Iran war: Trump says US to 'blockade' Strait of Hormuz, as Iran says it will not 'surrender' to threats The US president's comments come after delegations from Washington and Tehran failed to reach a deal following lengthy talks in Islamabad.

The continuous breaches of international law are staggering and this is yet another one.

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💥🇭🇺🗳️First results of the Hungarian parliamentary elections are in: with 14.72% counted, the opposition leads with mandates nearing a two-thirds majority.

Everything points to Viktor Orbán’s defeat and Péter Magyar becoming Hungary’s next prime minister.

Allerdings kann eine "Auswanderung" wenn man – vielleicht auch aus Unwissenheit – keine Genehmigung hat, nach § 1 Abs 2 nicht zum Ruhen der Wehrpflicht führen.

(Und bei der Ausreise aus Schengen, je nach politischer Lage auch an der Binnengrenze, kann die BPol einen vermutlich festhalten)

Die Genehmigungspflicht für Auslandaufenthalte 17- bis 45-Jähriger

Oh lovely. The (national) case file containing the first ever preliminary reference from a German court seems to have been destroyed.

Entscheidung von Staatsminister Weimer - Geplanter Erweiterungsbau für Deutsche Nationalbibliothek soll nicht umgesetzt werden Der seit Jahren geplante Erweiterungsbau an der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek in Leipzig soll nun doch nicht umgesetzt werden. Wie die Nationalbibliothek mitteilte, hat das der Beauftragte der Bundesre...

Schlimmer Verdacht: Mag Kulturstaatsminister Weimer am Ende einfach keine Bücher?

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Impressive, this looks super useful!!

cjeu-py Python toolkit for empirical research on the Court of Justice of the European Union

🧵 I just released cjeu-py – an open-source Python toolkit for empirical research on the Court of Justice of the EU.

pip install cjeu-py

It collects structured data from CELLAR, parses judgments, extracts citations, and optionally classifies them with an LLM. Thread 👇

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A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...

An impressive piece:

«One European foreign minister, who asked not to specify their country, recalled a discussion with Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, that became heated: “I’m old enough to remember 2003, and back then I was one of those who believed you,” the minister told Blinken.»

Karlsruher Sicherheitskonferenz

Eine verdiente Abrechnung mit der "völkerrechtsfreundlichen Rechtsprechung" des zweiten Senats des BVerfG. Einer der besten Blogposts, die ich seit langem gelesen habe verfassungsblog.de/karlsruher-s...

of processing names and addresses

If it were GDPR based reasoning, it would be a stricter test. Not just equivalence and effectiveness but full proportionality. In this one case, the rationales might work, because the requests might be absusive. But when there are no indications of abuse, I find it difficult to see the necessity

The fake names are not. But the real names the authority wants to process are. And thus their processing must be necessary (and there the environmental law might come into play).

So I am surprised it is all about what an "applicant" is and not also about Art. 6(1)(c) or (e) GDPR.

What I find really surprising about this case: it is, in essence, about whether member states may process certain kinds of personal data. And yet nobody seems to have made it a data protection case.

The EU has just published the final version of the Article 122 Regulation that, as of today, indefinitely immobilises the Russian assets.

It sets three key conditions to release the €210 billion:
1) Russia ends the war
2) Russia pays reparations to Ukraine
3) Russia is no longer an economic threat

Fischer rezensiert: 'Deutsche Dogmen' von Reinhard Müller Die Irrtümer der deutschen Volkseele erweisen sich als Müllers persönliche Fantasieprodukte. Fake, meint Thomas Fischer und senkt den Daumen.

Manchmal schreibt Thomas Fischer noch wunderbare Verrisse. Und Reinhard Müller gönne ich diesen von Herzen.

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Breaking EU rule of law protection news

Late on Thursday, the NL Parliament, by majority, instructed the NL government to initiate *Article 259 TFEU State-to-State infringement proceedings against Slovakia* over its recent constitutional change to limit LGBTIQ-rights & to deny supremacy of EU law

Primăria Oradea a interzis, pentru al treilea an la rând, Marșul Pride. Organizatorii anunță că îl vor ține oricum Oradea este din nou în centrul unui conflict privind dreptul la liberă exprimare. Primăria a interzis pentru al treilea an consecutiv organizarea marșului Oradea Pride. Comunitatea LGBTQ acuză discrim...

Today is #BerlinPride ( #CSDBerlin ). But it is also #OradeaPride. The city in Romania has banned the event for the third year in a row, way before Orbán tried to. And despite the ban, there will be a protest, which deserves lots of solidarity 🫶

Illegale Einreisen per Luftweg: Schlupfloch Schengen-Raum | MDR.DE Innerhalb Europas fliegen – oft ganz ohne Passkontrolle: Was für Urlauber praktisch ist, nutzen auch Schleuser und Geflüchtete. Die Bundespolizei kennt das Problem. Doch eingreifen darf sie oft nicht.

"Schlupfloch" aka die Bundespolizei hält sich ausnahmsweise an Unionsrecht.

Slightly disappointed 🙃

A nice little conviction of Germany for it criminalizing the carrying of "protective weapons" at an assembly.

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I agree that optimism is usually wrong, but this time something good happened.

(They are without the diapsora, which strongly favoured Simion in the first round)

Exit poll CURS alegeri prezidențiale 2025, turul 2 *Datele valabile la ora 20, fără diaspora. Nicușor Dan - 54,1% George Simion - 45,9% Exit poll Avangarde alegeri prezidențiale 2025, turul 2 *Datele valabile la ora 19, fără diaspora. Nicușor Dan - 54,9% George Simion - 45,1%

Let's hope the exit polls don't lie this time.

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Es ist wieder IFG-Zeit

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It is not a public holiday in Italy, either, which really surprised me.

How Hungary’s Pride Ban Tests the EU’s Commitment to Democracy

A very interesting read on the Budapest pride ban.

I really hope the Commission applies for interim measures. But my expectations are low.

verfassungsblog.de/how-hungarys...

Kann man machen 💁‍♂️

Skeet von @johannesfranzen.bsky.social: „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.“

Tweet von Jochen Bittner: „Ich habe nicht die geringste Ahnung von französischem Recht und wie dieses Urteil in dessen Kontext steht. Aber die politische Wirkung wird sein, dass es hier weniger um die Veruntreuung von Geld geht als um die Unterschlagung von Wählerstimmen. Was die berechtigte Frage aufwirft, ob das Delikt den Demokratieschaden rechtfertigt.“

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Italy: Art Installation regarding migrants at Florence Basilica sparks controversy An installation dedicated to migrants in Florence inaugurated on March 25, at the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata, has sparked a political controversy.

A temporary installation covers the front doors of Santissima Annunziata in Florence with the thermal blankets used to warm up migrants rescued at sea.

In a surreal twist, members of Fratelli d'Italia say this is "disrespectful and aesthetically disgusting".

www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6365...