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Correspondent-at-large for Europe, Bloomberg. Send me news: anardelli @bloomberg .net / DMs open, ask for Signal, ProtonMail

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@AlbertoNardelli
Alberto Nardelli
5 years
We have obtained a secret audio recording of a Moscow meeting between three Russian operatives and a close aide to Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini negotiating a plan to pump money from a Russian oil deal into Salvini’s far-right Lega party
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UK prime minister Boris Johnson told the nation yesterday, "as we come to that Brexit deadline I am encouraged by the progress we are making." I asked an EU official whether it was true that there has been progress in talks. Their response: "No there hasn't."
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All this, to end the free movement of people. It's quite extraordinary if you think about it.
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expectation vs reality
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An observation: Salvini, who tweets pretty much every time a migrant gets found with a pen knife, has had very little to say about far-right activists arrested with a frigging missile and an arsenal of weapons
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Things that will surprise many British observers about the German #EP2019 result: 1) Germany has a Green party 2) some 90% of Germans voted for pro-EU parties 3) the AfD isn't very popular
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Trump fact check: he claims Germany gets 70% of its energy from Russia. Actual figure, according to German government, is 9%
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Stefan Leifert
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Trump behauptet, Deutschland beziehe bis zu 70 Prozent seiner Energie aus Russland. Laut Bundesregierung sind es 9 Prozent. #NATOGipfel
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Strong statement from Macron 'we will not renegotiate a less ambitious deal... There is no plan b, there is no planet b'
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An EU official tells me that the irony of all this debate in the Commons is that “it makes crystal clear why we need a backstop in the first place”
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Raab on the BBC refusing to condemn Trump’s remarks, something a British foreign secretary would likely not hesitate to do if the president of another foreign country had made similar comments
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A German journalist interviewed the co-leader of the far-right AfD, asking questions about climate change, pensions, housing & digitalisation. The far-right politician didn’t have any answers. Every journalist should read this. (via ⁦ @marceldirsus ⁩)
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This tape provides the first hard evidence of Russia’s clandestine attempts to fund Europe’s nationalist movements, and the apparent complicity of some senior figures from the far right in those attempts
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NEW: Biden assured key allies in June that US security enablers would remain in place in Afghanistan as NATO troops withdrew, so much so that U.K. thought it could maintain its Kabul embassy
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alternative arrangements
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Italian PM has just announced that lockdown extends to the whole of Italy, movement restricted to reasons of work, health and emergencies
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imagine living in the UK for most of your life and then daring to call it home
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The Times and The Sunday Times
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EU migrants have been able to “treat the UK as if it’s part of their own country” for too long, Boris Johnson said yesterday as he reprised the core message of Vote Leave’s 2016 EU referendum campaign.
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Am told UK declined to sign joint statement with Germany, Italy and France on Trump's decision to pull out of Paris climate agreement
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I sent this tweet to an EU source. Their response: “oh for fuck sake”
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norman smith
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Dominic Raab breaks his silence - Govt shd go back to EU to seek legally binding changes to the backstop. If not prepare for No Deal.
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And with that, I am going for an espresso ☕️
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Germany has treated more than 200 coronavirus patients from other European countries, and is prepared to take more. The costs — some €20 million — will be covered by the German government
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#BTW17 : Love this DPA photo of German president Steinmeier in line waiting to vote
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BREAKING: Milan's public prosecutor has opened an investigation into Lega and Russia after BuzzFeed News released a tape of the Moscow meeting involving a close Salvini aide
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When the existence of the Metropol meeting was reported by two Italian journalists earlier the year, Savoini and Salvini dismissed the story as a fantasy. This recording blows those statements apart.
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The Brexit extension letter has been sent to the U.K. ambassador. I am told that the letter was signed.
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Brexit status update. A short thread: - UK has not put forward any concrete proposal/text. A fundamental point that needs repeating when you read X could be a solution or Y could replace a backstop. We have a saying in Italy: my grandmother would be a bicycle if she had wheels.
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Some thoughts on the tragedy that hit Genova. Here's Salvini implying that it’s the EU’s fault because it constrains spending First, the obvious: it’s tragic that even in tragedy Italian politicians, across parties, immediately started blaming someone else
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Matteo Salvini
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Se ci sono vincoli europei che ci impediscono di spendere soldi per mettere in sicurezza le scuole dove vanno i nostri figli o le autostrade su cui viaggiano i nostri lavoratori, metteremo davanti a tutto e a tutti la sicurezza degli Italiani.
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NEW: Flight records show that the close Matteo Salvini aide who negotiated a proposed oil deal to fund Salvini's Lega party made multiple trips to Moscow around the time of the meeting
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Had it not been for Merkel, Greece would have been kicked out of the euro. AfD emerged on back of that (ie they wanted to kick Greece out of the euro), and grew after Merkel took in 1m refugees avoiding a humanitarian catastrophe while the rest of Europe sat on its hands
@OwenJones84
Owen Jones
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Angela Merkel’s government bears chief responsibility for plunging Europe into catastrophic austerity which has ruined living standards, caused mass unemployment, decimated public services, and fuelled the far right. Her government isn’t woke, it’s a catastrophe for Europe.
