Caroline de Gruyter @CarolineGruyter Twitter profile

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Caroline de Gruyter

7 months

Today’s Europe and the Habsburg Empire - what makes multinational entities tick? Can they learn from each other? Out in five languages now.

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Caroline de Gruyter

@CarolineGruyter

3 years

Garbage collectors in Ankara open a library with books rescued from the trash. "The only regret the men have, is that they didn't start collecting sooner."

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2 years

Nice letter in the FT today

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Here's your regular reminder that farmers, who are setting Brussels alight again today, already get a whopping 33 percent of the EU budget

Alexandre Krauss

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Farmers? Let’s go with criminals. Surreal what’s happening in #Brussels .

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5 years

Beautiful (in the Economist)

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3 years

Here is former Brexit negotiator @MichelBarnier saying that @BorisJohnson negotiated the Protocol “word for word, comma after comma” and that he cannot contest it now. “I expect him to respect his own signature.”

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3 years

In EU capitals, suspicion is growing that PM Boris Johnson signed the Withdrawal Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol simply to get elected and get Brexit over the line—then, create a fuss over the detailed provisions and try to get a better deal

Boris Johnson’s ‘Sausage War’ Was Deadly Serious

The European Union and Britain are confronting whether international politics is a matter of law or chaos.

foreignpolicy.com

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Ukrainian dep. minister for euro-atlantic integration ⁦⁦ @StefanishynaO ⁩ upon learning that her country received the EU candidate status today. Photo taken from her Facebook page:

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4 years

How long will we keep asking people how integrated they are? Merkel at her best

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5 years

What a brilliant ad!

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Voltaire: “History never repeats itself. It's people who repeat themselves”

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4 years

The happy, sovereign nation

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4 years

When the Serbian president realizes that he has just signed an agreement to move his embassy to Jerusalem

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Ups

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VN-rapporteur: woningnood in Nederland komt door wanbeleid, niet door migranten. Door huisvesting over te laten aan commerciële bedrijven is het recht op adequate huisvesting uit het oog verloren

VN-rapporteur: woningnood komt door de overheid, niet door migranten

Migratie: Volgens de VN-rapporteur komt de woningnood in Nederland door wanbeleid, en niet door migranten. Door huisvesting over te laten aan commerciële bedrijven is het recht op adequate huisvest...

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5 years

Rumanians in Germany, in a queue to vote. Most are workers - like the Portuguese in France, Poles in Austria or French in the UK. Shows that Europe is not just “for cosmopolitan elites”, as some claim

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5 years

Was für eine Schlange! #Europawahl2019 #M ünchen #Rum änienhaus

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5 years

This from the boss of the German employers’ union: “400.000 immigrants to Germany, who came after 2015, already have an apprenticeship or fulltime job. I am surprised myself how quickly it's working. Merkel was right: we can do it!" H/t ⁦ @COdendahl ⁩

Arbeitgeber-Präsident: "Wir schaffen das mit der Integration"

Ingo Kramer rät Unternehmer-Kollegen, wie sie verhindern können, dass Mitarbeiter abgeschoben werden - und gibt Merkels "Wir schaffen das" recht.

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Caroline de Gruyter

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4 years

Take that, antivaxxers: in 1996 the polio virus still paralysed more than 75,000 children across Africa - every country was affected. Now: none. Africa is clean. I consider that progress.

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5 years

“The populists don’t know what’s hit them, and they really don’t know how to deal with it.”

Change the narrative: how a Swiss group is beating rightwing populists

Operation Libero is winning key victories by using fun but hard-hitting messages to tackle fear and pessimism

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Caroline de Gruyter

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3 years

Little gem in today’s ⁦ @FT ⁩: if the EU is just an organisation without any characteristics of a state, how could the UK then have lost sovereignty while it was a member?

