Helena Malikova
@helenamalikova.bsky.social
Fellow Harvard Kennedy School ‘24-25, fellow Hertie School Berlin. Day job at European Commission. Views are not any employer’s.
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Every upcoming summit of EU leaders is meant to be about "competitiveness".
Then stuff happens. And thus:
No summit of EU leaders ends up actually being about "competitiveness".
Then stuff happens. And thus:
No summit of EU leaders ends up actually being about "competitiveness".
European Council President António Costa intends to summon EU leaders to an informal retreat in rural Belgium next February to discuss the bloc's competitiveness.
Costa to gather EU leaders for retreat in Limburg in February
The meeting of the bloc’s heads of state and government will focus on the topic of competitiveness in Europe.
www.politico.eu
December 1, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Every upcoming summit of EU leaders is meant to be about "competitiveness".
Then stuff happens. And thus:
No summit of EU leaders ends up actually being about "competitiveness".
Then stuff happens. And thus:
No summit of EU leaders ends up actually being about "competitiveness".
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Post WWII, the allies (mostly US / UK) told DE & JP "break up your monopoly & put competition law in your new constitution. Because whenever a company gets too large, either it takes over the government or the government takes over it, and either way you get autocracy." 1/2
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India’s $3.9 billion plan to help Modi’s mogul ally after U.S. charges
Internal documents detail how Indian officials oversaw a plan to steer billions in investments to Gautam Adani’s businesses from the state life insurance agency.
wapo.st
October 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Post WWII, the allies (mostly US / UK) told DE & JP "break up your monopoly & put competition law in your new constitution. Because whenever a company gets too large, either it takes over the government or the government takes over it, and either way you get autocracy." 1/2
wapo.st/3L3lFHT
wapo.st/3L3lFHT
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"Companies love to claim that they give users control over data collection. But offering scattered privacy settings isn’t the same as meaningful control. A 747 aircraft has lots of controls, too. But that doesn’t mean just anyone can fly it"
"Atlas offers an “incognito” mode that doesn’t add to your history or memories. But like Chrome’s misleadingly named mode, it doesn’t actually hide you from other websites or even from ChatGPT itself" all over again, only worse. What are our DPAs debating, these days?
Article, which should be read before jumping to the use of new OpenAI’s browser
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
October 23, 2025 at 5:24 AM
"Companies love to claim that they give users control over data collection. But offering scattered privacy settings isn’t the same as meaningful control. A 747 aircraft has lots of controls, too. But that doesn’t mean just anyone can fly it"
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goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...
Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM
goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...
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The final slide of my 10 minute talk. CC @helenamalikova.bsky.social @helene-rey.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
The final slide of my 10 minute talk. CC @helenamalikova.bsky.social @helene-rey.bsky.social
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This racist violent rhetoric from Young Republicans is disgusting. I'm sure past and present members of the International Young Democrat Union like Youth of the European People's Party and European Young Conservatives will want to condemn their US counterpart. Right?
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This racist violent rhetoric from Young Republicans is disgusting. I'm sure past and present members of the International Young Democrat Union like Youth of the European People's Party and European Young Conservatives will want to condemn their US counterpart. Right?
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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The journalists are some of the heroes. Thank you for not only writing your articles, but getting them where people see them. bsky.app/profile/dlkn...
My own story on the raid is here:
What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism
www.economist.com/united-state...
From The Economist
What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism
www.economist.com/united-state...
From The Economist
October 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
The journalists are some of the heroes. Thank you for not only writing your articles, but getting them where people see them. bsky.app/profile/dlkn...
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Ellison warned the audience that #AGI was coming sooner than expected. What, Blair asked, should governments be doing? “The first thing a country needs to do is unify all of their data so that it can be consumed & used by the AI model,” Ellison responded.
🙄 Even if you accept A, B does NOT follow.
🙄 Even if you accept A, B does NOT follow.
September 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Ellison warned the audience that #AGI was coming sooner than expected. What, Blair asked, should governments be doing? “The first thing a country needs to do is unify all of their data so that it can be consumed & used by the AI model,” Ellison responded.
🙄 Even if you accept A, B does NOT follow.
🙄 Even if you accept A, B does NOT follow.
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Goodmorning ☀️
Moldova’s pro-Western ruling party decisively wins a tense parliamentary election fraught with Russian interference claims.
