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Politicians always find a way to claim victory after defeat... In case you missed it, my first The Brief went out yesterday 👇

In Wallonien, dem französischsprachigen Teil Belgiens, geben Medien rechten Parteien keine Plattform. Wie funktioniert das? Und kann es als Vorbild dienen für den Umgang mit der AfD? @leoniedejonge.bsky.social forscht dazu, wir haben mit ihr gesprochen: uebermedien.de/105993/die-m... (Abo)

My new hobby is editing articles about France's war on porn www.euractiv.com/section/tech...

Curve ball story of the morning from @euractiv.com: Greco-Egyptian relations and a UNESCO listed monastery www.euractiv.com/section/poli...

The first half of 2025 has seen a string of high-profile recruitments to the Euractiv newsroom, bringing together the best of the best from Brussels, Berlin, Barcelona and beyond. Get acquainted with them in our short recap. www.euractiv.com/euractiv-unv...

Favourite story of today at @euractiv.com has to be that from our Porn Reporter @anupriyadatta.bsky.social www.euractiv.com/section/tech... (To be clear: she’s waaayyyy more than a porn reporter, but sometimes the traffic graph tries to convince me otherwise)

Reader feedback is important they said ^^

Looks like the homepage editors at @businessinsider.com are having some fun with the fact 21% of the newsroom have been laid off amid Springer's pivot towards AI...

Schaerbeek on a Sunday morning

Had several methodological nagging thoughts as #Burson presented its 2025 #EUMediaPoll this week. - sample size - Definition of ‘opinion former’ - Notable omissions: Contexte, Bluesky But there was no space for questions on that. Instead an unfocused panel www.euractiv.com/section/poli...

Nicely done Tom! www.euractiv.com/section/econ...

The ECR will decide to exclude their LU member Fernand Kartheiser on the 4th of June. Scoopinho via @wort.lu www.wort.lu/politik/kart...

🚨 HAPPENING TODAY 🚨 🌲 Life Terra Bluesky Chat: an interactive discussion on the future of forest governance and sustainable land use in Europe. Tune in with #LifeTerra on our Bluesky account and join our conversation! [Public Projects Content]

🚀STARTING SOON 🚀 🌲The #LifeTerra Bluesky Chat is ready to take off at 12.30! Join us on our Bluesky account and let’s have a thoughtful conversation about the future of European forests. 🚨 Don’t forget to use the #LifeTerra hashtag and click the “Latest” tab to see the most recent posts.

Trump administration finally responds to large-scale Russian attacks on Ukraine

Kartheiser did go to Moscow - and will be kicked out of the ECR group in the European Parliament "as soon as possible", the group leadership told @wort.lu www.wort.lu/politik/kart...

Published first on Euractiv: the Netherlands is pushing a drive to slam Hungary over anti-LGBT legislation | Scoop by @alexowski.bsky.social & @magnuslundnielsen.bsky.social www.euractiv.com/section/poli...

First article I read this morning, I learned something new. The definition of a “magical negro”. Also within: a note on last week’s event that pit #Politico vs @euractiv.com. It was a strange one to watch, that I couldn’t put into good words. Thankfully, Matt has. www.euractiv.com/section/poli...

Most Dutch energy story ever 🪙 www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1595046/belgians-accused-of-stealing-wind-from-the-dutch/

Ixelles is taking a baby step in the right direction on one of the biggest political issues in Brussels. www.brusselstimes.com/brussels/159... Here’s hoping for Schaerbeek to step up. I.e my commune. I.e the commune with areas so sketchy that binmen refused to work.

Cool angle by @diegoinbxl.bsky.social today on the #deforestation news, which pits the Agri Commissioner against his cousin. www.wort.lu/politik/hans... Also reported on over at @euractiv.com www.euractiv.com/section/agri... :-)

⚡️EU mulls cutting over 20 Russian banks from SWIFT, banning Nord Stream in new sanctions, Bloomberg reports. The new measures under consideration would also include lowering the Group of Seven oil price cap on Russian crude exports from $60 to around $45 per barrel.

I want the “russia’s number 1 enemy” contest to be held like Eurovision

Curious why migrants from Africa would end up on El Hierro and not on one of the several Canary Islands they would have to pass by on the way. Maybe I'm missing something.

guys be like "i know a place" and then take you to the cloudflare AI labyrinth

Delighted with how pretty I looked at the Maastricht half-marathon. Now just need a better pocket situation for my phone.

Started the day with a small success, I passed my Belgian theory test to drive. First time, and with my terrible French. 🥳

🏃‍♂️ Excellent day out with @euractiv.com colleagues running the Maastricht Half Marathon. I achieved a personal best time, and then after a victory beer, we had all you can eat sushi 🍣 🍱 #lekker Starting to die a little less after each of these runs! Maybe it’s good for me after all :-)

Jan: „Wenn Österreich gewinnt, müssen sie eine Stadt verkaufen – Linz vielleicht“ Olli: „Das geht nicht, da kommt die Schokolade her“ Jan: „Das ist Lindt“ #janprixollivision

We have a winner 🇦🇹 Congratulations to Austria's JJ, who has won the 69th Eurovision Song Contest with the song Wasted Love.

Wir bringen euch nicht nur @janboehm.bsky.social und #OlliSchulz als Kommentatoren des Eurovision Song Contests 2025, sondern auch das FM4 ESC-Bingo. PDF zum Download findet ihr hier: ws11.orf.at/tubepreview/...

We're live in St. Jakobshalle 🫶🏻 Join us in Basel as we find a brand-new Eurovision winner 🏆 The Grand Final of the 69th Contest is underway 🥳 www.youtube.com/live/xPSn888...

www.bloomberg.com/news/article... The dream.

25 years isn’t long enough. www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...

Well that's dark

best unicode character is "ꙮ" without a doubt. used one time in a single 15th century manuscript to emphasise "many-eyed seraphim" and unicode thought it was really important that we can type that whenever we want

The European Union is working on its own web index to allow search engines based on the continent to stop relying on Google or Bing for their results. An important step to seriously sidelining those companies.

My new book, The Shortest History of Scandinavia, has been published in Australia by Black Inc. Books. Other editions forthcoming!

The AFCO committee of the @europarl.europa.eu - via a right wing alliance -just killed the idea of Fernand Kartheiser to add Luxembourgish to the list of languages allowed via an amendment of the rules of procedure. The decision will impact similar requests for Catalan www.wort.lu/politik/kart...

DOCUMENT: Kyiv's agri-food sector is bracing for a multi-billion-euro blow as the EU moves to reinstate pre-war trade restrictions in June, according to a draft regulation obtained by Euractiv. www.euractiv.com/section/agri...

Rescued a very sad American surrender sandwich this evening at the Teneo spring reception :-)