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Dit is op zijn best onbenul, en op zijn slechtst politieke stemmingmakerij. Geld uit (magere) Europese cultuurpotjes ondersteunt juist nationaal erfgoed en regionale/nationale culturele tradities. Voorbeeld: de restauratie van NL molens en het Fort Crèvecoeur in Den Bosch

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@CarolineGruyter

4 years

Sound policy in Denmark: no bailout money for companies that are registered in tax havens via @business

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Caroline de Gruyter

@CarolineGruyter

9 months

Ik heb het altijd een enorme geruststelling gevonden dat juist ook mensen die goed verdienen en geld hebben dat niet alleen voor zichzelf willen houden maar voor een rechtvaardige samenleving blijven opkomen en geloven in de waarde van herverdeling. Maar t zal wel aan mij liggen.

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9 months

fascinerend stukje beeld eigenlijk, er gebeurt zoveel. allereerst: who cares of die man miljonair is en waar ie in woont? het idee van gelijke verdeling van welvaart gaat over meer mensen die het beter hebben, niet meer mensen moeten in een kleiner huis wonen. je kan prima…

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3 years

Veel Covid-patienten zijn niet gevaccineerd. Bij zorgpersoneel knapt er nu iets. "Waarom zouden wij ons uit de naad werken, als jullie zèlf niet eens de moeite nemen om je te beschermen?” Mijn column in @destandaard

Het stille protest van zorgverleners

De dreiging van een vierde coronagolf is voor veel artsen en verpleegkundigen de druppel. De uittocht van zorgpersoneel baart Caroline de Gruyter zorgen.

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4 years

Why are the Dutch, living in the heart of Europe, often behaving as if they're complete outsiders? Perhaps it's time to repost this @Carnegie_Europe story from 2014

The Dutch Are Trapped in Europe

The Dutch have not suddenly become Euroskeptics. The Netherlands has always been reserved toward Europe. It has just managed, for a long time, to hide it.

carnegieeurope.eu

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5 years

Brilliant. Found in cyberspace

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4 years

The UK is spinning lies. They always had their own seat, even as an EU country.

Department for Business and Trade

@biztradegovuk

4 years

Yesterday the UK took its independent seat @wto . This means we'll be able to: 👉speak with our own voice 👉prioritise issues & defend industries that matter to the 🇬🇧 👉participate in negotiating international trade agreements that will come into force after the transition period

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4 years

“There is no economic upside to Brexit” - @AdamPosen telling it as it is

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4 years

This morning I was having breakfast in the kitchen, when a submarine passed by

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@CarolineGruyter

9 months

My quote of the day

Prof. Feynman

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“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” - - Charles Bukowski

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3 years

"The overwhelming reason why the UK is so far ahead with its vaccination programme is that it has received so many vaccines from the EU."

Has the UK really outperformed the EU on Covid-19 vaccinations?

The EU’s Covid-19 vaccination rollout has received intense criticism for failing to keep pace with the vaccination programmes of other countries, notably the UK. Gareth Davies argues that while the…

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5 months

"The people of the Netherlands". Wilders got 23% of the vote, meaning the vast majority of 77% has not voted for him.

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@CarolineGruyter @euobs The people of the Netherlands voted for @geertwilderspvv because they wanted to. Sick and tired of Rutte.

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8 months

Citaat van de dag: "Dat Derk Jan Eppink met de overstap naar BBB aan zijn vijfde partij begint (de Vlaamse Lijst Dedecker, VVD, FVD en recent JA21) ziet Van der Plas niet als een probleem. „Mensen hebben ook weleens tien banen in hun leven, toch?”

Oud-CDA’er Mona Keijzer hoopt bij BBB op meer waardering

Tweede Kamerverkiezingen: Met Mona Keijzer (54) trekt de BoerBurgerBeweging een prominente ex-CDA’er aan als kandidaat voor het premierschap. Keijzer was een stemmentrekker bij het CDA en laat zich,...

