Pinned
Trust and alliances underpinned by shared values have long been core to relations between Europe and the US — But something snapped this week
Alberto Nardelli
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Alberto Nardelli
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Correspondent-at-large for Europe, Bloomberg. Send me news: [email protected] / DMs open, ask for Signal, ProtonMail
- We have obtained a secret audio recording of a Moscow meeting between three Russian operatives and a close aide to Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini negotiating a plan to pump money from a Russian oil deal into Salvini’s far-right Lega party
- UK prime minister Boris Johnson told the nation yesterday, "as we come to that Brexit deadline I am encouraged by the progress we are making." I asked an EU official whether it was true that there has been progress in talks. Their response: "No there hasn't."
- All this, to end the free movement of people. It's quite extraordinary if you think about it.
- An observation: Salvini, who tweets pretty much every time a migrant gets found with a pen knife, has had very little to say about far-right activists arrested with a frigging missile and an arsenal of weapons
- Things that will surprise many British observers about the German #EP2019 result: 1) Germany has a Green party 2) some 90% of Germans voted for pro-EU parties 3) the AfD isn't very popular
- Trump fact check: he claims Germany gets 70% of its energy from Russia. Actual figure, according to German government, is 9%Trump behauptet, Deutschland beziehe bis zu 70 Prozent seiner Energie aus Russland. Laut Bundesregierung sind es 9 Prozent. #NATOGipfel
- Strong statement from Macron 'we will not renegotiate a less ambitious deal... There is no plan b, there is no planet b'
- An EU official tells me that the irony of all this debate in the Commons is that “it makes crystal clear why we need a backstop in the first place”
- Raab on the BBC refusing to condemn Trump’s remarks, something a British foreign secretary would likely not hesitate to do if the president of another foreign country had made similar comments
- NEW: Biden assured key allies in June that US security enablers would remain in place in Afghanistan as NATO troops withdrew, so much so that U.K. thought it could maintain its Kabul embassy
- Replying to @AlbertoNardelliThis tape provides the first hard evidence of Russia’s clandestine attempts to fund Europe’s nationalist movements, and the apparent complicity of some senior figures from the far right in those attempts
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