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The Israeli government is now completely open about its objective in Gaza: to make it unlivable and thereby force two million people to leave their homes.
This is a crime against humanity under the Rome charter of the ICC. It is publicly announced.
Will the ICC react? Will the
Smotrich agrees with
@mashagessen
that Gaza is a ghetto: "If we act strategically they will emigrate and we will live there. We won't let 2 million stay. With 100-200K in Gaza, the 'day after' debate will be diff. They want to leave, they've been living in a ghetto for 75 years."
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Video-Botschaft an Boris Pistorius: grosser, tiefer Dank.
Ihor Schaloba: 59 Jahre, zwei Töchter, Universitäts-Professor & pan-Europäer.
Seit Februar 2022 Soldat in 🇺🇦Territorialverteidigung. Seine Einheit kämpfte bei Bachmut.
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🇷🇺: this is what total diplomatic isolation looks like.
Remaining friends: North Korea, Eritrea, Belarus, Syria.
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It happened.
Russia is suspended & on way out of
@coe
.
42 of 47 members for this.
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@ReinhardVeser
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@ronzheimer
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This is a historic decision, which member states need to take this afternoon.
It is a sad day for 🇪🇺 but a strong signal that 🇷🇺 will not stop the
@coe
defending the values Putin attacks.
It will help 🇺🇦 only if other 🇪🇺 institutions act as swiftly!
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Es bricht jede Schamgrenze.
„Wo steht, dass man auf die nicht schießen darf“ fragt mich ein Bürger auf meiner Facebook Seite.
Ich habe auf dem Balkan in 90er Jahren erlebt, wie brüchig das Eis der Zivilisation ist. Überall.
Das steht hier heute an EU Grenzen auf dem Spiel.
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Das ist - das Wort mit Bedacht gewählt - niederträchtig.
Was für ein moralischer Abgrund.
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EU Kosovo strategy: bully a former political prisoner of Milosevic,
@albinkurti
, while charming Milosevic‘s minister from the 1999 Kosovo war.
This is shortsighted & dangerous, pouring oil into a fire.
@Andric1961
@thkirchner
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@ecfr
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🇽🇰
Nenad Rašić, Serb minister in Kosovo government:
„I as a Serb and my family as Serbs feel safer in Kosovo than in Serbia. As Oliver Ivanović once said before he was killed: Serbs in the north of Kosovo have no problem with Albanians. They have a problem with Srpska List and
🇽🇰 Correcting a mistake
EU „sanctions“ against Kosovo should be lifted right away.
They were imposed by the EU to punish Pristina for not „de-escalating“ in North Kosovo … and withdrawing its police.
This was always unfair; keeping the measures one day longer now is absurd.
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I am ashamed of this message.
Ich schäme mich als Österreicher für diese Botschaft: mit Orban gegen 🇺🇦 & Zentraleuropa, als sicherheitspolitischer Trittbrettfahrer in 🇪🇺.
@GresselGustav
@vanderbellen
😠 Austria and Hungary will not send weapons to Ukraine "in order to avoid escalation," Austria's defense minister and her Hungarian counterpart have said at their meeting in Budapest.
More news here 👉
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Imagine 🇩🇪 insisting that „Austria acknowledges German roots“, threatening „tensions“ if it doesn‘t. Sweden doing this to Norway. Czechs telling this to Slovaks.
Absurd? Yes.
This is what 🇧🇬 is doing, demolishing credibility of EU Balkan policy.
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@ecfr
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On future of this 🇽🇰🇷🇸 dialogue
It is pointless & counterproductive, as long as Serbian government
- refuses to renounce (constant) threats of military action against 🇽🇰.
- lies about pogroms in 🇽🇰, which do not exist.
- refuses to sign Ohrid Agreement.
This 🇺🇸🇪🇺 strategy
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🇵🇱
That is the tweet❤️
Let's hope first indications are confirmed.
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To Kosovo in the Council of Europe
(Soon!)
gëzuar!
