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Geert Langenus

@geertlangenus

Macroeconomist. Views are my own, not my employer’s! Posts (Eng/Dutch) about lots of stuff: SS Lazio, Brussels, Balkan, economics, etc. Follow at your own risk!

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Moritz Schularick (@mschularick) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Instead of defending the rules-based trading system, the EU is entering into a deal whose durability is uncertain, which is governed by the whims of a populist administration, and which is not compatible with the rules of the World Trade Organization. 2/2

Clemens Fuest (@fuestclemens) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The trade deal is a humiliation for the EU, but it reflects the imbalance of power. The Europeans need to wake up, focus more on economic strength and reduce their military and technological dependence on the US. Then they can renegotiate.

Saul Sadka (@saul_sadka) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There’s a special place in hell for the editors & journalists who took Hamas’ photos of children with congenital conditions (and parents with double chins) and broadcast them to their already radicalized audience with the message, ‘Look what the Jews did.’ Remember their names.

There’s a special place in hell for the editors & journalists who took Hamas’ photos of children with congenital conditions (and parents with double chins) and broadcast them to their already radicalized audience with the message, ‘Look what the Jews did.’

Remember their names.
Geert Langenus (@geertlangenus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

😥 Dula K. vecht nog steeds voor haar leven. Politie heeft dader die gearresteerd moest worden, laten lopen en haar zonder bescherming achtergelaten (“deuren en ramen gesloten houden”). Korpschef in de krant “na intern onderzoek”: zeer goede en professionele interventie! 😬😬😬

😥 Dula K. vecht nog steeds voor haar leven. Politie heeft dader die gearresteerd moest worden, laten lopen en haar zonder bescherming achtergelaten (“deuren en ramen gesloten houden”).

Korpschef in de krant “na intern onderzoek”: zeer goede en professionele interventie! 😬😬😬
PhilippeThibaut (@petitbraquet) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Enorme fierté de voir que la Commission européenne a su tenir bon dans le dossier crucial du capuchon attaché. Ils ne passeront pas.

Enorme fierté de voir que la Commission européenne a su tenir bon dans le dossier crucial du capuchon attaché.

Ils ne passeront pas.
Geert Langenus (@geertlangenus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Now that she is the talk of the town again, it may be useful to recall which football team is happy to have Ms. Sydney Sweeney 👏 among its dedicated fans… Forza Lazio: it’s in the genes/jeans. American Eagle 👖 🤝 Lazio Eagle 🦅 There is no such thing as coincidence!

Now that she is the talk of the town again, it may be useful to recall which football team is happy to have Ms. <a href="/sydney_sweeney/">Sydney Sweeney</a> 👏 among its dedicated fans…

Forza Lazio: it’s in the genes/jeans.

American Eagle 👖 🤝 Lazio Eagle 🦅

There is no such thing as coincidence!
Harald Doornbos (@haralddoornbos) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Gisteren was er inderdaad een pro-Syrische regering demonstratie door Syriers in Nederland. Ook borden met daarop de tekst dat, volgens hen, de SDF terroristisch is. De SDF zijn de anti-#IS Koerdische autoriteiten in noordoost Syrië.

Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@lugaricano) 's Twitter Profile Photo

French PM Bayrou declares 'war' on Commission President von der Leyen, saying the Von der Leyen-Trump agreement represents an alliance of free peoples 'resolving to submission.' Can't recall a previous example of such messaging from a major EU PM about the Commission President.

Frank Vanmeenen 🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@frankvanmeenen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Trump v. Canada: Canada strikes back. Trump v. Mexico: Mexico strikes back. Trump against everyone: everyone strikes back. Trump against Europe: Europe is a cowardly lapdog.

Ive Marx (@ivemarx) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Na 2 weken van hyperstipte, hyperpropere treinen alsook hyperbeleefd personeel in Japan is het meteen weer prijs. Een vuile trein die natuurlijk weer hopeloos vertraagd is. Zero aankondigingen. Niks arigato gozaimasu. Het devies van de NMBS: go fuck yourself. Of zoiets.

Vitor Constâncio (@vmrconstancio) 's Twitter Profile Photo

EUROPE AVOIDS A TRADE WAR THROUGH A LOSING DEAL The EU showed its weakness by caving in to the power of the hegemon. The first and last opportunity the EU had to resist the bully was in April, immediately after the announcement of the “reciprocal tariffs”, as China did. However,

Ritchie Torres (@ritchietorres) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It should be possible, indeed necessary, to hold two thoughts at once. First, despite the pervasive amnesia about 10/7, the world should never forget that Hamas is the central cause of the war in Gaza and the untold suffering it has unleashed. The primary responsibility for

Geert Langenus (@geertlangenus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Er blijkt weinig overeenstemming te zijn over wat het “handelsakkoord” VS/EU precies inhoudt… Er zijn zo veel verschillen dat er eigenlijk geen akkoord is.🤡 Nog toe te voegen: VS- factsheet zegt wel degelijk nultarief op uitvoer naar EU, dus CBAM (normaal vanaf 2027) is dood?

Jeroen Bossaert (@jeroenbossaert) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Het blijft stil over de opmars van linksextremisme in 🇧🇪. Geen debat aan uniefs. Geen vlammende open brieven of opiniestukken. Mensenrechtenwaakhonden stappen niet naar de rechter. De radicalisering is nochtans reëel en niet moeilijk vast te stellen. 🤔 hln.be/opinie/kapital…

Geert Langenus (@geertlangenus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Over het incident met de joodse jongeren in dat vliegtuig. HLN ontpopt zich tot de persdienst van Vueling??? Is het niet de bedoeling dat de pers neutraal verslag uitbrengt en niet gewoon de versie van 1 partij opschrijft/overschrijft? hln.be/buitenland/vli…