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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

NEW NIGHT TRAIN COMING! #EuropeanSleeper has just announced Brussels-Amsterdam-Copenhaguen-Malmo planned to start in April 2028 This will be their 4th line. More info: www.europeansleeper.eu/malmo #NightTrains

We're starting a new night train from
Brussels and Amsterdam to Scandinavia!
Together with German railway operator RDC, we're
planning to launch a new night train to Copenhagen and
Malmo in April 2028.

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

We see and celebrate EU institutions that open shop in Mastodon, and those that add the Mastodon icon to their main website One group of EU professionals ONLY have Mastodon as their social media contact It's @EC_OSPO The Open Source Programme Office. They […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Screenshot of a web page with text that reads:

code.europa.eu

This site is managed by:
European Commission Open Source Program Office (EU OSPO)
Contact us: Email
Follow us: Mastodon

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

"Artists are not like athletes. We cannot win gold. We cannot beat other creatives. We cannot come first place. Sport is objective. Art is subjective. Creating to “be the best” is a waste of energy. Instead, create to connect to the people who need you […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

Europe’s climate is increasingly suitable for certain disease-carrying vectors, BUT there is still much we can do to prevent their spread. - The evidence and forecasts IDAlert generates provide essential insights for policymakers and health professionals - […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

With good data and citizen science, decision-makers can take measures to prevent the disease spread. Such as applying larvicides in the storm drains. In #Barcelona, this resulted in a drop in 94% of the mosquito population. #IDAlert

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

With data provided by citizens. Two of those supported by #IDAlert are #TickRapporteur and #MosquitoAlert Get then on your phone and contribute to #CitizenScience !

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

For instance, gathering, processing, and making available data. That's the work of lancetcountdown.org The Lancet Countdown. For policymakers to take science-based decisions. #IDalert

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

#IDAlert is important because as the climate is changing, some infectious diseases will (re-)emerge and spread. IDAlert provides methods to monitor and forecast the risk of climate-sensitive infectious diseases For governments, health care professionals and individuals

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

IDAlert is a European project to tackle the spread of infectious diseases in a changing climate This is an overview of the project in cartoons in 21 pages: idalertproject.eu/wp-content/upload… In this thread some of my […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2026

Si estás en #Asturias y te interesa la restauración de muebles de madera, quizá quieras pasar por este taller de pintura de muebles a la tiza. - Impartido por el pequeño negocio de restauración Möbelho. - 60€ incluyendo materiales - Sábado 17 de enero de 10 […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026

In #kiva you can choose the countries you prefer to loan to. I tend to avoid loans in the US (but that's a personal preference of course) and I look for loans in countries where I haven't lent to yet. 9% of my loans were in Kenya. You can also choose the […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025

I'm a proud financial supporter of Ukraine's war efforts through the #NAFO initiative. The badge I received is just perfect. I hope Jake Broe keeps on hitting the Bingo. Stay strong, defend democracy, protect Europe, slava ukraini!

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/12/2025

NEW NIGHT TRAIN ROUTE Brussels/Amsterdam - Milan Starting on June 2026, by #EuropeanSleeper This is the "PANENOTTE" - The night train that will allow you to get the panettone :D - First departure: Thursday, 18 June 2026 - Ticket sales start in Jan/Feb 2026 […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Map of Central Europe showing the connection between Brussels, Amsterdam, Cologne, Berne and Milan

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2025

#PreciousPlastic is a global community of people working towards a solution to plastic pollution. Knowledge, tools and techniques are shared online, for free LET'S BUILD V.5: == We spent the last 10 years building a network of plastic recyclers around the […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2025

The Soomaa inhabitants learned to live with this additional season, with an understanding of this natural phenomenon and with adjustments”, explains Ewa Leś, founder of the River University The locals’ houses stand adapted to withstand the flooding, their lives attuned to nature’s rhythm.

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2025

In Estonia’s Soomaa National Park each year melting snow and rising waters from 4 rivers transform their landscape into a vast shallow lake, navigable only by canoe. This “fifth season,” as locals call it, can last several weeks in late March and early April […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2025

Dykes and dams were created to feed water to mills, as ponds to grow fish, or to irrigate crops. But 15% of these barriers are no longer used. That is a staggering 200,000 useless structures strangling Europe’s waterways. There are increasing efforts to […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2025

“Instead of flowing rivers, you have standing water”, Bender explains. “The sediments, stones and all else that the rivers carry gets stuck in the reservoirs.” Riverbeds become smothered in mud. “And it makes it inhabitable for many species, including […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2025

This fight isn’t limited to Albania. Across Europe, dam and dyke construction continues – isolating rivers, choking their ecosystems, and endangering the people who live near them. There are at least 1.2 million instream barriers fragmenting Europe’s rivers […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2025

“It should not be considered ecotourism if you fly to Albania, rent a car, drive through the valley, park your vehicle right next to the Vjosa, look at the Vjosa, while drinking from a plastic bottle.” - Ulrich Eichelmann (RiverWatch)

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2025

The Vjosa River in #Albania is one of the largest free-flowing wild rivers in Europe. In 2023, it was declared Europe’s first Wild River National Park. But even the Vjosa is under threat. Ironically, it is being endangered by the very people coming to […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2025

In other parts of the world rivers are still seen as sacred, living beings. In January 2025, Bender’s organisation brought members of the Nez Perce tribe from the United States to Europe to share their perspective. For the Nez Perce, rivers aren’t resources […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2025

