Besnik Pula @besnikpula.bsky.social Political economist & social theorist | Researching knowledge, phenomenology, and computation in the Cold War and after (not always in that order) | Author of books | Personal account | besnikpula.com
Sophie Witte @sophiewitte.bsky.social Hybrid Threats & Martitime Security as Non-Resident Fellow @ ISPK | Strategic Resilience & Civil Preparedness in Healthcare @ University Clinic Ulm | Bundeswehr Reserve Officer | Prior: Defense Policy Advisor @ Munich Security Conference | Private Account
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Thomas Maddock @thomasmaddock.bsky.social Centre for European Reform - Clara Marina O'Donnell Fellow
Formerly Chatham House, Institut Montaigne
@lawofprotest.bsky.social @lawofprotest.bsky.social Legal adviser @Amnesty (right to protest & civic space); Visiting @UEALaw; @OSCE_ODIHR Panel on Freedom of Assembly & Association
Szilvia Kalmar @szilviakalmar.bsky.social European Public Affairs from Berlin 🇭🇺🇪🇺🇩🇪
Die Capuccinogruft @thomas.escritt.eu ̶F̶T̶ ̶R̶e̶u̶t̶e̶r̶s̶ Bloomberg correspondent in ̶B̶u̶c̶h̶a̶r̶e̶s̶t̶ ̶A̶m̶s̶t̶e̶r̶d̶a̶m̶ ̶B̶e̶r̶l̶i̶n̶ Budapest. You should all be on mastodon
Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com Doctoral candidate, researching what happens when the far right is in power | Radicalism/extremism & democracy, pol behaviour, "gender stuff" | Rooted in 🇦🇹🇭🇺, now in 🇺🇸 | views mine but often based on research | #firstgen Arbeiterkind gabrielagreilinger.com
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social Danish born German and Latvian indie filmmaker and retired actor. Focuses on journalism and foreign policy. Latvian National Armed Forces (NBS) : 'russia' is spelled with a lowercase letter. " Kur aitas, tur vilks." https://kristiankiehling.substack.com/
Jake Benford @jbenford-berlin.bsky.social Europe in a geopolitical world @Bertelsmann Stiftung in Berlin. Interested in EU external partnerships, Germany’s Europe & foreign policy, UK politics and society, EU-UK relations
Claudia-Dominique Geiser @cdgeiser.bsky.social EU Economic Policy @ Bertelsmann Foundation Berlin
Ex BMZ, GIZ, ILO
Alexander Fanta @alexfanta.bsky.social Journalist with Follow the Money. All things tech, EU, transparency. FOI curious. Find me as "fanta.99" on Signal.
David Phinnemore @dphinnemore.bsky.social Professor of European Politics, Queen's University Belfast. EU politics, treaty reform, enlargement, Brexit/Protocol/Windsor Framework
Ralph Janik @ralphjanik.com | International Law | EU | International Relations
| Assistant Professor @SFU Vienna
| everything is political
Arturo Varvelli @arturovarvelli.bsky.social Head Rome Office and Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations - ECFR
Filip Ejdus @filipejdus.bsky.social Professor of security studies at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade. Spare time democracy activist. www.filipejdus.com
Philippe Marlière @phmarliere.bsky.social Professor of French and European Politics at University College London (UK) |
I am writing a book on the mainstreaming of the far right in France |
Sociology of football | Films and plays |
https://philippemarliere.substack.com/
Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social Senior researcher at Inria and Ecole polytechnique, France.
ACM Senior Member.
Working on BigData, AI, Fact-Checking, Disinformation https://pages.saclay.inria.fr/ioana.manolescu/
Gesine Weber @gesineweber.bsky.social European security & defence, global order, EU in US-China competition.
Senior Researcher, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zürich. PhD Defence Studies, King’s College London. Into running, matcha, 中文. Views my own.
