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Tom Nuttall

2 months

🔊Spot of personal news: I am returning to head @TheEconomist 's coverage of Germany. I will be dividing my time between London and Berlin but spending a lot of time in the Hauptstadt, starting in a month or so.

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Our new cover. No strapline, no flashes.

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Don't cry 4-3 Argentina

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Zelensky delivers a difficult speech to the Bundestag, and MPs immediately, awkwardly move on to other business. If Scholz's Zeitenwende is to be worthy of the name, parliament will have to get stuck in too.

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This clip is all over German and Austrian political Twitter this morning.

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#Brexit

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Ukraine's courage and resilience is almost unbearably moving.

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This has been retweeted by Germans across the political spectrum, including a cabinet minister. It's genuinely the closest I've seen the country come to patriotism.

The Independent

@Independent

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Boris Johnson confronted over claim no country has working coronavirus app

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For those with whiplash, some of the changes to German foreign & security policy in the last week: - de facto death of Nord Stream 2 - substantial arms deliveries to Ukraine, directly and via 3rd countries - €100bn investment in armed forces & commitment to 2% NATO goal (1/2)

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We interviewed Ukraine's foreign minister @DmytroKuleba : - Some EU countries have developed "sanctions fatigue" - Offensive/defensive weapons distinction is "artificial" - "not overly optimistic" on peace talks - Putin "literally doesn’t recognise the right of Ukraine to exist”

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Nothing but respect for Germans' ability to turn everything, just everything, into fuel for the Tempolimit debate.

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Just landed in London and no one asked for my carefully prepared test result, vaccine certificates or PLF form, presumably because this is not a "Papers, please" society.

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Some choice words for Germany in our interview with @ZelenskyyUa : "They are looking at the situation through the prism of the economy. They help out at times...The Germans are making a mistake today. They make mistakes often. The legacy of their relations with Russia shows this."

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Germany's ruling conservatives have hoisted the Israeli flag outside party HQ in Berlin, to mark their solidarity with the country over the latest conflagration.

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For your next trick, Germany, how about leaving those last three nuclear power stations open?

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Madame Chancellor, what feelings do you associate with Germany? Merkel - “Well-sealed windows! No other country can build such well-sealed and beautiful windows. " (Bild, 2004)

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next-level drama queenery

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@business

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Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says he won't resign, after taking several days to consider his position

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We interviewed Donald Trump. He tested our knowledge of econ-jargon.

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The head of the German army appears to have posted an extraordinary comment on LinkedIn this morning. DeepL translation below.

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- pledge to build two LNG terminals and build up strategic energy reserves - commitment to ejection of some Russian banks from SWIFT - probable end of last remaining SPD illusions on Russia, including public disavowals of Schröder (2/)

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How politics works, Bavarian edition.

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And off she goes. #abschied

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Wow: Macron ripping RT and Sputnik to shreds as Putin stands by his side at joint presser.

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Angela Merkel's coronavirus test is negative.

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+++ Eil +++ Erster Corona-Test bei Kanzlerin Merkel negativ.

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Useful.

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Just landed at Berlin airport on last flight from UK. Federal police triaging between German citizens and the rest of us. Curious to see what happens next as we're held at passport control.

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Timing is everything

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What a chart. Shame Russia wasn't polled.

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Berlin has lit up the Brandenburg Gate in Ukraine's colours.

Senatskanzlei Berlin

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Berlin steht an der Seite der #Ukraine . #BrandenburgerTor #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

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Germany's "hard Easter lockdown" amounts to...closing supermarkets for two days and begging people not to go on holiday? Even the personal contact rules are laxer than they were a few weeks ago.

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Useful to remind oneself from time to time of Germany's surprisingly bad record on social mobility.

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No one can accuse the man of lacking comic timing.

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Flattening the curve? The rate of new confirmed cases in Austria, which has implemented one of the toughest lockdowns in Europe, has been steadily declining; 15% in last 24 hours. "The measures are starting to take effect," says health minister.

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If you're sharing the cover, please also consider reading the accompanying leader. It's an extremely powerful read.

When Vladimir Putin escalates his war, the world must meet him

Muttering nuclear threats, Russia’s president vows to prevail in Ukraine whatever it takes

www.economist.com

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The German press is reporting that four members of Gerhard Schröder's private office have resigned in disgust at the ex-chancellor's unwillingness comprehensively to distance himself from Putin.

