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2 years

The European Parliament is just Belgian Hogwarts

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RIP Silvio Berlusconi, who had a worse attendance record at the European Parliament than a Greek neo-nazi MEP serving 13 years in prison

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It’s October in Brussels which can mean only one thing. Thousands of Italians in whatever this thing is called.

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Agriculture must be the only lobby group in Brussels permitted to get drunk in the street and set the city on fire while police watch

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1 year

@BBCPolitics seems about right

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5 months

The large growth of openly racist accounts on Irish twitter is just a handful of people. This was the result when I reverse image searched an "Ireland First" account profile picture - used hundreds of times by the same person spreading nonsense.

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1 year

Yes.

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More footage from the Farmers Protest in Brussels - farmers take a chainsaw to a tree outside the European Parliament. Why?! (apologies for TikTok music)

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@PantiBliss Bordeaux's tram system, which they started building at the same time as the Luas.

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11 months

Do you know what is guaranteed to 'destroy the fabric of rural Ireland'? Biodiversity collapse.

EU rewetting proposal could ‘destroy the fabric of rural Ireland’, Galway meeting hears

More than 350 farmers attend public meeting in Ballinasloe on Sunday raising concerns

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2 years

Rue des Artisans in Brussels 🇧🇪 Built in 1909 as social housing for local workers.

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2 years

When people ask what it’s like to work in a politician’s office, i just show them my inbox.

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2 years

@EPP Your President of the Parliament just three days ago: “I would appeal to you to resist the temptation to exploit this moment for political gain.”

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@LankumDublin @ccfest @TheBarrowlands Check the British Museum things have a habit of showing up there.

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7 months

@PickardJE That’s not how TikTok works… it’s a famously simple algorithm that shows people more of what they stop to watch. It doesn’t ‘spray out’ content, people make content.

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3 months

Conservatism in a nutshell

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I was opposed to this at the time, but I’m glad of it now.

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Applying for ‘native English speaker’ jobs in Brussels after Brexit

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2 years

Who hurt you, European Council architect

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Greta Thunberg outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg calling for an ambitious Nature Restoration Law #RestoreNature

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@RavSchluss I visit Israel and the West Bank regularly. I saw armed Israelis threatening villages, apartheid roads and walls, I was held at gunpoint by the IDF in Hebron and told never to come back. Palestinians meanwhile brought me into their homes for dinner and welcomed me back anytime.

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@Ryanair @EamonRyan If only the island had other airports 😱

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Real life yodelling at the European Parliament in Strasbourg This job is so weird.

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3 years

@CathalCroweTD That’s about €60,000 in street value according to @gardainfo

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The Irish National Party candidate lives in a house called ‘Rorke’s Drift’ - named after a British colonial military victory. Tells you all you need to know about these ‘patriots’.

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5 years

@EireSaoradh The people of Derry need defending against Saoradh. This was a shameless murder.

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1 year

I’m taking the sleeper train from Brussels to Berlin and you know what?

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11 months

Whenever I see how much better everyone is dressed in Antwerp compared to Brussels.

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@NewstalkFM "According to Donald Trump's former Chief of Staff" - there, saved you a click

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@Independent_ie

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Obsessed with this European Court of Justice opinion on fisheries that starts with the story of Celtic Sea God Manannán mac Lir

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8 months

@OliverVarhelyi From your own website: In Gaza, the EU funds education, healthcare, trauma care, water and sanitation. You are cutting this?

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3 years

@davidmcw Everything in this tweet is incorrect

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2 years

This elevator was designed in a trilogue wasn’t it.

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1 year

On way to Lesvos 🇬🇷 in solidarity with humanitarian workers, including Irishman Seán Binder and Sara Mardini from The Swimmers, on trial for helping refugees. Follow @FrHumanitarians for their campaign.

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Eight of the @EPPGroup who voted against the Nature Restoration Law today seem to have been subbed in by Manfred Weber to replace pro- #RestoreNature MEPs. Seven of them don't even sit on the Environment Committee.

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@darachos The Púca of Ennistymon was a thing of beauty, like something from a Flann O'Brien inspired fever dream. I hope it finds a welcoming home.

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The @EPPGroup has just sabotaged the European Parliament's call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Says there should only be a ceasefire if Hamas is eliminated - which arguably makes the call entirely meaningless.

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@EoinKeane101 “I always said you were watery!”

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1 year

Frit Flagey officially recognised as best chip in Brussels, beating out Maison Antoine in late night negotiations

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1 year

Fianna Fáil MEP rejects the most significant legislative opportunity of a lifetime for action on climate and biodiversity. This follows Fine Gael's @EPPGroup announcement they will also refuse any more climate legislation.

