Paul Browne
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An Irishman in England, a European in the UK.
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
about 4 hours ago
Andy Burnham's 10 year plan should include: 🗑Binning the red lines on Europe 📑A strategy for the UK's place in Europe 🔐Closer security partnership with the EU 🗣A national conversation on our European future 🇪🇺🇬🇧EU membership in Labour's next manifesto
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European Movement UK sets out Five Asks for Andy Burnham as he becomes Prime Minister
European Movement UK has today set out five asks for Andy Burnham as he takes office, calling on the new Prime Minister to seize the moment and build a bold, forward-looking agenda that leads the UK t...
https://www.europeanmovement.co.uk/five_asks_for_andy_burnham_as_he_becomes_prime_minister
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
about 6 hours ago
As Andy Burnham enters No. 10, he should read the new Frontier Economics report for
@bestforbritain.org
. Rejoining the EU would give a substantially bigger boost to UK economic growth than any other option for the UK-EU economic relationship.
bestforbritain.org/publication/...
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Bylines Network
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How much richer could Britain be inside the EU? New research discussed at a Cambridge event suggests rejoining could provide one of the biggest economic boosts available to any UK government.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
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Finding a path back to Europe
Cambridge for Europe and its chair Paul Browne hosted a panel discussion on the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/finding-a-path-back-to-europe/
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
about 19 hours ago
Congratulations Spain 🇪🇸 🏆 The better team won, and thank you for bringing the World Cup home to Europe 🇪🇺
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
2 days ago
And President Zelenskyy of Ukraine refused to go along with the Trump/Putin campaign to smear Biden, something that Trump has never forgiven Ukraine for. If you love liberty, stand with Ukraine!
www.libertyukraine.org
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Home | Liberty Ukraine
Home - Liberty Ukraine 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation based in Austin, TX, fundraising for Ukrainian residents, servicemen and women, and victims of the war in Ukraine.
https://www.libertyukraine.org/
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Paul Browne
Mark Hamill
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Just be grateful for Donarrhea's astonishing incompetence.
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
2 days ago
Andy Burnham rips up a manifesto commitment on oil and gas drilling that will have negligible economic impact. So he's going to rip up the Brexit red lines to deliver the much larger economic benefits of rejoining the EU. Right?
bestforbritain.org/publication/...
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Paul Browne
Adam Bienkov
7 days ago
Reform and their supporters now trying to reframe all journalistic scrutiny of them as being dangerous political attacks, bordering on terrorism. A preview of what we could expect from a Reform government
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Ursula von der Leyen
7 days ago
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 Signed! The agreement that paves the way for the UK to join our €90 billion Ukraine Loan. This will give Ukraine access to a wider range of defence suppliers. So they can get what they need on the battlefield. Together, we are supporting Ukraine's brave resistance.
link.europa.eu/hhgpCG
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
7 days ago
The launch of a European anti-ballistic missile coalition is an important step towards securing Ukraine's skies. It's also an important step towards ending dependence on US Patriot missiles, as the resumption of the Iran-US war demonstrates the Trump administration's unreliability.
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All very MAGA ... this is what authoritarians do.
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
12 days ago
"The sums came to her in several tranches, and the Guardian has been told banks were unable to trace the ultimate source of the funds." So, where do you think Fiona Cottrell got the money she donated (ultimately) to Reform UK from?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Millions of pounds and many, many questions: the untold story of why Reform figures face NCA scrutiny
Exclusive: The details behind the financial transactions that bankers have flagged up to the National Crime Agency
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/08/untold-story-why-reform-figures-face-nca-scrutiny-nigel-farage
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU
13 days ago
Despite Reform claiming convicted fraudster George Cottrell has "no official role," trackers have spotted him running press conferences, working backstage at major rallies, and joining Farage on foreign trips. 📊🗺️👇
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Fraudster George Cottrell seen at numerous Reform events despite ‘no formal role’ in party
Nigel Farage urged to clarify ‘dependence’ on Cottrell, who also joined Reform leader in Abu Dhabi in December
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/06/reform-uk-nigel-farage-george-cottrell?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
13 days ago
Torture, rape and the illegal detention of thousands of Ukrainian citizens has been part of Russia's occupation since 2014, though it has worsened since the full-scale invasion in 2022. This is why Russia cannot be allowed to occupy Ukrainian territory.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jailers and officials at Russia's 'torture prisons' in Ukraine exposed by BBC
Former prisoners accuse the men of abuse in detention centres and want to see them brought to trial.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2kkrx8jeno
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
14 days ago
It's almost as if Farage is being paid by corrupt billionaires to stir up hatred and division in order to undermine the national and international institutions and laws that can hold the oligarchs to account and defend citizens rights. But it couldn't be that simple, could it?