“In Europe, the picture of what a river should be has mostly disappeared” says Michael Bender of the Living Rivers Initiative, a nonprofit trying to save rivers across the EU Wild rivers are free-flowing waterways without dams or significant human […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2025

We can prevent flood impacts if we understand rivers better Rivers don’t just carry water from point A to point B. They meander, braid, shift, and carve landscapes. This is how floodplains are formed. Floodplains provide the space for the additional water […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2025

Look at the embankments of the Dâmbovița river in Bucharest. Cold, grey concrete walls and known more for its pollution than its beauty, Dâmbovița seemed forgotten, lifeless even in summer. This is Raluca's home town. She never saw people swimming or […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2025

Good evening, #pride ! Good evening, love! I'm sorry but you don't look like you're banned! *** These are the opening words of Budapest mayor, Gergely #Karácsony, from the green party "Dialogue", addressing the crowd. (It's in Hungarian - in YouTube switch […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2025

@seanddotmedotuk I understood all the single words but now I'm unsure about the combination of them 😃 It reminded me of this book I bought in Ireland, where I learned most of my English...

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025

English as Lingua Franca is a good way to understand how Europeans speak English. We want to get the message across, and we’re less concerned about being correct. We carry with us one or more other languages, and we use them. A European researcher on the […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025

But this can't be the whole story, right? We all know some co-worker whose accent is terrible. (OF COURSE NOT US, SOMEONE ELSE!!) It turns out there are some pronunciation features that are crucial to get your message across, and others not. Polish […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025

“Every self-respecting University will offer courses in English. True for Hong Kong and Singapore too” This is Eleni Symeonidou: bachelor in English Language and Literature, masters in Teaching English. But it was not easy to start as an English teacher “It […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025

Jose Emilio Labra was Dean of the school some years ago, and he's known in his research are of the Semantic Web. He thinks teaching in English is a win-win-win: “The local industry benefits. Teachers are interested in expanding their academic profile […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025

I interviewed Rita Araujo, a Portuguese living in Brussels, and abroad for more than a decade, about the use of English at her home. First thing she said: “We’re migrants from other countries of Europe, and English is our common language.” Her kids attend […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025

European English is on the rise. Professor Marko Modiano has been studying it for years. “There is a core of English elements that are more commonly used in Europe but less commonly in other English-speaking countries. It’s made of specific vocabulary […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025

Before Brexit, English was already the favourite language to communicate among Europeans But it always carried some weight. Then, UK exited, and then-President Juncker thaught it was time for French. But English remained. And without the UK as guardian, it became *neutral*

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025

Europeans are increasingly speaking English, especially the youth. Eurobarometer 2023: 47% of all europeans can have a conversation in English as a foreign language. 70% of those between 15 and 24. But what are we speaking? It's not American. It's not British. It's our own flavour of English.

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2025

El #bicibus de la Escuela Europea de Parma. Una vez al año, el 9 de mayo Día de Europa, unos doscientos alumnos de secundaria se encuentran en la plaza principal de la ciudad y van juntos en bici al cole, recorriendo unos 4-5 km, escoltados por cuatro motos […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2025

Your daily Pope - Exploring the positions of 10 cardinals on several key topics by #EuropeanCorrespondant

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2025

Good morning from Marseille! 5 trains today to get back home Short analysis of the route: - Lisbon - Madrid. Difficult, 3 connections, but high speed is coming - Madrid - Barcelona. Many travellers, 3 companies: it doesn't make sense to take the plane - […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2025

Now onboard RENFE's service from Badajoz to Madrid The regional Portuguese train was on time. Almost no other trains in this single track, so no opportunities to be late really! 15' between trains was enough. 3 other people also made the connection Weird […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2025

About to leave Entroncamento in the Regional service with international crossing to Badajoz. With about 5' delay. The InterCity I had planned originally was slightly late. However, the train manager confirmed that the Regional was waiting for it. Another […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2025

Entro en detalle a "Cómo estar informado de lo que sucede en Europa", mi artículo en la #fedirevista ¿Te parece que cuando se habla de Europa en los medios, es siempre la misma historia? En la foto, tres presidentes del Consejo vestidos igual, con el mismo […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2025

A couple of years ago a food discussion erupted in Italy. A provocation: "The best Parmesan cheese comes from Wisconsin" Long story short: Italian migrants kept doing the original recipe Why Wisconsin? Because it's the land of the cheese. It makes over 600 […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2025

This is a milk *carton*. In Spanish, we call it a *brick* of milk, using the English word brick (un brick de leche). I have just realised that we call it brick because it resembles a brick 🤦‍♂️🧱🥛 (and because it's the trademark: Tetra Brick). But of course […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2025

The influence of gambling companies in European football "Almost 300 top-flight clubs have deals with betting firms this season, exposing the game’s financial dependence on the sector. A number of teams circumvent restrictions with ‘gateway’ sponsors as […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2025

@tml Well, here's my bet for the first picture: Lesa, province of Novara, looking south, the tower you can see is similar to the one of S.Antonio Abate church.

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Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀 @rafa-font.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2025

My newsletter *seems* to be trending a little I've moved from Substack to europeanperspective.news But subscriptions via Substack keep coming. In fact, they have surged in recent weeks (tiny numbers - from 150 to 225, but relevant in %) almost […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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