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Katy Lee

2 years

Thank you so much @jonhenley for this incredibly nice piece for the @guardian marking five years of @EuropeansPod . When you put it this way, we really have covered a lot of ground. Might we even say... a continent's worth?

Katherine Butler

@ButlerKatherine

2 years

The podcast that's helping Europeans understand Europe @jonhenley talked to @kjalee and @dakraemer

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Katy Lee

@kjalee

4 years

The French prime minister looking for his glasses, which are on his face, is all of us who have ever worn glasses

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5 years

BREAKING: Macron announces full lockdown in France for at least two weeks. No family or social gatherings allowed

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@kjalee

4 years

Oh my god, this is amazing. A German cafe is making people wear swimming pool noodles as hats to enforce social distancing. Pic via Cafe & Konditorei Rothe on Facebook

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6 years

Lovely news from Paris: a woman gave birth on an RER train this morning. Transport authorities have offered the baby boy free rail travel until he's 25.

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3 years

Paris is being extremely Paris today

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@kjalee

5 years

Macron also just announced a HUGE package to support French businesses: guaranteeing bank loans up to $300bn; companies rent and utility bills suspended. “No company, of any size, will be allowed to go bankrupt.” What every business owner, everywhere, wants to hear right now.

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@kjalee

4 months

A few thoughts on why Macron’s decision to call parliamentary elections because the far-right did so well, which seems on the surface of it to be quite insane, might not be *that* insane

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@kjalee

5 years

A horrific trend which we can expect to see everywhere: Paris police say domestic violence cases have shot up 36% in a week.

Guillaume Daudin

@GuillaumeDaudin

5 years

Parmi les infos du jour, les violences conjugales ont augmenté de "32% en une semaine" en zone gendarmerie, et dans la zone de la préfecture de police de Paris, elles ont été en hausse de "36% en une semaine". ( @CCastaner dans @VALP ) #AFP

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@kjalee

3 years

Chilling testimony emerging from fellow passengers on the Athens-Vilnius flight, describing the moment when Roman Protasevich learned it was being diverted to #Belarus . "He just turned to people and said he was facing the death penalty," passenger Monika Simkiene told @AFP .

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@kjalee

9 years

European Commission confirms $7.16 bn loan paid to Greece so they can now pay ECB & IMF (see gif for explanation) http://t.co/3xxPq6pU1F

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@kjalee

3 years

My sister-in-law got a coronavirus piñata for her birthday. This is amazing! These should be provided to all households, there are real gains in wellbeing to be had from us all beating a giant coronavirus with a stick while screaming

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@kjalee

7 years

Spotted in the neighbourhood

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@kjalee

7 years

Celebrate the international day of the French language with this classic #Francophonie

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@kjalee

3 years

Those of us who speak 2nd languages (or more) often beat ourselves up when we don't understand something. This video is such a nice reminder that it's ok not to get it, and that other people are almost always gracious and forgiving when it happens 🥰

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3 years

English can be a tricky language even when you're fluent like Roger Federer

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@kjalee

4 years

France has a long and proud history of English puns in adverts that make no sense, and here is a new classic of the genre

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@kjalee

3 years

A dictatorship forced a flight between two EU countries to divert so it could arrest a pro-democracy activist. It's hard to overstate how outrageous this is. But to cover this story properly you need people on the ground in many places, speaking many languages.

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@kjalee

7 years

BREAKING: Projections show Macron's party on course for massive majority in French parliament, 390-445 seats out of 577

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@kjalee

3 years

Well this is an intriguing story. French influencers have been receiving offers of cash to slam the Pfizer vaccine. The UK comms agency supposedly behind it had a fake London address, but LinkedIn profiles for its "staff" all had links to Russia 🤔

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@kjalee

3 years

I am enjoying these pics on the @AFP wire today of Malaysian police crushing 1000 bitcoin-mining machines with a literal steamroller

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@kjalee

5 years

Paris is one of the most densely populated cities on earth. People live in tiny apartments; the city’s social life is conducted in bars, cafés, restaurants, parks. These public spaces are our escape valves. This is going to be extremely difficult. Yet ‘we are at war’, Macron says

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@kjalee

5 years

The French lockdown starts at noon tomorrow. People breaking the rules will be punished. “I’m appealing to your sense of responsibility and solidarity,” Macron says in a live televised address to the nation.