And well done
@albinkurti
@VjosaOsmaniPRKS
@gervallaschwarz
@Petrit
@FrankSchwabe
@Knut_Abraham
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It was uncomfortably close …
👇
If President Biden didn’t win the election, it’s likely the world would be in chaos right now. Ukraine would have been left to be overtaken the Russians. Putin would be threatening the entire West. Instead, Ukraine stands strong. Putin has never been weaker. Democracy lives.
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🇽🇰 Correcting a mistake
EU „sanctions“ against Kosovo should be lifted right away.
They were imposed by the EU to punish Pristina for not „de-escalating“ in North Kosovo … and withdrawing its police.
This was always unfair; keeping the measures one day longer now is absurd.
Absurdity
EU sanctions against Kosovo.
First victim: 🇽🇰 Serb minister Nenad Rasic, who had meetings in Brussels on 19 June to discuss support for Serb minority with EU officials.
Meetings were then cancelled by EU!?
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A very good day for human rights in Europe!
🇪🇺🇽🇰
🇽🇰🇪🇺 🥳
PACE strongly recommends: Kosovo should join the Council of Europe: 131 to 29.
The assembly wrote history today.
Congratulations 🇽🇰 &
@coe
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The current proposal from Serbia (from May 2023) for a super-centralized ASM - Association of Serb Majority municipalities - has a goal: to put someone like Milan Radoicic in control of Kosovo Serbs, after destroying all municipal autonomy.
As pretext to prepare to separate
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RIP
My dad was killed by Russian fascists when he was crossing a street at midday in the city where he lived for 50 years. He didn’t want to leave. Fleeing wasn’t his style. RIP Dad. I love you ❤️
#russiawarcrimes
#Severodonetsk
#RussiaUkraineWar
#StopPutin
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Es ist die gleiche Strategie wie 9/11: durch unsägliche, unvorstellbare Brutalität gegen Unschuldige eine ganze Welt in Flammen zu versetzen.
Damals Bin Laden, heute Hamas.
Ich habe nun einige der Bodycam-Videos der Hamas gesehen. Es ist kaum auszuhalten.
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Wagenknecht/Schwarzer/Chrupalla: ein Manifest, die Ukraine Putin zu opfern.
Ehrlicher wäre, dies dann auch so zu präsentieren. Es geht nicht um Frieden, sondern um Kapitulation.
Zum Glück lehnt die grosse Mehrheit in 🇩🇪🇪🇺 dies ab.
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This would be terrible, trust among EU members destroyed for a long time, if 🇷🇺 would be seen to win.
Instability could spread fast to other regions, where EU policy has been incoherent for years (Balkans). Sense of 🇪🇺 betrayal in 🇺🇦 would be devastating.
It must not happen.
The mood in Moscow is swinging back to “we can win this thing”. This is very dangerous.
To all who currently think aloud about 🇺🇦 giving up territory to end the war, the West provoking 🇷🇺 too hard or irreversibly pushing it into China’s arms, (1/8)
#RussiainvadesUkraine
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Unseriös, in Ton & Inhalt 👇
Die Botschaft: soll Putin doch gewinnen …
Es handelt sich hier um den blutigsten Krieg in Europa seit 1945; von ständigen Verbrechen begleitet; mit dem Ziel, ein Volk (🇺🇦) auszulöschen.
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Das emotionalste Interview gestern auf
@ORF
mit
@ArminWolf
- was in Ägäis auf dem Spiel steht. Diese Krise ist lösbar.
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Done 🥳
This is a powerful recommendation from Paris for Kosovo to join Council of Europe - despite Easter holiday keeping many MPs away.
31 in favor
4 against
Strong signal to 🇪🇺
Very well done
@Dora_Bakoyannis
@PACE_News
🇽🇰🇪🇺
Tomorrow in Paris presentation of report by
@Dora_Bakoyannis
in committee: based on
@coe
criteria, it will recommend for Kosovo to join the Council of Europe now.
The vote in PACE plenary in Strasbourg will then take place in April.
Serbia committed in 2023 not to block
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Moving gesture. What courage!
