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European Focus has published its last edition – for now! Join us one more time to discover what makes Europe tick. 🇪🇺 This week, our authors discuss the challenges of EU enlargement. Enjoy the read! ⏬ https://t.co/4QvXv2z2Nd
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Hi from Kyiv, Do you remember the new kid at school? Often shy and weird in many ways, with a background you sometimes could not fully understand. Joining a close knit team is challenging for both...
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@hvg @viktoriaserdult @libe @nellydidelot @BalkanInsight @sinisajm @FrancesDiBi @DomaniGiornale @kajakallas @kelomees @DelfiEE This edition was hosted by this week’s editor-in-chief, @UaBabel’s @semyzhenko. For the time being, this was our last issue. The whole team would like to thank you for following our weekly adventures. Please subscribe and see you when we’re back! ⏬ https://t.co/DZ6ZA83zsu
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Connecting Europe in your inbox. Each week, we bring you a newsletter with surprising and informative perspectives on the issues that move Europeans.
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@hvg @viktoriaserdult @libe @nellydidelot @BalkanInsight @sinisajm @FrancesDiBi @DomaniGiornale In an interview with Estonian PM @kajakallas, our author @kelomees of @DelfiEE finds out about #Ukraine's rocky road into the EU ⏬ https://t.co/jRxLI8oVvr
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Estonia's prime minister Kaja Kallas warns that some reforms Ukraine must initiate to join the EU will be unpopular at home. Where would Estonia be now, if we had not had the chance or readiness to...
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@hvg @viktoriaserdult @libe @nellydidelot @BalkanInsight @sinisajm The European Union is only ready to open up to new members if it remains strong from within, notes @FrancesDiBi of @DomaniGiornale ⏬ https://t.co/dMMrb2s2ug
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“We will open the Rule of Law Reports to those accession countries who get up to speed even faster. This will place them on an equal footing with Member States” Ursula von der Leyen In her last State...
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@hvg @viktoriaserdult @libe @nellydidelot @BalkanInsight's @sinisajm is looking for a trick to speed up North Macedonia’s #EU accession ⏬ https://t.co/IkdOMCqT6N
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In last December’s EU summit in Brussels, Germany’s Olaf Scholz pulled a fast one. After a brain-numbing debate on Ukraine’s accession talks, he invited Hungary’s Viktor Orbán to grab a coffee. As...
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@hvg @viktoriaserdult @Libe’s @nellydidelot on populist arguments preventing support for a European constitution in France ⏬ https://t.co/GlxUT0jMbg
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In 2005, the French rejected the adoption of the European Constitution, with a 54.6 percent No vote. The referendum was supposed to be a foregone conclusion. The right and the left campaigned for a...
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After initial euphoria, EU membership is now an ambivalent issue in Hungary, says @hvg’s @viktoriaserdult ⏬ https://t.co/PLwHEwocGN
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"We are home," reads the faded yellow cover of the newspaper I have carefully kept in a box under a shelf for the last 20 years. Its publication date – 1 May 2004 – is symbolic for two reasons: it...
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@BorokaParaszka @hvg_hu @libe @nellydidelot @BalkanInsight @sinisajm @gazeta_wyborcza @Kokot_Michal @tugbatekerek Thanks for reading the 62nd edition of the European Focus, brought to you by this week’s editor-in-chief, @FrancesDiBi of @DomaniGiornale. Every week, we are connecting Europe in your inbox. Subscribe to the newsletter! ⏬ https://t.co/DZ6ZA83zsu
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@BorokaParaszka @hvg_hu @libe @nellydidelot @BalkanInsight @sinisajm @gazeta_wyborcza @Kokot_Michal 🇹🇷 Our new author @tugbatekerek observes how despite all the shocks, #Erdogan clings to power ⏬ https://t.co/rPJuSYkww6
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In the 22 years under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's AK Party, Turkey has suffered an earthquake claiming over 50,000 lives and an ongoing economic crisis which sent inflation to its highest level...
