DROIT DU SOL: qu'en est-il ailleurs?
1. La 🇫🇷 qui  a introduit dès le milieu du XIXe siècle le droit du sol dans un contexte d’immigration lié au manque de main-d’œuvre &de déclin démographique faisait figure d'exception. Les autres pays européens appliquaient essentiellement le droit du sang jusqu'aux années 1980 à 1990, où face à la prise de conscience qu’ils étaient devenus des pays d’immigration & d’installation, ils ont introduit ds leur droit de la nationalité des éléments de droit du sol.

This is massive.
Israeli intelligence dismissed several reports coming from mostly female soldiers posted on the Gaza border. 🧵
via @FTon.ft.com/47Dtg5Y They patrol the border & analyse a constant feed of video and other data gathered near the electronic fence surrounding the enclave & sent a detailed report weeks before the attack to the highest-ranking intelligence officer in the southern command.

A PERSONAL BREXIT STORY 😡🤬😠 #BrexitOfSmallThings
Following a death in the family, my husband & I wanted to put a few pieces of furniture, 6 prints & one painting - total value approximately €10,000- in a van to take them to our house in 🇫🇷. "Hold on a minute" said I, "let me check if we can do this now post Brexit".
After a phone call to the lovely French customs (+33 1 72 40 78 50 in French or English), genuinely sorry about our plight, I established we would have to pay a minimum of €2000 & a maximum of €3,000.

The closest Lexiter Larry Elliott will come to a mea culpa.
"The economy has performed badly and been subject to two further shocks: Brexit in 2016 and the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The vote to leave was highest in the least prosperous parts of Britain &a sign of deep discontent "Whatever else it was, Brexit was certainly not a vote for the government to intervene less in the running of the economy. Had the referendum gone the other way the problems of the left-behind parts of Britain would still have needed addressing (and still do)."

A écouter les medias, on croirait que le pouvoir d'achat a baissé de manière catastrophique! Et pourtant...
Une performance exceptionnelle comparé a d'autres pays.

Malgré la flambée des prix, le pouvoir d'achat des Français a résisté en 2022 lesechos.fr/economie-franc… "L'an dernier, la France a connu une flambée inflationniste jamais vue depuis les années 1970 , avec une hausse des prix de 5,2 % en moyenne. Un chiffre de mauvais augure pour le pouvoir d'achat des ménages. Et pourtant. En 2022, celui-ci a été relativement préservé. 2/

Very good @FT article. Quotes below.
"If the UK’s economic problem is relative decline and chronic weakness, we first need to be honest about the causes before thinking about solutions. Three proximate causes are difficult to deny." 1/9 1. "The first is Brexit. Over six years since the EU referendum and two years since new trade barriers with Europe came into force, all credible economic analysis suggests that leaving the bloc caused the UK serious economic harm" 2/

Republicans in the UK should concentrate on attacking the enormous privileges of the monarchy. 🧵 In particular:
- Royal Assent: the right to block laws which adversely affect the Crown 's interests. Start with requiring it to be public & transparent 1/4
theguardian.com/commentisfree/… so that we know exactly when the Crown opposes laws & on which grounds
- exemptions from taxes.
- improve accountability: publish the diary of official engagements, holiday dates, the support provided by taxpayers: we are entitled to know the working hours of our employees 2/

Simon Wren-Lewis:
"There can be no doubt that Brexit has been a disaster on almost every level. In economic terms this disaster is well established:if you have any doubts, listen to Adam Posen giving the first presentation at the recent UK in a changing EU Brexit conference" "He shows how we have become a more insular country in terms of trade, FDI and migration: this has already led to lower UK growth while the implications of lower trade, FDI and migration for future productivity growth have yet to be felt"

"Si être libéral c'est croire en l'économie de marché & dans la libre entreprise, alors oui, Emmanuel Macron est libéral, mais si c'est réduire les moyens de l'Etat, ne pas être interventionniste & se désintéresser du sort de plus démunis, alors il n'est pas libéral." lesechos.fr/idees-debats/c…

Each week brings fresh reports of what is now in danger of becoming a national calamity. Agriculture faces a growing crisis, with implications for the availability & price of basic foodstuffs, &there is a widespread shortage of both basic & vital medicines (latest: HRT drugs) 🧵

https://twitter.com/chrisgreybrexit/status/1519938861295620096

Consumer confidence is at a 50-year low, not least because of inflation and the cost-of-living crisis, whilst the Office for Budget Responsibility expects this year to see the biggest fall in living standards since records began in the 1950s

Au Royaume-Uni, ce pays soi-disant "libertaire" (clin d'œil à @quatremer ) la Commission Electorale qui contrôle les règles de la tenue des élections, les dépenses de campagne, les fraudes etc. vient de passer sous contrôle du gouvernement

https://twitter.com/mafevema/status/1519704607357820931?t=H4iyJmPWVy5ohLYKkGjXNQ&s=19

Le gouvernement a aussi presque rempli son objectif de privatiser le système de santé : les dépenses des britanniques pour leurs santé sont pratiquement équivalentes à celles des américains

Really depressing but critically important article on the privatisation of healthcare in the UK by stealth. A democratic scandal because we are largely unaware of it & it doesn't have popular consent.

