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"I will walk the talk on European values," says Marta Kos, Commissioner-Designate for 🇪🇺 enlargement. Later adding that EU might be the last part of the world to stick and defend to these. Key words of the introductory remarks: merit-based principle, geopolitics, fundamentals,

#FionaHill in POLITICO: "Trump doesn't think of anybody else as individuals. He thinks of people in categories ... Putin and other autocrats do that as well." In such political systems, "you're not an individual. You have no individual rights." politico.com/news/magazine/…

No surprise, alas. This will likely be used on every important issue, to divide the EU, reduce it to impotence … and then walk away from nato in the end. If 🇩🇪🇫🇷🇳🇱 … watch this passively the EU will be reduced to begging Trump on every issue.

Republicans are going to have a 53-47 majority in the Senate, and yet here’s Trump urging the Senate to go into recess so that he can bypass it altogether. In other words, he wants to install folks who couldn’t even get through *that* Senate. It’s going to be a long four years.

Unless Azerbaijan sends a clear signal and releases a significant number of political prisoners, I cannot imagine Azerbaijan returning to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in January.

says 🇪🇺 needs clear results EU enlargement in the next five years

Serious question Guy Verhofstadt NATO is & was the most powerful military alliance in history. This did not require creating a NATO army. Or abolishing unanimity. Despite this, NATO achieved its goals: deterrence. This required, of course, serious national politicians,

“It’s a delight to hear about why it happened from so many people who were so wrong about what was going to happen."

Our Scorecard 2024 is out! What do the Commission assessments reveal? Here are my 4️⃣ points on changes in the past two years since "enlargement is back on the agenda" and 🇪🇺 recognised 🇺🇦🇲🇩🇬🇪 as candidate countries and, along with 🇧🇦, opened accession talks. 1️⃣ GOOD NEWS:

📢  Historic achievement for Montenegro and the Central Bank! 🇲🇪💫 As of today, 🇲🇪 is part of the geographical scope of SEPA payment schemes—the first Western Balkan country to achieve this milestone. Under 🏦 Centralna banka Crne Gore guidance, 🇲🇪 aligned payment systems and

DON'T MISS Mark Galeotti discussing the geopolitics of the Syrian events, esp. as they impact on #Putin, #Russia and #Ukraine on my new podcast from the IWM - #FutureDiscontinuous with co-host Eva Konzett from Falter Magazine. Galeotti at his best tinyurl.com/3dt65es4

Agree. However, keeping chapters [clusters] unopened will also change little—just look at developments since December 2021. The only ‘race’ truly worth attention is the one towards closing chapters and concluding accession negotiations. On that front, with or without opened

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#Syria: Muzinah tonight, near the Krak des Chevaliers (W. #Homs).

Mit einem der "Bilder des Jahres" hat DIE ZEIT für mich gleich auch noch die "Bildunterschrift des Jahres" geliefert: "Auch die Bundeswehr ist beim Hochwasser in Reichertshofen aktiv." Was die wohl machen, wenn sie mal Pause haben?

This photo made my day. Solidarity with #GiselePelicot and all survivors.

It's Christmas, but this is rather time sensitive. Time for #Georgia is running out. Before 29 December EU capitals need to take a clear stance in support of president Salome Zourabichvili, democracy and fair elections. #StopDictatorship Read more: esiweb.org/sites/default/…