Mikael Barfod
@mbarfod.bsky.social
EU Ambassador-fmr. | Served in Europe, Africa, Asia, Caribbean | Visiting Professor
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The EU has published a world-first risk landscape report under the #DSA.
It flags systemic risks on big platforms — from illegal content to generative AI— and tracks how platforms are addressing them.
More transparency. More accountability.
A safer online space for all.
link.europa.eu/NKM4yd
It flags systemic risks on big platforms — from illegal content to generative AI— and tracks how platforms are addressing them.
More transparency. More accountability.
A safer online space for all.
link.europa.eu/NKM4yd
November 23, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The EU has published a world-first risk landscape report under the #DSA.
It flags systemic risks on big platforms — from illegal content to generative AI— and tracks how platforms are addressing them.
More transparency. More accountability.
A safer online space for all.
link.europa.eu/NKM4yd
It flags systemic risks on big platforms — from illegal content to generative AI— and tracks how platforms are addressing them.
More transparency. More accountability.
A safer online space for all.
link.europa.eu/NKM4yd
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🤝75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights
A landmark treaty that reshaped Europe after the second World War, protecting millions of Europeans and supporting our shared values of human rights, democracy and rule of law.
Because human rights aren’t optional. They’re universal.
A landmark treaty that reshaped Europe after the second World War, protecting millions of Europeans and supporting our shared values of human rights, democracy and rule of law.
Because human rights aren’t optional. They’re universal.
November 4, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🤝75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights
A landmark treaty that reshaped Europe after the second World War, protecting millions of Europeans and supporting our shared values of human rights, democracy and rule of law.
Because human rights aren’t optional. They’re universal.
A landmark treaty that reshaped Europe after the second World War, protecting millions of Europeans and supporting our shared values of human rights, democracy and rule of law.
Because human rights aren’t optional. They’re universal.
We, 414 former EU Ambassadors, Senior Officials and EU national Ambassadors have published new statement asking European leaders to help shape stable peace in the Middle East, incl. financial support, stop to illegal settlements, fight against impunity & setting up Palestinian state next to Israel.
www.politico.eu
October 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
We, 414 former EU Ambassadors, Senior Officials and EU national Ambassadors have published new statement asking European leaders to help shape stable peace in the Middle East, incl. financial support, stop to illegal settlements, fight against impunity & setting up Palestinian state next to Israel.
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The European Commission is making its biggest play yet to punish Israel over its war on Gaza.
Today it will sign off on a proposed package of sanctions targeting extremist settlers, ministers and trade barriers.
More in Brussels Playbook 👇
Today it will sign off on a proposed package of sanctions targeting extremist settlers, ministers and trade barriers.
More in Brussels Playbook 👇
Speak loudly but carry a small stick
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September 17, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The European Commission is making its biggest play yet to punish Israel over its war on Gaza.
Today it will sign off on a proposed package of sanctions targeting extremist settlers, ministers and trade barriers.
More in Brussels Playbook 👇
Today it will sign off on a proposed package of sanctions targeting extremist settlers, ministers and trade barriers.
More in Brussels Playbook 👇
We, 295 former EU and Member State Ambassadors and Senior Officials have just published a press release urging that action be taken immediately by the EU leaders against Israel’s multiple violations of international law. We call also on the UN to adopt sanctions. Please join us on "X" @EUFormerAmb
September 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
We, 295 former EU and Member State Ambassadors and Senior Officials have just published a press release urging that action be taken immediately by the EU leaders against Israel’s multiple violations of international law. We call also on the UN to adopt sanctions. Please join us on "X" @EUFormerAmb
Many Former EU ambassadors, including myself, call for immediate and effective measures against Israel’s unlawful actions in Gaza and the West Bank. The open letter suggests a range of specific measures and is now signed by 42 former colleagues. Read all about it! euobserver.com/EU%20&%20the...
Open letter from 34 ex-EU ambassadors: 'Act now against Israel'
An open letter by 34 former European Union ambassadors calling for immediate and effective measures against Israel’s unlawful actions in Gaza and the West Bank.
euobserver.com
July 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Many Former EU ambassadors, including myself, call for immediate and effective measures against Israel’s unlawful actions in Gaza and the West Bank. The open letter suggests a range of specific measures and is now signed by 42 former colleagues. Read all about it! euobserver.com/EU%20&%20the...
