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When Donald Trump was last president, Viktor Orban had to wait almost three years for his invite to the White House. Will things be different this time? (With thoughts from Zsuzsanna Szelenyi Miklós Szánthó ) thetimes.com/world/europe/a…

Divisive and often polarising character, firmly on right of his party, Merz has promised a new start for Germany, which has struggled with series of political & economic crises since Merkel stepped down in 12/21 after 16 years in power (£)thetimes.com/world/europe/a… By Peter Conradi

Dijon dans les pages de The Times and The Sunday Times ❤️ (Quand j’étais étudiant à Dijon il n’y avait pas encore les tramways, mais j’y suis retourné depuis et le réseau de tram mis en place par François Rebsamen Ville de Dijon Dijon Métropole est effectivement top)

Paris by night

Notre Dame on the eve of its grand reopening

In Notre Dame, waiting for the grand opening ceremony to begin

Amazing Notre Dame tonight

My interview with an amazing man, Don Luigi Ciotti, founder of @libera, who has rescued 50 women from the clutches of the Mafia - and with one of those brave women he helped to start a new life far from the mob thetimes.com/magazines/the-…

A reminder, for those who are confused.

So rare it's worth👏this deepdive article in The Times and The Sunday Times comparing, via Peter Conradi personal experience,🇫🇷&🇬🇧health systems, very favorably for France, without being dewy-eyed about huge problems here too Big change from the usual jingoistic "the world envies our NHS" narrative

I now understand why Emily is no longer in Paris and has headed to Rome (at least in January)

You've seen the picture. Now read how it came about. In an interview in Paris, Regine Mahaux tells me what it's really like to work with MELANIA TRUMP thetimes.com/us/american-po…

Strange, though, that Alice Weidel, the AfD's candidate for chancellor, appears to base herself in Switzerland, rather than the country she hopes to lead - as I explain below thetimes.com/world/europe/a…

Forget Elon Musk French AI (or should that be IA) Mistral Le Chat is getting all the cream

Europeans "control the Nobel peace prize" and if Donald J. Trump wants to earn it then the "peace (in Ukraine) has to be fair". One of the best lines at the Munich Security Conference courtesy of Radek Sikorski #MSC2025

Both Kekius Maximus and JD Vance threw their weight behind the @afd in the run-up to today's German election - and it does not appear to have made any difference. The @afd looks likely to have won almost 20% but that was what the polls put them on before the Maga crowd piled in

Interesting article by @Peter_Contradi on yesterday’s “The Times”, regarding the arrest of #DanielaKlette (66), former member of the RAF: the German equivalent of the Italian “Red Brigate” (#BrigateRosse). Doppelgänger 🦥🪂 you may be interested in reading it.

'A book that shines a spotlight on a part of the world most of us know only from scenes of death and destruction on the television news.' Peter Conradi The Times and The Sunday Times on LIFE IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING: TALES FROM THE UKRAINIAN EAST by Victoria Donovan Thank you! tinyurl.com/2p9t7vbr

Poland, Ipsos: Presidential election, second round today Trzaskowski (PO-EPP): 50.3% (+1.3) Nawrocki (PiS-ECR): 49.7% (-1.3) +/- vs. Last election results ➤ europeelects.eu/poland

But a later poll shows it is Nawrocki who is narrowly ahead. This is going to be very close indeed