European Union/International Relations nerd. Assistant Professor Leiden University. https://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3mqonesonf22hPreviously allies of the Trump administration such as former PM Viktor Orbán introduced so-called „foreign agents laws“ supposedly to prevent outside interference of the kind now proposed by the Trump administration. What an irony that those very Trump allies now stand to gain from this. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Jul 2026 11:43 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqonesonf22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3mq52b64qu225 [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Jul 2026 11:46 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq52b64qu225https://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3mq4xqqgsqs25Good luck with that one... https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-he-ordered-cutting-off-all-trade-with-spain-2026-07-08/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6a4e09602c603800010009d4&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky08 Jul 2026 11:01 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq4xqqgsqs25https://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3mpyidbmbnc2tThis whole discussion is absurd. It would bring the EU right back to where it was before the Lisbon treaty….which tried to change things because having Commission foreign policy compete with Council led foreign policy clearly didn‘t work. https://www.politico.eu/article/european-commission-consider-department-foreign-relations/06 Jul 2026 16:14 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpyidbmbnc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3mpj7zbyri22bThis is from the @politico.eu deepdive into views on EEAS reform: https://www.politico.eu/article/eeas-ursula-von-der-leyen-emmanuel-macron-friederich-merz-giorgia-meloni-paris-berlin-push-eu-foreign-policy/ If this were to become reality it would be the ultimate irony. Today's EEAS was partly created out of the former DG RELEX within the Commission. We could then even give it back its name.30 Jun 2026 14:36 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpj7zbyri22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3mp6oohmpps2fI just read this week's @economist.com Charlemagne column by @spignal.bsky.social. I usually really enjoy these and mostly agree with them, though using the Turnberry "deal" as an example for the EU's slow decision-making feels really off. In this case US politics is mainly at fault, not the EU. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Jun 2026 09:59 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp6oohmpps2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3mnf4qd2jwk2pThe US State department is apparently getting ready to directly financially support far right parties in Europe. I'm curious how this will interact with campaign financing laws across European countries and public opinion amongst far right supporters. https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/01/state-department-europe-trump-far-right-populist-hungary-orban/03 Jun 2026 12:36 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnf4qd2jwk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3lx63lmuw4k2xHey @economist.com something seems very wrong with your chart on mayoral powers from your article on Zohran Mamdani‘s plans. The chart implies that the Berlin mayor has little control over things like education or policing, when the opposite is true. https://economist.com/united-states/2025/08/24/zohran-mamdani-is-promising-lots-of-things-he-cant-actually-do24 Aug 2025 18:12 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lx63lmuw4k2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3lvfoftdbkc2lIt seems like media outlets have a fundamental problem with reporting on the EU when it comes to reporting trade policy and figures. Depending on what sounds more dramatic the EU is either treated as a whole or as individual countries. That makes an already complex topic even harder to understand.02 Aug 2025 07:47 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvfoftdbkc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3luzecsmtq226It’s probably too early to judge whether the EU-US trade “deal“ is the best that could be achieved given the circumstances, but its contents as we know them certainly set a bad precedent for upcoming EU negotiations in terms of the EU standing up for its principles and leveraging its strengths.28 Jul 2025 10:15 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3luzecsmtq226https://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3loj3jrifnk2iWhile Merz has now been elected, this will be a stain on the chancellorship from the beginning. This 2nd vote today was made possible due to the statesmanship of the opposition Greens and Die Linke groups. [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2025 14:24 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3loj3jrifnk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3loigzfs2k225Ouch. Soon-to-be German chancellor Friedrich Merz fails to gain the necessary majority at the first vote in the German @bundestag.de. This spells trouble before the government has even started.06 May 2025 08:17 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3loigzfs2k225https://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3lodsb2rqgs2uI appreciate EU institutions trying to be „cool“ (whatever the current youth language thing is), but it might make sense to get the language right?!? Crafting items and following a quest are usually two separate things, unless Minecraft uses those terms differently from all other games… [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 May 2025 11:55 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lodsb2rqgs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3lnwwojqdqk2eGestern durfte ich für die Sendung "Europa Heute" im DLF mit Manfred Götzke über den #Schengen Report 2025 sprechen. