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Diego Velazquez @diegoinbxl.bsky.social · 2h

It's quite tragic that the party who panics about gendern - a legitimate language concern - is the one actually forbidding words.

For my part, I'll continue calling vegan products chicken, steak and salami, because I find dissociating the culinary experience from animal cruelty important.

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juliehaviland2.bsky.social @juliehaviland2.bsky.social · 1d

L'idée de ne plus "faire barrage" parce que Macron n'a pas respecté ceci ou cela, c'est un raisonnement complètement incongru pour moi. Pourquoi faudrait-il se punir des erreurs des autres ?

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Diego Velazquez @diegoinbxl.bsky.social · 1d

I'd ban debates on veggie burgers instead of veggie burgers. This is painful to watch.

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Diego Velazquez @diegoinbxl.bsky.social · 1d

2nd take: Luxembourg's progressive opposition - just as most of Europe's right now - is so weak at articulating political points.

Luxembourgish Socialists and Greens failed at delivering any intelligible message against Luc Frieden on Tuesday.

www.wort.lu/meinung/komm...

Tilly Metz und Marc Angel machen es Luc Frieden zu leicht

Luxemburgs fortschrittliche EU-Abgeordnete schaffen es nicht, den luxemburgischen Premier in die Zange zu nehmen.

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Diego Velazquez @diegoinbxl.bsky.social · 1d

First take on Luc Frieden's speech in the European Parliament:

www.wort.lu/politik/luc-...

Luc Frieden will Montenegro schon 2026 in die EU holen

In einer Grundsatzrede im EU-Parlament bricht der CSV-Premier eine Lanze für die Erweiterungspolitik und für eine Migrationspolitik „mit Herz“.

www.wort.lu

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Diego Velazquez @diegoinbxl.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, I was busy writing: Here is the analysis: www.wort.lu/politik/luc-...

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Diego Velazquez @diegoinbxl.bsky.social · 1d

read the article soon :)

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Diego Velazquez @diegoinbxl.bsky.social · 1d

Even Manfred Weber admits that the Veggie Burger ban is absolute nonsense: "Consumers are not stupid", he said - and "this is not a priority".

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Diego Velazquez @diegoinbxl.bsky.social · 1d

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"El tomate español es IMBATIBLE" Pedro Sánchez

YouTube video by GranCanariaTv.com

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Diego Velazquez @diegoinbxl.bsky.social · 1d

That "he has built a strong left leaning project" - he hasn't built much - but scored a lot indeed. And has survived even more. But if his survival would depend on a right wing turn, he'd do it, too.

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Diego Velazquez @diegoinbxl.bsky.social · 1d

Don't want to spainsplain again. But - except for an extreme short period of time (when podemos and ciudadans emerged) - Spain has always been extremely polarised. The tale of the two Spains is the country's most structuring element in politics.

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Diego Velazquez @diegoinbxl.bsky.social · 1d

Wasn't that my starting point?

Luck, ruthless opportunism, and clever positioning rather than grand strategy.

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Diego Velazquez @diegoinbxl.bsky.social · 1d

The VAR would probably give the recognition credit to Macron (sanchez' rushed recognition had little traction) and the NextGen to Merkron - it was the one time the DE/FR motor actually worked. It's a fun debate, though.

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Diego Velazquez @diegoinbxl.bsky.social · 1d

There are so many buts. Look at eu level: spain is caricatural on Israel, weak on ukraine, sanchez forced the socialists in the EU parl into total submission just to place ribera. In 2019, all he cared about was getting rid of Borrell. His main recent eu initiative was making Basque an off. language

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Diego Velazquez @diegoinbxl.bsky.social · 1d

That might be true, but that doesn't make Sanchez a more principled politician. Don't get me wrong: Spain gets a lot of things right, and it's Sanchez merit that the progressive camp was in power long enough to make it happen. That's his main selling point, IMHO.

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Diego Velazquez @diegoinbxl.bsky.social · 1d

They're a pleasant side effect rather than a deliberate and guiding project. In fine, it doesn't really matter. But Sanchismo is more of a method than a project, IMHO.

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Diego Velazquez @diegoinbxl.bsky.social · 1d

You know I like your witty takes, but this one is just off. Sanchez' resilience is not based on any project. On the contrary, Sanchez' radical opportunism + the emergence of Vox are what make him so resilient.

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Falk Steiner @fsteiner.bsky.social · 2d

Das ist das, worauf jetzt diese ganzen komischen "Merkel gibt Polen und Baltikum Mitschuld an Ukraine-Krieg"-Meldungen basieren.

A) ist das vollkommen irrelevant.
B) ist daran nichts skandalös.
C) man muss nicht auf jeden Baum.

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Marina Weisband @afelia.bsky.social · 2d

Ich schaue nach langer Zeit durchaus wieder mit Optimismus wieder in die Ukraine. Und zwar, weil ihre Kriegsstrategie aufgeht. Weil sie schneller innoviert als Russland. Letztlich, weil sie ein freies Land ist. Und Russland nicht.

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Sacha de Wijs @sachadewijs.bsky.social · 2d

Must-read @ecfr.eu : Putin’s Valdai speech marks a shift. He brands Europe “enemy #1”, vows more military pressure, backs far-right parties & steps up info warfare — while praising Trump as a model.
Europe must reinforce defence and resilience !

ecfr.eu/article/enem...

Enemy number one: What Putin’s foreign policy speech says about Europe

At this year’s Valdai club, Vladimir Putin gave his most anti-EU speech yet, citing his determination to see new anti-establishment politicians to come to power and improve Europe’s relations with…

ecfr.eu

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Nicolas Henin 🇪🇺💙💛 @nicolashenin.net · 2d

Archives du 26 juillet 2024 : Emmanuel Macron écarte l'option d'un gouvernement mené par @luciecastets.bsky.social au nom de "la stabilité institutionnelle".

Emmanuel Macron écarte l'option d'un gouvernement de gauche au nom de "la stabilité institutionnelle" | TF1 INFO

[VIDÉO] Emmanuel Macron a exclu lundi soir l'idée de nommer un Premier ministre issu du Nouveau Front populaire. Les représentants de l'alliance de gauche dénoncent "un coup de force" et appellent à u...

www.tf1info.fr

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Diego Velazquez @diegoinbxl.bsky.social · 2d

What if centrists all missed the obvious: instead of copying the populists' policies - and therewith growing them - they should have copied their methods instead while sticking to their agenda.

I guess "getting tough on migration" just doesn't work for centrists.

Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 2d

If politics are going crazy in several European countries one after the other, I think it is time to go past blaming the failures of individual political actors (and there are quite a few, both in the UK and France) to looking at the systemic pressures our political systems are failing to deal with.

Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 2d

If you are overly focused on the admittedly increasingly batsh*t character of British politics, don‘t neglect the batsh*t character of French politics.

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Diego Velazquez @diegoinbxl.bsky.social · 3d

Great never say die spirit by a very young and injury plagued #rwdm team in the inferno of the kehrweg

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Adriaan Schout @adriaanschout.bsky.social · 4d

2 paradoxen over het Russische geld in BE.
-EU koestert de rechtsorde maar overweegt een loopje met internationale regels
-EU zoekt geopolitieke macht maar schrikt zo andere blokken af om geld te stallen.
Alternatief: betaal steun aan Oekraine zelf & onderhandel later met RUS over vredesvoorwaarden.

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Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 4d

Not enough has been said about how and when the European far-right became "pro-Israel" (meaning: in favor of the far-right policies of the Netanyahu government who in turn embraces these extremists)

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).

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