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Chief Diplomatic Correspondent Europe; The New York Times

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@StevenErlanger
Steven Erlanger
7 years
Britain has lost its national narrative. Split, nearly leaderless, it is drifting away, trumpets blaring, to nowhere
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"Russia, a legitimate, recognized world power—a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council—is directing constant, repetitive, visible terrorist violence against civilians, many of whom are nowhere near the fighting."
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Anne Applebaum
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Yes, Russia is now a terrorist state
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Vladimir the Poisoner of Underpants. Navalny's courtroom speech in English.
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Ukraine is on an artillery shell diet, but still is firing more rounds than the West can produce. The EU, proposing the use of joint funding, is trying to ginger up production, but it takes a lot of time. My take.
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4 years
Norway pledges €1 billion euros to G20 vaccine fund. Extraordinary per capita. Thank you 🇳🇴
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3 years
Does anyone really expect any Russian official to say, "Yeah, well, actually, we do plan to invade"?
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6 years
Trump arrival at Turnberry marks the 169th day during his presidency that he has visited a property owned, managed or branded by the Trump Organization. The resort has lost money since Mr. Trump purchased it in 2014.
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7 years
U.S. Will Withdraw From Unesco, Citing Its ‘Anti-Israel Bias’ via @NYTimes
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2 years
Just a reminder: NATO didn't destroy the Soviet Union. That was done by B. Yeltsin of Russia, L. Kravchuk of Ukraine and S. Shushkevich of Belarus in December 1991, all by themselves and for their own domestic reasons.
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@StevenErlanger
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4 years
oh my
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4 years
Nice bookwall at depth. Good use of Shoji screen. Crop right. 8/10 @StevenErlanger
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Steven Erlanger
4 years
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the Belarusian opposition leader who was forced to flee to Lithuania, went to Brussels Monday morning, before the foreign ministers’ meeting, to plead for sanctions and “bravery.” She went away with neither.
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@StevenErlanger
Steven Erlanger
4 years
Europe will miss her terribly. And so will Germany.
@RegSprecherStS
Steffen Seibert
4 years
With English subtitles: Statement of Chancellor #Merkel after the Special European Council. „Exceptional events call for exceptional new methods.“ #EUCO #EU2020DE (BPA)
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Steven Erlanger
6 years
Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura @kimidefreytas is a fine journalist, empathetic and serious, who cares about the people of Africa. She does not choose photos. Please let her do her job, which can only enhance our understanding of the real Africa.
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5 years
Opinion | ‘The Beacon Has Gone Out’: What Trump and Giuliani Have Wrought - The New York Times
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@StevenErlanger
Steven Erlanger
7 years
Britain, unmoored and introverted, is bewildering its allies and friends. my take.
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Steven Erlanger
4 years
Working with @mattapuzzo on one of those deeply distressing stories that you hope can have an impact -- the death of an aspiring young Black student who died during a hazing ritual for an elite and predominantly white fraternity in Flanders.....
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7 years
Theresa May Projected to Lose Her Majority in U.K. Parliament, via @nytimes
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@StevenErlanger
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6 years
American Allies Move to Bolster Global Systems That Trump Has Attacked. But it isn’t easy. via @NYTimes
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Steven Erlanger
4 years
After Trump, there would be a new wariness and unwillingness to take big risks on the part of allies, said @markhleonard "If you know that whatever you’re doing will at most last until the next election, you look at everything in a more contingent way."
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@StevenErlanger
Steven Erlanger
5 years
“It’s no longer a question of borders between states, but between individuals,” said Ivan Krastev. “It's now the individual you fear. Everyone around you may be a danger. The only one who isn’t is the one you never meet, the one who stays at home.”
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Steven Erlanger
3 years
U.S. and Russia Will Discuss European Security, but Without Europeans. The EU is campaigning for a separate role, but without the unity or the weight to support one. My take.
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@StevenErlanger
Steven Erlanger
4 years
Man really did hack Trump’s Twitter account by guessing password, ‘maga2020!,’ Dutch prosecutors say. He did it twice.
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@StevenErlanger
Steven Erlanger
7 years
now my life is complete
@EllenBarryNYT
Ellen Barry
7 years
@StevenErlanger makes the Sun!
