Jack Parrock
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This really is quite something. Wait for the total admonishment of Hungary’s Viktor Orban.
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A crowd has climbed onto the statue of colonial King Léopold II in
#Brussels
chanting “murderer” and waving the flag of the Democratic Republic of Congo where his atrocities took place.
#DRC
🇨🇩
#BlackLivesMatter
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#Antwerp
authorities have removed a statue of colonial Belgian King Leopold II after the weekend’s
#BlackLivesMatter
protest. The campaign to remove all of them continues.
#DRC
#KingLeopoldII
#Belgium
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Many thousands on the streets of Warsaw today supporting the opposition coalition in their “Million Hearts March” led by Donald Tusk.
The election here in Poland in two weeks is being fought in a bitter campaign between the two sides.
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As Ukrainian President Zelensky walks up for the family photo with EU leaders in Brussels, they all seem to clap, apart from one: Hungary’s Viktor Orban.
#EUCO
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I'm not being funny but
@Xavier_Bettel
is the friend we all need. Look how much he cares about whatever
@JunckerEU
is sad about :(
#EUCO
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The second package I’ve had delivered from the U.K. since the new year which I’ve had to pay import taxes on. This one is €45 on something which cost €81. Reality is people are going to start checking to make sure things they order online aren’t coming from Britain...
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“Zostajemy” the Poles chant in Warsaw tonight.
“Let’s stay” in the European Union.
Recent polls suggest 89% of the people in Poland believe remaining in the EU is the right thing to do.
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I’m just going to come out and say what everyone is already thinking: Harry’s House is the best album of the year and if he doesn’t win the
#MercuryPrize
it’ll be an absolute travesty.
@Harry_Styles
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SCOOP: Big moves for 🇺🇦, 🇬🇪 & 🇲🇩 accession as Brussels outlines timetable.
EU Commission says opinions on the applications by Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova should be delivered to EU leaders at the summit of June 24-25.
Per internal EU document seen by me. -1-
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen such an anticlimactic
#Eurovision
win ever.
Overwhelming public support for Finland. Sometimes it’s better to be loved than to win eh.
#chachacha
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BREAKING: New statement from Brussels police says TWO OTHER people attending the sex party invoked diplomatic immunity.
They say MEP József Szájer fled the scene, was apprehended with blood on his hands, and they found narcotics in his backpack.
But WHO are the other two?!
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NEW: EU home affairs ministers are unable to find unanimity to agree on Schengen access for 🇭🇷🇷🇴🇧🇬.They’re now breaking up for separate negotiations.
I’m hearing Germany and Lux are threatening to block Croatia’s access if vetos aren’t lifted against Bulgaria and Romania.
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“I came to congratulate a man who just got re-elected without opposition. I dream of that some day” says
@POTUS
standing next to
@eucopresident
Charles Michel who just got reappointed as EU Council President with no one else putting themselves forward.
Biden gets Brussels then.
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@ABC
You should take this video down. It's misleading. Fireworks in London around Nov 5th are for Guy Fawkes night are about that, not the US president.
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The lateral flow COVID tests we have to do every day at the
#G7
summit are “Made in China”. 🇨🇳
Western powers still need a bit of help from the East.
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Confirmation from NATO officials - Poland has NOT officially invoked Article 4 of the NATO treaties.
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Spent the whole time since
@GaryLineker
said about it trying to remember the 9 countries which start and end with A. Got them all finally.
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Massive cheers from half of the European Parliament's ENVI committee who managed to get exactly the 44 of 88 votes needed to prevent an EPP-led plan to take the EU's Nature Restoration Law off the table.
The proposal survives.
High drama in EU politics today.
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BREAK: Eva Kaili was present at the European Parliament’s LIBE committee on Dec 1 when they were voting on a controversial visa liberalisation file for Qatar and Kuwait.
She voted in favour.
She is not a member of that committee.
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Just spotted this door on the side of the
@EU_Commission
Berlaymont which opens onto nothing but a drop. Is it where they push the interns who arrive and can only speak two languages out of?
