Russia has long funded mass atrocities in Ukraine with oil and gas money. Now Ukrainian drones are blowing up Russian oil refineries. My fantasy is that Ukraine defeats Russia, tyranny falls, and Ukraine in its reconstruction becomes the avant-garde of clean energy, disability access, inclusivity.
🇪🇺🏳️🌈⚖️🇭🇺 A legal earthquake - CJEU finds Hungary to have violated EU law on multiple counts with its anti-LGBT+ legislation (as expected) but also for the first time in history, in an EU law-reshaping precedent, finds Hungary to violate Art 2 TEU in a self-standing manner.
Magyar confirms that Netanyahu was lying when saying he was invited to Budapest. Today the incoming PM said that Hungary under him will "have a legal obligation to enforce the ICC rulings and I'm sure [Netanyahu] knows this"
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Don‘t know why. Apologies!
Meanwhile in #Turkey: “People in the outside world think that this is just Turkey being Turkey. It’s not,” said Selim Koru, an analyst. “This is by far the worst it has been since 1950, when the country’s first free and fair elections were held.”
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And now we can report that Péter Szijjártó, who has been accused of leaking sensitive information to Russia, will not attend next week's meeting of EU foreign affairs ministers in Luxembourg.
It would've been his last #FAC before leaving office.
Apart from this, Magyar also thrashed the public broadcaster in a radio and a TV interview, recounting the lies they broadcasted and adding that "the factory of lies" would be closed, and waved at Orbán, reading on the terrace of his office, from the terrace of the office of the Head of State.
👋 More and more Fidesz insiders are jumping from the sinking ship. Suddenly they blame each other, the circumstances, the party leadership, even Viktor Orbán himself. And of course they all claim they “saw it coming” long ago. 🧵
While many member states have been very annoyed by Orban taking the EU hostage through his vetoes, I strongly doubt all members are prepared to give up this privilege themselves ... remember, a move to QMV has to be supported unanimously by all members.
Europe's #gas and #electricity price rises have been modest so far, but we should not expect that to continue if the strait remains closed. #Hormuz
New @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social insight by @elisabettaco.bsky.social and @johnspringford.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/7gKy4VB
Here we go again ... Taco anyone?
Funny how Szijjarto’s line after the leaks was that he’s proud of furthering the Hungarian national interest and there’s nothing wrong with diplomacy with Russia and now suddenly it turns out he needs to shred evidence of his great work.
“Magyar… has also pledged to allow the EU to proceed with its €90bn loan to Ukraine. Kyiv is the biggest winner outside Hungary of this election, while Moscow is the biggest loser…”
This is an important🧵! Worth reading in full.
Such an important day, not only for #Hungary, but for all of #Europe!
Congratulations, dear Hungarians, and thank you!!!
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“László Kovács, a Mogilevich operative … has come forward to give a first-person account of how he personally delivered money on behalf of the Russian Mafia to Sándor Pintér, now Orbán’s Minister of the Interior, then chief of police in Budapest.”
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Anti-Orban concert in Hungary with the audience chanting “Russians, go home”
Day 499 of #GeorgiaProtests!
Unchanged demands: free and fair parliamentary elections and unconditional release of political prisoners.
📷 MOSE
Mustafa Pasha Mosque in Skopje
Old Ottoman caravanserai Kurshumli Han
Street in Skopje old town
The old town of #Skopje offers many gems to discover, from picturesque side streets to the 1492 Mustafa Pasha mosque. But some, like the old Ottoman caravanserai Kurshumli Han, would really benefit it they were carefully reconstructed and made available to the public.
What’s killing NATO isn’t the European refusals to access to US bases, but Trump’s unilateral decision to redefining NATO as a US force-projection tool rather than a collective defense arrangement.
That’s the constitutional coup against the alliance.
Europe didn’t break NATO, Trump did.
Kurt Cobain.
†5 April 1994
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"Wir sahen sogar Anzeichen dafür, dass er die Sichtbarkeitsmechanismen der Plattform, die Algorithmen, nutzte, um seine persönliche Ideologie zu verbreiten, und wir wissen, das ist eine Ideologie, die mit der extremen Rechten übereinstimmt"
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First they fuck it up, single-handedly, without consulting anyone, and now others should clean it all up and deliver what they miserably failed to do? The damage they cause, on so many levels, is mind-boggling.
