York Albrecht
@yorkalbrecht.bsky.social
Researcher @ Institut für Europäische Politik, Berlin.
Working on EU democracy, the rule of law, authoritarianism.
Working on EU democracy, the rule of law, authoritarianism.
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📢 New analysis from our junior researcher Ana Sofeska for Geo-Power-EU!
🇲🇰🇦🇱 In this blog, she explores how North Macedonia and Albania are navigating their complex journeys toward the West.
📖 Read the full analysis: shorturl.at/H9rcz
🇲🇰🇦🇱 In this blog, she explores how North Macedonia and Albania are navigating their complex journeys toward the West.
📖 Read the full analysis: shorturl.at/H9rcz
June 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
📢 New analysis from our junior researcher Ana Sofeska for Geo-Power-EU!
🇲🇰🇦🇱 In this blog, she explores how North Macedonia and Albania are navigating their complex journeys toward the West.
📖 Read the full analysis: shorturl.at/H9rcz
🇲🇰🇦🇱 In this blog, she explores how North Macedonia and Albania are navigating their complex journeys toward the West.
📖 Read the full analysis: shorturl.at/H9rcz
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If you haven't paid attention to #Georgia for 2-3 weeks, here is status of main opposition party leaders.
(Khoshtaria recently arrested & mistreated. Bokuchava's husband kidnapped & threatened for 9 hours two weeks ago.)
(Khoshtaria recently arrested & mistreated. Bokuchava's husband kidnapped & threatened for 9 hours two weeks ago.)
June 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
If you haven't paid attention to #Georgia for 2-3 weeks, here is status of main opposition party leaders.
(Khoshtaria recently arrested & mistreated. Bokuchava's husband kidnapped & threatened for 9 hours two weeks ago.)
(Khoshtaria recently arrested & mistreated. Bokuchava's husband kidnapped & threatened for 9 hours two weeks ago.)
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“If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived. The question, now, is whether Americans who hate tyranny can be roused to respond.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
Opinion | This Is What Autocracy Looks Like
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
“If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived. The question, now, is whether Americans who hate tyranny can be roused to respond.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
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Auf dem @verfassungsblog.de kommentiere ich den Beschluss des VG Berlin zu #Zurückweisungen - und warum das ein Einzelfall mit Ausstrahlungswirkung ist
verfassungsblog.de/zuruckweisun...
verfassungsblog.de/zuruckweisun...
Zurückweisungen vor Gericht
verfassungsblog.de
June 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Auf dem @verfassungsblog.de kommentiere ich den Beschluss des VG Berlin zu #Zurückweisungen - und warum das ein Einzelfall mit Ausstrahlungswirkung ist
verfassungsblog.de/zuruckweisun...
verfassungsblog.de/zuruckweisun...
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The AG opinion on Hungary's anti-LGBT+ law is out: it proposes that the ECJ agrees with the Commission on *all counts.* This would be massive: Hungary would be in violation of not just separate rights but Art 2, the founding values of the EU curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...
June 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The AG opinion on Hungary's anti-LGBT+ law is out: it proposes that the ECJ agrees with the Commission on *all counts.* This would be massive: Hungary would be in violation of not just separate rights but Art 2, the founding values of the EU curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...
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Das ist schlicht und einfach perfide - mit dem 'Argument' kann man eigentlich den gesamten Rechtsstaat vom Tisch wischen.
Sozialdemokratin Mette Frederiksen über Migration und ihren Versuch, Einfluss auf den Europäischen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte zu nehmen.
www.spiegel.de/ausland/daen...
www.spiegel.de/ausland/daen...
May 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Das ist schlicht und einfach perfide - mit dem 'Argument' kann man eigentlich den gesamten Rechtsstaat vom Tisch wischen.
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How do you constitutionalize a culture war?
GÁBOR MÉSZÁROS argues that Hungary’s 15th Amendment increasingly turns its Fundamental Law into an exclusionary project, targeting minorities under the guise of protecting children.
verfassungsblog.de/we-the-bugs-...
