Bastien Alvarez

@eurofounder Written by a US-based troll who does not have the € sign on their keyboard 😂

European Reddit is absolutely wild

Carlos Greykey, only black Spanish Republican in Mauthausen. Born 1913 Barcelona. Despite working class Guinea parents managed to study medicine in 1936. Then Republican army+exile. Deported 1941 to Mauthausen. Constantly humiliated, forced to wear royal Yugoslav uniform to amuse+serve SS meals. Died 82, France.

@GACohen @Pieter_de_Pous @BrankoMilan It's the objective of the US then, not the West's.

@Pieter_de_Pous @BrankoMilan Are you stupid? EU is not running the west’s war on Iran.

Firmly into conspiracy land now

@just_juliao @nikolaushaufler There are good reasons to believe fertility of the second generation converges toward the general level : insee.fr/fr/statistique…

@nikolaushaufler Mass immigration to France began in the 1970s, meaning much sooner than most of Europe. Those who talk to you about immigrants are referring to immigrants spanning several generations. In official statistics, they will appear as non-immigrants.

“France only has a higher birth rate than Germany because of Muslim immigrants.” I hear this every single time I cite France’s demographic advantage. The data says otherwise. 🧵

@Rob02909237 @kev_thomsen @PeterBorbe Likely a plurality/majority in both cases. For 20y post-annexion all elected Alsacians representatives opposed the annexion and then the autonomist/regionalist vote remained dominant until 1914. The annexion was never popular the region & blood/language is not thicker than soul.

@kev_thomsen @PeterBorbe Of the German speakers I wonder if there would have been a significant minority that still would have voted to stay with France in an 1871 plebiscite? By 1914 guessing it would have been a smaller minority.

Deutsche Muttersprachler in Elsaß-Lothringen um 1910. Schon wenige Jahre später gehörte das Land zu Frankreich.

@Glenn_Diesen It's an old video from 2022 when she wast Prime minister of Estonia and not an EU official. She was talking about Macron's phone calls to Putin and not current négociation. euractiv.com/interview/stop…

The EU insists on having a seat at the table during negotiations, but the EU does not believe in diplomacy and does not want to talk to Moscow. Here is the EU's Foreign Policy Chief, Kaja Kallas, explaining that she does not want to talk to Putin because "he's a war criminal".

@GerardAraud It's an old video from 2022 when she wast Prime minister of Estonia and not an EU official. She was talking about Macron's phone calls to Putin and not current négociation. euractiv.com/interview/stop…

She is doing her very best to make irrelevant her job…

@Noahpinion Bienvenue à Paris ! Enjoy your stay :)

Today, I made the mistake of flying from Dublin to Paris via London's Heathrow Airport. This was a remarkably stupid move on my part, given that London, and by extension Heathrow, is located in the failing formerly-developed country known as "the UK". I almost paid dearly for this oversight. My layover was 1 hour and 30 minutes. As soon as my flight from Dublin arrived at Terminal 2, I began looking around for my connecting flight to Paris, which was located in Terminal 5. A helpful immigration officer pointed me in the direction of a free train that I could take to Terminal 5. After walking for about 15 minutes through a labyrinthine maze of tunnels, I arrived at this train. The train required me to get a ticket for the free trip to Terminal 5. After standing in line at a machine, I pressed a button that dispensed this ticket. I then used the ticket to go through a turnstyle. Once on the platform (which was poorly labeled), I discovered -- by asking some locals -+ that the trains for Terminal 4 do not actually go to Terminal 5. (This had not been apparent from any signs or other information in the train station.) I would thus have to wait 17 minutes for the dedicated train to Terminal 5. And so wait I did. About 20 minutes later I arrived at Terminal 5, and discovered that I was in the Departures area. Despite the fact that I was transferring, I would have to go through airport security again. So I waited in line for security, watching other people struggle with the automated boarding pass scanners. Finally I reached the scanners, and when I scanned my boarding pass, it registered an error, and told me to see a British Airways employee. (Sadly, my Aer Lingus flight was operated by British Airways.) So I went to the British Airways departures counter, and after a while I found the line I was supposed to stand in. I waited 10 minutes in the line, and was finally allowed to see a British Airways employee. The British Airways employee informed me that I had already missed my flight, since boarding was at 12:15 and it was now 12:17. I argued that boarding would probably last more than two minutes, and that I might still have time to make the flight, whose departure was scheduled for 12:55. She seemed skeptical of this argument, but I finally persuaded her to help me give it a try. Returning me to the security line, the British Airways woman told me to wait in the line (which would have taken 15 minutes). I begged her to let me jump the queue, and she did, explaining my plight to a South Asian security employee who let me through the rope barrier to the front of the line. This South Asian man is actually the hero of our story. When I cut to the front of the security line, a security employee barked at me to get back. The lovely South Asian man then barked at her to let me through, and his confident air of command carried the day. I was let through, and the South Asian man even showed me how to use the security machine so that it would definitely not stop me from entering. He told me to tell his colleagues at the baggage scanner that I was allowed to jump to the front of the queue. I raced to the baggage scanning line, which looked like it would have taken an additional 20 minutes, and simply ducked under the barriers and cut to the front of the line. I apologized to the employee there and told him my flight was already boarding. He told me that in that case, I had already missed my flight, and it wasn't even worth continuing. But I told him that his colleague (the aforementioned South Asian man) had instructed me to go through security anyway, and he accepted this and let me through. I had to do an extra scan of my shoes, but made it through OK. I then ran to my gate, ducking and weaving around various travelers. When I made it to the gate, I found that the flight was still boarding, and they let me through. I then spent 20 minutes standing in line on the jetway. Naturally, my bag didn't arrive in Paris.

