🇺🇸🇺🇸❗️🇧🇷🤡 — Statements in which Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva calls Trump a Nazi reach the U.S. President-elect

➡️ After Donald Trump's victory was confirmed, the Special Advisor to the Presidency for International Affairs, Celso Amorim, stated that Lula's support for candidate Kamala Harris had been "discreet." He also said that the leftist leader had not spoken ill of the U.S. President-elect.

🤚 Trump's advisors, however, became aware of a remark by Lula that contradicted Amorim's claim and accused him of being a liar. Days before the election, Lula had placed the American's return to the White House in a context of "fascism and Nazism re-emerging in another form."

🇺🇸 During an international interview, the Brazilian president expressed support for Kamala Harris as a "lover of democracy."

⚡️ In a meeting in Florida, Trump’s team watched the president’s statements, shown by Brazilian politicians who oppose Lula. They were angered and warned that this type of behavior would shape future relations between the countries.

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VACA MUERTA: PAMPA ENERGÍA TO INVEST U$S1.5 BILLION TO INCREASE OIL PRODUCTION 10-FOLD

Pampa Energía announced an investment of u$s1,500 million to develop its unconventional oil reserves in Vaca Muerta.
Before investors, Pampa's executives highlighted the progress in the development of shale oil in the Rincón de Aranda block and informed that it reached new highs in its gas production, mainly in the El Mangrullo and Sierra Chata fields.

"We have a planned investment of u$s700 million in Rincón de Aranda for 2025 and we plan to reach u$s1,500 million until 2027. Our goal is to increase our oil production tenfold and reach 50,000 barrels per day," said CEO Gustavo Mariani.

It is remarkable how in a context of historic production records, the people in charge of milking this cow insist that we haven't seen nothing yet!
This could mean more than energy independence for the "land of silver", this (if the trend and the hype continues) could mean a total shift on the Southern Cone's economic alignments.

🇪🇺🇨🇳 The EU is negotiating with China and end on Chinese tariffs out of fears of Europe's automotive industry going out of business!

EU officials have talked up the prospects of an agreement that would end the long-running dispute between Brussels and China over electric vehicles.

A team of EU trade officials have been in Beijing for the past week for what the European Commission has described as “intensive discussions with the Chinese ministry of commerce on a possible agreement on a price undertaking that would be an alternative to the countervailing duties currently in place for imports of battery electric vehicles from China.”

In a statement on Friday (8 November), the EU Commission said that there had been “technical progress on elements that will need to be addressed to ensure that a price undertaking would be equally effective and enforceable.”

“Parties discussed constructively and in depth how to establish a minimum import price for such a complex product, as well as tools to monitor and enforce the undertaking,” it added.

The EU’s tariffs, which range between 17 percent and 35.3 percent, on Chinese electric vehicles, came into force last week after the commission concluded that Beijing was unfairly subsidising its domestic industry in an attempt to undercut European manufacturers on price.

China has retorted by filing a formal complaint to the World Trade Organisation and by opening its own investigations into potential state aid abuses by the EU in the dairy and pork sectors, and imposing tariffs on EU brandy imports.

The row was also taken up at a meeting of the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body on 28 October, where the EU and other western states accused China of decades of “large-scale state interventions” to unfairly support their industries.

At his European Parliament hearing on Monday, trade commissioner designate Maros Sefcovic promised to be tough on China’s trade policy, describing China as the bloc’s “most challenging trade partner”.

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🇪🇺 EuGoingDark surveillance plan: timeline, agenda, background

Highly controversial, non-transparent and rarely questioned: the Commission and Council of the European Union are currently preparing a new, EU-wide digital surveillance package. The plan includes the reintroduction and expansion of the retention of citizens’ communications data as well as specific proposals to undermine the secure encryption of data on all connected devices, ranging from cars to smartphones, as well as data processed by service providers and data in transit.

Behind closed doors the Commission has announced it is already preparing impact assessments and an implementation plan.

Former Pirate Party MEP and digital freedom fighter in the European Parliament Patrick Breyer comments:

“The plan is still widely unknown among citizens, journalists and politicians, even though we hold the documents in our hands and the extent of the plans is frightening. A number of questions remain unanswered.”

Open questions:

Who participated in the meetings of the EuGoingDark group and its sub-groups? Participant lists are still undisclosed. Mullvad VPN has reported that at least one former US secret service official has participated.

Why were digital rights NGOs such as EDRi not invited to the meetings of the working group even when the group‘s website says it is an “collaborative and inclusive platform for stakeholders from all relevant sectors“?

Why aren‘t the group and its sub-groups registered in the Register of Commission Expert Groups and other similar entities (i.e. consultative entities) which would provide for significantly more transparency?

How do the new EU Commissioners directly and indirectly involved in the issues concerned, the European Ombudsman, the data protection authorities of the EU and the member states, IT security experts, consumer protection organisations and others assess the working methods and plans of the EuGoingDark-group?

🔗 https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eugoingdark-surveillance-plan-timeline-agenda-background/

🇺🇸🇶🇦 - #BREAKING Qatar kicks Hamas from the country, CNN confirms.

