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Guess she'll have to change her name to Marine Le Stylo
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🏴 The entire world seemingly has no problem with the 'Pf' in Pfizer but any hint of an 'll' or 'ff' in Welsh and it's "oH mY gOd, WhAt A wEiRd LaNgUaGe"
Don't let Big Pharma win
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🇪🇪 Estonia's parliament agreed on a 100% renewable power target for *2030* today. Previous target was 40%, which Estonia now aims to hit by 2025
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Italy’s relentless quest to win absolutely everything this year has gone too far this time imho
🌡️ Syracuse, Sicily recorded a temperature of 48.8C today - waiting for final validation from national meteorological service, but if confirmed this is the hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe. thelocal.it/20210811/sicily-…
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I have updated the cover of the latest @TheEconomist to better reflect the current state of geopolitics
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Eamonn Brennan
Italy did a fairly good invasion job to be fair
Southgate: “People have tried to invade us and we’ve had the courage to hold that back. You can’t hide that some of the energy in the stadium against Germany was because of that.”
apnews.com/article/euro-2020…
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BBC News mentioned “the president of the European Union” three times just now. My blood boils
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✈️ /🚂 45 minute Vienna-Salzburg flights scrapped, replaced by regular direct trains. Austrian government’s bailout and green policies start to pay off euractiv.com/section/railway…
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🇮🇪 News for language nerds (the best kind of people)
Big case this week at European Court of Justice. 🧵:
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Italian PM Mario Draghi here, denouncing Erdogan as a “dictator” - it’s not a throwaway comment - and the treatment of von der Leyen
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🧀 CHEESE WAR UPDATE:
EU court says Denmark is breaking the law by allowing its cheesemakers to sell products called 'feta'. Feta is a protected foodstuff that can only be made in certain areas of Greece
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Only had time to skim the news today, I understand that Novak Djokovic is leading some sort of coup in Kazakhstan
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FUN FACT: Croatia was the final holder of Yugoslavia’s rotating presidency in 1991, in Stjepan Mesić, before turmoil led to its collapse
*Checks notes*: oh shit
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🌱 THREAD on the cartoon/comic world’s climate change progress.
1. Tintin. Massive carbon footprint. Constantly travelling via inefficient means, just look at that plane tech. Also is potentially in the pocket of petrostate officials
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🇺🇸/🇬🇧 On that Johnson-Biden phone call: Note the element that Number 10’s readout skipped over, but which Team Joe did not...
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Early studies show that the virus does NOT dissolve on contact with sovereignty as first thought
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Another goddamn win for Italy lefigaro.fr/actualite-france…
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Berlusconi shares a Merkel highlight reel that is 90% him
È molto difficile riempire un vuoto come quello che lascerà la signora Angela Merkel nella politica europea. Un’Europa con una politica estera e di difesa comune, quindi tra i grandi protagonisti del mondo, richiede una leadership di alto livello politico.
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Charles Michel is somehow flying to Rome aboard an airline that **doesn’t exist anymore** 🤯
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Wales plays Estonia this evening, Estonian being one of only a few languages that refers to Wales by a variant of its proper name Cymru (Kõmrimaa)
Lovely linguistic tidbit via @nationalwales
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🚂 Night-train start-up @EuropeanSlpr's first route will be Brussels-Amsterdam-Berlin-Prague, starting in mid 2022. Lots of stars to align before that debut run but it's hard not to get excited about this as a prospect
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Christ, the rate of speed at which the EU is slaughtering sacred cows and making previously unthinkable policy decisions means a reform of the Single European Sky and universal charger will be done by Tuesday
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The court will on Thursday hear its first case ever filed in the Irish language. It’s to do with labelling of veterinary medicines, but could signal a bigger shift in proceedings than that suggests /.
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Austria’s climate minister travelled 31,000km this year and *zero* by plane
Chapeau 👏🏻 👏🏻
Die #Bahn ist das klimafreundlichste Verkehrsmittel. Überall dort wo es möglich war, sind mein Team und ich deshalb auch im Jahr 2021 klimafreundlich angereist. Das heißt: Öffis statt Dienstauto. Und auf längeren Strecken über Nacht mit dem #Nightjet. (1/2)
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🚂 24 EU countries have pledged to work together on improving international rail routes and want to make them competitive over the 300-800km range. Digital solutions to feature heavily in their work | via @EURACTIV
euractiv.com/section/railway…
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Wow, the 13th floor of the Berlaymont is a lot greener and forested than I realised
This is my home.
Here, in nature, with my loved ones, in the quietness of this village.
This is where I find the strength and energy to keep fighting for our common home.
For our Europe.
For a strong Europe.
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🇸🇪 and 🇫🇮’s PMs are both socialists and 🇪🇸’s socialist PM hosted the NATO summit. Odd
I am fed up with socialists attacking @NATO. They want to weaken NATO, they want to limit transatlantic trade, they want to bring US soldiers to court. Without security there is no freedom! Thank you dear American friends! #NATOSummit
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I reject the label of pendant even before anyone accuses me of it
Framing matters. In this fiction the BBC has created, there is one person calling the shots for the EU, “the president”. So why are the talks still deadlocked?
It does not work like that
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This means you could get from Brussels to Budapest - with a stopover in Prague - for under €50.
Tickets have gone on sale for RegioJet's new Prague - Vienna - Budapest service, which starts on 31 July. Fares start at €16 Prague - Budapest and €9 Vienna - Budapest. Trains depart Prague at 05.20 and 13.20 and Budapest Keleti at 07.45 and 15.45.
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🇺🇦 Zelenskiy's 'Servant of the People' party (named after the TV show where he played the president) is granted temporary membership of the @ALDEParty. Europe's liberals will vote on full membership at next congress
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🚂 FINALLY: direct Amsterdam-London @Eurostar services now possible after Dutch gov. signs up to treaty. No passport stop in Brussels, will save *an hour* of journey time. @SvVeldhoven lauds the CO2-busting potential of the train over short-haul euractiv.com/section/railway…
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More people live on the Isle of Man (85,032) than the number of people who voted for the new UK prime minister (81,326)
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If you’re not taking the shortcut through the Brussels airport Exki then you are not maximising your valuable time resources
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⚡️ Ukraine and Moldova's power grids have finally been linked to the EU's. Gives both countries and extra bit of security if energy sources are taken offline. Long-term it's great too for renewables deployment
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The enemy of my enemy is my submarine, as the old saying goes
Tennis world number one Novak Djokovic would be granted entry to France for the French Open even if he was unvaccinated against Covid-19, the sports minister said on Friday
u.afp.com/wp4X
#AFPSports
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🇵🇰 1/3 of Pakistan is underwater according to its climate minister
Pakistan is not a small country:
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