This looks pretty bad. 'The former head of the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, allegedly threatened a chief prosecutor of the international criminal court in a series of secret meetings in which he tried to pressure her into abandoning a war crimes investigation'

Very interested to see the multiplication of these multilateral initiatives (after the Czech one on ammunition). A role that could surely be carried out more effectively by the European Commission

Super édition du podcast de Camille Diao avec Gaël Faye qui annonce son prochain roman en avant-première… open.spotify.com/episode/2Eibxl…

Le billet de Françon et JeanMariePillon dans The Conversation montre que si on compare ensemble toutes les dimensions, l'assurance chômage est loin d'être particulièrement protectrice en France par rapport aux pays comparables.

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His loss is still dearly felt on many fronts. Especially as Emmanuel Macron is currently in Germany, we think of Henrik's important role as bridgebuilder for Franco-German relations and a stronger Europe 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺 Jacques Delors Centre Jacques Delors Institute Europe Jacques Delors

Absolument. En soutenant les procédures en cours par la CPI/CIJ, en suspendant toute exportation d’armement, en imposant des sanctions commerciales, en élargissant les sanctions sur les colonies de Cisjordanie, en suspendant l’accord d’association UE-Israel.

Un bon papier

Douter de l’intervention de la justice internationale dans un conflit, c’est quand même pencher pour un nouveau type de politique étrangère ancrée dans l’usage de la force comme mode privilégié de régulation… Tout un programme.

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‼️‼️ And so it finally lands.. 'On the eve of next week’s EU election, Marine Le Pen is inviting Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to team up and form a right-wing super-grouping that would be the second-biggest party block in the European Parliament.' politico.eu/article/marine…

Happy to share this podcast of GEG where I discuss the challenge of EU's enlargement with Daniela Schwarzer open.spotify.com/episode/5DQxU1…

What an honor. 🙏

Germany responded to Ukraine's call for more air defenses by promising to send some of its own systems and marshalling help from other allies — but almost no one else is following Berlin's lead.
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has backed a demand from Polish and Greek Prime ministers Donald Tusk and Kyriakos Mitsotakis to create an EU-funded air defense shield.
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Il fallait que quelqu’un le dise

Negotiated wages have grown a lot, but the most recent data is dominated by one-off payments. The ECB wage tracker – for wage trends across the euro area - shows that after growth, wage pressures are moderating. #TheECBBlog takes a look at this tool ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/dat…

Olaf Scholz on why Vladimir Putin’s brutal imperialism will fail: “I cannot think of any possible scenario in which the vital interests of one of us are threatened without the vital interest of Germany being threatened as well.” economist.com/by-invitation/…

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Great passage in the ICC decision going after the Western chauvinists willing to destroy even the hope of a global order (and doing it out of resentment)