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Pepijn Bergsen

@pbergsen

Europe macro @medleyadvisors. Previously @ChathamHouse, @TheEIU & @DutchMFA.

London, England Katılım Ocak 2009
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🔊Podcast: "Hungary would probably be hit harder than many others" - @pbergsen and Tim G. Jones discuss Trump's energy-price gift to Viktor Orbán, Hungary's dire economy, polls, and a vicious anti-Ukraine campaign: "Hungary would probably be hit harder than many others"
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🔊Podcast: “Hungary is trailing behind Russia by 10 years” - Márton Schlanger @Republikon joins @pbergsen and Tim G. Jones on the Twenty-Four Two podcast to discuss what the polls are telling us five weeks before Hungary's election day: bit.ly/3OXWIzt
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Pepijn Bergsen@pbergsen·
New career highlight: railing against the EU’s learned helplessness on a podcast. In this case about the annoying whining from a collection of the richest countries on earth who won’t allow themselves to provide financial support to Ukraine without Viktor Orbán’s approval.
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🔊Podcast: Tim G. Jones, @pbergsen, Bill Farren-Price and Simon Taylor discuss 🇺🇦🇷🇴 energy dispute, Péter Magyar’s increasing poll advantage, fears of election delay, Viktor Orbán’s miscalculations around “Peak Trump”, and the EU’s wilful inertia: bit.ly/46ywz0f

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Pepijn Bergsen@pbergsen·
Really fascinating that both Magyar and Orbán campaign so much in English on X. Hungarian voters are on Facebook, not here, and I don’t really know what it means beyond maybe highlighting how much of a liberalism versus illiberalism proxy battle the election there has become.
Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek)@magyarpeterMP

The National Investigation Bureau is now questioning the witness featured in yesterday’s fact-finding video concerning activities at the Göd battery factory.

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Ben Judah@b_judah·
The truth about Chagos. My essay for @thetimes on the deal I worked on in government and what it says about Britain, America and the great game for the Indian Ocean. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
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@tothcsabatibor Handing out tax rises to Americans to presumably pay for Hungarian public services looks like Magyar’s best idea so far
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Csaba Tóth 🇸🇴@tothcsabatibor·
Incredible things are happening in Fidesz's campaign HQ: AI in political ads should be banned before it's too late.
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🔊New Podcast out! "A kind of false flag operation may be committed" Géza Jeszenszky, ex Hungary foreign minister, warns how Orbán's anti-Ukraine demonisation could turn more sinister on Twenty-Four Two with @pbergsen and Tim G. Jones. twentyfourtwo.substack.com/p/a-kind-of-fa…
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Pepijn Bergsen@pbergsen·
@NewLeftEViews That was the real stuff. None of this weak “debt is bad” bollocks that the Europeans already believed anyway, just straight up promising “expansionary austerity”. You have to admire that level of academic legitimisation for a political idea.
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New Left EViews@NewLeftEViews·
I love that people are (re-)discovering this story, but it's worth saying again: it was simply used an excuse for cut spending and mostly in the UK. The intellectual foil in Europe were Alesina et al.
Jonathon P Sine@JonathonPSine

Absolutely mind boggling.. "in their Excel spreadsheet, Reinhart and Rogoff had not selected the entire row when averaging growth figures: they omitted data from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada and Denmark. In other words, they had accidentally only included 15 of the 20 countries under analysis in their key calculation. When that error was corrected, the “0.1% decline” data became a 2.2% average increase in economic growth." And as the underlaying New York Review article notes, the erroneous "claim was widely cited by politicians and accepted as a factual justification for austerity, to the extent that Paul Krugman thought it “may have had more immediate influence on public debate than any previous paper in the history of economics.”"

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Pepijn Bergsen@pbergsen·
@BurmanPhD Completely agree that it’s real, but I don’t think the EU plays a role through tax. That is a national competence, except for a minimum VAT set at the EU level that would be more likely to equalise prices between member states.
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dr J.T. Burman 🎓@BurmanPhD·
@pbergsen This is well studied. For example: groceries are cheaper in Belgium and Germany than in the NL. And in France, they're cheaper still. I'm not sure what the cause of the difference is, aside maybe from state tax policy. And that is indeed an EU rule.... consumentenbond.nl/nieuws/2025/bo…
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Pepijn Bergsen@pbergsen·
A good new EU regulation would be to make it illegal to make claims like saying EU rules make a product more expensive in one member state than in another without backing it up with references to specific rules.
Netherlands at the EU@NLatEU

“It's important to deregulate and simplify, because there are too many obstacles in the internal market. A jar of Nutella or peanut butter costs more in the Netherlands than in Germany, partly due to regulations from Europe.“ 🎙️@MinPres Schoof at the informal #EUCO

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Pepijn Bergsen@pbergsen·
@detgrim Dat begrijp ik niet helemaal. Maar goed om te zien dat er wat uitleg bij kwam. Hoewel ik het argument in dit geval niet heel overtuigend vind. Kan me namelijk niet voorstellen dat Nederland niet zelf een regel zou hebben (of invoeren) dat alle labels in het Nederlands moeten.
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Pepijn Bergsen@pbergsen·
@SnazzyLabs Reserved despite my worries about my iPad Pro M2 not being on the list of compatible devices
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Quinn Nelson@SnazzyLabs·
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Copland Supply@CoplandSupply

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Pepijn Bergsen@pbergsen·
Given Trump’s heavy handed attempts to control the Fed, we thought it would be a good time to do a podcast on how the Hungarian government went about taking control of its central bank a decade ago with a former deputy governor who was there at the time open.substack.com/pub/twentyfour…
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@Republikon @thetimes @andraspe @direkt36 @tothcsabatibor @NewLeftEViews @NotFifthGear @BurmanPhD