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Lisa O’Carroll
@lisaocarroll.bsky.social
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Guardian correspondent covering international trade from EU persective, also post Brexit affairs and Ireland Former Brussels corr, Brexit corr + former media corr. Find me at [email protected]
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 20h
Let us not forget the journalists killed in the last two years in Gaza. International Federation of Journalists says Israel has "controlled the narrative" throughout and demands that it "lift its media ban and grant foreign reporters independent access to Gaza".
www.ifj.org//media-centr...
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 22h
The EU to match Donald Trump 50% steel tariffs on imports outside quota Quota will also be drastically reduced. Industry commissioner Stephane Sejourne says it had to act as EU industry threatened with "collapse" but UK exporters say it poses "existential threat"

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
EU plan to match Trump steel tariffs spurs ‘existential threat’ to UK steel industry
Alarm sounds over plan in Brussels to double import tariff to 50% with four-fifths of UK exports heading to Europe
www.theguardian.com
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 1d
Yvonne Ridley, journalist on the Global Sumud Flotilla "safe and accounted for", the National in Scotland is reporting. Sources in Foreign Office in the UK told the Guardian reports she had gone missing were "inaccurate".
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 1d
Flotilla detainees:
"Alleged abuses include sleep and medication deprivation, beatings, having automatic rifles pointed at their heads, dogs set upon them, having to sleep on the floor, insults and being made to watch footage of 7 Oct Hamas attacks"

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Gaza flotilla members allege beatings and insults in Israeli detention
Some of those held say guns were pointed at them, they were threatened with dogs and deprived of sleep
www.theguardian.com
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 3d
Must read insiders account of critical NATO meeting with European leaders by Jens Stoltenberg. So many political memoirs pull their punches. This one looks like it does not
“I’m leaving this meeting. There’s no reason for me to be here any more,” Trump said

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘I’m leaving,’ Trump said. ‘There’s no reason to be here any more’: inside the meeting that brought Nato to the brink
Former secretary general Jens Stoltenberg recalls the rollercoaster ride of dealing with Donald Trump – and how close the US president brought the alliance to the point of collapse
www.theguardian.com
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 7d
Devastating take down of Pete Hegseth's address to army top brass yesterday from top to bottom
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Veterans react to Hegseth’s ‘insulting’ address to generals and admirals
Defense secretary’s speech touching on physical fitness and doctrine of lethality was seen as ‘egotistical’ and ‘dangerous’
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 8d
‼️Lammy being pinned by Peston on whether Farage is racist saying EU citizens can stay but he’ll scrap ILR. Lordy. in all this debate is a missing real reason for this: the Withdrawal Act - WA is int law that guarantees EU /Brits rights post Brexit. Breaking that wd b HUGE +prob, end EU Trade deal
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 8d
‼️Lammy being pinned by Peston on whether Farage is racist saying EU citizens can stay but he’ll scrap ILR. Lordy. in all this debate is a missing real reason for this: the Withdrawal Act - WA is int law that guarantees EU /Brits rights post Brexit. Breaking that wd b HUGE +prob, end EU Trade deal.
Act.int
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 9d
European industry chiefs fear Trump will keep adding to list of products (already 400+) that will be subjected to steel tariffs - tables with a bit of steel, windows, household products. etc US consultation on list closing today even though EU deal sealed in July.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
EU industry fears ever-expanding list of ‘derivative’ goods subject to steel tariffs
Europe braces for further damage if products containing metal, such as windows and doors, are added to rolling list
www.theguardian.com
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 9d
Nearly all votes counted in Moldova elections. US votes not in until early morning. PAS, pro Europe party led by Maia Sandu, in the lead.
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 9d
That EU US deal? Business and steel leaders tell of fear that Trump admin will just continue to expand list of products with a a bit of steel in it, will be subjected to punitive tariffs. MEP Bernd Lange says it's hard to tell workers it's a good deal.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
EU industry fears ever-expanding list of ‘derivative’ goods subject to steel tariffs
Europe braces for further damage if products containing metal, such as windows and doors, are added to rolling list
www.theguardian.com
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 9d
Maia Sandy’s PAS pulls ahead in Moldova elections

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Moldova’s ruling pro-European party pulls ahead in pivotal election
PAS leads with 44% of vote in ballot that will decide whether country steers closer to EU or Russia
www.theguardian.com
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 11d
ID card debate in UK is quite something.

