Rafael Labanino

New publication in @RegGov_journal on the effect of illiberal populism on the relationship between regulators and external stakeholders. We have some good and some bad news. doi.org/10.1111/rego.1… A 🧵 @BOKUvienna @hfwu_tweet @Konstanz_Pol_PA

‼️Enough is enough‼️ Orbán continues to dismantle the rule of law and violate the fundamental rights of EU citizens. Unacceptable that we still transfer EU funds to his corrupt regime. It’s time to suspend all payments! Our letter (26 MEPs) to Budget Commissioner Serafin ⤵️

Al Amal Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, where some of my injured family members were treated from IDF bombardment last year, has shut down today after staff stopped working and locked the facility down. Want to know why? Because the medical personnel were protesting against Hamas members taking over the Surgery Ward/Division and hiding there to protect themselves, endangering the entire facility. The staff made the courageous decision, despite the immense need for medical surgeries, to stop operating the hospital and protect the facility, their patients, and their lives, to send a clear signal to Hamas and other terrorists: You have no place in a hospital, and you’re not welcome here. This heroic action is yet another step that’s part of a growing trend of small but growing local resistance to Hamas’s fascism and terrorism, which Palestinians in Gaza hold responsible for their complete annihilation in a useless war meant to prolong the rule of an Iranian militia in the coastal enclave. This has happened time and again in medical facilities across Gaza, something that is illegal and immoral. And while I don’t want Israeli bombardment and targeting of hospitals anywhere in Gaza, international humanitarian law clearly states that the misuse of a hospital/medical facility to gain a military advantage or to shield military objectives from attack removes the protection for hospitals under IHL. In other words, Hamas’s thuggery, criminality, and terrorism give the Israeli government the excuse to target medical establishments in Gaza, something that, in turn, worsens the suffering of the civilian population in the coastal enclave. Remember this whenever you hear or see people chanting for the “resistance.” Remember this when you see headlines that absolve the terror group of any responsibility for the systematic destruction of Palestinian lives and hope under the pretense of “fighting the occupation.”

@berlin_bridge Apparently nothing

Attn constitutional law Twitter: what happens if the US president refuses to comply with an order from the Supreme Court?

@XavierGlangeaud @daniel_freund Wow man, this is pure racism.

Don't make a fixation, it won't change anything. #Corruption is part of the #Hungarian culture. #RuleOfLaw is also a foreign concept for them. It will take two more generations before they can really integrate European values. It would be our interest to revoke their EU membership in the meantime. #Magyar #Orbán #Politics #Hungarian #Magyarország #EU

‼️‼️ Fidesz trailing Tisza by 14 (!) points in Hungary. Orban is on the path to lose next years elections.

Last year, a source of mine at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, told me that in early 2024, mysteriously, suddenly, and strangely, entire floor wings at the medical facility would be taken out of commission and would become off-limits to all regular Gazan patients. Upon investigating further, he learned that Hamas was taking over sections of the hospital, setting up shop to treat its soldiers and, shockingly, Israeli hostages, and using the installation as a miniaturized command and control node and hoping that the Israeli military wouldn’t find them out. I’m sharing this information publicly for the first time because I think it is critical to let the whole world know that Hamas continues to abuse medical facilities throughout the Gaza Strip. I asked my friends to provide me with more specifics & visual evidence, but they were unable to, especially after the IDF intensified its attacks on southern Gaza. The post below confirms what everyone except the “pro-Palestine” movement has known: Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and other terrorists in Gaza continue to intimidate medical staff and seek to turn hospitals into terror operational centers. This particular Doctor, Mohammed Saqer, refused to let terrorists set up shop in his ward. He’s now being threatened by the “resistance” that’s so beloved and favored by so many who think this is helping the people of Gaza. Share this with the entire world so that honest, honorable Gazans trying to do the right thing can have a voice! Tell the world that the so-called “resistance” in Gaza is a fraudulent, fascistic Iranian militia getting Gazans killed and destroying hopes for a rejuvenated Palestinian national project. Down with Hamas!

„Ich lebe lieber in Unfreiheit, als für Freiheit zu sterben“ – Philosophie oder Gerede? Hier ist zwar kein guter Ort für das Philosophische Quartett. Dennoch hab ich mir die Freiheit einer Kritik dieses kontroversen Satzes von @nymoen_ole genommen. Ein🧵 in 4 Teilen:

@ShaqAram Ez nem Románia. Ez nem egy politikai döntés, hanem egy sima és súlyos korrupciós ügyben hozott független bírósági döntés. Hogy mik a következményei, az egy másik kérdés. Én a helyedben Mélenchonba kisebb bizalmat helyeznék, és ezt nem Macronék védelmében mondom.