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
15 days ago
Good. Right-wing populists like Farage are supported by crooks and billionaire oligarchs because they all want to weaken and destroy the national and international institutions that can hold them to account. They want to make the UK like Putin's Russia, and they are profoundly anti-democratic.
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Ian Dunt
15 days ago
An absolute banger of an exclusive from the Sunday Times. It's devastating. For the first time, I'm uncertain if Farage can actually survive this
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Revealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal
The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/revealed-nigel-farage-secretly-funded-by-convicted-criminal-j0brtrlnk
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
16 days ago
Today the USA celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. But if wasn't for support from France US independence would likely have been crushed. The best way for the US to mark the anniversary is to back Ukraine's fight for freedom today!
www.france24.com/en/americas/...
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250 years of US independence: How France helped turn the tide of the Revolutionary War
After months of discreet support, France officially allied itself with the American revolutionaries in their war against the British Empire, a decision that would permanently alter the fate of both na...
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260704-250-years-of-us-independence-how-france-helped-turn-the-tide-of-the-revolutionary-war
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
19 days ago
The stench of corruption from the Trump regime is overpowering. Trump, Farage and their ilk are the swamp. It's no wonder that they constantly seek to weaken, capture, or destroy the institutions, national and international, that can hold them to account.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
22 days ago
How much projection can Putin fit in one speech? Russia has been trying to destabilise Western democracies for decades, Brexit is just one example of many where Russia interfered. Russia launched a war of aggression against Ukraine, and can end it anytime it likes by leaving Ukraine.
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Paul Browne
Savchenko Volodymyr
23 days ago
🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 The Baltic states have urged Brussels to speed up the implementation of delayed plans to ban imports of Russian oil, as EU fears of a serious energy crisis caused by the war in Iran have not materialized, - FT
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
23 days ago
Brexit robbed the UK's young people of opportunities to study, work and live in countries across Europe. Implementing a Youth Experience Scheme would start to restore these lost opportunities. Tell Andy Burnham to make it happen. Sign the petition!
www.europeanmovement.co.uk/youth-experi...
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Open letter: deliver a UK-EU youth experience scheme
Sign the open letter urging the Government to deliver a pragmatic UK-EU Youth Experience Scheme before the next summit, reopening opportunities for young people to live, study and work across Europe.
https://www.europeanmovement.co.uk/youth-experience-scheme-open-letter
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
23 days ago
Proper taxes on digital services are the bare minimum that European democracies - UK and EU included - should be doing. The Trump regime acts on behalf of oligarchs who want to horde wealth and evade accountability. Europe must resist this threat to our societies.
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
26 days ago
Watch a recording of opening statements from yesterday's Brexit referendum 10th anniversary panel discussion discussing the UK's path back to the EU. Molly Scott Cato
@europeanmovement.co.uk
James Coldwell
@bestforbritain.org
Jonathan Saunders
@yem1.bsky.social
youtu.be/pGNV-uAe7_A?...
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Brexit referendum 10th anniversary panel - Finding a path back to Europe
YouTube video by Cambridge for Europe
https://youtu.be/pGNV-uAe7_A?is=Cw-tllNhF_LAx97Q
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
27 days ago
Cambridge for Europe will continue to campaign for our European future as full EU members! Join our in-person panel discussion this evening on the path back to Europe.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/referendum...