It's a remarkable fact that the bottom 10% in France and UK have about the same income (slightly higher) as their American counterparts - in spite of the fact that America has much higher GDP per capita. That's a testament to our policy choices, including the failure to raise the federal minimum wage in America for over a generation.

New evidence on the effect of cell phone bans in schools just dropped. "Enforcement of cellphone bans in schools led to a significant increase in student suspensions in the short-term ... but disciplinary actions began to dissipate after the first year, potentially suggesting a new steady state after an initial adjustment period." "We find significant improvements in student test scores in the second year of the ban after that initial adjustment period."

#42Tirana 🇦🇱 début de la formation pour de la 1ère cohorte du nouveau campus #Ecole42 🇫🇷 #42Network 👏🏻 160 apprenants sélectionnés 🥇parmi 3000+ candidats dont 400 inscrits aux parcours de sélection. 🙏 @The_AADF @BashkiaTirane #PiramidaTirana @MirelaKumbaro

@ArmandDoma In some coastal areas most of housing is already second house. Increasing demand raises prices, displacing local residents who rent and making many small cities dead during the winter. Some of these places want additional regulation options to improve the situation of natives.

making it illegal for someone to *build* a second house?!? why?!?

@JamesMelville Getaround allows something very similar.

This is insane. She completely ignores the fact that people are not going to use their neighbour’s car and that a neighbour is not going to let anyone else use their car. That’s the problem with nonsense like this - it never takes into account basic human nature.

@ArmandDoma Or Getaround...

Carshare is a business that exists? I used Zipcar a lot when I was younger

Who benefits from public services❓ Thrilled to see this published in the Journal of Development Economics! I provide novel evidence on the role of public services in reducing inequality, focusing on post-apartheid South Africa. A few takeaways👇

@quatremer Avait-on un accord d'association avec ces deux pays ? A priori l'UE applique un embargo sur les armes à la Birmanie, donc la comparaison que vous faîtes n'est sans doute pas si favorable envers votre position.

La Commission propose des sanctions commerciales contre Israël qui n’ont guère de chance d’être adoptés par une majorité qualifiée d’Etats. Et surtout, on est étonné que de telles sanctions n’aient jamais été proposées contre la Birmanie (massacre des musulmans Rohingyas) ou le Nicaragua qui violent allègrement les droits de l’homme. Privilège juif on imagine liberation.fr/international/…

@CareBear1944 @belballsTros @fbhutto Still not true : aa.com.tr/fr/monde/franc… solidaires.org/sinformer-et-a… politis.fr/articles/2024/…

@belballsTros @fbhutto True it’s not the world. But I think this is aimed at USA-UK-Germany-France

Western feminists would go to war to take off these women’s veils but won’t say ONE WORD about them being hunted and murdered by Israel for doing their jobs

I'm happy to share an open letter to the Israeli government from 23 professors of economics across the US and Europe (including myself): drive.google.com/file/d/1D_Sv3J…

@Doc_Mouh @canardenchaine Probablement parce que prononcer 3 phrases déplaisantes lors d'une interview et transmettre des infos confidentielles à un pays étranger qui s'en sert pour menacer et harceler de façon illégale ce n'est pas le même niveau de trahison.

@canardenchaine Il est pour le moins surprenant d'avoir à constater que la France s'arroge le droit de traîner ceux qu'elle considère comme des traîtres devant les tribunaux, alors qu'elle dénie ce même droit à l'Algérie.

Un informaticien de Bercy est soupçonné d’avoir renseigné le régime de Tebboune sur ses opposants réfugiés en France. Il a été mis en examen pour intelligence avec une puissance étrangère. ➡️ Une enquête des « Dossiers du Canard" en kiosque et sur bit.ly/4m4ZcaP

@DelwinStrategy @jnbarrot La voici : x.com/EmmanuelMacron…

@jnbarrot Il n’existe aucune trace de déclarations publiques à ce sujet. Tout comme la fameuse missive de M Abbas dont vous parlez pour justifier la decision néfaste de reconnaître un état palestinien. Pouvez vous Monsieur le Ministre offrir du concret?

A notre initiative, les pays arabes ont fait cette semaine à New-York un geste historique en direction de l'Etat d'Israël. En proclamant leur aspiration à établir des relations et à concourir avec lui à la sécurité régionale. En condamnant pour la première fois les crimes du Hamas et en appelant à sa reddition.