Tomasz Wlostowski
@TomWlost
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EU & US trade & regulatory affairs lawyer. Currently in Brussels. Trade, climate, geopolitics, sanctions, foreign affairs, US & EU politics, Russia, Ukraine
Brussels, Belgium
Joined May 2016
Incredible. I did not believe I would see this, but here it is: EU ban on transactions with Russian Central Bank has just been published in the OJ. Hell just froze over.
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✍️ Some things to keep in mind as we barrel toward another conflict: (1) None of this needed to happen. I know people are tired of hearing it, but you can trace a straight line between what’s occurring today and May 2018, when Trump stupidly took the advice of John Bolton and
Good on @ScarboroughNow and the Morning Joe team for interviewing Araghchi. It's crazy that the US is barreling towards war and there is little to no debate about the substance of the diplomatic dispute or why on earth it's necessary to rush to war as soon as this weekend.
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What problem is Trump's new global 10% tariff meant to solve? If it's about leverage, ask: How much leverage do you get from a tariff that disappears in 150 days? If it's onshoring: Who builds new factories based on tariff that disappear before the factory is built? It's a
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The drama and disagreement around the tariff decision makes me think the US should consider actually having a third branch of government to balance out these clashes between executive and the judiciary.
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No deal today on 🇷🇺 sanctions. Discussions continue over weekend and on mon. 🇺🇦
still no 🇪🇺deal on the 🇷🇺 sanctions package - the wording on the maritime ban is still one issue - another is a general 🇭🇺🇸🇰 reserve on the entire package. 🇪🇺 ambassadors return to the issue later this afternoon. 🇺🇦
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Polski rząd chce przejąć bank na Ukrainie? Wyobraźmy to sobie teraz in reverse, np ukraiński lub niemiecki rząd chce przejąć bank w Polsce... Co my na to? 🤔
Polski rząd rozważa wejście na ukraiński rynek bankowy. Według nieoficjalnych informacji polski rząd planuje przejęcie udziałów w jednym z kluczowych ukraińskich banków. Choć za wschodnią granicą trwa wojna, gra toczy się o wejście na rynek z ogromnym potencjałem wzrostu. #bank
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US Supreme Court played a nasty trick on the Iranians. SCOTUS tariff ruling is devastating for Trump's international deal-making, making an attack on Iran much more likely.
The second 🇺🇸 carrier group just passed the Strait of Gibraltar. A 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on 🇮🇷 now looks increasingly likely. There would be no international legality. The aim? The 🇮🇷 nuclear program was already ”obliterated”. Is regime collapse achievable by air strikes? Scenarios for
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Tariff Ruling #SCOTUS is a positive signal for the rule of law. Judges have shown that even an US president does not operate in a legal vacuum. Legal barriers have been set, the era of unlimited, arbitrary tariffs impossible by the President might now be coming to an end (1/2)
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Lets hope the shadows decide not go forward. Lets wait and see how Trump recovers from this.
We must now carefully evaluate ruling&consequences. Therefore I just convened an extraordinary meeting of EP negotiating team @EP_Trade on Turnberry Deal for Monday in order to assess possible implications on the on-going work & in particular in view of the committee vote (2/2)
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No to w Brukseli (a konkretniej w Berlaymont i Charlemagne, gdzie jest DG TRADE), Berlinie i Paryżu strzelają korki od szampaną. Sąd Najwyższy USA unieważnia cła Trumpa.
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Niesamowite. 😀🐔🐤
A Dutch poultry farmer has a laugh that sounds exactly like a chicken. Frederik de Wijk was doing a television interview when a reporter made a joke. The farmer burst into a high-pitched cackle that perfectly mimicked a clucking hen.
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I will admit that @AndrejBabis ruling Hungary was not on my bingo cards for this year, but yet here we are. 🤷♀️
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It is just a reminder of the only fact that matters. We captured Moscow. 🍾 Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Russia demands money from Poland over 17th-century events In response to Warsaw preparing a lawsuit against Moscow for damages caused during the Soviet occupation of Poland, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated that Poland has “still not paid the bills”
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Yes and no. The word "net" makes all the difference. In a way, it makes the word "neutrality" meaningless, allowing the EU to define what this commitment actually means in practice. So at the same time, it makes it possible.
Net-zero by 2050 has “zero point zero chance of happening,” says US Energy Secretary Chris Wright ahead of the biennial IEA ministerial meeting in Paris. (This ministerial meeting will mark a turning point in global energy policy making across industrialised nations)
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What "Assurances aren't 'guarantees" is your best defence, you know you are deep in it.
Amazing how such frivolous nonsense gets so many retweets and likes. The U.S. didn’t guarantee Ukraine anything. Assurances aren’t guarantees. If you can’t bother to read a one-and-a-half page document called the Budapest Memorandum, then you’re not a serious person.
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Point of interest for all EU users using strengthened account verification. 👀
BREAKING: U.S. Department of Homeland Security requests Google, Reddit, Instagram, and Facebook to provide names, phone numbers, and other identifying information of users who criticize ICE.
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