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“No. We will not pay in rubles” said Bulgarian energy minister Asen Vasiliev in response to my question “are the any circumstances you would ever pay for gas in rubles” since Moscow has cut Bulgaria off.
@vonderleyen
just warned it would be a breach of sanctions to pay in rubles
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📰 READ: EU’s Josep Borrell takes pension from European Parliament fund at risk of needing a taxpayer bailout which earning £200k a year as HRVP. Mine in
@thetimes
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There’s an actual rainbow over Strasbourg this evening ahead of the debate and vote in the European Parliament on Hungary’s anti-LGBT law in the coming couple of days. 🌈
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@BBCMaryam
@cleanfeed_ttvr
Anyone who didn't smile watching this should question their own sense of humour. Thanks for the laugh on a cold grey morning.
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As EU leaders meet in Brussels, Ukrainians and supporters gather to demand action to counter Russia’s invasion.
#Ukraine
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The future king, Prince William expresses support for President Zelenskyy in the war against Russia.
In October 2020 we had the privilege to meet President Zelenskyy and the First Lady to learn of their hope and optimism for Ukraine’s future.
Today we stand with the President and all of Ukraine’s people as they bravely fight for that future 🇺🇦 W & C
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"We just need our British friends to do their job. The protocol is the one and only solution to solve the question on the Island of Ireland", EU Commission President
@vonderleyen
told me during our exclusive interview for
@euronews
at the
#G7
.
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Thousands of school students have walked out for the third week in a row here in
#Brussels
calling on governments around the world to do more to tackle climate change.
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"How hard would I have to pray to make you gay?"
'You're a disgrace.'
James O'Brien clashes with a church pastor who says he'll pray for gay people to 'help them overcome' homosexual feelings.
@mrjamesob
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Salvini chooses a photo of Putin, a
#MAGA
hat (Trump) and a depiction of Jesus as his background for today’s
#EUelections2019
tweet...
#TheCube
@euronews
#EP2019
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Borrell after he makes another controversial public statement.
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BREAKING: The EU Commission will propose a big move forward for the accession process for
#Albania
🇦🇱.
Sources tell me Commission will recommend holding the first Inter-Governmental Conference at the June summit of EU leaders.
EU countries will then choose whether to approve.
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There’s no other city in the world like Istanbul. What a place 🇹🇷
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BREAKING: EU countries have now voted in favour of Croatia’s bid to join the border-free Schengen area.
That vote was separated from the ones for Bulgaria and Romania.
I understand those votes will return a negative result.
Croatia will enter Schengen starting from 1.1.2023.
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While King Philippe hasn't given a full apology, he is the first Belgian King to express any kind of regret for the atrocities conducted on Congolese people. Many who live here in Belgium believe the Democratic Republic of Congo should be paid reparations for the crimes.
The King's great, great uncle is King Leopold II. Known by some as the king who built Belgium, but history records his butchery of around 10 million people in the "Congo Free State". A petition to remove all
#LeopoldII
has statues has over 82k names.
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Members and staff from the European Parliament stand for one minute’s silence outside the house in Brussels to mark the passing of President David
#Sassoli
who died overnight.
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#Ukraine
President
@ZelenskyyUa
arrives at the European Parliament in Brussels as part of his whistle stop tour of Europe’s capitals.
He’s attending the
#EUCO
summit of EU leaders later.
I’ve been in Brussels a long time and never seen a frenzy quite like this.
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Life’s funny sometimes. You wake up one day and all of a sudden you’re a
@Harry_Styles
fan...
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I finished reading Ayn Rand’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’ this morning.
Everyone told me not to bother reading it. But I’m hard headed and thought it would be important. So I trudged through 1170 pages.
Huge regret. What a waste of my life.
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EXLCUSIVE: EU Commission "could make a distinction between Moldova/Ukraine and Georgia whereby only the first two would be granted [EU] candidate status".
This is from an internal EU document I've got my hands on for
@dwnews
.
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A rare sight at EU Council summits in Brussels - fashion.
#EUCO
The Slovenian PM Robert Golob’s right hand woman was serving a look this morning.
