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🇪🇺 foreign policy and enlargement - Western Balkans / CEE / Southern Caucasus - 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇲🇩 🇲🇰 - Oh and comics / graphic novels - 🐈 still in the 📦
Breaking: EU protects Europe from future Russian invasion by… making it illegal.
It’s actually also an article (there always is one 😅) and it is pretty vague. It could be used, if there is willingness. Defence matters are the competence of member states so no automatism from the EU level unfortunately.
Ethnic Albanian students in 🇲🇰 protesting for the right to take their bar examination in Albanian. Reportedly joined by their peers from Albania and Kosovo. Not all slogans strictly judicial education related..
Parliamentary elections on 🇧🇬 today - the 8th time in the last 5 years. Main questions: 1. Will former President Radev’s (picture similar) Progressive Bulgaria get more than 30% of the vote? 2. Will they gain an absolute majority? (unlikely) 3. Will he form a coalition or a minority government? 1/4
The trend continues: >66% turnout at 15:00. Higher than typical 17:00 figures from previous elections
🇭🇺 turnout >54%!!! More at 13:00 than in any previous elections at 15:00.
🇲🇰 media report that the Director of the Agricultural State Inspectorate was detained tonight while receiving a EUR 50,000 bribe. [ picture from plusinfo.mk ]
Topical: Just unearthed a poster of a conference I co-organised in 2004. "The future of transatlantic relations - EU vs USA?" featuring @oezdemir.de (congrats!). This was one year after the Iraq war...
One step closer to joining the 🇪🇺 roaming area for the WB with today's adoption of the proposal for negotiating mandates by the European Commission. Once the Council approves (with QMV) this can get underway - individually, based on country's progress in reforms. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Advertising cardiac surgery in a restaurant #bonappetit #marketingfail in Skopje 🇲🇰
What were they thinking? #marketingfail spotted in Skopje 🇲🇰 (the chocolate is good though)
🇲🇰 ranks first among all 🇪🇺 candidate countries (🇲🇪 and 🇽🇰 not covered) in English proficiency according to the latest EPI report. (www.ef.be/nl/epi/). It also fares better than 10 EUMS. 👏
Important consultations with community/minority representatives on the 'Action Plan on protection and promotion of the rights of persons belonging to communities' in 🇲🇰. This is an important step towards fulfilling EU benchmarks for continuing on the EU path 🇪🇺
Access to #Trump has (sadly) become a much coveted privilege also among Balkan leaders, leading to these pictures with #northmacedonia President Siljanovka and #kosovo President Osmani - showing their supposed meetings with the US President. Media soon pointed out that these look like wax figurines.