🇺🇸🇶🇦❌🇵🇸🇵🇸 — 📰 Reuters: After Hamas rejection of hostage deal, US asked Qatar to expel the group

➡️ The U.S. has told Qatar that the presence of Hamas in Doha is no longer acceptable in the weeks since the Palestinian militant group rejected the latest proposal to achieve a ceasefire and a hostage deal, a senior administration official told Reuters on Friday.

➡️ The tiny Gulf state Qatar, alongside the U.S. and Egypt, has played a major role in rounds of so-far fruitless talks to broker a ceasefire to the year-long war in Gaza. The latest round of talks in mid-October failed to produce a deal, with Hamas rejecting a short-term ceasefire proposal.

"After rejecting repeated proposals to release hostages, its leaders should no longer be welcome in the capitals of any American partner. We made that clear to Qatar following Hamas's rejection weeks ago of another hostage release proposal," the senior official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

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🇪🇺🤝🇺🇸🛢 — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says talks are moving toward the EU buying more LNG gas from the U.S. instead of Russia.

➡️ The European Union could consider replacing Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports with those from the United States, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told reporters on Friday.

"We still get a lot of LNG from Russia and why not replace it by American LNG, which is cheaper for us and brings down our energy prices," said von der Leyen.

📈 The US is the world’s top LNG exporter, and production will double by 2030

💸 It would decrease the U.S. trade deficit with the EU ($240 bn annually), a major irritant for Trump

➡️ She said the EU approach to trade policies implemented when Donald Trump takes power again as U.S. president in January will be to engage, look at common interests and negotiate.

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🇫🇷🪖📞🇪🇺 — Macron tells European Leaders: We need to become ‘omnivores’ after Trump’s victory

➡️ Europe can’t be the world’s “herbivore” anymore following Donald Trump’s reelection as the United States president, according to Emmanuel Macron. It needs to become an “omnivore” instead.

➡️ The French president’s comments come a day after Trump swept to a resounding victory in the U.S. presidential election, prompting concerns that the U.S. president-elect could downgrade Washington’s participation in NATO, forcing European countries to ramp up defense spending.

“I think, at the very least, we should choose to become omnivores. I don’t want to be aggressive, just that we know how to defend ourselves on all these subjects.”

➡️ Macron is known as Europe’s loudest advocate for the bloc becoming more independent from trading rivals such as China and the United States on everything from defense and security to cutting-edge technologies.

“For me, it’s simple. The world is made up of herbivores and carnivores. If we decide to remain herbivores, then the carnivores will win and we will be a market for them,” he told European leaders during a gathering in Budapest.

➡️ Macron’s own leadership on the European Union stage has taken a hit following snap elections he called for earlier this year, and in recent days he has tried to reposition himself as the bloc’s bridge to the U.S. He was one of the first leaders to congratulate Trump on Wednesday.

🇫🇷📝 In a post on X/Twitter, the French President said:

I have no intention of leaving Europe as a stage inhabited by herbivores, only for carnivores to come and devour according to their agenda.

As Europeans, we must be clear-sighted, ambitious, and determined about our own agenda—an agenda of sovereignty.

🔗 Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron)

🇮🇱🤝🇺🇸⁉️ — 📰 The Guardian: Trump will give Israel ‘blank check’ which may mean all-out war with Iran, says ex-CIA chief

➡️ Donald Trump will as president give Benjamin Netanyahu a “blank check” in the Middle East, possibly opening the way for all-out war between Israel and Iran, the former CIA director and US defense secretary Leon Panetta predicted.

“With regards to the Middle East, I think he’s basically going to give Netanyahu a blank check,” Panetta said of Trump, who won the presidential election this week and will take office again in January.

‘Whatever you do, whatever you want to do, whoever you want to go after, you have my blessing.’ I mean, he basically said that [before the election].”

➡️ The Israeli prime minister has overseen attacks on Iran and its assets as part of a growing conflagration since Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October last year. He and the US president-elect were reported to have spoken during the US election campaign. Netanyahu congratulated Trump on Wednesday, after Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris was confirmed.

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🇫🇷🇻🇦⛪️ — Video: The bells of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris rang out this morning for the first time today since 2019's fire

➡️ The Cathedral reopens with Mass on December 8th

➡️ At the time of the fire, French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to rebuild the iconic, 861-year-old structure within five years.

➡️ The landmark also boasts three new bells, one of which rang at the Stade de France at the 2024 Paris Olympics and is inscribed with "Paris 2024." The other two bells, Chiara and Carlos, are smaller, and were installed Thursday alongside the Olympic bell.

🔗 Catholic Arena (@CatholicArena)

🇫🇷🇻🇦⛪️ — French President Emmanuel Macron on Twitter/X:

Five years ago, a promise: to rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral together.

Today, its bells are finally ringing thanks to the extraordinary work of so many of you.

In a month, we will reopen its doors.

🔗 Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron)

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🇺🇸🇬🇧❌🇾🇪❗️ — Yemeni Rebel media reports Joint American-British Air Raids against Yemeni Capital, Saana!

🇩🇿❌🇲🇦 — The Kingdom of Morocco Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita, has stated that his country has seen signs from Algeria that Algiers is preparing for military action against the Northern African Kingdom

“Some are trying to drag the region into a war.
There are signs of escalation, Algeria seems to want to move on to military confrontation.”

🔗 La Revue Afrique (@larevueafrique)