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6 months
Trenin: 'having reestablished the supremacy of national legislation over international treaties, Moscow now cares little about what its adversaries say or do.... Not only can't the West be trusted any longer; the international bodies that it controls have lost all legitimacy.'
@HannaNotte
Hanna Notte
6 months
I highly recommend you read this by Dmitri Trenin - just to get an understanding for where influential Russian elites see #Russia headed: -Total break with the current world order and its institutions -Radical & sustainable reorientation to the non-West
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Steven Erlanger
3 years
Unlike Mr. Macron, who tries to throw the diplomatic ball very far, and if he gets halfway to his goal is happy, Ms. Merkel rolls the ball along with her, “and when it stops, she’ll say, ‘That’s where we wanted to go,’” said @D_Schwarzer .
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Steven Erlanger
6 years
"The 448-page book was obtained by The Washington Post," says the Post, without winking, about a book by Bob Woodward, one of its senior editors.
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Steven Erlanger
6 years
Trump's humiliation of Washington's European allies on the Iran deal, after fights on climate, trade and defense spending, has led more people to urge Europe to "part ways" with the Trump administration. My take.
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Steven Erlanger
3 years
"Everything will be all right,” Navalny wrote Yevgenia Albats. “And, even if it isn’t, we’ll have the consolation of having lived honest lives.” by @anneapplebaum
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Steven Erlanger
3 years
British exceptionalism!
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3 years
Xmas wish to all: Stay negative.
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Steven Erlanger
4 years
Rather odd comment fm Macron:“Nobody can tell me that today’s Nato is a structure that, in its foundations, is still pertinent. It was founded to face down the Warsaw Pact. There is no more a Warsaw Pact.” NATO built to face down Moscow. And Moscow remains ambitious and nuclear.
@FranceintheUK
French Embassy UK🇫🇷🇪🇺
4 years
In conversation with @FT , 🇫🇷 President @EmmanuelMacron outlined... ➡️his ambitious international agenda on reviving #multilateralism ➡️the necessary reform of institutions such as #NATO ➡️the importance of strategic autonomy & #EuropeanSovereignty
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Steven Erlanger
4 years
Biden says he wants to rejoin Iran nuclear deal, JCPOA. But what would "come into full compliance" mean now? And will Iran wait to do the same?
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@StevenErlanger
Steven Erlanger
5 years
it's just an amazing country, you have to admit
@montie
Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧
5 years
Donald Trump, 73, is now the youngest male candidate remaining in the race to be US President.
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4 years
I had a joke about the European Union, but it failed to get a reinforced qualified majority.
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4 years
Somehow there's a huge drop in coverage of Davos, and the world keeps spinning along.
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Steven Erlanger
6 years
Sure, blame the Jews
@thehill
The Hill
6 years
Pompeo: It's "possible" God planned Trump to save Jewish people
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4 years
The poets are coming. I blame the spring.
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4 years
Tesla is now more valuable than the combination of the world's top seven traditional automakers, despite only delivering half a million cars this year, says Axios, for some reason suggesting that the stock market is nuts.
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Steven Erlanger
3 years
Jens Spahn, German health minister, warned that by the end of this winter “just about everyone in Germany will probably be either vaccinated, recovered or dead.”
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Steven Erlanger
5 years
What if Trump Wins? Europeans Fear a More Permanent Shift Against Them. My take from Munich.
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Steven Erlanger
4 years
Europe Struggles to Defend Itself Against a Weaponized Dollar. Underneath the warm words, the US ability and willingness to impose secondary sanctions on its allies rankles badly and underlies pressure for "strategic autonomy." My take.
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Steven Erlanger
6 years
Victor Orban escapes again. His Fidesz party is too important to his European partners on the center-right to expel, despite creeping authoritarianism and the stink of anti-Semitism. Our take
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Steven Erlanger
4 years
European Union wants to use the "Green Deal" as "the motor of the recovery." But many worry that the real pressure will be to restore the old economy and its jobs as quickly as possible.
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5 years
via @NYTimes . Merkel tells Macron she’s tired of regluing all his broken china. My take
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4 years
The social distancing of Parliament means that most of the 650 members take part remotely, turning a gladiatorial arena, in which Mr. Johnson was once a big cat, into Mr. Starmer’s courtroom. by @MarkLandler and @_StephenCastle
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Steven Erlanger
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Why China Has Forgotten Its Coronavirus Outbreak, and so much else. A chinese novel of "laughter and forgetting.'' author: Chan Koonchung. article by @LiYuan6
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Steven Erlanger
4 years
wishful thinking, i suspect
@donaldtuskEPP
Donald Tusk
4 years
Trump’s defeat can be the beginning of the end of the triumph of far-right populisms also in Europe. Thank you, Joe.
