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Europe Correspondent for Haaretz and author of The Vienna Briefing: viennabriefing.substack.com. Website: liamhoare.com. You can reach me at: contact@liamhoare.com

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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 1h
The polling shows that Andreas Babler isn’t working for the Social Democratic Party. But in recent days, Gerhard Zeiler has come across as disconnected from the party he wishes to lead and out of touch with the country he wants to govern.
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The Crown’s Prince
Warner Bros. Discovery International president Gerhard Zeiler announced his intention to challenge Andreas Babler for the Social Democratic Party leadership last week
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Paul Reisenauer @paulreisenauer.bsky.social · 1h
Tja
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 1h
EXCLUSIVE: The EU will open its vast economy to countries waiting to join its ranks, provided they agree to stand with the bloc against hostile states and industrial rivals. www.politico.eu/article/ursu...
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 2h
Find someone to love you like Paul Marshall loves burning cash on GB News pressgazette.co.uk/media_busine...
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Colette Schmidt @colettemschmidt.bsky.social · 5h
"Dass gerade Boulevardmedien Babler durch die Gegend watschen wie keinen anderen, können daher nur sehr naive Leute für Zufall halten. Dass seine Umfragewerte bei einer derartigen Kampagne in den Keller rasseln, ist kein Wunder. Woher beziehen denn die meisten Befragten ihre Informationen? Eben."
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ÖVP ließ Bablers Medienpaket platzen: Hat der Boulevard gewonnen?
Die neuerliche orchestrierte Obmanndebatte in der SPÖ schadet den Roten – und dem Qualitätsjournalismus
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 6h
Sometimes the topics for The Vienna Briefing just fall into my lap, and this week, I have Gerhard Zeiler to thank. (€) viennabriefing.substack.com/p/the-crowns...
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 9h
As part of the "Zionism is Racism" motion which the Green party will be voting on at conference, there is a specific section which says that members of the Green Party who are members of 'Zionist Synagogues' should be kicked out. Efforts to amend this language were rejected at a "party workshop".
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 9h
What is a "Zionist synagogue"? There are two possible meanings. 1) Any Synagogue affiliated to a denomination which in some way has expressed support for Israel's existence. Which is most of them. 2) Any Synagogue which has prayers which can be interpreted as "Zionist". Which is ALL of them.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 9h
To add to my bearishness: I do not believe whatever process Andy Burnham starts will end with Britain rejoining the European Union before the end of parliament's next term.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 9h
UPDATE: "An Israeli official told Haaretz that authorities are treating the flight as a terror incident and are seriously considering the possibility that it was an attempt to crash the plane."
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 9h
Andreas Babler will meet with state party bosses on Sunday in order to discuss what to do about Gerhard Zeiler's candidature for the party leadership.
kurier.at
SPÖ-Machtkampf: Babler lädt die Länderparteichefs nach Wien
Er reagiert damit auf die Forderung aus Kärnten nach einer Klärung der Lage. Das Treffen findet am Sonntag statt.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 9h
The ÖVP is continuing to push for a delivery subsidy for free newspapers, even though their coalition partners oppose it and these newspapers, while distributed, are not delivered to people's homes.
derstandard.at
Medienpaket geplatzt – Zehetner alleine bei Pressefoyer zum Ministerrat
Die ÖVP soll weiterhin auf einer Zustellförderung für Gratistageszeitungen bestehen
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 9h
The "Bari Weiss 'Likely Out' at CBS" story that's doing the rounds on social media seems more like wish fulfilment than anything else.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 10h
"Israeli officials said the signal was issued after a physical altercation between the plane's pilots. Initial reports suggested that the plane had issued a hijacking signal. According to Israeli defense officials, the plane was not hijacked."
haaretz.com
Dubai-Tel Aviv flight lands in Saudi Arabia after issuing distress signal
Israeli officials said the pilots issued the signal after a physical altercation. Passengers broke into the cockpit and intervened, a witness told Haaretz
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 10h
Don't forget to get your flu vaccine, folks.
