'Nice and quiet diplomacy didn’t work,' - Dmytro Kuleba, Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister, told The Washington Post.

Mr. Kuleba said his team has identified more than 100 available Patriots — some neighboring countries have more than one battery guarding a port or airfield, he…

Fascinating. An outgoing Commissioner threatening to bring Member States before EU Court for alleged breach of a not-yet-into force set of laws...

All this coming from an EU Commission that has essentially failed to enforce EU law

This is becoming a parody

Parliament's call to rescind the appointment of Markus Pieper as SME envoy, but Ursula von der Leyen Commission confirms its decision, thus challenging parliamentary scrutiny ahead of the EU elections.

von der Leyen should not forget - or anyone from EPP will - that they will soon need…

Secondly, at 18:00 we have our dear friend R. Daniel Kelemen in Madrid to discuss how the EU appears to be stuck in an autocracy trap with Gisela Hernández & Sara Iglesias
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.Speaker Mike Johnson -- this is what your 5 months of delay on House vote on US assistance for #Ukraine means.

‼️EU passes asylum and migration pact after eight years of deadlock, BUT will it ever be implemented?

Upcoming elections often make a difference, as (the illusion of) policy delivery trumps anything else

⁦Lili Bayer⁩ theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

“The Commission is scrambling to draw a line under the most serious internal rebellion von der Leyen has faced since she first became head of the EU’s executive branch back in 2019.”

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EU interregnum year is always best time for would-be autocrats to engage in systemic constitutional capture and create irreversible facts on the ground/establish mafia state. By the time, Commission and Council might eventually think of doing something, it is too late

Great paper! 👇

If only this could have been anticipated some years ago… x.com/rdanielkelemen…

After yesterday’s huge demonstration in Budapest, I sat down with Péter Magyar, the former gov insider who wants to build a centrist movement to challenge Orbán.

Interview:
theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

With Putin today adding Slovakia to his collection, let's review his progress in paralyzing Europe to his global terror binge.

Remember, like we've seen with US congress, Putin doesn't need to control EVERYONE, just enough to paralyze.

He's now planning to do it with Europe.

Remember this picture every single time you hear someone in your city say 'we're not Amsterdam.'

This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s, via Cycling Professor 🚲 .

The cities we admire made better choices regarding cars, and are still making them today.

Better choices instead of excuses.

I’ve covered many Hungarian protests but rarely seen anything like this. Internet network collapsed earlier, but here’s a bit of footage:

with the presidency secured, the next wave of state capture measures is nigh. PM Fico rhetorically opened a new front against Supreme Court judges last week to add to the outstanding proposals on public media and foreign funded NGOs. It's going swimmingly for the government rn

On one of the mainstream Russian morning shows I monitor, one of the commentators just said 'we have no greater western ally than Mike Johnson. What he has done for us will be in our school textbooks.'.

Speaker Mike Johnson

When I said huge, I was not exaggerating. Tens of thousands are certainly here. This is the end of the crowd, marching to Kossuth square.

Hello from Budapest, where a huge crowd is now marching toward parliament, led by Péter Magyar.

Stay tuned

There are Patriot batteries and ammunition all over the world that could have saved Kharkiv, once a thriving city of 2 million people, but no one was willing to donate them

Russians are trying to do to Kharkiv what they did to Grozny, Aleppo, Mariupol