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4 years

LBC ends Nigel Farage’s contract. Here is one of the highlights again

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1 year

Yet another British company leaving because of #Brexit . Why didn’t these CEOs speak up earlier?

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2 years

Dutch hairdressers are open. Concert halls and theatres are closed. So, concert halls and theatres have now invented "kapsalontheater", where you get a haircut while enjoying a play or a concert (or is it the other way round?)

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Kapsalon Het Concertgebouw is van start met de Symfonie no. 2 van Charles Ives door @ConcertgbOrkest onder leiding van Susanna Mälkki. #kapsalontheater #conertgebouw

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3 years

For all of you who got the impression there was a civil war in the Netherlands

Thomas Schlijper

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3 years

Dam 07.02.2021 05:10 #Amsterdam #sneeuw ⁦ @Politie_Adam ⁩

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4 years

Still curious why the Dutch have almost the highest infection rates in Europe?

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Countdown to partial lockdown. Scene in The Hague 25 mins before new rules kick in #COVID19

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4 years

Wow - Dutch former National Bank president Nout Wellink criticizes harsh Dutch position on eurobonds @NPOradio : "If the whole south collapses the rich north ceases to exist."

Stéphane Alonso

@alonsoNRC

4 years

Ex-baas Nederlandsche Bank Nout Wellink kraakt op @NPOradio harde Nederlandse opstelling ten opzichte van Zuid-Europa. Spreekt zich zelfs uit voor eurobonds/coronabonds. Opgeheven vinger van NL is doodlopende weg. ,,Wij zijn geen rijk noorden meer als het hele zuiden omvalt.”

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8 months

Fascinating: a guy puts on a garbage bag, steps on the catwalk and the audience doesn’t notice anything - until a security guard shatters the illusion (or the reality)

Le Contemplateur

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8 months

Un imposteur, portant un sac poubelle, à réussi à défiler à la Fashion Week de New York sans que personne dans le public ne s'en aperçoive... C'est dire le niveau de ridicule de ce genre d'événement si tu peux débarquer avec un saladier sur la tête ou la nappe de ta grande mère…

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‘Nergens leef je beter dan in Europa, maar we hebben niet door dat dit op het spel staat’ - ⁦Jacques Attali vandaag in NRC @jattali ⁩ @nrc ⁩

‘Nergens leef je beter dan in Europa, maar we hebben niet door dat dit op het spel staat’

Jacques Attali: Europa moet zich heel snel voorbereiden op het post-Amerikaanse tijdperk, vindt Jacques Attali (79), oud-adviseur van president François Mitterrand. „Als we er straks alleen voor...

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8 months

Wat een blamage is dit.

Norbert Schotte #GIDEON

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In zo’n 5 minuten tijd wordt Populientje tot 3x toe door de voltallige kamer - terecht - uitgelachen tijdens #algemenepolitiekebeschouwingen #algemenebeschouwingen #APB2023 Fragment 1: Tripple B laat haar verkiezingsprogramma niet doorrekenen⬇️

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2 years

Got my booster today. Very impressed by Belgian efficiency! Once, Belgian bureaucracy was notoriously chaotic and slow. Now it often runs smoothly, standing out as an example for other European countries (yes: the Dutch should take note…)

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3 years

The UK keeps renegotiating an agreement that it signed itself. It’s a strategy.

UK’s Frost says EU dodging ‘heart of problem’ in post-Brexit trade

Northern Ireland ports aren’t ‘like any other external boundary of the EU,’ UK’s Brexit point man warns.

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1 year

Surreal to hear him say that - this “unbelievably special position” is what the ENTIRE UK had for over four decades

ITV News Politics

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1 year

'Northern Ireland is in the unbelievably special position - unique position in the entire world - in having privileged access not just to the UK market… but also the EU single market' 'Nobody else has that. No one. Only you guys, only here’ Rishi Sunak hails his Brexit deal

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Newly discovered correspondence from JF Kennedy.

