🇵🇱🇩🇪🇪🇺⚖️ Senior Research Coordinator at @democracyreporting.bsky.social, re:constitution programme - rule of law in the EU. Lives on a Berlin-Poznań-Warszawa train. "European Elitist". He/him. Full-time nerd. I'm a fan of bios longer than 160 characters.https://bsky.app/profile/jakubjaraczewski.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social/post/3mldx6sipa22m🇩🇪🇵🇱 We're slowly but inevitably nearing an AfD election poster with 1939 German borders and "Kommen wir noch einmal darauf zurück." [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 14:33 +0000at://did:plc:5hhncviscpylfcdw5bjxscck/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldx6sipa22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social/post/3mldpgsmekc2m🇬🇧🗳️ Kinda funny watching in real time as the UK discovers what happens when a system built for two dominant political parties to trade blows and keep smaller parties out encounters a 20/20/20/20/20 split in support.08 May 2026 12:15 +0000at://did:plc:5hhncviscpylfcdw5bjxscck/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldpgsmekc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social/post/3ml6sckpbz225🇵🇱⚖️Polish rule of law crisis latest - out of the complete blue, ECtHR issues an interim measure in the case of four Constitutional Tribunal limbo-judges against Poland, ordering the Polish authorities to make sure these people can sit on the Tribunal. I wasn't ready for this one, honest. 1/06 May 2026 13:23 +0000at://did:plc:5hhncviscpylfcdw5bjxscck/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6sckpbz225https://bsky.app/profile/jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social/post/3ml6sckpbz225🇵🇱⚖️Polish rule of law crisis latest - out of the complete blue, ECtHR issues an interim measure in the case of four Constitutional Tribunal limbo-judges against Poland, ordering the Polish authorities to make sure these people can sit on the Tribunal. I wasn't ready for this one, honest. 1/06 May 2026 13:23 +0000at://did:plc:5hhncviscpylfcdw5bjxscck/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6sckpbz225https://bsky.app/profile/jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social/post/3ml6gt4nzlk2g🇺🇦 Ukrainian: Запоріжжя Other European Latin alphabet languages: Zaporizja Zaporozhyya Zaporizhzhia Saporischschja Zaporiyia Zaporizzsja Polish: Zaporoże Not saying anything, but your life would be much easier if "ż" existed in your alphabet, folks.06 May 2026 09:57 +0000at://did:plc:5hhncviscpylfcdw5bjxscck/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6gt4nzlk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social/post/3ml662q6cjs26🇭🇺⚖️ Can't wait to feature on this one with a conversation about the rule of law and judicial independence. [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 07:20 +0000at://did:plc:5hhncviscpylfcdw5bjxscck/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml662q6cjs26https://bsky.app/profile/jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social/post/3ml56pb45522u🇩🇪🇵🇱 This is why we Poles go straight for 1-star reviews and Germans go "ja, tough but fair". [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 21:59 +0000at://did:plc:5hhncviscpylfcdw5bjxscck/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml56pb45522uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social/post/3ml3spb6nhk22🇵🇱🇭🇺⚖️🎙️It's podcast season for me, as I speak with @annawojcik.bsky.social for Oko.press podcast "Drugi Rzut Oka" about the rule of law in Hungary after Magyar's win, what are the lessons from Poland's rocky rule of law repair process for Hungarians (in Polish). [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 08:52 +0000at://did:plc:5hhncviscpylfcdw5bjxscck/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3spb6nhk22https://bsky.app/profile/jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social/post/3ml3he54fcs2f🐻🇩🇪🦷One nice aspect of Berlin is that the Polish parallel society there is on the level of having entire dental clinics that are made up of Polish dentists (maybe with one MENA-background Zahnarzt to ensure that you don't lose the other key Berlin demographic).05 May 2026 05:29 +0000at://did:plc:5hhncviscpylfcdw5bjxscck/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3he54fcs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social/post/3mkzgqzev222g🇩🇪🛃🇱🇺⚖️ Another week, another German court ruling that Germany's "not-border checks" are illegal. Ironically, the case arose from a control on the Geman-Luxembourgish border, famously full of savage barbarians.04 May 2026 10:13 +0000at://did:plc:5hhncviscpylfcdw5bjxscck/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzgqzev222ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social/post/3mkxudajvfs22All the Heroes of Might and Magic III video game remakes and board games are a proof that 45yo CEE dudes who want to feel for a moment like in their pre-mortgage/divorce/kids era are a truly infinite machine to print money.03 May 2026 19:10 +0000at://did:plc:5hhncviscpylfcdw5bjxscck/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxudajvfs22https://bsky.app/profile/jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social/post/3mks5xgfcms2c🇵🇱☀️🇩🇪 Herr Bundeskanzler Merz, if you nix the 1 May public holiday in vain hopes of making Germans more productive, I'm gonna steal your car and botch your flat renovation.01 May 2026 12:47 +0000at://did:plc:5hhncviscpylfcdw5bjxscck/app.bsky.feed.post/3mks5xgfcms2chttps://bsky.app/profile/jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social/post/3mkrkwcfyik2s🇨🇳🎙️I know that recording/listening to podcast is kind of a dead giveaway that you're in a middle life crisis, but "The Next Best" by @marceldirsus.com on international relations and policy is really good; and they swear on air, which is always a bonus point with Polish audience. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 May 2026 07:06 +0000at://did:plc:5hhncviscpylfcdw5bjxscck/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrkwcfyik2shttps://bsky.app/profile/jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social/post/3mkmt3bhtqc2i🇭🇺🇵🇱⚖️ This is podcast week for me, starting with my appearance on the "Przez Pryzmat", the podcast by Philipp Fritz from Die Welt, where I talk about the rule of law in Hungary and Poland and why the road to its repair is so rocky. PL but with EN subtitles! https://youtu.be/RUMvl7Yn8-Q?si=6wCt7D5T5M8yHh8p29 Apr 2026 09:49 +0000at://did:plc:5hhncviscpylfcdw5bjxscck/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkmt3bhtqc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social/post/3mknumyfgsc2t🇵🇱❄️☀️ 30 degrees difference in 4 days, climate go home ur drunk.29 Apr 2026 19:49 +0000at://did:plc:5hhncviscpylfcdw5bjxscck/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknumyfgsc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social/post/3mkmt3bhtqc2i🇭🇺🇵🇱⚖️ This is podcast week for me, starting with my appearance on the "Przez Pryzmat", the podcast by Philipp Fritz from Die Welt, where I talk about the rule of law in Hungary and Poland and why the road to its repair is so rocky. PL but with EN subtitles! https://youtu.be/RUMvl7Yn8-Q?si=6wCt7D5T5M8yHh8p29 Apr 2026 09:49 +0000at://did:plc:5hhncviscpylfcdw5bjxscck/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkmt3bhtqc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social/post/3mkkjjbmj3c2t"Prisoner exchange" means Poland jailed enough high value Belarusian intelligence assets for the swap to be attractive for Lukashenka. Big score for Sikorski and Tusk, as Poczobut being absent from the recent big BY political prisoner release was a sore point for Poland. [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Apr 2026 11:52 +0000at://did:plc:5hhncviscpylfcdw5bjxscck/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkjjbmj3c2thttps://bsky.app/profile/jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social/post/3mkkfleppdc2i🇵🇱📺🇬🇪 Long is the shadow cast by wings of the (neo-)Jagiellonian eagle. [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Apr 2026 10:42 +0000at://did:plc:5hhncviscpylfcdw5bjxscck/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkfleppdc2i