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Trump pledged Sunday to slap a 100 percent "tariff" on movies "produced in Foreign Lands." Across the Atlantic, the announcement was met with confusion — if not surprise.
Trump’s movie tariff threat puzzles Europe
As U.S. productions flock overseas, Trump wants to target foreign moviemakers, opening a new front in the transatlantic trade war.
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May 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Trump pledged Sunday to slap a 100 percent "tariff" on movies "produced in Foreign Lands." Across the Atlantic, the announcement was met with confusion — if not surprise.
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Verdenssamfundet må sætte foden benhårdt ned overfor krigsforbryderen Netanyahus planer om at genbesætte Gaza og tvangsflytte flertallet af den palæstinensiske befolkning. Sanktionér, boykot, isolér! #dkpol
May 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Verdenssamfundet må sætte foden benhårdt ned overfor krigsforbryderen Netanyahus planer om at genbesætte Gaza og tvangsflytte flertallet af den palæstinensiske befolkning. Sanktionér, boykot, isolér! #dkpol
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No food, aid, or fuel have entered Gaza since March 2.
Community kitchens have closed. Children are sick, thirsty, and starving.
Now Netanyahu’s government wants to occupy Gaza and shut down the existing aid distribution system run by the UN and its humanitarian partners.
Arms embargo now.
Community kitchens have closed. Children are sick, thirsty, and starving.
Now Netanyahu’s government wants to occupy Gaza and shut down the existing aid distribution system run by the UN and its humanitarian partners.
Arms embargo now.
May 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
No food, aid, or fuel have entered Gaza since March 2.
Community kitchens have closed. Children are sick, thirsty, and starving.
Now Netanyahu’s government wants to occupy Gaza and shut down the existing aid distribution system run by the UN and its humanitarian partners.
Arms embargo now.
Community kitchens have closed. Children are sick, thirsty, and starving.
Now Netanyahu’s government wants to occupy Gaza and shut down the existing aid distribution system run by the UN and its humanitarian partners.
Arms embargo now.
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Even more relevant now…
January 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Even more relevant now…
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“If loyalty to Trump means developing reasons to favor threats against Mexico, Canada, Panama, and Greenland—none of which poses the slightest danger,” @jonathanbchait.bsky.social writes, “then, by jingo, reasons will be found”:
The Intellectual Rationalization for Annexing Greenland
Donald Trump’s defenders have little choice but to cast his trolling as a clever geopolitical stratagem.
www.theatlantic.com
January 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
“If loyalty to Trump means developing reasons to favor threats against Mexico, Canada, Panama, and Greenland—none of which poses the slightest danger,” @jonathanbchait.bsky.social writes, “then, by jingo, reasons will be found”:
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Every single thing that everybody suddenly wants to do in Greenland - mine for minerals! use shipping lanes! set up bases! - can be done right now, while Greenland is part of Denmark. The discussion of "occupying" Greenland is just a pointless piece of aggression towards an ally.
January 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Every single thing that everybody suddenly wants to do in Greenland - mine for minerals! use shipping lanes! set up bases! - can be done right now, while Greenland is part of Denmark. The discussion of "occupying" Greenland is just a pointless piece of aggression towards an ally.
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The Assad regime’s legacy of cruelty & atrocity crimes endures
A new Syrian govt should join the #ICC, refer the Syria situation to the Court & grant it jurisdiction over crimes committed since 2011 under Art 12(3)
#Syria’s future must be built on pillars of #HRights & justice w/o discrimination
A new Syrian govt should join the #ICC, refer the Syria situation to the Court & grant it jurisdiction over crimes committed since 2011 under Art 12(3)
#Syria’s future must be built on pillars of #HRights & justice w/o discrimination
#Saydnaya prison has been freed!
Tens of thousands were disappeared, tortured & killed in the regime's vast network of prisons & detention centers
My courageous #Syrian colleagues, many of them torture survivors, never stopped demanding freedom & justice
forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...
Tens of thousands were disappeared, tortured & killed in the regime's vast network of prisons & detention centers
My courageous #Syrian colleagues, many of them torture survivors, never stopped demanding freedom & justice
forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...
December 10, 2024 at 12:33 PM