Captain Europe (retired)
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Retired real life 🇪🇺superhero. Full-time desk jockey in the Brussels machine. Eclectic tweets on public policy, travel, the environment and life in general.
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I am still waiting for the European political establishment to recognize the US is a hostile power currently.
🚨🚨Things are just getting worse. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
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Mike Johnson says he will not bring the House back in session until the government reopens
Imagine being a practicing lawyer, and quoting 'The Apprentice' as if it was a serious legal argument
If Stephen Miller had paid attention in con law, he’d know:
Congress controls the money.
Courts interpret the law.
The president doesn’t get to shout “You’re fired!” at the entire civil service when he loses a budget fight.
Congress controls the money.
Courts interpret the law.
The president doesn’t get to shout “You’re fired!” at the entire civil service when he loses a budget fight.
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Scientists cautioned against Mao Zedong’s plans to eradicate sparrows during China’s Great Leap Forward. But he did not listen. New research reveals the grim consequences of his campaign
How the persecution of sparrows killed 2m people
The birds were almost wiped out during China’s Great Leap Forward
econ.st
Yesterday a ceiling collapsed at a children's ward in a Novosibirsk hospital.
Today the same thing happened at a school in Baley in the Trans-Baikal Territory.
Authorities say no-one was injured.
#RussiaIsCollapsing
Today the same thing happened at a school in Baley in the Trans-Baikal Territory.
Authorities say no-one was injured.
#RussiaIsCollapsing
NEWS! Tory Party announce plans to deport everyone
Tory Party announce plans to deport everyone
The Tory Party have announced new plans to combat immigration by deporting everyone.
buff.ly
I'm reading a book about anaesthesia but I keep nodding off.
I'm reading a book about plant pathology but it's a dying field.
🇬🇷Greek PM Mitsotakis, also from Merz & von der Leyen's conservative EPP group, also enters #EUCO calling for a reevaluation of the EU's efforts to fight climate change.
"We should allow more time...ensuring that we don’t place unnecessary burdens on European industries.”
"We should allow more time...ensuring that we don’t place unnecessary burdens on European industries.”
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Nein.Quarterly
@neinquarterly.bsky.social
· Mar 28
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Trump backs away from Tomahawk missiles offer in meeting with Zelenskyy on.ft.com/46XUKWw
Trump backs away from Tomahawk missiles offer in meeting with Zelenskyy
US president equivocates on support for Kyiv a day after conversation with Vladimir Putin
on.ft.com
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Orban - who will host Trump and Putin - says Hungary is the only "pro-peace" country in Europe with regard to the war after the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán confirmed he will speak with Putin today, following a call with Trump the previous evening. Orbán said preparations are underway for a Trump–Putin meeting in Budapest, calling Hungary the only "pro-peace" country in Europe.
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