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
27 days ago
After a decade of Brexit failure, the UK must return to Europe and rejoin the EU! It's almost fitting that the 10th anniversary of the referendum comes a day after the resignation of another UK Prime Minister. The referendum ushered in profound political instability in the UK. 🧵(1/N)
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
28 days ago
"Damage limitation is not victory" A decade after the referendum
@fotoole.bsky.social
discusses the impact on the UK-Ireland relationship. Nowhere was the Brexiters willful failure to understand the world clearer than in their approach to Northern Ireland.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The aftershocks of Brexit’s failure could be gaining strength – a fearful prospect for Ireland | Fintan O’Toole
On our side of the Irish Sea we have made the best of a bad job. But we saw the damage a reckless British government could do, says Fintan O’Toole
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/22/aftershocks-brexit-failure-fearful-prospect-ireland
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
29 days ago
10 years on from the referendum, a new survey finds UK voters want a much closer relationship with the EU, including Freedom of Movement. They see Brexit as damaging, and the EU as a better ally than the US. EU citizens would also welcome the UK back.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Two-thirds of EU citizens back UK rejoining bloc, survey finds
Poll also finds three quarters of people in Britain want closer ties, with majority accepting free movement
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/21/two-thirds-eu-citizens-back-uk-rejoining-bloc-brexit-survey
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
29 days ago
The new ECFR report highlights how UK voters want a closer relationship with the EU in response to geopolitical crises, particularly the threats from Trump's USA and Putin's Russia. A majority now want the UK to rejoin the EU, as other recent polls have also found.
ecfr.eu/publication/...
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
about 1 month ago
Today is the day! Join the National Rejoin March in London🇬🇧🇪🇺 Meet outside Temple Underground Station on Saturday 20th June 2026, from noon. Rally on Parliament Square at 2.30pm. Unite Europe for a better future!
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Great to see this from Ed Davey, I know it's what a lot of Lib Dem members have been calling for for years, a clear, unambiguous, message that the UK must rejoin the Single Market a s.a.p.
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
about 1 month ago
"In a world drifting towards nationalism, authoritarianism and instability, Europe remains one of the few places still defending democratic internationalism." In the Cambridge Independent, Camilla Cucinotta explains why she's joining Saturday's National Rejoin March.
marchforrejoin.co.uk/events
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Paul Browne
Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE
about 1 month ago
This is it. The next National Rejoin March is this Saturday, 20 June – and we need you on the streets of London with us. It's the biggest moment this year to show, in our tens of thousands, that we want to rejoin the EU.
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
about 1 month ago
The Lib Dems have long been clear that their ambition is for the UK to rejoin the EU, Ed Davey's call for Govt to drop the red lines and rejoin the Single Market is however a welcome improvement on their "bespoke customs union" proposal. More of this please!
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Lib Dems to urge Labour to drop ‘torpor and timidity’ on EU and rejoin single market
Exclusive: Ed Davey to make call ahead of 10th anniversary of Brexit vote, in strengthening of party’s position on EU
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/17/lib-dems-to-urge-labour-to-drop-torpor-and-timidity-on-eu-and-rejoin-single-market
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Paul Browne
Ursula von der Leyen
about 1 month ago
The EU is behind you, President Zelenskyy, today, tomorrow, as long as necessary. Yesterday, we made history by opening the first accession negotiation cluster on Fundamentals.
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
about 1 month ago
On the 10th anniversary of the referendum, join our discussion in Cambridge on the path back to the EU. 🗓23 June ⏰️6pm
@greenpartymolly.bsky.social
@europeanmovement.co.uk
@tom-brufatto.bsky.social
@bestforbritain.org
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@yem1.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/referendum...
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
about 1 month ago
The UK govt's ban on social media for under-16s is not enough. Social media platforms are used to spread hate amd lies, role back decades of progress, and harm people of all ages. We need tough regulations that force them to be safe by design.
www.endviolenceagainstwomen.org.uk/uk-public-wa...
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UK public want social media platforms to be 'safe by design' | End Violence Against Women
84% of adults in the UK believe that regulating social media platforms to ensure they are safe before public use would keep everyone safe online, according to new polling published today by the Online...
https://www.endviolenceagainstwomen.org.uk/uk-public-want-social-media-platforms-to-be-safe-by-design/
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
about 1 month ago
A decade after the murder of Jo Cox, and her sister Kim Leadbeater is unfortunately right to say that hate and division in the UK has got worse. We need to recognise that this hatred and division was not inevitable, and is certainly not entirely home grown.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Division in UK probably worse now than in run-up to Brexit, says Kim Leadbeater
Labour MP warns of voices fanning hatred on eve of 10th anniversary of the murder of her sister, the MP Jo Cox
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/16/division-in-uk-probably-worse-now-than-in-run-up-to-brexit-says-kim-leadbeater
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
about 1 month ago
Join us this Saturday to call for the UK to rejoin the EU🇬🇧🇪🇺 Let's unite to defend our shared values and common interests. Meet for the National Rejoin March: 🗓 Saturday 20th June 2026 ⏰️ 12 noon 🌍 Temple Underground Station, London
marchforrejoin.co.uk
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
about 1 month ago
Kremlin propagandists often claim that Russia is defending Europe's Christian values. Last night's Russian missile and drone attack targeted a Cathedral and civilian apartment buildings. Is this what defending Christian values looks like? Or is this terrorism?
kyivindependent.com/russian-atta...