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@kjalee

2 years

Welcome to Paris, host city of the 2024 Olympics, where we liberally tear gas both sports fans AND mass transit passengers

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@BFMTV

2 years

Panne de train à gare de l'Est: les forces de l'ordre ont fait usage de gaz lacrymogène pour disperser les passagers

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@kjalee

3 years

Sadly few news orgs have the resources to do that in 2021. Throughout today colleagues in Minsk, Vilnius, Moscow, Brussels and many other places have been helping to tell this tell this story about an outrageous abuse of state power. Proud to work at @AFP at times like this

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@kjalee

4 months

French parliamentary elections do not use the same electoral system as European elections. To win a seat as a deputé you have to win 50% in the first round, or if not face a run-off. Upshot: it’s a lot harder for a far-right candidate to win a seat in the national parliament

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@kjalee

3 years

It’s just incredible how often Von der Leyen has to put up with this shit

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3 years

Oh no, it’s #sofagate all over again. Good thing that this time Emmanuel Macron was there to save the day :)

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@kjalee

2 years

Le Pen has scored her best-ever result, bringing the French far right closer to power than ever. Macron is the first French president re-elected in 20 years: a remarkable feat in this permanently dissatisfied country. Two things can be true at once #presidentielles2022

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@kjalee

3 years

Side note: news agencies like @AFP are rather unglamorous and under-appreciated in a world of hot-take journalism, but at times like this it becomes clear how absolutely essential they are.

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@kjalee

7 years

French establishment is swiftly lining up urging voters to now back Macron: Fillon, Hamon, Ayrault, Valls, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo

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@kjalee

2 years

Very much here for the new trend on French TikTok setting the nation’s pharmacy signs to a background of pumping techno

Victor Grimoin 💚❤️💛💜🩷

@victor_grimoin

2 years

La trend Tik Tok de filmer des animations de pharmacie FR avec de la techno est vraiment mon truc préféré du moment

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@kjalee

7 years

Macron at the coffin of Arnaud Beltrame, 44-year-old policeman who died offering himself as a hostage in a jihadist attack. "The name of his attacker will be forgotten, but the name of Arnaud Beltrame will live on," Macron told a national ceremony. @AFP

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@kjalee

4 years

A survey of black Europeans found that 63% of victims of racist physical attacks by a police officer did not report the incident, either because they felt it wouldn't change anything or because they feared the police. This is not an American problem

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@kjalee

5 years

Macron also announces special measures to look after healthcare workers dealing with the epidemic, including childcare. ‘Hotels and taxis could be mobilised to help them,’ he says. ‘The state will pay for this.’

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@kjalee

4 months

It would’ve been perfectly legit to argue that pmtry elections are every 5 years and if you don’t like the current parliament, tough — you’ll have your chance to vote them out eventually. But Le Pen et all would not have stopped screaming for an election. This nips it in the bud.

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@kjalee

3 years

Another passenger, Edvinas Dimsa, told AFP: "He was not screaming, but it was clear that he was very much afraid. It looked like if the window had been open, he would have jumped out of it."

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@kjalee

5 years

Macron urges calm and solidarity. Now that he’s finished speaking, the government is due to set out details of how the French lockdown will work in practice. “Vive la République. Vive la France.”

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@kjalee

7 years

Hi @LeCinqParis , is it true as per @jayrayner1 's review you give women menus w/o the prices on? Care to explain why?

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@kjalee

4 months

Macron will be hoping to pull off something similar in these elections to Pedro Sánchez, who everyone called crazy for calling early elections, and who made the whole thing about the need to fight back against the far-right, and who is, by the skin of his teeth, still in power.

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@kjalee

4 months

Is it risky? Hugely. Did he have a choice? I’m not sure he did.

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@kjalee

6 years

I can't believe I'm having to say this again but literally no one in the streets of Paris is chanting 'We Want Trump'

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

6 years

The Paris Agreement isn’t working out so well for Paris. Protests and riots all over France. People do not want to pay large sums of money, much to third world countries (that are questionably run), in order to maybe protect the environment. Chanting “We Want Trump!” Love France.