Tbh ne nevessetek a többi libsivel együtt, Le Pen eltiltása az elnökségtől azt jelenti hogy akárki indul helyette jó eséllyel behúzza. A román példával együtt ez már inkább készülés arra hogy egy olyan szélsőjobbos kerüljön hatalomra akivel a "liberális centrum" ki tud egyezni

Zum grünen Nein: Staatspolitisch ist ein Sondervermögen oder eine Aufhebung der Schuldenbremse für Verteidigung dringend geboten, aber .... ▪️Anti-Habeck-Wahlkampf ▪️Grünennahe NGOs in der Woche nach der Wahl anzählen ▪️Merz U-Turn ohne Absprache mit Grünen ▪️Demütigungen am Aschermittwoch der CSU ▪️Sondierungs DinA4 ohne das Wort "Klima" ▪️Infrastruktur-Sondervermögen ohne das entscheidende Wort "zusätzlich" ▪️Bizarre Rentenpläne und Extrawürste für Klientel von CSU und SPD im Sondierungspapier ▪️Bitte um Zustimmung auf der Mailbox einer Fraktionsvorsitzenden ➡️ Sorry, aber: Der Krug geht so lange zum Brunnen, bis er bricht. P.S.: Und da wir gerade bei unangenehmen Wahrheiten für meine Bubble sind. Der Satz von @fbrantner: "Wolfgang Schäuble würde sich im Grabe umdrehen, wenn er sehen würde, wie seine Partei die Schuldenbremse reformieren will, um Steuergeschenke damit zu finanzieren", ist wirklich sehr dreist. Aber falsch ist er nicht.

A few days ago @PM_ViktorOrban spoke about a "territory named Ukraine", following the Stalin/Putin idea of "unstable" nations without a right to exist. Now an official govt message blames the EU for trying "to keep Ukraine alive". This is not an error but 🇭🇺 official line on 🇺🇦.

Viktor Orbán negotiated an exemption from EU sanctions on Russian pipeline oil, “and in 2022, arbitraged the price and made $2.2 billion that then went into his government and… to this oligarch network.” Orbán is simply pro-Kremlin "for power and money," @AmbPressman explains.

1) Union lässt Habeck abblitzen, als er ihr vorschlägt, gemeinsam Sondervermögen für Infrastruktur und Wirtschaft zu beschließen. 2) Union führt Wahlkampf gegen "schlechtesten Wirtschaftsminister der Geschichte". 3) Union gewinnt die Wahl. 4) Union verabredet ein Sondervermögen für Infrastruktur und Wirtschaft. 5) Union beschimpft einen Tag später Grüne als "Ramschware“, Habeck könne ab jetzt "Kinderbücher von der Oppositionsbank schreiben". 6) Union braucht nächste Woche die Stimmen der Grünen für das Sondervermögen. 🤷‍♂️

Attacking Yuval Abraham, the co-creator of "No Other Land" who wrote extensively on the horrors of the war in Gaza as a "liberal Zionist" shows the unseriousness of many "pro-Palestine" activists who are deeply antisemitic & will never accept Israel's existence or Jewish allyship

In a rare moment of genuine empathy, opposition leader @yairlapid paused before answering @afalkhatib’s question about Gaza's next steps to ask, “How is your family?” A day will come, and it will be normal.

Love the dynamic Die Linke has where half of its major leaders are social media savvy young women and the other half are 80 year old men with sections on their Wikipedia pages titled “Stasi informant allegations”

The Art of the Deal.

Es zeigt die ganze Verlogenheit der einst stolzen Republikaner (und konservativen Unterstützer in Deutschland), dass es kaum Aufregung bei ihnen über den Skandal-Satz von Trump gibt, es gebe in der Ukraine „eine Führung, die einen Krieg zugelassen hat, den es nie hätte geben dürfen.“ Was für eine unglaubliche Verkehrung der Schuld. Was für eine Schande für den freien Westen. Was für eine Bodenlosigkeit gegenüber einem ukrainischen Präsidenten, den Russland töten wollte und der trotzdem im Land geblieben ist. Wer sich Trump nicht entgegenstellt bei seinem Putin-Appeasement, sollte nie wieder über Werte und Moral reden.

Putin started this war. Putin committed war crimes. Putin is the dictator who murdered his opponents. The EU nations have contributed more to Ukraine. Zelensky polls over 50%. Ukraine wants to be part of the West, Putin hates the West. I don’t accept George Orwell’s doublethink.

Mr. President, Ukraine did not “start” this war. Russia launched an unprovoked and brutal invasion claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. The Road to Peace must be built on the Truth.🇺🇸🇺🇦 “Russia Invades Ukraine in Largest European Attack Since WWII” @FoxNews (February 24, 2022) foxnews.com/world/russian-…

Our finding that there are no independent regulatory agencies under populist rule just got confirmed by President Trump. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f…

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