Day 11. People are currently gathering for another youth-led march.
#NoToRussianLaw #Georgia 🇬🇪🇪🇺

The spirit of Europe is alive in Tbilisi.

This is an excellent explainer of recent political developments in Bulgaria, as it heads for its sixth general election in three years.

On the day that Georgian PM Irakli Kobakhidze gave a rabble-rousing speech attacking “so-called liberals” at the CPAC meeting in Budapest, read my piece from last year on how much Georgian Dream takes inspiration from Orban. carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurop…

My word. A Tory Minister of the Crown doesn’t know that Congo and Rwanda are different countries. Just after his government passed its flagship ‘Rwanda’ legislation. Watch rip the end.

Russia has just sentenced a 17 year old girl to 3.5 years hard labour for her anti-war social media posts. She’s the second minor to be given a real prison term for anti-Kremlin views.

Over 100 local CSOs&media outlets say they are suspending cooperation with gov't until it drops #foreignagentsbill , vowing to never register in any “defamatory” registry, and announcing a public rally against the law on April 28.
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Nice to see ,’Yes for Europe’ on Lufthansa planes Frankfurt Airport . What about Aer Lingus & Ryanair following suit ?

Ukraine's railway company Ukrainian railways || Укрзалізниця was targeted by the russian invaders today. They murdered three men aged 26, 26 and 37 and injured four in the Donetsk region, wounded three workers in the Kharkiv oblast and damaged railroads in the Cherkasy region. This is terrorism

Georgians have been out on the streets for two weeks, trying to protect their democracy from Russian assault via Georgian Dream proxy.

They match for a European future and against the Kremlin jackboot.

An open secret in DC that the town is awash with Serbian regime money. This is what 'pay to play' looks like in practice. Vucic is actively campaigning against the UNGA Srebrenica Genocide resolution, threatening war if Kosovo is admitted to the CoE but, hey, 'great to meet'.

What’s happening on US college campuses is just unbelievable. The best kind of peaceful protest being completely criminalised.

The very best Analysis of Elon Musk I’ve read, the tantrum-prone manchild who has reshaped Twitter in his own image: brutal, narcissistic and solipsistic. Read the 🧵

Russia massively attacked Ukrainian railways in Kharkiv, Donetsk & Cherkasy regions. Balakliya station attacked with people onboard. Izium line down. Three railroad workers killed. My thoughts are with the iron people of Ukrainian railways || Укрзалізниця .

A sign of the times? Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez is spending the next few days deciding if he should stay in office, as relentless attacks on his family take a toll.

Is politics now so toxic that it is driving out its most talented and successful?
politico.eu/article/stay-o…

A very good 🧵 on President Macron’s much-hyped Sorbonne 2 speech earlier today. Lots to unpick. Say what you like about him and the sometime gap between his rhetoric and actions, but he is virtually the*only* European politician doing any kind of strategic thinking on Europe.

At least some people in the American world of faith are no longer taken in by the false prophet who is charging 60 bucks a bible

It isn’t just this candidate.
So many of the candidates for the European Parliament
1/ know little or nothing about how the EU works
2/are standing on issues that the EU has little or no involvement with.

An excellent 🧵 on Kosovo-Serbia relations and Council of Europe (upcoming) vote.

For anybody interested in Moldova.....