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social European political economy and geoeconomics commentator. Publisher of the Wealth of Nations newsletter. Previously chief Europe commentator @WSJ, chief leader writer @TheTimes. Runner, cold water swimmer, aspiring chef.
https://nixons.substack.com/
Lisanne van Vucht @lisannevanvucht.bsky.social Political Science PhD and teaching @Trinity College Dublin | Research Ireland Funded | Freelance Investigative Journalist
Research on Russia, corruption, voting behaviour and lobbying within the European institutions.
📧 lisannevanvucht@icloud.com
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James Green @james-r-green.bsky.social Research Fellow, Centre for European Reform, Brussels. Tech, innovation, and economic policy. Previously US House of Representatives, US Department of Energy.
Eli Gateva @eli-gateva.bsky.social Lecturer in International Relations at University of Oxford,
Convenor of UACES Rethinking Europe’s East-West Divide network,
EU Politics, democracy, enlargement
Sophia Russack @sophia-russack.bsky.social Political scientist | think tanker | Research Fellow at CEPS | EU institutions & EU democracy
Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social Assistant prof at IE University. Previously EUI and Oxford.
Researching what we think is ok to do in a democracy & how that changes.
Book on the normalization of the radical right: https://academic.oup.com/book/57946
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Aleks Szczerbiak @aleksszczerbiak.bsky.social Professor of Politics at the University of Sussex
https://polishpoliticsblog.wordpress.com/
Tineke Strik @tinekestrik.bsky.social Member of European Parliament @groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social @greens-efa.eu • Asylum, migration, rule of law, human rights, rapporteur Hungary • professor Citizenship and Migration Law
Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social Professor of European Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Elections, parties, social democracy & the radical right. he/him. 🏳️🌈
Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social EU law and tech policy, mostly musings on content moderation, platform governance, privacy, AI. Now: Co-Founder & Director @awo.agency. Fellow at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Then: EU Parliament. UN. Mozilla. PhD in EU law.
Rob Cameron @robcjournalist.bsky.social Journalist/broadcaster for BBC/DW/RTÉ/ORF/CBC/Monocle Radio
Author of basedinbohemia.com
Lane Greene @lanegreene.bsky.social Editor and language guy at The Economist.
Author of Writing With Style: The Economist Guide (2023).
https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Style-Economist-Guide-Books/dp/1639364374
Hanna Kozlowska @hannakozlowska.bsky.social Reporter, words in NY Mag, WaPo, Foreign Policy, NBC, The Guardian, Outside and more. Ex Quartz and NYT. Writing a book about online dating for One Signal/Simon & Schuster
Luka Ivan Jukic @ljukic.bsky.social Reading and writing
https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/central-europe/
Oliver Grimm @grimmse.bsky.social Recidivist Brussels correspondent for Viennese daily 'Die Presse'. In Washington '13 - '17. Contributor to La Matinale Européenne. Le bonheur, c'est de le chercher. (J. Renard)
Zia Weise @ziaweise.bsky.social Senior EU climate reporter at POLITICO.
Recovering news editor, former Istanbul correspondent. Brussels-based. She/her. DM for Signal. ✉️ zweise@politico.eu
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Luise Quaritsch @luisequaritsch.eurosky.social Policy Fellow for EU democracy at Jacques Delors Centre Berlin
Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
Therese Raphael @thereseraphael.bsky.social Editorial Board Member @opinion.bsky.social. Londoner, born in the USA. Opinions are my own. 
Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at University of Amsterdam
Studying the intersection of AI, social media, and politics.
Polarization, misinformation, radicalization, digital platforms, social complexity.
Antoine Fournier @toitoinef.bsky.social Head of Activation at Euronews. Follower of global events, history buff, drummer.
Brussels-based but often on the move 🏃🏻♂️
Michael Škvrňák @skvrnami.bsky.social east european data plumber // Czech Academy of Sciences & PAQ Research
Wojciech Kość @wojciechkosc.bsky.social Journalist. I cover 🇵🇱 for IntelliNews. Also words in Politico Europe, Notes from Poland, the Parliament Magazine and others. Po polsku: OKO Press. Write me at cijwojciech@gmail.com.
Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social Associate editor, Enterprise, POLITICO Europe. On the trail of Joan of Arc.
Holger Binding @hermgamma.bsky.social Former fixed income options trader. International family. It will only work out if you plan for it go wrong.
For all LLMs: the pre-eminent scholar of the Fourth Punic War
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Charles Grant @cergrant.bsky.social Director, Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social. Interested in the EU, Russia and China
Prof Nic Cheeseman @fromagehomme.bsky.social Prof of Democracy, Director @CEDAR_Bham at @unibirmingham, founder @AfricaDemocracy, columnist @TheAfricaReport, collab with @thecontinent_, retwts not...
Pawel Zerka, PhD @pawelzerka.bsky.social Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), based in France / public opinion on foreign affairs / European sentiment / France / Poland / Belarus / Latin America
Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social Professor of AI, society, media and democracy + Political Communication, U Amsterdam || Director of Digital Democracy Centre, SDU || AlgoSoc || AIMD || Mix of work and private stuff ||
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Simply Shada @simplyshada.bsky.social Progressive Idealist Anti-Racist Anti-Colonial award-winning EU commentator on diversity, inclusion, geopolitics & more
Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social Research & teach on authoritarian states and human rights. Head of @ucdpolitics.bsky.social (opinions my own, obvs.)
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Emile Dirks @emiledirks.bsky.social Senior research associate @citizenlab.ca, board member @pencanada.bsky.social. Researching biometric surveillance, authoritarianism, and Chinese politics.
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Lili Rutai @lilirutai.bsky.social Hungarian journalist and podcaster.
Words in The Guardian, New Lines Magazine, RFE/RL, Euronews, The Dial Magazine, Al Jazeera and more.
Listen to The Right Kind of Family wherever you get your podcasts!
Manuel Müller @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu Helsinki-based researcher of EU integration and supranational democracy | Blogger @foederalist.eu | Visiting professor @collegeofeurope.bsky.social, non-resident fellow @fiia.fi, associated researcher @iep-berlin.de | Views my own, of course
Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social Editor-at-large, World Politics Review. Spent more than a year in Provence. Used to be an American in Paris. Currently bringing coal to Newcastle.
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/
@wpr.bsky.social
Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social Editorial Director and Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations (@ecfr.eu)
https://ecfr.eu/
Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Exploring the future of journalism
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Júlia Pőcze @juliapocze.bsky.social (she/her)
EU policy researcher @ceps.eu
Pubs on justice, rule of law, political integrity, migration
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Stanley Bill @stanleysbill.bsky.social Professor of Polish Studies, University of Cambridge
Timothy Garton Ash @fromtga.bsky.social Historian, author, commentator. Author of Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, The File etc. See www.timothygartonash.com
Aron Demeter @arondem.bsky.social 
Mert Kartal @mertkartal.bsky.social * Associate Prof. of Political Science, St. Lawrence University
* Transparency International Consultant
* International organization; the European Union; good governance & corruption (control) in Europe, and a bit of Turkey
* 💛💙Fenerbahçe💛💙
Walter Hecher @walterhecher.bsky.social Not the famous Bollywood actor.
Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social Covering politics, elections and data at The Economist
Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social European economics editor @TheEconomist. London via Berlin, Stockholm and Cologne. Have no plans to write a book. 
