Bojan Pancevski
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Austrian Conservatives and Greens Form Coalition Government
Bojan Pancevski - WSJ 15d 3 tweets
Austria’s Conservatives and Greens have agreed to form a new government in a move that could inspire similar alliances across Europe, where incumbent center-right parties are looking to harness rising voter interest in the environment to fight off...
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Bojan Pancevski Sebastian Kurz' has swung from far-Right to Greens to form new government. Policies include ban on Is­lamic veil >14, de­ten­tion of asy­lum seek­ers, en­vi­ron­men­tal tax for trucks & air­plane tick­ets, sub­si­dies for pub­lic trans­porta­tion. 15d
Yazidi Survivors Are Key to Bringing Islamic State Members to Justice
Bojan Pancevski - WSJ 16d 3 tweets
European and U.S. authorities have struggled to prosecute Islamic State members for the Yazidi genocide because of the difficulty in collecting evidence of crimes that happened in Iraq and Syria. Testimony from the victims is now being collected to...
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Bojan Pancevski #Yazidi survivors are key to bringing Islamic State members to justice. Efforts to compile testimonies from Yazidi victims offer first-hand evidence of genocide committed by the self-styled caliphate. My report via ⁦⁩ 16d
Germany Calls for European Firewall Against U.S. Sanctions
WSJ 21d 7 tweets
German politicians have called on Europe to adopt protective measures against U.S. sanctions after Washington managed to halt completion of a new submarine gas pipeline linking Russia directly to Germany.
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Bojan Pancevski Germany Calls for European Firewall Against U.S. Sanctions. The U.S. push against ⁦⁩ is prompting some officials to call for a coordinated approach to protect interests of #EU members. With ⁦⁩ via ⁦⁩ 21d
Sir Alan Moses: Free speech means freedom to offend, press watchdog insists
Thetimes.co.uk 22d 2 tweets
There is no right not to be offended, the outgoing chairman of Britain’s leading press regulator has told campaigners. Sir Alan Moses, a former lord justice of appeal, defended freedom of speech...
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Bojan Pancevski There is no right not to be offended, Sir Alan Moses, the outgoing chairman of Britain’s leading press regulator and former lord justice of appeal has told campaigners. 22d
U.S. Sanctions Halt Work on Russia’s Gas Pipeline to Europe
Bojan Pancevski - WSJ 27d 4 tweets
U.S. sanctions have temporarily stopped the construction of a pipeline that is set to increase the flow of natural gas directly from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea.
Pisa-Studie: "Anlass für Alarm"
ZEIT ONLINE - ZEIT ONLINE 45d 1 tweets
Die Leistungen der 15-Jährigen verschlechtern sich wieder. Die Bildungsforscher Kristina Reiss und Olaf Köller erklären, warum es mehr Risikoschüler gibt.
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Bojan Pancevski The Pisa education study is out, and Germany is not doing great: 21% of 15-yr-olds can’t read properly (in a country of 6m functional analphabets) and that goes up to 50% in some schools. Experts say children of migrants in 2nd/3rd generation worst off. 45d
Political Decay in Our Time. A review of Fukuyama’s vol. 2.
Branko Milanovic - Glineq.blogspot.com 48d 11 tweets
I have reviewed Francis Fukuyama’s The Origins of Political Order (OPO) here and here , and I could have written at least two addition...
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Bojan Pancevski This by Fukuyama via review is written about the US but true for western #EU. Legislative functions are delegated to courts while NGOs and lobbyists determine the public interest 46d
POLITICO Brussels Playbook: Europeans ❤️ our money — My moment of weakness — Listen, Emmanuel!
POLITICO 49d 4 tweets
Florian Eder’s must-read briefing on what's driving the day in Brussels.
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Bojan Pancevski This by ⁦⁩ is beautiful. Respect to the great staff behind the great man 49d
Sweden Opens Investigations Into Iraq’s Defense Minister
Bojan Pancevski - WSJ 52d 1 tweets
Iraq’s defense minister is under investigation in Sweden for suspected crimes against humanity as well as benefits fraud related to his time as a refugee in the Scandinavian country, according to Swedish prosecutors and police.
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Bojan Pancevski #Iraq’s defense minister is under investigation in #Sweden for suspected crimes against humanity and benefits fraud related to his time as a refugee in the Scandinavian country. Via 52d
Ephraim Mirvis: What will become of Jews in Britain if Labour forms the next government?
Thetimes.co.uk 53d 13 tweets
Elections should be a celebration of democracy. However, just weeks before we go to the polls, the overwhelming majority of British Jews are gripped by anxiety. During the past few years, on my...
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Bojan Pancevski Extraordinary intervention by the Chief Rabbi of the Commonwealth ahead of the U.K. election 52d
Merkel’s Coalition Government Faces Test Over Huawei Dispute
Bojan Pancevski - WSJ 55d 2 tweets
Chancellor Angela Merkel was handed a damaging defeat at her party’s annual convention over her plans to allow China’s Huawei to build Germany’s next-generation 5G mobile network.
