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alexandre afonso
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alexandre afonso
@alexandreafonso
Associate Professor of Public Policy at Leiden University 🇨🇭 🇵🇹 | immigration | political economy | welfare states. I am from Lausanne, Switzerland.
- For some SUVs, the front blind zone is so large that you can have 12 children sitting in front of the car and the driver cannot see them.
- This could have been a European newspaper headline from the 1890sTrain travel between Orlando and Miami officially kicked off this morning. @GoBrightline trains will run nearly every hour, covering the full route in a little over 3 hours with stops in Ft. Lauderdale, Boca Raton and West Palm Beach. 🎥 @Ananyati
- Here is a distribution of recorded Covid-19 cases in Iceland (which tests broadly, even people with no symptoms) and the Netherlands (which tests narrowly, only those with severe symptoms)
- Hey Brits, your "regulatory alignment", we Swiss call it "autonomer Nachvollzug". It means we automatically translate EU rules into domestic law and pretend we've got nothing to do with the EU.
- I should have enjoyed 2019 a lot more.
- A thread about why Germany did not invade Switzerland during World War 2.
- In this new BBC series, a team of intrepid detectives hunts down fictitious foreign students overstaying their visas pic.x.com/GqFbSsiijz
- The places you can reach by train within 5 hours from Lisbon, Madrid, Amsterdam, Berlin.
- I was at the European University Institute when Josep Borrell was it president. He had to resign because he had "forgotten" to declare a 300'000 income from an energy company buff.ly/2DkWUQV
- Here are 5 out 7 members of the cantonal government of St-Gallen, Switzerland, plus its chancellor.
- A thread on fiscal responsibility in Italy and the Netherlands.
