David Friggieri 🇪🇺🇲🇹

Coordinator Media Freedom in 🇪🇺 Rule of Law report. Free speech expert. 'Mal nommer les choses, c'est ajouter au malheur de ce monde' - A.Camus. My views.

[David Friggieri 🇪🇺🇲🇹 @friggieri_david]

Bidnija, Malta 30/06/2018. A parched field, a heavy sky and - in its makeshift simplicity - a dignified memorial. We mustn't and cannot forget.

[ESC Discord @ESCdiscord]

🇪🇸 RTVE has shared the following message as the #Eurovision 2026 grand final began.

The Spanish broadcaster has boycotted this year's edition and is not broadcasting tonight's show.

[David Friggieri 🇪🇺🇲🇹 @friggieri_david]

"You do not choose the topics we want to talk about" - Pep Guardiola goes directly to the heart of the matter amid many claims, obfuscation and confusion around free speech. It would be great if more leaders could talk like this.

[David Friggieri 🇪🇺🇲🇹 @friggieri_david]

Spain asks European Commission to trigger the Blocking Statute in relation to US sanctions imposed on UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese and several ICC judges (all EU citizens).

[La Stampa @LaStampa]

Il premier spagnolo Pedro Sánchez ha chiesto alla Commissione europea di attivare lo statuto di blocco, lo scudo giuridico europeo, per proteggere Francesca Albanese e i giudici della Corte penale internazionale dalle sanzioni adottate dall’amministrazione americana nei loro confronti per le critiche a Israele.
Le misure restrittive, ha scritto il premier spagnolo in una lettera a Ursula von der Leyen, «creano un precedente molto preoccupante che compromette il funzionamento indipendente delle istituzioni essenziali per la giustizia internazionale». […]

L’articolo integrale di Marco Bresolin è su La Stampa

#LaStampa #Sanchez

[David Friggieri 🇪🇺🇲🇹 @friggieri_david]

An indication of the extent of the financial shock about to hit Europe is Malta's PM @RobertAbela_MT calling an election for 30 May, a good year before his 5-year mandate expires (leaving the minimum period (33 days) permitted by law for an electoral campaign) and with no local political crisis forcing his hand.

[David Friggieri 🇪🇺🇲🇹 @friggieri_david]

"War is peace" is a central, paradoxical slogan from George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984, representing the ruling Party's use of language to control thought and reality. It signifies that perpetual, limited war creates internal stability by uniting the population against a common enemy, maintaining a "peace" based on obedience and fear

[David Friggieri 🇪🇺🇲🇹 @friggieri_david]

A Tale of Two Article 2s which captures the essence of the challenges, paradoxes and potentially fatal contradictions the EU is currently navigating along the ever-more prominent values tightrope. From equality to human dignity.

[David Friggieri 🇪🇺🇲🇹 @friggieri_david]

"Pride goeth before destruction,
and a haughty spirit before a fall"

Proverbs 16:18

[David Friggieri 🇪🇺🇲🇹 @friggieri_david]

“In a free state every man may think what he likes, and say what he thinks.” - Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus.

[UN Special Procedures @UN_SPExperts]

#France: UN experts warn draft antisemitism law could seriously undermine free expression and other human rights and risks trivialising genuine instances of antisemitic hatred, hampering identification and fuelling perceptions of instrumentalisation.

https://t.co/eDglIe3QpL

[David Friggieri 🇪🇺🇲🇹 @friggieri_david]

https://t.co/QLAvZVlYnv

[David Friggieri 🇪🇺🇲🇹 @friggieri_david]

"You are about to pay an immediate price" - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to EU Member State Spain.

As always, it will be interesting to monitor reactions.

[David Friggieri 🇪🇺🇲🇹 @friggieri_david]

The splendid irony of these two fabulous dudes having become the Ultimate Euro Resistance Meme vs MAGA chaos and fury. Serendipity.

[Mind Enterprises @MindEnterprises]

Safari Disco 🐘

[David Friggieri 🇪🇺🇲🇹 @friggieri_david]

"Silence is not an option: EU law in deeply troubled times."

That's the title of the Common Market Law Review's first issue for 2026. A review, it should be said, which is known for its technical legal analyses.

[Financial Times @FT]

US warns EU to pass trade deal or risk losing ‘favourable’ access to LNG https://t.co/jHEvhj4uj3

[David Friggieri 🇪🇺🇲🇹 @friggieri_david]

"This is a defining moment for the European Union".

Indeed it is.

[euronews @euronews]

"We are against this war because it's illegal, there's no reason behind it and is causing a lot of damage," Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says about the US-Israeli strikes on Iran.

[David Friggieri 🇪🇺🇲🇹 @friggieri_david]

Blind spots and taboos, untreated and unaddressed, tend to mutate into enormous problems. This is precisely what's unfolding before our eyes to devastating effect.

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

President Catherine Connolly has described the situation in the Middle East as a "deliberate assault on international law" https://t.co/eoOmQPxIbr

[David Friggieri 🇪🇺🇲🇹 @friggieri_david]

"It is naive to believe that democracies or respect between nations can spring from ruins. Or to think that practising blind and servile obedience is a form of leadership … We will not be complicit in something that is bad for the world and that is also contrary to our values ​​and interests, simply out of fear of reprisals from someone.” https://t.co/XVKo2lxHzr