Yiannis Latoudis
@yiannisl.bsky.social
Politics & EU
Greek born and raised turned into a citizen of Brussels and THE bubble. #YNWA
Greek born and raised turned into a citizen of Brussels and THE bubble. #YNWA
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✍️ Trade agreements: key rights must be protected
As Labour plough ahead with international trade agreements they need to be careful not to compromise on human and working rights
By Tony Burke
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
As Labour plough ahead with international trade agreements they need to be careful not to compromise on human and working rights
By Tony Burke
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Trade agreements: key rights must be protected
As Labour plough ahead with international trade agreements they need to be careful not to compromise on human and working rights
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
May 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
✍️ Trade agreements: key rights must be protected
As Labour plough ahead with international trade agreements they need to be careful not to compromise on human and working rights
By Tony Burke
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
As Labour plough ahead with international trade agreements they need to be careful not to compromise on human and working rights
By Tony Burke
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
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The 20% tariffs on all 🇪🇺imports into🇺🇸 took effect this morning.
But while a delayed list of products targeted for retaliation in response to the US steel and aluminium tariffs launched a month ago is expected to be approved today, the EU is waiting before responding to last weeks's "Liberation Day"
But while a delayed list of products targeted for retaliation in response to the US steel and aluminium tariffs launched a month ago is expected to be approved today, the EU is waiting before responding to last weeks's "Liberation Day"
Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs against the EU take effect today - but no EU response yet
YouTube video by Dave Keating
youtube.com
April 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The 20% tariffs on all 🇪🇺imports into🇺🇸 took effect this morning.
But while a delayed list of products targeted for retaliation in response to the US steel and aluminium tariffs launched a month ago is expected to be approved today, the EU is waiting before responding to last weeks's "Liberation Day"
But while a delayed list of products targeted for retaliation in response to the US steel and aluminium tariffs launched a month ago is expected to be approved today, the EU is waiting before responding to last weeks's "Liberation Day"
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Bosnian political crisis spilled into EU press briefing
Bosnian political crisis spilled into EU press briefing
Bosnia's political crisis spilled into an EU press conference in Sarajevo on Tuesday, but there's little prospect of EU sanctions or arrest of secessionist Serb chiefs.
euobserver.com
April 9, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Bosnian political crisis spilled into EU press briefing
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Dit zijn de Belgische defensiebedrijven waarmee Zelensky een deal sluit
Dit zijn de Belgische defensiebedrijven waarmee Zelensky een deal sluit
Drie Belgische defensiebedrijven hebben een intentieverklaring ondertekend in Oekraïne. Sabena Engineering, John Cockerill Defense en Thales Belgium willen er een economische voet aan de grond krijgen.
ift.tt
April 9, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Dit zijn de Belgische defensiebedrijven waarmee Zelensky een deal sluit
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I suspect it's not at all "highly unlikely" but more at 50-50, and directly a function of how bad it gets with tariffs on European goods.
The Tánaiste Simon Harris has said that it is "highly unlikely" that US digital services will be targeted in the EU's response to tariffs. www.rte.ie/news/post/10...
Stock markets across the globe down amid tariff concern
Targeting digital services 'unlikely' - HarrisThe Tánaiste and Minister for and Trade has been making remarks in recent moments...The Tánaiste Simon Harris has said that it is "highly unlikely" that U...
www.rte.ie
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I suspect it's not at all "highly unlikely" but more at 50-50, and directly a function of how bad it gets with tariffs on European goods.
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Much has been said about Europe's military, economic and cultural dependency on America. But Europeans are also dependent on 🇺🇸 for something they do every day: credit/debit card transactions.
Here's why plans for European alternatives have so far failed:
Here's why plans for European alternatives have so far failed:
Can Europe free itself from Visa/Mastercard?
Europeans are dependent on American payment systems for their day-to-day commerce. What would happen if they suddenly didn't work? Christine Lagarde says a European payment system is urgently needed.
davekeating.substack.com
April 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Much has been said about Europe's military, economic and cultural dependency on America. But Europeans are also dependent on 🇺🇸 for something they do every day: credit/debit card transactions.
Here's why plans for European alternatives have so far failed:
Here's why plans for European alternatives have so far failed:
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Yes--Germany invented the modern university. In the 1930s its universities were the best in the world until the Nazis destroyed them. German universities have never recovered their preeminence. We risk repeating this history here in the US.
