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Emma Clancy
emmaclancy123
What’s at stake at tonight’s Eurogroup meeting (starting at 5pm) to decide the EU/eurozone recovery package in response to the corona-economic crisis - an explanatory LONG THREAD for anyone who
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Frederik Ducrozet
fwred
We've seen a déluge of papers, opinion pieces and op-ed calling for a bold European response. Can the Eurogroup act fast enough? It's not entirely clear what can be done
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Gregory Claeys
gregclaeys
On #EUCO, after 6 years in Brussels I have learned one thing: in @EU_Commission speak to "mobilise" or "trigger" €XXXbn investment means that a tiny bit of EU money (wherever
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Miguel Carrión
Europeripheral
The Eurogroup are masters of the press release. The output of yesterday's meeting has 23 points, the first 3 of which are "whereases", the next 8 stuff already done, often
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Max Bergmann
maxbergmann
The biggest geopolitical impact of corona c/d be in Europe. The fight over coronabonds is about the EU getting its act together. Word of a compromise was met w/ cheers.
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Mujtaba Rahman
Mij_Europe
Why's everyone celebrating yesterday's Eurogroup? Yes, there's lots of ambiguity in statement so & can claim a win, but guarantees for SURE are voluntary & while there's no ESM conditions
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Jacob F Kirkegaard
jfkirkegaard
A quick thread on today's @EUCouncil video conference - its basically all to play for, but signs are getting more promising. 1) The MFF is now clearly the vehicle of
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João_D
Joao_Bx
Hey @UnDiplomaticPod @WonkVJ, I was listening to your episode released on 8 April and I need to point something out. There is an EU response to the pandemic - one
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Matina Stevis-Gridneff
MatinaStevis
Last last night we got a preliminary deal among EU finance ministers, on a rescue package for the bloc's economies. It's headline figure is "half a trillion euros"- our story
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Alexis Poulin
Poulin2012
Selon Macron, les problèmes de l’#hôpital ne sont pas liés au manque de moyens mais à l'organisation.Le problème, ce sont les conseillers en organisation qui ont organisé le manque de
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Lucas Guttenberg
lucasguttenberg
The presidency proposes to have the Council instead of the @EU_Commission approve national Recovery and Resilience Plans to unlock RRF money; even wants unanimity for this and cites
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Matthew Karnitschnig
MKarnitschnig
This commentary is a great illustration of the reductive nature of Germany's coronabond debate and helps explain why the push is going nowhere. (THREAD) 1https://twitter.com/tagesthemen/status/1248607874638479361 The commentator, a correspondent
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Catherine Feore
OrpheusEU
Given that there will be much uproar at Mauro Ferrari's abrupt resignation as President of the European Research Council, I suggest those interested look at what the EU is doing
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Sebastian Diessner
SebDiessner
We hear more and more that one way to defuse the #Karlsruhe–#Luxembourg–#Frankfurt conflict is to travel via #Berlin:Let @bundesbank be more *accountable* to @Bundestag(https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecb-policy-germany/german-lawmakers-turn-sight
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Emma Clancy
emmaclancy123
Some initial thoughts on the EU’s recovery plan announced by the Commission today, which will be welcomed by most member states who are in need of short-term funding. First –
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Paul Poast
ProfPaulPoast
What exactly happened in the Eurozone this week? Something about a German court & the ECB?It's complicated, but has implications for the Eurozone's #COVID19 recovery & the EU itself.What follows
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