While news from Iran is awful.
Iranian team refused to sing the official Iranian anthem at
#FIFAWorldCup2022
as a sign of support for protesters in their homeland.
Admire everyone who is fighting for freedom and democracy! The price of freedom is so high but it's the only option.
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Kosovo is blocked everywhere; the EU grants visa free travel to Ukraine & Moldova but NOT to Kosovo, even after meeting all conditions; the only offer to Pristina is „give up territory & resources in return for normalization“. This does not look like a promising strategy
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Hubris
How
@amnesty_de
@amnestyfrance
@AgnesCallamard
is destroying its credibility.
@Markus__Lanz
@thkirchner
@KenRoth
@RoryStewartUK
@Maximilian_Popp
@Andric1961
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Absurdity
EU sanctions against Kosovo.
First victim: 🇽🇰 Serb minister Nenad Rasic, who had meetings in Brussels on 19 June to discuss support for Serb minority with EU officials.
Meetings were then cancelled by EU!?
@ExtSpoxEU
@MiRo_SPD
@ToniHofreiter
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Instead of talking about Rwanda, it is good to talk with Rwandans: leaders, civil servants, tech entrepreneurs, farmers.
🇷🇼🇩🇪🇪🇺
Instead of talking about refugees and asylum seekers in Rwanda it is good to talk with those now there: from DRC or evacuated from Libya.
🧵 summary
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Es geht um Abschiebungen rechtmässig Ausreisepflichtiger, dh weder um Flüchtlinge noch um Asylsuchende. Und alles was hier beschlossen wurde ist im Rahmen bestehenden EU Asylrechts.
Ehrliche Frage: Was daran ist eine „Entrechtung“?
Wo wird Recht gebrochen, oder Grundrechte
Jetzt kommt das nächste Asylpaket auf nationaler Ebene. Mehr Abschiebungen, mehr Entrechtung von Geflüchteten.
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“Can 🇺🇦 join the EU?”
But the urgent question is: will EU give 🇺🇦 in 2022 what it gave 🇲🇰 2005 & 🇲🇪 2010: candidate status?
If NOT, it is a slap which no flowery rhetoric of “EU family”, “EU perspective” will undo. A 🇪🇺 gift to Putin.
@fromTGA
@mathieuvonrohr
@ronzheimer
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🇪🇺🇽🇰🇩🇪
The test is next week. Will 🇩🇪 fail it?
Right now, 🇩🇪🇫🇷 & 🇮🇹 plan to veto the recommendation by 82 percent of MPs in PACE, which followed the most meritocratic scrutiny by three committees and experts.
It would be a diplomatic Waterloo.
After this, why trust in the
Happy Europe Day🇪🇺
Germany 🇩🇪 keeps supporting Kosovo 🇽🇰 on its way towards the EU 🇪🇺.
Without the Western Balkan countries, the European project is not complete.
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As predicted 👇 today another failure
WHY in a nutshell:
🇷🇸 did not accept March 2023 Ohrid agreement. FM Dacic said it again yesterday! Serb leaders say it in Belgrade ever week on TV.
EU is too divided to either pressure or reward any change in 🇷🇸 behavior. It is doing
Today‘s resumption of 🇽🇰🇷🇸 dialogue will almost certainly prove once again that the current format of EU-led dialogue is doomed.
It needs a different process: dialogues between 🇪🇺🇽🇰 and between 🇪🇺🇷🇸, both within the framework of a genuine accession process.
Focused on removing
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This bus = the state of Balkan EU accession process.
🇲🇪 sits near the front row.
🇷🇸 just behind.
🇦🇱🇲🇰 handcuffed (why?) together in the back. They try hard now to move up one row.
🇧🇦🇽🇰 sit in the very back.
But: NOBODY is going anywhere, as THIS BUS HAS NO WHEELS.
Until when?
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Paying respects today.
We first met ~ 30 years ago; I was bringing some money from 🇦🇹 Caritas to a humanitarian organisation supporting truly desperately poor people in this city.
