Michael Martens
@Andric1961
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Journalist. Tweets mostly in English or auf Deutsch, Иногда по-русски, понекад на српском.
Europe
Joined November 2013
Comments and constructive criticism always welcome. Those who are uninterested in real debates or resort to slurs and insults instead of arguments will be blocked immediately so that they can be among their own kind. Rudeness against anyone will be sorted out as well. You decide.
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The majority of Americans can’t locate Venezuela on this map
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🚨⚡️ Can Venezuelan air defenses repel a U.S. airstrike? 🇻🇪✈️🇷🇺 Venezuela's skies are protected by a layered network of Russian S-300 missiles, mobile Buk systems, and more than 5,000 shoulder-fired rockets. The myth of American air dominance has been shattered by outdated
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Vertragt euch mal, Kinder. Da draußen warten echte Feinde.
Der Großintellektuelle Bahners wünscht sich, dass niemand mehr meine Bücher liest, und ist traurig über die Erkenntnis, dass ich nicht so links bin, wie er es erwartet. Aber was soll ich damit anfangen?
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Does Germany need its own nuclear weapons? Colleague @SchullerKonrad says: It’s time for Europe’s bomb. Ideally together with Britain & France (& Poland & others). But, if necessary also as a 🇩🇪bomb. Indeed. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: https://t.co/0j9AynMlLK
Brauchen wir jetzt die Bombe? Wenn Autokraten die Welt aufteilen, muss man Atommacht sein, um nicht mit aufgeteilt zu werden. Zeit für Europas Bombe. Am besten mit 🇫🇷 & 🇬🇧. Und manche sagen: Notfalls, wenn die zögern, auch 🇩🇪 allein. Mein FAS-Aufmacher:
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Breaking News: President Trump said that the U.S. captured Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan leader, and that he is being flown out of the country. Follow live updates.
nytimes.com
President Trump announced that U.S. forces had carried out “a large scale strike against Venezuela” and were flying President Nicolás Maduro and his wife out of the country. The Trump administration...
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About 64% of Venezuelans living abroad support a U.S. military intervention to depose strongman Nicolás Maduro, while those still in the country are more focused on surviving fast-rising food prices
wsj.com
About 64% of Venezuelans living abroad support a U.S. military intervention to depose Maduro, while those still at home are more focused on surviving fast-rising food prices.
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Good news for Moldova, Ukraine, and the EU. It might seem like a small step, but when you regularly travel to those countries, you understand: It makes life a lot easier. (And cheaper.) Just like SEPA-membership in the banking system.
Welcome Moldova and Ukraine to the EU roaming free area! As of today, you can ‘roam like at home’ because we are preparing a home for you in the European Union. The benefits of our Union bring Europeans across the continent closer together - also ahead of EU accession.
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@cpzok100 @Andric1961 As a Bulgarian this is entirely incorrect. Bulgaria has never been richer and better to live in. Everything gets better each year compared to the Soviet times where the country had 3 bankcruptcies, the intelligentsia was demolished and people left the country at first opportunity
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Agree with @JayinKyiv, even though observing copyrights/mentioning sources (very important in the EU) does not seem to be his strong side, at least not today. For the source and full story: https://t.co/fa0a6ViNd6
Joining the EU has been a magic ticket to prosperity for former Russian satellite states. Even one of the slow performers, Bulgaria is now going vertical. A simple comparison to non-EU Serbia tells the story. This will happen for Ukraine, and it's Putin's nightmare. Ukraine’s
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Bulgaria also enjoys free access to a vast market of more than 450 million people. Serbia does not. No wonder there is no political majority in Bulgaria for leaving the EU, no matter how hard 🇺🇸&🇷🇺 propaganda tries to advocate for it. For more: https://t.co/Nc7zpG8mMu
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Bulgarien ist nun Teil der Eurozone. Doch politisch taumelt der wirtschaftlich schwächste Staat der EU. Bald könnte es die achte Parlamentswahl in fünf Jahren geben.
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As an EU member, Bulgaria also has access to special funds such as the €150 billion 🇪🇺SAFE (Security Action for Europe) program, which, for example, helps co‑finance a €1 billion investment by Rheinmetall. Serbia has no such access.
reuters.com
Bulgaria and European defence giant Rheinmetall on Tuesday sealed a deal worth more than 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) to build a plant that will produce gunpowder and 155-mm artillery shells.
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That’s hardly surprising. Bulgaria has access to the vast structural funds and multi‑billion‑euro special programs such as the 🇪🇺Recovery and Resilience Facility. Serbia does not. https://t.co/NiEOQtKz6L
ec.europa.eu
Today, the Commission has partially greenlighted Bulgaria\'s third payment request for €1.6 billion under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the centrepiece of NextGenerationEU – the...
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Worldbank-Data: GDP per capita of Serbia in 2007: 6081 $. GDP per capita of Bulgaria in 2007: 5888 $. GDP per capita of Serbia in 2024: 13679 $. GDP per capita of Bulgaria in 2024: 17.596 $.
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What Bulgaria’s EU membership means economically becomes clear when compared with its neighbor Serbia, a country of roughly the same size. When Bulgaria joined the EU in 2007, its GDP per capita was below Serbia’s. Today, it stands well above it.
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Once mocked as the “16th Soviet Republic,” Bulgaria used to be desperately poor. But that changed. After joining the EU in 2007 and the Schengen Area 2025, as of today Bulgaria is also a member of the Eurozone. This has made & will make a difference, as figures clearly show. ⬇️
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Back home in the North. Enough for this year. See you back here in 2026, if you want.
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Elon Musk has deleted this tweet. Let's make sure people never forget.
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Romania’s President Nicușor Dan was elected amid high hopes. However, his - at best - ambiguous attitude toward Romania’s murderous involvement in the Holocaust is deeply troubling. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: https://t.co/gVzdK4ihwy
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Wie sich die nicht aufgearbeitete Geschichte eines Tätervolkes rächt: Die Geschichtspolitik des rumänischen Präsidenten Nicușor Dan sorgt für Verstörung.
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“The Germans – a strange society (Gesellschaft). I wouldn’t want to have them as neighbors.” Konrad Adenauer 1966 in Cadenabbia to Golo Mann. (According to Golo Mann). https://t.co/xVgBINnRRg
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