Germain Lautour 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇦

LSE (IR) and KCL (War studies).

[Financial Times @FT]

Memories of ‘friendly’ Russians fuel AfD’s rise in east Germany https://t.co/xnMj3xmhVr

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Read about @FukuyamaFrancis and his new book here:

He Warned That the End of History Could Be Rough. Maybe Now People Will Listen. https://t.co/XpXg17XOvh

[Vali Nasr @vali_nasr]

It was a pleasure joining @gideonrachman for a podcast on FT to discuss Iran’s growing strategic ambitions out of the war https://t.co/AtcISHuc7x

[Atlantic Council @AtlanticCouncil]

“Fostering prosperity and economic and social stability around the world and in particular in our neighborhood is contributing to Europe’s security,” says @EIB’s @NadiaCalvino.

“From this point of view, to us, the top priority is supporting Ukraine,” she adds. 🇪🇺🇺🇦

[Germain Lautour 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇦 @GermainLtr]

"President Trump told Axios in a brief phone interview Wednesday that the war with Iran will end "soon" because there is "practically nothing left to target."

https://t.co/mPSIWPdrXK

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

President Trump said he must be involved in picking Iran’s next leader, as he was with Venezuela. In an interview with Axios, Trump rejected the notion that Mojtaba Khamenei, son of assassinated supreme leader Ali Khamenei, should succeed his father. https://t.co/DX3Cl8pHqT

[Germain Lautour 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇦 @GermainLtr]

« Even Vice President JD Vance, a longtime skeptic of American military interventions in the Middle East, argued in a White House Situation Room meeting that if the United States was going to hit Iran, it should “go big and go fast,” »

https://t.co/oNHDjrtj1v

[Edward Wong @ewong]

NEW from @nytimes: The definitive story of how Trump took an almost inevitable path to a new US war in the Middle East: Netanyahu repeatedly urged him to attack Iran with Israel, and no aides voiced opposition. Netanyahu also undermined diplomacy. Regime change became the goal.

[Financial Times @FT]

Inside the plan to kill Ali Khamenei https://t.co/Uy55rh1PHu

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

French politicians are known for their mastery of the art of saying nothing. But now a cadre of bureaucrats are are ditching their carefully worded communiqués and unleashing a torrent of snark. https://t.co/cixBCKshOy

[LSE Department of Economics @LSEEcon]

Join us for this special event with LSE's Philippe Aghion, joint recipient of the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
If you wish to join in person get your free ticket now: https://t.co/uUwtgPUWyJ

[Olivier Blanchard @ojblanchard1]

On the supreme court decision on tariffs, a remark from afar, by an uneducated foreigner:

Didn’t we get a relatively clean test of who is a conservative judge and who is a Trumpist judge?

Isn’t obvious that a conservative judge would conclude that the tariffs were unconstitutional, and a Trumpist judge would find ways (to me, arguing that removing tariffs would lead to chaos is an amazing legal argument, when I think about this can be used by the executive to do crazy stuff and get away with it)
(I thought Barrett was probably a conservative. I was unsure about Kavanaugh...)
So 3 Trumpists only on the Supreme Court. Good news and important for the future.

[ECFR @ecfr]

🎧 New Week, New episode!

@markhleonard welcomes @lea_ypi to discuss her latest book on indignity—and how lessons from the past can help the left counter the new right. What does a revitalised left look like in Europe and beyond?
👉 Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/6Xlj21xvzw

[Olivier Blanchard @ojblanchard1]

In a world where the Epstein papers give a catastrophic image of how the rich and powerful behave too often, it is heart warming to see the governor of the Banque de France retire to be in charge, pro bono, of a charitable association aimed at helping the youth in trouble. Merci Francois Villeroy de Galhau.

[Germain Lautour 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇦 @GermainLtr]

https://t.co/0WlyiafgmF The pessimist who became a prophet

[Olivier Blanchard @ojblanchard1]

An example of adverse effects of well-intended laws (a big issue in general).

Given the uncertainty, the job market for new graduates is tough. One would think that allowing them to take low paid internships while the jobs come slowly back, would be desirable. But a French law stands in the way.

To get such an internship, you need to draw a convention, which the employer, the intern, and an “etablissement de formation” (it could be a university, or a professional school) all sign.

The intent is to prevent exploitation and underpayment, which makes good sense. One of the results however is that graduates, who no longer belong to such an “etablissement”, cannot get an internship and remain unemployed.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Fascinating lunch @FT by @alecrussell_07 full of insights into internal MAGA rifts

"Project 2025 director Paul Dans: ‘We are in a full-on scrimmage for the future of America First’ -" https://t.co/CNXnifQXXe

[FT Technology News @fttechnews]

The great graduate job drought https://t.co/bbrnEMmDpa

[Germain Lautour 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇦 @GermainLtr]

@Mikaa_BM https://t.co/upj1lMqXeL