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1519706451912142849

Astonishing & massively under reported.

Yesterday, thanks to the use of a disgraceful tactical move, this disgraced government managed to pass the dangerously undemocratic Election Bill through the House of Lords.
This bill puts the Electoral Commission under direct government control. 🧵
bestinau.net/electoral-comm…

https://twitter.com/LynPadley/status/1519670526528077825

It hands the government sweeping powers to direct the elections watchdog’s priorities and will let ministers shape how electoral law applies to their own party and political opponents.

Article intéressant de juillet 2021 ds The Economist sur les aspects sociaux du bilan de Macron. Quelques exemples:
1. Pendant la pandémie des milliards d'argent public ont soutenu les salaires, les indépendants & l'economie
2.augmentations des allocations:
300€passe culture 150€/mois pour les aides sociales
-repas universitaires à 1€ maximum
-petit déjeuner gratuits ds les écoles des regions défavorisées
-produits sanitaires gratuits pour les étudiantes
-100€/mois de + pour les agriculteurs retraités (à l'origine proposition du PC)

La proposition d' @EmmanuelMacron de payer automatiquement les aides sociales auxquelles les français ont droit -souvent sans le savoir du fait de la complexité administrative- va inéluctablement amener vers une simplification administrative massive & une forme 1/4 de Revenu Universel qui remplacerait les diverses allocations, permettrait de redéployer des fonctionnaires où il y a des besoins et de réduire les coûts de L'Etat. C'est en tout cas une proposition intéressante rendue possible par le prélèvement à la source. Bien sûr il y a

Digital Service Act: Obligation des plates-formes de divulguer leurs algorithmes en particulier.
-interdiction d'exploiter les données dites « sensibles » (genre, tendance politique, religion, orientation sexuelle, etc.) pour de la publicité ciblée.
lesechos.fr/tech-medias/hi… Pour les mineurs, cette interdiction est élargie à toutes les données personnelles. Les données des enfants ne sont plus utilisables pour faire de l'argent.

"Le président sortant l'emporte haut la main. Pour la seconde fois.
Marine Le Pen ne s'est pas effondrée sur la forme comme lors du premier round.Mais elle est apparue comme prisonnière du précédent de 2017 & de la posture sereine qu'elle avait par contraste décidé d'adopter". "Elle est restée étonnamment sans voix, sans réaction, sur des sujets pourtant majeurs de son projet".

👍 analysis on #ProgressiveAlliance
"Even the one piece of constructive news comes with alarm bells. Labour & the Lib Dems have clearly agreed a non-aggression pact but they have seemingly failed to reach any agreement about the use of proportional representation"
Summary 🧵

https://twitter.com/getprdone/status/1503343625748590596

The Lib Dems finally have some leverage now; they should use it while they can to secure assurances on electoral reform.
The basic error of the two parties excluding the Greens should ring another alarm bell.

I found terrifying -thinking of India, Pakistan, Iran, Israel-that the West has now set the precedent that if a leader is mad enough or cynical enough to threaten nuclear force, then he can destroy the country next door & commit atrocities while the world watches the gory details It seems to me - but of course I am no expert- that the West - for this read the US, the only power who has vastly superior forces to his own- should have reacted to Putin's threat differently. Calmly but leaving him in no doubt that threatening humanity placed Russia beyond

The EU is banning 70 per cent of Belarus’s exports to the bloc including all potash, a vital component of fertilisers, over its support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The UK 👇...well...

https://twitter.com/mafevema/status/1498938192032145412

The EU will stop imports of wood, cement, steel, potash and other materials worth more than €4bn annually. EU companies have three months to wind up contracts with Belarusian suppliers.

Very interesting piece in @ft on the effects of the sanctions on the Russian Central bank & the SWIFT ban.
1.foreign exchange reserves are a key pillar of Russia's economic strength. The western allies are attempting to undermine its ability to tap the stockpile 2.A large chunk of Russia's foreign exchange stockpile is held overseas in the US, Germany, France, UK, Austria and Japan.(see right graph)