The BBC World Service Newshour programme last night had the same angle on this. I had trouble sleeping afterwards. The angle should be 'Marine Le Pen guilty of massive fraud at European Parliament'. The FN's reaction is to attack the justice system, the classic fascist playbook.

Looks like the unfinished coalition negotiations on German foreign, security and development policy have been leaked to Politico: www.politico.eu/wp-content/u...

Musk is a total hypocrite, and this is probably one of the last critical stories about him that we will see in the Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

This has to be seen to be believed. The only explanation I can think of is that Trump has foolishly shared something subversive made by someone who is taking the piss news.sky.com/story/trump-...

Cutting foreign aid won't fund the kinds of defence spending increases that are being talked about, but it will make conflict more likely. Development policy is security policy.

If they're going to cancel the Gulf of Mexico then they really need to name it after themselves

Basically, Trump wants to plunder the Western part of Ukraine while Putin plunders the Eastern part.

EU High Representative Kallas is ready to step up EU aid to partially compensate for USAID's absence. The EU can't do everything of course, so aid will be spent where geopolitical influence can be won, and where the EU is most visible. www.deutschlandfunk.de/eu-aussenbea...

In @table.media Briefings erklärt IDOS-Experte @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social, wie aktuelle entwicklungspolitische Debatten in Deutschland durch die Politik der #Trump-Administration beeinflusst werden & welchen Auftrieb populistische Strömungen dadurch erhalten könnten ➡️ table.media/africa/stand...

I wrote this @idos-research.bsky.social column before Elon Musk's illegal, corrupt, ideologically bankrupt and fundamentally stupid shut down of USAID. It is even more relevant now for Germany to maintain and strengthen its development aid programme. www.idos-research.de/en/the-curre...

Die #Bundestagswahl2025 rückt näher, und die Debatte um #Entwicklungshilfe spitzt sich zu. @mfurness.bsky.social betont: #InternationaleEntwicklungszusammenarbeit dient nicht nur globalen Zielen, sondern auch nationalen Interessen: www.idos-research.de/die-aktuelle... #DieAktuelleKolumne #BTW2025

This is really sad news. Rafaella Iodice was one of the smartest and most insightful people I ever had the priviledge of meeting. amu.tv/147052/

Managing Change in #Syria - IDOS expert Musallam Abedtalas argues that international actors like the #EU must proceed cautiously to guide Syria toward an inclusive state without imposing foreign solutions. He outlines key actions for international intervention: blogs.idos-research.de/2024/12/19/m...

Looks like al-Jolani might have read our World Development Special Issue on the social contract in MENA countries english.almayadeen.net/news/politic... www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

📚 #TheCurrentColumn Zero hour in Damascus: What role can the international community play in #Syria’s new beginning? IDOS experts Tina Zintl and Markus Loewe call on international actors to provide #HumanitarianAid for the population as quickly as possible: idos-research.de/en/the-curre...