Xavier Delcourt

Uh oh. Scoop: Scores of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s MPs are potentially refusing to vote to restore the independence of Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies, fearing the regained powers will be used to take revenge against them. ft.com/content/d8c2bb… via @FT

Est-ce qu'à un moment @BFMTV vous pouvez avoir le minimum du minimum de respect pour votre métier et arrêter d'inviter sur votre antenne le porte-parole d'une armée qui interdit à des journalistes d'aller vérifier sur place la véracité de ce qu'il raconte ?

Mary Smith, a “knocker-upper” who earned sixpence a week shooting dried peas at windows to wake people for work (East London, 1930s)

💥Again: No matter how many times the @IDF assures the world that Hamas are shits (an obvious point for most viewers) it doesn't address the hunger in Gaza, where the IDF is now in charge.

According to three people familiar with the command, Musk told a senior engineer at the California offices of SpaceX to cut Starlink coverage in areas including Kherson, a strategic region Ukraine was trying to reclaim during a pivotal counteroffensive reut.rs/455b2uk

"Mohammed bin Salman’s Saudi Arabia harnesses growth to fixed capital formation and embraces the state as planner and market actor. But it does so through the financialization of housing and debt-financed consumption." NEW: @CPowers1986 on SV2030. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/sv-20…

Trump on Gaza. "Hamas didn't really want to make a deal. I think they want to die ... they're gonna have to finish the job ... they're gonna have to fight and they're gonna have to clean it up. You're gonna have to get rid of it."

💥Trump said Macron's words on recognizing Palestine "won't change anything." "He’s a really good guy. I like him, but this statement carries no weight," the U.S. president emphasized.

Updated #Eurostatistics Statistics Explained article 🆕 ℹ️ See the macroeconomic situation in the euro area, EU and Member States with indicators of production, demand, labour and prices. 📊 Discover the visualisation tool with interactive graphs. ➡️ europa.eu/!DHmYwt

"Putin’s decisions not to help Russia’s partners in the Middle East should also send a message to leaders in Beijing about Russia’s value as an ally in the event of war between China and the United States over Taiwan." foreignaffairs.com/russia/real-me… via @ForeignAffairs

Statement from @CrisisGroup : Open the Gates to Save a Starving Gaza crisisgroup.org/rss.xml via @crisisgroup

The Donald vs Barack Hussein Obama, by @EdwardGLuce ft.com/content/0bf06e… via @ft

With the fading probability of the actual rate of Trump tariffs ending up as high as feared, French business leaders are saying the levy with be manageable bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

The ECB blog Time to be strategic: how public money could power Europe’s green, digital and defence transitions ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/dat…

Volodymyr Zelenskyy asks Europe to help boost wages of Ukrainian troops ft.com/content/548377… via @ft

The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes — an imperialist engineer’s riches built on violence ft.com/content/03854d… via @ft

Gaza. Une analyse interne du gouvernement américain n'a trouvé aucune preuve de vol systématique par le groupe militant palestinien Hamas de fournitures humanitaires financées par les États-Unis, remettant en cause le principal argument avancé par Israël et les États-Unis pour…

Quick reminder to our German friends. Who was it who invented raison d'état?

1. Zelensky recule. Face à la pression populaire, il a annoncé qu’il retirait sa réforme et déposait une nouvelle loi garantissant l’indépendance du NABU et du SAP, tout en intégrant des outils de contrôle. Il justifie ce revirement par “l’écoute du peuple” (et, disons-le, aussi…

US President Donald Trump’s negative impact on clean energy has been intense this year, but this week he took it to a new level bloomberg.com/news/newslette…