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I can’t stop looking at this map

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Vlijmscherpe @TomLanoye over Nederland, in Humo: “De hele bodem lijkt weggeslagen uit een land dat voor een groot deel sowieso al onder de zeespiegel ligt.”

‘De afbraak die de relschoppers aanrichten, is klein bier vergeleken met de afbraak onder Rutte’

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Zo is het.

Derksauer

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Wat boven Israël kan moet ook boven Oekraïne kunnen.

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4 years

Oh, the irony of it all...

UK seeks access to EU health cooperation in light of coronavirus

British now want close links with early warning system despite Brexit, source says

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5 years

Disgusting. How American billionaires are trying to destabilize Europe

Des milliardaires américains financent discrètement des campagnes de désinformation en Europe

Un petit groupe de très riches américains soutient indirectement plusieurs sites de « réinformation » et de campagnes publicitaires en ligne en Europe.

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4 years

Merkel, again.

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Angela Merkel. 📹 @dw_europe

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The Netherlands wants a cap on international students. Bad idea. Denmark did the same a few years ago and paid a heavy price. Now, the Danes make a U-turn. Danish minister calls for international student u-turn amid labour shortages

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3 years

Fascinating map: those most attached to Europe (see small red map) mostly live at the outer fringes

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1 year

The far-right FPÖ walks out as Ukrainian President Zelensky speaks to the Austrian Parliament. Worse: half the SPÖ (the social democrats) does not show up, including its leader.

Maximilian Werner

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Die Abgeordneten der FPÖ verlassen bei den ersten Worten des ukrainischen Präsidenten Wolodymyr Selenskyj ihre Sitzplätze, stellen dort Schilder mit der Aufschrift „Platz für Frieden“ und „Platz für Neutralität“ auf. #OeNr

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A warning to an unnamed (!) country that has taken a sharp turn towards dictatorship this week. Where is Austria? Where are the Baltics? Where is the rest of Eastern Europe?

Statement by Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,...

In this unprecedented situation, it is legitimate that Member States adopt extraordinary measures to protect their citizens and overcome the crisis. We are however deeply concerned about the risk of...

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8 months

De nostalgie van BBB is misleidend en gevaarlijk - mijn column in ⁦ @nrc ⁩

Column | De nostalgie van BBB is misleidend en gevaarlijk

In Europa: Caroline de Gruyter

www.nrc.nl

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4 months

Heb jij geen argumenten? Ik ben oud-correspondent Midden-Oosten, net als jij. Speel de bal, niet de persoon.

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3 years

But isn’t this what the government wanted?

Biggest Foreign-Worker Exodus Since WWII Adds to Britain’s Woes

Foreign workers are leaving Britain at the fastest pace since World War II, presenting a challenge to an economy already roiled by Brexit and the coronavirus.

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5 years

Na Brexit worden Parijs en Berlijn machtiger. Als Nederland gehoord wil worden, heeft het die twee harder nodig dan voorheen. Dus moeten we ons niet in Engelstalige clubjes terugtrekken, maar juist Duits en Frans weer verplicht stellen op school.

Column | Verplicht Duits en Frans is goed voor Europa

Het Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam sloeg deze week alarm: het vak Duits op Nederlandse scholen komt in de verdrukking. Hetzelfde geldt voor het Frans. Er zijn plannen om lagere scholen en het voortg...

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3 years

Back in Brussels!

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Den Haag verschuilt zich achter de aanname “geen draagvlak”. Angela Merkel máákt draagvlak

Column | Het zit hem in het leiderschap

Wat een performance van Angela Merkel maandag, tijdens haar persconferentie met Emmanuel Macron. Kijk er even naar, één fragment is genoeg – en je begrijpt waarom er in Duitsland wél brede steun is...

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Sailing out of Norway after four wonderful years, back to Brussels

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This is Schiphol airport, Amsterdam. Anyone surprised that Dutch infection rates are rising again?