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Grippe- und Pneumokokkenimpfung
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 11h
Out today @haaretzcom.bsky.social: A new biopic explores the tumultuous early life of Bruno Kreisky—formative years during which he was persecuted and imprisoned under not one but two regimes and Austria fell into civil war and dictatorship.
haaretz.com
Austria's only Jewish chancellor: A socialist revolutionary, but no hero
New biopic 'Bruno: The Young Kreisky' ventures into an era Austrians once 'didn't dare' put on screen, tracing the tumultuous youth and rise to power that made Kreisky's story an enduring lesson in de...
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 11h
I confess I'm bearish on the European Union right now, but I just don't see what this 'closest imaginable form of association' could be when we can't even get 10 of the existing 27 member states to pass CETA.
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Canada keeps ‘associate membership’ label at arm’s length | Rapporteur
'We're really much more focused on getting concrete results,' said the Canadian EU-envoy
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Georg Eckelsberger @georgeckelsberger.bsky.social · 11h
Medienmanager Zeiler kann zum Thema Medienförderung nichts sagen, weil er „kein Experte in diesem Bereich ist“.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 11h
In Marine Le Pen’s political world, family has a habit of finding its way back to the center of power. That could now matter more than ever for her party president, Jordan Bardella.
politico.eu
Family first: Le Pen clan tightens its grip as Bardella hits trouble
France’s far-right leader is surrounding herself with family and longtime loyalists as her party president faces a damaging new controversy.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 12h
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 23h
Guess what subscribers are going to be reading about tomorrow? ✍️
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The Crown’s Prince
Warner Bros. Discovery International president Gerhard Zeiler announced his intention to challenge Andreas Babler for the Social Democratic Party leadership last week
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 29/09/2026
"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday filed a libel suit against Haaretz and other media outlets and journalists over Shlomi Eldar and Ruth Yuval's report that he received a warning before the October 7 Hamas attack."
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Netanyahu files libel suit against Haaretz over exposé on warning before Oct. 7
Netanyahu is suing Haaretz and other media outlets and journalists following a Haaretz report earlier this month said that the Emirati leader warned Netanyahu about a looming attack by Hamas just ahea...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
Manchester City found guilty on all Premier League charges over rule breaches
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Manchester City found guilty on all Premier League charges over rule breaches
* ‘Sham’ contracts helped inflate revenues by £900m * Commission finds club guilty over nine-season period Manchester City have been found guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, the league has announced. The league also said an independent commission had found City guilty of the majority of charges in relation to its failure to cooperate with the league’s investigation. Continue reading...
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 29/09/2026
Barbara Staudinger is to continue as director of the Jewish Museum Vienna. "With great professional expertise, curiosity, and a keen ear for societal debates, she has succeeded in offering new perspectives on Jewish history and connecting it to the present," said Veronica Kaup-Hasler.
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Barbara Staudinger als Geschäftsführerin des Jüdischen Museums Wien wiederbestellt
Wien (OTS) - Dr.in Barbara Staudinger bleibt Geschäftsführerin des Jüdischen Museums Wien, ein Museum der Wien Holding. Nach Abschluss des Auswahlverfahrens fiel die Entscheidung einstimmig auf die bi...
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 29/09/2026
Adopting what could be called consensus positions on Israel and antisemitism could bring the Freedom Party domestic benefits. An endorsement from Israel can serve far-right parties in Europe as a Persilschein, a denazification certificate, to ward off accusations of antisemitism.
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Analysis • Israel's embrace is a gift to Austria's far right, but comes with hidden risks
Israel's government is helping Austria's Freedom Party ward off accusations of antisemitism, but in the eyes of its own supporters, the embrace could make the party look like part of the system it cla...
