#EUROPEAN

After last weekend’s frankly disastrous CONIFA AGM, I’m going to do a thread about non-FIFA football, CONIFA - the non-FIFA version of FIFA - and why it is no longer
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Just back from the Jordan Valley. This is some of the devastation left yesterday by Israeli bulldozers that ripped through Khirbet Humsah, a remote Palestinian herder community. Rain has just
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I have been back in Lesbos for a few days now after being away from the field for a year and looking at the #refugeecrisis from a more academic perspective.
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The final point over France's growing military importance to the United States has been visible to anyone who has interacted with US policymakers on defence and European border issues yet
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Environment Secretary George Eustice tells Marr:“The EU came forward with lots of new additional requests again” which was last week’s setback... Shd be said above was denied by EU diplomats
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European historians use a comparative notion of “balance of probabilities” when claiming knowledge transmission from Europe (Greece) to #India, but insist on the absolute notion of “beyond all reasonable doubt”
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My Dad is Hungarian and so, as a European, simply will not accept I don't speak French. He will send me articles from Le Monde that I can't read until
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[THREAD] Who are the moors and why are they portrayed as black people ? (scientific explanation) ❂ There is no genetic, historical, archaeological or anthropological evidence of a massive population/ethnic
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Askenazi and Mizrahi are not racial categories. I don't believe we need to have this conversation but apparently we do. Apparently some of you think European Jews and MENA Jews
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Mobile phonesFrom 1 January 2021, the EU-wide ban on roaming charges for phone calls and internet use no longer applies to people with UK mobile phones. Providers will be free
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Seeing some Sweden triumphalism again. Here's a reminder: while Sweden didn't "lock down" in the way the US did, they still have many prohibitions the US does not have. Kansas
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The prime ministers of Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark and Austria, ask: “How could it suddenly be responsible to spend €500bn of borrowed money and send the bill into the future?” and
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WhatsApp's notification to accept its new policy or lose your account is wrong on so many levels we need a short thread to talk about it 1/9 First this
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A THREAD: Why Jurgen Klopp is a short-term solution Klopp is undoubtedly a world class manager. He's won the Champions League, the Premier League, two Bundesliga titles and a DFB-Pokal
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1/ One of the reasons European petty nationalists harbor a hostility to American pan-Europeanists is because they perceive America as the root of all their problems. It is true that
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It is beyond sad to see French officials respond to violent extremism with violent extremism -- and to do so while situating themselves as culturally superior. Without a major intervention
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