Moldova’s pro-EU party wins parliamentary election fraught with Russian interference claims
Moldova’s pro-Western ruling party decisively won a parliamentary election fraught with Russian interference claims that was widely viewed as a stark choice between East and West.
bit.ly
September 29, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Goodmorning ☀️
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Klein is making the case for bad-actors as if it's a debate about the Nazis marching in Skokie. Tolerance in that setting seems quaint now, but even Rawls suggested that when "the institutions of liberty are in danger," we might have to recalibrate. Klein does not move an inch. 3/
September 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Klein is making the case for bad-actors as if it's a debate about the Nazis marching in Skokie. Tolerance in that setting seems quaint now, but even Rawls suggested that when "the institutions of liberty are in danger," we might have to recalibrate. Klein does not move an inch. 3/
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Ad history gone? 🤯
Disturbing report: Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU; so the last 7 years of ads, of political spending, of messaging, of targeting - on YouTube, on Search - for countless elections across 27 countries - gone
www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-...
Disturbing report: Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU; so the last 7 years of ads, of political spending, of messaging, of targeting - on YouTube, on Search - for countless elections across 27 countries - gone
www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-...
Google just erased 7 years of our political history
Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU; so the last 7 years of ads, of political spending, of messaging, of targeting - on YouTube, on Search and for display ads - for coun...
www.thebriefing.ie
September 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Ad history gone? 🤯
Disturbing report: Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU; so the last 7 years of ads, of political spending, of messaging, of targeting - on YouTube, on Search - for countless elections across 27 countries - gone
www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-...
Disturbing report: Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU; so the last 7 years of ads, of political spending, of messaging, of targeting - on YouTube, on Search - for countless elections across 27 countries - gone
www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-...
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"Other passengers criticised her for filming. One passenger replied 'so what?' after she explained she had been racially abused. She said: 'I was shocked and angry about the children's reaction but the adults' reactions are what broke me and brought me to tears.'"
UK: 'I'm heartbroken kids racially abused me on train'
Sophia Choudry said she was repeatedly called the P-word on 7 September on a journey from Paddington to Maidenhead.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sophia Choudry said she was repeatedly called the P-word on 7 September on a journey from Paddington to Maidenhead.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Kids racially abused me and the adults' reaction broke me'
Sophia Choudry says she is "shaken" and "heartbroken" after being racially abused on the Elizabeth line.
www.bbc.com
September 28, 2025 at 7:43 AM
"Other passengers criticised her for filming. One passenger replied 'so what?' after she explained she had been racially abused. She said: 'I was shocked and angry about the children's reaction but the adults' reactions are what broke me and brought me to tears.'"
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In case you were curious who funds this kind of thing, here's a partial accounting.
My colleague @thejohnsimpson.bsky.social has done a terrific deep dive into the financial links between US tech billionaires and Tommy Robinson
Well worth a read
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Well worth a read
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK f...
Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage ...
observer.co.uk
September 14, 2025 at 9:32 AM
In case you were curious who funds this kind of thing, here's a partial accounting.
Less sexy than 🥂or cognac, 🇪🇺accounting standards are one of Europe’s best exports. Adopted by countries from Korea to Israel, European IFRS standards are more attractive for companies than the US GAAP alternative. Common reporting standards matter for accountability and investments
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on.ft.com/3VeDyVY
SEC chief threatens ban on European accounting rules over sustainability
Paul Atkins questions whether overseas companies should be barred from using International Financial Reporting Standards
on.ft.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Less sexy than 🥂or cognac, 🇪🇺accounting standards are one of Europe’s best exports. Adopted by countries from Korea to Israel, European IFRS standards are more attractive for companies than the US GAAP alternative. Common reporting standards matter for accountability and investments
on.ft.com/3VeDyVY
on.ft.com/3VeDyVY
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Women Against Fascism Newsletter #10 of 2025
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September 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Women Against Fascism newsletter #10 is out:
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With apologies to Anu Bradford, I think the real #BrusselsEffect is a bit simpler than she does.
(I don't know much about the people who were interviewing me, maybe Kurdish?)
#AIA #digitalGovernance #AIEthics cc @hertieschool.bsky.social
www.gulanmedia.com/en/story/344...
(I don't know much about the people who were interviewing me, maybe Kurdish?)
#AIA #digitalGovernance #AIEthics cc @hertieschool.bsky.social
www.gulanmedia.com/en/story/344...
