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[UK in Switzerland 🇬🇧🇨🇭🇱🇮 @UKEmbassyBerne]

This is an important moment for the UK and Switzerland.

The UK and Switzerland have concluded negotiations on an enhanced Free Trade Agreement, with services at its heart. 🇨🇭🤝🇬🇧

It is a modern and ambitious agreement that reflects the strength of a relationship built on trade, investment, innovation, science and technology. Its potential impact is significant: as a result of the agreement, total bilateral services trade is estimated to increase by around CHF 7.9 billion per year in the long run, equivalent to a 25% uplift.

For businesses, professionals and researchers in both countries, it is expected to make it easier to trade, invest, travel and collaborate across borders. At a time of global uncertainty, the agreement underlines the UK and Switzerland’s shared commitment to open markets, partnership and future growth.

🔗 Learn more: https://t.co/1fjh1bYAgX
@peterkyle, @ParmelinG, @biztradegovuk, @DefrWbf

[Sebastïen M @SebastienMorard]

@Fraslin Panneaux solaires, ventilation controlee: 24 degrés.

[Pilote de loc ⇹🇨🇭 @SBBTrainDriver]

La carte de l’évolution des temps de parcours en train entre 2006 et 2026

J’ai surligné en jaune la Suisse romande

Que peut-on remarquer si on compare l’évolution de la Suisse romande par rapport au reste de la Suisse ?

L'ouest du pays aurait été oublié par les politiques ??

[Sebastïen M @SebastienMorard]

@MLLW58 Es ist aber so einfach.

[Paul Castle @Goto_paulcastle]

THE QUESTION NOBODY WANTS TO ANSWER
Something curious is happening in Westminster.
Keir Starmer lists achievements that critics said were impossible.
The economy stabilising.
Waiting lists falling.
Migration coming down.
Britain rebuilding relationships abroad.
Yet the conversation is not about whether those achievements matter.
It is about who should inherit them.
That should give us pause.
Because there are two very different arguments.
One says Starmer has failed.
The other says Burnham won a by-election.
Those are not the same thing.
One is a verdict on government.
The other is an opportunity spotted by ambitious people.
And perhaps the greatest irony of all is this:
The louder the talk of a "calm", "dignified" and "consensual" handover becomes, the less it sounds like unity and the more it sounds like power.
Politics is full of people who want the crown.
Britain needs people willing to carry the burden.
Keir Starmer inherited a country that was broken.
He rebuilt the party.
He won the mandate.
Now he is doing the difficult work of rebuilding the nation.
That is not a reason to replace him.
It is a reason to let him finish the job.
#Labour #KeirStarmer #UKPolitics

[Sebastïen M @SebastienMorard]

@boltedsage77 So the idea of not judging people and not rating at all did not even cross your mind? Poor little valet of the system

[Nahel Belgherze @WxNB_]

Hard to believe I’m even writing this.

Meteorological summer hasn’t even begun, yet Paris, France has already logged more days above 32°C (89.6°F) than its annual average.

[UK in Switzerland 🇬🇧🇨🇭🇱🇮 @UKEmbassyBerne]

What does professional recognition mean in practice? 🇬🇧🇨🇭

In the first of our new interview series, EY's Mark Hawkins shares his perspective as an auditor working in Switzerland. One year since the UK–Switzerland Recognition of Professional Qualifications Agreement, this series highlights how the agreement supports professionals from both countries by creating routes to have their qualifications recognised - making it easier to put skills and qualifications to work across borders.

👉 Learn more about the #RPQ agreement: https://t.co/abqGr0rH4u

[Sebastïen M @SebastienMorard]

@TwTweetybird @other_europe Copied from the Swiss series of the Same time

[Sebastïen M @SebastienMorard]

@DalbaTv1 @SBBTrainDriver Pourquoi appeler IR 57 une ligne intercity entre des villes importantes?

[Sebastïen M @SebastienMorard]

@JohnnyRott2xga @masuzafi Learn from the French how to do trains.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

BREAKING: Zelensky just landed in the UAE and signed a defence cooperation agreement with President MBZ.

The deal on the table changes everything about this war. Ukraine is offering Gulf states 1,000 drone interceptors per day. Each Sting interceptor costs $2,100. Each Patriot missile it replaces costs $3.9 million. In exchange, Ukraine wants the Patriot missiles the Gulf states are burning through, because Kyiv cannot get enough of them to stop Russian missiles.

