Public affairs, strategic comms and international politics. Currently @PACouncil, former EU in Europe and Africa. Among other things. My views.
Brussels, Belgium
Joined January 2018
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Moving to tears - the EU flag is been brought to the plenary hall of @ua_parliament. To stay.
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🧵 INSIGHT: #Sanctions are losing effectiveness because #Russia is successfully circumventing many of them by using Kazakhstan. They're able to get virtually everything through shell companies setup in Kazakhstan, including tech. Lots of traffic from the West.
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A new Ukrainian version of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt's famous painting "The Kiss" by Solomiya Kovalchuk.
#StandWithUkraine
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Voters in #France should be reminded of this photo before they vote in the first round of the presidential election on Sunday.
If you are in France, please retweet.
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Les pays nordiques, c’est connu, la place du Portugal, de la Belgique, de la France, moins. Regardez le rang des donneurs de leçons anglo-saxons, ça laisse rêveur
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Everyone should watch this. Sky News team comes under fire from Russian forces in Kyiv, despite making it clear they’re journalists.
Two colleagues were hit by bullets - corespondent Stuart Ramsay and Camerman Richie Mocker. They’re lucky to be alive. news.sky.com/story/sky-news-…
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Initially the principal concern was that Putin would take Ukraine easily & move on to attack Nato Europe. Now it seems to be that a cornered Putin will lash out & attack Nato Europe. The more it changes the more it stays the same. The man is the problem. nytimes.com/2022/03/03/us/po…
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Lukashenko, addressing his security council, points to a map of Ukraine that shows what look like planned troop movements, infrastructure targets, and the country divided into four parts
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Grozny, Aleppo. Kharkiv. Putin only knows one way to wage war — kill the innocent. Disgusting.
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Russian forces are shelling residential areas of #Kharkiv with Grad missiles. And they claim that they only target military infrastructure…#russianinvasion
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President @ZelenskyyUa has signed application for the membership of #Ukraine in the European Union.
This is a historic moment!
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Russian billionaires Mikhail Fridman and Oleg Deripaska have broken ranks with the Kremlin and called for an end to Russia's war in Ukraine.
cnn.it/3K2gYIx
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Talked to 🇵🇹 President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. Thanked for the closed sky for Russian planes, support for the decision to disconnect Russia from SWIFT and concrete defense assistance. 🇵🇹 provided weapons, individual protection means & other equipment to 🇺🇦. Together - stronger.
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85h of defence.Intimidation of 🇺🇦 is imprudent. Its impossible to break our defenders,moreover its impossible to make the Kyiv lay down arms.The times are difficult,but it will pass.🇺🇦 will win.We’re already winning.Therefore, we advise the occupiers to go home. It's not too late
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Time for the zoom-out view of Putin ordering the nuclear forces on high alert and it’s one of these again.
The massive tables and evident isolation are rapidly getting less and less funny.
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With Russian nuclear forces placed on alert, war has reached a new, dangerous phase. Up to now we have focused on the risks of Putin prevailing; now we must also face the risks of Putin failing. Escalation-broad use of cyber, attack on NATO, even nuclear use-cannot be ruled out.
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Hard not to wonder to what extent those close to Putin thinking about & maybe even discussing what to do. It is not just that he is leading their country into ruin; they have to consider that their support for Putin will make them hunted war criminals for the rest of their lives.