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Bojan Pancevski An­gela #Merkel was handed a dam­ag­ing de­feat at her par­ty’s an­nual con­ven­tion over her plans to al­low Chi­na’s ⁦⁩ to build #Germany next-gen­er­a­tion #5G mo­bile net­work. My report via ⁦⁩ 55d
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Bojan Pancevski The original #Huawei motion by et al called for exclusion of #5G bidders from “undemocratic states lacking rule of law.” After #Merkel’s aides intervened that changed to “ruling out influence by a foreign country.” Yet the effect will be same 54d
One in Four Europeans Holds Anti-Semitic Views, Survey Shows
Bojan Pancevski - WSJ 57d 1 tweets
Nearly one in four Europeans holds strongly anti-Semitic views, according to a poll by a Jewish anti-hate organization. Among European Muslims in Western Europe, the incidence of such views was almost three times higher than in the general...
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Bojan Pancevski One in Four Europeans Holds Anti-Semitic Views, Survey Shows. Via ⁦⁩ 57d
The Iron Curtain Is Gone, but Europe’s East and West Are Again Divided
Bojan Pancevski - WSJ 68d 3 tweets
Mainstream parties in the West are largely hewing to liberal values, the rule of law and fundamental human rights while nativist parties that favor a more authoritarian rule and reject immigration, ethnic and religious diversity, gay rights and...
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Bojan Pancevski The Iron Curtain Is Gone, but Europe’s East and West Are Again Divided. Democracy and market economies rule across the continent, but politically the former blocs are drifting apart again 30 years after the #BerlinWall fell. My piece via ⁦⁩ 68d
Berlin Didn’t Want a Reagan Statue—but It’s Getting One Anyway
Bojan Pancevski - WSJ 72d 10 tweets
For years, Berlin resisted putting up a statue of Ronald Reagan to honor of his famous 1987 speech calling for the Berlin Wall to be torn down. The U.S. Embassy instead is erecting a Reagan replica on its terrace overlooking the Brandenburg Gate...
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Bojan Pancevski The 7-foot statue, partially visible from the street, will be formally inaugurated by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Nov. 8, a day before the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. 72d
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Bojan Pancevski #Berlin Didn’t Want a Reagan Statue—but It’s Getting One Anyway. Seven-foot replica of former president to be inaugurated by ⁦⁩ at ⁦⁩ , overlooking site of #BerlinWall. My story via ⁦⁩ 72d
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Bojan Pancevski Frank Henkel, who as a Berlin government official helped secure approval for the plaque despite opposition from center-left parties, said it was a shame the Reagan's likeness couldn’t be put on German soil. 72d
Bulgaria and Ukraine issue formal protest over Macron’s migration remarks
POLITICO 76d 1 tweets
The Bulgarian government has summoned France’s ambassador to Sophia to explain the comments.
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Bojan Pancevski Macron is able to argue like Cameron and even Farage without the fallout: "I would rather have people who come from Guinea or Côte d'Ivoire legally, who are there and who do this work, than Bulgarian or Ukrainian clandestine networks." 76d
Chateau Viking: Climate Change Makes Northern Wine a Reality
Bojan Pancevski - WSJ 80d 4 tweets
Vintners in Scandinavia are growing bold with their marketing, winning awards and prompting predictable sniffs from the French. ‘I don’t think they are at all our level yet.’
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Bojan Pancevski This story honestly wrote itself. Chateau Viking: Climate Change Makes Northern Wine a Reality. Vintners in Scandinavia are growing bold with their marketing, winning awards and prompting predictable sniffs from the French. My first ⁦⁩ a-hed 80d
As Catalans Protest for Secession, a Division Widens at Home
Margherita Stancati - WSJ 81d 1 tweets
The Spanish region's independence movement splits Catalans down the lines of age, class and language. Nowhere is that more evident than in two Barcelona neighborhoods.
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Bojan Pancevski Secession divides Catalans down lines of age, class and language. More locals oppose than support independence, despite the loud campaigning of the region’s pro-separatist government. ⁦⁩ 81d
Night trains between Vienna and Brussels should run by mid-January
The Brussels Times 86d 1 tweets
The planned night trains which will connect Vienna and Brussels are expected to be operational by mid-January, ÖBB, the Austrian railway company has announced. At a press conference on Wednesday, ÖBB
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Bojan Pancevski Wonderful news: Night trains between Vienna and Brussels should run by mid-January 86d
Boris Johnson’s Brexit Deal Clears Vital Hurdle in Parliament
Max Colchester - WSJ 87d 1 tweets
U.K. lawmakers endorsed Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal, giving it critical momentum and raising the prospect that the country’s protracted divorce from the European Union is finally entering its endgame.
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Bojan Pancevski A re­mark­able turn­around for ⁦⁦⁩ who in the space of three months has managed to both rene­go­ti­ate a #Brexit agree­ment with the #EU and per­suade Britain’s deeply di­vided House of Com­mons of its mer­its. ⁦⁩ 87d
Klimaforscher warnt vor Panik: "Früher war ein Sturm einfach ein Sturm"
SPIEGEL Plus - Das Premium-Angebot des SPIEGEL 87d 1 tweets
Der Klimaforscher Hans von Storch warnt im Interview vor Aktionismus. Greta Thunberg rede "dumm Tüch" - dummes Zeug.
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Bojan Pancevski Leading German climate scientist dismisses Greta's apocalyptic warnings as "nonsense," warns against "fanaticism" of some "privileged western" climate activists via 87d