More like only now that climate change has reached a certain part of Europe.
Southern Europe burns every summer (especially Greece) and gets flooded every winter and no one gives a fuck.
Been in Italy for work this week and thinking again about how setting a country or region up for "tourism economy" is fundamentally a drawn out humiliation ritual for the native people, even worse for migrant workers that are brought in.
¿Conocés Lago Epuyén? Es uno de los lagos más concurridos durante el verano, por su belleza y su ubicación dentro de la provincia de Chubut.
Sin embargo, este verano no fue noticia por su éxito turístico, sino por una lamentable postal que nos toca seguir viendo cada verano.
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Augsburg to Venice is a smooth 4-6 hours’ glide down a motorway today in, but it used to be a 3-5 week ordeal of a lifetime in the medieval era. I am envious of how much larger the world must’ve seemed back then.
Italy is the EU’s third-largest member. Yet a lack of confidence has led it to evolve “a tradition of not taking a firm stance in foreign policy, but of trying to please everyone and be friends with everyone”, says one former diplomat https://t.co/Wof1DvudPn
YPF, del pueblo argentino. Cartel con iluminación de neón sobre el puente del Ferrocarril al Pacífico sobre la Avenida Alvear, actual FC San Martín y Avenida del Libertador, Palermo, ca. 1925-30.
La UE 🇪🇺 y sus Estados miembros conmemoran los 50 años del golpe en Argentina. Rendimos homenaje a las víctimas de la dictadura, incluidos ciudadanos europeos, y reconocemos la política de Memoria, Verdad y Justicia como un referente internacional de compromiso democrático.
A remarkable repetition of history: HS Kimon, Hellenic Navy's new frigate now sent to Cyprus to protect it from Iranian drones with its missiles, is named after the Athenian general Kimon, son of Miltiades, who sailed to Cyprus in 450 b.C. with 200 triremes to fight the Persians.
What if Europe Is Stronger Than Its Leaders Think?
My latest for @ProSyn challenges the dominant narrative of a weak EU doomed to fail, thus joining the voices of @MESandbu, @gideonrachman, @StevenErlanger and @FabianZuleeg
https://t.co/TEahndNLTa
@mapeoargentino@agvstincardozo Buenas, seria posible usar este mapa en un trabajo de tesis? Por supuesto citando a los autores y sin fines comerciales. Gracias de antemano!
Europe and most of South America, both now confronting explicit U.S. military and trade coercion, do the sensible thing: deepen cooperation to increase their strategic autonomy and to establish one of the largest free-trade zones in the world, connecting 725 million people.
BREAKING: EU ambassadors have voted by a qualifed majority to support the EU-Mercosur trade deal.
FR, PL, AT, IE and HU expressed opposition, BE abstained. The remaining EU member states approved
Latin American problems require Latin American solutions, not American bombs. Latin America solves its issues peacefully. The last war between two Latin American states happened 35 years ago and lasted a month with 0 civilian casualties