Linn Selle

Isn't everyone in this so called "board of peace" just an observer anyway?

Italy joins. As observer.

Good luck, Meloni - this isn't chess, it's macho politics with balls of fire. Careful what you juggle. #ITinEU

www.bernama.com/en/world/new...

Remarkable

Berliner Winter, Symbolbild

Medical students to receive compulsory training in military medicine Medical students in Belgium will soon be required to complete basic training in military medicine. The measure was reported on Monday by Het...

Is this also the case in medical training in Germany?
www.belganewsagency.eu/belgian-medi...

Rita Süßmuth, die "Unbeugsame".

Bis ins hohe Alter so neugierig und intellektuell auf der Höhe zu sein - ein Geschenk.
Sich in gesellschaftliche Debatten einzumischen und weiter streitbar zu sein - ein Vorbild.
Danke, Rita, für die Gespräche und den klaren Kompass. Mögest du in Frieden ruhen.

I don't often share my own emotions here.I mostly stick to facts&reason. But I'm actually a very emotional person.

The situation in #Kyiv with freezing people in cold homes that are left without electricity,heating &water during the cold winter after deliberate Russian attacks is simply terrible⤵️

Some notes on what the new Dutch govt agreement says about peace and conflict

www.kabinetsformatie2025.nl/documenten/2...

Items most interesting to me personally:

* pro European nuclear deterrent
* establishing a Dutch DARPA with up to 10% of def budget

IMF chief tells Europe to drop the doom loop Seven of the 10 best-performing economies in 2025 were EU countries — so Europe should stop talking itself down, says Kristalina Georgieva.

Let me translate this: stop whining and get your act together, Europe

www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Greenland, European defence, strengthening the 🇪🇺 and arctic governance. Town hall meeting with 🇩🇰 PM Frederiksen @dgap.org @daenemark.bsky.social

Very clear words on a united European response as future receipe, respecting alliances that move forward in the EU and forging new alliances worldwide

#WeRemember

And it still is a gap that Germany is not pooling projects, together with partners (and yes, I know, 🇩🇪 is financially not dependent on the loans, while EU partners are)

Well done, @jpuglierin.bsky.social 🌟💪🇪🇺
Und was für ein nicht auszudenkendes Timing! In diesem Sinne: für mehr Hoffnung, Erfahrung und kluge Stimmen in 2026

One could call french European policy Simby - Strategic autonomy; not in my own backyard

Great allies think alike.

#FreedomForBelarus

Opinion | I’m the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. This Is Something I Thought I’d Never Have to Write.

"We need to ask ourselves if we want to live in a world where democracy is recast as weakness, truth as opinion and justice as an option."
Strong piece by @coe.int' SG @alain-berset.coe.int

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

A narrative, the European Union (as a whole! not only few member states) should embark on: Sovereignty is not for trade.

Translates not only into territorial sovereignty but also in sovereignty of using the means at ones disposal.

Europe should hold a competing football competition in Denmark at exactly the same time - and call it the Viking Freedom Supercup.

An in person #EuCo would indeed be an important sign of European assertiveness and unity, given the gravity of the situation.
A potential launch of the Anti-Coercion instrument against the US should be deliberated and decided on the highest political level.

Wie sich Diskurse drehen... Bei der Umstellung belächelt von Vielen ist Schleswig-Holstein heute Vorbild und Labor für digitale Unabhängigkeit (und spart pro Jahr 15 Mio € Lizenzzahlungen)

Trump: NATO members to face tariffs increasing to 25% until a Greenland purchase deal is struck Trump recently hinted that he may pursue a tariff strategy on Greenland similar to the one he used to force foreign countries to change their drug prices.

These are not "normal" trade tariffs.
For the first time, US economic pressure on Europe is explicitly tied to brutal political demands: surrender territory or face economic punishment.
This is a historic test for Europe.

www.cnbc.com/2026/01/17/t...

Pistorius zum Grönland-Streit: "Wir haben es mit einem Machtspiel zu tun" Den Streit um Grönland beobachtet Verteidigungsminister Pistorius "ein Stück weit entspannt". Er rechne nicht mit "dem Äußersten", sagte der SPD-Politiker in den tagesthemen. Die Anwesenheit der Bunde...

How often can one mention "NATO territory" in one interview? Defence minister Pistorius: hold my 🍺
#greenland #usa
www.tagesschau.de/ausland/nato...

True!

Nach „Euro, nein danke“ – Trump treibt Schweden in die EU-Währung Die Schweden lehnten die EU-Währung lange ab. Doch nun kippt die Stimmung wegen der geopolitischen Lage. Der Euro-Beitritt könnte schnell kommen.

€-Zone enlargement: After 🇧🇬 next stop 🇸🇪? In light of the geopolitical turmoil, the response in Sweden is not less, but more Europe. In 2003 56% voted against the Euro in a referendum

www.fr.de/wirtschaft/t...

This will probably not particularly help the Polish right.

On the unwarrented inferiority complex of the European Union and the inability to contemplate "going it alone" without the US
www.ft.com/content/1da0...

Es gibt genau eine Haushaltslinie in den letzten EU-Mehrjahresplänen #MFR, die gegenüber dem jeweiligen Vorschlag der EU-Kommission erhöht wurde. Guess which one it was...

euractiv.de/news/von-der...

Super excited that my first piece has been published by IPQ. I write a brief comment on "Dare to differentiate". On the need that Germany and other EU member states from frontrunner groups in order to give more dynamic to European integration.

Read for yourself 👇🏼

Relevant point to keep in mind 👇🏼.
The far right (at least in central Europe) will always face strong difficulties to unite due to antagonistic views of the past. Even if they walk together on some issues, at the core they face diverging views of the past.

Europe’s failure to condemn Trump’s illegal aggression in Venezuela isn’t just wrong – it’s stupid | Nathalie Tocci The more European countries act as colonies, unable and unwilling to stand up to Trump, the more they’ll be treated as such, says Guardian Europe columnist Nathalie Tocci

Europe’s failure to condemn Trump’s illegal aggression in Venezuela isn’t just wrong – it’s stupid. My piece @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...