Wegen Putins Ukraine-Krieg: Gerhard Schröders Büro-Mitarbeiter kündigen

Konsequenzen für den Putin-Freund: Jetzt muss Schröder ohne seine Mitarbeiter auskommen – sie entschieden sich FÜR die Ukraine und GEGEN den Gas-Lobbyisten.

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Norbert Röttgen calls it "the most undignified moment in the Bundestag I have ever experienced." #Tagesordnung

Norbert Röttgen

@n_roettgen

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Das war heute der würdeloseste Moment im Bundestag, den ich je erlebt habe!

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The German government has published an English translation of Olaf Scholz's "Zeitenwende" (turning-point/new era) speech. Essential reading for anyone interested in the extraordinary turn that Putin's war has inspired in German foreign & security policy.

Policy statement by Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany and Member of the...

www.bundesregierung.de

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(No reversal on nuclear power, though. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.)

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This is the constituency map Germans are waking up to. SPD dominance in the north, conservatives in the industrial south, dots of Green in some cities, and a very AfD-blue Saxony after the CDU slumped there.

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Fifty years ago today, Willy Brandt fell to his knees before the memorial to the victims of the 1943 ghetto uprising in Warsaw. One of the most extraordinary pictures in German history.

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78% of Germans agree with the decision to raise defence spending by €100bn. Not words any Germany correspondent would ever expect to find themselves writing...

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Dass die Bundesregierung die Verteidigungsausgaben ab sofort deutlich erhöhen und der Bundeswehr 100 Milliarden Euro für Ausstattung und Waffen zur Verfügung stellen will, finden... Richtig: 78% Nicht richtig: 16% via @ntvde / Forsa, 1002 tel. Befragte (28.02.2022)

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CNN just now on Hillary's speech tonight: "To use a soccer analogy...if you don't knock it out of the park, you're in trouble."

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Even a stopped clock is right more often than this guy.

Yanis Varoufakis

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Only those who place self-validation above the Ukrainians’ interests focus on the right to choose NATO & reject the best outcome: an independent, neutral Ukraine. Ask the people of Austria & Finland who lived with more freedom&democracy during the Cold War than we in NATO Greece!

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Spiegel cover editors having a very normal one this week

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JFK, Berlin, 1963: Ich bin ein Berliner JFK's nephew, Berlin, 2020: Ich bin ein antivax crank

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In #Berlin launching @ChildrensHD Europe. Tomorrow, I will speak to largest crowd in #German history. We are expecting 1 million+ people protesting Bill Gates’ bio security agenda, rise of authoritarian surveillance state + Pharma sponsored coup d’etat against liberal democracy.

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Given that Tusk accepted the letter, signed or not, as a legitimate extension request, we should be spending a) less time worrying about the performative side letters b) more time wondering why anyone believed an epic No 10 briefing op on Benn Act that turned out to be total BS

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This is a useful thread for what appears to be the small minority of people on this website with a genuine interest in ascertaining the truth about last night's blast.

Nathan Ruser

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🧵Now that day has broken, and we're getting better evidence, I'm willing to share some PRELIMINARY thoughts on the al-Ahli hospital explosion. The photos of the scene are, to me, not consistent with an airstrike and are not consistent with claims that 500+ people were killed.

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Best exchange at #MSC2020 today: Finnish minister enthusiastically introduced as representative of "world's happiest nation". Finnish minister: "If that's true, I'd hate to see the other nations". 🇫🇮

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This extraordinary story is yet more evidence that anyone involved at any point in abetting Boris Johnson's political career ought to wear it as a badge of shame.

Boris Johnson pushed for woman to get City Hall job during ‘abuse of power’ relationship

Boris Johnson lobbied for a job for a young woman who claims he abused his power to have a sexual relationship with her. The then London mayor and MP for Henley advocated for her to get a job in City...

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Why would you ask the head of the world's most valuable EV company if hydrogen is the future of cars?

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...and Google Maps is on it (!)

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What Putin has achieved this year: ✅️Germany reinvents security policy ✅️Sweden + Finland apply to NATO ✅️Denmark ends EU defence opt out ✅️Ukraine and Moldova obtain EU candidacy And it's only June!

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Agreement. #EUCO has just decided EU candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova. A historic moment. Today marks a crucial step on your path towards the EU. Congratulations @ZelenskyyUa and @sandumaiamd and the people of Ukraine 🇺🇦 and 🇲🇩 Our future is together.

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Off to the park. Will be back later to tweet my fury at all the people in the park.

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RIP the great, great Uderzo.

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The Bavarian CSU, sister party to Merkel's CDU, has just elected the guy on the right to take over from the guy on the left as party leader.

