#Europe

Prince Chibuikem⚓

DiceyPrince_

In 1692, Queen Nzinga of Ndongo went to Luanda to negotiate with the Portuguese on the royal family’s behalf.The Portuguese, who was seated, expected her to sit on the floor.

Ferdinando Giugliano

FerdiGiugliano

Mario Draghi is speaking in Rimini today. It is his first meaningful speech since he left the presidency of the European Central Bank. Here are a few highlights from his

Eric Laurie

EricLaurie

THREADBVB - In PossessionLucien Favre has developed BVB into a very fluid attacking side, varying systems from 3-4-3 to 4-2-3-1. They rank favourably in a number of attacking metrics &

Ronan Burtenshaw

ronanburtenshaw

Britain is the biggest Covid-19 disaster in Europe because it’s the place where neoliberalism progressed furthest. For decades, state capacity has been systematically dismantled – between 1980 and 1996 it

Samuel West

exitthelemming

What would be a good poem to ring out the omnishambles of 2020?Been asked to choose one to read aloud tonight; I’m finding it hard to walk that fine line

NANCY

9NEWSNANCY

RIDDLE ME THIS?What did #NancyPelosi say when President #Trump2020 ban incoming flights from China, Europe, and Africa, on January 31, 2020, to PROTECT AMERICANS from #Covid_19?#TrumpKnewANSWER: RIDDLE ME THIS?What did

Elisabeth Vallet

Geopolitics2020

Yes but. 1. a test isn't foolproof, far from it. But yeah better than nothing.2. in Europe, that one guy was selling negative test certificates. So, this obstacle can be

Dr Laura McAtackney

LMcAtackney

A (short) thread on the Good Friday Agreement.A lot of people have a lot of opinions, not many of them have read it. It’s not very long, I’d recommend it.As

Transparency Int'l

anticorruption

A UK #whistleblower needs our help after he exposed the wrongdoing of his former employer. (THREAD) 1/ Jonathan Taylor exposed a massive bribery scheme in the oil and gas industry

Greenpeace EU

GreenpeaceEU

New report shows that, across the EU, activists, journalists, academics and others are being sued into silence. It's a massive threat to #FreeSpeech #FundamentalRights #Democracy#StopSLAPPs https://www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/issues/demo

Pu Mahuku🦜

Sowi_Kiki

I just read an article on the ancestral hunter gatherer populations of Europe and MENA and its both surprising and not surprising.Essentially up until around like 10,000ish y/a Western Europeans

Eòghann MacUalraig

ewangkennedy

Sovereignty is the antithesis of law. Understood as the brute power of an absolute monarch, it belongs to the world of nation states fighting for the sake of it, in

Helen Armstrong

HelenArmstrong5

Professor Maureen Healy is the chair of the History Dept at Lewis and Clark College. She teaches Modern European History, specializing in the history of Germany & Eastern Europe (and

Megha Mohan

meghamohan

In Dec 2019, Sanna Marin became the world’s youngest female world leader. Finland’s coalition govt is led by women, 4 of them in their 30s. @Yousef_Eldin & I were given

The Intel Crab

IntelCrab

We've officially entered ACT II for the year 2020. The end of 2019 is now further away than the start of 2021.Here are some highlights, month per month, of the

Amaan

amaanbali

Germany-Ten men, nearly all refugees from Syria, Iraq, or Afghanistan, have been covicted for the gang rape of a German woman outside a nightclub. Her drink was spiked before she

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