Robert Condon

Head of Government & Policy Advocacy Europe Middle East & Africa @Ericsson. Views own, thankfully

[Daniel Mulhall @DanMulhall]

This is an instructive map, coming from Tel Aviv University so presumably reliable on this subject. 👇

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

Since a lot of my compatriots seem to have forgotten just why it was we where all so desperately eager to join NATO in 2004 and the EU in 2007, I figured I'd do a thread comparing Romania today with the "sovereign" Romania of 2003, the pre-EU, pre-NATO one.

[François Valentin @Valen10Francois]

I find it so interesting that social mobility in the US is weaker than in the EU but "corporate" mobility is light years ahead

[Brad Setser @Brad_Setser]

China has the capacity to make 50m cars a year (an insane number, global demand is around 90m cars) -- 20m EVs and at least 30m ICE cars (capacity before the EV boom was 43m ICEs). Internal demand is for less than 25m cars.

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[Karl Brophy @KarlBrophy]

Thirteen years ago Micheál Martin called on Michael Lowry to resign from the Dáil after our highest from of public inquiry found his actions to be "profoundly corrupt" to a "breathtaking degree".

[César A. Hidalgo @cesifoti]

The bubbles on the left are US publicly traded companies that are less than 50 years old with a market capitalization of $10B+. The bubbles on the right are the same but for the EU.
Great visual from @amcafee's newsletter.

[Olafstorbeck.ft.com (on bsky.social) @OlafStorbeck]

Before taking on my new job as the FT's European macro man, I was convinced that complaints about Germany's broken economy were mostly business lobbyists' propaganda. I now looked at the facts in detail and am utterly shocked. https://t.co/DjcvrTpCOu

[Stanley Pignal @spignal]

Angela Merkel's memoirs are out next month. This week's Charlemagne revisits her legacy. She led Germany - and thus Europe - as if in a make-believe world, letting it enjoy an extended geopolitical and economic nap from which it still needs to wake up.

https://t.co/wNsXGhMNCM

[Robert Condon @RobertJCondon]

The Nobel for Econsplaining https://t.co/eViTzY3IzH via @ft

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

Not surprising:

83% of enterprises plan to move workloads back to private cloud from public cloud. Source: Barclays CIO Survey

[John O’Brien @jlpobrien]

Countries with the highest GDP per capita in the world and their Actual Individual Consumption per capita (International Comparison Program 2021) https://t.co/Y1xyJ00dQf

[Stanley Pignal @spignal]

FT asks: "Can Europe’s economy ever hope to rival the US again?"

A reminder that once you strip out population and dollar strength (which doesn't impact living standards in Europe), countries in the EU are *converging* with the US, not falling behind. https://t.co/HJ2Qyb2tqo

[Robert Condon @RobertJCondon]

Delighted to speak for ⁦@ericsson⁩ at launch of ⁦@lseconsulting⁩ report with ⁦@leemakiyama⁩ ⁦@Meta⁩ ⁦as metaverse will be built on our 5G technology ⁩ Metaverse4Europe - Unleashing European Innovations for the Metaverse. Metaverse https://t.co/UR3OOxF3Nr

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Here is the forest cover in France.
↳ 18th century vs. 20th century.

Population in France grew from,
30 million → 60 million.

Agricultural intensification is good.
↳ We should have more of it.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

usa buying more from mexico than china

for the first time in two decades (!)

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

Tremendous essay by @j_amesmarriott on the grotesque hypocrisy of private schools affecting to be bastions of equity https://t.co/FgpRllUUnj

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A pediatrician who volunteered at a Gaza hospital describes what it's like there.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: analysis of millions of books published over the centuries suggests western society is shifting away from a culture of progress, and towards one of caution, worry and risk-aversion.

I think this is one of the most important challenges facing us today.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

technology forever changing how we humans interact with each other, exhibit a:

[Sylvain Catherine @sc_cath]

Very big deal. Auten and Splinter’s work, which shows no increase in post-tax/post-transfers income inequality in the US over the last 60 years, is now published in one of the top peer-reviewed econ journals.
The picture below is from The Financial Times article on the topic.