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Jasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Amid threats of an unlawful police raid of Srebrenica Memorial Center, the leadership has reduced the number of staff on site, to protect their physical safety. 2 wks ago, the whole of Europe condemned Serbia for its leaders' glorification of Mladic. Where are they today? n1info.ba/vijesti/sulj...
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Suljagić donio odluku: Memorijalni centar Srebrenica povlači dio zaposlenih, moguće i privremeno zatvaranje za posjete
Direktor Memorijalnog centra Srebrenica dr. Emir Suljagić donio je odluku da se tokom ove sedmice broj zaposlenih koji fizički borave u Centru svede na osoblje
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 28/09/2026
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Israel Keeps Expanding Into Gaza Despite Cease-Fire, Satellite Images Show
The Israeli military has built new outposts and slowly encroached beyond the withdrawal line in Gaza. These are signs its troops may be preparing to stay for the time being.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 28/09/2026
Today @haaretzcom.bsky.social, you can read my analysis of Israel opening the door to the far-right Freedom Party, a move that appears a gift for the FPÖ, though I think it also comes with hidden risks.
haaretz.com
Analysis • Israel's embrace is a gift to Austria's far right, but comes with hidden risks
Israel's government is helping Austria's Freedom Party ward off accusations of antisemitism, but in the eyes of its own supporters, the embrace could make the party look like part of the system it cla...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Five men arrested at RAF Fairford are all UK nationals from London, say police
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Five men arrested at RAF Fairford are all UK nationals from London, say police
Officers say they have secured extension to continue to hold men, all in their 20s, on suspicion of terror offences Five men arrested on suspicion of terror offences at RAF Fairford are all British nationals in their 20s from London, counter-terrorism police have said. The men were pictured on Sunday being apprehended, shirtless, near the RAF base in Gloucestershire, which is being used by the US air force in its operations against Iran. Continue reading...
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Martin Weiss @weissmartin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Excellent analysis and great line by @liamhoare.com in @haaretzcom.bsky.social "Israel – part reality, part fiction – is a screen onto which Europe's far right projects its fantasies...." www.haaretz.com/world-news/e...
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Analysis • Israel's embrace is a gift to Austria's far right, but comes with hidden risks
Israel's government is helping Austria's Freedom Party ward off accusations of antisemitism, but in the eyes of its own supporters, the embrace could make the party look like part of the system it cla...
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 28/09/2026
The SPÖ wants to lower the level at which the top rate of income tax (55 percent) applies from €1 million to €500,000 in order to increase the child surplus payment for low earners from €700 to €1,000.
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SPÖ-Vorschlag: Spitzensteuersatz bereits ab 500.000 Euro
Der Steuersatz von 55 Prozent würde statt ab einer Million bereits ab 500.000 Euro wirken, auch die bisherige Befristung bis 2029 soll fallen.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 28/09/2026
Today @haaretzcom.bsky.social, you can read my analysis of Israel opening the door to the far-right Freedom Party, a move that appears a gift for the FPÖ, though I think it also comes with hidden risks.
haaretz.com
Analysis • Israel's embrace is a gift to Austria's far right, but comes with hidden risks
Israel's government is helping Austria's Freedom Party ward off accusations of antisemitism, but in the eyes of its own supporters, the embrace could make the party look like part of the system it cla...
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two-tier British citizenship latest.
 Conservatives to strip migrant criminals of British citizenship

Dual nationals serving sentences over five years could lose passports under the proposals
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 26/09/2026
Who is the mysterious lobbyist who is advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle?
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The Mystery Man Shadowing Kimberly Guilfoyle as She Pushes Deals Across Europe
Christos Marafatsos works as an energy lobbyist while also closely advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece.