Read that again. The country America refused to arm fast enough is now arming America’s allies with a weapon that costs 1,857 times less than the one America cannot produce fast enough.

The National reported on March 27 that Zelensky told reporters: “We’d like to quietly receive the Patriot missiles we have a deficit of, and give them a corresponding number of interceptors.” AFP confirmed the UAE agreement on March 28. Eleven countries have formally requested Ukraine’s drone defence expertise per Zelensky’s own count. Over 200 Ukrainian military specialists are already deployed across the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Jordan.

Here is the arithmetic that should terrify every Pentagon procurement officer on earth.

The United States fired 943 Patriot interceptors in the first four days of the Iran war per a US Congressional study cited by the Jerusalem Post. That is eighteen months of Lockheed Martin’s annual production consumed in 96 hours. Each of those 943 shots cost $3.9 million. Total expenditure: $3.68 billion in four days on defensive interceptions alone. Iran produces 10,000 Shahed drones per month per Reuters. Each drone costs $20,000 to $50,000. The cost exchange ratio is 114 to 1 in Iran’s favour per Military Times.

Ukraine’s Sting interceptor inverts this arithmetic entirely. At $2,100, the cost ratio flips from 114-to-1 against America to roughly 10-to-1 against Iran. Ukraine can supply 1,000 per day. That is 30,000 per month against Iran’s 10,000 Shaheds per month. For the first time in this war, the defender’s production rate exceeds the attacker’s production rate at a fraction of the cost.

And the country that built this weapon is the same country that Trump publicly rejected. “No, they are not helping. We do not need their help. We know more about drones than anyone else” per Fox News. He doubled down: “The last person we need help from is Zelensky.” Meanwhile the Pentagon notified Congress of plans to redirect $750 million in Ukraine-bound Patriot missiles to Gulf states per House of Saud reporting. America is simultaneously refusing Ukraine’s cheap solution and cannibalising Ukraine’s expensive one.

Zelensky framed this explicitly. He told The National: “No matter how many Patriots, THAADs, or other air-defence systems are in the Middle East, that alone is not enough for fully effective air defence.” He told the UK Parliament: “When it comes to shooting down massive Shahed attacks, only Ukrainian experience can really help with this today.”

The Pentagon is spending $3.9 million per interception, raiding Swiss fighter jet accounts to cover shortfalls, and diverting Ukraine’s own Patriot supply to the Gulf. Zelensky is offering the same result for $2,100 and producing 1,000 units per day. The market has a word for this kind of disruption.

The $2,100 drone is the most important weapon in this war. And the country that built it is the one America said it did not need.

Full analysis - https://t.co/32ixeQpfif

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

⚡️News from the front suggests that the land corridor may be cut.
We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine 🇺🇦
P.S. If that happens, it will already be too late for Putin to announce mobilization.

[Sebastïen M @SebastienMorard]

@tommysantos14 Wishful thinking

[Sebastïen M @SebastienMorard]

@clement_molin Is a counteroffensive imaginable from the resources point of view?

[Sir Pip Oliver Fella 🇺🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 💙 @pip_sir]

Today marks the 4th anniversary of when Russia deliberately bombed Mariupol Theatre killings hundreds of women & children who had been sheltering inside. This despite the word ‘Children’ written in huge letters outside.
Please repost this message show that they are not forgotten

[Sebastïen M @SebastienMorard]

@saif_aldareei Will you send Arms or Money? Both?

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

🇦🇪 🇺🇦 And something else is happening, quietly, in the background.

A UAE political analyst posted two flags side by side yesterday, the Emirati and the Ukrainian, with three words: “Thank you Ukraine.”

Just gratitude, from a region where Russian propaganda has spent years poisoning the well against Kyiv, framing Ukraine as a Western puppet, a failing state, an unworthy cause. It turns out the most effective counter to that narrative was not a PR campaign. It was Ukrainian operators showing up to keep the skies clear.

Hearts are turning in the Middle East because Ukraine did what serious countries do: it showed up when it was needed, for people who had been told it was their enemy.

Trump might want to think about what that says. About them. And about him.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Iván Ramírez de Arellano, The Jomini of the West @JominiW]

1/ Global Strategic Update: The global security environment is currently defined by cascading, interconnected crises that severely strain global stability and reshape the geoeconomic competition between the United States and China. This is a brief update on two of the globe's principal theaters of war, Ukraine and Iran. #UkraineWar #EpicFury #Iran #Israel