(She deserved the red carpet imho)
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Trump supporters bringing down the US flag to replace it with a Trump election campaign banner.
Several people got on to a scaffolding outside Senate, took it to second floor, which looked like the area where McConnell’s office is located, and started banging on windows
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@ranvir01
@pernicegiovann1
In all the years I’ve been watching strictly (and as a ballroom and Latin dancer myself), I think this is my favourite dance I’ve ever seen on the show. Looked like something you might seen on a competitive ballroom floor - a dancer’s dance. Backing you for the win!!!!!
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SCOOP: EU sources telling me Slovenian PM
@JJansaSDS
is not being allowed to speak at Sunday’s launch event for the Conference on the Future of Europe at the insistence of
@guyverhofstadt
. Jansa’s team has been calling around Europe all week to try to get a speaking slot appaz.
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After a tip off from
@lucyhough33
that there were spare Pfizer vaccine doses going at the medical centre in Forest, Brussels, I thought I’d hotfoot down and check it out.
This shot mainly means I should be able to go and see my family in June and that’s making me burst.
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BREAKING: EU Commission President
@vonderleyen
signals she is prepared to launch infringement proceedings against her native Germany over the country’s constitutional court’s ruling on the
@ecb
’s quantitative easing programme.
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If you wanted an indication of the elitist nature of Brussels and the EU crowd, today’s
@EU_Commission
midday briefing which has been dominated by questions about ski resorts and how people’s holidays on the pistes will be affected, would be a good place to start...
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Britain leaving the Erasmus programme is “a choice of the British government” says
@MichelBarnier
.
#BrexitDeal
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CONFIRMED: European Parliament Vice-President (now former) Eva
#Kaili
is being held in Haren Prison on the outskirts of Brussels, according to the Belgian Federal Prosecutors office.
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The King's great, great uncle is King Leopold II. Known by some as the king who built Belgium, but history records his butchery of around 10 million people in the "Congo Free State". A petition to remove all
#LeopoldII
has statues has over 82k names.
King Philippe of the Belgians 🇧🇪 has expressed “deepest regret” for his country’s colonial past on the 60th anniversary of the independence of the Democratic Republic of Congo 🇨🇩.
Not a full apology but a major shift from the palace.
#Leopoldmustfall
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When will
@vonderleyen
realise that she needs to talk to the whole of the EU and not just go on German TV/Radio.
Our ZDF colleagues are great, but this is not just a national issue.
Wann wird Europa Großbritannien und die USA eingeholt haben beim Impfen?
Antworten von
@vonderleyen
im ZDF heute-journal um 21.45h
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⚖️
#Mladic
conviction UPHELD.
🏛 Case closed. The “Butcher of Bosnia” will now spend the rest of his life in prison.
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The monument in Place Luxembourg in Brussels has been destroyed by the farmers protesting today.
It represented a steel worker and was meant to stand for the same kinds of values the demonstrators are calling for.
#ixelles
Une des sculptures historiques (1871 ) de la place du Luxembourg a été démontée par les agriculteurs et mise au feu. Elle représente un ouvrier sidérurgiste.
D'un point de vue patrimonial, c'est irréparable. D'un point de vue symbolique, c'est à pleurer
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One young man has been injured in a knife attack at Schuman station in Brussels.
The attacker has been arrested by police as per the picture.
Witnesses say he started the attack on a metro train and then ran through the station even attempting to attack a woman with a pram.
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Russian Ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev covered in red paint in Warsaw.
100s of protesters met him at the soviet soldiers cemetery where he went to mark Russian victory day over the Nazis.
The crowd chants “fascist” and “murderer” at him.
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Belgium isn’t doing so bad in the ‘fully vaccinated’ race. And frankly that’s the one you really want to win.
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Where else was I going to stay to cover the Dutch elections?! 👑🦠🇳🇱
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So this is the drainpipe MEP Jozsef Szajer climbed down to try and escape police last Friday after the infamous sex party in Brussels. Very Spider-Man. 🎥:
@EuroSandor
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Anti-Iranian regime protesters calling on
#EU
member states to close the Iranian embassies in their capital.