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4 years

This, presumably, is what vote rigging looks like... #Belarus

Tadeusz Giczan

@TadeuszGiczan

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Seems like too many people voted for Tikhanovskaya already. The number of ballots doesn't add up because of early vote rigging. Police had to bring a ladder and commission members are climbing out of polling station with full bags

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And yet another EU decision, completely unthinkable just a few days ago

Katya Adler

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EU announces it has agreed unanimously amongst all member countries to take in Ukrainian refugees fir up to 3 years without asking them to first apply for asylum. Just been announced following a meeting of EU Interior ministers

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That Brexit means Brexit.

Paul Lever

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The European Commission has tried to exclude the UK from certain projects in the Horizon research programme on the grounds that, like Russia and China, it is a third country which can't be trusted. France supported it. What conclusions should we draw?

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In @Tagesspiegel

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Never before have we seen international companies taking such a strong political stand - and here's what happens to those few companies that do not

Business Ukraine mag

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More powerful anti-advertising targeting Nestle’s controversial decision to continue funding Russian war crimes in Ukraine

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3 years

I agree with @guyverhofstadt

Guy Verhofstadt

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3 years

I ask @MichelBarnier to unilaterally extend Eramus to UK students after #Brexit . They love Europe, they all want the UK back into the European family. Let's not make them the victims of a Brexit they didn’t choose ! 🇬🇧🇪🇺

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Remarkable: tonight in the Dutch Parliament PM Mark Rutte appeared to have mentioned the ‘re-establishment of the EU’ as an ultimate option in case the rule of law situation in Poland and Hungary further gets out of hand

Jaap Jansen

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Opmerkelijk: @minpres noemt ‘heroprichten van EU zonder Hongarije en Polen’ als ultieme optie indien die landen de rechtsstaat teloor laten gaan. Hij roept het Europees Parlement op extra druk op proces te zetten, omdat Hongarije en Polen elkaar straffen in de Raad vetoën.

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A very detailed description of how Russia organized anti-Turkish protests in Europe h/t @minna_alander

Kremls hemliga plan: Falska protester mot Erdogan och Turkiet

Rysk underrättelsetjänst bedriver en påverkansoperation i Europa för att skapa splittring mellan EU och Turkiet. Planen har inspirerats av koranbränningarna i Sverige, kan Expressen avslöja i...

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Europa, veroordeel Israël nu! - mijn column in ⁦ @nrc ⁩

Column | Europa, veroordeel Israël nu!

In Europa: Caroline de Gruyter

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6 months

He is totally right, of course, and we all know it…

Adi Ćerimagić

@adicerimagic

6 months

“Pay attention to the #Balkans ,” 🇺🇦 President #Zelenskyi told a group of journalists yesterday. “Believe me, we are getting information: #Russia has a long plan. The Middle East. The second distraction will be the Balkans. At least, if the countries of the world, the partners,…

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His Dutch accent isn’t bad either...

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@campbellclaret

4 years

I thought I was not bad at accents but this guy !!!!

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Manfred Weber repeats the mistake the center-right made in the Netherlands: running after the far right. This will end badly.

Europe’s largest party wants to take on the far right by curbing migration

Also in this newsletter: How Brussels wants to crack down on people smugglers

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Caroline de Gruyter

@CarolineGruyter

4 years

Amazing

Janek Lasocki

@JanekLasocki

4 years

They're coming for you Lukashenko ;) (By St Petersburg artist Alexander Ivanov) #BelarusProtest #Belarus

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3 years

With all due respect: what would you say if the exact opposite happened, and Ms von der Leyen wanted to continue the negotiations by making phone calls to the Scottish, Welsh and N-Irish leaders (and, why not, Jersey), bypassing Boris Johnson who speaks on their behalf?