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United Kingdom, 2019/20 Manager: Boris Johnson Form: LLL
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#G7 trade discussion yesterday. I understand that Trump presented a list of grievances, listing what each country, one by one, owed the US - trade deficits, tariffs, defence and so on. Basically, a live performance of his Twitter threads.
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The recording is of a meeting that took place at the Metropol Hotel in Moscow last October. The six men — three Russians, three Italians — are explicit that the purpose of the potential agreement is to fund Lega and its European election campaign
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A short thread. Many seem to be arguing that MPs were clear in what the UK wants from the EU, and the EU is now playing games. This argument is grossly misplaced, and somewhat detached from reality
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7 years
The president of Iceland has issued a statement clarifying his pineapple on pizza remarks
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Alberto Nardelli
4 years
After four incredible years, I am leaving BuzzFeed News this month. I'm extremely grateful to all my editors and colleagues, past and present. But I’m very excited to be joining Bloomberg as correspondent-at-large for Europe. I start in September — and can't wait to get going!
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UK PM May presented her views to EU27 leaders at #EUCO . I am told she was “evasive” and “tightlipped”. The prime minister was repeatedly asked by several leaders what she would do if MPs vote the deal down. May didn’t answer the question.
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This too is Europe: 160,000 people marched through Barcelona today demanding Spain take in more refugees ht @kjalee
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Senior EU official tells me UK now has 3 options: 1) leave with no deal on March 29 2) ask for extension (dependant on reason, length & EU27 unanimity) 3) revoke article 50 “There will be no further talks,” the source says. Our story on tonight's vote:
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Salvini's aide, Gianluca Savoini, who attended the government dinner with Putin in Rome last week, mentions Salvini several times during the meeting. He describes him as "the first man that wants to change all of Europe". The Russians describe Salvini as the "European Trump"
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“The first evidence” (if you’ve been hiding in a cave for the past three years without access to electricity)
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Telegraph Politics
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The leaked paper is the first evidence that Germany may be preparing to let Britain walk away with No Deal rather than back down to Boris Johnson’s demand to drop the Irish backstop
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EU27 received an update on Brexit today. They were told: - UK committed to send concrete proposals three weeks ago but hasn't done so. Every week, the UK promises to send proposals the following week, but to date nothing has been received.
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Nostradamus
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Matteo Salvini can’t seem to remember much about his 20 year bromance with his aide Gianluca Savoini. So ⁦ @MarkDiStef ⁩ and I have put together this handy explainer for him
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Alberto Nardelli
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BREAKING on @TheTerminal : Draghi, Macron and Scholz back EU candidate status for Ukraine - a big moment
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A European diplomatic source describes today’s meeting between Brexit secretary Steve Barclay and EU27 ambassadors as “completely useless”
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On top of the world
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4 years
Still can’t get over this. Hear Arsenal have conceded 0 goals this month
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4 years
The BuzzFeed UK news is tremendously sad. We broke some pretty decent stories over the past few years and had lots of fun. I am so proud of everyone on the team. For those who like football analogies we were like Sampdoria 1991. Everything just clicked and it was beautiful
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France to Trump: “international cooperation can not be dictated by fits of anger and throwaway remarks”
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4 years
Important update for "Festival of Brexit" fans — An FOI shows: - The government has so far spent £728,118.00 on the festival. This amount relates to internal Festival Team's staff related costs. - There is still no agenda. The process for appointing a delivery body is underway
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French pollsters take a bow - you were perfect. ps those same pollsters have Macron winning the runoff by more than 20 points.
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UK: it takes us 4 years to fix a clock, but we can definitely do Brexit in 2 years
@SamCoatesSky
Sam Coates Sky
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Silencing Big Ben until 2021 ‘is bonkers’
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Alberto Nardelli
6 years
Just a reminder that EU, and EU27, have been expecting UK to start blaming EU for no-deal for weeks. All this may whip up UK voters, but will make no difference on EU27 position nor on the consequences that no-deal would have on Britain’s economy
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Alberto Nardelli
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Boris Johnson doesn’t want a deal. He’s preparing for an election. He will paint himself as the champion of Britain, everyone else as talking the country down. Reality is project fear & gloom. He speaks in slogans. No details nor policies. It’s the 2016 referendum all over again.
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La perfection, Benjamin Pavard, 2018
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The source described Trump as a "whirlpool", "out of control".
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Alberto Nardelli
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“If we need to leave with no deal and negotiate a free trade agreement during the transition period, so be it.” The man who was in charge of delivering Brexit still doesn’t understand how the process works. There is no transition without an exit deal.
@DavidDavisMP
David Davis
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This deal is not what the people voted for. It will tie us to the Customs Union for years to come with no way out. But there is still time to negotiate a Canada+++ deal that delivers on the referendum. So let’s get on with it.
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3 years
I gemelli del gol
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Random thought: what happened to Theresa May's "Festival of Brexit Britain"?
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It’s 2018. Italy is debating vaccines.
