting US military presence
-The US already has the sole military base
-US has reduced its footprint from a 10,000+ peak to fewer than 200 right now.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4h
Trump just said "all" of Venezuela's oil must be made accessible to US oil companies. Trump wants to emulate Putin's model: Authoritarian, expansionist rulers carving up their regions and distributing the spoils of conquest to friendly oligarchs. 1/

(new piece)
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Trump Blurts Out Dark Truth about Venezuela Plan—and about MAGA Voters
To some critics, it’s about plunder. To others, it’s about hemispheric hegemony. Actually, it’s about both.
newrepublic.com

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LiLBaz @lilbazza.bsky.social · 5h
Just checking with how Starmer's crusade to ban apps that produce deep fakes is going
Keir Starmer @Keir St... . 18 Dec 25 We are going to aim to make it impossible for children to take, share or view a nude image, and we're banning apps that create deepfakes. Here's the detail:

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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 5h
The European Commission won't recognise Delcy Rodríguez as the legitimate leader of Venezuela but will maintain "targeted engagement" with her goverment to "safeguard" the European interests.

There's no intention yet to revise the sanctions placed on Rodríguez.

Reposted by Steve Peers, Colin Harvey, Christina Pagel

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 5h
NEW

But what about international law?

What happens to an international legal order when a superpower goes rogue

Substack:
emptycity.substack.com/p/but-what-a...

Personal Blog:
davidallengreen.com/2026/01/but-...
But what about international law?
What happens to an international legal order when a superpower goes rogue?
emptycity.substack.com

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Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · 5h
NEW ADVANCE ARTICLE
Individual Autonomy or Dispersion in Housing Policy? The Effect of Migrant Networks in Self-Selected Housing on Labour Market Outcomes in Sweden
By Jen Shaneberger University of Kentucky Political Science Department and Kristoffer Jutvik @liu.se

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Peter Ungphakorn @coppetainpu.bsky.social · 5h
No, Kemi Badenoch, the US has not walked away from the World Trade Organization, not even "more or less". It has disrupted dispute settlement and Trump's tariffs violate WTO rules, but the US is active in much of the WTO's regular work and it has paid its contribution to the budget.

#BBCR4Today

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6h
Very good from @nixonsimon.bsky.social on how Trump's "Donroe Doctrine" poses a grave threat to Europe that its leaders urgently need to wake up to

bylinetimes.com/2026/01/06/d...
Trump's 'Donroe Doctrine' Is an Existential Threat to NATO and Europe
The US President's plans to capture Greenland pose a grave threat to Europe's future that its leaders can no longer afford to ignore, argues Simon Nixon
bylinetimes.com

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 8h
Just saw this in LinkedIn for anyone interested in looking into Grok's production of CSAM and non-consensual sexualised imagery.

www.linkedin.com/posts/mtechl...

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 9h
Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.
Palantir lands biggest ever UK defense deal
The £240 million contract with the Ministry of Defence has renewed a debate about Britain’s dependence on American technology.
www.politico.eu

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 16h
Socialism...but for oil company shareholders
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In an interview with NBC News, President Trump suggests U.S. taxpayers could reimburse oil companies for improving Venezuela’s energy infrastructure:

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17h
I can't even log in any more. Feel free to post a screenshot.

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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 17h
In an interview with NBC News, President Trump suggests U.S. taxpayers could reimburse oil companies for improving Venezuela’s energy infrastructure:

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?

MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO

T: So force is on the table?

M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland