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🆕 Trainee Guide - Fall 2019

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[New European Peoples Forum @NewEuropeanPF]

Never give up when it comes to fighting for what you believe in - nobody has a mandate to tell us we can no longer say "We are Europeans"

@PulseofEurope @laute_europaeer @BrusselsBrief @jangrzymski @Brefugees @EUvsDisinfo @EU4Citizens @mycountryeurope

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[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

This happens at every NATO summit with Trump. Every G7. Every G20. The US President is mocked by US allies behind his back.

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We got to ask ourselves some tough questions.

https://t.co/Uau8qLlWg0

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Listen to Stubb if you care about democracy. 👇👇👇

[Alexander Stubb @alexstubb]

The worry I have, is that democracy is not able to cope with the fast pace of technological development and communication. Traditional democracy was supposed to be slow and messy, based on compromise. Now it is fast & binary, based on extremes. We are missing decent middleground.

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The dynamic West-Wing power-walk-and-talk has finally arrived at the old continent.

[Leo Varadkar @LeoVaradkar]

Congratulations to Ursula, Phil and the new Commission.

[MeTooEP @MeTooEP]

📣📣1/3 For TODAY'S vote in #EPlenary on the resolution "EU accession to the Istanbul Convention & other measures to combat gender-based violence": we call on the MEPs to vote in favor for para 15 & 16!📣📣

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@TzvetaD 😳

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@mepassistants @Europarl_EN Congrats! All assistants and trainees deserve your constant vigilance

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@meme_ec That hair loss is the manifestation of the democratic deficit

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By then, the worst of the climate crisis might have hit us and a couple of nuclear wars may have diminished humanity, but if they don't, AMR could get to the rest of us if we do not use antibiotics responsibly.

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#Wondeleyen is doing her speech right now but did you know all Commissioners can talk😱😱😱

QUOTE OF THE WEEK💬💬💬

🗨️"We must only use antibiotics when necessary"🗨️

The practical advice from @V_Andriukaitis, the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety.

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As far as global threats go, one of the most dangerous and least explored is that of Anti-Microbial Resistance or AMR which could result in 10 million deaths per year and 100 trillion euro loss to the global economy by 2050.
https://t.co/jVkaHrJAX3

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It's happening right now.

Whether you didn't vote for VDL or def. didn't vote for VDL, we are moments away from a women Commission president and an (aaaalmost) gender-balanced Commission.

[European Youth ❤️🇪🇺 @EuropeanYouthEU]

LIVE 🎥 President-elect @vonderleyen in the #EPlenary, presenting her team and their programme ahead of the vote by @Europarl_EN on the new Commission. #vdLcommission https://t.co/YBlnLPIRzQ

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@mepassistants @TheProgressives @GreensEFA @EPPGroup She has never heard Mutti say NEIN on this side of the table…

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This is NOT a DRILL Folks!

[Mepassistant (Quentin) @mepassistants]

Von der Leyen is defending at 9:00 her college of commissioners, ahead of the Parliament's final vote on it. And you guessed it, it's live-gifing time ! #EPlenary #vdLcommission

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While Euros are still legal tender💸 for purchasing tickets, save your collectors Brexit coins for now.
https://t.co/3VEG6KLunM

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🥳

🔢NUMBER OF THE WEEK🔢

2⃣5⃣
A quarter of a century which is how old the @Eurostar 🚂turned last week.
https://t.co/qfMIKnWvxD

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The millennial train link has managed to serve over 200 million people in its modest life span but enters adulthood with Brexit on the horizon which could cause significant disruptions to the high rail which links London, Paris and Brussels.

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🐦🐦🐦TWEET OF THE WEEK🐦🐦🐦

[Mepassistant (Quentin) @mepassistants]

Who left his/her dying interns here ?
We talked about this guys, once you've depleted an intern, you send it to the Parlementarium to die, you don't just leave it on the floor.
It's just rude, one of us could trip over them and fall.
Have some decency dammit.

[Mepassistant (Quentin) @mepassistants]

Who left his/her dying interns here ?
We talked about this guys, once you've depleted an intern, you send it to the Parlementarium to die, you don't just leave it on the floor.
It's just rude, one of us could trip over them and fall.
Have some decency dammit.