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Camino Mortera

@caminomortera.bsky.social

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Formerly EU affairs for Spain’s Prime Minister. Used to unsuccessfully try to head EU things. Recovering, and aspiring, think tanker. My views only, otherwise they would be interesting.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 15d

Europapa

Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 26d

(As I used to rant about back in Madrid, mostly to deaf ears: to be a leader, you need to have followers.)

Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · 26d

Fair piece, from an informed stand-point. We have been right on a number of issues (NATO’s random baseline target, Palestine, Ukraine), but we have been bad at building alliances, because Spain is still not doing foreign policy well.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Sep 2

About me:

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Aug 26

Tuesday Kigali office

Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Aug 20

Now that I finally got some time to sit down this year, I am at last diving into this. As a Brussels veteran, I’ve been wary to open it. I have always had a complicated relationship with Merkel’s European legacy. Wonder whether this book will help.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Aug 19

It is a (n old) Toyota!

Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Aug 19

Ok, slightly revising this. Drove at rush hour for the first time today and the pixie thing looks like a piece of cake in comparison. More juicy updates like this one coming soon.

Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Aug 18

I moved to Africa. And I am growing out my pixie. No doubts as to which one of the two will be tougher.

Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Aug 18

Rwanda! Come visit!

Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Aug 18

Also - meet my new car, Snake Porn.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Aug 18

I moved to Africa. And I am growing out my pixie. No doubts as to which one of the two will be tougher.

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Aug 16

a cartoon character says where in the world are you right now netflix

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Aug 16

Taking off to a new adventure kind of far away in a few minutes. More news coming soon!

a cartoon of snoopy wearing a green hat and scarf

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Jul 18

Buscando apoyo para mi obsesión con el irritante anuncio de los interruptores, una amiga ingeniera me enseñó este otro. Y ahora me preocupa que la Generación Z no sólo no sepa lo que es un interruptor, sino tampoco de dónde viene la energía fósil.

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Nos transformamos en Moeve

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Jul 7

Agreed. But there is no reforming the Lisbon Treaty.

Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Jul 7

Which one of them? 😉

Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Jul 7

Nah. Democratic deficit PHallacy all the way. Will be taught in History books 😉

Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Jul 7

As if I had ever read any of these two people (one of whom I see often at the schoolgate and yet, curiously, never talk about the democratic deficit phallacy with a ‘PH’)

Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Jul 7

Or a piece on how there are way too many men pulling the strings of power so the democratic deficit is not only a fallacy, but a phallacy. True fact, albeit an unintended one.

Joris Luyendijk @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social · Jul 7

are you writing a piece on how the sui generis supra national / intra governmental thing called the EU is to navigate a world that has gone all binary?

Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Jul 7

I still hope my English is not too limited despite this Freudian slip 😉

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Jul 7

True. Which is even more appalling, because it is a direct translation from French that makes even less sense in other languages.

Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Jul 7

That’s what happens when you all Brits flee X and I have not posted in a while. But, hey - democratic deficit and too many men in power (especially, backstage): democratic deficit phallacy. Does it work?

Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Jul 7

Thanks! I am an X native who went cold turkey early 2024 for work and now needs to come to a social media I don´t understand

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Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Jul 7

And it can even be a phallacy, so it appeals to Gen Z and boost some TikTok algorithm

Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Jul 7

Keep up with me, because I am soon doing one of that awful ✨personal news✨ posts and will be heading to some place where having coined a European political science term that nobody understands will come in handy.

Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social · Jul 7

This is what I have decided, just now, to call the democratic deficit phallacy and you should all be hearing from that in the next few months.