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Mark Furness

@mfurness.bsky.social
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Researcher on European foreign and development policy & the MENA region, German IDOS Institute. Posts reflect own views.

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Mark Furness @mfurness.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The BBC World Service Newshour programme last night had the same angle on this. I had trouble sleeping afterwards. The angle should be 'Marine Le Pen guilty of massive fraud at European Parliament'. The FN's reaction is to attack the justice system, the classic fascist playbook.
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Mark Furness @mfurness.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
www.idos-research.de/en/about-us/...
idos-research.de
Job advertisment: Full professorship for Global Policy for Sustainable Development / Deputy Director of IDOS (m/f/d)
We are looking for a strategically minded and integrative leader with excellent research experience in the field of global sustainable development.
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Mark Furness @mfurness.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Looks like the unfinished coalition negotiations on German foreign, security and development policy have been leaked to Politico: www.politico.eu/wp-content/u...
politico.eu
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Mark Furness @mfurness.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Musk is a total hypocrite, and this is probably one of the last critical stories about him that we will see in the Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
washingtonpost.com
Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding
Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth.
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Mark Furness @mfurness.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This has to be seen to be believed. The only explanation I can think of is that Trump has foolishly shared something subversive made by someone who is taking the piss news.sky.com/story/trump-...
news.sky.com
Trump shares AI video of Gaza vision featuring golden statues, bearded belly dancers and Netanyahu on a sunbed
The footage, which the 78-year-old shared without comment, shows the war-ravaged territory transformed into a Middle Eastern paradise with exotic beaches, Dubai-style skyscrapers, luxury yachts and pe...
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Mark Furness @mfurness.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Cutting foreign aid won't fund the kinds of defence spending increases that are being talked about, but it will make conflict more likely. Development policy is security policy.
theguardian.com
UK defence spending to rise to 2.5% of GDP by 2027 with aid budget slashed to help fund move - UK politics live
Keir Starmer says now is the time to deepen European security, as he announces move in the Commons
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Mark Furness @mfurness.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
If they're going to cancel the Gulf of Mexico then they really need to name it after themselves
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Mark Furness @mfurness.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Basically, Trump wants to plunder the Western part of Ukraine while Putin plunders the Eastern part.
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Mark Furness @mfurness.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
EU High Representative Kallas is ready to step up EU aid to partially compensate for USAID's absence. The EU can't do everything of course, so aid will be spent where geopolitical influence can be won, and where the EU is most visible. www.deutschlandfunk.de/eu-aussenbea...
deutschlandfunk.de
Ausbau von geopolitischem Einfluss - EU-Außenbeauftragte Kallas kündigt neuen Kurs bei Entwicklungshilfe an
Die EU will wegfallende Entwicklungshilfezahlungen der USA nur unter Bedingungen und in ausgewählten Fällen kompensieren.
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IDOS_research @idos-research.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
In @table.media Briefings erklärt IDOS-Experte @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social, wie aktuelle entwicklungspolitische Debatten in Deutschland durch die Politik der #Trump-Administration beeinflusst werden & welchen Auftrieb populistische Strömungen dadurch erhalten könnten ➡️ table.media/africa/stand...
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Mark Furness @mfurness.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I wrote this @idos-research.bsky.social column before Elon Musk's illegal, corrupt, ideologically bankrupt and fundamentally stupid shut down of USAID. It is even more relevant now for Germany to maintain and strengthen its development aid programme. www.idos-research.de/en/the-curre...
idos-research.de
International development cooperation is in Germany’s national interest
Germany’s international cooperation is as important for its own continued development, as it is for the countries where Germany invests public money.
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IDOS_research @idos-research.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Die #Bundestagswahl2025 rückt näher, und die Debatte um #Entwicklungshilfe spitzt sich zu. @mfurness.bsky.social betont: #InternationaleEntwicklungszusammenarbeit dient nicht nur globalen Zielen, sondern auch nationalen Interessen: www.idos-research.de/die-aktuelle... #DieAktuelleKolumne #BTW2025
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Mark Furness @mfurness.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
This is really sad news. Rafaella Iodice was one of the smartest and most insightful people I ever had the priviledge of meeting. amu.tv/147052/
amu.tv
Raffaella Iodice, former EU chargée d’affaires to Afghanistan, passes away | Amu TV
Iodice served as the EU’s Deputy Head of Delegation in Kabul from June 2022.
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IDOS_research @idos-research.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Managing Change in #Syria - IDOS expert Musallam Abedtalas argues that international actors like the #EU must proceed cautiously to guide Syria toward an inclusive state without imposing foreign solutions. He outlines key actions for international intervention: blogs.idos-research.de/2024/12/19/m...
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Mark Furness @mfurness.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Looks like al-Jolani might have read our World Development Special Issue on the social contract in MENA countries english.almayadeen.net/news/politic... www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
sciencedirect.com
World Development | Framing the emergence of new social contracts in Middle East and North African countries - Markus (Loewe) | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect
The concept of the social contract is a powerful tool for the analysis of state-society relations and can, in particular, help us understand recent developments in the Middle East and North Africa (ME...
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IDOS_research @idos-research.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
📚 #TheCurrentColumn Zero hour in Damascus: What role can the international community play in #Syria’s new beginning? IDOS experts Tina Zintl and Markus Loewe call on international actors to provide #HumanitarianAid for the population as quickly as possible: idos-research.de/en/the-curre...
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