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14 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The propagation, normalisation and acceptability of Islamophobia among Europe's right, left, and centrist parties bleeds into EU governments and Brussels stance on Israel/Palestine in a way that wasn't the case in 2014
Overt anti-migrant, anti-Muslim/Arab politics in EU has been a norm since '15 migrant crisis. No surprise then that France's interior minister, whose centrist government targets 'Islamo-Gauchists' at home, has told Paris police to ban 🇵🇸 solidarity march
Series of copycat tweets/statements from EU leaders nearly a week after #SheikhJarrah evictions and violence ImageImage
Seems Europe's internal culture wars reflect on its foreign policy. To various degrees, EU govs for decades have framed their own citizens (immigrants, Arabs, Muslims) through securitization lens as non-integrationists, separatists, radicals in waiting. Apathy for 🇵🇸 no surprise

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The EU's highest court has today again upheld the right of employers to sack Muslim women from their jobs for wearing the headscarf if justified by notion of "neutrality". The ECJ also seems to admit that this is a form of discrimination 🤷‍♀️
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It's Fit For 55 day in Brussels. College of commissioners is still holed up in Brussels making final adjustments to ~13 pieces of legislation that will impose sweeping costs on households and businesses for polluting. College meeting could drag on for another hour at least...
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#euco discussion on climate ongoing for a few hours. Some highlights:
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- 🇪🇺 VdL confirms cars & buildings will be gradually introduced to ETS
- Polish PM tells #euco Poland faces additional cost of €4bn under new ETS
- 🇷🇴🇧🇬🇱🇻 also warn against steep rise in their national emissions targets if Commission tweaks effort sharing criteria
- Merkel 🇩🇪 and other richer countries want east and others to suck it up on ESR
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Lufthansa flight from Minsk to Frankfurt looks to have been grounded hours ahead of an EU summit where leaders are due to discuss possibility of banning Belarus flights from landing in the EU. Possible sign of tit-for-tat to come #EUCO
EU has summoned Belarus's ambassador this afternoon #euco
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After nearly 12 years Rutte truly the Godfather of Dutch politics. He's going down on a tax charge.
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