Joseph Nasr
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📣 Denmark has decades of experience in making policy and regulation for clean district heat. What can Europe learn from this? 🇩🇰 NEW PAPER ⬇️
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Making Europe’s homes ‘Hygge’: Danish lessons on district heating
Denmark has steadily advanced district heating over decades. RAP explores the lessons policymakers can learn from the nation's experience.
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January 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
📣 Denmark has decades of experience in making policy and regulation for clean district heat. What can Europe learn from this? 🇩🇰 NEW PAPER ⬇️
www.raponline.org/knowledge-ce...
#energysky @regassistproj.bsky.social @janrosenow.bsky.social
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#energysky @regassistproj.bsky.social @janrosenow.bsky.social
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Elon Musk is boosting the AfD. But why is Germany’s mainstream helping him?
Elon Musk is boosting the AfD. But why is Germany’s mainstream helping him?
After years of politicians and media figures normalising far-right ideas, the billionaire’s meddling is falling on fertile ground
When Elon Musk endorsed the far-right Alternative für Deutschland on X as the only party that could “save Germany”, followed…
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January 8, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Elon Musk is boosting the AfD. But why is Germany’s mainstream helping him?
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Emmanuel Macron was the great liberal hope for France and Europe. How did it all go so wrong? | Oliver Haynes
Emmanuel Macron was the great liberal hope for France and Europe. How did it all go so wrong? | Oliver Haynes
The French president’s failures offer an object lesson in what happens when liberalism is stripped of its morality and values
When Emmanuel Macron was first elected in the spring of 2017, we were told that he was the future of liberal pluralism. The BBC…
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January 2, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Emmanuel Macron was the great liberal hope for France and Europe. How did it all go so wrong? | Oliver Haynes
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COLUMN: The olive oil crisis is over.
Extra virgin olive oil wholesale prices have already fallen ~55% from their February record high; retail prices will soon follow. But, and this is a rather large but, all problems aren't solved.
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Extra virgin olive oil wholesale prices have already fallen ~55% from their February record high; retail prices will soon follow. But, and this is a rather large but, all problems aren't solved.
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The Olive Oil Crisis Is Over — But My Fears Aren’t
Prices for the golden commodity are set to drop thanks to a bountiful harvest this year. That doesn’t solve all its problems.
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December 20, 2024 at 8:27 AM
COLUMN: The olive oil crisis is over.
Extra virgin olive oil wholesale prices have already fallen ~55% from their February record high; retail prices will soon follow. But, and this is a rather large but, all problems aren't solved.
@opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Extra virgin olive oil wholesale prices have already fallen ~55% from their February record high; retail prices will soon follow. But, and this is a rather large but, all problems aren't solved.
@opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Inside Aleppo, the city Assad left to rot as a lesson in the price of rising up
Inside Aleppo, the city Assad left to rot as a lesson in the price of rising up
A decade on from the Guardian’s last visit, it is clear war has ripped the city apart – but there are signs of positive change
Bashar al-Assad’s face has been ripped away from posters at the abandoned checkpoint that separates Sheikh Maqsoud, a…
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December 20, 2024 at 7:04 AM
Inside Aleppo, the city Assad left to rot as a lesson in the price of rising up
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Advocaat, cream liqueur, spiced rum … why retro Christmas drinks are back
Advocaat, cream liqueur, spiced rum … why retro Christmas drinks are back
From snowballs to sweet sherry, the Observer’s wine expert picks the delicious seasonal tipples you wouldn’t dream of having at any other time of year
When it comes to the festive period, I’m definitely closer to the “most wonderful time of the year”…
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December 10, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Advocaat, cream liqueur, spiced rum … why retro Christmas drinks are back
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The rebel group that toppled Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad tasked Mohammed Al Bashir to form a transitional government, Syrian television reported
Syria Rebel Group Political Chief to Form Temporary Government
The rebel group that toppled Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad tasked Mohammed Al Bashir to form a transitional government, Syrian television reported.
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December 9, 2024 at 2:12 PM
The rebel group that toppled Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad tasked Mohammed Al Bashir to form a transitional government, Syrian television reported
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A short guide to Syria’s long war
The history to the extraordinary collapse of the Assad regime - and how it feeds into what happens next.