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Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's the biggest accusation of AI writing in the literary world so far, a book that was likely to win the Prix Goncourt. The author has been disqualified due to separate cases of plagiarism, so the question of whether Pangram can be used as evidence remains open www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Novelist accused of using AI to write book removed from French prize list
Thélyson Orélien had been in the running to win a top literary prize before the AI claim emerged on social media
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/09/2026
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warned of an impending Hamas attack in 2023 by the UAE. The information wasn't passed on to Israeli security officials.
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Netanyahu Said to Have Been Warned by Emirati Leader About Hamas Attack Before Oct. 7
The warning from the leader of the United Arab Emirates, which lacked specific details about the nature of an attack, never reached the chiefs of Israel’s security establishment, Israeli officials said.
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Bernhard Weidinger @bweidin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Austrian Journalists Club canceled a book presentation: "We cannot guarantee [the co-author's] safety and given similar incidents in the past, we fear riotous disruptions." The book portrays "remarkable Jewish women" & is titled "Courage", which the ÖJC clearly lacks. wien.orf.at/stories/3372...
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Veranstaltung von Danielle Spera abgesagt
Der Österreichische Journalisten Club (ÖJC) hat eine Buchpräsentation mit der ehemaligen Journalistin und Direktorin des Jüdischen Museums, Danielle Spera, abgesagt. Als Grund führte der ÖJC Sicherhei...
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Welp. www.reuters.com/business/med...
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East German town bans future Holocaust memorial plaques
An East German town has approved a motion by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and ruling centre-right ​Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to reject future installation of brass plaques ‌comme...
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 25/09/2026
I see Cathie Wood was on CNBC saying the U.S. economy is going to grow at 7 percent a year over the next few years so buy gold and head down to your doom bunkers.
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Tini Paspertini @gruenwald.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Das "Mitterlehner-Selfie-vorm-Pool" Foto, aber statt Mitterlehner steht Pamela Rendi Wagner vorm Pool, trägt Sonnenbrille, grinst über das ganze Gesicht und hält eine Tüte Pommes mit Mayo in der Hand.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 25/09/2026
I'd really rather not go back to the days when people drank in the stands.
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Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik @laurenzennser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nur, falls das gerade wer braucht. (So einfach sollte es zumindest dem Wortlaut der SPÖ-Statuten nach nämlich nicht sein, einen Bundesparteivorsitzenden abzulösen, aber das scheint irgendwie egal zu sein ...) www.spoe.at/wp-content/u...
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 25/09/2026
I wrote in my newsletter two weeks ago: "Aged 71 and set for a substantial payday should Warner Bros. Discovery’s merger with Paramount go through, Zeiler’s incentives to take over a SPÖ divided and in decline seem difficult to discern." I still find them difficult to discern, but here we are.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 25/09/2026
There's an argument that the UK already has a large, well-functioning hub-and-spoke airport. It just happens to be in Amsterdam.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 25/09/2026
Surprise! Francesca Albanese is historically illiterate.
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UN Watch (@UNWatch) on X
Holocaust Distortion from U.N. “Expert”: Francesca Albanese claims Jews in Nazi death camps “were called Muslims.” Antisemitism targets “Semitic peoples” and “not just discrimination against Jews.” E...
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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Peter Thiel, receiving the Axel Springer award in Berlin, describes journalism as a "left-wing hate factory"
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 24/09/2026
ICYMI.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 24/09/2026
"Spencer, always the injured party, has so many axes grinding away in this book that at times it’s impossible to hear what he’s saying."
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Swan Song by Charles Spencer review – a furious exercise in score-settling by Diana’s brother
Amid genuinely touching passages about his sister, the earl can’t help but put himself and his grievances centre stage
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 24/09/2026
And I was right.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 24/09/2026
Austria finds itself the victim of macroeconomic conditions that are not of its own making and are dragging the rest of the world down with them. They are also conditions that Austria alone cannot mend. Indeed, the decisions needed to fix them are largely out of Austria’s hands.
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No One Is Alone
Austria is the victim of macroeconomic conditions that are not of its own making and are dragging the rest of the world down with them
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