Today: "Contro la crescita dei populismi servono alleanze pro europee e centriste"

"Al Parlamento Ue non c'è un'alternativa a un'alleanza pro europea e centrista" capace di controbilanciare "l'ubriacatura" dei partiti sovranisti e nazionalisti. È questo il messaggio che hanno lanciato l'eurodeputata Elisabetta Gualmini e il segretario di Azione Carlo Calenda in una conferenza...

To counter the growth of populism, pro-European and centrist alliances are needed.

"There is no alternative to a pro-European and centrist alliance for the European Parliament" capable of counterbalancing the "intoxication" of Eurosceptic and nationalist parties. This is the message launched by MEP Elisabetta Gualmini and Action Secretary Carlo Calenda at a conference...

#pro-European #Eurosceptic #Action #CarloCalenda

https://www.today.it/europa/deep/calenda-gualmini-crescita-populismi-centriste.html

Repubblica.it: Il filosofo Habermas: “Ecco perché l’Europa deve ballare da sola”

Tra espansione cinese e democrazia svuotata da Trump, l’ultimo appello del grande studioso tedesco per una Ue anti sovranista che punti sull’integrazione

The philosopher Habermas: “That’s why Europe must dance to its own tune.”

Amidst Chinese expansion and Trump’s hollowed-out democracy, the last plea of the great German scholar for a Eurosceptic EU that would focus on integration.

#Habermas #Europe #Chinese #Trump #German #Eurosceptic

https://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026/03/14/news/filosofo_habermas_morto_europa_cina_trump-425221608/

Landmark Ruling in Strasbourg as MPs Challenge UK Government over
Failure to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit

‘Nothing less than the future of democracy is at stake’ says Caroline Lucas as a cross-party coalition and The Citizens win an unprecedented hearing over electoral safety and national security.

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/landmark-ruling-in-strasbourg-as-mps-challenge-uk-government-over-failure-to-investigate-russian-interference-in-brexit/

#UK #brexit #russia #EU #Eurosceptic

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Thousands protest in Hungary against Russia-style bill targeting media, NGOs — Russia declares Amnesty International an ‘undesirable organization’ — Aestheticized aggression, why Gosha Rubchinskiy’s ‘Victory Day’ photo book is Russian propaganda — Ukrainian drones destroy Russian radar, supply depots on Black Sea gas platforms … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/tuesday-may-20-2025/

How JD Vance as chief #saboteur of transatlantic alliance

He & #Trump teamed up to goad #Zelenskyy. #Vance snaked his way in 1st taunting #Zelensky

As Trump said, it was “great television”

His #Munich #Eurosceptic speech in #Munich accused, shocked #European leaders of stifling #FreeSpeech

Kallas, #EuropeanUnion’s foreign policy chief said: .. they try to pick a fight with us; we don’t pick fights our friends

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/jd-vance-volodymyr-zelenskyy

#RussianAsset #dictatorship #DrumpDictator #EU #FarRight

Via #EuroNews

After almost 2 years of building up her credentials as pragmatic stateswoman willing 2 work with, and within, the #European mainstream 2 achieve positive results 4 her indebted nation, #GiorgiaMeloni has suddenly hit the brakes, made turn & gone back 2 where she originally came: the #Eurosceptic trenches

It's a return 2 form 4 the #Italian premier, whose no-holds-barred campaign famously featured string of invectives against "bureaucrats in #Brussels"

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/07/19/analysis-giorgia-melonis-facade-as-a-pragmatic-eu-leader-has-suddenly-crumbled

Sustained attack on #civilservice who despite some shortcomings are generally not #traitoroustories

"perhaps no coincidence that mutterings about alleged bullying seem always to involve #Eurosceptic mins who are seeking to shift the culture in departments"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/11/insolent-unproductive-dominated-hr-civil-service-thinks-rules/?utm_content=politics&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1676188304-2

From #BriefingsForBritain in 2019

https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/is-the-civil-service-impartial/

https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/is-civil-service-reform-overdue/

There's so much of this 💩, admitting you're wrong is harder than blaming everyone else. #BrexitWasTreason #RussiaReport