@xavierdarcy.bsky.social
🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧 / ECB / recovering journalist / "wannabe central banking influencer" / views my own
never run the old Champs stage again
27.07.2025 18:41 — 👍 143 🔁 18 💬 4 📌 6Happy Whatever It Takes Day to all those who celebrate!
26.07.2025 08:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The #ECB did the meme: www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/d...
21.07.2025 14:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Get the look: www.refinery29.com/en-us/shop/p... #incharge
05.06.2025 14:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The ECB is accountable to the people of Europe through the European Parliament.
As such, we have published our feedback statement responding to the issues raised by @europarl.europa.eu in its resolution on our 2023 Annual Report europa.eu/!YqYDhC
All there is to say is - this is really stupid and destructive.
02.04.2025 20:50 — 👍 89 🔁 16 💬 10 📌 0Don't necessarily agree with the conclusion but interesting thread on some overlooked aspects of new EU fiscal rules interpretation by the EU commission.
19.03.2025 15:32 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Yes he said this:
28.02.2025 20:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0An extraordinary moment. America has publicly resigned its leadership of the free world
24.02.2025 17:08 — 👍 1293 🔁 390 💬 45 📌 32
Today marks the third anniversary of Russia’s unjustified invasion of Ukraine.
We continue to stand with the people of Ukraine, who have been suffering through this horrific aggression.
The art of the deal...
12.02.2025 20:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
US Sec of Defense Pete Hegseth sits in a blue suit at NATO HQ in Brussels reading a statement.
“I’m here today to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States from being the primary guarantor of security in Europe.”
US Secretary of Defence, February 12, 2025.
Everything changed today.
BOOM. New Odd Lots with ECB Chief Economist Philip Lane, talking about cyclical and structural pressures facing the eurozone right now podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
07.02.2025 12:18 — 👍 116 🔁 12 💬 6 📌 0"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
Worth noting that Die Linke got <5% last time and still got in thanks to the Grundmandatsklausel, they could still do the same this time (that scenario is less likely for FDP & BSW though)
07.12.2024 08:55 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The first financial scandal/crisis to defeat all attempts at satire. There's nothing to say
04.12.2024 06:46 — 👍 991 🔁 312 💬 71 📌 126Phrasing headlines as questions is such lazy journalism...
29.11.2024 19:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Exactly, and even when we collaborate and specialise, awkward compromises persist to protect national economic interests. Just look at the Eurofighter, with the right and left wings being assembled in different countries...
22.11.2024 10:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How kaput is Germany?
My colleagues take a deep, sobering dive. Highly recommended.
www.economist.com/europe/2024/...
Hey everyone, happy to join the blue skies over here ✌️🇪🇺 Greetings from Frankfurt, have a great weekend!
13.10.2023 10:43 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Party currently polling at ~5% holding the entire EU to ransom once again
27.10.2023 07:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Switzerland is a truly unbelievable country
26.10.2023 16:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hi, who is here from German #Econtwitter? Please answer and retweet!
20.09.2023 15:21 — 👍 71 🔁 43 💬 33 📌 1Hey 😇
23.10.2023 21:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A noticeable lack of "Bluesky" over Frankfurt today
20.10.2023 10:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Die logische Konsequenz von Lindners Kurs, sich als "Opposition innerhalb der Ampel" zu positionieren: die Leute entscheiden sich dann halt lieber für das Original. Tja 👋
17.10.2023 16:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hey everyone, happy to join the blue skies over here ✌️🇪🇺 Greetings from Frankfurt, have a great weekend!
13.10.2023 10:43 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
