Tobias Maaßen
tobiasmaassen.bsky.social
Tobias Maaßen
@tobiasmaassen.bsky.social
Politics nerd w weakness for bad humour & love for Europe | Working on 🇪🇺and 🇩🇪 economics | Views my own.
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this @adambonica.bsky.social piece deserves to be read beside the yeoman work that @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social have been doing. The dismantling of administrative expertise is one of those stories that is so big that pro journalists with beats find it hard to focus on or explain .
How to Dismantle a Democracy, One Job Posting at a Time
OPM’s new hiring memo imports the authoritarian playbook—quietly, bureaucratically, and by design.
data4democracy.substack.com
June 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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The results of our latest Eurobarometer are in.

Europe remains engaged, optimistic, and united! ⬇️
May 28, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Europe steps up and takes greater responsibility for its defence.

@consilium.europa.eu agreed on a defence loan package via our Security for Action for Europe.

SAFE will support EU countries' defence with up to €150 billion, enabling them to spend better, together, European ↓

europa.eu/!PPby8R
May 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen der Aufbau- und Resilienzfazilität #NextGenerationEU: eine neue Studie zeigt die Wachstumsimpulse, auch und gerade für 🇩🇪!

@ec.europa.eu
ECFIN-Kollegen zeigen außerdem auf, wie auch mit KI Daten noch transparenter aufbereitet werden können 👏🇪🇺

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europa.eu/!B9rwNC
May 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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9 May = Europe Day. But do you know why?

On 9 May 1950 75 years ago French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman delivered a historic speech that changed the course of European history.

Known as the Schuman Declaration, it proposed creating a European Coal and Steel Community

@press.consilium.europa.eu
May 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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A day after the European Parliament lifted the immunity of AfD MEP Peter Bystron due to accusations of money laundry and corruption, incl taking money for pro-Russian propaganda, he is the only German politician quoted in the story on Merz in Politico's Playbook.

Seriously, @politico.eu?
May 7, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Pardon, aber unsere Verfassung regelt doch, wie es nun weitergeht und die Chancen stehen gut, dass Merz noch in diese Woche ins Amt gewählt wird. Ein sehr schlechter Start für diese Regierung, aber längst keine Staatskrise. Medialer Alarmismus hilft den Falschen!
May 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Discussion about Savings and Investment Union at German Ministry of Finance reveals broad agreement about problems and goals for #EU but unfortunately little info about the how. Repeating ancient objections when sketching out response to recent “wake up call”.
April 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top.

#HandsOff2025
April 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Reality check.
Thank you, Financial Times.
February 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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So in the end, and rather unsurprisingly, the CDU did not win any voters from the far-right AfD by aligning their positions on migration and voting with them in parliament. Instead, they lost almost a million voters to the AfD
February 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Es gibt in Deutschland einen eigenartigen Diskurs, demzufolge die Sozialdemokraten in #Dänemark durch eine harte #Asylpolitik erfolgreich Stimmen gewonnen und Rechtsaußenparteien zurückgedrängt hätten.

Das stimmt aber nicht mit den Wahlergebnissen/Umfragedaten überein.
February 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Der Forschungsstand ist klar: Wenn demokratische Parteien rechtspopulistische Erzählungen/Politik übernehmen/nachzuahmen versuchen, hilft das nur rechtspopulistischen Parteien. Expert*innen warnen deswegen seit JAHREN. Niemand kann sagen, man hätte es ja nicht gewusst.
January 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Great Thread if you want to get the gist of CDU's Friedrich Merz views on key foreign policy issues.
This afternoon, CDU Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz gave a keynote speech on foreign and EU policy at @koerberip.bsky.social.

A thread on his main points on the EU and Germany's role in it:
January 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Your talent, Europe's AI lead.

These are the first 7 AI Factories to be created across the EU:

🇬🇷 Athens
🇸🇪 Linköping
🇩🇪 Stuttgart
🇱🇺 Bissen
🇮🇹 Bologna
🇪🇸 Barcelona
🇫🇮 Kajaani

They will combine computing power, data, and talent to develop innovative AI solutions.

ℹ️ europa.eu/!hhNynn
December 11, 2024 at 11:11 AM
The symbolism is strong here (see @economist.com title this week)
www.politico.eu/article/brus...
Brussels’ famous ‘Future is Europe’ mural gets pulled down
It may or may not be resurrected.
www.politico.eu
December 4, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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Our cover this week
December 4, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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The city-state of #Berlin is cutting spending severely to plug a €3bn hole in its budget.

Untouchable: the parking permit for residents. It stays at an actually loss-making €10.20 per year.

Lost. Absolutely lost.
November 26, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Das Herbstpaket im europäischen Semester 2024 ist raus: 20 nationale Pläne der einzelnen #EU Mitgliedstaaten zeigen Wege auf, Schulden abzubauen ohne dabei wichtige Reformen und Investitionen aus dem Auge zu verlieren.
Details unten.
Für Nerds: erstes Semesterpaket nach Stabipakt Reform, go nuts.
We are presenting the 2024 #EuropeanSemester Autumn Package for first time under the new economic framework to support EU countries to:

📂 achieve macroeconomic stability
📂 strengthen fiscal sustainability
📂 encourage reforms and investments
November 26, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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We are presenting the 2024 #EuropeanSemester Autumn Package for first time under the new economic framework to support EU countries to:

📂 achieve macroeconomic stability
📂 strengthen fiscal sustainability
📂 encourage reforms and investments
November 26, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Moin moin neue Platform,
hab jetzt n paar Tage zugeschaut und es gefällt mir hier.
Hoffe, das bleibt so angenehm im Umgang und wächst wie die US Staatsverschuldung bei zweiter Trump Präsidentschaft.
November 26, 2024 at 8:03 PM