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The
https://nitter.privacydev.net/nytimes
on the debut of this alternative fair, dealers from Oslo to Estonia have teamed up, turning a private club, The Estonian House in Murray Hill into a total work of art.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/arts/design/esther-art-fair-estonia-new-york.html?unlocked_article_code=1.o00.w1ua.P2yQiLuqEn9p&smid=url-share
[2024-05-02 13:46 UTC]
This is Poland showing leadership when others dither, pontificate or just do nothing.
Bravo Radek
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https://nitter.privacydev.net/nexta_tv/status/1785960668971020750#m
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[2024-05-02 12:58 UTC]
When Estonia joined the EU 1 May, 20 years ago, instead of shooting off fireworks, we planted 1 million trees: spruce and pine mainly; saplings at the time, really.
With friends and neighbors, I planted some 3000 that day.
On 2 May 2004, I planted a real park of larger trees.
The years 1996-2002, the years of the Estonian accession and negotiation process, when I was foreign affairs minister, were the most intense of my life, as they were for so many of my colleagues. I wanted to mark that process with something more enduring than just fireworks.
I invited those most involved in our accession to come to my farm and to plant a tree in their own name or the name of their country:
Estonian foreign ministry officials who had worked hardest on enlargement; politicians from Estonia and abroad, without whom there would have been no enlargement; ambassadors of EU members resident in Estonia at the time, came to Ärma to plant their tree.
Over the years the park has grown. As have the trees. Euroopa Park has become full-fledged park, with the trees of some 10 EU heads of state and government and many other friends of Estonia.
Trees in Estonia are only now slowly coming into leaf. Here is one tree, a Red Maple, planted by Günter Verheugen, EU Commissioner for Enlargement 1999-2004. without whom the "Big Bang" of 2004 enlargement could not have taken place.
Directly to the left is a Horse Chestnut, planted by the Netherlands ambassador at the time, Ms Van Vliet.
The red "August Vaga" apple tree in the background between the two, was planted by composer Arvo Pärt.
Long after I am gone there will be a park dedicated to Estonia joining the European Union.
https://nitter.privacydev.net/EuroopaKomisjon
https://nitter.privacydev.net/MFAestonia
[2024-05-02 11:41 UTC]
40 years ago today in on a street corner in Vienna in the middle of the Cold War, Chernenko recently installed as General Secretary of the CPSU, I had my first glimmer of light hinting that the future might be different from what I had known my whole life: the Russian occupation of Eastern Europe.
It was a moment when the angle of the afternoon sunlight glinted off a quoin just above street level near Petersplatz. What otherwise to the naked eye and in direct light looked like a stone surface, revealed in the the slightest of shadows a stenciled streetname.
In Cyrillic. Something indecipherable and Гассе, or Gasse or Gaße, “alleyway”. Leftover from when Austria was partitioned into four Allied zones.
Yes. Russian occupations can indeed end. Some crude remnants will remain as sloppy, typically Sov stencils on an elegant Fin-de-siecle facade. As they do today across Central and Eastern Europe on facades and occasionally in minds as well.
But they can end.
[2024-04-30 11:07 UTC]
Grim. But read this. The result of dithering by Germany ("oh, maybe when this is over the Russians will give us first dibs on contracts"), and the 6 month delay in the US (MTG: "why doesn't Moscow send me new talking points?) is only manifesting itself now.
With major consequences.
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https://nitter.privacydev.net/ChrisO_wiki/status/1785217808093032702#m
</p>
[2024-04-30 10:04 UTC]
Old habits die hard,
https://nitter.privacydev.net/charlyjsp
.
And besides, it's only those East Europeans...
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https://nitter.privacydev.net/charlyjsp/status/1785231693416190463#m
</p>
[2024-04-30 09:54 UTC]
Important thread from
https://nitter.privacydev.net/FRHoffmann1
.
A write-up as an article would help spread the analysis.
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https://nitter.privacydev.net/FRHoffmann1/status/1784553216816091536#m
</p>
[2024-04-29 11:15 UTC]
Agreed.
The remedy is to invoke Article four and force NAC to deal with it.
It's up to you and your Baltic colleagues to take the step.
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https://nitter.privacydev.net/GLandsbergis/status/1784840733922373715#m
</p>
[2024-04-29 11:09 UTC]
This is a truly exceptional piece from the Grand Old Man of modern thinking about strategy,
https://nitter.privacydev.net/LawDavF
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https://nitter.privacydev.net/LawDavF/status/1783052609474924560#m
</p>
[2024-04-28 02:50 UTC]
What's so bad about fewer Russian spies?
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https://nitter.privacydev.net/pravda_eng/status/1783581745759302096#m
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[2024-04-25 20:04 UTC]
A fascinating piece from
https://nitter.privacydev.net/PhillipsPOBrien
. Highly recommended to understand where and how US politics might go with a Trump victory in November.
<p>
https://nitter.privacydev.net/PhillipsPOBrien/status/1783057597559443903#m
</p>
[2024-04-25 00:10 UTC]
amazing. she admits to everything
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https://nitter.privacydev.net/wartranslated/status/1781231093464596648#m
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[2024-04-20 02:40 UTC]
This, on top of yesterday's news of Russia hacking the Texas water supply system.
Wake. up people. We're not talking about a "far away place about which we know nothing."
For them, it's War.
German police arrest suspected Russian spies over bombing plan
https://www.ft.com/content/9ee73d65-9575-410c-acba-3bc8b0bc08ae
[2024-04-18 12:38 UTC]
.
https://nitter.privacydev.net/SimonOstrovsky
is one of the bravest and smartest television journalists around. Watch anything he does.
<p>
https://nitter.privacydev.net/NewsHour/status/1778241582291960086#m
</p>
[2024-04-17 22:41 UTC]
Do read this from the leading military think tank in the US.
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https://nitter.privacydev.net/TheStudyofWar/status/1780264953548570818#m
</p>
[2024-04-17 22:16 UTC]
Douze points
<p>
https://nitter.privacydev.net/tarmojuristo/status/1780719590722371917#m
</p>
[2024-04-17 22:14 UTC]
"MAGA is using Israel to undermine Ukraine, harming them both" by the always perspicacious
https://nitter.privacydev.net/joshrogin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/16/maga-israel-ukraine-aid/
[2024-04-16 23:19 UTC]
In other words when the US pushed Ukraine to give up nukes, strategic bombers and rockets because of US "assurances" it would guarantee Ukraine's territorial integrity was just a big fat lie.
<p>
https://nitter.privacydev.net/DagnyTaggart963/status/1779978764388032939#m
</p>
[2024-04-15 23:27 UTC]
Not quite sure,
https://nitter.privacydev.net/VladDavidzon
, with the role its erstwhile constituents Slovakia, Hungary and Austria play today shilling for and selling out to Russia, that this a great thing.
<p>
https://nitter.privacydev.net/VladDavidzon/status/1779217783848366209#m
</p>
[2024-04-14 01:33 UTC]
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From Estonia. Where Digital is Native. And come in at #2 in the world in internet freedom.
@toomas_ilves
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