What is Mark Rutte smoking? - www.ft.com/content/fd35...

#Info: Live ab +/- 12:00 Uhr MESZ gemeinsame Pressekonferenz von @aussenminister.diplo.de Johann Wadephul mit seinem französischen Amtskollegen @jnbarrot.bsky.social Jean-Noël Barrot. Livestream👇 youtube.com/live/DkZ-Hd4...

British best-selling spy author Len Deighton has died at the age of 97. Read our interview with him, from our archives: ft.trib.al/tq8Y9LB

Len Deighton obituary

L'intégrale de « Twin Peaks », la série culte de David Lynch est disponible sur arte.tv 👉 www.arte.tv/fr/videos/RC...

Hello! We are the European Rail Passengers Union. We believe that the voices of rail passengers are key to improving cross border rail in Europe. That’s why we are starting a group to make them heard. Join us at erpu.eu, and we’re looking forward to connecting with everyone here on BlueSky!

Our take on the global economic effects. 👇

LMK which numbers you disagree with...

Which card wins in Top Trumps: Chokepoints Edition? My column this week, 1st 300 clicks free to read as.ft.com/r/f170b40f-a...

#TheTenx5 Day 35/50 Solange – Cranes In The Sky 05-10-2016 - 11 POINTS At the end of 2016, V and T were in China, I was living in Ely with M and my father-in-law. Brexit and Trump had happened. This song really sums up the moment, capturing that formless anxiety & sadness. youtu.be/S0qrinhNnOM

Well this piece certainly delivers and the last par is 😬 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The list of global powers that are big enough to cause global havoc, yet opt not to, is shorter than it used to be. We explain why Europe is one of them

Yet another must-read memo from purgatory by @martinsandbu.ft.com Europe’s impotence extends to energy giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Starting to see Nordic countries detaining and boarding more shadow fleet ships. There has been a hard to understand hesitancy to do this www.dn.se/direkt/2026-...

#Info: Live from Berlin at +/- 1PM CET – Joint Press Conference with @aussenminister.diplo.de and Dutch Foreign Minister @ministerbz.bsky.social Tom Berendsen 🇳🇱👇 youtube.com/live/g7Cg3YZ...

»most of the time working groups produce better results than carrier groups.«

Europe’s peaceable instincts might carry more weight if it were less sluggish and divided. With the Iran war, the continent has produced roughly as many positions on the conflict as it has politicians

"From the US you get forced into trade deals promising a future of burning fossil fuels whose price is subject to wildly destructive US adventurism. From China you get reliably cheap EVs and green tech to generate renewables"- giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @alanbeattie.bsky.social

Liberté, Egalité, Reciprocité.

Contrary to some of the ridicule online, sensible moves by the Commission within its competences: - support on evacuation efforts - monitoring of transportation risks - energy monitoring - coop with member states+ Europol on internal security - monitoring on migration effects

Why is Croatia considering only 160km/h for the new railway line Zagreb - Rijeka? So much for freight nothing more makes sense? But how much more expensive would an alignment for 200 or 230km/h be, not least as there are not going to be level crossings anyway? www.railjournal.com/infrastructu...

EU expects no immediate oil security impact from Iran conflict, email shows The European Commission does not expect the widening conflict in the Middle East to have any immediate impact on the EU's security of oil supply, it said in an email seen by Reuters www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Viktor Orban is now 20 points behind in the polls - and so he has ordered the military to guard “key energy facilities” against a possible Ukrainian “attack.” Hungarians fear he plans a fake national security emergency or false-flag incident before the April 12 election apnews.com/article/hung...

#Info: Live ab +/- 13:30 Uhr MESZ gemeinsame Pressekonferenz von @aussenminister.diplo.de Johann Wadephul mit seinem belgischen Amtskollegen Maxime Prévot. Livestream👇 youtu.be/pO1699i-Lg0?...

#Info : Vers 13h30 (HEC), conférence de presse conjointe du ministre fédéral des Affaires étrangères @aussenminister.diplo.de Wadephul et de son homologue belge Maxime Prévot. Suivez le livestream 👇 youtube.com/live/fKE5SMF...