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@kjalee

3 years

Watching @EmmanuelMacron ’s address to the French people on Ukraine just now: it’s hard to imagine him winning anything other than a landslide in next month’s presidential election. It wasn’t an announcement that he’s running. But it may as well have been.

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@kjalee

4 months

Macron does not have a majority in parliament and was facing a possible/probable vote of no confidence from Les Républicains after the summer anyway.

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@kjalee

4 months

Fact is: there are a lot of far-right ppl in France. A lot of people who want to see Le Pen in power, with an incredibly hardline immigration policy. But you would also expect slightly more mainstream voters to show up for a pmtry election. Not many, perhaps. But some.

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@kjalee

4 months

Is it chilling that Le Pen and her far-right rivals may together get up to 40% of the vote? Of course it is. But it is not at all surprising given both the results of the last presidential election and how polls had predicted the European elections would go in France.

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@kjalee

3 years

Who knew genius mRNA scientists could be so relatable

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@kjalee

4 months

You can expect Macron’s + other mainstream parties to make this campaign all about the far-right threat. It’s an argument that has been used in many French elections and whose potency has been wearing off. Still, these results will scare some of the apathetic into turning up.

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@kjalee

4 years

This video is honestly one of the best things that has happened to me in 2020, the video we all needed

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@kjalee

5 years

All French companies that can organise for staff to work from home are ordered to do so. Only strictly necessary trips outside, eg shopping, will be permitted — along with trips to work when working from home is not possible

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@kjalee

4 months

I still hate this website so please don’t expect me to be here anything other than sporadically, ok byeeeee

Dominic Kraemer

@dakraemer

4 months

Katy's back on Twitter!! She says she was fed up with texting all her friends back with her analysis. #efficiency

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@kjalee

6 years

Good morning. French students are taking their high school philosophy exams today. Here are a few of their test questions for you to ponder: - Does culture make us more human? - Is desire a mark of our imperfection? - To prove an injustice, do you need to know what is just?

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@kjalee

6 years

The skies over Paris right now. Not a great look #giletsjaunes #yellowvests

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@kjalee

7 years

And Tim Farron ran against someone called Mr Fishfinger. Britain is not doomed, I repeat, Britain is not doomed

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@kjalee

5 years

All French government reforms have been placed on hold, Macron says. Not an easy thing for a president who came to power promising wholesale change of French politics, but needs must. The second round of the municipal elections will be delayed

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@kjalee

3 years

The French Left is holding a primary today, supposedly to try to pick a presidential candidate. The whole thing is a hot mess, but there's one enjoyable detail: the voting system is inspired by one used to evaluate wines

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@kjalee

9 years

Seriously Colgate, do we really need gendered toothpaste? http://t.co/bjzXC32Vzl

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@kjalee

4 years

Today my parents got vaccinated and I received a 10-year French residency permit. It has been a very, very good day.

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@kjalee

4 years

Paris police announced yesterday that they had uncovered an MDMA factory .... Turns out it was Haribo

Agence France-Presse

@afpfr

4 years

La poudre présentée mercredi lors de sa saisie par la police française comme de la MDMA, une drogue de synthèse, s'est révélée provenir de simples bonbons, des fraises Tagada, a-t-on appris de sources concordantes #AFP

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@kjalee

4 years

The Musée d’Orsay, a museum which is apparently happy to display many bare breasts in its permanent collection, shamed this young woman at the entrance and told her she couldn’t come in because her neckline was too revealing. Unbelievable

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@kjalee

4 years

France's interior minister says he is shocked every time he sees an ethnic food aisle in a supermarket, and now I can't stop thinking about him crying next to the soy sauce

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Gérald Darmanin: "Moi ça m'a toujours choqué de rentrer dans un hypermarché et de voir un rayon de telle cuisine communautaire"

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@kjalee

8 years

First time I've been tempted to write an Airbnb review that says 'The apartment is conveniently located next to several PokéStops.'

