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1 Sep, 3 tweets, 2 min read
#VaccinationUpdate:

🇮🇹Italy has now vaccinated a higher share of its population than 🇬🇧UK.

🇵🇹Portugal is now the most vaccinated country in Europe.
#InfectionUpdate:

🇮🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸 continue to lead the world in confirmed new #COVID19 infections.

🇮🇪🇨🇾🇬🇷 have highest case rates in the EU🇪🇺.
#HospitalisationUpdate:

Alarming 🇨🇾 admission rate has fallen dramatically.

🇺🇸🇮🇱 #Covid19 hospital admissions still alarming, but may be levelling off at least.

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8 Sep
Since I’m obsessed with invisible borders, I’m taking advantage of the brief spell of nice weather to cycle 🇧🇪 ➡️🇳🇱➡️🇧🇪➡️🇳🇱➡️🇧🇪➡️🇳🇱➡️🇧🇪 today.
Putte is a town divided between a Dutch portion and a Belgian portion.

The buildings on the right are in 🇧🇪, on the left 🇳🇱. The subtle flags at this intersection is the only sign of this though.
When Kasteel Ravenhof was built, it was in the center of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Then after Belgian independence in 1830, the castle’s lands stayed in 🇳🇱 while the castle went to 🇧🇪. Today it sits directly on the border. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Ki…
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6 Sep
It begins.

Following the EU decision to ban unvaccinated Americans from entry, the big question was whether countries would put quarantine requirements for the vaccinated that make non-essential travel impractical.

🇳🇱 is imposing a 5 to 10 day quarantine eu.usatoday.com/story/travel/n…
It is really a shame that the Biden administration has been unwilling to come to an agreement with the Europeans on travel that could have established some clear reciprocal policies.

This is going to be a mess.
Americans thinking about getting around the Dutch restrictions by flying to another EU country and then flying to NL, think again.

If on the Dutch passenger locator form for your connecting flight you say you’ve been in US the past 14 days - quarantine required.
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3 Sep
Breaking: #AstraZeneca has settled the lawsuit launched against it by the EU.

The company has committed to deliver 60 million doses by the end of Q3, 75m by end Q4 and 65m by end Q1 2022.
reuters.com/world/europe/a…
The delivery isn't particularly relevant any more given EU is now amply supplied by other vaccine providers and EU countries aren't very enthusiastic about AZ.

The importance of this lawsuit was to demonstrate that a company must meet its commitments in contracts with the EU.
But EU health commissioner @SKyriakidesEU notes "there are significant differences in vaccination rates between our member states, and the continued availability of vaccines, including AstraZeneca's, remain crucial."

Eastern Europe still has a lot of vaccinating to do.
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13 Aug
Ahead of the expected onslaught against ‘EU English’ starting 1 January with the French presidency, I’d like to make a suggestion:

Continental European countries should stop teaching English as a ‘foreign’ language.

Hear me out (🧵1/8) languagemagazine.com/2021/06/09/fre…
Right now foreign languages are taught tied in with a country’s culture

So when I learned French in high school, textbook examples were all ‘Jean-François is buying a baguette in Paris’

When Europeans learn English it’s all ‘John Smith is preparing a cup of tea in London’ (2/8)
But why not teach English as something that isn’t ‘foreign’?

Why not teach it as a communication tool used to speak to people from the other countries in 🇪🇺 and beyond?

Dare I say it, why not teach it as a ‘federal’ communications tool? (3/8)
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8 Aug
It's weird that the 3 countries that had a dramatic initial surge in #vaccinations now have, 6 months later, among the highest new #Covid19 infection rates in the world.

I honestly don't know what to make of that. Overconfidence leading to ending restrictions too early?
To be clear, it's not that 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇬🇧 currently have the highest #vaccination rates. Not by a long shot.

What sets these 3 apart is that their export bans and special pharma deals gave them an early surge.

But then they slowed, and are now seeing #Covid19 cases climb.
Do we need to be worried about countries with full vaccination rates of total population over 50% (US hit that threshold this week) seeing cases climb? It looks like we do.

It isn't just non-urgent cases. Figures are hard to come by, but this is current Covid hospitalisations:
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7 Aug
The world's oldest constitutional democracy

An archaic governing structure that is undemocratic by design is being used by one party to subvert elections & attempt to seize power not through force, but by using the country's broken & outdated constitution
"There are so many places in which someone can try to mess with our system"

"It's not just that we don't have a national popular vote, it's that the mechanics we use to send state votes to electoral college gives lots of room for" overturning the result. msnbc.com/all-in/watch/e…
"The principles that we claim as our national creed: self-determination, freedom, liberty and democracy" contradict "our founding document [that] has a complicated relationship to democracy and self-rule," says Chris Hayes. open.spotify.com/episode/3oaCRa…
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