Malta confirms Chris Fearne as the country's first choice for Commissioner in the forthcoming EU executive despite he's been charged by prosecutors in a fraudulent hospital concessions scandal. marta iraola has the story:
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For who is interested in news dynamics: today in Brussels you can see what happens when a house burns down in a neighbourhood with the highest ratio of journalists per capita in Europe.

“If you were to really be able to restrict Russia's access to this kind of stuff, then in fact it would have an effect on the weapon production capacity of Russia,” Bruegel senior fellow Guntram Wolff explained.

Update: It's a residential building. Some inhabitants have been evacuated already, police closed the area, and firefighters came promptly

An explosion has been heard next to the Schuman rondpoint area in the EU bubble district, and there's smoke out of a building in Rue Breydel/Rue Belliard

🧵Here's a story in miniature about how the #Gaza conflict is tearing Europeans apart.

All the bars on the gay street in Brussels were planning to band together to have a public #Eurovision2024 viewing on the street with a giant screen. But then they started fighting over 🇮🇱.

New update: Nicolas Schmit uses the EPP's refusal to sign to attack Ursula von der Leyen's ambiguity.
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Like it or not, von der Leyen is widely perceived in Ireland to have endorsed a genocide in the name of the EU. It would be surprising if the public did not have qualms about the EU’s direction.

We've just found out that, back in the days, we decided the prize would've been having drinks with the three of us

Hope I won’t have the need to quote you dear Gerardo Fortuna we wish Europe well

First #Eurovision 2024 semi-final's over, and I have just one curiosity that's been bugging me: Are these the first-ever naked ass cheeks appeared on the stage of #Eurovision ?

Luxembourg's Tali performs the best song in French of this year (yeh, it's a provocation...), it's a pity that had a chorus in English that put the whole song a bit off beat
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Sweden must've thought, 'Enough with winning the #Eurovision ' so they imported Marcus & Martinus from Norway, who have played the best drop of the contest so far. The rest of the song, despite the title, is definitely forgettable

Let's admit it, that's Germany's first decent #Eurovision song in years, if not decades
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Quote me on that. If:
2024, Baby Lasagna conquers Europe in Malmö, then 2024-29, Andrej Plenković rules Europe in Brussels

Teresa & Maria effect on German Lewis Capaldi who self censored himself and didn't say the word fuck cos it looked bad

Teresa & Maria is a song about the European right-wing: Support to Ukraine but also support to extremely controversial figure of the Church served by seraphic faces - whether is Jerry Heil, alyona alyona or Ursula von der Leyen #Eurovision

You gotta love the #Eurovision : There's the satanic ritual, the gay orgy, and the prayer to Mother Teresa, one after the other. Absolutely brilliant.

Not super original in terms of music (bit Grimes, Poppy, Melanie Martinez etc...) but gosh, if #Eurovision needed someone like Bambie. Ireland's entry is already raising the bar for the best stageing this year

Second guest at #Eurovision and already first kefiah on the stage by Eric Saade (who represented Sweden in the contest in 2011)