A bit of a timeline cleanser: my old friend Conor Cradden is writing up the story of how and why he cycled from Ireland to southern Italy and back in 2024.
conorcradden.substack.com
In 2018 I attended the inauguration of the square named after her in Brussels, which is the closest I have ever been to her friend Keir Starmer.
Personally I suspect that the old grand coalition was better for legitimacy in a multipolar Union.
I did not know Jo Cox, murdered ten years ago today by a right-wing extremist, but we had a dozen friends in common. I admire what she did and stood for, and despise those who created the environment which killed her.
Latest version of the APCO Geopolitical Radar: analysis of the systemic shock reshaping the global operating environment.
apcoworldwide.com/radar/
Very good pithy piece from @sophia-russack.bsky.social and @nvondarza.bsky.social at @ceps.eu, describing how the EU has slipped out of its traditional 'grand coalition' policy-making into what is effectively a minority administration led by the EPP.
www.ceps.eu/the-eu-is-lo...
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Nicholas Whyte 白怀珂
Nicholas Whyte 白怀珂
Nicholas Whyte 白怀珂
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