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Jeremy Cliffe

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Jeremy Cliffe

@JeremyCliffe

Editorial Director & Senior Policy Fellow @ECFR | Formerly @OpenSociety @NewStatesman @TheEconomist | Also at: bsky.app/profile/jeremy…

Berlin, Germany

Joined January 2012

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Jeremy Cliffe
@JeremyCliffe
Feb 11
Delighted to announce the launch of @ecfr's New Politics Project. Led by me in Berlin & @PiotrBuras1 in Warsaw, it will 1) research how volatility, fragmentation & populism are reshaping European foreign policies, 2) build a resilient agenda for a stronger, autonomous Europe.
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Jeremy Cliffe
@JeremyCliffe
Sep 21, 2025
Spain's was the first major Western government to grant Palestine full diplomatic recognition: a powerful assertion of the need for a two-state solution. Others are now rightly passing through the door Spain opened.
Pedro Sánchez
@sanchezcastejon
Sep 21, 2025
Fuimos los primeros. Reino Unido, Canadá y Australia no serán los últimos. Juntos, por la implementación de dos Estados en los que israelíes y palestinos puedan convivir en paz. 🇪🇸🇳🇴🇮🇪🇸🇮🇦🇲🇲🇽🇬🇧🇨🇦🇦🇺 🇮🇱 🇵🇸
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Jeremy Cliffe
@JeremyCliffe
Sep 5, 2025
This is revealing. India is a natural US ally, the demographic boom-state of our time, economically complementary with the US, and led by a right-wing strongman. Yet even India gets lectured and threatened by the Trump administration. European leaders should reflect on this.
Shashank Mattoo
@MattooShashank
Sep 5, 2025
"Stop buying Russian oil. Stop being a part of BRICS. Support the United States and the dollar or face a 50% tariff," threatens US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on India
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Jeremy Cliffe
@JeremyCliffe
Feb 9, 2025
More European infrastructure projects should be unveiled like this, IMHO.
Gitanas Nausėda
@GitanasNauseda
Feb 9, 2025
Baltic electricity synchronization with continental Europe is now a reality!
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Jeremy Cliffe
@JeremyCliffe
Oct 15, 2023
If these exit polls are accurate, Poland’s election results will transform the geometry of European politics and revive the long-moribund 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇵🇱 “Weimar Triangle”.
Jakub Krupa
@JakubKrupa
Oct 15, 2023
Exit poll, Poland: OPPOSITION LIKELY TO FORM NEW GOVERNMENT PiS 36,8% - 200 seats PO 31,6% - 163 Trzecia Droga 13% - 55 Lewica 8,6% - 30 Konfederacja 6,2% - 12 (via TVN24, Ipsos)
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Jeremy Cliffe
@JeremyCliffe
Mar 4, 2025
CDU/CSU &SPD have just proposed a sea change in German fiscal policy: - defence spending above 1% of GDP exempt from debt brake - 10-year €500bn special fund for infrastructure - looser debt rules for states - further debt-brake reform in new Bundestag
Julius Betschka
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Julius Betschka
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Jeremy Cliffe
@JeremyCliffe
Aug 28, 2023
This is pure Almodóvar
POLITICOEurope
@POLITICOEurope
Aug 28, 2023
The mother of suspended Spanish football federation President Luis Rubiales has locked herself in a church today, declaring she would go on hunger strike until the “inhumane and bloody persecution” of her son is brought to an end. bit.ly/3PaR4aR
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Jeremy Cliffe
@JeremyCliffe
Jul 11, 2024
Spain's PM Pedro Sánchez: "If we demand international law be respected in Ukraine, we must also demand it be respected in Gaza. We have always maintained our strength lies in unity. In a globalised world, this unity must be accompanied by coherence."
Sánchez pide a la OTAN que exija respeto a la ley internacional en Gaza igual que en Ucrania, sin...
From elpais.com
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Jeremy Cliffe
@JeremyCliffe
Feb 23, 2025
Replying to @JeremyCliffe
Blimey. Asked about Trump, Merz says he’s in close contact with European leaders about becoming “independent” from US (and confesses “I never thought I’d say that on TV show”). Casts doubt on value of NATO summit in June. This from a die-hard Atlanticist. Things are moving fast.
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Jeremy Cliffe
@JeremyCliffe
Apr 7, 2025
I visit Madrid several times a year. Every time I'm back, it feels more open and buzzing with energy. London and Paris had better watch out: a new global European metropolis is emerging fast.
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Jeremy Cliffe
@JeremyCliffe
Oct 29, 2025
The significance of a D66 win in 🇳🇱 will need some explaining outside the country. The Netherlands, like Denmark, has two liberal parties: one rooted in the classical liberal tradition, the other in the radical liberal one. D66 is the latter, ie the left-of-centre liberal party.
Europe Elects
@EuropeElects
Oct 29, 2025
Netherlands, 9:00 PM Ipsos-I&O exit poll: Seat projection national parliament D66-RE: 27 (+18) PVV-PfE: 25 (-12) VVD-RE: 23 (-1) GL/PvdA-G/EFA|S&D: 20 (-5) CDA-EPP: 19 (+14) JA21~ECR: 9 (+8) FvD-ESN: 6 (+3) BBB-EPP: 4 (-3) SP-LEFT: 3 (-2) DENK-*: 3 PvdD-LEFT: 3 SGP-ECR: 3
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Jeremy Cliffe
@JeremyCliffe
Aug 24, 2025
Just got round to watching Mario Draghi's speech in Rimini in the original Italian. It is easily the most important speech on Europe so far this year and I hope someone (@GillesGressani?) publishes it in English and other EU languages soon.
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Jeremy Cliffe
@JeremyCliffe
Sep 6, 2024
It’s a measure of how much Spain’s European influence has grown in recent years that @Teresaribera is being considered for one of the most powerful jobs in Brussels:
Spanish candidate in frame for EU’s top competition job
From ft.com
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Jeremy Cliffe
@JeremyCliffe
Jun 18, 2025
Hell of a chart, this, from @FT. Spot the JCPOA. on.ft.com/4kSuQYO
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