Jasna Paro

Journalist

[Sulkhan Metreveli @Sulkhan]

The West humiliated Russia in the 1990s. This war is the consequence.’

I’ve heard this in every language, from every podium. It is history rewritten backwards.

Recall what actually happened to defeated Russia: no occupation. No reparations. No tribunal. It kept its nuclear arsenal and its UN veto. Its debts were forgiven and refinanced. It was handed IMF billions and a seat at the G8 — a club of democracies admitting a wounded autocracy out of hope.

Now recall an actually humiliated nation: Germany, 1945. Occupied. Partitioned. Cities in ash, leaders hanged, guilt taught to its children by law.

Germany became the most peaceful democracy in Europe. Russia became this.

So spare me the humiliation theory. Russia was not humiliated after the Cold War. It was indulged — and it read every kindness as weakness, every gift as tribute.

The grievance was never mistreatment. The grievance was lost dominion.

Empires do not mourn their wounds. They mourn their slaves.

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

BREAKING: US Treasury eases oil sanctions on the Kremlin, allowing Indian refineries to buy the millions of barrels of Russian crude on floating storage until early April (the new rules cover all the oil already loaded in a tanker by March 5, 2026). Massive win for Putin.

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

Update on the evacuation of Europeans from the Gulf:

So far, only Germany, Czechia & Slovakia have communicated evacuation plans for their citizens. They are getting them out of UAE/Qatar/Bahrain/Kuwait via ground transport across the desert to 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia, 🇴🇲Oman & 🇯🇴Jordan, whose airspace is still open.

For some reason the 🇪🇺Commission has not yet triggered the EU Civil Protection Mechanism to coordinate these evacuation efforts so it's every country for themselves for now.

🇫🇷&🇬🇧 have told their stranded citizens to register in a database but have not yet told them what to do.

🇮🇹 evacuated their stranded defence minister (who incredibly decided to take a family vacation to Dubai on Friday night) via a military aircraft, but hasn't helped the stranded Italian civilians.

Heres's a summary of what each country is doing for their citizens from Euractiv. That there is no coordinated European action on this seems like an enormous failure.
https://t.co/K5QZWzWKYL

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

“Where Europe has federated: on trade, on competition, on the single market, on monetary policy, we are respected as a power," said Draghi.

"Where we have not: on defence, on industrial policy, on foreign affairs, we are treated as a loose assembly of middle-sized states, to be divided & dealt with accordingly.”

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

The man who once saved the Eurozone from itself now wants to save the EU from America.

"Power requires Europe to move from confederation to federation,” said Draghi. The EU’s current model of a 27-state confederation with individual veto rights on key issues “does not produce power” but “a group of states . . . each vulnerable to being picked off one by one”.

“We are all in the same position of vulnerability, whether we see it yet or not,” he said. “The old divisions that paralysed us have been overtaken by a common threat. But threat alone will not sustain us. What began in fear must continue in hope.”
https://t.co/14pJfNLnHa

[Gjeraqina Tuhina @gjeraqina]

EU foreign ministers confirmed the appointment of Peter Sorensen as the #EU representative for dialogue between #Kosovo and #Serbia. He will take office on February 1st as the outgoing envoy’s Miroslav #Lajcak mandate expires on January 31st

[Ricardo J. Peraza Tello @rjperazatello]

L.A. (2025)

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

The Mump Oligarchy – A Glossary
1/10. Mump regime. Musk plus Trump. Mu...mp. The real centibillionaire and the fake rich person in the proper order.

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

They've torn down the building with the iconic "The Future is Europe" mural.

Feels quite foreboding.

[Agathe Demarais @AgatheDemarais]

🇮🇪🇫🇮🇦🇹🇵🇹🇮🇹🇩🇪 - Which EU countries would be most affected by US tariffs?
• Ireland, Finland, Austria, Portugal, Italy, Germany are EU states that rely most on US as export market
• Slovenia, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Latvia, Croatia, Romania, Malta (would be least affected by US tariffs

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

Wow

[Timothy Garton Ash @fromTGA]

Tomorrow in Budapest a Germany whose government has just collapsed and a French government dependent on Marine le Pen will be lectured by @PM_ViktorOrban on the virtues of newly elected @realDonaldTrump
while #Ukraine desperately needs all the support we can give.
Ach, Europa.

[Wolfgang Ischinger @ischinger]

@JoeBiden Europeans should always remain grateful for what Joe Biden has done with and for Europe. I appreciate his decision, but I am deeply saddened to see him leave.

[Gjeraqina Tuhina @gjeraqina]

Just 48 hours ago, #Montenegro got a confirmation that it is the next in line for the #EU membership. Then, the parliament of Montenegro voted the Resolution on #Jasenovac.
End of story.
#shootyourselfinthefoot

[Jasna Paro @jasnaparo]

Schengen : posljednje priprema za otkrivanje hrvatske zvjezde na Stupu naroda. RH kao najmlađa clanica ulazii u Spomen park u gradiću Schengenu@vijestihrt

[Stephan Israel @StephanIsrael]

Bad news for Kosovo 🇽🇰(or another example of the EU sabotaging its own goals)

[Jasna Paro @jasnaparo]

Paris-OECD prvi posjet premijera Plenkovica otkako RH ima status kandidata. RH ušla u radno tijelo za suzbijanje korupcije i podmićivanja u medjunarodnim transakcijama@hrtvijesti

[Andrej Plenković @AndrejPlenkovic]

Susret s potpredsjednicom @EU_Commission za demokraciju i demografiju @dubravkasuica u #Bruxelles. Raspravili smo o pomoći 🇪🇺 državama članicama u svladavanju demografskih izazova, što je ključno pitanje za budućnost Hrvatske i Europe.

[Jasna Paro @jasnaparo]

Brugge: F. Mogherini dočeka premjera Plenkovica u College of Europe gdje će održati predavanje “The European Union at the crossroads - Croatia’s experience and priorities”⁦@hrtvijesti⁩

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

Imagine an alternative history where 🇩🇪had kept ethnic German expellees from annexed territories & elsewhere in the East under refugee status for past 70 years, refusing to give them or their children citizenship lest it suggest accepting the loss of land. https://t.co/7MyGXzxBpC