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The lobbying budgets of the largest European defense companies surged around 40 percent between 2022 and 2023, a data investigation by POLITICO found. 👉 www.politico.eu/article/eu-d...

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Netanyahu is wanted in The Hague for "starvation as a method of warfare and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts" And EU Commissioners are meeting with his Ministers to promote trade.

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Today ursula von der Leyen is announcing a massive militarisation package called ReArm Europe. This will be good news for regimes in the Middle East who are the biggest recipient of EU weapons exports. 📷 military export licenses per destination region @eudiplomacy.bsky.social

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EU: Israel must allow aid into Gaza Israel: No EU: We condemn Hamas www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/israelp...

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"Journalists who, one can only assume, entered the profession inspired by a motivation to tell the truth are repeatedly failing in their duty — not even to pick sides, but to simply call things what they really are." www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

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This is big. The U.S. is now a Russian ally in the UN.

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When you refuse to implement the ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu, you make it impossible to implement the ICC arrest warrant for Putin.

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At 14:30 today, the EU will hold a summit with Israel. This comes as Israel; sends tanks into the West Bank; displaces 40,000 people, withholds 600+ Palestinian hostages, and plans the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. All as an ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu stands. How can we act as if this is normal?

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Who’s the one Irish guy at Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral?

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Roberta Metsola has a once-in-a-lifetime chance to perform a citizen's arrest on a wanted international war criminal

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Tense standoff in the European Parliament today as @left.eu MEPs protested a far-right event which called for the forced expulsion of millions of people from Europe. Nazism is on the rise across Europe, it’s everyone’s responsibility to stand against it.

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Today, Left MEPs stood in front of the room where the far right was holding a xenophobic event. They are discussing "remigration"—a euphemism for forced deportation. Racism has no place in the European Parliament and in the EU. They found us in their way. ✊🏽 #NoPasarán

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Netanyahu is the worst President of the United States yet

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How is the Gaza genocide linked to human rights abuses in Europe? In December, the EU signed a $192m contract with Israeli arms manufacturer IAI for drones that have been tested on Palestinians in Gaza. The EU will use the Israeli drones to target migrants in the Mediterranean.

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Do you ever think of the failed French expedition to Ireland in 1796? If the wind blew a slightly different direction that night we could have had a first President Wolfe Tone.

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European conservatives getting hit by 25% tariffs from the guy they've been cheering on this whole time

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Horribly racist and entirely unfounded reporting in @euractiv.com this week. What is going on over in that media outlet? We cannot fight antisemitism with Islamophobia.

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US thinktank climate science deniers working with rightwingers in EU parliament

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To be fair to Trump, Christianity is radical and left. "Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you [...] You hoarded wealth in the last days. The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields cry out against you." James 5:1-6

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Musk just had a "perfectly square bit of black dirt on his window" media reports

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The debate on Gaza in the European Parliament is painful to watch. EU conservatives really do not see Palestinian people as even human. Here German 'centre-right' Hildegaard Bentele still blaming Palestinians for "teaching their children to hate" while 50,000 Palestinians lie dead in Gaza.

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This, to be clear, is a halving of the EU humanitarian aid for Gaza in 2024 (€238m). Nice post though.

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As welcome news of a ceasefire in Gaza comes through, we must face a hard truth: Europe did nothing to bring an end to the war In fact, we prolonged it.

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It's becoming increasingly clear that Trump, not Biden, is behind the recent progress towards a ceasefire in Gaza. We should now be asking the question: what did Trump offer Netanyahu in return for peace?

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My hope for 2025 is that AI bots make the internet so insufferable that we all just decide to leave it, go outside, and talk to each other.

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The usual 'Transatlantic Partnership' crowd in Brussels have been very quiet since the future leader of NATO has threatened to checks notes invade NATO.

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Spotted at the European Parliament, Brussels.

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Bono got the the Presidential Medal of Freedom because he’s literally the only Irish person left on the planet who hasn’t criticised Biden’s facilitation of genocide

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Italy under Meloni has shifted so far to the right it now borders Turkey

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Thinking of Bethlehem, Palestine today. One of my favourite places on the planet ❤️

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We have to ask ourselves, why are these crimes being reported in Israeli media, but European outlets are entirely unwilling to do the same? This can only be described as genocide. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...

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A must read by Mark O’Connell

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Human Rights Watch have released a detailed report saying what we all know, but our politicians fail to act on - Israel is committing calculated genocide in Gaza. Aided and abetted by Biden, Scholz and Starmer.

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Israeli media: "decision to close the Israeli embassy in Ireland reflects the insanity of the Netanyahu government." www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...

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Perhaps the single most admired European official in Brussels? Ombudsman Emily O'Reilly gives her final speech to the European Parliament. She took on EU opacity, human rights abuses in the Mediterranean, and she emboldened the office of the Ombudsman. She will be missed.

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Israel to close Dublin embassy over extreme anti-genocide policies

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Hometown looking great 😍

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One of my favourite facades in Brussels - the house dedicated to those who built it

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Why does this sound like a punishment

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About once in a week I tune into Irish radio to see what’s going on in the homeland. So this morning, peak listenership, I turned on RTÉ Radio 1. An entire segment explaining what the flu is 😃

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"...a common pattern in progressive Israeli spaces is that Palestinians can provide labor, translation, lived experience and trauma to feed the analysis of Israelis, but cannot be equal partners" - former chair of Amnesty Israel forward.com/opinion/6813...

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Solidarity runs out fast in the EU these days huh "Austria, where 100,000 Syrians reside, announced plans to launch a return and deportation program. Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Sweden and the U.K. are all pausing asylum applications." www.politico.eu/newsletter/b...