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International relations with an EU angle, videogames, space and other musings. Posts in EN, PT, FR, plus other languages if I feel brave enough.

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Summary of Hungarian arguments. Full text in the link.

Summary of Hungarian arguments. Full text in the link.

New EU court case III

Rule of law/asylum law

Hungary sues EU court for damages, saying that the EU court breached EU law by fining Hungary for *its* breach of EU law eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

09.03.2026 12:01 👍 31 🔁 13 💬 6 📌 9

Ontem, hoje e amanhã, a extrema-direita não sabe governar.

09.03.2026 18:48 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Reforçar autonomia e reconhecer a Palestina: as posições de Seguro sobre política externa António José Seguro definiu a defesa e a segurança como áreas prioritárias, insistindo na necessidade de Portugal e a UE reforçarem a sua “autonomia estratégica”, sobretudo face aos EUA.

António José Seguro definiu a defesa e a segurança como áreas prioritárias, insistindo na necessidade de Portugal e a UE reforçarem a sua “autonomia estratégica”, sobretudo face aos EUA.

08.03.2026 12:27 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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#IWD

08.03.2026 21:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Dissuasion nucléaire : l’offre de la France à l’Europe Le 2 mars à l'Ile Longue, Emmanuel Macron a annoncé le renforcement de la dissuasion nucléaire française, désormais élargie à l'Europe. Quelles sont les conditions de cette dissuasion avancée ? Signer...

Was on Christine Ockrent’s Affaires Etrangeres podcast earlier today to talk about the German take on Macron’s nuclear speech.
Listen here now (in French)

07.03.2026 12:59 👍 82 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1

Agora só é preciso haver Cavaco amanhã e a coisa fica composta.

...não sei se vai haver Cavaco amanhã.

07.03.2026 22:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe the most important thing is "what makes you think" - because it seems that thinking is not what Witkoff is best at that, by a long stretch.

07.03.2026 22:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I know that:

- Witkoff is dumber than a cobblestone
- Trump paused, then resumed intel sharing with the Ukrainians, who rely more & more on European intel

But what on Earth makes you think that the guys who failed to conquer Ukraine inter alia due to western support will comply with this?

07.03.2026 22:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh wow, this really is the shitty sequel that nobody asked for.

07.03.2026 18:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@profsaunders.bsky.social This is the insiders' game at an even higher level, no?

07.03.2026 18:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I once read that his daughter raised suspicions at a hotel in France when she showed them her passport and they saw her father's name - the front desk clerk thought the passport was a forgery.

07.03.2026 18:01 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

While we are all looking at topographic maps for the first time, please everyone look at one of Taiwan before your next take.

07.03.2026 14:14 👍 411 🔁 48 💬 13 📌 10
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Ukraine: au moins 12 morts dans des frappes russes nocturnes, un immeuble détruit à Kharkiv Une frappe russe nocturne sur un immeuble résidentiel de Kharkiv, deuxième plus grande ville d'Ukraine, a fait au moins dix morts samedi, dont des enfants, portant à douze le nombre de décès dans les bombardements massifs nocturnes russes qui ont frappé l'ensemble du pays et fait de nombreux blessés.

Ukraine: au moins 12 morts dans des frappes russes nocturnes, un immeuble détruit à Kharkiv

07.03.2026 17:13 👍 3 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Likely because it was the first Zelda - and one of the first major games - to elicit feelings of restlessness & sadness, even if at its heart Zelda is not a scary or a sad line of games per se. But when we saw the death of the Great Deku Tree or Link bidding farewell to Saria, that felt new.

06.03.2026 20:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Honestly, the first time I played this, the Shadow Temple was so ominous that I expected something even worse - but it turned out to be more disturbing than frightening.

06.03.2026 19:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Imagina quão más as coisas têm de estar para nós apoiarmos o departamento jurídico da Nintendo norte-americana...

06.03.2026 19:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Vai ser como no New Super Mario Bros. 2 mas muito mais divertido (é um dos jogos mais desinspirados e tem moedas por todo o lado)

06.03.2026 19:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Corporate lawyer Mario gonna sue your-a tariffs, Mario think you are a-cooked!

06.03.2026 19:38 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

@detig.bsky.social @ruteradio.bsky.social @anobrega85.bsky.social Let's a-go!

06.03.2026 19:31 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Translated from bureaucratese: "Ignore the disgusting person, keep calm for a few more weeks, and have hope in the Hungarian people".

06.03.2026 15:57 👍 36 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1

I'm 100% fine with Link being silent. I also don't play Zelda to feel related to Link in any way whatsoever.

06.03.2026 16:08 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Iceland locks in on date for EU referendum | Euractiv As a member of the European Economic Area, Iceland is already aligned with much of the bloc's legislation

The Iceland referendum on EU accession is now slated for 29 August this year.

Note: The referendum will first only be on restarting the negotiations, but clearly a sign of shifting geopolitical thinking.

06.03.2026 12:40 👍 172 🔁 66 💬 5 📌 8

Eu? Ora essa, eu nem sequer sou fã de Sagres... 😇

06.03.2026 12:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

At moments like this, I remember when kid me went on IRC for the first few times in the mid-90s and I saw Greeks & Turks insulting each other in very graphic ways.

My English was a lot more limited but I think it was the first time I witnessed such international... interactions.

05.03.2026 23:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Se aqui temos um comissário político inexperiente nomeado pela lealdade com uma pasta tão sensível como a luta contra o terrorismo, é bastante plausível que muita gente mal intencionada já tenha identificado esta vulnerabilidade e esteja a 'trabalhar' nisso.

05.03.2026 23:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Piadas à parte, o @profpaulpoast.bsky.social teve uma thread no twitter sobre o 11/SET onde afirmava que os atrasos resultantes da eleição de 2000 tiveram consequências a nível da atribuição de cargos no aparelho de seg. nacional, e estes reflectiram-se numa menor preparação contra o terrorismo.

05.03.2026 23:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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La Mort de Staline La Mort de Staline

É inventado, mas baseado em conversas do comité central que aparecem nesta BD:

www.dargaud.com/bd/la-mort-d...

05.03.2026 21:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

'We must get the best doctors in the Soviet Union to heal comrade Stalin!'

'The best doctors in the Soviet Union are in jail, charged with conspiring to assassinate comrade Stalin...'

'...are they guilty?'

'No, they're Jewish'

'Tchort...'

05.03.2026 21:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Israel attacking Turkiyë and forcing a showdown over article 5 is a situation made in a lab to drive the Reasonable Thinker caucus into Lovecraftian madness

05.03.2026 21:00 👍 138 🔁 36 💬 1 📌 4
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Let's not rush to conclusions, he might have just been collecting mucus for transfusions.

05.03.2026 19:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0