Memories of an occupied city; of news on TV of carnage in Bosnia. Dark clouds.
How far 🇽🇰 came.
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🇧🇦 Good morning! After great news on 🇺🇦🇲🇩, it is vital Bosnia is given candidate status next week. It deserves it. It is very much in 🇪🇺 interest.
@a_schallenberg
@W_Schmidt_
@ABaerbock
@ManuelSarrazin
@josattler
@NathalieTocci
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How this war could end - best case
Russian soldiers drive up to
#Ukraine
🇺🇦positions with a white flag tied to their tank and get out and surrender.
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Some EU states - breaking with idea of a merit based process linked to human rights standards - are preparing to block a vote on Kosovo to join the council of Europe in May.
How this can help anyone, including minorities in Kosovo, remains unfathomable. It could well be the end
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Wir kommen noch auf >50.000. Bitte helft uns dabei!
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@faznet
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@KaiDiekmann
@szmicha
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Or: this admission, following a murder & military failure, shows the reality of these relations: Vucic was preparing for war the whole time.
The doomed EU-led 🇽🇰🇷🇸 dialogue was simply his shield to do so. Srpska Lista was the tool.
For years, Serb leaders in kosovo not
It’s hard to overstate how bad the admission by Milan Radoicic (via his lawyer) that he organized Sunday’s attack is for Kosovo Serb-Albanian relations. Years of efforts (including international ones) to bridge the gap dissipated within a few days.
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Die Lehre aus dem 20 Jahrhundert und aus dem Holocaust ist die Verteidigung der Menschenrechte für alle 👇
@Deborah_Feldman
„Ich bin der festen Überzeugung, dass es nur eine einzige legitime Lehre des Holocaust gibt. Und das ist, die absolute bedingungslose Verteidigung der Menschenrechte für alle. Punkt.“
@Deborah_Feldman
bei
#Lanz
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Pro-Moscow anti-government demonstrations in central Chisinau growing bigger.
Social distress is real. Gas prices of consumers increases six-fold in one year; electricity supply at real risk this winter. Caused & exploited by Kremlin.
EU MUST step up … and it is not.
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Binnengrenzkontrollen, die irgendeine Wirkung haben sollen, bedeuten das Ende von Schengen, erfordern einen Bundesgrenzschutz und Zäune rund um Deutschland.
Die demokratischen Parteien stolpern gerade in diese Falle.
Und selbst diese Binnenkontrollen werden scheitern, wenn
Für mich als 1989-er ist die faktische Aufkündigung von Schengen bitter. Sehr bitter.
Für mich war, ist und bleibt Europa ein Projekt der grenzenlosen Freiheit ohne Mauern und Zäune im Innern. Ich bin gespannt, wie das mit „smarten Grenzkontrollen“ funktionieren soll.
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Die „Grundüberzeugung Putins und seiner Entourage: dass es die Ukraine als unabhängigen Staat schlicht nicht geben darf.“
@EFDavies
Darum ging es, darum geht es, in diesem Krieg.
Im letzten Mai habe ich mir über diese Frage bei
@zeitgeschichte
Gedanken gemacht: "Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine und die deutsche Erinnerungskultur: 5/5
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This is wrong.
And a mistake.
@bueti
@AnnaLuehrmann
@ToniHofreiter
@MiRo_SPD
@FrankSchwabe
@ditmirbushati
🔴VIDEO:
EU Commission to launch sanctions against Kosovo as of this week blaming its government over tensions in northern municipalities with Serbia -backed Serbs.
EC's Director-General of DG NEAR Gert Jan Koopman tells MEPs of "temporary and reversible ... measures" ...
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Protests in Moscow and St Petersburg today have grown pretty large. People chanting “No to War!” Dozens of arrests reported
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Humiliation without showing any respect.
This would not happen in Brussels to any Balkan leader. Which is a very good thing.
Now back to serious diplomacy (which is not about national elections.)
@MiroslavLajcak
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In recent days discussing leopard battle tanks for 🇺🇦 issue with many in 🇵🇱, 🇸🇪, 🇳🇴, 🇫🇮, 🇳🇱.