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@BorokaParaszka @hvg_hu @libe @nellydidelot @BalkanInsight @sinisajm 🇵🇱 @gazeta_wyborcza's @Kokot_Michal on the rocky road to restoring the rule of law in Poland ⏬ https://t.co/UzrXPH2HRt
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“I had a choice: to stay on a legislative path that would last months or even years and allow hatred to spill further, or put an end to it.” Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, Polish minister of culture. This...
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@BorokaParaszka @hvg_hu @libe @nellydidelot 🇷🇸 Today’s Serbia reminds @BalkanInsight's @sinisajm of dark times ⏬ https://t.co/zxarlxsSp7
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Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic was a beloved leader to many of his people in the early 1990s. Masses adored his patriotic speeches and melodramatic cries about Serbia against all, and his...
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@BorokaParaszka @hvg_hu 🇫🇷 @Libe’s @nellydidelot tells the story of a French ex-president behind bars ⏬ https://t.co/a3lYe3lldr
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Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has just been sentenced to a year in prison, including a six-month suspended sentence, for illegal campaign financing. In 2012 he spent almost twice as much as...
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🇭🇺 In Hungary, the biggest challenge to Orbán’s power is not the opposition, but chance and his own system. @BorokaParaszka @hvg_hu ⏬ https://t.co/k7sJ2NE91w
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New issue out now! What challenges bring down regimes? A 🧵 on hypocrisy, unwavering autocrats and history repeating itself ⏬ https://t.co/2TAQBi6IAO
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Hi from Rome, When I heard about a Hungarian Fidesz member speaking out against Viktor Orbán’s regime, a question crossed my mind: is there any chance that an authoritarian system can be shaken from...
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@libe @nellydidelot @hvg @viktoriaserdult @BalkanInsight @sinisajm @Kokot_Michal @gazeta_wyborcza @semyzhenko @UaBabel Thanks for reading the 61st edition of the European Focus, facilitated by this week’s editor-in-chief, @Tagesspiegel’s @TRoelcke. Every week, we are connecting Europe in your inbox. Subscribe to the newsletter! ⏬ https://t.co/VrZRQ53XgI
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Connecting Europe in your inbox. Each week, we bring you a newsletter with surprising and informative perspectives on the issues that move Europeans.
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@libe @nellydidelot @hvg @viktoriaserdult @BalkanInsight @sinisajm @Kokot_Michal @gazeta_wyborcza With millions leaving the country, a population of 44 million will be hard to reach for Ukraine, says @semyzhenko from @UaBabel ⏬ https://t.co/Zx94C9mfjo
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"What is cooler than a family of 44 million?" asks a phrase on a mural in central Kyiv. 44 million was the estimated Ukrainian population before Russia's full-scale invasion, and the mural, painted...
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@libe @nellydidelot @hvg @viktoriaserdult @BalkanInsight @sinisajm Poland's new government isn't as liberal as you might think – but its crackdown on migration is exacerbating the country's labour shortage. @Kokot_Michal @gazeta_wyborcza ⏬ https://t.co/Y3excdJyVd
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"I have been strongly opposed to so-called 'forced solidarity' for years, and while I was still head of the European Council," said Donald Tusk at the beginning of this year. The Polish Prime...
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@libe @nellydidelot @hvg @viktoriaserdult Ethnic battles are being fought over population statistics in North Macedonia, finds @BalkanInsight's @sinisajm ⏬ https://t.co/CsCjybnbvF
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I have been a journalist in North Macedonia for 16 years and for two thirds of that time, my work has been hampered by outdated and wrong official data. Up until 2022, when the country finally...
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@libe @nellydidelot Money in exchange for children: Parents in Hungary get 30,000 euros if they have three kids. It's not working out, says @hvg’s @viktoriaserdult ⏬ https://t.co/qFkc2OR5gg
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@Libe’s @nellydidelot on French women's reluctance to meet President Macron’s wishes ⏬ https://t.co/fN222APhBK
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Over the phone, the voice of Léa Marco, 29, sounds confident. “I don’t feel the need to have a child. I feel complete without becoming a mother. I want time for myself.” Almost one in ten French...
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