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Cake day: July 19th, 2023

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  • The BIS and ABW have not named names so far, but BIS had a 300-page dossier on illicit payments worth “millions of [Czech] crowns” (tens of thousands of euros), it has said.

    ABW seized €72,000 in cash in raids in the Warsaw region.

    It’s kind of insulting when perhaps-not-Moscow offers just a meagre couple of 10000 € as bribe to our MEPs. And embarassing when they accept such a sum.




  • ~20 years ago we were on vacation in Zeeuws Vlanderen. It was e x t r e m e l y boring. (Sorry, Zeuws Vlanderen). So we decided to hop over the channel to visit England. Our kids were too young to have their own ID cards, and as citizens of Schengenland we were not prepared for the UK border control. Of course nobody on the French side cared to tell anyone about British immigration rules. So we were at the border control in Dover without IDs for our kids. They accepted their health insurance cards, and we spent a wonderful week in Kent and London, even meeting a veteran from the battle of Arnhem. Luckily they let us leave as well – it occured to me only years later that leaving might have become a problem.





  • NATO is only as effective as it is united. Moscow is waging a hybrid war, they are attacking NATO in the information space since years or decades. Till 2026 there are a lot of elections — the US, Germany and the UK could be led by pro—Moscow governements in 2026, France’s next election is 2027.

    If Moscow wins the battle of the information space, it’s absolutely possible that they will able to freeze the war in Ukraine this year and “rescue the poor Russians oppressed by the Baltic states” in 2026 or 2027.