As an English Lit graduate born in Bradford I couldn't resist sending our new chief U.K. correspondent @shearmds.bsky.social to gorgeous west Yorkshire, where the original Wuthering Heights was written, with our wonderful photographer Andrew Testa. Feast your eyes on this (gift article):

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I found it exhausting and I am glad to escape it. I had to read a different book while reading it as a break from it. I quite enjoyed it. I am very interested in what strange sort of brain wrote it - Emily's - in that time, in those circumstances. I will never read it again.

I have finished Wuthering Heights. So my reading of this is that Heathcliff basically uses gen2 to create a fanfiction AU of his own life. But the tropes run away with him.

I think this is a correct response to Wuthering Heights. Everyone should read it once (or twice if you first read it as an impressionable teenager who only finished the first bit) but it's a deranged, claustrophobic fever dream of a novel that is far closer to Gothic horror than a romance.

There is no reason to believe Trump's foreign policy is designed to benefit America or Americans www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Fuck this is stunningly good. Perfect snapshots of the Twin Cities. "We are legion, the local moms and dads, we cruise the city in our minivans. You can’t shoot us all." (Gift link)

I was 10 years old watching this, transfixed. m.youtube.com/watch?v=LMxh...

Jesse Jackson outlived his WaPo obituarist by 16 years www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Once a year, the world of diplomacy gathers in Munich for the @munsecconf.bsky.social. Especially this year, there’s a great deal to discuss. Find out here who @aussenminister.diplo.de will be meeting over the coming days and what’s on the agenda👇 www.diplo.de/2755890

Western aid to Ukraine. Before and after Trump. By @kiel.institute

“Europeans are, slowly but surely, waking up to what they are able to do”. 🇪🇺

On a day with so much awfulness just taking a moment to note with admiration a dignified leader

"Zum Vorsitzenden in Brandenburg wurde am Vormittag der Landtagsabgeordnete Fabian Jank als einziger Kandidat ohne Gegenstimme gewählt. Jank fiel bisher durch seine Nähe zur rechtsextremen Identitären Bewegung und durch das Posten von NS-Parolen in Social Media auf."

Grundlegende Umwelt- & Naturschutzregeln sollen gelockert oder gar abgebaut werden. Ein europaweites Bündnis fordert deshalb: #HandsOffNature! Wer diesen Aufruf unterstützt, kann unterschreiben! ✍️⬇️

„Unter deutschen Historikern dominiert die Vorstellung, dass dieses Land keine komplexe Geschichte der Schoa vertrage.“ Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe antwortet auf Andrea Löw und Stephan Lehnstaedt. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

A cartoon by Ali Solomon, from 2024. #NewYorkerCartoons

#Werbeblock… und zwar für deinen Traumjob in 🇪🇺! Wer sich im aktuellen #Concours 2026 für #EU-Beamte durchsetzt, darf sich auf spannende & verantwortungsvolle Aufgaben freuen! Wir unterstützen 🇩🇪 Bewerber:innen bei der Vorbereitung aufs Auswahlverfahren: www.auswaertiges-amt.de/de/karriere/... #EPSO

Good news: Europe, Japan, and the US will work with others on collective resilience through a plurilateral trade initiative on critical minerals. Together, we will build strong and diversified supply chains to secure the materials needed to power our economies.

Council agrees position on legal framework to provide €90 billion in financial support to Ukraine www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

When animals like hedgehogs, pangolins and potato bugs (AKA rolly pollies or sow bugs) curl up into a defensive little ball it's called "Conglobation." Because they roll up into a cute little globe. In related news, here's an Armadillo Projection map: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadil...

Zurück zu einer alten Übung: Der Füllstand der Gasspeicher in Europa am 31.1.26 (aber andere Situation als früher, weil es LNG-Terminals gibt) 🇪🇺: 41,62 (-0,61), 🇩🇪 32,94 (-0,65), 🇫🇷 39,21 (-0,69),🇮🇹57,58 (-0,55),🇦🇹46,01 (-0,63)

Aus Döblins »Berlin Alexanderplatz« erfährt man auch dieser Tage, dass diese Stadt einfach sehr große historische Kontanten hat.