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@kjalee

7 years

Wow they really don't muck about at the Düsseldorf carnival @AFPphoto

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@kjalee

5 years

Macron’s announcements tonight may come across as rather severe, but actually the delivery was rather gentle. And most importantly, reassuring.

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@kjalee

3 years

Also, the Champs-Elysées is car free today, so we’re getting a taste of what 2043 might look like: cyclists ruling the roads and alien overlords ruling the city from a shiny space arch

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@kjalee

5 years

As in Italy, you will be allowed out to do ‘a bit of exercise’ under the new French restrictions, providing you stay away from other people. Which is very important for not going crazy.

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@kjalee

3 years

France just keeps on Francing

Emma Pearson

@LocalFR_Emma

3 years

🇨🇵 government promotes Covid vaccine by heavily implying that it will get you laid 🤣

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@kjalee

3 years

The cat is out of the bag! I will be leaving @AFP at the end of the year to work more full-time on making @EuropeansPod and, in all probability, some other sounds and words around Europe ✌️

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@kjalee

7 years

First pot of honey from the beehives on the roof of @AFP HQ. Proof we are the world’s sweetest news agency

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@kjalee

6 years

'One answer to “it can’t happen here” is “it already happened here” – children have been imprisoned in the United States, albeit selectively, through autocratic policies imposed over centuries by powerful white men upon the non-white and vulnerable.'

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@kjalee

4 years

Here’s a journalism format you don’t see much in the English-speaking world: an investigation by Le Monde journalists into the origins of the coronavirus in France has been turned into a graphic novel. Pretty cool

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@kjalee

7 years

I have extremely mixed feelings about this Macron look

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@kjalee

8 years

French interior ministry confirms 'serious public security incident' near Louvre, security and rescue forces launching operation

Ministère de l'Intérieur

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Evénement grave de #s écurité publique en cours à #Paris quartier du #Louvre , priorité à l'intervention des forces de sécurité et de secours

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@kjalee

4 years

Thank you @ZiaWeise for pointing out that this was actually a reporter's idea, not the cafe's. As per this report, RTL wanted to see how people reacted.

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@kjalee

4 years

@AfzalAminTweets @alexmassie @LondonVision When I'm not wearing them, I often poke myself in the face while trying to push them up the bridge of my nose

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@kjalee

8 years

George Orwell, writing in 1940, drew an interesting link between economic insecurity and the ability to believe the ridiculous

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@kjalee

4 years

The mayor of Paris: "Welcome back America!"

Anne Hidalgo

@Anne_Hidalgo

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Welcome back America ! Félicitations à @JoeBiden et @KamalaHarris pour cette élection ! Alors que nous allons célébrer les 5 ans de l’Accord de Paris, cette victoire est un beau symbole pour plus que jamais agir ensemble face à l’urgence climatique. 🇺🇸 #Election2020

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@kjalee

3 years

It’s no accident that Macron flagged up the fact that he is in contact with Putin as well as Zelensky. He is coming across right now as the only European national leader that Putin takes seriously enough to speak with at length, and that is absolutely not a vote-loser.

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@kjalee

8 years

Greatest headline I have ever written

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@kjalee

4 years

It's finally out today: my long-read for Esquire on Didier Raoult, the renegade French scientist responsible for much of the hype around unproven coronavirus drug #hydroxychloroquine . Read it if you're into scientific methods & internet personality cults

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@kjalee

3 years

Dec 24, 2021. I am smuggling a raw turkey to the UK on the Eurostar, disguised as a baby

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@kjalee

3 years

"I hope you get lots of likes," said my lovely vaccinator Miranda

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@kjalee

3 years

Today I learnt the expression ‘millefeuille administratif’, which will surely delight anyone with an appreciation of layers of French bureaucracy, layers of French pastry, or both

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@kjalee

5 years

Latest French numbers: 148 deaths due to coronavirus, 21 of them in the last 24 hours. 6,633 confirmed cases. But bear in mind that only people with significant symptoms, notably breathing difficulties, are being tested.

