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Your #ECFRweekinreview: 5 updates ahead of the weekend. A thread 🧵

1/5 Concerns are mounting that 🇧🇾 troops could join 🇷🇺 ’s forces in 🇺🇦. But this course of action would be extremely risky – for both #Putin and #Lukashenka.

@PavelSlunkin on why the 🇧🇾 army cannot help 🇷🇺 in 🇺🇦 👇buff.ly/3W8Tngg

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2/5 Given the task #Sunak faces to stabilise 🇬🇧’s economy without further immiserating the population, he will likely decide that unnecessary conflict with Brussels is something he had better avoid.

Find out more in Nick Witney's article 👇 buff.ly/3zlcdqp

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3/5 "Ukraine forces are currently building an entire anti-missile defence system around modern Western weapons", write #MargarytaKhvostova & @Krivosheev_Dima.

What can Sky Shield countries learn from 🇺🇦? 👇 buff.ly/3DaufNo

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4/5 With increased weaponisation of #digitaltechnologies, governments need to better understand the interests and roles of tech companies in geopolitical developments.

Find all the details in @julian_ringhof's latest article 👇 buff.ly/3D4u0Dx

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#EU_TechEra

5/5 "European leaders should champion a permanent #G20 seat for the #AfricanUnion ahead of the G20 leaders’ summit in November", writes @David_McNair.

How can 🇪🇺 address the international democratic deficit? 👇buff.ly/3z8grlm

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