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FionaMullenCY
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Fiona Mullen, #Cyprus geek: economy, fiscal, energy, #natgas, banks, #cyprob, northern Cyprus, Director Sapienta Economics https://sapientaeconomics.com/about-us/ and on Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/sapienta
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Maybe because they don’t actually rule over us so no one gives much of a damn?
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Tufan Ehurman won a landslide in the 1st round of the election for the presidency of the unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern #Cyprus (TRNC). What does it mean for geopolitics? Our special analysis is discounted to €100 until 2pm CY time Mon. #Cyprob sapientaeconomics.com/shop-reports/
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Tufan Ehurman won a landslide in the 1st round of the election for the presidency of the unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern #Cyprus (TRNC). What does it mean for geopolitics? Our special analysis is discounted to €100 until 2pm CY time Mon. #Cyprob sapientaeconomics.com/shop-reports/
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Shop our Reports 05 Apr 2024: Natural gas   €124.00 Incl. VAT Buy Now Full issue of Sapienta Country Analysis Cyprus 31 Mar 2024   Sale!€235.60 €186.00 Incl. VAT Buy Now 09 Jan 2024: New C...
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Meanwhile over in wee Cyprus the pro-reunification candidate in northern Cyprus won in the first round by a massive landslide: 62.76%.
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I genuinely find this very worrying, as someone with settled status! sure, Lam probably won't be home secretary tomorrow, but the mood music is changing, you can feel it, and I just don't trust Labour to fight like hell on our behalf, so unclear where this is going to go
Lam hears "settled status" and "guaranteed by withdrawal treaty" as up for grabs:understood to be temporary "provisional arrangements" which can be transitional and unsettled if and when you want to

That is highly counterintuitive as language of 'settled', as law & as politics of Treaty guarantees.
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“The UK has a system in which a TV channel can pay a political leader almost half a million pounds a year and give him an hour an evening to react to his rivals without breaking a single rule.”
You might think controlling GB News gives you huge influence over UK politics – especially on the right. But that's just the tip of the iceberg, as we reveal in this week's issue of @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

Full story: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...
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Could the digital euro be a reality within four years? There is certainly momentum building, even if consumers remain sceptical, writes Europe Editor Tony Connelly
Digital euro: Benefits and pitfalls of tapping ECB cash
Could the digital euro be a reality within four years? There is certainly momentum building, even if consumers remain sceptical.
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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
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Blimey I thought I read something a few weeks ago saying he was going to try and be nice to them/reconcile. Maybe they weren’t nice back, I guess.
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The four stages of bubble grief

1. It’s not a bubble
2. It’s not ‘my’ bubble
3. Bubbles are good!
4. Bubble trouble…
About 2 months ago it was kinda edgy to call this a bubble and now...
Bubbles are good, actually…

on.ft.com/476jUkn ‘Of course it’s a bubble’: AI start-up valuations soar in investor frenzy
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Someone made a lot of money through insider trading. On the international betting site Polymarket, the eventual winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Maria Corina Machado went from rank outsider to 70% favourite in the early hours of Friday before the award was announced.
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Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.
This reminds me. We are 12 years from the financial crisis Cyprus, the banks have soooo much liquidity they don’t know what to do with it, but I still have to visit the bank if I want to send >€300 from a notice account. Pre-crisis it was €1000. Charge me fine but let me do it online please.
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E.g. The Met Office is the nation’s weather service AND a global climate change research centre. It is highly vulnerable.

Ministers fund its research, influence its priorities, and appoint its leaders. With no statutory basis, its priorities and funding could be changed with little oversight. 5/11
This plastic Paddy loves a cup of Barry’s 🙋🏻‍♀️
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dude seems really preoccupied by the Antichrist emerging from random things he doesn't like, which of course is very normal
Conservative tech lord Thiel said tighter financial regulations “were a sign that a singular world government has begun to emerge that could be taken over by an Antichrist figure who could then use it to exert control over people.” Via WashPost
Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
www.washingtonpost.com
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In the German city of Greifswald. sixty residents of the city, selected at random, will have the opportunity to contribute their perspectives, ideas and wishes for the Greifswald of tomorrow until 2028.

www.buergerrat.de/en/news/brin...

#CitizensAssembly
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Republicans are three times as likely as Democrats to say they are “not sure” how they feel about elements of the revenge agenda, our polling with YouGov shows
What American voters really think of the revenge agenda
A third of Republicans support deporting citizens who disagree with Donald Trump
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