Senior reporter with @mlexclusive. I like: lobbying tactics, tax transparency, financial regulation, transparency & accountability issues, EU budget, and beers
Brussels, Belgium
Joined October 2012
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Jean Comte retweeted
Heureux que des journalistes et non journalistes découvrent que le reportage, en zone de guerre ou ici, est payé une misère.
Un jour j’ai entendu dire « l’international est un sport de riche ». Pas totalement vrai, pas totalement faux.
Et ça questionne : qui raconte le monde ?
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"Il n'y a plus la part belle qui est faite au reportage dans nos médias, privés comme publics. On a un immense problème de paiement aussi des journalistes pigistes, payés au reportage. Ici à @radiofrance, on est payé 100 euros pour un reportage de guerre" Merci @ArthurSarradin ✊🏼
Rémunération à la pige, peu de protection, frais de terrain à financer seul : le journaliste Arthur Sarradin, prix Albert-Londres du livre pour "Le Nom des ombres. Sortir de l’enfer concentrationnaire syrien", alerte sur la précarisation du reportage dans les médias français.
➡️ radiofrance.fr/franceinter/p…
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Le jour où à 7h50 chez @Ben_Duhamel les auditeurs de @franceinter découvrent par la voix de son correspondant à Beyrouth qu'un reportage radio en zone de guerre pour Radio France est payé 100 Euros brut au reporter correspondant, sans frais couverts. Normal ?
Rémunération à la pige, peu de protection, frais de terrain à financer seul : le journaliste Arthur Sarradin, prix Albert-Londres du livre pour "Le Nom des ombres. Sortir de l’enfer concentrationnaire syrien", alerte sur la précarisation du reportage dans les médias français.
➡️ radiofrance.fr/franceinter/p…
Jean Comte retweeted
“Musk and Trump discussed the Starlink decision in a call soon after the slowdown became public, while the president was campaigning last week, two of the people said. One of the people also claimed Musk and Trump discussed the matter prior to the decision to throttle Starlink.
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Someone has put a “please report leaks” sign in the toilets of the @EUCouncil.
But it’s about water… or is it?
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PM Carney has become ‘the intellectual leader of the free world’: Former foreign affairs minister bnnbloomberg.ca/video/econom…
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Trump Wanted Canada as the 51st State. He Ended Up Pushing It Toward the European Union. nytimes.com/2026/09/16/us/po… via @NYTimes
Terminal zbożowy w Gdyni. Jest wniosek do KE
trojmiasto.pl/biznes/Termina…
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💥 We sat down with @CHansenEU, EU Commissioner for Agriculture, to discuss the impact of this summer’s extreme temperatures on farmers
Five takeaways: 1/ The situation is “rather disastrous”, 2/ There is some flexibility on payments to farmers, but 3/ that won’t be enough 🧵
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I looked at how Commissioner Stéphane Séjourné tries to wield influence in Brussels
I also asked him whether he'd see a conflict of interest if Gabriel Attal were elected 🇫🇷 president. He doesn’t but it would be "up to President" VDL to decide, he says
lopinion.fr/international/st…
Elisa Ferreira, the former EU Commissioner in charge of cohesion policy, is on track to join the ‘Appointment Advisory Committee’ of the European investment bank - a body that provides opinion on candidates for the bank's Management Committee
commission.europa.eu/documen…
Can't wait to read "Exploring the new frontiers of EU Law”, the upcoming book of the EU Commission legal service with a foreword from von der Leyen 😃
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A few years ago, I discovered that during Donald Trump's first presidential term he peppered the IRS with #FOIA requests in an attempt to delay the agency from turning over his tax filings to a congressional committee.
I FOIA'd Trump's FOIAs to IRS
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
This must be the most EU Parliament thing ever: the Conference of Committee Chairs issuing best practices on joint committee procedure 🤓
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Dear @SecRubio,
As a fellow member of the “visa ban club”, I’m glad to see you were allowed to visit China — simply by adjusting one accent in your name.
Would you consider my US visa application under “Terry Breton”? 🎭
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"The U.S. administration has suggested that the troop withdrawal was meant to punish German Chancellor Friedrich Merz for criticizing Washington’s Iran policy. But in fact it punishes the pro-American German middle class"
theatlantic.com/internationa…
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My latest story:
Exclusive: FBI Director Kash Patel has distributed “Ka$h”-branded bottles of bourbon to bureau staff and civilians, multiple people in Patel’s orbit tell @S_Fitzpatrick. theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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EXCLUSIVE: My latest story for @TheAtlantic: theatlantic.com/politics/202…
