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.
Tag: france
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Links from the week of 20 April 2020
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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#COVID19: Reading the tea leaves in China | ORF buff.ly/2KeSZJl
Mon 20 Apr 2020 · on Twitter
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Spain proposes a €1.5 trillion coronavirus recovery fund financed through perpetual EU debt buff.ly/2Vni7E0
Mon 20 Apr 2020 · on Twitter
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Coronavirus: aucun parti politique ne veut rendre le «tracing» obligatoire en Belgique. plus.lesoir.be/295768/article…
Tue 21 Apr 2020 · on Twitter
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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
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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
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Europe’s Financial Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Has to Be About Democracy link.medium.com/Gjt4TjHHU5
Thu 23 Apr 2020 · on Twitter
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Links from the week of 28 January 2019
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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Glad to see @annaturley making this point. It’s bad enough that the promised Brexit dividend was a lie – worse to see MPs trying to buy slices of a smaller pie with the promise to vote for shrinking it. buff.ly/2Rsom45
Fri 1 Feb 2019 · on Twitter
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Trying out the new EP tool thistimeimvoting.eu/?recruiter_id=… to get people to vote in the elections. The app is really impressive.
Fri 1 Feb 2019 · on Twitter
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Is that Matteo Renzi vainly attempting to block the doorway? lejdd.fr/Politique/excl…
No wait it’s David Cameron.
Sun 3 Feb 2019 · on Twitter
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Links from the week of 28 January 2019
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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Glad to see @annaturley making this point. It’s bad enough that the promised Brexit dividend was a lie – worse to see MPs trying to buy slices of a smaller pie with the promise to vote for shrinking it. buff.ly/2Rsom45
Fri 1 Feb 2019 · on Twitter
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Trying out the new EP tool thistimeimvoting.eu/?recruiter_id=… to get people to vote in the elections. The app is really impressive.
Fri 1 Feb 2019 · on Twitter
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Is that Matteo Renzi vainly attempting to block the doorway? lejdd.fr/Politique/excl…
No wait it’s David Cameron.
Sun 3 Feb 2019 · on Twitter
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Links from the week of 14 January 2019
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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Je vous vois, @lesrepublicains, et votre alarmisme sur “l’immigration du masse”. Vous n’avez pas jeté un oeil vers l’autre côté de la Manche, ces dernières années? Cette connerie conduiraient la France dans le même mur. republicains.fr/actualites_il_…
Fri 18 Jan 2019 · on Twitter
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The Telegraph has gone full Dolchstoßlegende. Guess it sells a few papers, eh? telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/…
Sat 19 Jan 2019 · on Twitter
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Links from the week of 24 December 2018
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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My discovery today (via @lesoir) is that there is a Belgian e-books store linked to a network of independent bookshops, with (on a quick skim) all the big French-language titles: librel.be
Sat 29 Dec 2018 · on Twitter
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How mass tourism is threatening Barcelona’s Boqueria market buff.ly/2ETgV3p < a bit romanticised but a good read
Sat 29 Dec 2018 · on Twitter
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Stalin’s Soaring Moscow Towers Sorely Need Body Work – The New York Times buff.ly/2Vf6JI9
Sun 30 Dec 2018 · on Twitter
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Links from the week of 10 December 2018
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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The nightmare of a no-deal Brexit looms and must be prevented via @FT < Martin Wolf suggestion is “let’s forget about the backstop” which is not going to happen. Cakeism again. ft.com/content/e6d3cb…
Fri 14 Dec 2018 · on Twitter
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Sad to see racist scum polluting my neighbourhood. lesoir.be/195880/article…
Sun 16 Dec 2018 · on Twitter
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Enjoying this list of ways to say “when pigs can fly” in multiple languages: A la Saint-Glinglin – dictionnaire des expressions françaises expressio.fr/expressions/a-…
Sun 16 Dec 2018 · on Twitter
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Links from the week of 12 November 2018
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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Spitzenkandidaten. La trahison de Verhofstadt et du centre | Fabien l’Européen buff.ly/2DBnTKw < hard to disagree. The Spitz system isn’t much, but it is something, and so for ALDE to dump it for a romp in the hay with Macron is very short-termist.
Tue 13 Nov 2018 · on Twitter
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dilbert.com/strip/2004-01-… twitter.com/TimRoss_1/stat…
Fri 16 Nov 2018 · on Twitter
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The retail apocalypse hits Belgium. Agree with @comeos_fr that the online offer in Belgium is poor, and retailers need a level playing field versus online. But it’s about innovation not tax cuts: En baisse structurelle, le commerce crie à l’aide plus.lesoir.be/190526/article…
Sat 17 Nov 2018 · on Twitter
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Links from the week of 23 July 2018
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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Mafia kradnie nam demokrację
buff.ly/2uP1hQCTue 24 Jul 2018 · on Twitter
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What’s in a name: France’s fight over chocolate pastry buff.ly/2A7pqXO < interesting, but not sure why they’re arguing over what to call a couque au chocolat.
Wed 25 Jul 2018 · on Twitter
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Bus number of the beast: service 666 (which runs to Hel in northern Poland) attacked as « anti Christian propaganda » buff.ly/2uQydsg
Fri 27 Jul 2018 · on Twitter
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Links from the week of 18 June 2018
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
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Fascinating (as a former Curzon Soho and Everyman regular). Always surprises me this hasn’t hit Brussels yet. (h/t @awb58) screendaily.com/features/why-i…
Sun 24 Jun 2018 · on Twitter
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The opportunities that used to exist in Britain for ambitious young Europeans, now being closed off to everyone’s disadvantage. start.lesechos.fr/travailler-a-l…
Sun 24 Jun 2018 · on Twitter
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Mors est ianua vitae (even if you don’t believe in the afterlife) nytimes.com/2018/06/22/nyr…
Sun 24 Jun 2018 · on Twitter
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