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EU law and integration, sustainable finance, central banking, financial sanctions, rule of law, societal connection
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- Reposted by René Smits 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇨🇦🚨 BREAKING: Donald Trump has formally approved the Chagos Islands deal
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- Reposted by René Smits 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇨🇦The level of expertise gap between members of the Trump Regime and Democratic members of congress is deeper and wider than The Grand Canyon. Members like Congressman Sean Casten (D-IL) are priceless to The Democratic Caucus.
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- Reposted by René Smits 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇨🇦VAN HOLLEN: You suggested Alex Pretti was culpable for his own killing because he had a gun he was licensed to carry. Would you like to retract that statement? BESSENT: I would not. Would you like to express remorse over the death of Ashli Babbitt here in the Capitol?
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- Reposted by René Smits 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇨🇦wow -- with Trump standing behind him, a man (not sure who he is) offers this prayer: "We pray that he would be mindful of the poor and that he would be invested in the alleviation of suffering happening in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis."
- in her press conference, @ecb.europa.eu president @president.ecb.europa.eu draws attention to a passage in the monetary policy statement calling upon @ec.europa.eu & @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu to accelerate/deepen 'significant reforms' to 'unleash the talent of Europe': youtu.be/2c6h9H5LRwU
- when discussing the international role of the euro, @ecb.europa.eu president @president.ecb.europa.eu mentions a stable environment in which the rule of law is respected as one of the components for a strong international role for a currency youtu.be/2c6h9H5LRwU #ruleoflaw #euro
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- Reposted by René Smits 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇨🇦I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
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- Mario Draghi contradicting Mark Carney's analysis on the demise of the rule-based international order but confirming his conculsion: this order is defunct - and sketching how Europe should proceed through 'pragmatic federalism' in defence etc. 1/5 watch this inspiring speech by youtu.be/t1iMjvsr7T0
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- Reposted by René Smits 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇨🇦Khanna: "I was in Mpls. 3rd & 4th generation Minnesotans were talking about tyranny. They were talking about ICE following them to church. It's a violation of the 1st, 2nd, & 4th Amendments. I can't in good conscience vote to give more money to ICE agents as they're violating constitutional rights"
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- 'if we lose time in incredulity, we risk becoming complicit' read this account of J.D. Vance's lies behind expected ICE raids in Springfield Ohio from former citizen @timothysnyder.bsky.social Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio? open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
- Reposted by René Smits 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇨🇦From the man dressed in Nazi-looking garb on DHS social media channels: "Bovino made derisive remarks about the faith of the U.S. attorney in Minnesota, Daniel N. Rosen. Mr. Rosen is an Orthodox Jew and observes Shabbat."
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- Reposted by René Smits 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇨🇦A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor. ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
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- Reposted by René Smits 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇨🇦The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, Austria, invites applicants for the position of Rector. This is an exceptional opportunity to lead a renowned institution dedicated to the humanities and social sciences. www.iwm.at/news/the-iwm...
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- vergaande Europese integratie en supranationale waarborgen voor nationale soevereiniteit zijn nodig: terechte oproep van @franstimmermans.groenlinkspvda.nl in @nrc.nl www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
- Reposted by René Smits 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇨🇦Russia is failing on the battlefield, so it is trying to weaponise winter. The EU is responding with the biggest ever winter aid package. Just today, we provided an extra 500 generators and €50 million for energy support. Extract of my press conference ↓
- Reposted by René Smits 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇨🇦Note that von der Leyen uses the same language for Ukraine and the countries of th Western Balkans - being part of the European family. [I cannot recall her using that language in regards to the UK, though]
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- at sustainable finance conference, Triodos bank CEO Marcel Zuidam calls for a digital euro, inter alia to introduce a European payment system not dependent on US payment services providers - inconsistently, Triodos still offers a Visa credit card to clients …. @triodosuk.bsky.social
- urgent call for EU to step up and act plus alternative rearing of @mark-carney.bsky.social’s Davos speech by @martinwolfhh.bsky.social - published in yesterday’s @financialtimes.com still worth reading giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The reality of a world after rupture
- ‘Europe, wake up’ call by Janan Ganesh in today’s @financialtimes.com - don’t let Trump’s chickening out dull us to inaction - also insightful overview of EU’s tasks to become militarily independent giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Why Taco is a problem for Europe
- Reposted by René Smits 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇨🇦the reason DHS officers wear masks is because it allows them to commit crimes with impunity. there is literally no legitimate reason for it.
- Reposted by René Smits 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇨🇦The coup never ended. Criminal regime. Trump belongs in prison, for many crimes. No Justice, and we pay the price bsky.app/profile/chri...
- Reposted by René Smits 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇨🇦Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."
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- Reposted by René Smits 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇨🇦And the US Embassy now removed the flags nyheder.tv2.dk/live/samfund...
- Impressive. US Embassy Copenhagen. One Danish flag per Danish soldier that died in Afghanistan, fighting alongside US soldiers. 📸 h/t @onkelmikkel.bsky.social
- Reposted by René Smits 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇨🇦And so the next steps begin… Quietly negotiations have started between Greenland, Denmark and the US. Two pronged talks: a) about the role of NATO / joint security efforts. b) the relationship and agreements between 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇺🇸 www.dr.dk/nyheder/udla...
- Reposted by René Smits 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇨🇦ICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the area’s African community. Multiple people have been detained. Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk
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- Reposted by René Smits 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇨🇦“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
- Reposted by René Smits 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇨🇦Zelenskyy: Today, Russia struck a passenger train in the Kharkiv region with attack drones. In any country, a drone strike on a civilian train would be regarded in the same way – purely as an act of terrorism
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- Reposted by René Smits 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇨🇦"Eisenhower used the power of the US dollar to force the UK and France to end their embarrassing Suez adventure in 1956, and Ronald Reagan angered Margaret Thatcher by terminating the left-wing regime in Grenada, a Commonwealth country, back in 1983." www.opendemocracy.net/en/trump-act...
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- Reposted by René Smits 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇨🇦👀 Judge Schlitz, the chief federal judge in Minnesota, has ordered the head of ICE, Todd Lyons, to appeal personally in court Friday and threatened him with contempt for the agency’s repeated violation of court orders. “The court’s patience is at an end.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
