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(As I used to rant about back in Madrid, mostly to deaf ears: to be a leader, you need to have followers.)

Fair piece, from an informed stand-point. We have been right on a number of issues (NATO’s random baseline target, Palestine, Ukraine), but we have been bad at building alliances, because Spain is still not doing foreign policy well.

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Tuesday Kigali office

Now that I finally got some time to sit down this year, I am at last diving into this. As a Brussels veteran, I’ve been wary to open it. I have always had a complicated relationship with Merkel’s European legacy. Wonder whether this book will help.

It is a (n old) Toyota!

Ok, slightly revising this. Drove at rush hour for the first time today and the pixie thing looks like a piece of cake in comparison. More juicy updates like this one coming soon.

Rwanda! Come visit!

Also - meet my new car, Snake Porn.

I moved to Africa. And I am growing out my pixie. No doubts as to which one of the two will be tougher.

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Taking off to a new adventure kind of far away in a few minutes. More news coming soon!

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Buscando apoyo para mi obsesión con el irritante anuncio de los interruptores, una amiga ingeniera me enseñó este otro. Y ahora me preocupa que la Generación Z no sólo no sepa lo que es un interruptor, sino tampoco de dónde viene la energía fósil.

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Agreed. But there is no reforming the Lisbon Treaty.

Which one of them? 😉

Nah. Democratic deficit PHallacy all the way. Will be taught in History books 😉

As if I had ever read any of these two people (one of whom I see often at the schoolgate and yet, curiously, never talk about the democratic deficit phallacy with a ‘PH’)

Or a piece on how there are way too many men pulling the strings of power so the democratic deficit is not only a fallacy, but a phallacy. True fact, albeit an unintended one.

I still hope my English is not too limited despite this Freudian slip 😉

True. Which is even more appalling, because it is a direct translation from French that makes even less sense in other languages.

That’s what happens when you all Brits flee X and I have not posted in a while. But, hey - democratic deficit and too many men in power (especially, backstage): democratic deficit phallacy. Does it work?

Thanks! I am an X native who went cold turkey early 2024 for work and now needs to come to a social media I don´t understand

And it can even be a phallacy, so it appeals to Gen Z and boost some TikTok algorithm

Did you mean “fallacy” or is that quite a racy double entendre?

As I cannot edit this. Of course I meant fallacy, although there is probably a case to bring feminism into this and apply the below term. Thanks @alanbeattie.bsky.social

auch. Thanks for pointing this out. All my British followers have left X, where I initially posted this, so I am now extremely embarrassed

Keep up with me, because I am soon doing one of that awful ✨personal news✨ posts and will be heading to some place where having coined a European political science term that nobody understands will come in handy.

This is what I have decided, just now, to call the democratic deficit phallacy and you should all be hearing from that in the next few months.