Francesco Nicoli 🇪🇺 🎓

I conduct and publish cutting edge reaearch on vaccines, orbital rockets, nuclear fusion, the eurozone crisis, collective identities, legitimacy theory, green public procurement, and european military.

Russia may halt gas supplies to Europe amid Iran energy spike, Putin says Russia could halt gas supplies to Europe right now amid a spike ‌in energy prices triggered by the Iran crisis, President Vladimir Putin warned on Wednesday, linking the possible decision to the Europ...

Look what a good "friend" Putin is. He wants to stop gas exports to Europe, meaning to Hungary and Slovakia. 🤡

Lucky that we, the rest of the Europeans, got ahead of him.

Great response!

Source: @rshereme.bsky.social Facebook account

Starting to like Mannheim

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🇪🇺 Ten European countries are working together to prepare evacuation plans for the population in the event of a major war, — Reuters

Denmark, Germany, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland.

Remarkable spread of Iran war in days. You now have attacks not just in the Gulf & Israel, but also Cyprus & Turkey in the west & off Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean in the east. Had an Iranian missile struck Turkey today, there is a good chance that Article Five would be invoked by allies.

Apti Alaudinov, commander of the special unit "Akhmat", said he is ready to "go and help Iran even now", but so far all Russia does with its allies is abandon them.

Wait, they pay you back?!?

🔴 Gulf states now face the same Iranian drone threat as Ukraine.

🧵 1/11 ⬇️

It is time to sanction Rosatom and target Russia's military core For four years, Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom has remained a huge "elephant in the room" as no country, except Ukraine, has imposed a comprehensive package of sanctions against it. Rosat...

“Publicly available documentation and archived sources point to long-term involvement by Rosatom-affiliated institutes in conventional weapons development, including research, testing, and certain production stages,” writes Olena Lapenko in this op-ed.

Many say travelling with German trains is horrible.

It seems pretty easy to me! Just look at the scheduled time, add between 30 and 90 minutes, and you are good to go.

That is, unless your train gets cancelled.

The Iranian Embassy in Ukraine invited Ukrainians to sign a book of condolences for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei from March 4–6.

The move sparked backlash from Ukraine’s Ambassador to South Africa, who condemned the initiative and reminded that Iran helped Russia wage war against Ukraine.

I have just held a call with President Pedro Sánchez to express the EU’s full solidarity with Spain.

The EU will always ensure that the interests of its Member States are fully protected.

How does it work? Can you link a tutorial?

Bah.

There would be European troops in Ukraine since 2014 were they not at risk of facing a nuclear superpower. This is a false analogy.

🇹🇷 Missile debris was removed in Turkiye

All major typewriters can be used to either commit academic fraud or facilitate junk science, a test of 13 models has found.

Exactly.

Keeping Trump engaged in Ukraine is essential for Europe.

Comparison from comrade @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social on Ukraine & Iran.
-Russian forces "enter" Ukraine, US & Israel make "illegal attack"
-Russia excused cos of NATO. US & Israel are "rogue states"
-Russia created a "crisis" & offered diplomacy. US & Israel "endanger us all"

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

The problem is: correct referencing is not actually essential to do proper social science. It is a formal requirement we agreed on to respect each other's work, but not essential to scientific discovery.

the burden-sharing thing was always about not wanting to support Ukraine, you could see this most clearly in the SignalGate leaks where JD Vance was grousing about strikes on the Houthis "bailing out" Europe (when obviously those were mostly "bailing out" the Saudis & Israelis not Euros)

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To confront Iran, US must also confront Russia No regime invokes international law more fervently than when it sees its power being challenged. The moment American and Israeli forces struck Iranian targets, officials in Moscow and Tehran rushed to...

"From the perspective of international law, Iran is complicit in at least two of Russia's international crimes: the crime of aggression and the crime of genocide against the Ukrainian people," writes Oleksandr Merezhko, People's Deputy of Ukraine, in this op-ed.

An important perspective, which should not be viewed with complacency but rather with concern about how far the US and Israel will keep going long after any Iranian missile and drone threats are ground down

EU seeking solutions to prevent Iran crisis from affecting air defence supplies to Ukraine Andrius Kubilius, European Commissioner for Defence and Space, has said the EU is currently looking for ways to prevent the conflict in Iran from affecting supplies of air defence systems to Ukraine.

EU seeking solutions to prevent Iran crisis from affecting air defence supplies to Ukraine #UKRAINE :ua_flag: #EUNews

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/03/03/8023724/

They may launch a ground operation within days, possibly with U.S.–Israeli air support.

Hungarian veto proves EU needs less unanimity, says new Dutch PM "The Netherlands is back," Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten declared on his first trip to Brussels since taking office. #EuropeNews

Hungary's veto on the €90 billion loan to Ukraine proves the European Union needs less unanimity, says Rob Jetten, the new Dutch prime minister.

"We cannot explain to our constituents that Europe is sometimes way too slow," Jetten said on his first trip to Brussels since taking office.