European Politics
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Let´s talk about Russian Information Operations. 🧵 Featuring today: COVID-19 How Russia used the Pandemic to further societal rifts in Europe and to bind more people to their inf...
France seems to be heading towards a hung parliament - but one where *no* majority exists in the Assembly to sustain *any* Govt. There is no precedent in recent French politics for...
The EBU now need to explain themselves. The people of Europe have spoken. Why did the EBU let a Middle Eastern country into the competition? https://t.co/k9q5oSALSp
Greta turns up at the Eurovision contest for the House of Borromeo. But y'all don't know about the Eurotrash families, do you? Keep bleating on about joining the EU with no unders...
The whole thing, the Ukraine gambit & the Niger side-play, makes total sense if you understand that "the West" (i.e. the white world) is a 2-tier hierarchy: the Anglosphere & Conti...
Why have Juventus pulled out of the Super League? The letter sent to Barca and Real Madrid by Juventus allegedly explains that UEFA have threatened to ban the Turin outfit from Eu...
The war that NATO provoked in the heart of the European continent in Yougoslavia has never ended. It is a frozen conflict. NATO client Kosovo has been following the Ukraine playboo...
The Schuman Declaration of 1950 famously declared the ambition of a united Europe as an integrated political and economic entity. The UK Labour government rejected such ambitions...
This is huge! European Council president Charles Michel : "European leaders are becoming increasingly favorable toward French President Emmanuel Macron's push for 'strategic auton...
Vocal pressure from Eastern and Central Europe was crucial to the decisions this week, after months of wrangling and resistance, to give Western tanks to Ukraine. https://t.co/pizW...
We're at a paradigm shift with dollar breaking key market structure The bullish USD bet is in trouble And Europe is playing a critical role to make that happen A thread
Matthias Corvinus was one of the greatest kings in European history! He should have been much more known. At the height of his power he commanded the most powerful army in Europe...
Italy’s right turn in 5 points 1. 45-yr-old Giorgia Meloni is set to become Italy’s first far-right leader since World War II & the country’s first woman PM. 2. She’s anti-immigrat...
Europe is facing a severe energy crisis The energy costs are at multi year highs if not all time highs ( during some wars) Germany in particular is facing a severe heat due to...
Yes, of course Tourism continues = Nobody in the West really cares about what's happening and all the "outrage" about the war is just BS rhetorics Tourism stopped = They do care...
The EU has finally imposed sanctions on seaborne Russian oil imports over the war in Ukraine. While some refineries look to cash out, global crude markets are bracing for a shake-...
I can't think of a better time in history to be reminded of what De Gaulle used to say about NATO and American hegemony over Europe. This is all extracted from the book "C'était d...
“Together against Russia”: Bulgaria's Prime Minister @KirilPetkov wrote a guest editorial for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung @faznet. In it he describes in clear terms how Bulgaria...
There is a general misconception in Europe and the US that the war in Ukraine is only about Russia and the ”West”. It is not. Ramifications are broader - also about the West and th...
THREAD: The Kremlin’s outlandish handling of Europe’s concerns about the #Navalny assasination attempt and the crisis in Belarus is setting up a rupture similar to what occurred af...