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Steven Erlanger
1 year
An excellent diplomat who got shafted for doing his job
@HeleneBismarck
Helene von Bismarck
1 year
In 2019, the UK ambassador to the US, Kim Darroch, resigned after the Mail on Sunday had published an internal memorandum of his assessing D. Trump, to which the US President had reacted with furious, personal tweets. Last night, I finished Darroch’s fascinating memoir. Thread.
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As the wise @ClaudMajor told me for a piece two weeks ago now, just one Abrams tank from DC would unlock the chancellery... Scholz always wanted a jt decision with Biden, just like the Bradleys unlocked the Marders
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Steven Erlanger
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El Batsch family. Gaza City http://t.co/b9KYFXotm9
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Steven Erlanger
5 years
he dies.
@ConStelz
Constanze Stelzenmüller
5 years
FINALLY. Hilary Mantel’s last installment of the Thomas Cromwell trilogy expected for March 2020. I was electrified by the first two. And I want to know how it all ends!!!
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Steven Erlanger
3 years
Behold Barack Antoinette by @maureendowd
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Opinion | The Kremlin may be slowly killing Alexei Navalny in prison. It's pretty obvious, but the world must not let it happen. by @vkaramurza
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4 years
“It’s getting hard to describe Turkey as an ally of the U.S.,” said Philip H. Gordon, former assistant secretary of state who dealt with Turkey during the Obama administration.
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Steven Erlanger
4 years
Putin looks bored to death
@HannaLiubakova
Hanna Liubakova
4 years
#Belarus . #Lukashenko is trying to convince #Putin about a military threat from the West, but Putin is barely listening (playing on camera, obvsly). That was another humiliation Lukashenko has faced today. He was earlier welcomed by Krasnodar governor, not even a state official
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4 years
Can we ban the word "toolbox" in diplomatic langue de bois?
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Steven Erlanger
3 years
Greece
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Post-Merkel Germany May Be Shaded Green. These are not Petra Kelly's Greens, but a party that is likely to enter government with a vision for a more modern, digital Germany and that is tough on Russia and China. My take.
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Steven Erlanger
6 years
Exasperated with Britain, Brussels is debating how and whether to extend Brexit and still deal with China, Russia, populism, Trump and divisive European elections in May. There's a lot of anger and nasty jokes, but a relationship with the UK still matters
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Steven Erlanger
3 years
i wonder who the foreign minister was all this time....
@GermanyDiplo
GermanForeignOffice
3 years
Foreign Minister @HeikoMaas @KoerberIP |s #BerlinForum : “German foreign policy must focus on more realistic foreign policy goals which are based on and correspond with clearly defined interests. It is time to overcome illusions.” (1/4)
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11 years
My hotel in Kiev tonight. http://t.co/d50UhmHYK2
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Steven Erlanger
3 years
Speechless
@MacaesBruno
Bruno Maçães
3 years
World leaders toss a coin at Trevi for good luck fighting the climate emergency
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4 years
she's not the only one crying
@meddynyt
Melissa Eddy
4 years
These 41 doses of AstraZeneca had to be destroyed after Germany suspended their use on Monday, a doctor at a vaccination center in Duisburg told the local paper, WAZ. She said she took the picture, then she cried.
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Steven Erlanger
3 years
it's all those EU tanks that are so terrifying
@JuditVarga_EU
Judit Varga
3 years
We remember the Hungarian freedom fighters who faced Soviet tanks on the streets in Budapest. We said no to the Soviet empire & we say no to the #imperial ambitions of #Brussels .
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Steven Erlanger
1 year
important step, if late and quiet. will germany follow?
@AmbDanFried
Daniel Fried
1 year
The US sends ATACMS to Ukraine quietly. And we hear of it when Ukraine launches successful attacks. Good move by Biden’s team.
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Steven Erlanger
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“The U.S. looks more fragile in part because it lacks the social structures we have in Europe,” said @MarietjeSchaake “There is comfort in knowing that there is a bottom, a net that will catch you.’’
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