Explained how in all 4 democratic parties leading voices in bundestag called on Germany to supply them now.
So what might make it happen? 🧵
Overview of voices
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So sieht es aus, wenn sich Buch-Abgabe deadline (zur Zukunft Europas) nähert …
Es gab heute einige Anfragen etwas zu Abschiebungen / Migration zu sagen. Ich danke allen Medien für das Interesse!
Ich bin leider gerade unfähig etwas anderes zu sehen als diese Drafts
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Serbia crossed two red lines recently:
- a physical attack on KFOR in 🇽🇰.
- kidnapping Kosovo police inside 🇽🇰, violating agreement KFOR-Serbia.
It “worked”.
🧵 in 🇧🇦🇽🇰: the EU lost influence on all actors.
This will get worse unless EU realizes the root of its problem.
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🇩🇪🇽🇰🇪🇺
Speech on Kosovo and the Council of Europe in the Bundestag by
@albinkurti
More in 🧵 on the issue:
🦄
What IS a “Community of Serb-majority municipalities” in Kosovo?
Is it even a thing?
Or, like a unicorn, something that does not exist anywhere in the real world?
An “Association of Serb-majority municipalities” IS a thing.
But who can create it?
101 on a masterclass
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🇦🇹 Wann tritt dieser Mann zurück? Oder wird dazu überredet?
Für andere - auch in seiner Partei
@OEVPinEuropa
- muss das doch beschämend sein?
@karlnehammer
@k_edtstadler
@othmar_karas
@lukasmandl
@gerold_rie
@nowak_rainer
@ArminWolf
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🇪🇺🇽🇰
Report by 🇬🇷 rapporteur, former FM
@Dora_Bakoyannis
:
“17. The Assembly, therefore, recommends that the Committee of Ministers:
17.1. invite Kosovo to become a member of the Council of Europe with the name “Kosovo”;
17.2. allocate 3 seats”
@coe
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🇪🇺🇽🇰
Important week in Strasbourg, where the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will vote on Kosovo joining it.
There is reason to be optimistic that the last European democracy not yet in the
@coe
will join it soon. In interest of human rights of all.
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🇦🇹 sollte sich an den Aufnahmen von Kindern aus 🇬🇷 beteiligen, wie 🇩🇪🇮🇪🇫🇮🇫🇷.
Es gab & gibt weltweit Elend. Doch als der barmherzige Samariter den Mann in Not sah, half er, weil er konnte. Moria ist in der 🇪🇺. Wir können das Elend vor dem Winter beenden.
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Weil die Gegenargumente nicht überzeugen!
@robinalexander_
Thread.
1. Es geht im Ringen der Kommission mit 🇵🇱 Regierung um einen in 🇪🇺 beispiellosen Vorgang: das Abschaffen richterlicher Unabhängigkeit auf allen Ebenen seit 2015.
Konkret: der 🇵🇱 Justizminister Ziobro kann ...
Irritierende Einmütigkeit im deutschen Kommentariat zum obersten Gericht in Polen. Finde Gegenargumente nur bei Christoph von Marschall im Pro&Contra des
@Tagesspiegel
. Habe ich etwas übersehen? 🇩🇪🇵🇱
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Fascism in Moscow, 2022
Kremlin crooner Oleg Gazmanov at the pro-war rally Putin went to yesterday singing “Ukraine and Crimea, Belarus and Moldova, that is my country.” This clip was sent to me by an acquaintance in Chișinău where it’s being shared with increasing alarm.
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Fascism
More genocidal rhetoric on Russian state TV: hosts and pundits repeatedly assert that Ukraine no longer exists, Ukrainians who refuse to see themselves as Russians and fight back against the invasion are described as Nazis and compared to insects (bugs, worms). Here's an example:
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Was Krisen zeigen: die EU ist kein Staat & wird nie einer werden. Sie ist Rahmen für freiwillige Kooperation zwischen Demokratien, wo diese das wollen.
