Writing for the algorithm? @cfieschi.bsky.social talking to @catherinedevries.bsky.social. Can something be 'shareable' without losing its complexity? What do you think @sbeverts.bsky.social @anthonyzach.be @garethbxl.bsky.social ?
Thank you @catherinedevries.bsky.social for a wonderful conversation about writing. We don’t think often enough about what drives us to write, and the nature of the experience. It was a pleasure to do so on a sunny summer morning!
Ravie d’avoir eu cet entretien sur l’extrême droite en Europe avec @lexpress.fr
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Bon, Poutine n’est pas en Turquie. Nouvelles sanctions Européennes contre la Russie des lundi, n’est-ce pas?
I hate to think his last official meeting was with that creepy little shit Vance…
@fotoole.bsky.social brilliantly trenchant as always on Trump’s obsessions and their impact on Transatlantic relations
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Le Pen's ban from elected office has sparked accusations from populist movements of antidemocratic behavior.
But the ruling shows a commitment to the rule of law, which is the only way to counter claims that the system is rigged, says @cfieschi.bsky.social.
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“What we are watching is Trump’s tariff-induced crash turning into a Truss-style fiscal crisis. The collapse in US government long bonds, Treasuries, is startling, scary. It is precisely the opposite of what Trump and his advisers expected and wanted”
Robert Peston
Oh yeah!!! 😉
🇨🇦 Off to mail my Canadian ballot paper! Super-efficient service from #ElectionsCanada for voters based abroad 🇨🇦
While all eyes are quite understandably on Ukraine I’m starting to wonder whether the first real NATO/Europe/US dilemma won’t come from Greenland abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
That seems like a drop in the ocean for a country of 1.4 billion people… no?
They were always DOdgy!
🇪🇺🇧🇪The Bundestag has just adopted Merz’s so-called ‘budget bazooka’. This is a truly historic moment. Germany is turning its back on decades of budgetary orthodoxy and massively boosting defence spending. As Merz put it: it’s a ‘giant step toward a European defence community’.
#Zeitenwende at last
Today in Rome and other Italian cities
#PiazzaPerLEuropa
A call for a massive public show of support for Europe ❤️🇪🇺
Thank you #MicheleSerra and
@larepubblica.bsky.social
Dear @financialtimes.com , why is there no clickable share button to @bsky.app built into your articles ? Why only FB, X and LinkedIn? 🤷🏻♀️
An excellent episode — that also contains a real nugget: the US have forbidden the UK to share their UK intel gathered in conjunction with US with Ukraine. Now *that’s* what I call a special relationship!
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Past two weeks depicted as joint efforts. Above all a stark warning about the end of an era.
And serious commitment to major increases in French and EU defence spending. Without tax hikes in France — which means spending cuts. Heavy on the fact that ‘the future cannot be based on past habits’. Highly diplomatic language on US. Clearly positioning France in leadership role but not overboard.
Pretty good, short address to the nation by Macron tonight. Heavy emphasis on Russian threat (made a point of taking up Z’s arguments in Oval office re Putin) rather than Trump focus. Opening convo on extending French nukes deterrent to Germany (not a new story, but 1st time Germany has asked).
Dublin was always wonderfully charming, it’s become ever cooler 😎🇨🇮
And the full-on response here from Trudeau 🇨🇦 (best summed up as: 😳🤨🖕🏼)
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The perks of doing early morning TV in Paris 😊
Yes: so striking that Vance picked the fight. This was a planned attack designed to corner and humiliate Zelensky. Obscene, and the direct continuation of Vance’s Paris and Munich behaviour.
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I think ‘toerag’ is the perfect word.
What’s also extraordinary is the fact that Vance is the one that lit the fuse and fed Trump his lines. It’s only after Vance decided to fake taking offence that Zelensky lost it and Trump joined in.
Two words for Zelensky: brass balls www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-...
A piece in Germany's FAZ making the case that a cautious fiscal policy, such as Britain's in the 1930s, cannot prepare a country for war. www.faz.net/pro/weltwirt...
