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Doing amazing things by lunch time (while supporting winning #environment campaigns, organisations and actors) - Transparency registry: http://bit.ly/2JvozAh - powered by loud passionate #music, 🏃🏽 & 🍺
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"Environmental degradation and #climatechange are the key reasons that we are facing the insecurity ahead of us." 👇 an important read from within the #food industry

"@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu's #deregulation agenda is a corporate dream come true: reopening already agreed #EU laws will give corporate lobby groups new opportunities to weaken social and environmental standards in laws that they dislike." 🤦

How much should we care about the #planetarycrisis and #polycrisis, how should we react? Does it matter of you own property, what are your aspirations for the future? Are they optimistic? This is just research in the 🇬🇧 but still the results are applicable across 🇪🇺

The evolution of the protest movement, where next? As the #planetarycrisis intensifies & the political environment becomes more hostile, where is the space for, and purpose of mobilisation?

and so time 🕰️ to put 🇭🇺 out of the 🇪🇺 … enough of #Orban insidious 🐂 💩

👏 the rule of law rules out the likelihood of a #farright president of 🇫🇷 in 2027

JD want my #signal number?

"The French and Germans lead the way, with 53% and 47% respectively expecting life to get worse." and this is fertile ground for the #farright

Fascinating: #orca moving into the #Arctic & preying on other whales

👇 this is seismic and indicates the degree to which #civilsociety and civic participation (and expression) is being squeezed & gagged ✊

Interesting, @eppgroup.bsky.social member state leaders consider leadership of the group of no material importance 🤔

#TonyBlair « the problem is that the radical people aren't sensible, and the sensible people aren't radical » ah, the liars of the 1990s

Why #Ireland 's 🇮🇪 #neutrality is a joke i.e. if we are invaded the 🇬🇧 will defend us; if the 🇬🇧 invades us, the 🇺🇸 will defend us; and if the 🇺🇸 invades us, we are f**cked

Very useful insight into the #Macron #Merz relationship … like who is Anselm Kiefer (my ignorance revealed)

On the eve of #revolution? #planetaryemergency

Does that boost or eclipse 🇪🇺 “competitiveness”?

More homework on the likely next chancellor of #Germany 🇩🇪 #friedrichmerz

Global banking alliance is considering ditching their #climate pledge to limit warming to 1.5C 🤦

a highway to hell #cop30

"#Trump refuses to meet with representatives of the #EU institutions because he does not consider the Union as an interlocutor, but as an economic adversary to be overthrown." - this is a perception at odds with how the EU & its member states see the 🇪🇺, & will result in a lot more shuttle diplomacy

#civilsociety under attack in the 🇪🇺

this is the 💩 that counts

corny but true: the 🇪🇺 is definitely undergoing some serious reconstruction, it is going too slow, we are definitely not united & 🇺🇦 are the colours which count

the evidence shows #wolves 🐺 restore #ecosystems, can we please have some in 🇮🇪 … also can they fix #democracy [actually they can teach us a lot about #society] - @whittledaway.bsky.social

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serendipity: @irishtimes.com celebrating #seaswimming on the day of the next #dublinoceandinner on the theme of the #ocean capacity for #wellbeing 🙏🏽💙🌊 … all welcome, DM me

#gamnechanger and much needed high point in a week of 🦇💩🤪ness ... 🇫🇷 to ban #pfas, next up the 🇪🇺

The more power the #EPP secures the greater the tensions and potential schisms - #Merz #VDL #BTW2025

European #energy & #agriculture investments in Middle East and North Africa mimic extractive neocolonial harm of the past 🤦 via @investigativ.greenpeace.de

When the #farright get together & party 🎉 like it is 1938 🤦 - #history

"This toolbox requires a well-calibrated mix of a better targeted public support from the future CAP, investments into nature-friendly solutions, more economic incentives, tailored advice drawing on advances in research and innovation, and a more agile regulatory environment." stop killing #nature?

"The biggest threat to green policies is the lack of clarity on how to fund it. It comes with enormous costs — not just financial, but also political." 💰💰

"When they ask me what to do now, I answer: I have no idea, but do something." #Draghi exacerbated by the slowness of the 🇪🇺's response to his report and to reality .... is it time 🕘 for a treaty change, and really shale things up?

"Civilised societies depend on institutions. The more complex the society, the more vital those institutions." this is great & valuable wisdom 👇

If fewer eastern German #CDU candidates are elected eastern representation in the new 🇩🇪 coalition will probably decline, “This is a problem because the people in the eastern states will feel they are not represented.” - fuelling claims of disenfranchisement & elite rule e.g. #JDVance #BTW2025

The concerted move to limit and gag peaceful protesting ...

Will this prove to be a #gamechanger for all forms of #toxic #pollution including #PFAS? @clienteartheur.bsky.social

“From Commission staffers “depressed” to see years of work being speedily undone, to Cabinet officials straining for influence under von der Leyen’s centralized working style, the speed and top-down nature of the new deregulation drive has transparency alarm bells ringing in Brussels.” 🤦🏽

“While there is a need to minimise emissions of #PFAS, the chosen approach must ensure the availability of medicines in Europe, and their production here,” the EuropeanFederation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) looks to pressure the @ec.europa.eu into light touch restrictions 🤬

The @ec.europa.eu is feeling a little sensitive in this #Trump age ... go easy on them in as they work through the coming year www.thegoodlobby.eu/wp-content/u...

"our brains 🧠 are wired to constantly seek stimulation, and that modern life, with its never-ending stream of content and stuff, makes it nearly impossible to fight that urge" a #mustread

The seismic election 🗳️ in #Germany 🇩🇪 ... there will be no easy options when it comes to forming a coalition #brandmauer 🔥🧱 #BTW2025

@irishtimes.com exporting #plastic is not a « form » of #waste colonialism, it is unequivocally shameful inexcusable colonialism, in most cases in the form of needless packaging

@silviap.bsky.social "As von der Leyen navigates the next five years, her compass 🧭 must point toward bold #climate and environmental action, not industry appeasement ... [The Clean Industrial Deal] cannot be co-opted by toxic ☠️ interests that prioritize profits over people and the planet 🌎." 🙌

A good interview with @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu in which expresses solidarity with the #environmental #ngo community & questions the motivation of those attacking them … some battle with the College of Commissioners

Where #GreenhouseGas emissions by sector ... #chemicals industry is a bigger emitter than recognise (both in #energy use & as #feedstock)

The Nordic alliance (here 🇸🇪🇳🇴🇫🇮&🇩🇰) and society is very impressive ... not just four heads of state/government being hosted at home by one of them, but they are from different political families 🙌 - are really important demonstration in these febrile times

Peak Nordics. Skön bild från gårdagens middag hemma hos Mette Frederiksen.

One of the more influential people in the world: the Chancellor of #Germany 🇩🇪, so it is worth knowing something about the next one e.g. he was on the board of #chemicals giant 🦖 #BASF (👋 & welcome industry interest)