" #Sánchez could be eyeing a future role in #Brussels, potentially challenging European Council President António Costa when the post comes up for mid-term review in 2027, the official said." #gameon, and Alexander Stubb as @ec.europa.eu President
why is their little investigation of why? or why a similar demographic shift is happening elsewhere? @healthandenv.bsky.social #plasticdetox
"For Beijing 🇨🇳, the question will be whether #Magyar seeks to sacrifice this lucrative investment to burnish his European credentials."
"In a state where access to services, infrastructure, and basic economic viability is shrinking, everybody is acting in self-interest, whether they admit it or not! The Irish economy, despite the massive wealth, has become zero-sum for most. So out of necessity, everybody must be selfish." #yikes
"#Ireland 🇮🇪 is still… considerably shitter at most things than our #EU 🇪🇺 peers." it is seriously time ⏱️ to get our 💩 together, enough of this 💩, this celebration of high priced mediocracy needs to end www.butthistime.com/p/mind-the-gap
we are excited to welcome you
The excitement is growing: next Tuesday, Apr. 14, a #dublinoceandinner with @blueactionfund.org and Irish Aid exploring the intersection between #ocean conservation & development - there are still seats at the table, join us ...
Europe's 🇪🇺 #development dilemma, "China 🇨🇳 has dispensed with conditionality and arrived with cash and concrete. Russia 🇷🇺 has traded mercenaries for influence and media platforms for narratives." - what's our play?
So the United States 🇺🇸 made an agreement with Belarus 🇧🇾 some weeks ago that included increased fertiliser exports to alleviate the #Iran #war apnews.com/article/trea...
" #China 🇨🇳 offered more than $70mn in funding for #ocean protection." #highseas Treaty implementation emerges as a multilateral vacuum China is seeking to fill, it could start by lifting its opposition to Southern Ocean protection #CCAMLR
www.ft.com/content/d631...
And support for the #farright continues to grow, although for the time being left leaning parties are still hanging to cobble together coalition governments, while far right ones are struggling to do so
This is an important piece on shifting #politics in the 🇪🇺, including the continued decline in centre left parties, "Europe’s #socialdemocratic parties are collapsing — and their leaders don’t seem to know how to reverse the trend." www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Diplomacy with the crazies in the White House, "We are doing the best we can to end the war. If you think you can do it better, go ahead. We will step aside", "the best" = waging wars across the globe which only emboldens #Putin www.axios.com/2026/03/28/r...
While one hegemon 🇺🇸 was waging #war and causing global havoc, another 🇨🇳 was quietly debating a five year plan, including to boost #coal use contrary to its professed #climateaction ...
"The impact on the global #food system caused by the Iran #war could be even bigger than the crisis triggered by Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, experts say." 😬
"Brussels [@ec.europa.eu] has never taken a member state to task for failing to enforce Article 39 of the IUU regulation – the provision requiring member states to “take appropriate action” against their nationals for illegal #fishing." that is 💩 & confirms the need for full implementation
"We will also need to think more in the coming years about where we have superfluous regulations that make our lives difficult and curtail our competitiveness." sounds familiar? It is #AngelaMerkel from 2017
"The 🇪🇺 thus needs to learn to concentrate more on the truly important challenges, that is, on #competitiveness, jobs, internal security and international security ..." www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/serv...
and soon to be with the #dublinoceandinner crowd
Beautifully images which illustrate the realities and drivers of the #Ukraine #Russia #war by @infobeautiful.bsky.social informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio...
“Some argue she’s stepped into a vacuum left by weakened governments in Paris and Berlin and, with the Franco-German engine faltering, has emerged as Europe’s de facto interlocutor with Donald Trump.” @corporateeurope.org to consider for the next invite to @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
“During times like these, method matters as much as substance. #Europe will not deliver such an ambitious agenda without a decision-making process designed to produce convergence at the highest political level.” #trudat
Fertility has dropped 50 percent in 50 years ... so in another 560 years 🤔, it is hardy to overstate the risk posed by toxic #chemicals - #plasticdetox
“They say that five percent of what is produced in these large plants comes from #plastic waste. And they want this to be considered almost exclusively as recycled content. We must prevent greenwashing. This is a big battle,” #plasticdetox
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu 👇🏽
Beautiful celebration of #ocean 💙 life in the @irishtimes.com
#goodnews: bison 🦬 are back and increasing in number in #Europe, did we ever have them in #Ireland @whittledaway.bsky.social? europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/europea...
"“We are on the brink of … a potential systemic change and a systemic crisis,” Anastasia Nesvetailova, director of the U.N. Organisation for Trade and Development (UNCTAD), told Follow the Money. “And I’m warning: my personal view is that we are overdue for a financial correction.” " 😬 #foodsystems
