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Felix Leinemann
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Working for a 🇪🇺 sustainable maritime economy @ec.europa.eu , also communicating about #mobility and #BruxellesMaBelle
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Interesting with USDA as a source and "performance" as a criterion...

Here's a map with some more colours, from the Soil Atlas of Europe @ec.europa.eu

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Soil Map of the European Union and bordering countries (source: Soil Atlas of Europe)
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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It’s all about people at the 5th #BalticMSPForum, now wrapping up and looking to the future of #Baltic #MaritimeSpatialPlanning 🌊🗺️
Final stage of the 5th Baltic MSP Forum with a panel of four rapporteurs and a Slido background listing “more young planners, friendships, protect the sea as a basis for human civilisation and survival, Love, passion” as answers to the question what will matter most for future planning.
November 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Enjoying the second day of the #BalticMSPForum in #Riga, diving into the ecosystem-based approach 🧭 to #MaritimeSpatialPlanning 🌊 🗺️
It would seem that love 🎼🎶is in the air between ❤️ @helcominfo.bsky.social & @vasaborg.bsky.social ❤️
November 12, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Even #lostfishinggear can show off as a little timeline cleanse 😎
#NorthSea #Zeeland #marinelitter
A row of wooden groyne (?) beams on a beach in Zeeland with low rising dunes on the background has caught a piece of a drifting fishing net. The bright blue of the net is in stark contrast to the black and green colour of the beams against the sand illuminated by a sunset and with blue sky and a rising half moon in the background. After taking the picture, we took the net off and brought it to the nearest bin.
November 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Oh, and here's the full slide 🇪🇺 "What has the EU ever done to support the algae sector?" 😉 #EU4Algae
Infographic with a lot of text and ornated by different algae representations showing "what has the EU ever done to support the algae sector". The European Commission adopted its EU Algae Initiative in 2022. It works with national authorities to create awareness, facilitate licensing and help the sector develop. It has invested more than 500 million euros into algae-related research over the past decade or so. It has set up the EU Algae Stakeholder Platform EU4Algae. It is working across different services to make sure the sector's challenges are addressed in a coherent way. And it raises awareness through consumer surveys, Euronews episodes or last week's second Algae Awareness Summit
October 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Our #Algae Awareness Summit even made it into the @ec.europa.eu's news, as 🇪🇺 Commissioner for Fisheries and Ocean Costas Kadis joined us for the second day #EU4Algae
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Felix Leinemann, European Commission, speaking at the second EU Algae Awareness Summit in front of a slide infographic with the title "What has the EU ever done to support the algae sector?"
October 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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The EU's Council of Environment Ministers is discussing environmental aspects of the European Ocean Pact #EUOceanPact right now. You can follow the discussions live:
video.consilium.europa.eu/event/en/28166
Aerial view of two whales swimming side by side in the Ocean, accompanied by highlighted text on the right side: "The European Ocean Pact"
October 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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It’s been an amazing 1 1/2 days of the 2nd 🇪🇺#Algae awareness summit #EU4Algae, full of inspiring discussions and learnings. Concluding today with an #AlgaeImaginarium, letting our imagination 💭 free. Immersion in algae fantasies!
Stage of the “Algae Imaginarium” session concluding the 2nd Algae Awareness Summit in Berlin. In the foreground, algae-based and inspired robes by fashion environmentalist Runa Ray. On the screen in the background a picture of a human face immersing in water backwards, surrounded by intertidal kelp. On the other side of the stage, the moderator discusses with Prof. Julia Lohmann from Aalto University
October 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Fascinating to experience #Kraftwerk live on stage in #Brussels tonight, loved it!
The band Kraftwerk on a live stage with the backs of the heads of the audience in the foreground: four men standing at their electronic music pulpits in the middle of a huge screen showing the front of 1970s Mercedes Benz, which is part of the video of Kraftwerk’s song Autobahn.
August 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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“Once we think of the #ocean as a single integrated (…) system, interwoven with our own lives (…), we have the perspective to really see what we’re doing to the #BlueMachine.” Great topical #summerread, kudos to @helenczerski.bsky.social for a fantastic book, ideal to read by the sea 🌊
#EUOceanPact
View of a blue-green tiled table on a terrace overlooking a calm Mediterranean Sea (4-5 degrees warmer than usual this year) through flowered bushes and olive trees. On the table lies the book “Blue Machine” by Helen Czerski: how the ocean shapes our world. Highly recommended reading. Some of the table tiles are very ornate and the one next to the book shows two smiling fish 🐟
July 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Scene from a Shark’s Tale movie, where Lennart is saving the shrimp
July 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Registrations are open for #BlueInvest Africa, 15-16/10 in Lomé, Togo 🇹🇬. It's for entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, experts🎏⛵🎣🌱. Start-ups will pitch solutions showing the full potential of African innovation in the sustainable #blueeconomy 🌊.
oceans-and-fisheries.ec.europa.eu/news/blueinv...
Advertisement for the #BlueInvest Africa 2025 event in Togo on 15-16 October 2025. Branded with the European Union flag in the top right corner and the EU's Global Gateway logo in the left right corner, it shows a sandy beach with a small wooden, not painted, fishing boat on the left and a small pile of fishing nets in various shades of blue on the right. Further out at sea, other ships can be detected on a rather blurry horizon in front of a blue sky. The bottom right corner shows the shape of Togo in green, indicating the location of the event in Togo's capital Lomé. The colours of Togo's flag are vertically rising above the country's shape.
July 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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#EUhave your say on the upcoming EU Sustainable #Tourism Strategy! 