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Read full FT Syria coverage here:
www.ft.com/syrian-crisis
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The history to the extraordinary collapse of the Assad regime - and how it feeds into what happens next.
www.ft.com/content/22a4...
Read full FT Syria coverage here:
www.ft.com/syrian-crisis
@financialtimes.com
A short guide to Syria’s long war
Assad’s fall concludes the arc of ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings that reshaped the region
www.ft.com
December 9, 2024 at 8:22 AM
A short guide to Syria’s long war
The history to the extraordinary collapse of the Assad regime - and how it feeds into what happens next.
www.ft.com/content/22a4...
Read full FT Syria coverage here:
www.ft.com/syrian-crisis
@financialtimes.com
The history to the extraordinary collapse of the Assad regime - and how it feeds into what happens next.
www.ft.com/content/22a4...
Read full FT Syria coverage here:
www.ft.com/syrian-crisis
@financialtimes.com
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"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"
European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
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December 2, 2024 at 3:12 PM
"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"
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French bond yields surpass Greece’s amid budget concerns
https://www.ft.com/content/b7d0280e-1f1f-479f-8f11-372ebf33abbe
https://www.ft.com/content/b7d0280e-1f1f-479f-8f11-372ebf33abbe
French bond yields surpass Greece’s amid budget concerns
Investors fear dispute over planned tax rises and spending cuts could topple government
www.ft.com
November 28, 2024 at 9:04 AM
French bond yields surpass Greece’s amid budget concerns
https://www.ft.com/content/b7d0280e-1f1f-479f-8f11-372ebf33abbe
https://www.ft.com/content/b7d0280e-1f1f-479f-8f11-372ebf33abbe
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This is really interesting: Germany has significantly higher CO2 per capita emissions than France and China but is still dwarfed by the US. Data adjusted for trade and reflecting on domestic consumption. ourworldindata.org/explorers/co...
November 23, 2024 at 12:36 AM
This is really interesting: Germany has significantly higher CO2 per capita emissions than France and China but is still dwarfed by the US. Data adjusted for trade and reflecting on domestic consumption. ourworldindata.org/explorers/co...
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Pakistani capital under lockdown to block rally by Imran Khan supporters
Pakistani capital under lockdown to block rally by Imran Khan supporters
Government shuts down internet, blocks highways and brings in troops to stop protest by former PM’s supporters
Pakistan’s capital was put under lockdown as the government shut down the internet, blocked highways and brought in thousands of police and…
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November 25, 2024 at 9:51 AM
Pakistani capital under lockdown to block rally by Imran Khan supporters
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Who is really escalating the war in Ukraine? It certainly isn’t the west | James Nixey
Who is really escalating the war in Ukraine? It certainly isn’t the west | James Nixey
The policy of the US and Europe remains the same: drip-feeding resources while never giving Ukraine the chance to push Russia out
* James Nixey leads the Russia-Eurasia programme at Chatham House
Even for a country that has been at war for more than…
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November 25, 2024 at 8:04 AM
Who is really escalating the war in Ukraine? It certainly isn’t the west | James Nixey
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Cop29 climate finance deal likely to be followed by equally bitter battles
Cop29 climate finance deal likely to be followed by equally bitter battles
Rich countries still need convincing that giving money to poorer nations is very much in their interests too
It was only on the last scheduled day of two weeks of negotiations at the UN Cop29 climate summit that developed countries put a financial…
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November 25, 2024 at 8:49 AM
Cop29 climate finance deal likely to be followed by equally bitter battles
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Israel's cabinet unanimously voted to sanction Haaretz, the nation's oldest newspaper, citing its critical coverage of the war following the October 7 Hamas attacks and comments by the outlet's publisher calling for sanctions on senior government officials.
Israeli cabinet sanctions country’s oldest newspaper over critical coverage, publisher’s comments | CNN
Israel’s cabinet unanimously voted to sanction the nation’s oldest newspaper, Haaretz, on Sunday citing its critical coverage of the war following the October 7 Hamas attacks and comments by the outle...
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November 25, 2024 at 9:01 AM
Israel's cabinet unanimously voted to sanction Haaretz, the nation's oldest newspaper, citing its critical coverage of the war following the October 7 Hamas attacks and comments by the outlet's publisher calling for sanctions on senior government officials.