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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Can anyone see the problem? Among many.

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Normally, I am opposed to criminal damage, but I also see the beaver's point of view.

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"EU must stand firm with China" 🤨 I don't know who writes the @eppgroup.bsky.social headlines, but I don't think this one conveys the intended message.

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bravo Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel. 2026 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I am no expert, but I wrote an article - some time ago - where I referred to it as zoonotic. I was angrily upbraided by the editor and wasn’t even given a right of reply. Just dismissed out of hand and told intelligence agencies thought it was a leak.

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A very inspiring podcast with Katalin Karikó. Full of wise words; even if you aren’t on track to become a Nobel Prize winning scientist… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

podcasts.apple.com

‘Nobody Called’: Katalin Karikó on the mRNA breakthrough that changed medicine

Podcast Episode · Dose of Discovery · 23 September · 1hr 13min

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Pretty remarkable for Roberta Metsola to enter into this discussion.

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A good example, Single European Sky. Sensible proposal faced with national barriers.

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“State Secretary Sepp Schellhorn’s argument is simple: governments spend years complaining about “Brussels bureaucracy” while adding extra layers when they transpose EU rules” errr yes

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“If you were paid £50m by a drug company to support its work on a clinical trial, would you think it reasonable that you chair a guideline committee that might recommend that drug’s use? Or would you recuse yourself?”

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And the EU may not be stopping there, Australia is under consideration.

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Asked about the EU/Canada association status at today's (18 September) midday, the Spokesperson that it is a "big, bold, beautiful idea". It's an "ambitious project", it requires a "whole of government approach", there will be a summit in early October.

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

*Shouldn't we* care about the fact that in 2000, the United States had eliminated measles; today, it is on the rise.

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"I can't stop laughing". Beyond comtemptible.

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm guessing that Maroš Šefčovič is checking Truth Social to see if the orange one has got wind of this speech. I guess we'll find out later.

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"We should deepen our people-to-people ties, allowing our youth to work, study, and live where they want on either side of the Atlantic. Canadian membership of Erasmus Plus would give your students and ours more opportunity to learn at some of the world's top universities," Carney

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"We should move towards seamless digital trade in non-agricultural goods and a wide range of services."

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Some of the specifics: "Canada and Europe should consider exploring an integrated market for financial services to broaden choice and reduce costs for our citizens, to improve access to capital for our companies, while maintaining our world-leading financial resilience."

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You've found your hill to die on. Best of luck. You should listen to the speech, it's quite interesting.

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"We we do not seek power to dominate others. On the contrary, we are pursuing resilience so no one no one can control our open markets, impair our sovereignty, threaten our territorial integrity, or undermine our freedoms, our democracies, our rule of law."

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Love this: "I want to be precise about what I am not proposing. I'm not proposing a third bloc in order to become a great power rival only with better manners." Carney

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Canada and Europe should secure our strategic autonomy through deep cooperation in the full range of strategic capabilities, including critical minerals, defense industrial capacity, AI and compute, energy security, space and payments," Carney

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

...."Just as dominance is the arrogance of the hegemon, perfection is the enemy of the good."

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Canada and Europe are each strong. Europe and Canada are stronger together. [..] The strategic capabilities that we need are organized by function. We can ally by function if we are bold and deliberate, and we shouldn't be cowed by the perceived scale of the task...

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

They want to dictate the rules for regulation and even circumvent them. They want to control our data, spread disinformation, and steal our children's childhoods. This combination is a ferocious storm. A single tree will come down in it. A forest will not" Mark Carney in the hemicycle.

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Technology is transforming the nature of warfare, the structure of our economies, and states' ability to govern. Tech platforms aspire to sovereignty. They want to set access rules...

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Today, it is hard to reconcile sovereignty and openness. Economic integration is now being weaponised; tariffs being used to exert pressure. Financial mechanisms have been used for coercion. Supply chains constitute weak points to be exploited."

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Still think his French is better and yes, I am aware that VDL's early years were spent in Brussels. And I spent four months in Quebec, so I recognise a soft quebecois accent, but like thanks

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

He is now going to show that his French is probably better than VDL. With a slight quebecois lilt

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mark Carney is receiving a hero's welcome again. The session was meant to start at 11:30.

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Note to self: Do not open LinkedIn after #SOTEU

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Don't you think that we have to put an end to that once and for all? And the European pro-European forces, let's see, two Europeans that we are united for the goals that we share, instead of playing it with the extreme right. " 👏

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Don't know the MEP to an EPP MEP: "One of the things that I fully agree with you on is the need to fight extremism, and I think that fight begins in this house. And there are a number of rather extreme groups and colleagues in this house with whom your group, the European People's Party, is working.

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"But maybe we could become the 11th province of Canada in addition for you being an associate member here, because we really need to double down, double, double down on our relationship. Long live Lake Ontario across the oceans. Our hearts will go on." Gushing Green

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"You have shown by standing up against Trump's gaslighting-something we still have yet to learn-and we know that Canada will never be the 51st state, and apparently maybe also not the 28th member state, even though you would be very welcome. [there's more]

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Green MEP Boeselager sucking up to Carney, with every cliche on Canada. And because he put a lot of work into it:

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Britain may have left the EU, but British writers are enjoying a moment in Strasbourg: VDL opens with Dickens, while French presidential hopeful Raphaël Glucksmann reaches for Hamlet and his “words, words, words.”

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dolors Monserrat using her contribution to take a swipe at Pedro Sanchez.

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

An MEP from the European Sovereign Nations says: "Generations of Europeans once dreamt of a united Europe. They dreamt of safety, freedom, prosperity, and the future of dignity."

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

An Italian MEP has launched an attack against EPP Muresan, part of it: "You're talking about European defense, and then you put 800 billion international rearmament." I'm lost.

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just ducking in and out of the debate. In time to hear Czech MEP Kateřina Konečná a non-attached member from the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia says "Mrs Ursula, you make me sick".

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Is it too late to ban rock 'n' roll? Let's ban that instead. Seems to make as much sense.

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm handing the political speeches to AI. Though just heard Webber talking about Putin meeting Xi, but no mention of the more recent Putin/Modi meeting...

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I assume that if you get a diagnosis from breast cancer screening, it will probably go through the radiologist/your doctor, and treatment will not be carried out by AI. I have found responses to my own health queries very helpful, not as a replacement, but as an initial point of inquiry.

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I fear that moral panic over social media will deprive many children who do not conform to norms of a valuable resource, they will feel more isolated, more miserable - the other side of the mental health coin. #SOTEU

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

An awkward segue from democracy to parents not having control of children on screens, "It's a great capture of their attention, their focus and their minds". Parents can take phones away, they can limit time online. No social media under the age of 13. Only mini-accounts to age of 15. #SOTEU

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