Carl Bildt
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Co-Chair European Council on Foreign Relations @ecfr. Former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden. På svenska på @cbildt.
Joined January 2009
Regrettably leaving Rome 🇮🇹 - it’s always like that - after interesting Balkan conference yesterday and good @ecfr meeting earlier today. Now heading for northern 🇮🇹 for two days. Not too bad either.
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In Rome there was also the meeting of the 🇮🇹 members, as well as heads of @ecfr offices around Europe.
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About to leave Visby 🇸🇪 after most interesting days at the annual Hjalmarsson conference here, and with Rome 🇮🇹 as the final destination of the day.
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PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen 🇬🇱 addressed the 🇪🇺Parliament in Strasbourg and emphasized the importance of the 🇪🇺 🇬🇱 partnership and the potential for further cooperation in a number of areas.
highnorthnews.com
On Wednesday, Greenland's Prime Minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, addressed the EU Parliament in Strasbourg. He emphasized the importance of the partnership with the EU and the potential for further...
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That was a good choice. Perhaps not primarily for peace, but for democracy. And perhaps it would fit into what seems to be a wider Trump 🇺🇸 scheme to get rid of the Maduro regime in 🇻🇪.
BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to
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1/ Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement on the first Phase of Trump's Gaza plan. Nevertheless, the details are still unclear. Yet, our experts @h_lovatt, @jbdacey and @muhammadshehad2 analysed its gaps in the recent papers @ECFRMena 👇 https://t.co/at5paHckhH
ecfr.eu
Trump’s peace plan could finally bring an end to Israel’s destruction of Gaza. But gaps in timing, guarantees, and last-minute Israeli amendments risk failure unless European and Arab states interv...
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Congratulations to 🇫🇮 and @alexstubb for the important agreement to help the 🇺🇸 with its world class ice-breaking technology and experience.
🇫🇮 and 🇺🇸 are breaking the ice — together! Today, President @alexstubb and @POTUS Trump signed an MoU laying the foundation for cooperation between the U.S. Coast Guard and Finland’s world-class icebreaking companies — boosting capabilities and strengthening Arctic security.
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New massive 🇷🇺 attacks this night against primarily the energy supply of 🇺🇦 with the obvious intention of trying to cripple it before the winter.
After massive Russian attack on Kyiv’s energy system, the city’s left bank is plunged into darkness. Water supply disrupted all over, metro short on power. People brace for blackouts.
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An unreliable rumor has that the 🇳🇴 Ambassador in Washington 🇺🇸 has gone in hiding.
nobelpeaceprize.org
The 20205 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday 10 October at 11:00 CEST. Follow the annoncement here.
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Boris Nemtsov would have been 66 years today. He could have been the future of 🇷🇺, and much would have been very different for us all. History will remember him.
Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was killed on this day ten years ago. In 2014, he predicted what Putin’s war with Ukraine would turn Russia into. Take a look.
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The phase one agreement on Gaza ceasefire, hostage and prisoners relief is distinctly good news. Now first must follow a surge of humanitarian aid. And then the tricky political questions must be resolved.
haaretz.com
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To avoid fading into irrelevance, the @UN must transform itself, including by radically reducing its dependence on the US. Read more in a new PS Big Picture, with @carlbildt, @SlaughterAM, @JosephEStiglitz, and others.
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“Strategic stability in Europe's future depends on treating Putin's mortality as a concrete policy challenge for which preparations must begin now.” @RANDCorporation
rand.org
Vladimir Putin turns 73 on Oct. 7. That's old for a Russian, but even if he is fanatical about his health, he cannot continue indefinitely. Strategic stability in Europe's future depends on treating...
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Will Sanae Takaichi as new LDP leader take over as next 🇯🇵 PM, and which political consequences might that have?
japantimes.co.jp
Takaichi is comfortably the most conservative choice the party could have made, if not the most right-leaning leader in recent history.
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Many tricky implementation issues in the Gaza plan. Composition and mandate of the security force clearly one. Governing structure of Palestinians, and their instruments, another, including link with Ramallah. And then the immense cost of rebuilding.
middleeasteye.net
US shifting some military resources from Qatar to Jordan in a sign of deepening military engagement near Israel
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The 🇫🇷 crisis is of course most concerning. A politically unstable and fiscally fragile 🇫🇷 isn’t what 🇪🇺 needs in these days between 🇷🇺 tanks and 🇺🇸 tariffs.
This is getting increasingly hard to follow. Macron has now asked Lecornu, who resigned this morning, to have another go, with a deadline of Wednesday evening. At what exactly is unclear. The Elysée says “a platform of action and stability” for 🇫🇷
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Nästa bokrekommendation - Lars Fredén cyklar längs fronten i Ukraina. Lärorikt och välskrivet.
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First time I come to Sarajevo 🇧🇦 it was war and I come in a 🇺🇳 🇫🇷 armored personal carrier over the Igman mountain in the background. Thirty ears later this feels very distant.
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More than 700 attack drones in the 🇷🇺 onslaught on 🇺🇦 tonight, with many aimed at Lviv in western 🇺🇦.
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