Jack Schickler

They did it via a shell company

The reporter did not add that

indeed, Euractiv describe them as a "spokesperson", but if you are unnamed, you are anonymous

My assumption is the latter is someone from the spokesperson’s service , but indeed who knows

Rule number one of crisis comms: put everything out there. Yet it's hard not to conclude that one of these two people, Commission senior official Sannino or anonymous spokesperson, is being deliberately misleading here.

(from @eddywax.bsky.social and @nicolettaionta.bsky.social)

In particular, the Commission will propose, in the first half of 2026, the Commission to introduce restrictions on the export of scraps and waste of permanent magnets on the basis of a thorough assessment as well as targeted measures on aluminium scrap.

The Commission will propose something to the Commission? Now that's what I call a #circulareconomy

I’d read it

Priceless

My Charles and Di wedding mug (age 41) has outlasted my Charles coronation mug (age 2 and a half). Not sure what to make of this fact

why is it poop but not peep

I will just after I finish eating my underpants, which apparently is a thing I have to do now

Why is it edible. Why

Like they either eat soap or don’t use it, I don’t know which is worse

Sign saying : don’t put on your skin anything you wouldn’t eat

The cosmetics store round the corner is offering astonishingly bad advice

Who wore it better?

"On Sunday this shop is exceptionally open"

Werner von Braun, the most powerful man in British architecture

Christmas come early: What’s in the EU’s grids package - Contexte A December package of measures to boost European energy networks is generating considerable excitement in the Brussels bubble. Contexte breaks down what to expect — including proposals for faster grid...

🎄 What's in the EU's grid reforms?

Energy stakeholders hope the surprise package, festively due on 10 December, will include better planning, an end to connection queues ... and not too much coal.

@sunderjourno.bsky.social & @mariettethom.bsky.social explain all

www.contexte.com/eu/article/e...

COP30: A disappointing summit for the EU - Contexte Brussels clearly didn’t get what it wanted from the COP30 summit in Brazil, which ended on 22 November with a bare-bones deal that fails to raise climate ambitions. In the inevitable postmortem, obser...

Two bangers published today by @energy.contexte.com:

🇧🇷 COP30: A post mortem of a disappointing summit. @genicotd.bsky.social & @vrg.bsky.social, from Belém, unpick why the EU — diverted by internal squabbles and colliding with a BRIC wall — failed to deliver.

www.contexte.com/eu/article/e...

Trois drones aperçus au-dessus d'une centrale nucléaire en Belgique Engie, qui exploite le site de Doel, assure qu'il n'y a eu aucune incidence sur l'activité.

certainly some suspicion, here in Belgium, that they have been a target (though in some sort of vague and unspecified hybrid incident, rather than war): www.franceinfo.fr/internet/dro...

“Our movie critic, who’s never seen a single Carry On film”

216 pages, says the publisher

Treasury Brain means measuring progressivity solely based on impact per income decile. (On which basis expanding the military is quite possibly more progressive than expanding university education)

I only recently saw the films and … there is a church in Godric’s Hollow? Where they go at Christmas? How does this work

I am fascinated by the Venn diagram of people who think parking must be free but buses can’t be

text: postponed of one year

After the environment council negotiated for roughly 20 hours on Tuesday/Wednesday, now it's the Parliament's turn to figure out its position on a planned 90% emissions cut for 2040.

I'm not saying MEPs are copying the member states' homework, but they've even reproduced their typos

Add bacon and pastries and … you can see how they came up with the idea

Guess it would be less diplomatic to offer Wegovy

presumably it was the "worse" bit that triggered here

There was once a chap named Ozymandias
Whose fate tragically came to a sandy pass
His vast legs of stone
Just stood all alone
Reaching up to his absent candy-ass