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Yes, adopting EU institutions increased new members' growth rates, see Basile Grassi's Basile Grassi compelling paper on this, start from the voxeu column. cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… Key figure:

Syria’s civil war was fought to a stalemate by a military solution, then after 14 years was fought to a decisive military victory for the Syrian revolution, all the while western politicians continued to repeat the mantra that there was no military solution in Syria.

Euro area job vacancy rate at 2.4% in Q1 2025 (EU 2.2%) ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/we…

What Oz said. We shouldn't underestimate the ability of Israel's military to shatter the Iranian state. We also shouldn't underestimate the lack of coherent strategic vision in Israel or anywhere else for what to do to stabilise the region in the wake of an Iranian collapse

Österreich steht an der Seite der Ukraine. Austria stands with Ukraine.

Austria. Together, we met with Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen and Mrs. Doris Schmidauer in Vienna. It is important that Austria’s support for Ukraine is expanding: humanitarian demining, the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, energy and cyber security, joint

In the twentieth century, many German buildings had their stucco facades stripped off ('Entstuckung'). Today, they are gradually being restored. This project won the annual 're-stuccoing' prize of the charity StadtbildDeutschland in 2024.

Anyway, as always folks, I'm just a freelance reporter, so if you've appreciated my analysis or reporting from the last few days, please feel free to buy me a coffee or two ko-fi.com/ozkaterji

🤩 This magical, mystical scene of a star cluster within a nebula is about 8,000 light-years away. The brightest object in the picture was once thought to be a single star with 200-300 times the mass of the Sun, but Hubble discovered that it's actually two separate stars.

🇪🇺 Christine Lagarde: "This is Europe’s ‘global euro’ moment". ft.com/content/4d5dea…

NEW | EU gas demand is set to FALL 7% by 2030 according to national plans, making new gas investments risky 📉🇪🇺 New gas infrastructure could become stranded assets as countries move towards a more electrified energy system. ember-energy.org/latest-insight…

Lagarde asking for for more govt debt issuance 😂

Iran's status as a power is potentially falling apart not just because of the collapse of mismanaged air defence, but also because of a disastrous military and diplomatic strategy that wasted huge goodwill, cash and prestige on proxy forces in other states that are now useless

Oops! According to Bank of America's Fund Manager Survey, investors are more underweight on the US dollar than at any point in the past 20 years.

Seems very likely that there is green light to prolong all 🇪🇺 sanctions on 🇷🇺 at the #Euco next week. formal extension first in July. 🇭🇺 has been toying with the idea not to give thumbs up. 🇺🇦

This is more a signal from the Europeans to the Khamenei regime that now is the time to throw in the towel and offer a verifiable end to nuclear ambitions through the EU before the US and Israel escalate further

After three years of limited measures, the European Union has laid out a legal roadmap to finally end its long-standing addiction to Russian oil and gas by the end of 2027. kyivindependent.com/europe-lays-ou…

In 2024, in the EU, actual individual consumption per capita (in purchasing power standards) was highest in: 🇱🇺Luxembourg (41% above the EU average) 🇳🇱Netherlands (20%) Lowest in: 🇭🇺Hungary (28% below the EU average) 🇧🇬Bulgaria and 🇪🇪Estonia (26%) 👉europa.eu/!x3hHP6

IT'S HOTTING UP 🔥🔥🔥 ** May data update** 21% of EU🇪🇺 elec from solar in May 13% of China🇨🇳 elec 11% of US🇺🇸 elec 10% of India🇮🇳 elec (April data) ember-energy.org/data/electrici…

In 2024, actual individual consumption per capita (in purchasing power standards) varied from 72% of the EU average in 🇭🇺Hungary to 141% in 🇱🇺Luxembourg. 🔸GDP per capita ranged from 66% of the EU average in 🇧🇬Bulgaria to 242% in 🇱🇺Luxembourg. ➡️europa.eu/!x3hHP6