Two Russians and a Ukrainian arrested in a weapons depot in Albania claim to be “bloggers who photograph old communist buildings” despite spraying the guards with a paralyzing spray.

This does remind me (at least in terms of dumb excuses) of Salisbury 🤷‍♀️ albaniandailynews.com/news/incident-…

Seriously, this is what they went with?

When ‘Tsarbucks’ was right there for the taking?

“Solidarity with Sanna”

Women in Finland are posting videos of themselves partying while tagging Prime Minister Sanna Marin.

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THE COUNCIL OF THE EU NEGOTIATES & ADOPTS EU LAWS TOGETHER WITH THE EP BASED ON PROPOSALS FROM THE EU COMMISSION. NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL WHERE EU LEADERS MEET TO SET THE DIRECTION OF EU POLICY MAKING OR THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE WHICH IS NOT AN EU BODY AT ALL

A short explainer to the 'scandal' of Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin partying, for those who don't read Finnish.

1. Someone had leaked a video of Marin dancing with her friends.

May 18, 1905

Finnish PM Sanna Marin (left) at the Flow Festival

L’Allemagne, la Grèce, la Pologne, et dans les prochaines heures la Roumanie et l’Autriche : nos partenaires viennent en aide à la France face aux incendies. Merci à eux. La solidarité européenne est à l’œuvre !

Reads like it's been plucked out of a distopian novel, but it's Europe in 2022:
'In the southern city of Nuremberg, dried-out urban trees are being watered from municipal indoor swimming pools closed to save gas.'

Great piece by jon henley theguardian.com/environment/20…

The war in Ukraine is driving a #FoodCrisis .

In the The Europeans Podcast, IRP Co-Chair Janez Potočnik discusses how to ensure #FoodSecurity while continuing to act upon #ClimateChange and #BiodiversityLoss .🌾

The podcast: bit.ly/3zCOySY
[From 19:43 for Janez's interview]

Isochrones 😍 ! This map shows you how far a 5h train ride will take you, departing from any city in Europe.

chronotrains-eu.vercel.app

Inspired by Direkt Bahn Guru by Julius Tens.

❗EXCLUSIVE: We got our hands on the secretive 129 p. OLAF investigation into Frontex. It proves the Greek Coast Guard systematically commits pushbacks that FX knew all about - but covered it all up, as DER SPIEGEL and partners have long reported spiegel.de/ausland/fronte… 1/20

Good thread about the increasingly fundamental differences between the approaches of Poland and Hungary to Russia and how this makes Orban an unreliable ally.

The United Kingdom will host #Eurovision 2023! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

➡️ Everything you need to know here: eurovision.tv/story/united-k…

Me: Hi yes I’d like a large coffee please

Europe:

We did a great interview with Janez Potočnik about this issue a couple of weeks back. Find it here:

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