Nicholas Wright

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Senior Research Analyst, FCDO | Recovering Academic | Cat wrangler | Views my own. (@NickWrightYAPJ on the Bird site.)
EU CFSP Bookhttps://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-93470-9#about
Centre for Britain in Europe, University of Surreyhttps://www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-britain-and-europe/research
Google Scholar Profilehttps://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=VxQXDuwAAAAJ&hl=en

Every generation has its moment when it has to stand up to defend democracy and what it believes in.

For us, that moment has come.

As freedom fighters changed the face of our continent over 30 years ago, today it is us, who will decide what Europe will look like in the future.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/vonderleyen/status/1657771872488923138

Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen)

Every generation has its moment when it has to stand up to defend democracy and what it believes in. For us, that moment has come. As freedom fighters changed the face of our continent over 30 years ago, today it is us, who will decide what Europe will look like in the future.

Nitter

Today the #vdLCommission meets again to discuss:

🔹 Critical Raw Materials Package
🔹 Net-Zero Industry Act
🔹 European Hydrogen Bank
🔹 The Single Market at 30
🔹 Long-term competitiveness strategy: looking beyond 2030

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1636289692902490113

European Commission (@EU_Commission)

Today the #vdLCommission meets again to discuss: 🔹 Critical Raw Materials Package 🔹 Net-Zero Industry Act 🔹 European Hydrogen Bank 🔹 The Single Market at 30 🔹 Long-term competitiveness strategy: looking beyond 2030

Nitter

A small reminder: the EU is giving away Interrail tickets to young people via the #DiscoverEU programme - GOOD 👍
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000144535487/eu-verlost-erneut-35-000-gratis-interrailtickets-an-18-jaehrige

However the EU has funded the acquisition of regional trains in Poland and Czechia on which Interrail is not valid - INCOHERENT 🤬

EU verlost erneut 35.000 Interrailtickets an 18-Jährige

Seit Mittwoch ist die Bewerbung für junge Europäerinnen und Europäer möglich. Ermäßigungen gibt es ebenso wie Inspiration für Reiserouten dazu

DER STANDARD

Why Grey got three years

Judge explains manslaughter sentence on pedestrian who killed cyclist

New post, free to read:

https://rozenberg.substack.com/p/why-grey-got-three-years

Why Grey got three years

Judge explains manslaughter sentence on pedestrian who killed cyclist

A Lawyer Writes

Gary Green was mentally ill. He thought he was being followed by vampires. Green sought treatment, was diagnosed and discharged...and then committed murder after he started hearing voices.

He'll be executed tonight in Texas, around 6pm. I wrote about his case, the death penalty, and what the last words of the condemned tell us about our humanity. https://brianklaas.substack.com/p/the-last-statements-of-death-row

The Last Statements of Death Row

Texas executes far more people than any other US state. A Texas prisoner will be executed tomorrow. What do the inmates tend to say in their final words, right before they are killed by the state?

The Garden of Forking Paths
Monastery ruins in the snow, 1819 - Caspar David Friedrich - WikiArt.org

‘Monastery ruins in the snow’ was created in 1819 by Caspar David Friedrich in Romanticism style. Find more prominent pieces of landscape at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.

www.wikiart.org
🍃Artist: #HIJACK / #HijackArt in City: #LosAngeles USA 🇺🇸 2020 - Title: "Make Earth green again" - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Mural #Artwork #Gardening #Wallpaper #Garden #Painting 🌿

Twitter insiders tell the BBC that the company is no longer able to protect users from trolling, state-co-ordinated disinformation and child sexual exploitation, following lay-offs and changes under owner Elon Musk.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64804007

Twitter insiders: We can't protect users from trolling under Musk

Current and former employees of the company say there are serious ramifications from mass lay-offs.

BBC News

Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights has warned the Tories’ anti-strike Bill on minimum service levels during industrial action fails to meet the UK’s human rights obligations, clashing with Article 11 on freedom of association https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/06/anti-strike-bill-fails-to-meet-uks-human-rights-obligations-mps-and-peers-say

#HumanRights #WorkersRights #FreedomofAssociation #Strikes #IndustrialAction

Anti-strike bill ‘fails to meet UK’s human rights obligations’, MPs and peers say

Joint committee warns that proposed laws are ‘not justified and need to be reconsidered’

The Guardian

This is not a drill.

The nightmare scenario for personal privacy in a world where women are stripped of their reproductive rights is coming to pass:

Meta, Google, other tech companies are providing police with evidence to help prosecute women who seek or perform abortions

https://www.businessinsider.com/police-getting-help-social-media-to-prosecute-people-seeking-abortions-2023-2

Facebook, Google give police data to prosecute abortion seekers

Social-media sites are inundated with police requests for user data and may cooperate even if not legally required to, one legal expert told Insider.

Business Insider