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@kjalee

4 years

After weeks of cramming key dates in French history and the rights and duties of citizens, I finally had my interview for my application for French nationality today. I think it went ok! We talked about Simone Veil and Marie Curie. Celebrating with an appropriate lunch 🇫🇷✌️

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@kjalee

3 years

🚨 Personal news klaxon 🚨 I have a new beat at @AFP : the internet! We have come a long way since c. 1998 when my dad, a computer engineer, showed 10-year-old me the web and I told him 'I don't think this is going to take off'

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@kjalee

3 years

On everything from France taking in Ukrainian children separated from their parents to making a case for a more strategically independent Europe, he was calm and authoritative. Basically: what you want from your president when there’s a war on this continent.

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@kjalee

5 years

Good morning from a damp, blustery Paris. It was a shock to see her without her spire this morning. But like any great beauty, she was blessed with good bones. We should celebrate how much was saved last night.

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@kjalee

9 years

Charlie Hebdo's new cover: "They've got guns. Screw them, we've got champagne"

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@kjalee

4 years

Terrible scenes again in the Netherlands last night. Interested to hear your theories as to why this small minority of Dutch youth have taken to violence, while we’ve seen nothing like it in France — a country with a more famous tradition of setting fire to cars

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@kjalee

8 years

It's the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall you guys! Let's take stock of how far we've c- Oh.

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@kjalee

7 years

You may have noticed French media much less excited over Le Pen 'stepping aside' from FN than UK media. A difference in interpretation here

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@kjalee

6 years

Macron delivers a forceful speech — in the rain, no less — against the dangers of fear-mongering and isolationism. He couldn't be doing a better job of presenting himself as the anti-Trump if he tried. #11Novembre #ArmisticeDay100

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@kjalee

3 years

Bon je viens de parler des ‘méga-bites’ à un agent d’Orange, how’s your day going

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@kjalee

7 years

For journos who have long covered FN, it's just latest in long list of 'de-demonization' tactics. Libé calls it 'inconsequential marketing'

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@kjalee

4 years

France is lifting its ban on all non-essential travel to the UK, Australia, Israel, Japan, NZ, Singapore, S Korea. Since Jan you've had to had a 'motif impérieux' justifying the trip Fantastic news for the millions of us who have found ourselves cut off from families 🎉🎉

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@kjalee

4 years

Why did we never see Emily in Paris partaking in the most Parisian pastime of them all, which is to say, compiling multiple kilograms' worth of documentation for her administrative dossier

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@kjalee

4 years

Somewhat astonishingly, @Twitter has decided that the availability of this post by Malaysia’s PM, justifying the murder of French nationals, is ‘in the public interest’. Today of all days

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@kjalee

5 years

Not even the world's tennis greats are immune from sharing misleading photos under the #PrayforAmazonas hashtag. This photo does show the Amazon, but back in 1989 ⁠— see this Guardian link

Deforestation in the Amazon

Almost one-fifth of Brazil's Amazon region - an area the size of France - has been deforested to date, mostly in the last 40 years

www.theguardian.com

Novak Djokovic

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Heartbreaking 💔💔💔 #PrayforAmazonas

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7 years

Angry French farmers have flooded the streets of Lyon with sheep to demand government does something to stop wolves attacking their flocks

Germain Albespy

@GermainAlbespy

7 years

C'est parti, 6km dans les rues de #Lyon avec les #brebis pour dénoncer les dégâts du #loup & l'abandon de l'élevage par l'État #agriculture

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@kjalee

3 years

Today's the day! Delighted to start work as internet correspondent @AFP . Can't wait to find out what a nice place the internet is. I love it when other people do my work for me, so if you've got story ideas, my DMs are open

Katy Lee

@kjalee

3 years

I have a pretty broad remit (disinfo, online social movements, crypto, hacking, tech regs, solid gold memes), so if there's something you think I should be writing about, hmu. I start on July 5 and am mostly interested in All Of The Internet That Is Outside The United States.

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3 years

An era comes to an end today. Thank you so much to the @AFP colleagues on multiple continents who have taught me so much. I'm so grateful to have spent my first decade in journalism in a company that made my world feel so much bigger.

Katy Lee

@kjalee

3 years

The cat is out of the bag! I will be leaving @AFP at the end of the year to work more full-time on making @EuropeansPod and, in all probability, some other sounds and words around Europe ✌️

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4 years

This from Reddit will tickle the francophones among you

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