Germany still hasn’t fully recovered from expelling and killing so many of its top researchers back in 1933. A lot of brilliant minds were forced to leave—people who went on to do groundbreaking work in other countries, especially the U.S.
March 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Yes--Germany invented the modern university. In the 1930s its universities were the best in the world until the Nazis destroyed them. German universities have never recovered their preeminence. We risk repeating this history here in the US.
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A sheriff in Mississippi, the highest paid and most powerful public figure in his county, staffed his mother’s commercial chicken farm with inmates from the local jail and used taxpayer-purchased equipment to improve it, an investigation by The New York Times and Mississippi Today found.
Mississippi Sheriff Used Inmate Labor for Family Farm
In Mississippi, incarcerated trusties cleaned chicken houses, fixed cars and installed flooring for the benefit of a local sheriff and his associates, a new investigation found.
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
A sheriff in Mississippi, the highest paid and most powerful public figure in his county, staffed his mother’s commercial chicken farm with inmates from the local jail and used taxpayer-purchased equipment to improve it, an investigation by The New York Times and Mississippi Today found.
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Canadians are the top foreign buyers of US properties. But as trade tensions grow, some of Canada's snowbirds are reconsidering their lives in America: cnn.it/3QUZljj
Canada’s snowbirds reconsider calling the US their second home | CNN Business
Trade tensions and a war of words have caused many Canadians to avoid travel to the US. Some are weighing whether to sell vacation homes in the US, as well.
cnn.it
March 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Canadians are the top foreign buyers of US properties. But as trade tensions grow, some of Canada's snowbirds are reconsidering their lives in America: cnn.it/3QUZljj
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South Korean defense stocks are roaring ahead. Find more insight in today’s Chartbook Top Link. Link in comment.
March 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
South Korean defense stocks are roaring ahead. Find more insight in today’s Chartbook Top Link. Link in comment.
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<saves to show FOIA office>
Gabbard claims "there was no classified materials that was shared in that Signal chat."
March 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
<saves to show FOIA office>
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Trump's Social Security nominee just lied to the Finance Committee, claiming he hasn't been involved in any DOGE plans to gut Social Security. My office has a whistleblower that says otherwise. We brought the receipts.
BREAKING: BISIGNANO LIES UNDER OATH
@wyden.senate.gov: Were you involved in discussions about DOGE or any of the operations, personnel or management decisions with those working at Social Security?
Bisignano: No, sir.
Wyden: That sounds like a reassuring response. Unfortunately, it's not true.
@wyden.senate.gov: Were you involved in discussions about DOGE or any of the operations, personnel or management decisions with those working at Social Security?
Bisignano: No, sir.
Wyden: That sounds like a reassuring response. Unfortunately, it's not true.
March 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Trump's Social Security nominee just lied to the Finance Committee, claiming he hasn't been involved in any DOGE plans to gut Social Security. My office has a whistleblower that says otherwise. We brought the receipts.
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If Pete Hegseth had even a tiny bit of honor and sense of responsibility, then he would hand in his resignation this morning.
March 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
If Pete Hegseth had even a tiny bit of honor and sense of responsibility, then he would hand in his resignation this morning.
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Warner: And the idea somehow, well, none of this was classified, but we can't talk about it here. You can't have it both ways.
March 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Warner: And the idea somehow, well, none of this was classified, but we can't talk about it here. You can't have it both ways.
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Total incompetence, and gross negligence to put a legal point on it:
Trump WH "envoy Steve Witkoff was in Moscow, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, when he was included in a group chat with more than a dozen other top administration officials" discussing war plans on Signal.
Trump WH "envoy Steve Witkoff was in Moscow, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, when he was included in a group chat with more than a dozen other top administration officials" discussing war plans on Signal.
As top Trump aides sent texts on Signal, flight data show a member of the group chat was in Russia
As top Trump cabinet members sent texts in a Signal group chat, CBS News analysis shows one of them, Steve Witkoff, was in Russia.
www.cbsnews.com
March 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Total incompetence, and gross negligence to put a legal point on it:
Trump WH "envoy Steve Witkoff was in Moscow, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, when he was included in a group chat with more than a dozen other top administration officials" discussing war plans on Signal.
Trump WH "envoy Steve Witkoff was in Moscow, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, when he was included in a group chat with more than a dozen other top administration officials" discussing war plans on Signal.
