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StefanieBolzen
@StefanieBolzen
In Washington for @welt Formerly London, Brussels, Berlin. Usual disclaimers.
Jul 14, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Exclusive: UK govt snubs German invitation to be official partner country at @hannover_messe, the world's biggest industry tradeshow. In letter leaked to @welt Investment Minister declines offer by Lower Saxony's govt due to UK's 'finite resources' (1/4) welt.de/politik/auslan… Lord Grimstone's letter says: 'While I recognise that the event remains one of the largest trade shows in Europe ... I am unable to accept the offer. The UK government ... has had to focus our finite resources on a smaller number of events globally.' (2/4)
Feb 7, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Exclusive: EU's #COVID19 vaccine rollout remains slow. UK has immunised 5x more people than Germany. The British success has nothing to do with #Brexit, former Task Force Chief Kate Bingham tells @welt @repubblica but rather... (1/3, English version below) welt.de/politik/auslan… Brussels taking 'a more typical procurement approach', while Bingham viewed the job 'just like a venture capital investment'. She tells me & @antoguerrera the simple instruction the PM gave her, who she calls in Germany, why she would go for #Sputnik (2/3)
Sep 28, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
With all the #Brexit talk in UK focussed on loopholes and SpAds - maybe good moment for a change of perspective, based on some "Continental" insights this week. Starting with Barnier's Friday statement... (thread) 1/ Re #Brexit deal: Sources in Brussels & beyond confirm Barnier's terse words. No written, but more importantly no substantial proposals. (Expectations low that will change after #CPC19) EU27 not willing to endorse British holes in Single Market.
Jun 11, 2019 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt claimed last weekend Angela Merkel was willing to renegotiate the #Brexit deal since he had spoken personally to the German Chancellor. I checked his claims with a government spokesman in Berlin (thread): thesun.co.uk/news/brexit/92… 1/Hunt said he had talked to Merkel on the fringe of D-Day commemoration. The spokesman did not want to confirm any content 'since all conversations of the Chancellor are confident'
Mar 2, 2019 • 16 tweets • 2 min read
Exclusive: ‘Patience of EU27 is wearing thin,’ Brexit chief negotiator Michel Barnier tells @welt – but signals #Brexit compromise. Main take-aways of our interview (thread) welt.de/politik/auslan… 1/ General readiness by EU27 to extend Art 50. But EU27 will ask for what. ‘Aim mustn’t be to postpone solving the problem but to solve it’