Imran Ahmad Khan

@imranahmadkhan

3 years

I stand with millions of Britons that are deeply insulted at the shocking news that the German Chancellor has refused the British Prime Minister’s request for a telephone call. This is an insult to every Briton, whether they support our PM or not.

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@CarolineGruyter

1 month

Probably the best thing the EU has ever done for its citizens

European Commission

@EU_Commission

1 month

The number of ERASMUS+ participants in 2022 traveling to: 🇪🇸142.9K 🇮🇹101.8K 🇩🇪75.3K 🇫🇷61K 🇵🇹55.8K 🇵🇱44.9K 🇬🇷37.5K 🇷🇴33.6K 🇮🇪28.9K 🇳🇱24.7K 🇨🇿24K 🇧🇪23.8K 🇦🇹20.9K 🇸🇪17.3K 🇫🇮16.9K 🇭🇺16.6K 🇲🇹16.4K 🇧🇬14K 🇱🇹13.4K 🇩🇰13.1K 🇭🇷12.9K 🇸🇮11K 🇱🇻9.8K 🇨🇾8.8K 🇸🇰8.2K 🇪🇪6.7K 🇱🇺3.3K

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Briljant

Onair

@Onair58

3 years

Dit is mijn statement!

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Dutch politician who doesn’t like foreign politicians to campaign abroad, campaigning... abroad.

AD Politiek

@ADPolitiek

6 years

Vogeltjesmarkt Antwerpen afgezet en waterkanon staat klaar voor bezoek van Geert Wilders

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@CarolineGruyter

3 years

What a cover!

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@CarolineGruyter

4 years

Great time for cartoonists

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@CarolineGruyter

6 months

This is what is happening in the West Bank: Palestinians are so intimidated by Israeli settlers that they flee their villages. What is even sadder: 30 years ago, when I lived there, I made these kinds of reports already.

Channel 4 News

@Channel4News

6 months

The UN says as many as 120 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since Hamas' attack in Israel. @mattfrei speaks to Palestinian families choosing to ignore the threats and intimidation of Israeli settlers, and those being forced from their homes.

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@CarolineGruyter

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‘Natuurlijk komt het communisme zoals het onder Stalin was, niet terug. Wat wel terugkomt, is het nationaal-socialisme. Niet dat van Hitler, maar van Poetin.” Dit zei Otto Habsburg, de zoon van de laatste Habsburgse keizer, al in 2002. Mijn column in @nrc

Column | Habsburg heeft Europa tegen Poetin gewaarschuwd

‘Natuurlijk komt het communisme zoals het onder Stalin was, niet terug. Wat wel terugkomt, is het nationaal-socialisme. Niet dat van Hitler, maar van Poetin.” Dit zei Otto Habsburg, de zoon van de...

www.nrc.nl

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@CarolineGruyter

3 years

Over twee weken komt mijn nieuwe boek uit, over het Habsburgse Rijk en het hedendaagse Europa. Meer weten? Bestellen?

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@CarolineGruyter

1 year

Nice to see this

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@CarolineGruyter

4 years

Thomas Piketty: “When I hear the Dutch government saying ‘we don’t want to share the interest rate of public debt’… that coming from a country that is extracting close to €10 billion per year in corporate tax revenue — this is very dangerous."

Thomas Piketty: Willing EU countries should spearhead fiscal union

Economist says balancing globalization with a fair tax policy will be the main task for EU capitals in the 21st century.

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Caroline de Gruyter

@CarolineGruyter

11 months

Fière

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@CarolineGruyter

1 year

Is iemand hier verbaasd over? Politici die grof zijn en haat zaaien blijken als mens grof te zijn en haat te zaaien - ze zijn consistenter dan je weleens denkt…

‘Baudet stuurde boetes, pornofilmpjes en gooide met flessen’

Forum voor Democratie: Het AD sprak met oud-medewerkers van Forum voor Democratie, die van „een intimiderende, toxische en onveilige werksfeer” spreken als gevolg van het gedrag van Thierry Baudet.

www.nrc.nl

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Caroline de Gruyter

@CarolineGruyter

3 years

When all these things they said wouldn’t happen, are happening

Bloomberg UK

@BloombergUK

3 years

BREAKING: Morgan Stanley plans to move about 100 billion euros of assets to Frankfurt, the latest Wall Street bank to shift business from the U.K.

