Is @MarionMarechal the next face of the Ecr? Who is the French conservative leader and why does Meloni like her more than Marine Le Pen👇
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"I’m suspicious of those who respond to the suffering of others with tears and dramatic public displays of sympathy. In my experience, the people who behave this way are usually not the ones who have truly suffered". The never boring Žižek strikes again👇
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Elements of @eppgroup.bsky.social warned Manfred Weber against the Austrian coalition. What about your "pro EU, pro Ukraine, pro rule of law"? reminded eastern conservative MEPs to prevent OVP coalition with "pro-Moscow" FPO
The story on @ilfoglio.bsky.social 👇
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🚨Interesting experiment in the #EuropeanParliament. ANSAeuropa learns that to avoid the "empty hemicycle" effect for the 2 topical debates next Tuesday and Wednesday, EP is considering not publishing the speakers list forcing MEPs to stay in while waiting for their turn.
✖️Elon Musk name will not appear in the title of next Tuesday's EP debate on "Foreign interference and distorted algorithms". Epp , Ecr , Patriots and Esn, the groups of the so-called #VenezuelaMajority, opposed the naming of the US tycoon, AnsaEuropa learns.
🚨 Morawiecki has just been elected as the new leader of the ECRparty, taking over from Giorgia Meloni as head of the European Conservative Reformists. Carlo Fidanza, Marion Marechal and George Simion will be the party's vice-presidents
Nato Secretary General @markrutte.bsky.social tells AFET Committee MEPS today that "2% of GDP for defence is nowhere near enough".
However, there's no official record of this meeting. When questioned, Commission spokespersons said they had “no meeting to confirm." Together with
@ilpiotr.bsky.social , I filed a formal information request, only to receive a response stating that:
Von der Giorgia: the story of a friendship and a political alliance from their first meeting to the present day. A duo driven by common interests that will continue as long as their goals remain aligned.
👇Long Format today on @mm-ilfoglio-bot.bsky.social 👇
The Romanian authorities have also rejected the Georgian government's claims that they intervend in their defece
According to this Georgian government tweet, 🇮🇹 is among the countries that have "expressed their position in support of 🇬🇪". A very vague wording, nevertheless we checked if Italy opposed any measures and qualified sources confirmed to us that nothing of the sort happened.
A Ukrainian official said Kyiv was responsible for the assassination of Gen. Igor Kirillov, the chief of Russia’s radioactive, chemical and biological defense forces.
🇺🇦💰🕊️Responding to Greek @ecrgroup.bsky.social MEP Emmanouil Fragkos' Parliamentary question, Commissioner Piotr Serafin today published one of the most up to date and detailed breakdowns of how much EU spent so far to support Ukraine's war against Russia: Total amount: 124 billion euros.
Sergei Lavrov’s arrival at the @OSCE summit in Malta —the first time on EU soil since the war— brought no progress in the peace process, only more tension between Moscow, Washington, and Kyiv.
From Malta for @ansaeuropa
👇 #OSCE #Lavrov #UkraineWar
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At this moment, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, EU High Representative Kaja Kallas and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiga are all in the same place, just a few hundred metres apart. This is the closest we've ever been to a peace summit since 2022.
🚨🇷🇺✈️🇪🇺 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has landed here in Malta. It's his first visit to the EU since the war in Ukraine began. Tomorrow he will address the
#OSCE ministerial summit. His flight avoided the airspace of any other EU country.
🇲🇹Ciao Malta.
I am on the island until Friday for the #OsceMinisterial2024
It's a special summit, as Lavrov will be visiting an EU country for the first time since 2022. Blinken will also be on the island, the two might meet.
If anyone's around, let's chat...
"look all around there's nothing but @bluesky" Jimmy Cliff
"The West and NATO are jointly responsible for the war in Ukraine. The Russians did not want American soldiers near their border, which is understandable. The war broke out because NATO did not want to respect this red line," said #Wagenknecht securing an ovation from the crowd.
At the congress of the Movimento 5 Stelle in Rome today, Giuseppe Conte instead of inviting Manon Aubry and Martin Schirdewan, the leaders of his European group The Left, invited the leader of the German conservative left Sahra Wagenknecht, whose party BSW antagonizes Die Linke.
"Lega will not vote for the new Commission", says @PaoloBorchia to @ilfoglio_it. "Meloni has gone with the 'mainstream', let's see where it takes her", adds the head of the Lega delegation, stressing that the Venezuela majority "is still on the table".
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Here is the coalition pact between @RenewEurope @EPPGroup @TheProgressives. The fate of the pro-EU coalition in Brussels hangs on these two pages.
🚨🇪🇺We have a deal! 🇪🇺🚨
The three centrist old-timers, EPP, S&D and Renew, have agreed on a political platform to lead the EU Parliament for the next five years an unfreeze remaining commissioners.
Euractiv has obtained the draft agreement. Read it here 👇
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🚨 The political group coordinators of the relevant European Parliament committees for the vote on the 6 VPs and Commissioner Varhely have been informed of a possible meeting to unblock the nominations as early as today at 18:00. @ANSAeuropa learns
The Council today appointed João Cravinho @JoaoCravinho
as EU Special Representative (EUSR) for the Sahel. He will take over from the Italian Emanuela Del Re @ecdelre.
European Parliament vice-president @pinapic speaks to @ilfoglio and confirms that @TheProgressives are not "against giving Italy a vice-presidency".Picierno adds that it is Giorgia Meloni, not the left, who is currently making things difficult for Fitto.
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"ArcelorMittal has agreed to transfer ownership of its operations in Kazakhstan to the government following several deadly accidents, including an underground coal mine fire at the weekend that killed at least 44 workers."
Perhaps Rome can learn a thing or two about Ilva from this?
Do #hashtags works on here ?
Landed on this new planet… i hope this became what we all need..