BREAKING! Exit poll the Netherlands #EP2024 A quick thread 🧵

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Left alliance party leads in the Netherlands 🇪🇺 election as Wilders doesn't manage to turn his new governing coalition deal into EU-wide success. Latest with the indistructable Eva Hartog, for POLITICOEurope: politico.eu/article/dutch-…

Nu, protams.

Germany torpedoed a deal on European sanctions against Russia on the eve of an international peace conference on Ukraine. This comes while EU ambassadors also gave the green light to open accession talks with Ukraine and Moldova. politico.eu/article/german…

Done ✅

Don’t worry, we can still be friends. That’s Berlin’s message to Beijing just as the Middle Kingdom’s relations with the European Union are hitting a new low. w/ Koen Verhelst politico.eu/article/berlin…

The EU's protectionniste en chef Emmanuel Macron is on the verge of losing influence over the bloc’s trade policy — after years of driving the agenda. And that’s bringing a smile to the faces of the bloc’s free traders. My story ahead the second round: shorturl.at/bhWji

Meanwhile the Polish team is warming up, just in case.

“There’s a serious problem on how EU countries are implementing sanctions and exporting goods both to Russia and Belarus” Foreign Minister Baiba Braže told me, story written with my great colleague ⁦Koen Verhelst⁩ politico.eu/article/rampan…

Love how gloomy the Baltic diplomats are eyeing the Hungarian minister😂

Terwijl Nederland worstelt met een groot lerarentekort en gaten in de roosters, staan in Estland relatief meer en hoger opgeleide docenten voor de klas. Wat is het Estse geheim? Wij hebben het op een rijtje gezet. 👇 (1/8)

🇷🇺☢️🇺🇦 Since we've been told multiple times by supposedly intelligent people that an attack on Russian soil using Western weapons will possibly result in a nuclear war, I'm off to stock up on beers with funky names and Lidl wine. So, just like almost every Friday evening.

Folks — the problem here isn’t the Times. Any newspaper worth its salt will publish stuff you don’t agree with. The problem is that there’s an unholy alliance of isolationists, transactionalists and revisionists who are capitalizing on Americans’ broad ignorance of history.

Or give Ukraine 500 Tomahawks and most RU military factories will be destroyed and won't be re-built soon. 🤷‍♂️