Retired from European Commission 1 March 2023. Retweeting doesn't mean endorsement...See @ArtDecoist to escape Eurobubble for artier vistas.
Joined April 2013
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Jun 15
Lest we forget.
Jun 15
Leningrad department store. Photo by Shepard Sherbell, USSR, 1991.
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Adam Watson Brown retweeted
The sheer obliviousness of so many US commentators to the role access to the EU Customs Union, Single Market, Freedom of Movement, Schengen and the rest played in Central and Eastern Europe's economic boom is quite impressive
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🇪🇺 40 years ago today, the EU’s 12-star flag was raised for the first time outside the Berlaymont building in Brussels.
Today, it stands as powerful symbol of unity, identity, and cultural heritage.
Find photos, videos and archive footage👇
audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/…
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May 20
Variable geometry returns.
May 20
The EU Parliament debated the 'One Europe, One Market' roadmap, @FabianZuleeg argues the EU can’t stop at simply completing the Single Market. #Geopolitics demands stronger enforcement, no more national loopholes, read the full report here lnkd.in/eunCrs8U
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May 20
A gem of a piece.
“At first I described Makerfield as a smack barm floating in a sea of pea wet moored to Daily Mail Hate Island. But that’s not quite right. Makerfield is not the smack barm itself. It is the nostalgia for the smack barm. The Instagram feed of the smack barm.”
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May 18
Wonderful transfers. The films no longer look like sixties Ektachrome slide film.
May 18
The wait is over... THE DOLLARS TRILOGY out now on Limited edition 4K UHD 🐎 Have you got yours yet?
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May 17
Excitement is building.
May 17
I regret to inform you that we will be publishing a detailed analysis this week of the £5m payment to Nigel Farage, and whether it's taxable. It is likely to annoy *everybody*.
(except tax advisers, which is all that matters)
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The best prize would actually be to get on with the Draghi Report and implement it instead of continuing dragging the difficult decisions…
May 14
Congratulations to Prof. Dr Mario Draghi, former President of the European Central Bank and former Prime Minister of the Italian Republic, for being awarded the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen 2026.
#Karlspreis2026
📸 Karlspreis / Christian van't Hoen
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May 13
Regulatory autonomy is an illusion for a mid-sized country neighbouring one of the global behemoths....
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May 8
You're going to hear a lot about how Reform is now a national party.
It's not true, as John Curtice sets out here. They're doing very well in areas that voted strongly for Brexit and not very well at all in areas that voted strongly Remain @Prosper_UK_
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Apr 26
Will Brexiters ever give up? Or are we in 1945? When many Germans were telling each other ‘Don’t forget to shoot yourself’ so deep had Reich propaganda been dinned into them.
Apr 26
Well this will have the Brexit folk frothing. But it reflects their failure, indeed the failure of pretty much the whole UK political class to understand the world and the realistic options available - which don't include vast regulatory or trade gains from sovereignty.
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Apr 26
A long, hard road yet to travel. But those who always argued that Brexit was unsustainable, public opinion would turn against it UK would U-turn towards rejoining EU are a bit closer to being proved right. Despite years of being dismissed by politicians, academics media.
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Apr 17
At last.
📝How to follow the middle power playbook
The UK is going through a period of adjustment. Both the world and its place in it are rapidly changing, leaving the country wondering whether it’s still globally relevant. Roli Asthana argues that the best route out of this situation is for the UK to follow the middle power playbook and learn from the states that thrive by their position in the middle.
⬇️ Read Here
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp…
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Apr 16
Destroying the @InternetArchive's @WayBackMachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history.
Media giants are now threatening to do this.
We can't let this happen.
Pass it on.
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Apr 11
I deduce that a 12 year old theme park ride may need more frequent inspections than a new one.
©️Old cars I have owned.
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Apr 9
RT @DefenseInnovR: LATEST ARTICLE
Since 2022, Europe has been working to rapidly ramp up production of 155 mm ammunition. But beyond volum…
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Apr 2
He has a point @epc_angela
Apr 2
Britain seems to have taken the worst possible position on the AI/copyright debate (FREE TO READ!)
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/b…
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Mar 31
Know and speak about your own origin story.
Mar 13
Some of the most transformative innovations start with a simple reply to an email. In 2002, Jeff Barr sent feedback on Amazon's beta web services.
The team invited him to headquarters, and that conversation sparked what became AWS in 2006. Twenty years later, that commitment to listening and responding to feedback continues to shape how we build and innovate together.
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Mar 25
Fellow BUSTER KEATON fans will enjoy Jim Jarmusch telling the story of how if it hadn’t been for JAMES MASON buying Keaton’s old house in Los Angeles in the 1980’s almost every film Buster made would’ve been lost to us forever.
Incredible stuff.
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Mar 19
The quality of EN is so high in the EP now that Farage could never repeat his tactics of 20yrs ago without getting a bloody nose.
Mar 19
Applause in the European Parliament as Hungary's obese Russian-backed stooge Orban is called a useful idiot and tool of Putin.
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