This reminds me that while both Romanians and the French both socialize a lot via complaining, the assumptions and philosophy underpinnings of these "complainings" are very different.

Me trying to complain here like back home really falls flat.

Here's why:
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https://twitter.com/Rrrrnessa/status/1833473809346675134

The Romanian complains about all that the injustices the universe throws at him, but alas there is little one can do.

It's a fatalistic sort of complaint where the bond is created through the shared experience of being victims to the whims of a cruel fate/universe/etc.

2/

Having executed the Ceaușescus a day earlier, on 26 December, 34 years ago, the Council of the National Salvation Front in Bucharest 🇷🇴 issued "Decree-Law Nº 1" repealing the most hated laws of Romanian communist regime

A short thread on some of these laws
1/🧵 "In order to immediately eliminate from the Romanian legislation some of the laws and decrees issued by the former dictatorial regime, normative acts with a profoundly unjust character and contrary to the interests of the Romanian people, the Council of the NSF decrees:"

2/

There have been various things happening in south-eastern 🇷🇴 Romania with regards to the war in Ukraine. Especially related to railways and ports, mostly for the export of grain.

A mildly chaotic, slow moving thread🧵 bringing various info together.

1/? First of all, a link to an older thread of mine with extracts from a Liberation article on the links between 🇺🇦 Odesa and the port of 🇷🇴 Constanța.

2/

https://twitter.com/Arnold_Platon/status/1515657300274470913?t=iqXMGdIYTqJjRpnMG1DccA&s=19

This made me curious about what might be happening in Constanța, the closest harbour to southern 🇺🇦, given the blockade on the Ukrainian ports and the need to divert trade headed there.

Found an interesting article by @libe / @nellydidelot

A thread 🧵1/

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1515246149363544071?t=BlSaWTKWLiwu60sJni7eiQ&s=19

Starts off interviewing Denys a 🇺🇦 boatswain of the "Chalsi", docked in C-ța 🇷🇴.

Ship has a 12 man crew, half 🇺🇦, half 🇷🇺. The interviewee's wife is a refugee in Orléans, France.

«It's not a problem, we're seafarers first and foremost. We don't let politics get between us»

2/

Opa, Dasymetric Style! 🗺️🕺

The 2019 🇪🇺 European Elections mapped (by winner & turnout), using the 1km² population grid from @EU_Eurostat to exclude uninhabited areas.

Third attempt to take into consideration only populated areas, because "land doesn't vote" 1/ Previous attempts made use of @CopernicusLand land use raster layer. Below is an animated transition, on black background, with details in the subsequent thread

Many low density zones were not mapped as "Built areas" so much more map area was excluded 2/

https://twitter.com/Arnold_Platon/status/1247849919676846080

The languages used in 🇪🇺 @EU_Commission President’s annual State of the European Union speeches 💬 #SOTEU

A thread 🧵 1/ Wednesday, @POLITICOEurope published and interesting article on the languages used by @vonderleyen in her first #SOTEU2020 speech. In it they made a surprising claim: that UvdL had abandoned his predecessor’s balanced use of English, French and German. 2/

https://twitter.com/POLITICOEurope/status/1307052775746842624

The #EP2019 elections are upon us this week, so let's take a look back to where the current groups in the European Parliament got their votes from (in high detail).

A thread 1/ Center-right @EPPGroup did best in Hungarian-minority areas of 🇷🇴🇸🇰 and German-speaking South Tyrol 🇮🇹.

I does generally well in Hungary, Germany (especially Bavaria), Slovenia and Croatia, Latvia, Poland (especially Silesia) and northern Iberia.

Weak in France and Italy.2/