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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
9 months ago
"The London wine merchant Philglas & Swiggot has been a stalwart of the UK wine scene since 1991, having successfully navigated all manner of challenges for 34 years. It is now closing after struggling with the ‘increasingly challenging trading conditions and the additional complexities of Brexit’."
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Challenging trading conditions force London wine merchant to close - Decanter
London wine merchant Philglas & Swiggot closing because of ‘increasingly challenging trading conditions and the additional complexities of Brexit’.
https://www.decanter.com/wine-news/challenging-trading-conditions-force-london-wine-merchant-to-close-551612/
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The Lincoln Project
9 months ago
RFK JR on Measles Outbreaks just now: "It is not unusual. There are measles outbreaks every year." It is actually very unusual. This is the first Measles death in the US in 10 years.
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Anton Gerashchenko
9 months ago
Prime Minister of Italy Giorgia Meloni said that it is not possible to have just, lasting peace in Ukraine unless Kyiv gets guarantees that it will not be invaded again by Russia. She sees NATO as the best such guarantee
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Mark Chadbourn
9 months ago
The EU’s Kaja Kallas flew in to DC for talks with Marco Rubio and he decided to cancel the meeting the moment her flight touched down. The biggest assholes in the world are now in one government.
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Caroline de Gruyter
9 months ago
"The good news is that there’s growing clarity about what needs to be done. Europe has to save Ukraine. We must rapidly build a stronger common European defence, including Britain. All of us have to restore economic dynamism." Very good by
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Germany can turbocharge Europe’s renewal – if it will only seize this moment | Timothy Garton Ash
Three times in the postwar era Germany made strategic choices that benefited Europe – with the US at its side. Now it must do it in opposition to Trump, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/26/germany-leadership-europe-ukraine-usa-opposition
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Centre for European Reform
9 months ago
#Trump’s
actions and rhetoric are a direct threat to the economic and security interests of the US’s European partners – including the UK.
@centreeuropeanref.bsky.social
insight by
@cerianbond.bsky.social
Read here:
https://buff.ly/4aTo0hk
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Charlotte Garden
11 months ago
"President Carter appointed more women and people of color to the federal judiciary than all previous presidents combined"
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Jimmy Carter was a very good man. RIP
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11 months ago
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Dan Chibnall
11 months ago
I love learning about various human societies' legends and beliefs surrounding the Milky Way. Recently I learned about some Australian Aboriginal people who believed the galaxy was a river that souls crossed in a canoe, and the stars were their campfires along the river. Beautiful.
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Mike Galsworthy
11 months ago
Good for Denmark. 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 The Danish government has announced a huge boost (at least £1.2bn) in defence spending for Greenland, hours after Donald Trump repeated his desire to control the Danish territory.
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Denmark boosts Greenland defence after Trump repeats desire for US control
The huge package is announced after the president-elect said US ownership of Greenland was a
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgzl19n9eko
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Why do Russians not want the development of their country in the interests of the Russian people-prosperity & health.
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11 months ago
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The Kyiv Independent
11 months ago
⚡️ Russian proxies sentence 9 Azovstal defenders to 24 years, life in prison. Russian occupation authorities in Donetsk jailed nine Ukrainian soldiers captured after defending Mariupol to between 24 years and a life sentence, the city's exiled authorities reported on Dec. 11.
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Russian proxies sentence 9 Azovstal defenders to 24 years, life in prison
Russian occupation authorities in Donetsk jailed nine Ukrainian soldiers captured after defending Mariupol to between 24 years and a life sentence, the city's exiled authorities reported on Dec. 11.
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-proxies-sentence-9-azovstal-defenders/
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Liam Delaney
11 months ago
Shane Timmons opening the 17th annual workshop on economics, psychology, & policy in Ireland.
bsp.ucd.ie/annual-econo...
Packed schedule today across a wide range of applications in health, climate, finance and others.
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Financial Times
11 months ago
Macron ponders political truce as he struggles to find new French premier
https://www.ft.com/content/edabd39a-fdc6-4609-a34e-252af1c7fbc6
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Macron ponders political truce as he struggles to find new French premier
President negotiates with party leaders of left and right to ensure survival of next government
https://www.ft.com/content/edabd39a-fdc6-4609-a34e-252af1c7fbc6
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Leila Molana-Allen
11 months ago
I spent this morning inside Assad’s infamous
#Damascus
slaughterhouse prison, Sednaya. I’ve spent much of my career investigating what was being done to defenceless human beings in this place. Now we know everything. It’s worse than you could possibly imagine.
