The EU’s key water law is under pressure amid intensified lobbying by the mining industry. DeSmog analysis shows sector meetings with EU officials tripled in the year before the European Commission pledged to “review and revise” the Water Framework Directive.
Assistant Professor of International Relations #ECPRMemberJobs
🎓 PhD degree in International Relations
🏫 @radboudpol.bsky.social
⌛ Fri 27 March
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#PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky
Now online an excellent interview to my colleague Lynda Gilby on the weaponization of reproductive rights and health by transnational conservative and far-right movements @transnationalflows.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3PmB...
“Neutrality“ is an interesting term for an institution where the US administration choses its President and which has weighted voting rights.
🇪🇺 Behind the #chemical industry #lobbying blitz to undermine #EU safety
‘it is increasingly clear that the planned — and much-needed — robust revision of EU chemicals rules is being derailed by corporate interests’
@vickycann.bsky.social @corporateeurope.org
euobserver.com/202912/behin...
Why rightwing inquiry into Europe’s NGOs was never about transparency
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
Corporate lobbyists push for deregulation while workers pay the price
Hey look, yet another dangerous and blatantly un-scientific policy move from this administration!
There's an outrageous amount of evidence supporting human-driven #ClimateChange, and it's very real risks to #PublicHealth.
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apnews.com/article/trum...
UN risks 'imminent financial collapse', secretary general warns. It comes after the UN's largest contributor, the US, refused to contribute to its regular and peacekeeping budgets, and withdrew from several agencies it called a "waste of taxpayer dollars". Several other mem...
TAT: [Foreign Policy]
The European Commission has warned that Donald Trump’s latest restrictions on foreign aid are dangerous and threaten global health — while saying the EU can’t fill the funding gap alone.
🚨 Global health organisations warn the US has expanded the Global Gag Rule to all non-military foreign aid—threatening reproductive, humanitarian & LGBTQI+ health services worldwide. 🌍⚕️
✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social
@ipas.org @reprorights.org ights.org @msf.ca @kff.org
📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁
I wouldn't wish an hour-long podcast featuring Russ Douthat and Jay Bhattacharya on my worst enemy but let's simply say that Podcast Jay still appears more concerned about perceived slights for his COVID crackpottery than with protecting US biomedical science from a full-on Trump-and-RFK onslaught.
I find it *extremely* disturbing that Jay Bhattacharya—who campaigned for RFK Jr during RFK’s Presidential run—is repositioning the NIH to be the research arm of RFK Jr’s anti-vaccine, anti-science MAHA movement😨
WHO removing Us Flag
Two DOGE members working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls"
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
I still can't get over the most respected and serious source of financial news in the English-speaking world just saying "Elon Musk's social media platform is nothing but an unconsensual porn site run by servile, amoral clowns. And we're gonna express that graphically."
www.ft.com/content/ad94...
The industry connections of an advisory panel for the new dietary guidelines are notable, especially in light of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s criticism of corporate influence.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/07/n...
Estonia has set in motion plans to link whole genome data to patient records.
But at a time when Russia is launching cyberattacks on EU members, critics warn this new digital health system brings with it huge security risks.
🔗 politi.co/4aBAegB
Santa, a reindeer, and sledge of presents on floating pieces of ice as the Shell logo-as-sun burns down from the sky, further melting the ice. Santa asks a large and surprised walrus for help: "Excuse me sir, do you have experience in pulling a sleigh?". Text above says, "Don't let big oil ruin the holidays"
Don’t let fossil fuel giants like Shell ruin the holidays (and everything we love).
Sign the petition today
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Artist: Seppo Leinonen
📣 Call for #ecprgc26 Panels and Papers
🌐 A World in Crisis: Conflict and the Future of Global Justice
🪑 @cordschmelzle.bsky.social & @jamespattison.bsky.social
⌛ New deadline: 9 Jan buff.ly/sVPDpp9
#Polisky #NormativeTheory
As of 2026, Japanese entities will be eligible to apply to #HorizonEU calls in Pillar 2, including #health research.
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
The argument is that Europe underperforms in tech and biotech because it is “too expensive” to fire people.That may sound intuitively appealing but it is profoundly misleading.
Check out this new @thelancet.com Viewpoint on Corporate Accountability, and the fallacies of badly-designed corporate scorecard and other selective, voluntary self-regulating approaches to curb health-harming behaviours of transnational corporations.
lnkd.in/eqTJ5C4q (open access till 4 Feb 2025)
A new report from @politico.eu on "Europe's Omnibus Fever" is damning in its criticism:
"What the Commission frames as simplification is, in practice, a downward drift in regulatory reach that erodes the informational foundations of effective governance."
#deregulation #omnibus #RuleToProtect
"Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country, and you see it happening already."
-Donald Trump, 4/2/25
