In case you happen to be in Skopje, today at 10 am: www.linkedin.com/posts/presid...

Interesting! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Kurt Cobain. †5 April 1994 youtu.be/hTWKbfoikeg?...

No principles, no values, no decency. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

"Wir sahen sogar Anzeichen dafür, dass er die Sichtbarkeitsmechanismen der Plattform, die Algorithmen, nutzte, um seine persönliche Ideologie zu verbreiten, und wir wissen, das ist eine Ideologie, die mit der extremen Rechten übereinstimmt" www.mdr.de/wissen/psych...

First they fuck it up, single-handedly, without consulting anyone, and now others should clean it all up and deliver what they miserably failed to do? The damage they cause, on so many levels, is mind-boggling.

Would be about time ...

Another opinion poll (21 Kutatóközpont) shows a significant split between Tisza and Fidesz 11 days before the election. Crucially, however, the extreme right Our Homeland, a potential coalition partner for Fidesz, gets into the parliament according to this survey.

The bill passed by Israel’s parliament seeks to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis in acts of terror, but not on Jewish Israelis who kill Palestinians in similar circumstances. How horrible to see #Israel go down this path. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Exactly right. Ukraine & Europe feel obliged to keep pretending the diplomatic games mean something, for fear that Trump will give Russia even more help than he is currently giving. But Putin's genocidal aims haven't changed, & must still be defeated. That means less talk & more action fm Europe.

In Hungary, unfortunately, Orbán’s intelligence services spy on journalists. Also in Hungary—fortunately—it took only about two days to piece together the puzzle and understand who targeted me and why. Of course, it was my reporting that angered them.

Russian election interference has played a role the Brexit referendum, in elections in the US, Romania... Here is a very interesting paper about lessons from Moldova: Engineering Doubt - Cyber operations and hybrid election interference in Moldova's 2025 elections watchdog.md/wp-content/u...

#EU wind power was working overtime yesterday! Wind energy covered 25.4% of the entire continent’s electricity demand. That’s a massive quarter of the grid powered by the breeze. #Renewables 🧵/🔋😉 1/

The "reverse enlargement" proposal is dead. But it is clear that EU members have to come up now with an attractive offer that allows Ukraine, Moldova and the Western Balkans to move, if they meet the conditions, into the Single Market, Schengen, and get EU funds. www.politico.eu/article/eu-e...

"Durch die anhaltenden Angriffe der israelischen Armee wurden dem Gesundheitsministerium zufolge zwischen dem 2. und 23. März 1039 Menschen getötet, 12% davon Kinder. Mehr als eine Million Menschen mussten ihre Häuser verlassen, viele sind von der Gesundheitsversorgung abgeschnitten," so @msf.de

This is likely the first ever judicial investigation of a now former EU official for complicity in crimes against humanity, in this instance on account of his actions while working as head of EU border agency

What happens to an economy when a quarter of the labour force has to leave — either to become soldiers or refugees? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Remarkable: According to preliminary results, in #Italy a majority voted against #Meloni's justice reform in a referendum. Participation quite high with some 58%. If confirmed in final results, this would be a serious blow for Meloni and the far right.

Though foreign investors are often blamed for seeing the continent as too risky, African investors have long been wary too, with many parking their money elsewhere. Might this finally be changing? econ.st/4uOWtHB Photo: Sven Torfinn/Panos

Unbedingt anhören! Die ersten beiden Folgen des “Kniefall” podcasts über Karin Kneissl sind super gemacht. Hoffe, es geht bald weiter…

With just 3 weeks to go until #Hungary ‘s crucial elections, it is worth to recall the absurdity of Hungary’s #asylum “system” and Orban’s border fence policy, found illegal by the ECJ. In 2022 I had the opportunity to take a closer look, documented in a photo story: kristofbender.eu/photo-storie...

The reckless campaign against Iran will weaken America’s president. That will make him angry. Be warned: he makes a very bad loser econ.st/4bAtZby

🚨🚨In the wake of the #EUCO drama a major news is that #Norway has again commenced the political debate on joining the #EuropeanUnion. NB; Norway is due to its EEA membership already applying most EU single market rules.🧵 www.politico.eu/article/norw...

Fortunately, the era in which Trump's policy of threats led interlocutors to bend to his will is largely over. Having proved completely unreliable, there seems little point in making concessions to Trump. Unfortunately, the US being the US, he retains the means to single-handedly ruin this planet.

