King Felipe VI advocates for the renewal of the world order in response to the hybrid threats affecting sovereignty and territorial integrity, emphasizing that the traditional normative order is no longer sufficient to confront new global challenges. (translated)
Society needs fair rules and wants certainties. To know that it will not be alone. That is what institutions are for. That is what Europe and the multilateral system are for. And that is the order worth building. (translated)
🚨 BACKSTAGE: Jorge Jesus reached a verbal agreement with the Brazilian National Team before Ancelotti's hiring. The talks lasted more than 4 months, between the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025. After the early elimination in the Copa América and the inconsistent performance of the team, Ednaldo Rodrigues, former president of CBF, matured the idea of dismissing Dorival Júnior. In December, two CBF officials traveled to Portugal and reached a VERBAL AGREEMENT with Jorge Jesus. The coach only requested to participate in the Asian Champions League with Al-Hilal. After Argentina's 4-1 thrashing of Brazil, CBF made new contact with JJ and REINFORCED the verbal agreement. It was decided that Jorge Jesus would replace Dorival. • POLITICAL PRESSURE CHANGES PLANS Ednaldo began to face pressure in a process that threatened his permanence at CBF. Desperate, the executive sought a significant popular appeal to gain political strength and expedited the coach's change. As Jorge Jesus could not leave Al-Hilal immediately, Ednaldo resumed discussions with Ancelotti. In poor form at Real Madrid, the Italian agreed to rebuild the frustrated agreement from 2023 but requested a few weeks before the announcement to avoid repercussions before the Copa del Rey final. • HASTY ANNOUNCEMENT CBF intended to announce Ancelotti after the end of LaLiga on May 24. However, pressured by the possibility of his process being judged at any moment, Ednaldo rushed into CBF’s headquarters and ORDERED Ancelotti's announcement on May 12, surprising even close officials and people from Real Madrid. Three days later, Ednaldo was removed from the presidency and did not return to the position nor personally received Ancelotti. Jorge Jesus, who never hid his frustration at being 'abandoned' by Ednaldo and wasting the dream of leading Brazil, took over Portugal after the 2026 World Cup. 🗞️ @ESPNBrasil | @pedroivoalmeida 📸 Portugal National Team | Rafael Ribeiro/CBF (translated)
Moscow ordered Hungarian embassy and consulate staff out just weeks after Budapest expelled 10 Russian diplomats on national security grounds in September, the first such move by Hungary since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. #Russia #Hungary #DiplomaticTensions
“Itamaraty is 'at the service' of Lulinha's partner. O Globo and CNN reveal that the Brazilian Embassy in Madrid helped lobbyist Roberta Luchsinger, a friend of Fábio Luís Lula da Silva, Lulinha, in the search for schools in the Spanish capital. The Itamaraty confirmed the support: the then ambassador Orlando Leite Ribeiro met Luchsinger and Renata Abreu Moreira, Lulinha’s wife, at a commercial promotion event in September 2024, and the educational sector of the embassy provided school contacts. In January 2025 the diplomat stated he was 'entirely at their service.' Messages mention offers of people and vehicles; the ministry denies the use of official cars and classifies the assistance as routine for Brazilian citizens. Laughter. Luchsinger did not move. Lulinha moved last year and remains in Spain, according to the defense. The same column by Malu Gaspar had already noted that the lobbyist organized, according to the Federal Police, a trip worth R$ 1.8 million for Lulinha and the family to see the Northern Lights. Calling this 'routine assistance' is mockery. The embassy is not a concierge for a president's child or a lobbyist circulating around the family. Taxpayers fund representation abroad to defend national interests, not to create a school list in Madrid while the firstborn settles in Europe. It’s the same old pattern: the public at the service of the family's private interests, with an official note saying that there was no irregularity. The abuse of purpose is exposed. The little bearded ones at Itamaraty need to go!” (translated)
A large fire has devastated the lobby of the Nelson Mandela Institute in Nantes during student protests in France, which have led to the blocking of numerous universities and tense scenes between students and law enforcement in several cities. (translated)
We continue to strike against the narco-terrorists in Magdalena! In Santa Marta, Zona Bananera, Plato, and Fundación, the National Police, in coordination with the Prosecutor's Office, captured 10 people for homicide, extortion, illegal possession of weapons, and drug trafficking. Alias "Yepi" and "El Cabo," members of the Autodefensas Conquistadoras de la Sierra, and alias "El Viejo" or "Roberto," identified as the right-hand man of alias "Piter," the leader of the Sergio Carrascal Gómez substructure of the Gulf Clan, were arrested. Seven firearms, two explosive devices, 135 cartridges, eight cell phones, two motorcycles, and one million pesos in cash were seized. My order is clear: to pursue those who murder, extort, and terrorize our people. Magdalena deserves to live without fear, and the criminals will have to answer before justice! Firm for the Homeland! Long live Christ the King! (A.D.L.E.) 🇨🇴 🐅 (translated)