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/schengen-report-2025-was-funktioniert-was-nicht-gespraech-mit-daniel-schade-100.html29 Apr 2025 09:09 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnwwojqdqk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3lmwr2hdp5c2yWhat a strange piece by Dutch public broadcaster @nieuws.nos.nl on Donald Trump's trade policy. It nicely illustrates that making sense of what's going on requires fundamental explanations of concepts such as reserve currency & comparative advantage, which it doesn't touch. https://nos.nl/artikel/2563788-trump-neemt-enorm-risico-met-handelsoorlog-maar-kan-die-wel-winnen16 Apr 2025 14:03 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmwr2hdp5c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3llvhemtpzc2tIn anticipation of the Trump administration's #trade war there was a fear that the US could deliberately impose different tariff rates on various #EU member states to sow chaos. They now seem to have done this accidentally instead by imposing different tariffs on EU territories such as Réunion.03 Apr 2025 08:12 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3llvhemtpzc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3lltlymu3k22sTo all the international law folk out there: With Hungary set to leave the ICC & Netanyahu's safety from arrest essentially guaranteed by the Hungarian government, isn't there still considerable risk of arrest for him when flying over ICC member territory, such as for an emergency landing?02 Apr 2025 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lltlymu3k22shttps://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3llbeyfp2t226Zum heutigen #Schengen Jubiläum lohnt sich ein kurzer Blick in den aktuellen Stand der Verhandlungen zwischen CDU/CSU und @spdfraktion.de im Hinblick auf die Schengen-Grenzen, die leider nichts gutes für Deutschlands Unterstützung des Schengen-Raums erahnen lassen.26 Mar 2025 08:36 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3llbeyfp2t226https://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3llbdvdjyy224Genau mein Humor: Einerseits #Schengen öffentlich loben und preisen, und andererseits seit beinahe einem Jahrzehnt an den Grundfesten des Schengen-Raums durch quasi dauerhafte Grenzkontrollen rütteln. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Mar 2025 08:17 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3llbdvdjyy224https://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3llbcmdueq22eZum heutigen 30-jährigen Jubiläum der ersten offenen #Schengen Grenzen innerhalb der EU bin ich heute in diesem Beitrag des Deutschlandfunks mit einer leider nicht allzu optimistischen Einschätzung zu Wort gekommen. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/meilenstein-der-europaeischen-geschichte-schengen-abkommen-30-jahre-in-kraft-100.html26 Mar 2025 07:54 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3llbcmdueq22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3ll6phaptik2uDuolingo has an important message today for Signal users in high level government circles:25 Mar 2025 07:06 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll6phaptik2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3lkqutzpgb22tIn case any scholars with plans to travel to the US for conferences were still thinking that surely they couldn’t possibly be affected by the Trump administration‘s border policies…think again. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Mar 2025 19:05 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkqutzpgb22thttps://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3lkoencgyik2nA German court just ruled that Germany's 2022 #Schengen border controls towards Austria were illegal given an earlier ruling by the European Court of Justice which made it clear that border controls can only ever continue beyond 6 months if there are novel reasons to do so. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Mar 2025 19:09 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkoencgyik2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3lk4jawpgmc2oThe Dutch parliament just rejected the EU‘s rearmament plan to bolster deterrence citing “financial risks“. Of course European defence being seen as ineffective and Russia (and possibly others) feeling emboldened doesn’t come with financial risks of any sort! https://nos.nl/artikel/2559134-tweede-kamer-tegen-europees-defensieplan-vanwege-financiele-risico-s11 Mar 2025 16:44 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk4jawpgmc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3liwevscnr22qA little article (in Dutch) on what my colleagues and I were up to last week with the Brussels launch of the @unileiden.bsky.social Europe Hub. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Feb 2025 12:45 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3liwevscnr22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/danielschade.bsky.social/post/3livwiq23nc2eWhile it was already clear last night that Germany's election outcome would be quite close to the final polls as results came in last night, it is now finally clear that the BSW has failed to enter parliament by a small margin. This should make building the next government coalition easier.24 Feb 2025 08:27 +0000at://did:plc:wt5ndqfedextt4zholhestkd/app.bsky.feed.post/3livwiq23nc2e