GÁBOR MÉSZÁROS argues that Hungary’s 15th Amendment increasingly turns its Fundamental Law into an exclusionary project, targeting minorities under the guise of protecting children.
verfassungsblog.de/we-the-bugs-...
May 23, 2025 at 8:17 AM
How do you constitutionalize a culture war?
GÁBOR MÉSZÁROS argues that Hungary’s 15th Amendment increasingly turns its Fundamental Law into an exclusionary project, targeting minorities under the guise of protecting children.
verfassungsblog.de/we-the-bugs-...
GÁBOR MÉSZÁROS argues that Hungary’s 15th Amendment increasingly turns its Fundamental Law into an exclusionary project, targeting minorities under the guise of protecting children.
verfassungsblog.de/we-the-bugs-...
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Die Frage ist also: wie gestalten wir Lohnarbeit so, dass sie ein Leben mit Kindern ermöglicht und nicht wie gestalten wie Kinderbetreuung so, dass Eltern in die bestehenden Lohnarbeitsmodelle gepresst werden.
Kind sind keine wegzuorganisierende Last, die Frauen im Weg sind.
Kind sind keine wegzuorganisierende Last, die Frauen im Weg sind.
May 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Die Frage ist also: wie gestalten wir Lohnarbeit so, dass sie ein Leben mit Kindern ermöglicht und nicht wie gestalten wie Kinderbetreuung so, dass Eltern in die bestehenden Lohnarbeitsmodelle gepresst werden.
Kind sind keine wegzuorganisierende Last, die Frauen im Weg sind.
Kind sind keine wegzuorganisierende Last, die Frauen im Weg sind.
Great explainer about the latest assault on the independent sector in hungary
This seems like an existential threat to Hungary's independent sector. Besides practically forbidding any criticism of Hungary's "democracy" if an organization or media outlet receives foreign funding (including EU money), it would make receiving domestic funding difficult as well.
@politico.eu: "The bill says threats to national sovereignty include influencing public opinion, promoting democratic debate, or challenging state-defined values like Christian culture and traditional family roles."
May 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Great explainer about the latest assault on the independent sector in hungary
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9. Most importantly, I hope that young WOMEN will not be studied as the aberration (or the norm), but as an EQUAL part of a complex and heterogeneo young generation, which is:
- more inclusive
- more divided
- different from previous generations
- more open to the far right
#TheEnd
- more inclusive
- more divided
- different from previous generations
- more open to the far right
#TheEnd
May 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
9. Most importantly, I hope that young WOMEN will not be studied as the aberration (or the norm), but as an EQUAL part of a complex and heterogeneo young generation, which is:
- more inclusive
- more divided
- different from previous generations
- more open to the far right
#TheEnd
- more inclusive
- more divided
- different from previous generations
- more open to the far right
#TheEnd
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‼️A Fidesz bill has been tabled at midnight that would make it extremely difficult for organisations receiving foreign funding to operate and exist in Hungary @telexhu.bsky.social reports.
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May 14, 2025 at 5:28 AM
‼️A Fidesz bill has been tabled at midnight that would make it extremely difficult for organisations receiving foreign funding to operate and exist in Hungary @telexhu.bsky.social reports.
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🇪🇺 Who decides on ousting a Member of the European Parliament?
🇭🇺 A new Hungarian law would allow national authorities to revoke the mandates of elected MEPs. With Beáta Bakó, we argue that an EU-level oversight is necessary.
🇭🇺 A new Hungarian law would allow national authorities to revoke the mandates of elected MEPs. With Beáta Bakó, we argue that an EU-level oversight is necessary.
Removal of Hungarian MEPs Threatens EU Democracy
A new proposal would let Hungary revoke MEPs’ mandates for false asset declarations. As the EP ensures the EU’s democratic legitimacy, its members’ removal should face EU oversight. The CJEU—not natio...
www.europeanlawblog.eu
April 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
🇪🇺 Who decides on ousting a Member of the European Parliament?
🇭🇺 A new Hungarian law would allow national authorities to revoke the mandates of elected MEPs. With Beáta Bakó, we argue that an EU-level oversight is necessary.
🇭🇺 A new Hungarian law would allow national authorities to revoke the mandates of elected MEPs. With Beáta Bakó, we argue that an EU-level oversight is necessary.
