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Kirsty Hughes
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Director, Scottish Centre on European Relations @scer_eu
Writer and commentator on international and European politics.
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Kirsty Hughes
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That fast - unicorns in a decade ?!
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Milena Buyum
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For the third year in a row, #Turkey is the biggest jailer of journalists and other media workers, like former editor in chief and writer #AhmetAltan is serving a life sentence without parole. theguardian.com/books/2019/mar…
e-activist.com/page/40878/twe… #FreeTurkeyMedia
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Kirsty Hughes
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12 j |
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What crunch and what pretending?
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Kirsty Hughes
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YouGov poll: Farage Brexit party ahead in EP elections, Labour close behind but only if Corbyn backs people's vote. Results show 51% remain if Lab is remain + Greens, Libs, ChangeUK, SNP/Plaid & 49% Leave - Tories15%, brexit party 27%, UKIP 7%. Divided UK
standard.co.uk/news/politics/…
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Megha Rajagopalan
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16 Apr |
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Asked about the internment of over a million Muslim minorities in China’s Xinjiang, where @VWGroup has a big auto production plant, CEO Diess says “I can’t judge it.” Then, “I’m not aware of that.”
🙈🙉🙊 twitter.com/robindbrant/st…
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Kirsty Hughes
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16 Apr |
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Well quite likely fewer (from the UK) than before since brexit party v ukip will split the vote..so that's something
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Kirsty Hughes
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16 Apr |
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What point? UK EP elections won't have big impact in other member states in my view. Verhofstadt is aligning with Macron in part, also of course EP are fed up at uncertainty created but the big goal of EP elections, in many ways, is to keep far right populists gains down.
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Anup Kaphle
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15 Apr |
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A journalist in Nepal has been detained and charged under electronic transaction act for reporting about financial fraud bit.ly/2UCpSr4 — by @bbhrikuti
cc @pressfreedom @RSF_AsiaPacific
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Kirsty Hughes
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16 Apr |
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I don't think it's particularly relevant, I was just pointing out that there are egs of vetoes, of political delay/freezing etc - Turkey is it's own case (though my first paper on 'Turkey and EU: just another enlargement?' argued it was or rather should be, different times...)
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Kirsty Hughes
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16 Apr |
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sure I agree with that
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Kirsty Hughes
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16 Apr |
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Freezing of chapters started before Turkey stopped meeting democratic criteria - Sarkozy, Merkel didn't support Chirac/Schroeder view - blocked progress. & yes Islamphobia but also concern on size - too big, too poor, not European enough. EU took much more strategic view in 2004
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Kirsty Hughes
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16 Apr |
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legal indy wd make Spain's support easier but no guarantees on where any member state's politics will be in few years. As i heard in Paris recently, indy Scotland in EU prob ok but EU states will stand back from overt statements, plenty have tricky regions, wary of precedents
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Kirsty Hughes
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16 Apr |
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Turkey is much more complex than that and was deemed to adequately meet Copenhagen criteria in 2004 when EU agreed to open talks. Lots of politics in the freezing since vis-a-vis Cyprus, Germany, France - not only a question of Turkey's slide towards less democratic rule.
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Kirsty Hughes
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16 Apr |
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also if an indy Scotland wanted formal euro opt-out or special treatment on fisheries etc, it might get pointed in direction of the EEA. Otherwise, not seen as big difficulty because Scotland is small, advanced/long-standing mkt economy/democracy currently meeting most EU rules
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Kirsty Hughes
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16 Apr |
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yes a lot of EU politics around enlargement; atmosphere is not as positive as 20 yrs ago. But on the whole what I hear is that a legally, constitutionally sound route to indy wd allow Scotland joining the EU to be fairly uncontroversial but not guaranteed.
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Kirsty Hughes
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16 Apr |
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France vetoed UK twice in the 1960s - de Gaulle
Turkey's talks are effectively frozen. Balkans are on a v slow path towards EU etc.
I've suggested (in an analysis w @tobiaslock ) 2 yrs ago, fastest an indy Scotland cd rejoin EU is 3-4 yrs. It's political ? not just technical
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Kirsty Hughes
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16 Apr |
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Tusk showing real leadership once again - on the EU level and for UK politics theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
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Kirsty Hughes
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16 Apr |
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a misunderstanding I think - Tusk was quoting another leader, not approvingly..
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Kirsty Hughes
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16 Apr |
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Here's Tusk's tweet - clarifying he still dreams of reversing brexit
twitter.com/eucopresident/…
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Kirsty Hughes
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16 Apr |
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Tusk is still supporting the hope we will stay in the EU:
twitter.com/eucopresident/…
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