Christian Leffler
@CLefflerEU
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Former Deputy Secretary-General at European External Action Service. Now retired and free to speak my mind 🙂 Views expressed are my own and no one else’s!
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Joined January 2015
RT @SweMFA: Free speech. Honest disagreement. Listening without fear. These are not signs of division – they are signs of a healthy democr….
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Mitigating risks of #climate change to electoral processes, an increasingly important issue. All about planning, training, fallbacks. Innovative approaches to how, where and when to vote if normal processes are disrupted.
Voting in Times of #ClimateChange: how we can maximize the opportunities arising from the growing challenges to elections, for instance to increase public trust in democratic institutions?. Join us in a #StockholmSeries Lecture with Sarah Birch, Professor of Political Science at
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RT @Int_IDEA: 🗳️ 2024 var ett unikt år – aldrig förr har så många gått till valurnorna. Trots detta var året ett bakslag, nya siffror visar….
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Trumpian White House disinformation reaches new heights.
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RT @PIIE: How much revenue would universal US tariff increases generate? After accounting for economic impacts & foreign retaliation:.1….
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Indescribable scenes of evil, gratuitous Russian violence in #Sumy. Does @SteveWitkoff still admire #Putin’s “kindness and intelligence”? Does his carrotface boss @realDonaldTrump still think this is “what anybody would do”, as he said after a similar massive attack a month ago?.
BREAKING: 32 people were killed and more than 80 others injured when two Russian ballistic missiles hit the center of the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy on Sunday morning. President Zelensky condemned the attack — one of the deadliest in Ukraine this year — and called for a
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Ah, the hypocrisy! Lots of bluster, high overall cost to average US consumer, but a cozy exemption for Trump’s tech buddies. Trump exempts phones, computers from his reciprocal tariffs via @politico.
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RT @alexstubb: The best way to stop Russia’s war of aggression is to maximise the pressure on Moscow. I welcome the bipartisan sanctions….
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RT @carlbildt: After stopping all humanitarian aid a week ago 🇮🇱 is now also cutting electricity to Gaza. This not only violates all agreem….
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RT @carlbildt: It’s stunning how much ignorant talk about the prospective 🇺🇦🇺🇸 minerals deal there is. But @CSIS has done a good analysis….
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RT @carlbildt: Today we see Trump 🇺🇸 disrupting the global order of the West by stopping military aid to 🇺🇦 - thus greatly boosting 🇷🇺 aggr….
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Meanwhile in Gaza… Israel ”redefines@ the terms of the ceasefire and phase 2 is delayed, then blockades the entire Gaza strip. International humanitarian law, anyone?.
BREAKING: Israel says it is stopping the entry of all goods and supplies into Gaza.
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RT @kaltoons: After yesterday's embarrassing display in the White House, this cartoon from @economist.com seems even more appropriate. http….
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« An attempt to adopt written conclusion (sic) by the European Council on Ukraine would project an mage of a divided European Union. » Well, @PM_ViktorOrban, who is it who divides Europe? Shame on you!.
💥Scoop: As EU leaders rally around Zelensky in support, I have obtained this fresh letter from Viktor Orbán to António Costa, threatening to obstruct EU unity in support of Ukraine. Hungary is becoming a Trojan horse for Trump after already serving as one for China and Russia.
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I hope King Charles will take a veery long time to find a suitable date for the visit of deranged #carrotface in the #WhiteHouse following the invitation he was no doubt forced to issue.
🚨 NEW: Ukrainian President Zelensky just met with King Charles and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer—who made it crystal clear that the UK stands fully with Ukraine. This is leadership. You stand with democracy. You stand with those under attack. Not the aggressors. 🇬🇧🇺🇦
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The new alliance of shame and infamy.
Look at the 16 other countries that joined 🇷🇺🇺🇸 and voted against the 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇧 resolution condemning the 🇷🇺 aggression! What a list! Is that the way the world now looks?
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Read my latest reflections, and recommendations to @eu_eeas and @EU_Commission, on why #HumanRights and #Democracy are essential to the security agenda and what to do about it.
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This means not just hard security, however necessary and urgent. Also soft security, democracy and fundamental rights. The good news is that this is a lot cheaper (though not less challenging). Both hard and soft investments are necessary to find a way back to sustained security.
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🧵 Europe faces unprecedented security challenges. And not just Europe: the Taiwan straits tensions, the Middle East meltdown, the endless wars in Congo and Sudan, the repression in Venezuela are other examples. So it is right & necessary to invest in security. All aspects!.
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Trump designates himself as the #Deporterinchief. After the Mexicans, Central Americans and anyone else who happens to come in his way in the US, he wants to exile 2 m Palestinians in order to realise his wet dream of a Gazan Riviera. A bad joke if it weren’t such a serious issue.
'We are going to have Gaza, we don't have to buy it. There is nothing to buy. It's a war-torn area, we are going to take it' says US President Donald Trump. He adds his redevelopment plan will bring 'peace and stability to the Middle East'. 📺 Sky 501
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