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Kyiv's historic Pechersk Lavra burns as large-scale Russian strikes kill 4, injure 30 in capital
"We ask for prayers for the salvation of the shrine from destruction. Another Russian crime against humanity, against history, against Christianity," Metropolitan Epiphanius, head of the Orthodox Chur...
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-attack-june-14-2026/
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Paul Browne
East Anglia Bylines
about 1 month ago
Brexit was never the end of the story – it was the beginning of a reckoning. What if the real question now isn’t trade, isn’t nostalgia – it’s about what we’ve quietly lost. Does Britain still belong in shaping Europe’s future? You can have a say... Read how 👇
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Beyond Brexit: the case for Europe in an unstable world
It’s now ten years since Brexit; in so many ways we have left behind the question asked in the 2016 Referendum
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/beyond-brexit-the-case-for-europe-in-an-unstable-world/
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Cambridge for Europe
about 1 month ago
One week to go until the National Rejoin March 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 Make sure you're there to demand a European future for the UK!
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European Movement UK
about 1 month ago
Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, Minister for the Constitution and European Union Relations, argued "If the great question of post-Brexit Britain is how we can ensure, as an island nation, we can deliver national resilience, then energy security is one of the most valuable prizes."
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Paul Browne
European Movement UK
about 1 month ago
Finance is one of Britain's largest sectors. It would be an act of economic self-sabotage to not work constructively with Europe.
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
about 1 month ago
"This is why I will be marching on 20 June. Not out of nostalgia, but out of responsibility, because the argument for European cooperation has become stronger, not weaker, in the years since Brexit and because I want future generations to have the same opportunities I had" - Camilla Cucinotta
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
about 1 month ago
We must reject the poison of Farage, Trump and Putin. A good start would be to undo the damage done by Farage's Brexit, and to rejoin the EU. Join the National Rejoin March in London on Saturday 20th June. Meet outside Temple Underground Station at 12 noon. Let's demand a better future 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
about 1 month ago
Last month the voters of Hungary showed how this us done when they kicked out Viktor Orban, who was the chosen candidate of both the Putin and Trump regimes.
youtu.be/N7majM_tcW8?...
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Hungary after the elections – Talk with Márta Pardavi of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee
YouTube video by Cambridge for Europe
https://youtu.be/N7majM_tcW8?si=ufn42zHqgpiddbCK
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
about 1 month ago
The "dangerous ideology" that most threatens Europe does not come from Africa or the Middle East. It is the corrupt, racist, right-wing, authoritarianism of Trump's USA and Putin's Russia that seeks to divide and weaken Europe and to undermine its citizens rights.
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
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Europe being invaded by ‘dangerous ideologies,’ Hegseth warns in D-Day speech
“When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is it too late? I pray not, and I believe not,” U.S. defense chief said at Normandy commemoration.
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-being-invaded-by-dangerous-ideologies-hegseth-warns-in-d-day-speech/
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Paul Browne
Cambridge for Europe
about 2 months ago
It's obvious that most of the alumina exported from Aughinish to Russia is going into weapons manufacturing, the rest of the Russian economy is stagnant. Sanction alumina exports now!
@ec.europa.eu
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
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kyivindependent.com/data-reveals...
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Data reveals Irish alumina factory exporting more product to Russia than government claimed
Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin claimed on May 29 that including Aughinish Alumina in the EU's next round of sanctions would be "self-defeating," harming Europe's economy more than Russia's — desp...
https://kyivindependent.com/data-reveals-irish-alumina-factory-exporting-more-product-to-russia-than-government-claimed/
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European Movement UK
about 2 months ago
As we approach the 10th anniversary of the referendum, our focus should be on the future, not regretting the decisions of the past. The next decade should be defined by repairing our relationship, strengthening our ties, and regaining our place at the heart of Europe.
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