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✨ New year, new job! I’ll be joining the Financial Times’ Brussels bureau to cover all things competition and tech and look forward to work with this amazing team.
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Barbara Moens
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Barbara Moens
@BMoens
Brussels
Joined November 2010
- Top European officials are furious with Joe Biden’s administration and now accuse the Americans of making a fortune from the war, while EU industry suffers.
- Replying to @BMoens“The fact is, if you look at it soberly, the country that is most profiting from this war is the U.S. because they are selling more gas and at higher prices, and because they are selling more weapons,” one senior EU official told POLITICO.
- Dienstmededeling: vandaag is mijn laatste dag @tijd. Ik verhuis naar het Europese deel van de Wetstraat bij @POLITICOEurope. Dank aan dit fantastische team politiek en aan @italbers en @sdsmedt voor alle kansen. Vanaf maandag versterkt @NoraSleiderink deze fijne ploeg.
- 👋Thrilled to start today as Politico's Chief EU Correspondent, working with the best team in town. @NicholasVinocur @jacopobarigazzi @suzannelynch1 @HankeVela @ElisaBraun @GregSorgi @EddyWax @swheaton @KJochecova @SonyaDiehn Scoops/coffee/chats? DM me.
- Today is my first day at the @FT. Very keen to talk about all things tech, digital and competition policy. You can reach me at [email protected]
- MR's choice for FM Hadja Lahbib as commissioner is sensitive within Belgium, as her competences as FM were widely questioned by Belgian diplomats and officials. "Get your popcorn ready for the hearing", said one.
- Replying to @BMoensBut it's not just energy & trade. There is also growing irritation about the cash flowing into the American defense sector. “The money they are making on weapons” could help the U.S. understand that making “all this cash on gas” might be “a bit too much," said another diplomat.
- The last big defender of rules-based open trade — the European Union — is about to fall. What's going on? 🧵
- Replying to @BMoensThe Kremlin is likely to welcome the poisoning of the atmosphere among Western allies as tensions mount, especially over Biden's green subsidies that Brussels say tilt trade away and threaten to destroy EU subsidies.
- Inside Europe's Parliament of bullies. A handful of cases of bullying by European lawmakers have become public. We took a look at what's below the tip of the iceberg. What did we find? 🧵
- SCOOP: Here is the lists of projects the EU has lined up to rival China's Belt and Road infrastructure spending. "Now we mean business," said one senior EU official about the project hit list.
- Replying to @BMoens
- Let me introduce you to Puurs, a Belgian town of 17,000 people. Why? It's where the future of the world depends on, or at least where you coronavirus vaccine will (probably) be produced.