The "Authoritarian Market Playbook", implemented
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verfassungsblog.de/the-authorit...
April 3, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The "Authoritarian Market Playbook", implemented
verfassungsblog.de/the-authorit...
verfassungsblog.de/the-authorit...
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Ich würde mir wünschen, dass es den Medien gelingt, die Tragweite der Vergehen, besser zu erklären, für die Le Pen verurteilt wurde - die Ausplünderung demokratischer Institutionen zum Machterhalt.
March 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Ich würde mir wünschen, dass es den Medien gelingt, die Tragweite der Vergehen, besser zu erklären, für die Le Pen verurteilt wurde - die Ausplünderung demokratischer Institutionen zum Machterhalt.
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24.3.1933: "Ermächtigungsgesetz" tritt in Kraft
#OnThisDay #kalenderblatt #OTD #geschichte #Geschichtsunterricht
#OnThisDay #kalenderblatt #OTD #geschichte #Geschichtsunterricht
March 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
24.3.1933: "Ermächtigungsgesetz" tritt in Kraft
#OnThisDay #kalenderblatt #OTD #geschichte #Geschichtsunterricht
#OnThisDay #kalenderblatt #OTD #geschichte #Geschichtsunterricht
Elected MPs banned from attending (=voting) in parliament until May
💥Hungary sliding further into authoritarianism: Viktor Orbán’s close ally, Speaker of the House László Kövér, banned the entire liberal Momentum party faction from parliament and fined them €175,000 for protesting Orbán's Pride crackdown—setting a precedent to ban other elected opposition MPs too.
March 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Elected MPs banned from attending (=voting) in parliament until May
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SCOOP --> Trump's State Department quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of Russian abductions of Ukrainian kids to European law enforcement, two sources familiar with the situation tell me.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
Trump Admin Nixed Contract Helping Kidnapped Ukrainian Kids: Sources
The fate of abducted Ukrainian children is a white-hot issue for peace negotiations—and it looks like the State Department may have just undercut the cause.
newrepublic.com
March 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
SCOOP --> Trump's State Department quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of Russian abductions of Ukrainian kids to European law enforcement, two sources familiar with the situation tell me.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
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In Serbien wurde der Zugverkehr gestoppt, Studierenden-Busse werden gecancelt, und überall finden „Straßenarbeiten“ statt – alles, damit die Menschen morgen nicht zur Großdemonstration nach Belgrad kommen. Dieses Regime ist so verzweifelt, dass es buchstäblich die Straßen hochklappt.
March 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM
In Serbien wurde der Zugverkehr gestoppt, Studierenden-Busse werden gecancelt, und überall finden „Straßenarbeiten“ statt – alles, damit die Menschen morgen nicht zur Großdemonstration nach Belgrad kommen. Dieses Regime ist so verzweifelt, dass es buchstäblich die Straßen hochklappt.
❗️constitutions don't defend themselves, people do
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
March 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
❗️constitutions don't defend themselves, people do
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Noch ein paar Worte zur Abschaffung des #Amtsermittlungsgrundsatz, den CDU, CSU und SPD im Asylprozess planen, denn hier wird massiv am Rechtsstaatsprinzip gesägt.
1. Dieser Grundsatz besagt, dass Behörden und auch Gerichte von sich aus alles wesentliche zu einem Sachverhalt ermitteln müssen.
1. Dieser Grundsatz besagt, dass Behörden und auch Gerichte von sich aus alles wesentliche zu einem Sachverhalt ermitteln müssen.
March 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Noch ein paar Worte zur Abschaffung des #Amtsermittlungsgrundsatz, den CDU, CSU und SPD im Asylprozess planen, denn hier wird massiv am Rechtsstaatsprinzip gesägt.
1. Dieser Grundsatz besagt, dass Behörden und auch Gerichte von sich aus alles wesentliche zu einem Sachverhalt ermitteln müssen.
1. Dieser Grundsatz besagt, dass Behörden und auch Gerichte von sich aus alles wesentliche zu einem Sachverhalt ermitteln müssen.