Uta Staiger
@ukstaiger.bsky.social
Europeanist [literature, thought, politics] | Directing @uclei.bsky.social | Working with @ucl-global.bsky.social | Curating @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social
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Uta Staiger
@ukstaiger.bsky.social
· Feb 20
'One doesn't always have to speak'
- Hannah Arendt
- Hannah Arendt
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Anyway, Christmas Eve. Enjoy stretching out time a little.
December 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Anyway, Christmas Eve. Enjoy stretching out time a little.
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Some 53% of UK exporters told the [BCC] that the trade deal with Europe was unsatisfactory — a 13 percentage point increase from 2024.
“By contrast, just 16% of nearly 900 exporters surveyed in October said the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement… was working well.”
www.ft.com/content/b3d3...
“By contrast, just 16% of nearly 900 exporters surveyed in October said the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement… was working well.”
www.ft.com/content/b3d3...
UK exporters increasingly dissatisfied with EU trade terms, survey finds
More than half of those contacted by British Chambers of Commerce criticised the post Brexit arrangements
www.ft.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Some 53% of UK exporters told the [BCC] that the trade deal with Europe was unsatisfactory — a 13 percentage point increase from 2024.
“By contrast, just 16% of nearly 900 exporters surveyed in October said the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement… was working well.”
www.ft.com/content/b3d3...
“By contrast, just 16% of nearly 900 exporters surveyed in October said the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement… was working well.”
www.ft.com/content/b3d3...
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UCL EI does amazing stuff. Put them in your radar!
Our Annual Review 2024/25 is here! 👇
From policy to culture, the European Institute spent 2024–25 connecting experts, shaping debate, and bringing research to life across Europe.
Read the full review: www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...
From policy to culture, the European Institute spent 2024–25 connecting experts, shaping debate, and bringing research to life across Europe.
Read the full review: www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...
December 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
UCL EI does amazing stuff. Put them in your radar!
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Proust knows us all so well.
December 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Proust knows us all so well.
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An article that brings you back to the good old days of Brexit with its warped and at times strange arguments. I have a question at the end, so please bear with me, but I'll highlight some examples: /1
December 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
An article that brings you back to the good old days of Brexit with its warped and at times strange arguments. I have a question at the end, so please bear with me, but I'll highlight some examples: /1
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As @ucl.ac.uk deepens its engagement with Europe, the @uclei.bsky.social is a vital hub that connects our experts with partners, policymakers and the public. This Annual Review offers a thoughtful overview of what that looks like in practice.
#UCLEurope
#UCLEurope
Our Annual Review 2024/25 is here! 👇
From policy to culture, the European Institute spent 2024–25 connecting experts, shaping debate, and bringing research to life across Europe.
Read the full review: www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...
From policy to culture, the European Institute spent 2024–25 connecting experts, shaping debate, and bringing research to life across Europe.
Read the full review: www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...
December 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
As @ucl.ac.uk deepens its engagement with Europe, the @uclei.bsky.social is a vital hub that connects our experts with partners, policymakers and the public. This Annual Review offers a thoughtful overview of what that looks like in practice.
#UCLEurope
#UCLEurope
Busy year, 2025. At the UCL European Institute, @uclei.bsky.social, we've put together our latest Annual Review. It's colourful. And packs a bit of a punch.
(Right on time for the festive season, too.)
Huge thanks to our supporters, contributors, collaborators.
www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...
(Right on time for the festive season, too.)
Huge thanks to our supporters, contributors, collaborators.
www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...
European Institute publishes Annual Review 2024/25
The European Institute has published its 2024/25 Annual Review, celebrating its key achievements of the past academic year.
www.ucl.ac.uk
December 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Busy year, 2025. At the UCL European Institute, @uclei.bsky.social, we've put together our latest Annual Review. It's colourful. And packs a bit of a punch.
(Right on time for the festive season, too.)
Huge thanks to our supporters, contributors, collaborators.
www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...
(Right on time for the festive season, too.)
Huge thanks to our supporters, contributors, collaborators.
www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...
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'In science, there are many more people with ideas than there are public resources to support those ideas, which raises an unavoidable question about how to allocate scarce resources. Determining the best way to do so is extremely difficult.'
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
www.nature.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
'In science, there are many more people with ideas than there are public resources to support those ideas, which raises an unavoidable question about how to allocate scarce resources. Determining the best way to do so is extremely difficult.'
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Those who compare AI with the Industrial Revolution only know about the Industrial Revolution from AI.