A reminder that war, any war, leaves traces far beyond our lifetimes. This gate stopped me in my tracks today. It still bears the marks of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, as if it just happened.

Extraordinary times call for extraordinary and visionary steps. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

When Danish troops deployed to Greenland in January, they brought explosives to destroy runways and blood supplies to treat the wounded. All that to counter a U.S. invasion.

💔 This is Krasnohorivka, an industrial town in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, occupied by Russian forces in Oct. 2024. Once home to around 16,000 people, the town now has an estimated 29 to 200 residents.

Die Erdölpreise explodieren. Alle reden über die Angriffe auf den Iran. Fair enough. Das 👇 ist die Geschichte, als Österreich-Ungarn die Straße von Hormus war. Als der Kaiser die Welt mit Erdöl versorgte. Aus Galizien. Ein Thread. Theodor Herzl kommt auch vor. Und als Cameo-Auftritt Otto Wagner.

This is a great and thoughtful message

“I find myself longing for Tehran, Karaj, Isfahan—for all those beautiful places where we lived our lives before they became lists of bombing targets, their names horribly mispronounced by smug journalists.” —Orly Noy

‘Black Bird, a Finnish war-monitoring group, said Russian troops in February lost more Ukrainian territory than they captured for the first time since November 2023.’ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Swalwell: "We have a 70-plus-year history of failure not just in Iran, but all over the world, of trying to force regime change. By the way, it's being led by a guy who has more plans for the ballroom he's trying to build than anything he's gonna do next in the Middle East."

The most vital passageway for the world’s energy supply has become the focus of the war. Both America and Iran find themselves in a bind

Just look at this crowd from Budapest yesterday. Whatever happens in this deeply rigged race—and whether Orbán would leave power peacefully—this feels historic.

China and Russia: 🍿🍿🍿 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Apparently Trump can do ANYTHING that strikes his mind, regardless of the consequences. MAGA voters will not desert him.

These are the people who decide for governments whose door gets kicked down and which children get dragged off to camps.

An official with the Iraqi Kurdish Democratic Party told Axios that the Peshmerga, the Kurdish-Iraqi armed forces, stopped Kurdish-Iranian militias from launching an offensive from Iraq into Iran. www.axios.com/2026/03/07/i...

If you read one thing about Iran & geopolitics & economic fallout & climate, make it this @martinsandbu.ft.com column

Aus gegebenem Anlass: In Spanien ist der Strompreis durch hohen Anteil an Erneuerbaren vom Gaspreis unabhängiger und am niedrigsten in Europa (EMBER Studie vom Oktober)

"The group of six countries still disagrees on many areas, such as issuing joint debt and agreeing on a common backstop for bank deposits. But they think that by finding common ground among themselves first, it will be easier ... to unify capital markets." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

According to new research by @jdportes.bsky.social and @johnspringford.bsky.social, #Brexit reduced the number of EU-born workers by about 785,000. Read here: buff.ly/u1TuLFx

According to the @economist.com, #Russia offers the #US a multi-trillion economic package in return for sanctions relieve. “More trade, finance and investment would soon allow Russia’s economy to recover, paving the way for the next war.” www.economist.com/finance-and-...

🚨🚨Major story of today: Nearly seven months ago, #Ukraine tried to sell the US their battle-proven technology for downing Iranian-made attack drones but #Trump admin dismissed the Ukrainians, only to reverse course last week because of heavy drone strikes from #Iran.🧵 www.axios.com/2026/03/10/u...

In case you don't belong to the 4 million who have already seen it, very worth watching, in particular ahead of the upcoming 🇭🇺 elections: THE DYNASTY How the Orban family's economic empire was born youtu.be/bZ4SXv9qJHM?...

Bier: "Over the last 30 years, we looked at all the government budgets -- federal, state, and local combined. Immigrants reduce deficits by $14.5 trillion."

Reporter seeking freedom of speech in the US arrested for exercising freedom of speech in the US

FT: "Stocks and bonds tumble as oil soars past $100 a barrel" Shouldn't that accelerate moving away from fossil fuels, at least in Europe?

1956: Hungary's communist leaders phone Moscow for help 2026: Hungary's postcommunist leaders phone Moscow for help