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Marco Incerti
11 months ago
The European University Institute, one of Europe’s leading academic institutions has landed here. Our X now frozen. Please help us rebuild our community
@simonhix.bsky.social
@filipkostelka.bsky.social
@maartenpvink.bsky.social
@tomaashby.bsky.social
@valentimvicente.bsky.social
#Academicsky
#Polsky
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David Phinnemore
11 months ago
In advance of tomorrow’ debate in the Northern Ireland Assembly on whether to grant ‘democratic consent’ to the continued application of Articles 5-10 of the Protocol/Windsor Framework…
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...
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Loyalist Jamie Bryson’s legal challenge over Stormont Windsor Framework vote dismissed by High Court
Loyalist activist Jamie Bryson’s legal action against a Stormont vote on continuing post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland is to be dismissed, the High Court ruled tonight.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/loyalist-jamie-brysons-legal-challenge-over-stormont-windsor-framework-vote-dismissed-by-high-court/a554507428.html
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Edward Burke
11 months ago
This is disgraceful. Patrick Devaney: “Brigid, you should receive the same fate as Brian Thompson.” Brian Thompson was shot dead. Offensive discourse on X is not new. But this is a dangerous threat to University of Limerick Chancellor
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and should be taken seriously by Gardaí
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Peter Stefanovic
11 months ago
Meanwhile…
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Anton Gerashchenko
11 months ago
Reportedly, the rebels have approached close to a Russian airbase and are near a Russian Navy port in coastal Syria. Separate groups of Russian Armed Forces troops may be cut off in remote provinces. Syrian journalist Rami Jarrah posted a video of the fighters in the city. 📹: fighters in Tartus
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AlexTaylorNews
11 months ago
Absolute goosebumps ! 👇 One of man's greatest creations, Beethoven's 5th rattling the core foundations of God's millennial cathedral It's primal - sound on LOUD !
#NotreDameDeParis
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elia ayoub
11 months ago
These four men were going to be executed today by the Assad regime. “Our executions were going to be half an hour ago.”
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Europe Street News
11 months ago
Rachel Reeves will become on Monday the first British chancellor to attend a meeting of European finance ministers since Brexit. She will lay the ground for an “ambitious” new economic partnership with the EU fully honouring post-Brexit deals -
@financialtimes.com
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Financial Times
News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics
https://FT.com
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Katalin Halmai
11 months ago
🕵️The Hungarian secret service has been monitoring
#OLAF
inspectors in
#Hungary
as they investigated suspicious business dealings by Viktor Orbán's son-in-law,
@direkt36.bsky.social
and
@tijd.be
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Steve Peers
11 months ago
EU and Mercosur agree free trade agreement:
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Qs and As:
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Still needs to go through ratification process, of course
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EU and Mercosur reach political agreement on groundbreaking partnership
Today, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and her counterparts from four Mercosur countries finalised negotiations for a groundbreaking EU-Mercosur partnership agreement
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_6244
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Peter Van Elsuwege
11 months ago
The end of negotiations but also the start of a new process leading to the formal signature and conclusion of the agreement
#EU
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#externalrelations
#Article218TFEU
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Linda Hughes
11 months ago
Warnings for
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have been upgraded by
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met.ie/warnings
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Euronews
11 months ago
Koyo Kouoh, one of Africa's leading curatorial voices, has been selected to curate the 2026 edition of the Venice Biennale, the world’s foremost contemporary art exhibition.
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Koyo Kouoh appointed curator of 2026 Venice Biennale
The renowned Swiss-Cameroonian curator will make history as the first African woman to helm the prestigious art event.
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2024/12/03/koyo-kouoh-appointed-curator-of-2026-venice-biennale-and-becomes-first-african-woman-in-ro?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1733240734
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Peter Foster
11 months ago
If you want to understand why Labour redlines on “no single market or customs union” mean Brexit won’t be fixed for traders, speak to a SME in chemicals: ++££ on regulation, cash-flow and logistics. SEE: UK chemicals sector doubts Starmer ‘reset’ will end Brexit blues
on.ft.com/41fl8bG
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UK chemicals sector doubts Starmer ‘reset’ will end Brexit blues
[FREE TO READ] Businesses say regulatory and customs frictions will barely be eased if Labour government sticks to red lines on EU
https://on.ft.com/41fl8bG
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Prof David Farrell, UCD
12 months ago
Finally got my hands on a copy 😊
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Peter Stefanovic
11 months ago
The new Brexit time bomb A refresh of EU product safety standards, GPSR, will be a disaster for the UK’s small exporters, with the government little help
@theneweuropean.bsky.social
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-new-brex...
