Eleanor Mears

Journalist and MA student at @PoliticsLeicsU researching gender and health security.

[Eleanor Mears @Eleanor_Mears]

Half of women in UK fear equality is going back to 1970s – survey https://t.co/KFJjugOjG5

[Eleanor Mears @Eleanor_Mears]

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says the US must lift all sanctions against Iran if it wants it to halt the country's nuclear expansion.

Biden has said Washington might rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal, but only if Iran resumes its commitments first.

https://t.co/Lz4t78PZgr

[Eleanor Mears @Eleanor_Mears]

Yoo Myung-hee drops out of WTO chief race, clearing the way for the EU's favoured candidate Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. https://t.co/uocnU1EZou

[Zoe Schneeweiss @ZSchneeweiss]

Remote working’s longer hours are the new normal for many https://t.co/J5no1EwJph via @lucy_meakin

[Stuart Lau @StuartKLau]

Europe’s chief leverage in the Myanmar crisis is to reduce a tariff-free trade arrangement – but withdrawing such terms is controversial. Analysis with ⁦@jacopobarigazzi⁩ and ⁦@Eleanor_Mears⁩ https://t.co/9W3VqVEkRc

[Eleanor Mears @Eleanor_Mears]

@ruthvalerio Started the first session last night. Was curious if apprehensive, but came away really impressed at the focus on geniunely listening to people with different views and life experiences to your own. Definitely worth your time.

[CNA @ChannelNewsAsia]

China will not recognise British passport for Hong Kong residents from Jan 31 https://t.co/Qf8hMbPAi9

[Eleanor Mears @Eleanor_Mears]

“People on the peripheries of our lives introduce us to new ideas, new information, new opportunities, and other new people. If variety is the spice of life, these relationships are the conduit for it.”

https://t.co/m42s2uP3MC

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UK’s small firms brace for Brexit trade hit https://t.co/sWJckkHfp4

[Dr Anna Jerzewska @AnnaJerzewska]

🔥The TCA "had created a “mini-EU"".

Fantastic analysis by @Annaisaac on why the UK-EU relationship will continue to evolve and what it will take to manage it on the UK side.

With inputs from the brilliant @CSBarnard24 @AntonSpisak and @ThimontJack

https://t.co/LrCsOscZ4G

[Eleanor Mears @Eleanor_Mears]

@FrankRGardner Beautiful!

[Andreas Fulda 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @AMFChina]

BREAKING: 100+ China experts and human rights activists slam “naïve” EU-China deal for “entrenching Europe’s strategic dependency on China”

Maik Baumgaertner and Ann-Katrin Mueller report about open letter for @SPIEGEL_English 1/32

https://t.co/BJ9I6EwXhI

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

BREAKING: The US government has determined that China is committing "genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, China, by targeting Uyghur Muslims and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups."

More to follow at https://t.co/WxvMRT1sQL

[Board of Deputies of British Jews @BoardofDeputies]

.@BoDPres has just written to the Prime Minister @BorisJohnson, calling on the Government to support the Genocide Amendment to the Trade Bill, noting the horrific similarities between the treatment of the Uyghurs in China, and what happened in Nazi Germany 75 years ago.

[Eleanor Mears @Eleanor_Mears]

The US says it's blocking imports of all cotton and tomato products from Xinjiang because of evidence that these products are commonly made by Uighur Muslims under conditions of forced labour.

https://t.co/p1cu4OLW5J

[Eleanor Mears @Eleanor_Mears]

"Almost one in every 660 people in the UK have died from #Covid or Covid-related causes so far during the pandemic – or about one-in-six of all deaths."

https://t.co/UGN397gfuW

[Eleanor Mears @Eleanor_Mears]

UK firms are being hit by huge tariffs when they export goods to the EU that are not deemed to have originated in Britain. It's hitting large retailers hard. Debenhams, for example, has ended its Irish online operations, citing uncertainty over tariffs.

https://t.co/OQKU0fT5BA

[Florian Eder @florianeder]

Germany purchased extra 30 million doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, outside the EU’s joint buying program. There's no way around it: Berlin violates an EU agreement to not negotiate in parallel with vaccine manufacturers. 1/4

[Eleanor Mears @Eleanor_Mears]

@RiverIslandPR Please would you get in touch about a story on future trading arrangements with the EU? Thank you!