Today, during his visit to🇩🇪, Macron will give a speech about Europe.

To understand his ideas about Europe, European sovereignty, whether 'l'Europe est mortelle' - read our analysis on how Russia's war changed French foreign & security policy 👇
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Unimaginable images coming out of Rafah tonight-medics sent me videos but they are too horrific to post. Palestinian health officials say Israeli airstrikes killed as many as 50 people, most displaced families in tents. Israel says it hit a Hamas compound but admits its aware of

This video of a group of rich kids chanting the quintessential radical right „Deutschland den Deutschen. Ausländer raus“ is currently dominating the German news cycle. It tells us a lot about (mis)perceptions of who the radical right is. Short thread:

EU election 2024: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change | Josh Gabbatiss

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“It was high time to tell my and my friends’ stories.” She wanted to capture how things looked and felt, details such as how the streets of East Berlin “immediately began to smell like Chanel No 5”. Great Jenny Erpenbeck itv to Lisa Allardice The Guardian theguardian.com/books/article/…

A powerful call to arms, ⁦Maria Ressa⁩ invites the class of 2024 at ⁦Harvard University⁩ to defend democracy against fascism, facts against tech-fueled manipulation, and free speech against censorship ↘️ youtube.com/watch?v=7dETo7…

Dedicated to the equality and political participation of Europe’s largest and most resilient minority group, romaforeurope is a new Europewide, Roma-led, independent foundation that builds on our three-decade legacy of empowering Roma.

Angela Merkel and Robert Habeck guide the remarkable Margot Friedländer to her seat at today's 75th birthday of the German constitution 🇩🇪

“What I saw… is how much the Indian voter still cares about their vote.”

On episode one of What’s Wrong With Democracy?, Ben Ansell is joined by Pavithra Suryanarayan from LSE to explore the future of India’s democracy.

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Supported by Open Society Foundations.

Underreported: Germany’s green transition is progressing far better than many people think.

Germany's beleaguered coalition government has its bright spots: in its first 2⅓ calendar years it has installed *27.5 gigawatts* of new solar capacity, more than the cumulative total of the previous 9 years. In 2023 alone it installed ∼ the total solar capacity of the UK.

Germany is 75 years old today... and 500 years old… and perhaps 1900 years old…
...what next for Europe's central power? My essay:
nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

The brilliant Kairos—“a bracing philosophical inquiry into time, choice, and the forces of history”—has won the 2024 International Booker Prize. Congratulations to Jenny Erpenbeck and Michael Hofmann! The Booker Prizes thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

If Labour wins the election, Starmer will have a fairly unique opportunity, within his first two weeks, for a major reset of relations with European leaders.

If Sunak is calling an election and sending his battered troops into battle on July 4, he will be doing the likely new PM an additional favour. The first major international event to be hosted by the newly elected government is a meeting of the European Political Community, a

Hard to imagine a greater geopolitical gift for China and Russia than the US sanctioning an international institution in service of hypocrisy.

🎧 New series out today – What’s Wrong With Democracy?

Each week, Professor Ben Ansell welcomes experts to figure out whether democracy is working and how best to preserve democratic rights.

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The EU is planning to start formal accession talks for Moldova and Ukraine on 25 June

Now that #ICC Prosecutor has sought warrants of arrest, it is imperative that the judges consider them independent of threats. If warrants issue, states must cooperate. One law for all. No double standards. My take… ⁦⁦Open Society Foundations⁩ politico.eu/article/europe…

A timely reminder that performative activity on social media is not 'action.' Amal Clooney has been dragged continuously for the past few months for supposedly being silent on Gaza. She was diligently doing her actual job and making a tangible difference in the real world.