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Hack: how about a ban-on-attractive-tourist-ads .. untranslatable compound noun .. they might attract refugees https://t.co/8eZ3dpwMJf

Another excellent Hack line: About 12 % of Germans want to make FRG it into GDR 2.0 with cooler cars! https://t.co/RPwy0D0p3T

Great line: A Germany of club bouncers suspiciously eying up refugees is a toxic hangover of 90s rave culture! https://t.co/V4M5RoYly5

Reimagining a new iron curtain around Germany with orders to shoot. BZ satire of AfD positions https://t.co/nGBKt13vwz

‘push immigrants back .. go against law! we are afraid' – Belgians blurt out what others are clearly thinking. https://t.co/SiW6OBGtZS

Greek foreign Min Xydakis invokes Schmitt in discussion of refugee/sovereignty issue https://t.co/w0wx9kVx8T

Rather than giving 3bn Euros to nasty Turkish govern why not spend 3bn assisting Athens to cope with refugees? https://t.co/WMVkzElcm4

If refugee business is creating a sordid mini boom in Turkey why can a civilized EU policy not assist Greek econmy? https://t.co/WMVkzElcm4

Closing Macedonia, country with pop of 2 m and econ the size of Mali against Greece a NATO/EU member is absurd nhttps://t.co/ZPSbFOyhrF

2015 was chaos, but it was chaos that moved: 850,000 refugees move through Greece in 2015. What if they stop moving? https://t.co/eBGG4bygz4

Devastating summary of the dilemmas on the Greek-Macedonian border: Greece Resists Role as EU’s Gatekeeper https://t.co/nEr6Tp3jXT

Great critique of refugee allocation formula for overweighting population: If only we we working by a formula!nhttps://t.co/xtpWpF74RS

Weights in EU refugee reallocatn formula: 40%pop 40%gdp 10%asylumpercap 201014 10%unemp. To reflect austerity impact —> raise unemp weight!

With youth unemp 25% France needs grwth of 1.5 % just to hold labour market stead=backdrop to refugee impasse https://t.co/gAfTVDiJce

FT makes centerist Macron into bellweather for shifts in French politics. Will France line up with Portugal/Greece? https://t.co/zYLKCmrChA

Fed dilemma: is the US unemp rate sufficient indicator for managing economy – us economy let alone global economy? https://t.co/R69v5nSaKV

First contraction in Chinese steel since 1981! 400,000 jobs to go in "Zombie" plants https://t.co/NBhJngHjAe via @FT

Other than religion I like argument that Merkel is driven by curiosity. "Wir schaffen das” as experiment? nhttps://t.co/pr6v8EuaxW

I look at the global recovery and i think… This is what happens when you rule out fiscal policy. https://t.co/LwRujHwRoq

Other than religion I like argument that Merkel is driven by curiosity. "Wir stiffen das” as experiment? nhttps://t.co/pr6v8EuaxW

Key to Merkel’s refugee stance is not protestantism per se. Schaeuble prot. too. But leftwing influence of father https://t.co/klgEv9calc

Spiegel attributes Merkel policy on refugees to her protestant upbringing. Knives are out in CDUnhttps://t.co/klgEv9calc

Havel: Hope is not conviction that something will turn out well, but certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out

Yugoslav ghosts: extraordinary story of Ratko Mladic, the Butcher of Bosnia on the run by Julian Borger https://t.co/0EAB3hjjkg

Munchau: is Italy's position in Eurozone sustainable? Greece is bad but small. Nothing small about Italy's probs.nhttps://t.co/g6XBTpMzJY

After Ukraine and Argentina markets braced for Venezuela debt default https://t.co/aC3n96uCai via @FT

Follow the money … who takes the hit as IMF and World Bank move to forestall oil-led defaults? https://t.co/oK8ExW4Z0N via @FT

The commodity lottery whirls: 1st Azerbaijan now Nigeria asks for $3.5bn emergency loans https://t.co/7DfwcwbrNV