Jack Schickler
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Financial services correspondent at Euronews. Previously CoinDesk, MLex. Also found where skies are blue.
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Potential next French Prime Minister Jordan Bardella (28) is in Celsius what Joe Biden (82) is in Fahrenheit
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Yesterday's false "We're from Europe" front page quietly corrected on page 2 of today's Mail
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Not the worst parking I’ve seen in Brussels but really
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AFAICT, the first visible change in EU policy as a direct result of UK losing its veto
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I commend the
@hmtreasury
press officer who quite correctly realised the word "today" just wouldn't fit with the general medieval vibe of this press release
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I’m not saying the Green Deal is dead but the European Parliament has its outdoor heaters on 3 days from summer
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In the most macabre customs-related case you ever heard of, the EU's highest court has been asked to decide whether a hearse is for transporting people (HS8703) or goods (HS8704)
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Whatever happened to the Sablon!? it used to be such a lovely car park
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WHICH FSB IS THIS PRESS RELEASE FROM?
~ a field guide, per topic ~
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@thetyronwilson
@Lucywwatson
even if you allow that... £12,500/month spending money is still quite a lot?
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@CraigWinneker
@lighghghght
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow? I’m afraid you’ll have to check with my diary secretary
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So France will basically have formed, unformed and reformed 16 different political groups before Ireland has even picked its MEPs, huh
#EUelections
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Over 5% of drivers tested in Brussels on Saturday night were driving drunk. FIVE PERCENT
La nuit du samedi 8/10 une action alcool et drogues au volant a été menée sur notre territoire (place Poelaert - boulevard Baudoin) sur 1109 tests, 58 positifs pour alcool dont 7 retraits de permis (record 1.11 mg/l)
#las
écuritédanslacirculation
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This claim from
@brandonlewis
seems very transparently false, given that the NI Protocol was very obviously intended as, and universally known as, a "backstop" i.e. to be used should other measures not take effect
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The list of things reopening in Belgium as of next week is properly mad. the world’s most elaborate stag night
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UK VAT revenue: £125 billion
Revenue lost to intra-EU VAT fraud: £45 billion
Number of businesses facing new VAT paperwork post-Brexit: 145,000
Complexity of VAT: extreme
Number of words dedicated in Govt white paper: 80.
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Not saying
#EUelections
are like a house party, but the Dutch start right on the dot while the Italians are last to finish
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Can someone please explain to me the term "cherry picking." Is there something wrong with picking cherries. Are you supposed to also be eating the branches or what.
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German banks have been cheating on their stress tests, buying back risky assets as soon as the ECB review is over, a
@bundesbank
study shows.
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Exclusive images of the sermon offered to the EU’s saviour at the Church of the Holy European last night
#nerdpromEU
#PressRevue
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Belgium managed 100,000 vaccinations for the first time on Thursday. (Friday figure likely to rise further).
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I am obliged to point out that my maths is terrible and Joe Biden is in fact 81
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Data Protection of the Year Award goes to the EU Court of Justice, who label the Latvian central bank governor who left office in 2019 as "AB" to prevent anyone from deducing his/her identity
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Brexit has caused 24 banks and €1.2 trillion in assets to move from the UK to the eurozone, says EU's head banking supervisor Andrea Enria
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The
@eu_commission
canteen doesn’t accept cash, admits
@VDombrovskis
as he presents a new law to make it compulsory to accept cash
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@DannyBate4
Words described as “masculine” and “feminine” are not really male and female, they just needed names for the two classes
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My ha’penny worth on
@DLidington
:
1. He has a firm handshake, during which he says “David Lidington” very fast.
2. Everyone, but everyone, in and outside Whitehall, spells his name wrong.
That’s your lot.
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And no doubt a shot across the bows to Singapore-on-Thames itself
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PIZZA GUY: you get a free soft drink with your order
ME: Um, Jupiler?
PG: Sure
Bloody love Belgium
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No kidding, a guy just slowed his car, wound his window down, and asked if I could give him directions to Paris. In Brussels city centre.
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@jonworth
I'm old enough to remember when an active police investigation into a politician, without that politician denying the substantive facts, might be a resignation issue
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@anandMenon1
@portraitinflesh
There is nothing problematic about something my newspaper's editorial policy will not allow me to name, she writes
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@GameGriffin
@twlldun
I watched it in Belgium, rather sweetly the title got its own subtitle ("Dunkerque")
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c.10 yrs ago a group of people complained
@KimDarroch
was a bad diplomat because he had gone native in Brussels. Exact same group are now complaining he has not gone native enough.
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That is ....quite a quote
German Chamber of commerce says extension to article 50 a bad idea. ‘Better a horrible ending than unending horror’ says Volker Treier of DIHK
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Just took part in the clinical trial of CureVac, from Tübingen, Germany. The nurse said, that there a risk of side effects is. If I any have, must I them inform.
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More particularly: we lost 72 out of the 72 we lost, and 2466 of the 2466 we won.
We've lost 72 out of 72 votes in the EU Council of Ministers. Some influence...
#ITVEURef
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Just glanced at my CV and discovered I've had 15 separate jobs during the period in which Angela Merkel did exactly one. Honestly was she stuck in a career rut or what
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Welcome to Brussels, pedestrian assault-course capital of the world
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“Communicaction” DEAR GOD
📝Registration for
#EuroPCom
is now open!
Join for Workshops, Talks and Ideas Labs around three key themes: Citizens, Green and Digital + for virtual networking!
👉!
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@profmusgrave
The wicked witch of the West. They did kill her sister, and the munchkins seemed happy enough.