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DD: we've done loads of work. 58 detailed docs of prep. MPs: Anyone read them? DD: Just summaries MPs: Show us the docs DD: They don't exist
@SeemaMalhotra1
Seema Malhotra MP💙
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Written Statement by David Davis just out - apparently “it is not the case that 58 sectoral impact assessments exist”. #brexitshambles
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Macron hit back hard, imparting on "an economic lesson" to the US president, a source said, over how free trade works and why Trump's tariffs don't.
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Alberto Nardelli
4 years
The coronavirus hit Germany and the UK just days apart. @alexwickham and I have examined how the German and British governments responded since, day-by-day — a timeline:
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May said in #PMQs that due diligence was carried out on Seaborne by Deloitte, Mott MacDonald and Slaughter & May. Deloitte: “The standard tests could not be completed on Seaborne given a lack of existing financial information due to it only being incorporated in April 2017.”
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Queen announces that Harry and Meghan to enter transition period ahead of Canada plus deal
@chrisshipitv
Chris Ship
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BREAKING: Statement from The Queen just issued by Buckingham Palace on today’s meeting #HarryandMeghan
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Alberto Nardelli
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Estate Italiana, 2021
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"The English league is the richest in the world". Yup, all the best players are migrants. There is your metaphor. #EURO2016
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The Invisible Hulk meets the prime minister of Luxembourg
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NEW: I have spent a bit of time working to answer a simple, but important, question: was Boris Johnson a good foreign secretary? I have spoken to senior US, European and UK diplomats & officials who all worked and dealt with Johnson directly
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Alberto Nardelli
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Boris Johnson has written and signed a letter to Donald Tusk to "confirm the UK's formal agreement" to extending Brexit to 31 Jan. 2020
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Last month: ‘Strong Merkel will help UK & Brexit’ Now: ‘Weak Merkel helps UK & Brexit’ In Brexit Britain everything is great & glorious regardless. Also: how propaganda works.
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11 years in office, 1 million refugees later, and still more popular than Theresa May and pretty much every elected leader in Europe
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Germany - ARD poll: 73% of Germans feel safe 56% are satisfied with Merkel CDU/CSU 37%, +2 on last month
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As Germany votes soon, for me one of Merkel’s biggest legacies is she has embedded decency, and a politics of values, calm & facts over populist & nationalist attitudes, into the German mainstream. Looking at Europe today, that was neither obvious nor should be taken for granted.
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I would have never imagined to see the day in which the front pages of a British newspaper would attack the judiciary this way
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Just a reminder that the Brexit deal was agreed last November. Since then, the substance of the agreement remains unchanged, and we've had four months of internal Tory party politics
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Idea that Germany is in “crisis” is bollocks. Merkel led her party for 18 years, won 4 terms, was not going to run for a 5th. She will leave on her terms, her preferred successor in place, and the centrist course she paved protected against those who wanted to shift to the right
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In the past 6 months the BBC have apparently interviewed Marine Le Pen 3 times compared to 0 interviews with election frontrunner Macron
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Salzburg. A short thread: 1) Nothing that Tusk said on Chequers, that Macron said about some Brexiteers (while stressing he respected the choice of British voters), and that Merkel said about the single market and four freedoms, is anything they hadn’t said before.
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Friction, less trade.
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Happy Birthday, EU. The freedom to live your life anywhere in Europe was an improbable idea 60 years ago. We have come so far. #EU60 🇪🇺
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Anyone arguing for ideas that don’t actually do this, are, in effect, wanting the UK to renege on its commitments. This is what makes UK prime minister May’s decision to back such ideas all the more puzzling - and, paradoxically, makes the need for a backstop even clearer.
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Tusk to MEPs:
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7 years
I understand Ivanka Trump is sitting at the #G20 leaders table this morning instead of US President Donald Trump. Source: "Incredible!!!"
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“Everyone, please look left”
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Lots of people tweeting "why didn't Clinton speak like this before". She did. She's been speaking like this for more than 20 years
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Un membro dello staff del ministro Salvini (assunto Agosto 2018 come consigliere per le attività strategiche internazionali, stipendio €65,000/anno) era prenotato sugli stessi voli di Savoini nelle date del Metropol — SU2411 16 ottobre 2018 e SU2414 il 18
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Alberto Nardelli
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Relax everyone. Davis says he has a good idea of what Europeans want. Mentions Germany, Holland and... Czechoslovakia
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Alberto Nardelli
6 years
The way (pretty much every) British politician talks about the freedom of movement of people in the EU is very sad
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More than 3 years since Germany welcomed nearly 1m refugees. One in three now work or are in training schemes. These figures continue to rise fast (). Merkel’s approval stands at 60% (ht @emilyrs ). Not giving in to populists isn’t easy, but it can be done.
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me when someone orders a cappuccino after lunch
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Good morning, 2019. Britain is rehearsing a traffic jam.
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This Incredible Photo Of Trump Surrounded By G7 Leaders Is Like A Renaissance Painting via @davidmackau
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Alberto Nardelli
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NEW: updated draft conclusions: 'EUCO agrees to an extension to 22 May, provided WA is approved by the HoC next week. If the WA is not approved by the HoC next week, EUCO agrees to an extension until 12 April, expects UK to indicate a way forward for the consideration of EUCO'
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