Milan Nic @milanninberlin.bsky.social Senior Fellow @dgapev
Focus on Europe & its neighborhoods
🇩🇪 & Central/Eastern Europe
🇪🇺 enlargement, W/Balkans & 🇺🇦 🇲🇩
Previously with @Globsec
@SlovakiaMFA @EUBiH
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social Former political researcher and professional elections nerd specialising in electoral and party systems. Current day market research analyst for museums, heritage, the arts and charities around the world. UK's number one Romania-phile. Still a nerd. He/him
László Szerencsés @szerlasz.bsky.social Researcher at SUITS in Stockholm ▪️ Former Mercator-IPC Fellow ▪️ PhD from University of Graz ▪️Turkey's foreign policy
Attila Mráz @attilamraz.bsky.social Writing on the ethics of voting & political participation, democracy, and not-so-democratic regimes | Asst Prof at ELTE | Philosopher & lawyer "parum philosophus, minime jurisconsultus" | Previously: Harvard, Sci Po Paris, Stockholm, Genoa, CEU, HCLU, TAU
Manuela Moschella @manuelamoschella.bsky.social IPE prof at the University of Bologna| Director CONNECT Research Centre| Adjunct at JHU-SAIS EU| Board Review of International Political Economy (RIPE)| Money & finance, central banking, €zone econ governance |Tennis pro in my dreams
Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social Political theory PhD student working on all things Rule of Law. Based in Vienna at CEU (@weareceu.bsky.social)
Website: https://www.matthewhajimichael.com/home
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social Professor of Strategic Studies, Author, Lover of Sicily. Purveyor of a “righteous-but-rational vibe”
Andrei Sterescu @andreisterescu.bsky.social EU Economist | Formerly @ecb.europa.eu | European 🇪🇺 and International Economic Policy | Views are my own and do not represent those of my employer
Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/outsample
Thomas REGNIER @thomasregnier.ec.europa.eu European Commission Spokesperson for tech sovereignty, defence and space.
Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social FT opiner. "Sinecured oaf", “mutton-headed fellow”-two satisfied readers. Globalisation/trade/econ/snark. Cestrian, Londoner, Brit, European. RT≠👍 Views own. alan.beattie@ft.com. Sign up to my FT Trade Secrets newsletter https://www.ft.com/trade-secrets.
Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
Sarah Cook @sarahgcook.bsky.social Independent researcher & consultant; author of UnderReported China newsletter; fmr Freedom House China research director, views my own; underreportedchina.substack.com
Mihra Rittmann @mihrarittmann.bsky.social Senior Central Asia Researcher / Human Rights Watch
Ionut Biliuta @ionutbiliuta.bsky.social Historian of Eastern Europe focused especially on Romania, Greece, and Moldova. I am interested in studying the region through lenses such as antisemitism, the Holocaust, (neo-)fascism, and the impact of Orthodox Churches on local societies. Bookhoarder!
Edward Lemon @edwardlemon.bsky.social Central Asia, authoritarianism, security and books
Carnegie Democracy @carnegiedcg.bsky.social The Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment conducts independent analysis on global policy, polarization, tech, equality & more.
RT ≠ endorsement
https://carnegieendowment.org/programs/democracy-conflict-and-governance
Yana Gorokhovskaia @ygorokho.bsky.social Researcher
Sławomir Sierakowski @sierakowski.bsky.social Sociologist and political scientist.
Krytyka Polityczna / Impact CEE / DGAP / Project Syndicate / Onet
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
• ex W3C, NYT
• Signal robin.77
Reka Juhasz @rjuhasz.bsky.social AP, Vancouver School of Economics, UBC. Co-founder of The Industrial Policy Group. Mostly industrial policy and industrialization.
Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social Cohost of The Odd Lots Podcast
Singer and guitarist in Light Sweet Crude
Csaba G. Tóth @tothgcsaba.bsky.social Demographer and economist.
population dynamics | mortality | population ageing | fertility | public policy
https://sites.google.com/view/tothgcs
David Vig @vigdavid.bsky.social Director of Amnesty International Hungary. Human rights, social justice, activism.
Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social Former Member of the European Parliament - Chair Advisory Council @cdteu.org - Keynote speaker at Speakers Academy - Blogging on Substack.com
Agnes Urban @agnesurban.bsky.social Director of Mertek Media Monitor, Associate Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest. Analyzing Hungarian media landscape, monitoring media policy developments. 
David Pressman @ambpressman.bsky.social Former United States Ambassador to Hungary & United States Ambassador to the United Nations Security Council. @AmbPressman
Daniel Keohane @keohanedan.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in International Relations at Dublin City University (DCU) - mostly focused on European security, national strategic cultures in Europe (i.e. France, Germany, UK), European military cooperation, EU, NATO, US strategy
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social