"Your Strength Is Your Aggregate GDP × Your Motivation to Stay Unified": Joanna Bryson on AI, Regulation, and Global Cooperation
www.gulanmedia.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
With apologies to Anu Bradford, I think the real #BrusselsEffect is a bit simpler than she does.
(I don't know much about the people who were interviewing me, maybe Kurdish?)
#AIA #digitalGovernance #AIEthics cc @hertieschool.bsky.social
www.gulanmedia.com/en/story/344...
(I don't know much about the people who were interviewing me, maybe Kurdish?)
#AIA #digitalGovernance #AIEthics cc @hertieschool.bsky.social
www.gulanmedia.com/en/story/344...
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NYC is in the middle of an affordability crisis of essentials like food now exacerbated by Trump’s austerity policies eroding SNAP. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s municipal grocery stores are an important experiment. The old ways have failed. Policy innovation is necessary to pave a way out.
July 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
NYC is in the middle of an affordability crisis of essentials like food now exacerbated by Trump’s austerity policies eroding SNAP. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s municipal grocery stores are an important experiment. The old ways have failed. Policy innovation is necessary to pave a way out.
Question: how important is medical data in performance of AI capabilities? Is it just more data or does it have special value / premium value? @j2bryson.bsky.social anyone who knows? And any references to dispel or confirm any special interest for AI companies in medical?
July 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Question: how important is medical data in performance of AI capabilities? Is it just more data or does it have special value / premium value? @j2bryson.bsky.social anyone who knows? And any references to dispel or confirm any special interest for AI companies in medical?
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@CEPS.eu Associate Senior Fellows and ex-EU envoys sign an open letter to top Commission and Council leaders demanding effective EU action against the Israeli government crimes in Gaza. They float measures that can be adopted without unanimity: www.politico.eu/wp-content/u...
www.politico.eu
July 11, 2025 at 6:14 AM
@CEPS.eu Associate Senior Fellows and ex-EU envoys sign an open letter to top Commission and Council leaders demanding effective EU action against the Israeli government crimes in Gaza. They float measures that can be adopted without unanimity: www.politico.eu/wp-content/u...
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Truly remarkable, the Trumpian fantasy of a technofascist state built on the places of dispossessed Palestineans. Every ugly vector of power knotted into one ugly vision.
Why do Trump and some of his most fervent tech billionaire backers want to take land and create privately-controlled zones?
Their dystopian visions reflect the “The Network State,” which seeks to create private, corporate-controlled cities and nations.
www.techpolicy.press/trumps-gaza-...
Their dystopian visions reflect the “The Network State,” which seeks to create private, corporate-controlled cities and nations.
www.techpolicy.press/trumps-gaza-...
Trump’s Gaza Fantasy and the Network State: The Tech-Fueled Future of Privatized Sovereignty | TechPolicy.Press
We’re watching the rise of a new anti-democratic extremism—networked, crypto-financed, and cloaked in the language of freedom, writes Gil Duran.
www.techpolicy.press
July 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Truly remarkable, the Trumpian fantasy of a technofascist state built on the places of dispossessed Palestineans. Every ugly vector of power knotted into one ugly vision.
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For the enablers, not even the sky is the limit:
BCG modelled plan to ‘relocate’ Palestinians from Gaza
on.ft.com/403ORmH
BCG modelled plan to ‘relocate’ Palestinians from Gaza
on.ft.com/403ORmH
BCG modelled plan to ‘relocate’ Palestinians from Gaza
Consulting firm had multimillion-dollar role in contentious new aid scheme for shattered enclave
on.ft.com
July 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
For the enablers, not even the sky is the limit:
BCG modelled plan to ‘relocate’ Palestinians from Gaza
on.ft.com/403ORmH
BCG modelled plan to ‘relocate’ Palestinians from Gaza
on.ft.com/403ORmH
Sad to see EU’s legitimacy contested in dramatic visual in front of European Commission’s HQ the Berlaymont in Brussels.
July 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Sad to see EU’s legitimacy contested in dramatic visual in front of European Commission’s HQ the Berlaymont in Brussels.
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Latest Women Against Fascism newsletter out now: mailchi.mp/31832b2c36ac...
June 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Latest Women Against Fascism newsletter out now: mailchi.mp/31832b2c36ac...