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BOOM. Fidesz quits the EPP, after the centre-right group amends its rules to make ejection easier. Orban jumps before he is pushed.

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What on earth is going on at the Konrad Adenauer Haus?

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In case you didn’t know already: EU might break up if Olaf Scholz becomes German Chancellor, according to a wing man of Armin Laschet.

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Germany's new rules on lockdown easing are mind-bendingly complex, see below. But the nub of it is that Germany is easing *when cases are rising*, justified supposedly by a mysterious new testing strategy. I'm not sure this ends well.

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This is all Lenin's fault

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Three G7 leaders - Merkel, Trudeau, and now Johnson - running their respective countries while quarantined.

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It's March 2021, a year into a global pandemic. With no end to the lockdown in sight, and vaccination and testing in disarray, Germany's most senior politicians are arguing viciously about whether or not people may holiday in Majorca.

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Losing count of the number of things we thought were impossible which in fact have turned out to be extremely possible.

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Remember that Austrian foreign minister who took a bop with Putin at her wedding? Now nominated to Rosneft's board.

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Baerbock now speaking: "A few weeks ago I said on arms exports that an "about turn" would change when the moment comes - and it has now come. We carried out diplomacy as long as we could, the Kremlin lied to us and made ridiculous everything that we pushed for."

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I went to the Südtirol and all I got was this lousy Windows 10 screensaver.

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The SPD has unveiled another election poster.

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Scholz speaking now: "February 24th marked a change in the history of our continent... The world after this attack is not the same as the world before it."

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Link here:

Ukraine’s foreign minister warns of faltering European resolve

Dmytro Kuleba tells The Economist that his country needs more support

www.economist.com

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France, Germany, Italy and Spain all singing from the same page. When was the last time that happened?

Pedro Sánchez

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We welcome the proposal by France and Germany to establish a €500 bn European Recovery Fund based on grants. It is a positive step in the right direction, in line with our own demands. Now its time for #EU to put forward a proper financial package. We should keep moving forward.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think we've heard a single word from Merkel, or her spokesman, on Afghanistan in the last few days.

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This rather unScholz-like speech was given last night in Brandenburg. The video omits perhaps the spiciest line: "Dear screamers, Putin is the warmonger you'd be shouting at here if you had any sense in your brains".

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Scholz’s indignation is absolutely righteous. What a difference a year makes.

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As a German government official once said to me, no country should understand that some conflicts do have a military solution better than Germany does.

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Der Krieg wirft viele Fragen auf wie: Darf Gewalt mit Gewalt bekämpft werden? Schafft man Frieden nur ohne Waffen? Wir sollten beides mit Respekt diskutieren. Klar ist aber: Wir stehen der Ukraine bei, damit Gewalt sich nicht als Mittel durchsetzt. @katholikentag

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Bad night for countries that make excellent chocolate.

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Widely distributed claims that the AfD is Germany's most popular party among voters under 30 are the result of methodological mistakes, says pollster Forsa. Its figures put the party a distant third, see below right.

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All non-Germans without a negative test are being told they have to return to UK.

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Not just enabling third party deliveries, but now direct arms supplies too. Extraordinary shift.

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Breaking: German government just decided to deliver 1,000 anti-tank weapons and 500 "Stinger" surface-to-air missiles from Bundeswehr stocks to Ukraine to support the country against Russian attack. "The weapons will be delivered to Ukraine as soon as possible," spox said.

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Britain is getting absolutely savaged in the German press: SZ: "Johnson's road map to chaos" FAZ: "A lesson in humility for Boris Johnson" Die Welt: "The British have had enough of Johnson's war rhetoric"

40.000 Corona-Tote: Johnsons Kriegsrhetorik zieht nicht mehr - WELT

Die Kriegsmetaphern von Boris Johnson verfehlen ihre Wirkung. Die Kritik am britischen Premier wird schärfer angesichts von mehr als 40.000 Corona-Toten – und einem riesigen Chaos beim geplanten...

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🚨🚨🚨Germany will set up a special fund for renewal of its armed forces. The 2022 budget will have a one-off €100m for investment in the armed forces. More than 2% of Germany's GDP will be invested in defence.

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Creative suggestion from German satirical site @Der_Postillon : if Britain can't figure out how to leave the EU, the EU should leave Britain.

Easier than Brexit: all countries except Great Britain are leaving the EU to form a new alliance

Maybe that's the best way to do it. With Great Britain obviously being unable to execute its exit from the European Union in an orderly manner within the planned two years, the other Member States...

www.the-postillon.com

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Germany is suspending arms exports to Turkey.