The Mossos d'Esquadra are investigating the death of a man in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat as a suicide, found alongside a note suggesting that he had an eviction order from the place where he worked as a shoemaker. (translated)
Letschert in a tight spot! The Jewish and Israeli students in Maastricht are stating it clearly. They are no longer carried away by the dialogue merry-go-round of the D66 Minister of Education, after spending years in her merry-go-round when she led the university. Result: an antisemitic climate and the import of hate rallies. Letschert's reward: the plush of The Hague. Read the letter below. Support these brave students who let their voice, and only their voice, be heard. Who do not bow to the established order and do not allow themselves to be exploited and misled by them. Bravo! To the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, IJAR Maastricht has learned that Minister of Education Rianne Letschert intends to organize a meeting about Jewish students, following the recent developments at Maastricht University. As the representative organization of Jewish and Israeli students at Maastricht University, we have received no formal invitation from the minister or her ministry. Nor have we been informed about the purpose, the mandate, the intended participants, or the measures that may be considered. If the subject concerns the position and experiences of Jewish and Israeli students at Maastricht University, consultations should begin with the organization that represents these students and within the university environment where the relevant events take place. During Ms. Letschert's previous term at Maastricht University, Jewish and Israeli students and their representatives spoke with her and other members of the university administration on numerous occasions. They repeatedly expressed concerns about safety, intimidation, the campus climate, institutional decisions, and the implications of those decisions for Jewish and Israeli students. From those discussions, it appeared that consultations were taking place, but in our experience, they did not lead to measures that corresponded to the issues raised. Clear lines of accountability were also not established for what followed. This history means that the mere fact that there is again a meeting cannot be considered an achievement in itself. Other Jewish organizations and individuals elsewhere in the Netherlands may have legitimate perspectives on broader issues concerning Jewish life, antisemitism, or national policy. However, they do not represent the Jewish and Israeli students at Maastricht University and cannot replace the representative organization of the students whose campus, lecture halls, and daily living environment are directly at stake. A meeting held elsewhere, with discussion partners who do not represent these students, can be viewed as discussions with Jewish organizations, but cannot reasonably be presented as a consultation with the representative organization of Jewish and Israeli students studying at Maastricht University. For that reason, we believe that if the minister wishes to address what is happening at Maastricht University, she should come to Maastricht and engage directly in conversation with the representative organization of Jewish and Israeli students here. The location is important, as responsibility must be aligned with where the issue occurs and not be disconnected from it: the issues being discussed involve this university, the decisions being made here, and the students who experience the consequences of those decisions. Thus, consultations regarding Maastricht should take place in Maastricht and begin with those who are institutionally responsible for representing the involved students. Before such a meeting takes place, we also demand clarity about what the minister aims to achieve with it. We expect to know what questions are being investigated, what decisions or measures remain open, what responsibility the ministry will take on itself, what responsibility it expects from Maastricht University, what concrete follow-up steps are foreseen, and how the outcomes of the meeting will be recorded and communicated. Without that information, participation threatens to serve mainly as proof that consultations have taken place, rather than as a means by which those consultations can actually have an impact. Our concern, therefore, is not about whether there will be a meeting, but about the relationship between consultation and responsibility. We have previously participated in discussions, we have laid out the problems before, and our presence has previously shown that a dialogue existed. What too often has remained unclear, however, is who was responsible for acting on what was raised during those discussions and what actually changed as a result of those discussions. A representative consultation should not end once the participants leave the room, but should record who is responsible for the issues raised, what actions follow from that, and how those actions will be assessed. We remain willing to engage seriously with the minister in Maastricht. However, that consultation must take place with the representative organization of the Jewish and Israeli students whose situation is at stake, with a clear purpose, with well-defined responsibilities, and with an explicit connection between listening and acting. Anything less than that threatens only to reproduce the form of consultation, while the substance — and the responsibility for it — remains unresolved. Signed, The Board of IJAR Maastricht *link to the original letter in the tweet below (translated)