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Three killed in Russian attack on Kyiv tonight. Including a father and his 5‑year‑old daughter. As a Ukrainian witnessing brutal escalation of Russian attack on civilians, I must ask: what fuels their growing boldness?
March 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Three killed in Russian attack on Kyiv tonight. Including a father and his 5‑year‑old daughter. As a Ukrainian witnessing brutal escalation of Russian attack on civilians, I must ask: what fuels their growing boldness?
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If Parisians vote in favour of the proposal, the 500 streets to be vegetated will bring the total of these "green lungs" to nearly 700, just over one-tenth of the capital's streets reut.rs/4bV2CZN
Paris residents to vote on making 500 more streets pedestrian
Parisians vote in a referendum on Sunday to decide whether an extra 500 of the city's streets should be pedestrianised and greened, in a new push by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.
reut.rs
March 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
If Parisians vote in favour of the proposal, the 500 streets to be vegetated will bring the total of these "green lungs" to nearly 700, just over one-tenth of the capital's streets reut.rs/4bV2CZN
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Approaching 70,000 views in around 48 hours......
Is Donald Trump a Russian agent?
Donald Trump’s unshakeable admiration for Vladimir Putin continues to raise eyebrows. Does Putin have a hold over Trump?
@anthonybylines.bsky.social @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Is Donald Trump a Russian agent?
Donald Trump’s unshakeable admiration for Vladimir Putin continues to raise eyebrows. Does Putin have a hold over Trump?
@anthonybylines.bsky.social @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Is Donald Trump a Russian agent?
Donald Trump’s unshakeable admiration for Vladimir Putin continues to raise eyebrows. Does Putin have a hold over Trump?
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
March 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Approaching 70,000 views in around 48 hours......
Is Donald Trump a Russian agent?
Donald Trump’s unshakeable admiration for Vladimir Putin continues to raise eyebrows. Does Putin have a hold over Trump?
@anthonybylines.bsky.social @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Is Donald Trump a Russian agent?
Donald Trump’s unshakeable admiration for Vladimir Putin continues to raise eyebrows. Does Putin have a hold over Trump?
@anthonybylines.bsky.social @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Surprise surprise… www.politico.eu/article/dona...
29 times Donald Trump did what Putin wanted
Whose side is he on? It’s hard to keep up, so here’s a handy guide to America’s new policy of close alignment with the Kremlin.
www.politico.eu
February 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Surprise surprise… www.politico.eu/article/dona...
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Which of these two sides is bottom of the championship?
February 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Which of these two sides is bottom of the championship?
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“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Former President Theodore Roosevelt, May 1918
― Former President Theodore Roosevelt, May 1918
February 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Former President Theodore Roosevelt, May 1918
― Former President Theodore Roosevelt, May 1918
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Sounds like a pretty big Privacy Act violation to me...
Musk staff have access to student aid data now.
February 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Sounds like a pretty big Privacy Act violation to me...
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Tomorrow, Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia permanently disconnect from Russia’s power grid.
An act of resistance against Russian influence & blackmail.
Meanwhile, Trump/Musk are doing all Putin wants.
- DOJ anti-corruption unit: SHUT
- FBI foreign influence taskforce: DISBANDED
- USAID: DISMANTLED
An act of resistance against Russian influence & blackmail.
Meanwhile, Trump/Musk are doing all Putin wants.
- DOJ anti-corruption unit: SHUT
- FBI foreign influence taskforce: DISBANDED
- USAID: DISMANTLED
Three NATO members still rely on Russia to manage their electricity grid. They’re about to pull the plug | CNN
Estonia, along with fellow Baltic states Latvia and Lithuania, is preparing finally to rid itself of one of the last vestiges of 50 years of Soviet occupation: an electricity grid controlled by Russia...
edition.cnn.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Tomorrow, Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia permanently disconnect from Russia’s power grid.
An act of resistance against Russian influence & blackmail.
Meanwhile, Trump/Musk are doing all Putin wants.
- DOJ anti-corruption unit: SHUT
- FBI foreign influence taskforce: DISBANDED
- USAID: DISMANTLED
An act of resistance against Russian influence & blackmail.
Meanwhile, Trump/Musk are doing all Putin wants.
- DOJ anti-corruption unit: SHUT
- FBI foreign influence taskforce: DISBANDED
- USAID: DISMANTLED
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And it has huge national security implications. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
February 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
And it has huge national security implications. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...