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Absolutely stunning turn of phrase in this email I just got. Euro-English poetry
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For those journos wondering what the "Basel III" package on the
@EU_Commission
agenda is today, it's a bit like Godfather III, long-anticipated but ultimately failing to deliver on the promise
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people say the EU is unnecessarily bureaucratic, but these committee minutes were approved AND published in less than 33 months
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NEW: After more than 2.5 years, the
@EBA_News
has finally agreed to publish details of its contentious vote on a probe into money laundering at Danske Bank
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The
@ecb
is predicting* the euro area will reach herd immunity (and overtake the US/UK) in early July
(*based on vaccination rates in the 2 weeks to 11 May)
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From 1 September, Belgium is lifting all remaining restrictions on bars and restaurants.
Except in Brussels, as vaccine rates are too low.
Hard to see why collective punishment is fairer than vaccine passports
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Date for your diaries: the final EU court judgement in Commission v Ireland, Apple's €13bn tax case, is due 10 September
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France was the lone country to support the view of EBA staff that letting €200bn of dodgy Russian money pass unchecked might maybe have broken laundering laws
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The
@EU_Commission
can’t say how its 27 members voted on the green finance taxonomy because the question is too complicated and it will take more than 3 weeks to figure it out 🤷♂️
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Could anyone who calls
@guyverhofstadt
“unelected” kindly explain what his grinning mug is doing outside my flat
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The European Commission posted a picture of a black person on Instagram and the racists are having a totally normal one
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It’s official: central Brussels will be fully pedestrian-priority, as of next week
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I realise it’s a privilege when others choose to speak your language but honestly I have no idea what this is supposed to mean
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None of the seats formally occupied by Truss, Johnson, Cameron, May or Thatcher are now Conservative
#UKElection2024
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A European Commission Director General / former chief of staff to the President has just been appointed judge at the EU court. Is there any other jurisdiction where this would be considered normal?
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Official Belgian health advice promotes the eating of ice cream, waffles and hamburgers, and it’s just another reason to ♥️ 🇧🇪
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Belgium has explicitly banned “recreational shopping,” whatever that is. Just hand over your money and quit smiling
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I am in a bar and, ladies and gentleman, it is magnificent
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I'd just like to point out that it's now 6:14 and the
@europarl
debate on work-life balance and the right to switch off, due to end half an hour ago, is still going on
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#eurovision2024
: the public gave 12 points, first place, to Israel in every single one of the EU’s founding member states
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BREAKING: Sean Berrigan won't have to resign as head of
@EU_Finance
if
@MaireadMcGMEP
gets the job,
@EU_Commission
spokesperson says.
Convention that the two can't have same passport only applies "when you need to choose a new director general," says
@MamerEric
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(News to me.)
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@roryisconfused
it's a 3 step process. Change name; new name gradually gets used in the same way as the old one; new name acquires same perjorative connotations ; repeat.
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The questions asked at EU-bubble election debates are not like the questions asked at other election debates
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An anecdote about the BBC and soft power: in my first job at the EU commission (2011), my boss stormed into my office to ask why he suddenly couldn’t get the World Service any more.
He was and is Chief of Staff to Maroš Šefčovič
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Just read about the most enchanting EU VAT case, a modern day fable
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Wonder if
@MKarnitschnig
thinks the
@HouseofCommons
, which does not meet this test, is a “real legislature”
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Just witnessed a tram stunt race in pouring rain commentated like it was the World Cup.
BELGITUDE LEVEL REACHED: BOSS
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When you're far, at arm's length
I will never feel pleasance
For I'll only value
Your physical presence
#TaxValentines
@SoongJohnston
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There's bloodymindedness, and then there's this guy in Germany who's gone all the way to the EU's top court to defend his right to pay for his €52.50 TV licence in cash
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On a quiet Friday afternoon that is a bank holiday in much of Europe, the Commission proposed to delay its rules requiring tax avoidance schemes to be reported to the government.
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Today's big slow handclap goes to
@hmtreasury
which has this morning put out eleven (11) new FS and tax reforms and made zero (0) press officers available to explain them
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Their mail subscription service is asking me how I first heard about the European Parliament, and honestly I’m at a loss
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Belgium was supposed to reopen outdoor drinking and dining this week but then they decided it would be too awkward if it rained. In retrospect this was the only possible outcome
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Here it is. Shows Denmark and Estonia, the two regulators accused of breaking EU law, took part in the vote. Judges at their own trial.
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@Louiestowell
@Charlottehugh1
It only accepts “lawyer” and “doctor” right? Think I know which mother coded this
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My top 3 EU banking predictions for 2021:
- Industry lobbyists will argue Brussels should ignore global bank-capital rules, and succeed
- A major bank will collapse & be bailed out with public money
- EU policymakers will vow to never let this happen again
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UK: WE ARE BRITAIN, HEAR US ROAR
Also UK: ₐₐᵣₕ ₜₕₑ ₚₐₚₑᵣₛ, ₛₒ ₘₐₙᵧ, ₜₕₑᵧ ₖᵢₗₗ ᵤₛ, ₚₗₑₐₛₑ ₘₐₖₑ ᵢₜ ₛₜₒₚ
End-June equivalence deadline was missed due to EU information request overload, according to City minister John Glen - Brussels sent 1000 pages of questionnaires to the UK whereas the UK sent just 1.5 pages of clarificatory questions
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How can VAT be a “stealth” tax? The T stands for tax, it’s hardly trying to hide
VAT has always been a stealth tax – it's about time we cut it | Zoe Williams
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