Now Sveriges Radio is reporting extensively on rapes against the elderly in home care. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about just this – about how elderly care has long functioned as a labor market for integration policy for newly arrived and immigrant labor. Some points from my review: • Elderly Minister Anna Tenje notes that elderly care has for too long been used as a labor market and integration policy arena: “Almost anyone has been allowed in.” • Foreign-born individuals account for 31.8 percent of the wage sum in care, compared to 19.1 percent in the economy as a whole. Care is the welfare sector with the highest proportion. • Of the over 20,000 unaccompanied men who arrived in 2015, 27.5 percent are now working in care, social services, and welfare – about 5,500 people. • Employers can receive very large government wage subsidies to hire, among others, newly arrived individuals. A home care entrepreneur describes to Fokus how employers are actively fed information about the support. • The Employment Service also states that the authority does not impose its own requirements for education, language, or suitability when someone is matched with elderly care: “It is the employer who sets the requirements.” • And the question that still lacks a proper answer: is there a connection between this recruitment and integration policy and the abuses? Anna Tenje says that the knowledge situation is too poor to draw that conclusion. The Crime Prevention Council has therefore been tasked with mapping the crimes. The article can be found here: https://t.co/ZLXwz2ku14 (translated)
⚠ Thursday Brief⚠️ 🇺🇲🇮🇷 Rubio Orders Iranian Delegation to Depart 🌏 Asian Manufacturing Gains Momentum From Global AI Boom 🌎 Global Bonds Crash Again Amid Renewed Oil Pressures ... https://t.co/Vz3ACagVms #GlobalNews #Economy #AI #US #IR
He did not sign the SAFE, did not sign the reduction of fuel prices, does not grant orders for long-term cohabitation, does not appoint ambassadors, judges of common courts, blocks judges of the Constitutional Tribunal and officer promotions, defends the interests of foreign corporations... and we pay for his 4 horses. Karol NONrocki. (translated)
🤔Some reflections on the voting on Friday 👇 🫡 Left-wing parties will abide by what social organizations say, as happened with the RD of Palestine. 😮💨 That this generates relief in the PSOE and Sumar (while making things easier for Junts and the PNV) and causes some 😠 frustration in the squares and left-wing groups should be understood as the reality of politics. The congratulations from Minister Puente, so outraged these days by the maximalism of the demands, say it all. 📰 Just look at today's covers of the progressive media to understand that we are in another scenario. The media expect that the squares will empty from tomorrow. 🤔Could it have been different? Rufián disavowing Junqueras by saying that ERC's vote was not assured, or various economists from the Sumar environment criticizing the measures of the decrees as insufficient, made me think that there could be a pressure block on the Government beyond Podemos and squares full of younger individuals more radicalized than the social organizations. 🙋🏻♂️🙋♀️ But it is the tenant unions that are responsible for pinpointing the scope of their objectives and defining their strategy for mobilization and negotiation. And this must be accepted. 🚩However, beyond that, the street has once again taken on political prominence in Spain and has gone beyond social organizations. The squares, as was the case with 15M, have managed to place the debate on housing (an ideological one, without a doubt) at the political center and have allowed left mobilization to regain momentum. 🔴 From the experiences of mobilization processes, new political leaders always emerge. I have spoken with some members of youth political organizations who have learned a lot these days from their prominence in the squares. Order reigns in Berlin... For now... (translated)
De acordo com declarações de responsáveis norte-americanos, citados pelo site especializado Axios, entre os membros da delegação encontrava-se o ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros iraniano, Abbas Araghchi, a quem a missão norte-americana junto da ONU comunicou na segunda-feira, por ordem do secretário de Estado, Marco Rubio, que deveria sair imediatamente de Nova Iorque. #Conflitos #MédioOriente #Irão
The US ordered the Iranian delegation to leave the country after a stalemate in negotiations over the war in the Middle East, resulting in the departure of the delegation, which included the Foreign Minister, to Doha. (translated)
The Netherlands can no longer be in the same currency union with France. Here, 41% of the population earns their income in the market, there 30%. French women retire on average at 63 years and 1 month, men at 62 years and 5 months. And us? We all have to wait until we are 67. Who pays the bill if Paris cannot get its budget in order? (translated)
Your taxes, to keep almost 500,000 immigrants with pending expulsion orders in the countries of the European Union. It is not incompetence, it is deliberate. (translated)
Marco Rubio ordenou à delegação iraniana que abandonasse o país, depois de negociações entre Washington e Teerão terem chegado a impasse. #MédioOriente #Ucrânia #Negociações
The US ordered the Iranian delegation to leave the country after the failure of negotiations between Washington and Tehran, while a Russian attack in Kiev resulted in three deaths. (translated)
