Benjamin Wolf 🇺🇦
@benbawan
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Journalist 🗞️ Historian 📚 Writer ✏️ European 🌍 Austrian 🎶 Styrian 🌳 Jedi ☄️ Eldar ✨ Schwoaza ⚽
Wien, Österreich
Joined June 2010
Hear ye, hear ye 🥁🙌 So happy and proud to announce that we won the Jean Monnet Prize for European Integration 2020 for our project “Home Is Where the Herz Is” https://t.co/TEJjHeJkUo Check it out ☺️❤️ https://t.co/eSDcI7gGG3 So proud of our team at @metropole_vie 🤩
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What did we think was going to happen? Just two weeks ago, the United States threatened to withhold arms sales for Ukraine that were *already paid for* by European allies. After a year of policy like that, it's hard to make the case that the United States is reliable.
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Last month Reuters analysts estimated Russian oil and gas revenues were likely to fall by around 35% in November. This has now been confirmed by official Russian government figures.
"The government collected 530.9 billion rubles ($6.8 billion) in oil and gas taxes last month, a 34% drop from the same month a year earlier." https://t.co/Q2xYhbw2Nq
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Clarifying the numbers in the reparations loans: €210 billion: Russian sovereing assets in the EU €185 billion: Russian assets at Euroclear €135 billion: Ukraine's needs for 2026 and 2027 €90 billion: the EU's contribution to these needs €45 billion: the previous G7 loan
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Scotland's productivity has grown faster than any other region or nation of Britain since 1999, which is when devolution started.
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Some European countries are still recording falling joblessness. Ireland had the fourth biggest increase in its rate of unemployment over the year to October. Discussing the slowdown in the Irish economy in my latest @thecurrency column. https://t.co/H5c0RGWBcS
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With one year left for the 🇪🇺 pandemic-era Recovery Fund, more than 40% remains to be absorbed (with the low-hanging fruit long gone). Focus on it has also delayed the absorption of the structural funds. Again shows the issue is not the lack of funds but absorption capacity.
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You can also adapt this prompt to pull in other live information, like transit details. Prompt: Present a clear, 45° top-down isometric miniature 3D scene of the London Underground. At the top-center, place the title "CENTRAL LINE" in bold sans-serif text, a train icon beneath
It seems like a lovely day in London. Use the prompt below on Nano Banana Pro to make cute images of a location with live weather conditions. Make sure you have search grounding enabled to get the current weather.
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It's not quite on the chart, but it remarkable that Europe went from highest debt to GDP ratio of all major economies in the 1990s to soon lowest now in the 2020s.
Major economies are running on leverage like never before: Japan’s government Debt-to-GDP ratio stands at ~215%, the highest among major economies. The US follows with a Debt-to-GDP ratio of ~125%, near its all-time high. European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) debt-to-GDP
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An economist at one of China’s biggest investment banks said the time has come for authorities to allow for more appreciation in the yuan, a decision that would give consumers greater spending power and cool trade tensions
bloomberg.com
An economist at one of China’s biggest investment banks said the time has come for authorities to allow for more appreciation in the yuan, a decision that would give consumers greater spending power...
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On enchaine les bonnes nouvelles dans la French Tech : Mistral vient de nous montrer qu'elle est toujours dans la course, et pas qu'un peu ! 🧠🥖 En particulier, Mistral est leader dans les modèles small (parfait pour du on-device). 🇫🇷
Introducing the Mistral 3 family of models: Frontier intelligence at all sizes. Apache 2.0. Details in 🧵
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It’s a perfect day to announce that I’ve joined Mistral as an AI scientist, when our new flagship model has arrived :). Obviously, I did not contribute to this one, but I have high hopes about the next one :). I am very excited about this opportunity for a few reasons. On the
Introducing the Mistral 3 family of models: Frontier intelligence at all sizes. Apache 2.0. Details in 🧵
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Humanity is at a turning point. I am launching UMA to build general-purpose mobile and humanoid robots from Europe. Proud to start with people I admired for years, and grateful for all your support! Reach out to us @UMA_Robots ❤️
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Attention Brussels. Political risk temperature check. US #LNG went from providing 0% of European gas imports in 2015 to the largest import source in 2025, ahead of both Russia & Norway. By 2030, it's likely to pass Europe's Russian dependency record set in 2018. @ColumbiaUEnergy
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This is really a bad look. Belgium holding out is annoying enough. But EU governments telling Belgium it'll be alright while not willing to give the guarantees is just undermining their credibility. If it'll be alright, there should be no problem to give a guarantee.
The EU remains weak. European governments refuse to grant Belgium unlimited and indefinite guarantees for risks associated with the use of frozen Russian assets, — Politico Belgium continues to demand that the EU fully cover all financial risks, including potential lawsuits
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Gradium is out of stealth to solve voice. We raised $70M and after only 3 months we’re releasing our transcription and synthesis products to power the next generation of voice AI.
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🇫🇷 The French budget deficit narrowed further through October, down €21bn from a year ago. Revenues up, spending down. Still no budget but at least the underlying fiscal situation is not deteriorating.
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