Despite one of the lowest birth rates in Europe, Spain is coping reasonably well by allowing significant immigration. Practicality over xenophobia. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

No words

For all the friends in the DC area. Go and see: Saint Omer | with Alice Diop and ⁦Rokhaya Diallo⁩ | at Georgetown University genderjustice.georgetown.edu/event-announce…

Mandatory post- #SpringMeetings2024 catch-up ride with Shahin Vallée

This, by Yuval Noah Harari, is masterful. It gives me no satisfaction - only grief - to add that I’ve been saying all this since 10/10, but he says it much better. Enough. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Breaking News: The Biden administration expanded federal protections across millions of acres of Alaskan wilderness, blocking oil, gas and mining operations. nyti.ms/3Q94rbU

Great question from Shahin Vallée to Christine Lagarde on Europe’s “Hamiltonian transition” eliciting a promising reply. Nécessité fait loi indeed!

Our contributor Shahin Vallée in conversation with European Central Bank president Christine Christine Lagarde picking up on his recent IPQ article ('Europe's Hamiltonian Test is Still to Come') ... /2

From Wall Street Journal Opinion: Speaker Mike Johnson is forging ahead to pass a bill to support Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, despite threats from his right rump to topple him. He’s correct on the policy merits, and he deserves support from Members of both parties. on.wsj.com/4b2bta3

👏👏👏 - to both the question and the answer.

… and you are wearing a tie! What happened?

Germany’s doomed China strategy ft.com/content/2ff22d…

Présentation du Programme de Stabilité 2024-2027 | Direction générale du Trésor tresor.economie.gouv.fr/Articles/2024/…

I very much agree with Schnabel - Shahin Vallée and I proposed an ECB dot plot in 2022. It’d tilt the nature of the discussion in the ECB’s boardroom from the pursuit of consensus to that of the most convincing view. And boost communication transparency. cer.eu/insights/europ…

An important speech about the UK’s future foreign policy. Interested to see how that can be aligned with the EU’s own foreign and security architecture.

'Intense and positive coordination' between China and Germany for the organisation of a high-level conference on Ukraine in Switzerland (scheduled for 15-16 June) and future peace conferences. Watch this space.

🗨️ « Lio avait 10 ans d’avance sur tout le monde sur la question des violences faites aux femmes ».

La journaliste Camille Diao revient sur la colère de Lio face à Murielle Cerf sur le plateau de « Tout le monde en parle » en 2006 après la mort de Marie Trintignant.

This is an interesting development