Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
DE/LU border opened this week, many others will on 15 June. UK is perhaps later in the curve but introducing quarantine from 8 June feels … odd. bbc.com/news/uk-527748…
Fri 22 May 2020 · on Twitter
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
Interesting interview with @LaMonnaieDeMunt director on the impact of covid on opera houses – social distancing reducing capacity and no carpenters to build the sets. olyrix.com/articles/actu-…
Wed 13 May 2020 · on Twitter
I’m sure people have seen this, but the EU produced a comic book in 2011 to show how Europe would respond to a deadly pandemic in China. (h/t @erincmca) op.europa.eu/en/publication… Most of it is much better than this panel!
Original h/t to @DaveClark_AFP I should add
Thu 14 May 2020 · on Twitter
Had to RT this out of the thread because these organisation names are so perfectly boring. twitter.com/anthonyzach/st…
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Originally posted as a thread of 3 tweets on Twitter on 12 May 2020. View the original thread.
So much of the backstory to this reminded me of UK politics talking about immigration in the early 2000s (including race-baiting propaganda headlines). newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
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I’m sure that the voters of 2040 will view 2000-era tabloids with the same horror that we do those headlines (and things like the 1966 Euston station “colour bar” strike).
Originally posted as a thread of 4 tweets on Twitter on 11 May 2020. View the original thread.
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
The video of MEP @CiolosDacian as he travels from Romania across locked down Europe to work in Brussels. (7’) youtube.com/watch?v=9Lkw05…
Tue 5 May 2020 · on Twitter
This is excellent from @HeikoMaas #VEDay75 auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/ne…
Fri 8 May 2020 · on Twitter
‘We’re forgetting the lessons of 1945’: young people on VE Day theguardian.com/world/2020/may…
Sun 10 May 2020 · on Twitter
Deux options linguistiques sur ce site belge. Uh…
Belge = néerlandais, France = français. (design: Y. Leterme)
Originally posted as a thread of 3 tweets on Twitter on 5 May 2020. View the original thread.
It’s 3 May, the anniversary of Poland-Lithuania’s brief but groundbreaking constitution of 1791. The first written constitution in Europe, second in the world, it was an attempt to reform the largest state in Europe. 4 years later that state ceased to exist.
“The last will and testament of the expiring homeland” created a crowned republic, though still without universal suffrage. The neighbouring monarchies invaded and overturned the constitution, and in two partitions in 1793 and 1795 wiped Poland and Lithuania off the map till 1918
A little video about it here: ec.europa.eu/programmes/cre…
Originally posted as a thread of 3 tweets on Twitter on 3 May 2020. View the original thread.
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Venice. From overtourism to sustainable tourism buff.ly/3aIiFJ3
Mon 27 Apr 2020 · on Twitter
Fascinating stats on COVID infection rates by commune in Bxl. Berchem and Anderlecht >50% above Bruxelles-ville and St-Gilles (which I would have thought had most internationally mobile pops). St-Josse and Schaerbeek well below average. politico.eu/article/corona…
Fri 1 May 2020 · on Twitter
I agree with @lesoir’s David Coppi that the PS and progressives in general should beware of “2008 syndrome”, where they excite themselves with big ambitions for the post-crisis world but get mugged by a narrative of austerity and deregulation. plus.lesoir.be/298258/article…
Which isn’t to say that the ambitions are wrong, but this time around they need to be sure they can implement them. In Belgium’s current political situation, it’s not an easy task.
Fri 1 May 2020 · on Twitter
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#COVID19: Reading the tea leaves in China | ORF buff.ly/2KeSZJl
Mon 20 Apr 2020 · on Twitter
Spain proposes a €1.5 trillion coronavirus recovery fund financed through perpetual EU debt buff.ly/2Vni7E0
Mon 20 Apr 2020 · on Twitter
Coronavirus: aucun parti politique ne veut rendre le «tracing» obligatoire en Belgique. plus.lesoir.be/295768/article…
Tue 21 Apr 2020 · on Twitter
Not to be excessively literalist, but a roadmap should tell you where you are, where you are going, and how you are going to get there. This document is the equivalent of saying “bon voyage!”. Much more detail and work needed, very quickly: consilium.europa.eu/media/43384/ro…
Wed 22 Apr 2020 · on Twitter
Polish government doubling down on forcing one sided rush-job elections. If the opposition delays them, PiS will declare a state of emergency, reports @gazeta_wyborcza. “The EU will protest but they won’t do anything, look at Hungary” wyborcza.pl/7,75968,258908…
Wed 22 Apr 2020 · on Twitter
Europe’s Financial Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Has to Be About Democracy link.medium.com/Gjt4TjHHU5
Thu 23 Apr 2020 · on Twitter
Great article (via @TerryReintke) on Euro English. As a native English speaker I feel self-conscious that everyone is speaking my native language (and self-critical about how little I use my French, even in a proudly multilingual org like @demsoc). euronews.com/2020/04/23/wor…
The one missing Euro English thing that I’ve heard and found myself occasionally slipping into is “eventually” meaning perhaps (from éventuellement in French). But as Terry said, English is a beautiful language in any case, I should be grateful that it’s the one I grew up with.
Thu 23 Apr 2020 · on Twitter
This is maybe the fifth piece from a bar or restaurant owner on how COVID is the coup de grâce for the restaurant industry, but it’s worth your time: nytimes.com/2020/04/23/mag…
Thu 23 Apr 2020 · on Twitter
The Twelfth Night from the @NationalTheatre was very good (with Tamsin Greig as a gender-switched Malvolio). Available till 30 April here: youtube.com/watch?v=aig5Ob… #covidculture
Sat 25 Apr 2020 · on Twitter
Poland’s coal industry doesn’t need support. It’s workers and coal communities need support. The industry itself is walking dead. aljazeera.com/ajimpact/polan…
Sun 26 Apr 2020 · on Twitter