ZDFheute

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Die Bundesregierung will wegen der türkischen Militäroffensive in #Nordsyrien die Waffenexporte in die #T ürkei stoppen, sagt @HeikoMaas .

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Peak Merkel: gets vaccinated, has her spokesman tweak a photo of the paperwork rather than the jab.

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Kanzlerin #Merkel : „Ich freue mich, dass ich heute die Erstimpfung mit AstraZeneca bekommen habe. Ich danke allen, die sich in der Impfkampagne engagieren – und allen, die sich impfen lassen. Das Impfen ist der Schlüssel, um die Pandemie zu überwinden.“

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It's worth giving a second glance to our cover image this week...

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When @derspiegel covers hit, they hit true.

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The Guardian

@guardian

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Brexit Britain's victory over the EU on Covid vaccination is not what it seems | Jean Quatremer

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Germany's suspension of AZ yesterday looks highly unfortunate, but there's an awful lot of nonsense on it, emanating from the UK in particular.

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. @navalny : "I assert that Putin was behind the crime, and I have no other explanation for what happened."

(S+) Das letzte Interview, das Alexej Nawalny nach dem Nervengiftanschlag mit dem SPIEGEL führte

Im Oktober 2020 sprach Alexej Nawalny mit dem SPIEGEL über den Nervengiftanschlag, über Putins Schuld und Merkels Krankenbesuch. Er wollte damals so schnell wie möglich nach Russland zurückkehren –...

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Barring emergencies, last ever flight from Tegel. Will miss this ridiculous airport.

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There is something to be said for this democracy thing.

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Storm in teacup watch. Remember the fuss over an "EU army"? Germany's govt has now defined it: "The term 'European army' stands symbolically for the political demand for increasing European integration in the area of security and defense." h/t @ulrichspeck

Verteidigung: Merkels „echte europäische Armee“ ist eine Worthülse - WELT

Die Kanzlerin schloss sich ungewöhnlich schnell Frankreichs Forderung an, eine europäische Armee zu begründen. Durch eine FDP-Anfrage stellt sich heraus: Das war nur „sinnbildlich“ gemeint. Auch über...

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Baerbock: "No sanction can stop this insanity right now, But what sanctions can do is to show Putin that in the medium and long term, this war will ruin your country."

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Famously, Poland has no experience of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing violence and crossing its borders to seek security.

Marco Rubio

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Dear Prime Minister can we start sending you the 300000 migrants who illegally enter America every month? It would really help us deal with the invasion of our country and go a long way to helping pass the aid bill you want us to approve.

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I'm dying

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British activists have dumped a statue of Edward Colston, a local slave trader and MP, into a canal.

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Christian Lindner and Robert Habeck signing their final respective will and testament before entering their four-year mortal combat.

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He's still a young man, but that might be pushing it.

ITV News

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The French president is stepping in after the country's birth rate hit its lowest point since World War II.

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Free! 🥳

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Glorious FT read on the dashed expectations of entitled parents who thought they could buy their mediocre kids into Oxbridge via overpriced public schools.

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Did I dream the violent break-up of Yugoslavia, two NATO interventions and vast refugee flows, or

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Great vibes from Germany, as the chancellor says he won't go to Kyiv because the president was disbarred from visiting, while the opportunistic opposition leader is vlogging his train journey there this morning.

Friedrich Merz

@_FriedrichMerz

2 years

„Eine Nacht im Schlafwagen auf dem Weg nach #Kyiw – wir haben eine interessante Reise vor uns und bis jetzt kann ich nur sagen: ‚Alles sicher, alles gut und die ukrainischen Behörden sind äußerst kooperativ. Es ist schön, in diesem Land zu sein.“ (tm) #Ukraine

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Tom Nuttall

@tom_nuttall

2 years

German covid restrictions are getting so complicated I'm considering breaking out the old formal logic textbooks.

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Tom Nuttall

@tom_nuttall

3 years

Famously, the best way to calm tensions in Northern Ireland is by invoking the Pope.

Katya Adler

@BBCkatyaadler

3 years

The EU Commission - or at least - those around President von der Leyen are on the defensive. Responding to ongoing criticism of their #covid vaccine programme and of dragging in the Brexit Deal on Ireland into the fray. Von der Leyen spks said “Only the Pope is infallible.” /1

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Tom Nuttall

@tom_nuttall

4 years

Too many pieces about covid-19 and Sweden; not enough about Finland, which seems to have avoided a second wave entirely.

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