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16 Jul, 5 tweets, 2 min read
The EUCivPro mechanism has been invoked
Ein herzliches Merci an die luxemburgischen Freunde
Et merci aux amis français.
E grazie anche agli amici italiani

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14 Jul
Very grateful to @GeorgeFreemanMP for pointing to the source of some of the points he made on Newsnight. My worries about accuracy remain, though I now have to spread them around (short thread)
@GeorgeFreemanMP 1) On trade. The information here is quite different from the original statement. It is "where UK tariff reductions on imports from certain developing countries save exporters from those countries around £1 billion each year"
No reference to differences from EU tariffs, no reference to tariffs on food, no reference to Africa. And, to be honest, almost unverifiable what this refers to. Carrying over the EU's GSP policy including EBA? (Which would be really different from the original claim)?
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14 Jul
There are a number of factually wrong statements by @GeorgeFreemanMP to @katierazz. As this threatens to misrepresent the payoff the country is making, I fear they need to be corrected (thread)
Let me state where I am coming from: I can understand that in times of crisis like covid funding might need to be cut. But we need to be aware of payoffs and should not talk them down. So let me just give a few pointers.
1) The MP refers to a "big aid industry" that will be suffering, points out to valuable programs and then tries to draw a distinction that really important programs will not be cut. That is at best wrong - looking at "big aid industry", arguably offensively so.
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10 Jul
Sometimes it's hard to figure out what exactly just happened in trade. An EU agri handbook shows that India indeed did not allow all EU apples to enter.
Among those it allowed to enter, though: UK apples.
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Source: pflanzengesundheit.julius-kuehn.de/dokumente/uplo…
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9 Jul
The big Brexit contamination: the UK, in the past, was a sparse user of state aid by choice - because of a conservative, market-based philosophy. And now (short thread)?
Recently there have been several prominent examples of subsidies. And they were praised as a Brexit benefit - we can subsidies because we have left the EU.
As a matter of law this is all complex. EU state aid law is gone, there's TCA rules and WTO subsidies rules, but that's not what this thread is about.
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7 Jul
59% of the new Covid cases in Germany are now of the delta variant.
Source rki.de/DE/Content/Inf…
And I do confess that this graph worries me.
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1 Jul
The RKI publishes some interesting information in its Wednesday reports - some good news (short thread)
First of all the delta variant was reported at 37% in Germany. With an incidence rate of 5.2 cases per 100.000 and vaccines at 54.5% (first) and 36.5% (second) on Wednesday, the situation looks like delaying delta has been good so far.
The rise in delta also means that once delta becomes more dominant in Germany, the UK will change its status from virus variant to high incidence. Good news for UK-German travelers (though, of course, rising delta is always bad news)
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