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The new Brexit time bomb
A refresh of EU product safety standards, GPSR, will be a disaster for the UK’s small exporters, with the government little help
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-new-brexit-time-bomb/
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Reuters
11 months ago
On Nov. 18, hours after two communication cables were severed in the Baltic Sea, 30 NATO vessels and 4,000 military staff took to the same body of water for one of northern Europe's largest naval exercises
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As sabotage allegations swirl, NATO struggles to secure the Baltic Sea
The 12-day 'Freezing Winds' drill was part of a push to step up the transatlantic defence alliance's protection of infrastructure in waters that carry 15% of global shipping traffic and are seen as increasingly vulnerable to attack.
https://reut.rs/49l2rWn
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Matthew Price
12 months ago
Credit to the Irish pollsters for absolutely nailing
#GE24
FF: 21.5% (polls) vs 21.9% (result) FG: 21% vs 20.8% SF: 19.5% vs 19% Polling averages via
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺
12 months ago
At one point during the night, the public didn’t run when the regime police advanced because there was an automatic sense of superiority in numbers, and they counter-attacked the police. The police ran. As in other revolts, we learn tactics as the process goes.
#GeorgiaProtests
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Peter Foster
12 months ago
Latest: still big gaps between EU and UK on youth mobility. Details here via
@financialtimes.com
with
@andybounds.bsky.social
EU digs in on student fees as UK youth mobility talks near
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EU digs in on student fees as UK youth mobility talks near
Brussels is willing to make small concessions over naming of scheme and length of stay
https://on.ft.com/3Zfj7JZ
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Etain Tannam
12 months ago
Delighted to say my book has arrived (& ‘only’ took me 8 yrs!). Thx to my colleagues in TCD & to
@conorjkelly.bsky.social
@alanrenwick.bsky.social
@alanwhysall.bsky.social
Brendan O’Leary, Cathy-Gormley-Heenan, Chris McCrudden, for providing much to ponder
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refs working group.
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Ben Tonra
12 months ago
Department of Finance needs to wise up on this. Ireland doing itself no favours with anyone in band wagoning with an outgoing German government in its opposition to defence bonds.
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For non-Irish followers-Irish election bucks trends-FF/FG in pole position to form Gov with small left party/parties or independents. Sinn Fein down 5.5% on 2020 in opposition & Greens lost all but 1 seat while in Government-the losers of election
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Thomas Lauritzen
12 months ago
Danish PM Mette Frederiksen is looking for a way out of the EU Frugals Club it seems - now ready to talk common debt to pay for Draghi style boost in EU competitiveness: ‘I don’t see how we could finance all this with the usual funding,’ she says to DK media.
nyheder.tv2.dk/politik/2024...
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Mette Frederiksen foreslår fælles lån for Europa
Med EU presset af Kina og USA, er der behov for kæmpe investeringer, hvor statsministeren kun ser én vej.
https://nyheder.tv2.dk/politik/2024-12-01-mette-frederiksen-foreslaar-faelles-laan-for-europa
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Conor
12 months ago
Official Ireland sighs in relief when the embarrassment of a notorious gangland criminal getting elected is narrowly avoided.
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Jorge Liboreiro
12 months ago
Frugal no more? Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederisken says the EU has to look at state aid, joint debt and the common budget “with new eyes.” “I don’t see how we are going to finance it all with well-known funds,” she says about the new priorities on defence and competitiveness.
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EU mangler penge: Statsminister Mette Frederiksen ser ikke andre veje end fælles gæld
Med EU presset af Kina og USA er der behov for kæmpe investeringer, hvor statsministeren kun ser én vej.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/eu-mangler-penge-statsminister-mette-frederiksen-ser-ikke-andre-veje-end-faelles
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Christopher Miller
12 months ago
11 years ago today. Euromaidan. Kyiv, Ukraine. 🇺🇦
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Anton Gerashchenko
12 months ago
In Ukraine, we have one wish - peace and end of war. Our cities are dark, Russia attacks us every day, our Warriors fight a heroic battle against an army of orcs. We don't know what the future holds. But I have faith in Ukraine. I'm grateful to everyone with us. May the force be with us!
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Richard Chambers
12 months ago
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#GE24
Exit Poll: Irish Times/RTE/Ipsos/TG4/TCD (MoE ~1.4%) Sinn Féin 21.1% Fine Gael 21% Fianna Fáil 19.5% Soc Dems 5.8% Greens 4% Labour 5% PBP 3.1% Aontú 3.6% Ind Ireland 2.2% Independents 12.7% Others 1.9%
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Exit poll from Irish General Election. Two main parties of current Government will be back in power but unclear which of the small party or parties that will form Government
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Jane Suiter
12 months ago
Irish exit poll looks like Ireland is about to buck the global trend of punishing the incumbent. Few differences from last election
#ge24
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Darran Marshall
12 months ago
#GE24
EXIT POLL
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NOELREPORTS
12 months ago
Following Luf, the town of Sheikh Idris is reported as captured by rebel forces. They continue to move east towards Abu al-Duhur
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Nancy
12 months ago
The bravery and determination of President Salome Zourabichvili 🇬🇪
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