Oh no the Governor of the Bank of England compared AI to the Industrial Revolution
December 19, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Those who compare AI with the Industrial Revolution only know about the Industrial Revolution from AI.
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A quick explanation of how this borrowing to assist Ukraine will work. "Enhanced cooperation" means EU law is being used, but some Member States opt out. The process has been applied a few times before, but never before re the EU budget. 1/
🚨 The latest conclusions say the EU will trigger Article 20 of enhanced cooperation to ensure that any mobilisation of EU resources to guarantee joint debt "will not have an impact on the financial obligations of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia," as previously reported by Euronews.
🚨 Bombshell at #EUCO at almost 2 am: António Costa has proposed to use common borrowing to meet Ukraine's most immediate financial needs while technical work on the reparations loan continues in the coming months.
Messy mix-match solution. Leaders are still discussing.
Messy mix-match solution. Leaders are still discussing.
December 19, 2025 at 2:50 AM
A quick explanation of how this borrowing to assist Ukraine will work. "Enhanced cooperation" means EU law is being used, but some Member States opt out. The process has been applied a few times before, but never before re the EU budget. 1/
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🇪🇺⚖️🇵🇱 Revenge is a dish best served cold (and after five years). Moments ago, CJEU, in the case Commission v. Poland, found that the Polish Constitutional Tribunal has not only violated EU law with its anti-EU rulings, but also was (is) not an independent court established properly by law. 1/
December 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🇪🇺⚖️🇵🇱 Revenge is a dish best served cold (and after five years). Moments ago, CJEU, in the case Commission v. Poland, found that the Polish Constitutional Tribunal has not only violated EU law with its anti-EU rulings, but also was (is) not an independent court established properly by law. 1/
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December 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
December 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
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EU governments have stressed the bloc’s autonomy to enforce its tech rules, in draft European Council conclusions dated Wednesday and seen by Euractiv – with the new wording following new US threats of retaliation against EU companies that do business in the US
www.euractiv.com/news/eu-lead...
www.euractiv.com/news/eu-lead...
EU leaders reaffirm bloc's digital 'regulatory autonomy' amid US threats | Euractiv
Ahead of this week's EUCO meeting, capitals have moved to defend the bloc's right to enforce its tech rules, per draft European Council conclusions seen by Euractiv
www.euractiv.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
EU governments have stressed the bloc’s autonomy to enforce its tech rules, in draft European Council conclusions dated Wednesday and seen by Euractiv – with the new wording following new US threats of retaliation against EU companies that do business in the US
www.euractiv.com/news/eu-lead...
www.euractiv.com/news/eu-lead...
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"Liberating its historic lands": as the Trump administration pretends peace is around the corner, Putin reminds us that for him, this war is about re-establishing the Russian empire. Ukrainians showed in 1991, when the whole country voted for independence, that they don't see themselves as Russian.
Putin plans on continuing the war.Russia doesn't want peace:
The goals of the special military operation will be completed.We would prefer to do it.But if the opposing country&their foreign patrons refuse to have a constructive discussion,Russia will achieve liberating its historic lands militarily
The goals of the special military operation will be completed.We would prefer to do it.But if the opposing country&their foreign patrons refuse to have a constructive discussion,Russia will achieve liberating its historic lands militarily
December 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"Liberating its historic lands": as the Trump administration pretends peace is around the corner, Putin reminds us that for him, this war is about re-establishing the Russian empire. Ukrainians showed in 1991, when the whole country voted for independence, that they don't see themselves as Russian.
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Hanukkah celebrates both an ancient military victory and a miracle of light – modern Jews can pick from either tradition - citing @guesnet.bsky.social of @uclhjs.bsky.social theconversation.com/hanukkah-cel...
Hanukkah celebrates both an ancient military victory and a miracle of light – modern Jews can pick from either tradition
Zionists draw on the military imagery of Hanukkah, while others look to the synagogue prayers that focus on the miracle of divine light.
theconversation.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Hanukkah celebrates both an ancient military victory and a miracle of light – modern Jews can pick from either tradition - citing @guesnet.bsky.social of @uclhjs.bsky.social theconversation.com/hanukkah-cel...
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Radical right parties in Europe have not moderated. Their positions and rhetoric have entered the mainstream. They have become normalized and legitimized. Unless we understand this, we have little chance of countering their success.
