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Mar 15 7 tweets 3 min read
For my teaching at @IHEID later this week I had a quick look at the EU sanctions on Russia...

... and as *ever* @EU_Commission doesn't make the communication very simple
The news story about the 4th sanctions package is here ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…

But that gives links to 2 other sites - a general page about the Ukraine conflict ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/…

And a page about sanctions ec.europa.eu/info/business-…
But where is the document - the law (the Decision) - that was actually adopted?

The sanctions page has a sanctions map... click Russia... and that has latest info from last year sanctionsmap.eu/#/main/details…
So I have to head over to EUR-LEX and dig there
eur-lex.europa.eu

And by checking the dates match, confirm this is what I am after
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/…
Is it too much to hope, @EU_Commission, that when you put out a news story about what the EU *did* that you include a link to the legal document that was adopted?
And sure, I know EUR-LEX, because I am an EU nerd, and I can cross reference this stuff. But you needed to make reference to the Decision to write the news story - why not make our lives easier and link to the Decision?
And this isn't just about Ukraine and sanctions - the same applies to all sorts of EU news stories. The Commission makes a nicely packaged digestible version, but assumes we don't want to dig deeper - but directing us to more detail ought to be simple!

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Mar 3
Also as a couple of people have asked: what’s all this #Ravieres stuff I’m posting?

My partner and I got the keys to an old house we bought in Ravières, Yonne (Bourgogne) on Monday. The house was *full* of stuff. So tweets are about what we find!
The idea: to spend a few months a year. And also be able to work from here (if we’re all on Zoom all day anyway, why not?) and do it without a car…
The house is 2km from Nuits-sous-Ravières station - and about 10 hours from Berlin
Read 7 tweets
Feb 27
Back in 2018 I travelled across Russia on the Transsiberian railway

2 conversations from that trip have been on my mind a lot these past few days
The first was on one of the long stretches - Tayshet to Krasnoyarsk or Krasnoyarsk to Tayga

There were two others in my RZD Cupe 2nd class sleeping carriage. A forestry manager from the wilds north of Ulan Ude, and a technician from Tomsk University
The Tomsk guy spoke a little German, and Yandex translate handled the rest

Hours into the trip our conversation turned semi-political. “We all have VPNs” he said
Read 8 tweets
Feb 21
I discovered this weekend that the @EuropeanGreens are holding their next Council in June in Rīga

But this is about the most impossible place in Europe to travel to in a green way 🤦‍♂️

Details in the 🧵
In terms of train connections it's a nightmare

There are NO trains currently that cross the Lithuania-Latvia border, and none that cross the Poland-Lithuania border either

From the north it does just about work - Tallinn-Valga trains run, as do Valga-Rīga trains
What if you took a ferry to Latvia?

There are Lübeck-Ventspils, and Travemünde-Liepaja ferries (each takes 18 hours or so!)

But in Latvia there are *no trains* Ventspils (Latvia's 5th city!) to Rīga

Liepaja to Rīga theoretically runs, but I can find no trains
Read 6 tweets
Feb 20
Earlier @Felyxorez pointed me to this in Le Monde about bosses of railway companies demanding "un nouveau pacte ferroviaire européen" 👇
lemonde.fr/economie/artic…

It's a summary of the main piece in Le Journal du Dimanche (no paywall if you accept ads)👇
lejdd.fr/Economie/sncf-…
First, the content

Honestly it's 🤷‍♂️

A load of we're green, we're the good guys, bla bla. Heard it all before. No concrete demands, no concrete plans
"Pour que le train soit plus attractif, nous nous engageons à améliorer l’expérience client : de la réservation à l’information voyageur en temps réel grâce au numérique, ainsi que pour l’offre ferroviaire internationale, y compris de nuit."

That's LOL funny. From SNCF!?
Read 13 tweets
Feb 9
Starting at 14:00 CET the Berlin Senat is releasing the results of its night trains study at a webinar - all the details here - inc. dial in link:
pro-bahn-berlin.de/dateien/presse…

I'll tweet about it using the tag #NightTrainsBerlin
I am making a brief presentation towards the end of the event. @Frodlund from @EUpassengers, @ElmervBuuren from @EuropeanSlpr and Kurt Bauer from ÖBB are among the other speakers
My slides, and a lot of workings and maps are here:
bit.ly/BerlinNightTra…

My take on what night trains could run to/from Berlin is here:
trainsforeurope.eu/nighttrainsber…

And what Germany could do to address the issues here:
trainsforeurope.eu/what-germany-n…
Read 4 tweets
Feb 9
It's pretty extraordinary to get *so much* wrong in a 3 tweet thread

1️⃣ PAC "quite thin" - given there was no complete impact assessment on the deal he negotiated this is an interesting accusation
2️⃣ "EU's refusal in 2020 to negotiate an SPS equivalence process" - EU made it clear all along that this was a non-starter. You cannot keep rolling this one out over and over - you stated in 2021 "Britain has just become a fully independent country again"
3️⃣ "the new inward customs processes we brought in on 1 January.

I wouldn't have done this but I lost the internal argument"

So you were fine to not do something that was agreed in the Deal *you* negotiated? And you're washing your hands of that?

Are you for real?
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