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@adilray
How did sportsmanship die so quickly in England? Growing up my sports teachers and club captains drilled into us how to win and lose well. This booing free-for-all is a proper disgrace to ourselves.
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While the headlines are all about the Ukraine accession talks opening, granting Georgia EU membership candidate status is absolutely huge for them.
🇬🇪🇪🇺flags in Brussels at the concert of the Georgian National Ballet
#Sukhishvili
, on this historic day!🇬🇪🇪🇺
#europaliageoergia
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Look what we made him do!
EU Commission VP Schinas comes out as a Swiftie and asks her not to leave a Blank Space in Europe in her calls for young people to participate in upcoming elections.
But which European stars would have the kind of power
@taylorswift13
does?
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This is major front page news here in Belgium. 🇧🇪 The King
@MonarchieBe
wrote to the president of the Democractic Republic of Congo 🇨🇩 Felix Tshisekedi expressing regret for the acts of cruelty of colonial occupation.
#LeopoldMustFall
#BlackLivesMatter
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Learned 2 big lessons today:
1. Presenting the news is really fun.
2. It is REALLY hard.
Massive thanks to
@euronews
for making a lifelong dream of mine come true and to
@helendoyle10
and
@mikaelabarwick
for holding my hand through my first stab at the holding desk.
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WATCH:
@lukasmandl
says talking about border changes in the Balkans is “putting the cart before the horse”. He spoke to me on
@euronews
The Bridge during
#Kosovo
PM Kurti’s visit to Brussels.
(Rough cut vid)
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The Ever Given is afloat again with clear water on either side of it. The blockage is over but the ramifications on global trade will last for a long time after the week long halt on traffic through the Suez Canal.
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Quite astonishing language used by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban [even for him] who says his country has been "legally raped" in the negotations on the EU's plans to tackle migration.
He made the comments on the way into the informal EU leaders summit in Grenada.
#EUCO
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BREAKING:
@EMA_News
chief says there is a "clear scientific conclusion" that the AstraZeneca shot is a "safe and effective vaccine" following an investigation of an expert panel into allegations it was causing blood clots.
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Rainbow flag flying on the Belgian federal Parliament building. Not many countries in the world where you’ll see that 🏳️🌈
In ons land is er geen plaats voor haat. Love wins. 🏳️🌈
Pas de place pour la haine dans notre pays. Love wins. 🏳️🌈
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SCCOP: Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova are also receiving three questionnaires imminently, one on political criteria, one on economic criteria, and one on regional cooperation. -2-
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Migrant or Expat? New unofficial signage in Schuman station in
#Brussels
. (Note direction of motion of escalators leading up to the
@EU_Commission
)
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SCOOP: The EU Commission believes its opinions on the candidate applications by Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova need to be drafted in May and adopted internally by the first half of June to give EU member states time to discuss them at the June
#EUCO
summit. -3-
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God is punishing Hungary for its new homophobic laws.
And by God, I mean Ronaldo.
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I moved to Brussels exactly 6 years ago today with the intention of staying 6 months max. I’ve not left yet :) 🇧🇪🇪🇺
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SCOOP: Sources have told me
#Qatar
is investigating Qatari Ambassador to the EU, Abdulaziz bin Ahmed Al Malki and Minister of Labor, Ali bin Samikh Al Marri, in relation to the corruption case into the European Parliament and its Vice-President Eva Kaili.
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Ukraine makes an official application to join the European Union.
It comes after the EU Commission President
@vonderleyen
said "Ukraine belongs to the EU".
But it's another move which will incense Russia and solidify Putin's resolve.
🇺🇦 President
@ZelenskyyUa
has officially signed the application form for
#Ukraine
to join the European Union 🇪🇺.
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Can we just think about how in the Netherlands, 15 mins after the election result, the winner comes out and does a press conference for the international press in English. Imagine Boris Johnson heading into a little press huddle and throwing out some lines in French or German.
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BREAKING: Austrian media is reporting that while Chancellor Kurz is attending the EU- Western Balkan summit in Slovenia, his offices are being raided as part of a corruption probe.
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