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Amal Clooney quits UK envoy role over 'lamentable' Brexit bill: "Sadly, it has become untenable for me, as special envoy, to urge other states to respect and enforce international obligations while the UK declares that it does not intend to do so itself.”

Amal Clooney quits UK envoy role over 'lamentable' Brexit bill

Exclusive: Prominent human rights lawyer writes to foreign secretary with stinging denunciation

www.theguardian.com

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Caroline de Gruyter

@CarolineGruyter

5 years

Brilliant.

ian bremmer

@ianbremmer

5 years

Spotted in Texas.

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@CarolineGruyter

6 months

Can’t stop watching this.

Jason Howerton

@jason_howerton

6 months

Blinken's face after Joe Biden calls Chinese President Xi a "dictator" 😂😂😂

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Caroline de Gruyter

@CarolineGruyter

1 year

… “dat hun regeringen in de EU zelf afspraken maken waar ze zich vervolgens aan moeten houden” (fixed that for you)

Arend Jan Boekestijn

@ajboekestijn

1 year

Steeds meer mensen in ons land ontkennen gewoon dat er in de EU afspraken worden gemaakt waar lidstaten zich aan moeten houden. Curieus. Struisvogelpolitiek. Nederlagen strategie.

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Caroline de Gruyter

@CarolineGruyter

6 months

Orban will never leave the EU. The EU gives him unique leverage. The moment he leaves the EU, he loses the opportunity to make his country much bigger and more important than it really is and gets everybody's attention.

Mujtaba Rahman

@Mij_Europe

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Senior EU officials tell me that in principle pol decision to open accession/membership negotiations with Kyiv is now no longer likely at Dec European Council - as PM Orban is demanding not only €bn but removal of @vonderleyen as COM Pres after EU elections next year 1/

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Caroline de Gruyter

@CarolineGruyter

4 years

Look at Angela Merkel’s popularity rate - after 15 years in power...

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Caroline de Gruyter

@CarolineGruyter

2 years

The EU hardly has any tariffs anymore with Ukraine. And Mr Hannan knows it... He even tweeted about it in 2013. But he just cannot stop snapping. This is how disinformation works.

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Caroline de Gruyter

@CarolineGruyter

3 years

13th edition of my book, German translation forthcoming - and now, after months of lockdowns, I finally travelled to Amsterdam and saw it in a bookshop for the first time

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Could the EU fall apart, like the Habsburg Empire? That question prompted me to write a book. Here's already an appetizer.

1914 vs 2021

Nobody says war will break out in Europe in 2021. But, just as in 1914, the imminent collapse of the multinational Habsburg Empire was the subject of much speculation, some now allude to the disint...

euobserver.com

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Caroline de Gruyter

@CarolineGruyter

4 years

Waarom de CSU is gestopt met de AfD kopiëren: “Du kannst eind Stinktier nicht überstinken”

Column | Populisten laten zich niet rechts inhalen

Het eerste wat Horst Seehofer deed toen hij in maart 2018 Duits minister van Binnenlandse Zaken werd, was het ministerie een nieuwe naam geven. In plaats van Bundesinnenministerium moest iedereen...

www.nrc.nl

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Caroline de Gruyter

@CarolineGruyter

4 months

As long as there are people like Gideon Levy, there is some hope.

Middle East Eye

@MiddleEastEye

4 months

Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, recently spoke about Israel’s war on Gaza saying, “If one attack pushes Israelis to become inhuman. Imagine what it does for Palestinians who live under those attacks for decades?”

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