Darin ist sie genial, unverzichtbar. Wer aber mehr erwartet, wird in jeder Krise enttäuscht werden.
@ArminWolf
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🇪🇺🇽🇰
Council of Europe, Strasbourg
Gaining momentum before historic vote in plenary tomorrow on Kosovo joining
@coe
A few weeks ago, the political committee voted in Paris to admit Kosovo: 31 to 4 voted for.
Today the legal committee voted: unanimously!! How? Check👇
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🇽🇰🇩🇪👇
A dark day for the
@coe
.
13 states spoke out for Kosovo today.
🇩🇪🇫🇷 did not.
On this:
More soon.
The government's failure to admit Kosovo to the Council of Europe today after over 80 percent approval in the Parliamentary Assembly is a serious mistake. Kosovo fulfills the obligations set by the Parliamentary Assembly.
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🇽🇰🇪🇺 🥳
PACE strongly recommends: Kosovo should join the Council of Europe: 131 to 29.
The assembly wrote history today.
Congratulations 🇽🇰 &
@coe
@D_Schwarzer
@fromTGA
@RoryStewartUK
🇪🇺🇽🇰
Last reflections before historic debate on Kosovo accession to the
@coe
starting NOW.
2/3 need to be in favor.
It will be a long and intense debate, with many speakers, including from Kosovo & Serbia:
@timjudah1
@VSurroi
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Es war mir eine Ehre, Freude & Inspiration!
Ihor kommt aus Czernowitz, wo er 1993/94 an der historischen Fakultät unterrichtete, als ich an der Wirtschaftsfakultät Vorlesungen hielt.
1994: das Jahr des Budapest Memorandum
@CzernowitzDe
@LeonidL
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Wenn Deutsche Putins Kriegverbrechen in der Ukraine leugnen, relativieren und “erklären“. Es bleibt unbegreiflich.
Mit
@ClaudMajor
@EvaQuadbeck
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Showing solidarity with Kosovo, 🇲🇰, 🇲🇩: German minister of agriculture
@cem_oezdemir
on a timely & important visit.
It really makes no sense at all to continue EU „measures“ against Kosovo.
It is time to engage more, not less, with Pristina.
Bundesminister
@cem_oezdemir
bricht zu einem mehrtägigen Besuch nach
🇲🇰 Nordmazedonien, 🇽🇰 Kosovo und die 🇲🇩 Republik Moldau auf. Im Fokus stehen der 🇪🇺-Beitrittsprozess des Westbalkans & der agrarpolitische Dialog, den wir mit diesen Ländern intensivieren werden.
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Thanks to all for your birthday wishes.
Have a great weekend!
❤️ from sunny Vienna
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Putin will keep probing & trying this … in Italy, in Hungary, in Germany & Austria, in Bulgaria, elsewhere. Why not? It worked well in the past.
Could it have worked again in Rome? Are our democracies robust enough to resist?
@MichaelOThumann
@thkirchner
@fuecks
@CarloMasala1
Italy's LaStampa publishes confidential docs showing that at the end of May, Putin's emissary in Italy had private interlocution with Lega's leader Salvini where he asked if the party was going to withdraw support to Draghi's cabinet
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Breakthrough 🇽🇰🇪🇺
“In this regard, the Government of Kosova is preparing a draft Statute on the Association of Serb Majority Municipalities (in the context of obligations envisaged in articles 7 and 10), inspired by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, which will be submitted to the
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These numbers are fiction. Put simply: Orban lies.
But: this tactics worked for Trump, who got elected in 2016; they work for Orban, who is the longest serving prime minister in the EU. He will not change.
Only: why offer him a stage in 🇦🇹?
More:
@puls24news
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It is normal for human rights NGOs to be attacked. And reasonable people disagree on a lot. The world needs robust debate.
But making false claims about 🇺🇦, which is fighting a desperate war of self-defence, requires a correction. Not stubbornness.
@AmnestyEU
@AmnestyAustria
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What IS a “Community of Serb-majority municipalities” in Kosovo?
Is it even a thing?