Billy Kelleher MEP

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Why I cannot support the current #NatureRestorationLaw proposal in the European Parliament.

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Historic move that shows how isolated the West is on Gaza. The rest of the world is calling for a ceasefire while EU leaders can barely find the courage to criticise the killing of 20,000 civilians.

António Guterres

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6 months

I've just invoked Art.99 of the UN Charter - for the 1st time in my tenure as Secretary-General. Facing a severe risk of collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza, I urge the Council to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe & appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared.

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@BenGoldsmith Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't happening.

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@Nigella_Lawson @lslothuus

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EU staff gather once again outside the Council and Commission in Brussels to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza

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11 months

The EPP and Renew Groups succeeded in severely weakening the Nature Restoration Law with cynical amendments and outright lies. But that's a fight for tomorrow. For today we celebrate successively securing a Parliament position to #RestoreNature

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2 years

Activists shout "betrayal" in the European Parliament today as conservative MEPs vote to define gas as a 'green' investment in the #Taxonomy As usual when it comes to climate action, young people are the only adults in the room.

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European Parliament has just voted to weaken its language on Marine Protected Areas Apparently only 'strictly' protected areas (about 1% of EU waters) deserves actual protection from bottom-trawling thanks to @RenewEurope @FairSeasIreland @ClassenRegina @Irishwildlife

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@EV_Trapper @GermanyDiplo The first genocide of modern history took place in German Namibia against the Herero people

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7 months

European Parliament canteen never disappoints 🐦

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8 months

This was almost exactly one year ago. “Cutting off men, women, children of water, electricity and heating with winter coming - these are acts of pure terror.”

Ursula von der Leyen

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2 years

Russia’s attacks against civilian infrastructure, especially electricity, are war crimes. Cutting off men, women, children of water, electricity and heating with winter coming - these are acts of pure terror. And we have to call it as such.

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@fiachkelly Vote for me, we lived concurrently.

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@carlbildt Em... they actually aren't allowed. "MK Ofer Cassif suspended for 45 days for anti-Israel statements"

MK Ofer Casssif suspended for 45 days for anti-Israel statements

Cassif, in one of two cases that led to a suspension, gave an interview in which he accused Israel of enacting a plan in its war with Hamas which he compared to the Nazi's Final Solution against Jews

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@DavidFNolan @JCBagriculture @JCBmachines Went to one of the biggest festivals in Netherlands this summer. Everyone left it almost spotless.

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A 2022 study found that advertising for cars and airlines could be responsible for more greenhouse gases than the total annual emissions of Belgium

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Just two weeks after the Commission found evidence of cartel behaviour by Norwegian salmon giants, the largest salmon company @mowiglobal has sent big parcels of smoked fish to MEPs in Brussels. The problem is… MEPs are all in Strasbourg this week 🫢

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@EPPGroup

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@gavreilly If the Head of Government speaks directly on behalf of bananas, are we officially a Banana Republic?

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@JoeBLynam What a ridiculous conspiracy theory. Paid by whom? They are even wearing the branded gear of their farms…

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Sinn Fein voting with the right-wing (incl FG) to scrap the landmark Nature Restoration Law in the European Parliament's AGRI Committee today. Thankfully AGRI doesn't have exclusive competence, but it doesn't bode well for votes to come.

ARC 2020

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Here's how MEPs on the agri committed voted on the NRL (Nature Restoration Law) . 30 + 16 - 0 abstained

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Patrick Kielty as Ken #LateLateToyShow

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1 year

Mix of IFA, Fine Gael, Italian far-right and COPA-COGECA lobbyists at this anti Nature Restoration Law protest at the European Parliament this morning. #RestoreNature

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Been working in the European Parliament just over a year now.

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2 years

@martinbeanz Went to a festival in Netherlands earlier this year. Clean toilets for the whole weekend, free showers for all, and no queues at the bar!

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@FarmAlliance1 You know that people lived shorter lives in the past for exactly these reasons right?

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Ireland has been something of an outlier in Brussels, with very few European correspondents despite the significant policy decisions being made here every day. Denmark in contrast has 16 Brussels correspondents! Good news that @businessposthq is sending one out to us 🇪🇺

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Business Post establishes new international media division with bases in London and Brussels via @businessposthq

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@ciaranmullooly Hard to farm on a dead planet.

