Great first day of class! 🇪🇺💶🌍
Here course readings w/research in the background for a course on #EMU and heated political arguments over drinks! (Because all the US is aflutter w/debate on the faulty foundations of the #euro!)
#EUintegration#FSreg#NorthAtlanticCrisis
“The incident, which occurred in the last two days, marked one of the most aggressive Chinese intelligence gathering maneuvers in recent years.” https://t.co/ttMRfg7Ovb
The government gave sanction waivers to Russian warlord, Yvgeniy Prigozhin, giving him the green light to launch a legal attack on a British journalist.
The Foreign Office must act to ensure that our sanctions regime is never undermined in this way again.
"’Ah, I see you are from somewhere over there!...So is it Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, maybe Syria or Lebanon? Where are you really from?’ [A]wkward silence. The person who had introduced us turned bright red. I started to say something but walked away...” https://t.co/yK49604uqx
A novel way of managing public debt.
“By removing a public holiday from the workers' calendar, which, according to its federal ministry of finance, will result in DKK 3.2bn (€430m) a year.” https://t.co/R9IH5JZOte
“Black suffering in🇺🇸 has often been either relegated to invisibility or subjected to exploitation & commodification. That is the dilemma that Ms. Wells & others…faced, even as she challenges the public to acknowledge her son’s full humanity.” ✍🏻 @AOScott
https://t.co/q3MTvRN5rZ
The🇺🇦 “conflict will transform a world order that is still deeply Western – in which ‘Europe’s problems are the world’s problems, but the world’s problems are not Europe’s’ – into a world of ‘multi-alignment,’ where countries are free to pursue their ‘preferences and interests.’”
.@SlaughterAM of @NewAmerica explains why the phrase "free world" – which featured prominently in @POTUS Joe Biden's last State of the Union address – is better left in the twentieth century. https://t.co/10Eh434TQC
“The externalities of economic action need to be priced in so that the market can function properly. Transforming the economy for the better…requires the kind of concrete knowledge that only the price mechanism can generate.” https://t.co/Kgu8Wn9kn1
The anti-Western rhetoric is off the scale here. Russian TV’s Solovyov tonight on his talk show: “The Fourth Reich has declared war on Russia…they’re supplying [Ukraine] with tanks. Who can possibly deny that after this Berlin is a legitimate target?”
In April 2016, I broke the story of Trump and Putin, using Russian open sources. Afterwards, I heard vague intimations that something was awry in the FBI in New York, specifically counter-intelligence and cyber. We now have a suggestion as to why. 0/20
Monday’s serving of parallel reality as the Russian papers compare the war in Ukraine to World War II and Napoleon’s invasion of Russia. #ReadingRussia
“‘🇩🇪s want to be seen as a partner, not an aggressor & they have a…sensitivity to delivering arms…where🇩🇪arms were historically used to kill millions…🇷🇺, 🇵🇱& 🇺🇦. People don’t want🇩🇪weapons on the front lines being used to kill people in those regions.” https://t.co/QkM1hFA8d4
@kongoecho @rockybeethoven To be fair, that's true of most NATO defence ministers most of the time - Austin & Mattis were exceptions. In the UK, Wallace was an Army Capt & Mordaunt an RN Reservist; before that, the last Defence Secretary with any military experience was Tom King, who left office in 1992.
Germany's new defence minister Pistorius in his first TV inerview tonight said: "I'm not an expert on military strategy, I'm the defence minister". The entire tragedy of German defence policy in a single sentence on his first day in office. Not bad