Or, like a unicorn, something that does not exist anywhere in the real world?
An “Association of Serb-majority municipalities” IS a thing.
But who can create it?
101 on a masterclass
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Really worth reading. Despite deep differences on specific issues, one can still be on the same team, defending decency and core values. And aware of the imperfections of everything human, we can learn, grow respect and admire others. RIP.
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But it is not happening.
2022 Italy gives far less (1/5) the protection to refugees than Germany did; and had even fewer asylum applications in 2022 than Austria (!)
EU Asylum applications 2022:
🇩🇪 244,000
🇫🇷 156,000
🇪🇸 118,000
🇦🇹 112,000
🇮🇹 85,000
protection granted 2022:
Many Italians consider this a hostile act of Germany against their country - Berlin finances NGOs using ships to bring illegal migrants to Italy, even while trying to stop them from going on to Germany. Why on earth is this happening? (My impressions in Rome yesterday)
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"Setzt Russland
#Atomwaffen
ein, würden die westlichen Staaten ihre Rolle im
#Ukrainekrieg
fundamental überdenken", sagt die Militärexpertin
@ClaudMajor
(
@SWPBerlin
). "Die
#USA
würden deutlich aktiver intervenieren." Genau das wolle
#Putin
nicht.
#hartaberfair
@DasErste
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🇽🇰🇷🇸🇧🇦
New
@ESI_eu
- online later tonight
„Invented pogroms - Statistics, lies and confusion in Kosovo“
On a matter of great importance: how many Kosovo Serbs live in Kosovo?
How many left in recent years?
And how to explain these trends?
@adicerimagic
@kristofbender
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Good morning from Dublin, 🇮🇪🇪🇺.
By 5 July, ~ 42,000 🇺🇦 refugees arrived & got temporary protection in Ireland (🇬🇧 14X 🇮🇪 population: 92,000).
🇮🇪 is struggling with accommodation, yet support is strong. This matters, as it is likely many more will arrive in 2022.
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Another war in Balkans?
In July 2023, Vucic announced that - following sustained lies of invented „terror“ & „pogroms“ in Kosovo against Serbs - Serbia would intervene by military force.
@ESI_eu
described it here:
It was obvious. It was even
NSC Spokesman John Kirby just delivered an unusually specific warning about possible Serbian military action into Kosovo:
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Zehntausende, 20.000 allein auf Lesbos, mit völlig unzureichender Gesundheitsinfrastruktur, menschenunwürdige Bedingungen, ohne Unterstützung. Hinzu Panik, Angst unter Inselbewohnern, vor Hintergrund einer tödlichen Pandemie: ein Rezept für eine humanitäre Katastrophe.
“Sollte sich nämlich in den mit 40.000 Menschen vollkommen überfüllten Lagern auf den griechischen Inseln das Coronavirus verbreiten, wären Massenansteckung und Panik die Folge auch unter der ansässigen Bevölkerung.”
@akk
@ABaerbock
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„Remigration“ ist heute ein identitärer Kampfbegriff. So wie „grosser Austausch“ und „identitär“.
Es geht um Verbrechen. Nicht um legitime Politik.
Debatten über legale Abschiebungen, im Einklang mit internationalem Recht, benötigen den Begriff „Remigration“ nicht.
Es wäre
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There is no good argument to delay a vote on Kosovo joining the
@coe
:
@Dora_Bakoyannis
:
“No candidate member has ever been asked to undertake so many reforms before even being brought up for discussion on its accession to the Organization. This is probably why 83% of the
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Hm ...
Wann entschuldigen sich bei Trump jetzt all diese total parteiischen Pseudojournalisten, die davon gesprochen hatten, er sei ein „Hausbesetzer“, plane einen „Staatsstreich“ oder müsse mit einem „Swat“-Team aus dem Weissen Haus getragen werden?
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🇵🇱
Something similar is possible across Europe (and beyond):
Offers to host Ukrainians in Poland.
