Trying to think of the last time the European Commission actually answered a journalist's question

What is community and where is it? @manuscarlisle.bsky.social from @left.eu has some ideas …

Israel’s military attaché seen rubbing shoulders in the European Commission today. Colonel Moshe Tetro has been referred to the International Criminal Court for 'orchestrating starvation and targeting healthcare facilities' including the bombing of Al Shifa hospital.

While Ursula von der Leyen was on the phone to a war criminal wanted by the ICC, 100,000 marched against him on the streets of Brussels

For the first time, the European Parliament will use the term ‘genocide’ to describe the situation in Gaza. This is thanks to months of lobbying by @left.eu

"It’s in Europe’s interest to put sanctions on Israel" - @martinsandbu.ft.com www.ft.com/content/8a82...

Everyone should watch the New York Times visual investigation of the murder of 15 rescue workers in Gaza Israel has not faced a single repercussion following this massacre. EU journalists continue to quote IDF statements as reliable sources... www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWhN...

Strong Irish Bloc at the national demonstration for Palestine in Brussels

I spoke to @anadoluajansicom.bsky.social recently about EU civil servants' concerns over complicity in war crimes in Gaza, due to decisions by EU leaders. Trade has continued to flow to Israel despite ICC and ICJ cases, and there are so far no signs this will change. www.aa.com.tr/tr/dunya/esk...

The headlines vs the EU Commission

When I see world leaders paying homage to the Pope despite ignoring everything he said about climate change and peace for the last 13 years

A small thing but I love how when you donate blood in Belgium the snack is a waffle.

It’s hard to sleep with the sound of a paramedic in my head saying: “Forgive me mother this is the path I chose to help people” before he is executed by the IDF. I wonder how do European leaders do it? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

Anytime someone suggests that the European Parliament moves permanently to Strasbourg they should be given the task of finding a bottle of beer or a pint of milk after 7pm in this city.

Solidarity with Shane O’Brien, Berta Murray and all those threatened with deportation by German authorities for protesting against genocide.

Germany moves to deport Irish students for protesting against Israel. "The four people slated for deportation, Cooper Longbottom, Kasia Wlaszczyk, Shane O’Brien, and Roberta Murray, are citizens of, respectively, the United States, Poland, and Ireland." www.972mag.com/germany-depo...

Sorry but did the European Commissioner for Preparedness just admit to carrying around a knife at all times? Under Belgian law you need a 'legitimate motive' to carry a blade in public since 2006.

Fantastic reporting on the lynching of Palestinians in the West Bank from @politico.eu

My brother went to a gig in Ireland’s ‘National Stadium’ last night and the bar was stocked like a country pub

I think we need to discuss more the fact that a failed German Defense Minister is leading the drive to rearm the entire continent. www.politico.eu/article/ursu...

The International Criminal Court faces “existential threat from the United States” - ICC President Judge Tomoko Akane in the European Parliament today

So two men who have both been found liable of sexual assault are meeting to berate immigration policy in Ireland on the national holiday celebrating an immigrant. Feckin clowns.

A predominantly Irish panel leading this far-right event in the European Parliament tomorrow, hosted by Viktor Orbán’s thinktank MCC

A new low for the EU. European Commission backs the failed 'Rwanda model' of making life as miserable as possible for the most vulnerable people on earth at great expense to the taxpayer.

The images of German police punching protestors in the face yesterday are shocking.

The lobbying budgets of the largest European defense companies surged around 40 percent between 2022 and 2023, a data investigation by POLITICO found. 👉 www.politico.eu/article/eu-d...

Netanyahu is wanted in The Hague for "starvation as a method of warfare and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts" And EU Commissioners are meeting with his Ministers to promote trade.

Today ursula von der Leyen is announcing a massive militarisation package called ReArm Europe. This will be good news for regimes in the Middle East who are the biggest recipient of EU weapons exports. 📷 military export licenses per destination region @eudiplomacy.bsky.social

EU: Israel must allow aid into Gaza Israel: No EU: We condemn Hamas www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/israelp...

"Journalists who, one can only assume, entered the profession inspired by a motivation to tell the truth are repeatedly failing in their duty — not even to pick sides, but to simply call things what they really are." www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

This is big. The U.S. is now a Russian ally in the UN.

When you refuse to implement the ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu, you make it impossible to implement the ICC arrest warrant for Putin.

At 14:30 today, the EU will hold a summit with Israel. This comes as Israel; sends tanks into the West Bank; displaces 40,000 people, withholds 600+ Palestinian hostages, and plans the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. All as an ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu stands. How can we act as if this is normal?

Who’s the one Irish guy at Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral?

Roberta Metsola has a once-in-a-lifetime chance to perform a citizen's arrest on a wanted international war criminal

Tense standoff in the European Parliament today as @left.eu MEPs protested a far-right event which called for the forced expulsion of millions of people from Europe. Nazism is on the rise across Europe, it’s everyone’s responsibility to stand against it.

Today, Left MEPs stood in front of the room where the far right was holding a xenophobic event. They are discussing "remigration"—a euphemism for forced deportation. Racism has no place in the European Parliament and in the EU. They found us in their way. ✊🏽 #NoPasarán

Netanyahu is the worst President of the United States yet

How is the Gaza genocide linked to human rights abuses in Europe? In December, the EU signed a $192m contract with Israeli arms manufacturer IAI for drones that have been tested on Palestinians in Gaza. The EU will use the Israeli drones to target migrants in the Mediterranean.

Do you ever think of the failed French expedition to Ireland in 1796? If the wind blew a slightly different direction that night we could have had a first President Wolfe Tone.

European conservatives getting hit by 25% tariffs from the guy they've been cheering on this whole time

Horribly racist and entirely unfounded reporting in @euractiv.com this week. What is going on over in that media outlet? We cannot fight antisemitism with Islamophobia.

US thinktank climate science deniers working with rightwingers in EU parliament

To be fair to Trump, Christianity is radical and left. "Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you [...] You hoarded wealth in the last days. The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields cry out against you." James 5:1-6

Musk just had a "perfectly square bit of black dirt on his window" media reports

The debate on Gaza in the European Parliament is painful to watch. EU conservatives really do not see Palestinian people as even human. Here German 'centre-right' Hildegaard Bentele still blaming Palestinians for "teaching their children to hate" while 50,000 Palestinians lie dead in Gaza.

This, to be clear, is a halving of the EU humanitarian aid for Gaza in 2024 (€238m). Nice post though.

As welcome news of a ceasefire in Gaza comes through, we must face a hard truth: Europe did nothing to bring an end to the war In fact, we prolonged it.

It's becoming increasingly clear that Trump, not Biden, is behind the recent progress towards a ceasefire in Gaza. We should now be asking the question: what did Trump offer Netanyahu in return for peace?

My hope for 2025 is that AI bots make the internet so insufferable that we all just decide to leave it, go outside, and talk to each other.