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24 May, 6 tweets, 3 min read
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
Lithuanian government announces that from tomorrow it will prevent flights coming in and out of the country from flying over Belarus' airspace. All EU countries have the right to do the same if they wish #euco
Charles Michel arriving at #euco says EU leaders will consider all options of sanctions for Belarus and he hopes a decision can be taken tonight after this "international scandal"
British government says it will order diversion of UK flights over Belarusian airspace
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25 May
#euco discussion on climate ongoing for a few hours. Some highlights:
- 🇵🇱 reject draft conclusions, demanding removal of reference to carbon pricing. Poles pushing for € to compensate for expanded ETS
- 🇪🇺 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
Predominantly poorer MS that want to use #euco conclusions to reflect concern that headlong rush to net zero will hurt their most vulnerable households. They are unlikely to win which means we're more likely to end up with no conclusions at all
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24 May
EU leaders prepare to talk Belarus at #euco tonight. MS like Poland and others want to consider sweeping economic sanctions against Lukashenko regime but that is unlikely to win favour with 🇫🇷🇩🇪. More viable option at this stage are targeted measures against 🇧🇾 individuals/biz
Lithuania's Gitanas Nauseda arrives at #euco calling on EU to embrace three decisions tonight against Belarus
- closing of Belarusian airspace to EU airlines
- declaration of Belarusian airspace as "unsafe" for civil flights
- extension of framework against sanctions
Latest version of #euco draft conclusions call for extension of sanctions regime against 🇧🇾 and banning of Belarusian Airlines flights at EU airports
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1 Apr
Mark Rutte is closer to resigning as PM than at any point in his 11 years. Dutch parliament holding a debate now and likely vote of no confidence in Rutte tonight after he was caught lying about having a prominent gov critic - Pieter Omtzigt - as a minister in a new coalition
Rutte's offence in this case is not particularly egregious - particularly compared to his government's endemic racial profiling in the tax ministry that led to the fall of the cabinet. But this may be the lie that break's the camel's back for Rutte
After nearly 12 years Rutte truly the Godfather of Dutch politics. He's going down on a tax charge.
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1 Apr
EU's vaccines bazaar is back again today. Last night, Slovenia and Czech Republic joined Austria in blocking a 30/70% division of 10m vaccines. Latest draft presidency 🇵🇹 proposal offers to *cut* additional vaccines for AT, CZ, SL. 3m would then be shared among 🇧🇬🇱🇻🇪🇪🇭🇷🇸🇰
For those who think the EU has no sense of humour: the Czech Republic is rewarded for blocking the first proposal by having its additional vaccines share cut from around 140k to 70k. The missing 70k would be distributed to its allies in Austria and Slovenia.
Austria, Slovenia, Czechs reject draft presidency proposal. 24 MS will go ahead and share extra vaccines for 🇸🇰🇪🇪🇭🇷🇧🇬🇱🇻. One diplomat says 🇦🇹🇨🇿🇸🇮 "take vaccines but do not share vaccines...the Sheriff of Nottingham was hidden under the Robin Hood costume of Kurz and his friends"
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22 Mar
🔔After Sebastian Kurz's broadsides against the EU and demands for a vaccine correction mechanism, the EU is now considering ways to send extra vaccines to hard hit countries - excluding Austria ft.com/content/f0e74a…
Germany leading a plan to redistribute portion of 10m additional Pfizer vaccines to countries hardest hit. Contenders include 🇨🇿 🇧🇬🇭🇷🇱🇻🇪🇪 but not 🇦🇹. EU diplomats says Kurz tactics mean he won't get "one jab more". They also point out that 🇦🇹not facing immediate vaccine squeeze
Austrians saying they will block any redistribution of the 10m if they are not given any additional doses. The veto would also then mean that other countries demanding help would not be given emergency doses
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19 Nov 20
EU leaders had a 16 min discussion on rule of law #MFF tonight #euco. Orban gave a concise and to the point expalanation of Hungary's stance. There were no fireworks or emotive pleas from the rest, including Merkel. One diplomat describes it as "stage managed" to avoid a bust up
Merkel kicked off #euco proceedings with a technical intervention about need to get a dealHungary, Slovenia, and Poland all took the floor at. Diplomats don't think Polish veto is as solid as the Hungarian one (for now) while Jansa is playing for a domestic crowd.
Rule of Law spat was never going to be solved at #euco tonight. Relatively short and drama-free interventions - including from Orban - indicator that a possible deal is in the works. Silence in Brussels is usually the sound of a fudge brewing
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