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Wenn verschiedene deutsche Bundesländer, Österreich & die Schweiz mit 🇬🇷 zusammenarbeiten würden, plus 🇫🇷🇸🇪🇫🇮, könnten fast alle der ~ 10,000 Kinder diese schnell verlassen.
@IOMGermany
@UNHCR_de
@JoachimStamp
@othmar_karas
@EKD
@KardinalWien
@ArminLaschet
@stluedke
@ronzheimer
Christian Konrad fordert laut einer Vorabmeldung v
@zeitonline
die Aufnahme von geflüchteten Menschen aus 🇬🇷. "Um substanziell unseren Beitrag zu leisten, sollten wir (Anm.: 🇦🇹) um die 400 Menschen aufnehmen."
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🇽🇰 presented implementation plan of 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇫🇷 Ohrid agreement.
Serbia will not sign Ohrid or agree to implement it.
It wants Kosovo to meet one commitment, and commits to nothing.
Outcome: totally predictable.
Acrimony. Every such meetings increases tensions.
@MiRo_SPD
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NEW Please share:
@ESI_eu
Kosovo as 47th member of
@coe
.
@KatiPiri
@erionveliaj
@ditmirbushati
@vpusic
@fbieber
@fromTGA
@RoryStewartUK
@albinkurti
@VALERIEinNYT
@thkirchner
@MichaelOThumann
@fuecks
@FrankSchwabe
@Knut_Abraham
@ArminLaschet
@KonstantinKuhle
@Dunja_Mijatovic
@hrw
This makes Kosovo’s position outside
@coe
bizarre.
Kosovo backs 🇪🇺🇬🇧 in foreign policy.
There will are the votes in
@coe
to admit it. Do it now. Put Kosovo’s accession to the vote.
@tobiaslindner
@AnnaLuehrmann
@CBeaune
@nouripour
@JoWadephul
@MiRo_SPD
@trussliz
@Andric1961
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KFOR was never and can never be a police.
It is a transparent ploy by Vucic to replace Kosovo (official) police with the informal control through Radoicic and his friends.
And prepare a violent take-over.
@erionveliaj
@ditmirbushati
@ManuelSarrazin
@ToniHofreiter
@vpusic
KFOR mission dismisses Serbian and Albanian calls for it to start policing the restive Serb-majority north of Kosovo, saying these duties are 'the exclusive prerogative of the Kosovo Police'.
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Leader of
@spd
@larsklingbeil
calls on Gerhard Schröder to immediately resign from all positions in Russian companies, saying it is long overdue (überfällig).
Yes, it is.
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After 9/11 the West took a different approach towards those hosting Bin Laden & other architects of the attack.
Astonishing that there are no immediate sanctions threats against those who host the Hamas leader. And demands to hand him over for trial.
Why?
@ronzheimer
Ein Terroristenführer bei bester Laune in dem Land, in dem unsere Fußball-WM stattfand und das 5 Jahre Hauptsponsor des FC Bayern war. Wen wundert es eigentlich noch, dass niemand den Westen (mehr) ernst nimmt? Sie haben erst unsere Wirtschaft, dann unsere Politik und schließlich
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It is hard to watch this.
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🇺🇦 Maidan in Kyiv. A European dream.
Chilling. Deeply moving.
And a call to all in 🇪🇺 to do more, much more, to help.
@mijoste
@RoryStewartUK
@b_judah
@fromTGA
@rozathun
🎶 Free notes.
Beethoven’s
#OdeToJoy
played by members of the Kyiv Classic Symphony Orchestra in Maidan Square in the centre of their besieged city today.
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This position of Serbian prime minister
@anabrnabic
is confused.
The
@coe
is no subsidiary of other institutions. It has its own procedures and standards, rooted in the ECHR.
Eminent lawyers wrote a very detailed report on 🇽🇰. Eminent rapporteurs checked standards. PACE will
Well, you should know a thing or two about bluffing and lying - you did not just bluff, you outright lied about the establishment of the Community of Serbian Municipalities, which is a backbone of the Brussels Agreement.
In less than a month, on 19th April, we will mark ELEVEN
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