In many parts of Europe populist-right parties have moderated as they have grown, shedding unpopular policies and personnel. If anything, the AfD in Germany is growing more radical econ.st/3KSptMm
Illustration: Javier Palma
Illustration: Javier Palma
December 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Radical right parties in Europe have not moderated. Their positions and rhetoric have entered the mainstream. They have become normalized and legitimized. Unless we understand this, we have little chance of countering their success.
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column in this week's New World on Brigitte Macron calling feminist campaigners "sales connes", and the difficulties of translation: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
December 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
column in this week's New World on Brigitte Macron calling feminist campaigners "sales connes", and the difficulties of translation: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
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Haha, well, I'd say this is a new low in The Spectator's coverage of my Reith Lectures. There is so much wrong with the piece that it’s hard to know where to begin, but a few points stand out --> /1
Given the way things work in the BBC, it comes as no surprise that a Dutchman has been chosen to lecture us on modern British history.
✍️ Lawrence Goldman
✍️ Lawrence Goldman
The Reith lectures are a new low in BBC history
Given the way things work in the BBC, it comes as no surprise that a Dutchman has been chosen to lecture us on modern British history
www.spectator.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Haha, well, I'd say this is a new low in The Spectator's coverage of my Reith Lectures. There is so much wrong with the piece that it’s hard to know where to begin, but a few points stand out --> /1
V interesting analysis
Is Germany again dragging its feet and undermining a "simple" solution to the Ukraine financing problem, instead pushing the ubercomplex reparations loan?
It's a tempting eurocrisis reflex that if only there were a will in Berlin, there would be a better way.
But there isn't. Here is why:
It's a tempting eurocrisis reflex that if only there were a will in Berlin, there would be a better way.
But there isn't. Here is why:
December 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
V interesting analysis
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A warm congratulations to Elif Shafak on her appointment as President of the @rsliterature.bsky.social
Elif is featured on the European Literary Map of London - @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social
📖 Take a moment to read her entry - www.europeanliterarylondon.org/feature/a82d...
Elif is featured on the European Literary Map of London - @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social
📖 Take a moment to read her entry - www.europeanliterarylondon.org/feature/a82d...
December 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
A warm congratulations to Elif Shafak on her appointment as President of the @rsliterature.bsky.social
Elif is featured on the European Literary Map of London - @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social
📖 Take a moment to read her entry - www.europeanliterarylondon.org/feature/a82d...
Elif is featured on the European Literary Map of London - @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social
📖 Take a moment to read her entry - www.europeanliterarylondon.org/feature/a82d...
Interested in #HannahArendt & her ideas on truth, mendacity and politics?
Then this short video interview with writers, scholars, editors Eva Geulen (Humboldt) & Thomas Meyer (LMU Munich) is for you.
Produced with (& subtitled by) the Goethe Institut Barcelona.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSKe...
Then this short video interview with writers, scholars, editors Eva Geulen (Humboldt) & Thomas Meyer (LMU Munich) is for you.
Produced with (& subtitled by) the Goethe Institut Barcelona.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSKe...
3 Fragen an Eva Geulen & Thomas Meyer
YouTube video by Goethe-Institut Barcelona
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Interested in #HannahArendt & her ideas on truth, mendacity and politics?
Then this short video interview with writers, scholars, editors Eva Geulen (Humboldt) & Thomas Meyer (LMU Munich) is for you.
Produced with (& subtitled by) the Goethe Institut Barcelona.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSKe...
Then this short video interview with writers, scholars, editors Eva Geulen (Humboldt) & Thomas Meyer (LMU Munich) is for you.
Produced with (& subtitled by) the Goethe Institut Barcelona.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSKe...
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Pls share/re-post! New Onora O'Neill Prize! Here's a brand new @ecpr.bsky.social book prize in pol-theory, regardless of whether it's your 1st/10th book! Had honour of asking Onora myself if she would lend us her good name: ecpr.eu/news/news/de... @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social
Call for Nominations: Onora O’Neill Political Theory Prize
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
December 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Pls share/re-post! New Onora O'Neill Prize! Here's a brand new @ecpr.bsky.social book prize in pol-theory, regardless of whether it's your 1st/10th book! Had honour of asking Onora myself if she would lend us her good name: ecpr.eu/news/news/de... @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social
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So this week shall I write about how killing unarmed civilians is murder or about how unwise it would be to limit the human right against torture.
Western liberal democracies in 2025.
Western liberal democracies in 2025.
December 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
So this week shall I write about how killing unarmed civilians is murder or about how unwise it would be to limit the human right against torture.
Western liberal democracies in 2025.
Western liberal democracies in 2025.