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Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought

What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE: Police raid EU External Action Service, College of Europe in sweeping fraud probe | Euractiv Authorities make arrests in Brussels and Bruges in the latest scandal to engulf the EU

Hmmm high level (former) EU officials suspected of fraud again. Not sure if this is directed at Mogherini or not though

www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...

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Il faut arrêter de dire que la crise provoquée par la révélation d’un réseau de corruption en Ukraine affaiblit Zelensky. C’est plutôt le contraire. Et le dire nourrit le message russo/américain sur l’illégitimité de la démocratie ukrainienne.
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Accurate

This is such an incredible story I at first wondered if it was fake. But it appears to be real.

www.ag.ks.gov/Home/Compone...

Trade: Council and Parliament strike a deal to reinforce rules on trade preferences to developing countries Council and Parliament reached a provisional deal on the revised GSP regulation, linking trade preferences for developing countries to stronger commitments on human rights, environment and migration c...

EU trade/immigration law

EU Member States and European Parliament agree on amendments to EU trade preferences for developing countries - including withdrawal of preferences in the event of insufficient readmission of migrants (in the EU's opinion)
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

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VRT-coproductie 'Soundtrack to a coup d'état' gelauwerd met een Gouden Roos in Londen | VRT NWS: nieuws De documentaire 'Soundtrack to a coup d'état' heeft een Gouden Roos gewonnen in de categorie Kunst. De prestigieuze audio- en videoprijzen werden uitgereikt door de EBU in Londen. In totaal waren 11 Vlaamse producties genomineerd, maar enkel 'Soundtrack to a coup d'état' kon de nominatie verzilveren.

VRT-coproductie 'Soundtrack to a coup d'état' gelauwerd met een Gouden Roos in Londen

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De kat is gewoon zijn dieetcoach.

Ja, maar het blijft gokken! 😄

Dat denk ik ook, ja. Of hiervandaan:

Google kan dat ook.

Iemand probeerde een vertaling met AI uit. Iemand was niet tevreden. En dus heb ik er nu een leuke vertaalklus bij. Een vroege Kerst! 😊

Fake in my opinion and that of my reference book, I should add.

Yeah, it's getting late. Talk to you soon!

Glad to help, but I am not a historian and not a real expert. I just think it's an interesting corner of the world.

This book gives a really nice overview:

Yeah, I suppose.

j-mydland.net/Albania.htm

International Gendarmerie - Wikipedia

Absolutely! France ---> Koritza/Korça and Epirus. Austria had post offices in Albania. Even the Dutch played a minor role:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...

It's a big part of Albanian history.

Quote from link:

'During the second part of the 3rd century BC, a number of Illyrian tribes seem to have united to form a proto-state stretching from the central part of present-day Albania up to Neretva river in Herzegovina.'

Hence the importance.

The countries involved? The Balkans (notably Montenegro, Serbia, Greece), Turkey, Italy, the allied powers (WW I and II), China and the Soviet-Union (communist period)...

Skanderbeg - Wikipedia

And of course this gentleman:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skander...

Illyrians - Wikipedia

And you can go as far back as this:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrians

Well, for philatelic purposes I would definitely have a look at the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, both World Wars (especially all the mayhem in the Balkans) and then the Cold War. It's quite messy, with several countries invading Albania. The fall of communism in Albania is also interesting.