Disappointing to see European borders closing between Germany & fellow countries again. Backward-looking trend...

"Berlin said on Monday that controls in place at its border with Austria since 2015, and since last year with Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland, would be extended next week to France, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark."

#retro #regressive #politics #political #news #social #news #Germany #EU #European #unity #France #borders #closed

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/10/the-end-of-schengen-germanys-new-border-controls-put-eu-unity-at-risk

‘The end of Schengen’: Germany’s new border controls put EU unity at risk

Critics say tightened land border checks a ‘transparent’ bid to appease far right that breaches free movement rights

^{Jon Henley (The Guardian)}

Such a beautiful Ukrainian family. The only trouble? After the last shelling of Lviv by #russia only the father survived.

Stop and think about it.

At the same time #Ukraine is not allowed to bomb military targets within russia, because your governments are afraid of “escalation”.

There is no further escalation — russia is throwing everything they have at us. I guess we’ll need to wait until it’s your families and not just ours.

#war #nato #cowardice #eu #usa #germany #france #uk

The piece of the Pavel Durov story that isn’t getting enough attention is the scandal around Emmanuel Macron granting him French citizenship as part of his effort to attract tech investment.

Brings to mind New Zealand doing something similar with Peter Thiel.

https://www.politico.eu/article/macron-finally-admits-he-gave-telegram-chief-pavel-durov-french-citizenship/

#tech #france #paveldurov #telegram

Emmanuel Macron finally admits he gave Telegram chief French citizenship

President’s team initially said the foreign ministry made the call to grant Russian-born Pavel Durov a French passport.

^{Una Hajdari (POLITICO)}