Seaside summer holidays? 🌊☀️🌴

Interested in building a better future for #EUTourism? 👉 Open public consultation launched today until 12 September

transport.ec.europa.eu/news-events/...
Empty North Sea beach to the left of the picture, North Sea waves gently tiding in from the right, with foam forming at their tips and settling on the coastline. Spring evening light with light blue sky and an arena-like array of cumulus clouds
June 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Great to see this “wall of fame” of deep sea explorers and researchers in the Green Zone “The Whale” 🐳 at #UNOC3 🌊
Cc @mvisbeck.bsky.social @divaamon.bsky.social @ashadevos.bsky.social …
Large blue-coloured “Explorers of the deep” wall with pictures of deep ocean explorers at the #UNOC3 exhibition in “The Whale” in Nice, France
June 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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How time flies - I’ll soon head back to Brussels after several intense #UNOC3 days. Thank you #Nice for having been such a wonderful host city!

Now learning about the #SustainableBlueEconomy knowledge voyage with the SBE partnership - on board 🇩🇪 research vessel #Meteor

cc @geomarkiel.bsky.social
@ec.europa.eu Director General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ms Charlina Vitcheva speaking at an event on the German oceanic research vessel Meteor during UNOC3. You may not notice it in downtown Nice, but out in the port there’s quite a nice breeze, which is blowing Charlina’s hair. In the background a slide show and a fragment of a crane can be seen.
June 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Another important #UNOC3 side event starting right now, this time on skills and #oceanliteracy as essential enablers for a #SustainableBlueEconomy and the protection of our #Ocean. Thanks for inviting me to set the scene from the @ec.europa.eu
Poster for the UNOC-WestMed workshop on blue kills and ocean literacy, 11 June 10:15-11:15 in the Green Zone, with a picture showing a young woman in orange work clothes looking pensively out at the open sea, presumably from a vessel. I’m sure she is thinking about how to save the ocean
June 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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How to fund and develop ecosystem-based #maritimespatialplanning 🌊🗺️ for a #sustainableblueeconomy? Good that MSP gets a stage and attention at this #UNOC3 side event organised by Thailand 🇹🇭, IOC @unesco.org & partners including 🇪🇺🇧🇷🇨🇳🇫🇯🇫🇷🇹🇬
#EUatUNOC3
Poster with pictures and names of the speakers at the side event and sponsors’ logos Picture of the first panel moderated by IOC UNESCO’s Michele Quesada da Silva
June 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Towards a UN taskforce on #seaweed? Thanks to the Global Seaweed Coalition @globalseaweed.bsky.social (?) for organising this interesting #UNOC3 side event - I realise global action is required to mirror what the #EUAlgaeInitiative is trying to achieve in the 🇪🇺 European Union 🌱🌊
Picture showing a balanced panel at the UN Blue Foods Coalition Pavilion at “The Whale” side event venue. “The Ocean that feeds us” written on the “oceanic”background wall in English and French
June 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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“If we don’t protect our Ocean, it will turn against us.” “Europe must make sure that the Ocean is our ally”
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at #UNOC3 🌊🇪🇺 #EUOceanPact
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on stage and screen presenting the European Ocean Pact
