After 16 years presiding over #Hungary’s rule-of-law-eroding “illiberal democracy”, during which he tightened the noose on the government, press, judiciary, business & academic life, Viktor #Orban’s been booted out by voters. Unlike his ally #Trump (who endorsed him publicly) Orban conceded defeat.
A hard-hitting cri du coeur from former #French ambassadors against Donald #Trump’s unprovoked and unlawful war of choice against #Iran, and Benjamin #Netanyahu’s devastating assault on #Lebanon. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
And then this happened. #Trump edition.cnn.com/2026/03/31/u...
True to type, Donald #Trump seems poised to wash his hands of the war he started - what Robert Malley, the former lead negotiator in the Obama-era #Iran nuclear deal, calls an illegal, unnecessary and unjustified war. Expect Trump to declare “victory” - and leave others to clean up his mess.
And then this happened. #VotingRights #Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...
The green transition is the path for Europe to break to free from fossil fuels.
The @eib.org Group is on the right track, mobilising investment with speed and scale to bolster competitiveness and security.
My interview with @france24.com @dougdecodes.bsky.social⤵️
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Nadia Calviño, the president of the world’s largest public lender, the #EIB, was a delightful guest on #France24’s Talking Europe show: enlightened, forward-thinking, empathetic, and lucid about the chaotic times we are living through. #Europe #technology #defense #housing f24.my/BpQh
Rogue nation: Under its Socialist prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, #Spain has so far bucked the continental trend towards more overt racism and a mainstreaming of the extreme right. But Le Monde reports it is not immune to the kind of polarization afflicting so many democratic societies. #immigration
And then this happened. #Trump travel.state.gov/content/trav...
Emmanuel Grégoire élu maire de #Paris (Source: Elabe). Rachida Dati n’a pas réussi à faire basculer Paris à droite. #F24
Execrable aptly describes Donald Trump’s inhuman reaction to Robert #Mueller’s death. Here are the reactions of two former (very different) U.S. presidents, one a Democrat, the other, a Republican, as reported by The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/u...
The “enemy of the people” tirades seem to be intensifying. #pressfreedom #journalism www.poynter.org/commentary/2...
Monuments to #Stalin are popping up all over #Russia, including a brand new one to the late dictator in the Moscow metro, the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg reports. #Putin x.com/bbcstever/st...
Welcome back, VOA. #PressFreedom #journalism
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Good to catch up with @karinachabour.bsky.social and @dougdecodes.bsky.social at the @france24.com studios to discuss the @eib.org Group’s role in strengthening Europe’s strategic autonomy: from energy security to tech leadership, security and defence.
Below is the reaction in #Russia’s state-controlled press to “Mr. Nobody against #Putin” winning an #Oscar for Best Documentary. (Nope, I haven’t forgotten the link. There is simply almost no coverage in Russia’s decimated media landscape, where quality #journalism has been all but snuffed out.)
Donald #Trump is now “asking for backup from allies who were largely not consulted about the decision to plunge into the war in the first place,” the #NYTimes reports. A week ago he told Britain’s PM ‘not to bother sending two aircraft carriers to the region because ‘we don’t need them any longer’.”
Standing alongside the visiting #Ukrainian president, Volodymyr #Zelensky, Emmanuel #Macron says it is strange to see #Russia calling for a ceasefire in the Middle East when it obstinately refuses to accept one in Ukraine. #Iran
“Stirling told the BBC that she believed the #UAE had detained people for filming missiles as they “want to maintain the facade that it is safe for tourists". Criticism of the government is illegal in the UAE.” #Iran #FreeSpeech (BBC) www.bbc.com/news/article...
From Merz to Meloni to von der Leyen to Badenoch, Europe's conservatives spent a week cheering on Trump's war in Iran.
They are now backtracking.
Because they realise their citizens are about to go through hell as a result of their Trump appeasement.
But citizens will not forget.
The headline in #France’s leading satirical newspaper: “Under fire from his base and falling in the polls, #Trump turns again to his weapons of mass distraction in #Iran.”
“For #Russia, the surge in #oil prices amounts to an economic windfall at a crucial moment, as the cost of four years of war in #Ukraine threatened to spill over into a domestic economic crisis.” (Politico) www.politico.eu/article/why-...
Malachy Browne and the Visual Investigations team at the #NYTimes is doing some of the most important work in investigative #journalism today. #Iran www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
“This is the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating in the war.” -The Washington Post
Is #Trump’s gambit “in some ways, even more careless and ill-considered than [George W.] Bush’s?” asks Matt Berg in the ‘What a day’ newsletter. #Iran #Mideast
The #Spanish government has objected to an operation that it considers outside of international law, The #NYTimes reports. #Iran #Trump
Roman Sheremeta, an associate professor of economics at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, and a close observer of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, “updated” this 2012 tweet by Donald #Trump.
Standing against regime change: “We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with.” -Then President-elect Donald #Trump, in December 2016, declaring his opposition to U.S. military intervention in foreign countries
