Katja Knezevic

Kissed summer goodbye in the best way. Here's to a cosy bookish autumn ahead. 📚🍂

Shared the stage tonight with wonderful poets from around the world for Brussels' first Asian Literary Festival.

Finally started watching Only Murders in the Building and I like it a lot! Very cosy and autumnal. Beautiful photography. Martin Short does most of the acting.

Had a fantastic time prescribing poetry at @wordcraft-bxl.bsky.social's Open day 🥰

Are we losing our connection to one another? When people are numbed by violence and pain, compassion becomes harder to practise

Are we losing our connection to one another? on.ft.com/47ZiOsU | opinion

I will act as your resident poetry pharmacist. 😉

'There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.' Marta Graham

some beauty from rondpoint schuman

Bruegel's best unpacks the #SOTEU with needed level-headedness:

It's not all work, some memory-making going on in the breaks @bruegel.org 🙂

Brilliant @mariejuge.bsky.social @bmcwilliams.bsky.social @keliauskaite.bsky.social and @tagliapietra.bsky.social are launching the first-in-Europe Clean tech tracker today at @bruegel.org Annual Meetings! ⚡️💨☀️🌊☢️💚

Mario Monti, speaking @bruegel.org, on the EU's Google move: "I understand it's not a decision not to proceed, but it is a postponement of a decision, which is bad enough for the credibility of competition policy. I'm not sure I would have accepted this and remain in the position."

Superstar first session wrapped up! @bruegel.org @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social

The fabulous fantastic 20th anniversary BAM has started! Join us online and onsite.

📊 NEW Dataset: European Clean Tech Tracker

This resource covers:
🔋 Batteries, 🚗 Electric vehicles,🔌 Grids, ♨️ Heat pumps, 💧Hydro, ☢️ Nuclear, ☀️ Solar and 🍃 Wind

🖊️ @mariejuge.bsky.social, @keliauskaite.bsky.social, @bmcwilliams.bsky.social and @tagliapietra.bsky.social
🔗 buff.ly/HjhZay5

📅 See you tomorrow at our Bruegel Annual Meetings! 💥

Join us for our flagship event as we dive into the big questions shaping Europe's future!

🔗 Register for the the public sessions of September 3rd: buff.ly/edZ9dMd

18 to 20 Sept 2025, on the island of Lopud, a special literary festival takes place - the Book Bridge festival. Immerse yourself in breathtaking nature, transformative conversations and memorable dinners. We could not recommend it more - see the glimpses of last year and join us: bit.ly/3ZyYhX3

One of the favourite things in my 10+ years in Brussels is being a co-founder of the @wordcraft-bxl.bsky.social, a community of writers, readers and literature-lovers. The magic is best felt at our annual Open day, so do join us for the 2025 edition. Far from your usual Bubble rentrée event 😜📚

Bosnia, 30 years on: the looming crisis in the Balkans Trouble is brewing again in the ethnically divided state, exactly three decades after the Srebrenica massacre

'The massacre at Srebrenica galvanised America into moving to end the war'

erm... no it didn't?

www.ft.com/content/e412...

Bigger, better funded and focused on public goods: how to revamp the European Union budget

On 16 Jul the EC will publish its next EU budget proposal and kick-off two years of consultations. Well, @zsoltdarvas.bsky.social and colleagues have done their homework (and yours).

How to fund it and spend it, but better - the new Bruegel Blueprint on the next MFF is out:

bit.ly/4luS0of

The implications of G7 agreement on the global minimum tax Though the European Union might not like a ‘side-by-side’ global minimum tax system, it has little choice but to work with it for now

‘Don’t tax me, and I will make sure all the others are properly taxed’ A concise @bruegel.bsky.social summary of the G7 taxation deal by Pascal Saint-Amans (the father of the OECD agreement) www.bruegel.org/first-glance...

FAST COMPANY Article: While retirement typically occurs, after completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals called "micro-retirement." Micro- retirements involve taking a one to two- week break from work every 12 to 18 months. Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being. However, it's not just Gen-Z:

'Vacations.'

The word is 'vacations.'

One of the favourite things in my 10+ years in Brussels is being a co-founder of the @wordcraft-bxl.bsky.social, a community of writers, readers and literature-lovers. The magic is best felt at our annual Open day, so do join us for the 2025 edition. Far from your usual Bubble rentrée event 😜📚

A new, detailed proposal on how to transform ESMA into the single supervisor that EU capital markets need.

Book Bridge 2025 - Ponta Lopud Creative Platform September 18 to 20, 2025 2025 BOOK BRIDGE The second edition of the Ponta Lopud Book Bridge will bring a nuanced creative buzz to Lopud exploring the relationship between Literature and social…

Consider a different summer holiday this year - in the unexpectedly magical post-season, discover the quiet and artful island of Lopud. This Adriatic gem hosts three festivals - film, jazz and literature. Join us for the readings and exchanges, stay for the sea and the stars.

No one expects the Spanish rejection.

Get that novel written.

bit.ly/4kGUm2V

#amwriting

Bill is Kenough.

Happy 475th birthday, Helsinki!

'a Super Bowl of schadenfreude'