June 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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What a day to arrive in #Nice for #UNOC3 on #WorldOceanDay 🤩
An impressive lineup of ships. Looking forward to meeting lots of people and discussing #EUOceanPact over the next few days!
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Impressive lineup of Portuguese historic tall ship Santa Maria Manuela, Oceanic research vessel OceanXplorer, German research vessel Meteor and Norwegian historic tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl in the port of Nice during UNOC3 - logo to be seen in the right corner of the photograph taken on World Ocean Day View on the main entrance of UNOC3 from the Northwestern corner of the port of Nice in the early evening sun of World Ocean Day
June 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Just seen: #EUOceanPact at home 😉
#Brussels #BruxellesSurMer
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A sewer and a stoop in Brussels with a white tile branded by the city of Brussels which has been integrated in the pavement. On the tile the text in different shades of blue reads “the sea starts here” in French and Dutch. It is adorned with symbols of fish and underwater plants, as well as - for those who STILL don’t get the message - icons for “no smoking “, “no littering” and “don’t discharge chemical liquids”
June 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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🆕 @ec.europa.eu just published the European Ocean Pact 🇪🇺🌊, a holistic approach to address the ocean‘s challenges and opportunities across #ocean related policies #EUOceanPact. Proud to have been able to contribute 😊

👉 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Visual for the European Ocean Pact - “Sustaining the ocean that sustains us” #EUOceanPact. In the background an aerial picture of the sea with two whales coming out of the water
June 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Well, good luck 🚴‍♂️🚴 #cycling #Brussels #BelgianSolutions
Narrow street with cycle path completely blocked by a construction site barrier, with a no entry sign exempting bicycles- but leaving no space to pass…
June 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Let me add that the #EUOceanPact 🇪🇺🌊 will be about much more than "just" #OceanObservation. @ec.europa.eu is organising a Side Event #EUatUNOC3 "Aligning domestic, regional and international ocean governance: the European Ocean Pact", 9 June 13:30 👇
oceans-and-fisheries.ec.europa.eu/events/align...
Against a big ocean wave photograph background, announcement of side event organised by the European Commission and others with the following text: #EUatUNOC3 "Aligning domestic, regional and international ocean governance: the European Ocean Pact", Monday 9 June 13:30-14:30 in the Blue Zone, Port Lympia, Nice, France. On the bottom right, the EU flag and the logo of the Third United Nations Ocean Conference.
June 4, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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😳 Funnily enough I have a similar looking 17th century print called „Hollandt“
Map from 1648 showing the Netherlands in the shape of a lion, surrounded by 12 pictures of cities to the right and left, the flags of the cities in a ribbon at the bottom, and a top ribbon showing nobles and trades. The lion is carrying a saver over his left shoulder but the inscription is not fully readable. He has his tongue out like a sweating dog and a very long tail the end of which looks like a rain shower over the North Sea.
May 28, 2025 at 7:08 AM