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Daniel Fiott
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Daniel Fiott
@DanielFiott
Professor, @VUBrussel | Head, Defence, Investment and Innovation, @CSDS_Brussels | Non-Resident Senior Fellow @rielcano | #Defence #EDTIB #Europe
- Replying to @fasc1nateStill does not beat the Austen Seven car that students managed to haul on top of Senate House at Cambridge in 1958…
- Europeans. Save your emotions. Save your lecturing. Save your shock. Save your outpouring. Save your words. Save your arrogance. Save yourself.
- Remember the "periodic table" of #EUdefence? Well here's my new teaching tool: the "metro map". Find your way around EU defence without a #StrategicCompass and "mind the gap" between expectations and capabilities😉 Download👉 danielfiott.com/2021/11/14/eu-…
- Here is the “Draghi Report”. Enjoy. commission.europa.eu/document/downl…
- After 6 years, 46 publications, 49 co/organised events, 300+ public speaking engagements and efforts behind the scenes, it is time for me to bow out from the @EU_ISS. A big thank you to those that supported my efforts. I’ll reveal my new post/s here tomorrow…
- Me: “This, son, is the birth place of Western civilisation: democra…” Passing tourist to his wife: “Do you think I can smoke up here?” Me: “…cy and philosophy…” Son: “are you ok dad? Why do you look so angry?” #sigh
- I’m currently working on a data visual for my next bit of analysis. I’m going to crowdsource some ideas because I’m sure, absolutely sure, I’ve left a few things out.
- Apologies… I couldn’t resist. And yes, this is still the situation even after Ukraine.
- Population of Kiev = 2.9 million Barcelona = 1.6 m Brussels = 2 m Hamburg = 1.6 m Paris = 2.2 m Rome = 2.8 m Vienna = 1.9 m Let these numbers sink in as Putin’s missiles hit the city this weekend. God speed 🇺🇦
- Europe spends more time speaking about and thinking of “power” than actually accruing any… we theorise it and even invent sophisticated concepts to side-step the inconvenience of its real meaning. Fear of power.