Reminded me of this piece I did on app in Ukraine that holds ur passport, tax and way to shop Russian spies.

I did ask team presenting it to E Parl about data privacy and young woman looked at me as if I had two heads.

www.theguardian.com/world/2023/m...
Meet Diia: the Ukrainian app used to do taxes … and report Russian soldiers
Award-winning app initially aimed at helping people access public services is now used for wartime efforts
www.theguardian.com
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 11d
Elections in Moldova on Sunday. The diaspora including an estimated 40,000 in the UK will be critical as Russia floods country and diaspora outlets with offers of money in what former deputy PM Nicu Popescu told me was a "brutal vote buying" operation by Kremlin.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Moldovan diaspora critical in elections as country battles Russian vote-buying, says former minister
Watchdogs say Russia offering overseas voters cash for evidence of voter fraud in possible ploy to declare election rigged
www.theguardian.com
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 12d
ICYMI: UN escalator looks like it was stopped accidentally by Trump's videographer who was walking backwards up the escalator - Newsguard analysis.
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 12d
The US has now formally registered the EU trade deal, agreed on 27 July, on the federal register. EU officials will be going through the tariff codes with fine tooth comb to ensure the agreement is as it was almost 2 months ago.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Implementing Certain Tariff-Related Elements of the U.S.-EU Framework on an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced Trade
On August 21, 2025, the United States and the European Union announced agreement on a Framework on an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced Trade (Framework Agreement). On September 5, 2025, Pre...
www.federalregister.gov
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 13d
Europe turning its back on Musk - Tesla sales down 43% year on year in first eight months of 2025.
Meanwhile sales of Chinese BYD cars rocketing - notice them a lot in Dublin, not so much in the UK.
Full details here in Guardian business blog.

www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
Co-op reveals cyber-attack cost it £80m in profits so far; government ponders support for Jaguar Land Rover suppliers – business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as Co-op reveals hack wiped out £206m of revenue
www.theguardian.com
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 16d
Very good explainer/analysis in FT yesterday on whether Netanyahu will annex parts of West Bank.

www.ft.com/content/def5...
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 16d
Murdochs to be shareholder in TikTok US - Trump www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump says Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch likely part of US TikTok deal
US president tells Fox News ‘a man named Lachlan is involved … that’s a very unusual name, Lachlan Murdoch’
www.theguardian.com
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 16d
I never knew Brenda Fricker’s life was often a matter of survival, a road accident covered up by some political force, health incidents, rape. Here’s Rory Carroll’s interview.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
‘You think rape’s your fault’: Oscar-winner Brenda Fricker on her devastating memoir
She had a zest for life that propelled her to the heights of stage and screen – but behind all this lay a shocking story of violence, grooming and abuse. From her bed, flanked by pills and cigarettes,...
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 16d
I read this book about inside Facebook by Sarah Wynn Williams, who preceded Nick Clegg. Meta claims it was “riddled with false claims”. Now author, said to be on the verge of bankruptcy. She was barred from publicity after Meta court case.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company
Exclusive: Sarah Wynn-Williams faces $50,000 fine every time she breaches order banning her from criticising Meta
www.theguardian.com
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 18d
TikTok Trump deal not done

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Deal to transfer TikTok to US control unresolved despite Trump-Xi call
Trump has said deal is agreed but details remain unclear, while both sides say leaders’ call was positive
www.theguardian.com
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 19d
Lord Dannatt warns over UK govt plans to replace the controversial Legacy Act saying it would be “unacceptable” to take solders in their 60s,70s back to events in the 1970s in NI. tells R4 they were doing duty keeping people safe and keeping NI in UK

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
British and Irish governments to present new Troubles legacy proposals
Framework outlines legislation both sides will need to pass to create agency investigating Troubles-era crimes
www.theguardian.com
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 19d
UK to unveil plans to replace the Legacy Act, a law opposed by all five main political parties in Northern Ireland and a law that triggered a rare interstate case by Ireland against the UK.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
British and Irish governments to unveil new Troubles legacy proposals
Framework outlines legislation both sides will need to pass to create agency investigating Troubles-era crimes
www.theguardian.com
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 19d
Mandelson's stock just dropped again.

Trump says he doesn't know Lord Mandelson.

Asked by Beth Rigby about Lord Mandelson he responds:

"I don't know him actually"

Possible he didn't know his "lord" title
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