Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱

Erasmus student | The glass is half full..! @EUI_EU @volteuropa Views my own | red team 📿 Stamppot enthusiast

[Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @eeldenden]

🇪🇺🇦🇹 Austria's President Van der Bellen: It's time for Treaty reform and to move toward an integrated, more federal Europe. A united Europe is the best idea we've ever had. Russia is a dwarf pretending to be a giant

[Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @eeldenden]

Maybe certain regions could even join the EU at some point! But judge them on a case-by-case basis

[Cemil Kerimoglu 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @cemk_cemil]

This is the future towards which the world is moving. Europe united as a civilization-state and Russia disintegrated into dozens of independent post-Russian states. This is the natural course of history.
https://t.co/LChPU6wINc

[Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @eeldenden]

🇪🇺 Van Lanschot (Volt) has been appointed chief negotiator on behalf of European Parliament on new measures to break free from American technological and digital dependence. A Council summit is imminent, aimed at deepening integration and finally building scale similar to China/US

[Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @eeldenden]

British troops will be allowed to fire back at Russian forces if attacked in mission – London and Paris are pressing ahead with preparations for the "Multinational Force-Ukraine" (MNF-U) https://t.co/HrYPzJal75

[KyivPost @KyivPost]

Zelensky said Russian officials at the Abu Dhabi talks falsely claimed to control half of Donbas still held by Ukraine. Kyiv presented video, photos and other evidence, and the US confirmed Ukraine’s assessment of the battlefield.

“Putin lives in a different reality. Of course, he’ll tell the Americans he needs a month or two to fully capture eastern Ukraine. I could draw him a picture of me fully capturing Russia, but that wouldn’t make it true,” Zelensky said.

Photo: Volodymyr Zelensky

[Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @eeldenden]

Kushner: "Not only do we want to end the war with Ukraine, we wanna come up with a way where we can avoid wars for the next century." Give Putin half of Europe! Or even all of it. Guaranteed peace.
Pax Putinica

[CSPAN @cspan]

Special Envoy @SteveWitkoff and @jaredkushner on U.S.-Russia-Ukraine peace talks:

Kushner: "Not only do we want to end the war with Ukraine, we wanna come up with a way where we can avoid wars for the next century."

Witkoff: "We feel that there is real momentum here."

[The Associated Press @AP]

Climate activist Greta Thunberg emphasized the need to prioritize people and the planet over profits as she arrived at the U.N. climate meeting in Turkey. This year’s Conference of the Parties, or COP31, follows a year of climate-induced disasters.

[Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @eeldenden]

@PhillipsPOBrien is he wrong?

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Ceding Ukrainian land for peace is just abstract words. It’s not only about reality, even more about philosophy. Putin was talking about Donbas, but then he decided to occupy Kyiv, our capital. His words were about Donbas, but the reality was about Kyiv. He kept saying he was defending Russian-speaking people and then tortured hundreds and thousands to death in Bucha and other places. So that wasn’t about Russian-speaking people.

This is why when Americans asked, “Can you exchange Donbas for security?” I said right there, “Can you tell me what it means? What security? NATO?”

“Not NATO, but similar to NATO.”

“Similar? But you don't want the answer about Donbas to be ‘similar.’ You want a clear answer about Donbas. This is your goal. And this is Putin’s goal, for today. What will you do if we have security guarantees but not NATO?”

They took our nuclear weapons. I'm not a fan of nuclear weapons. I think the world would be a better place without them. But the Russians took our nuclear weapons, didn’t they? They did. Then they stopped our integration into Europe, then prevented us from being in NATO. And in the end they occupied us. This is why it’s an abstract question. Nobody trusts Putin to stop if we leave Donbas. He will pause. Then he will come back in one year, two years, or five years. And who will be guilty?

From an interview with DR Nyheder. (2/3)

[Marcos Agustín @marcosagusstinn]

🇪🇺 Finally moving towards a unified military bloc.

European finance ministers met Rutte today to push joint defence purchases.

Joint purchases have a 40% target for 2027 and must exceed 50% by 2030

Europe will also reduce its dependence on the US and prioritise European defence purchases.

European NATO members already spend more than China and Russia combined.

Europe will build Eurasia’s strongest military bloc.

Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has accelerated the European unity he wanted to destroy.

https://t.co/80KIIzj7ua

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Just come off the phone with a friend who works at the European Commission. Off the record he says things with the UK are moving, "very quickly" to ensure all is in place for the press announcement at EU-UK summit in Brussels on the 20th of November. His words,
"Brexit is done"

[owen matthews @owenmatth]

Putin can smell Washington’s desperation https://t.co/kooWnaURP8

[Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @eeldenden]

@justsomeonefrom yes! Actual president material

[Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @eeldenden]

🇪🇺 Christine Lagarde: Some Americans do not want Europe to succeed. Progress is made in terms of Draghi's reforms, but the massive train has not yet left the station

[Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @eeldenden]

Btw this is France's next President ���

[Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @eeldenden]

🇪🇺 Christine Lagarde: Some Americans do not want Europe to succeed. Progress is made in terms of Draghi's reforms, but the massive train has not yet left the station

[Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @eeldenden]

@Dr_Bigodes exactly. The concept of the nation state in Europe is new, in many cases younger than the steam engine. Europe is a civilisation like China and India. To treat the nation state as some sort of eternal identity is not realistic. Europeans are becoming who they are

[Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @eeldenden]

As Draghi said; Europe must federalise. India has more languages than Europe, yet nobody seriously argues that it should be split into 100 countries. How would they be better off?

[Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @eeldenden]

@ShengLou70977 yes. And India is just getting started. China did have a headstart, but as time goes by India will grow more and more into a new economic giant

[European Federalists @federalists]

“It is the responsibility of my generation to create the United States of Europe” – Gabriel Attal 🇫🇷

Former French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has renewed his call for the creation of a “United States of Europe”

[Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @eeldenden]

Exactly. If anything, it's the opposite. Nationalism in Europe is actively pushed by foreign powers. Nationalism is not patriotic at all

[Roberta Metsola @EP_President]

"There is no contradiction between being patriotic and being European."

[Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @eeldenden]

@ctxnsrc not an argument