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@jpemul06 @theddp This works in every western european country. The Green Bin doesn’t actually incentivise recycling and reuse it puts a price on it, while most plastic bottles and packaging go straight to the incinerator. This puts money back in your pocket and saves on bin lifts.

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The EU is founded on the values of human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and human rights. As EU staff it is our duty to uphold these values and stand for international law. Happy so many turned out to the peaceful assembly today 🇪🇺🕊️

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#Gaza EU staff present a moving ceremony in the center of Schuman in between the EU institutions in protest against the EU’s weakness on the bloodshed in Gaza.

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"Nature restoration is not an extreme position. If anything, the commission's proposal is conservative in what is envisages in the midst of a biodiversity crisis"

'A bit late and a bit rich': Irish MEPs criticised for environment law stance

European People’s Party, which represents Fine Gael, left negotiations last week on the Nature Restoration Law, which aims to restore at least 20% of the EU’s damaged land and sea areas by 2030, and...

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@GERMANYinIRL So you admit that Israel is a colonial project?

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The far-right Vlaams Belang party tried to replace Antwerp city signs with arabic ones, protesting the ‘Islamisation’ of the city. One issue… arabic reads right to left, so the signs say “PREWTNA”

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I met Az last year in Jerusalem she is an incredible and surreal force for good in Palestine and Israel ❤️ Nothing quite shows the cruel absurdity of the occupation quite like a clown protecting Palestinian families from forcible transfer and harassment.

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@vonderleyen There are 150 Palestinian women and children involved in this deal that you failed to even mention

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@philipnolan1 Fake news. I lived in Clare for 13 years swear I never saw a blue sky.

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1 year

A real experience being part of these negotiations over the past few years 🌊

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Deal struck at literally a minute to midnight! Tonight we closed negotiations on the most significant reform of Fisheries Control measures in over twenty years 🐟 A tough slog seeking fairness for fishers and sustainability for our ocean 🌊

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Only half of Irish rivers are in good condition and are getting worse. Nitrogen and phosphorous in the marine environment have been increasing since 2013. Nitrogen concentrations are too high in 40 per cent of Irish rivers. Something has got to give.

Dairy farmers face cuts to cow numbers as EU confirms Nitrates restrictions

Dairy farmers face the prospect of significantly cutting their cow numbers as Government negotiations with the EU to maintain current stocking rate levels ...

m.independent.ie

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Surely a 'greener' Arctic is the opposite of what we need @EU_Commission ?!?

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So less than a third of how many cows are culled every single month in Ireland…?

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There has been a massive data breach at the European Parliament 🇪🇺 Staffers working for Members of the European Parliament have had personal documents, ID cards, criminal records and residency documents accessed in what looks like a coordinated hack affecting thousands.

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People in Brussels be like "views my own, retweets not an endorsement" and then just retweet their boss once a week

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@CilComLFC Who's lyin, I got receipts

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Last year my partner got me this plant for our flat in Brussels. I’ve no idea what it is but it always reminds me of home and the thick yellow gorse that grows wild along the Irish coast ☘️

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Together with colleagues from across the EU institutions in Brussels, we staged a “die-in” calling for the implementation of international law and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza

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1 year

Today in the Fisheries Committee, the far-right said "Yes we should care about the planet, but only if we put people first." Are they aware of some other planet?

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There is a letter in the Irish @farmersjournal criticising @CiaranCuffe and the Nature Restoration Law. It also says that when land is protected like the Serengeti National Park it is rendered worthless. You know, that famously worthless Serengeti National Park.

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You're welcome 🇧🇪

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I would really like a single day of sunshine please belgium

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Living in Italy in what seemed its darkest moments, with Salvini blocking Mediterranean rescues with the support of the EU and Frontex, there was one light in the darkness - #MimmoLucano He has now been condemned to 13 years for lighting a candle in the darkness. Vergogna.

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Bologna authorities have begun the eviction of #XM24 a squat-cum-youth centre where activists host Italian classes for migrants, hold political debates, put on concerts and bring new life to previously abandoned and vacant property. #XM24resiste

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La ruspa di Merola aggredisce #XM24 Solidali accorrete al parco #XM24Resiste

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@IrishTimes This is Ceuta, 150km closer to Ireland than the Ukrainian border

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@GBNEWS Hermann Kelly received 0.67% of the vote in the last European election. In the General Election, the Irish Freedom Party received between 0.19% (119 votes) and 2.06% (956 votes).

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Just another day working in the EU

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Far-right MEP Rosanna Conte defends bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas by wearing a fishing net suit in the European Parliament. @CrazyItalianPol