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SOTEU2025 Liveblog: What's next for the EU? - Euractiv Follow the 2025 State of the European Union speech with real-time coverage and analysis from Euractiv’s reporters in Strasbourg and Brussels

Tomorrow we’ll bring you the State of the Union live from Strasbourg...w/ me, @magnuslundnielsen.bsky.social and @sofiamazzanaro.bsky.social on the ground, and the full brainpower of our Brussels newsroom. Stay tuned
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Vestager’s shoes were always going to be hard to fill.

But it’s worse than I feared.

Can we bring her back? I don’t see a problem with having two Danish commissioners 😁 🇩🇰

The weekend read you didn't know that you needed www.euractiv.com/section/econ...

Euractiv is live-blogging the debt out of the new EU-budget 👇

It’s not a criticism. If anything, it’s refreshing that some countries don’t pretend the rotating presidency is more than what it is.

Money for nothing: Commission pours millions into struggling EU media The EU's generous subsidies come with little oversight and risk skewing the media market for independent players

Money for nothing: Commission pours millions into struggling EU media

Trump suggests EU's digital rules are on the table in trade talks - Euractiv Canada was "obviously copying the European Union" in taxing US Big Tech firms, Trump said – despite the fact the EU does not have a digital services tax.

❗️Donald Trump suggested on Friday that the EU’s enforcement of its Big Tech laws is on the table in ongoing trade talks that could see the EU make concessions in order to avoid certain US tariffs.

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Blogging all day from the EU leaders’ summit in Brussels

Migration, Middle East, and Merz on debut

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I’m back at the European Parliament in Strasbourg in glorious sunlight for two days of reporting for Euractiv with @magnuslundnielsen.bsky.social

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This seems bad. Pro-Russian parties (ST!/SV/AJ) polling at a combined 17,5% in an EU capital.

Absolutely incredible twist in the plot here.

🚨🚨 Hungary "has significantly deviated from the model of a constitutional democracy" according to EU Court's advocate general.

The AG slams Hungary's anti-LGBT law in her opinion in Commission v Hungary (’Values of the European Union’).

Ukraine Hits Crimean Bridge for the Third Time—This Time Underwater The SBU launched a precision underwater explosion on the Crimean Bridge, marking its third operation against this essential resource for Russian forces.

🚨 Ukraine just hit the Crimea Bridge with a 1,100 kg TNT underwater-explosion

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Har for nylig læst at Rusland manglede flydele.

Men nu har de åbenbart masser af flydele….

It is. He acknowledges that you can't draw conclusions on what a body of 720 MEPs think based on their 21 MEP sample.

He downright acknowledges that the data cannot be used to conclude what the Burson report claims - that based on the data you can say substantial about what "MEPs think". And that's exactly what the report does no less than three times.

EXCLUSIVE: Researcher behind ‘EU Media Poll’ admits serious flaws in report - Euractiv The report fails to represent accurate findings from the "small sub-sample of MEPs" surveyed, the pollster said.

The pollster behind the 'EU Media Poll’ - referenced by nearly every editor in Brussels - doesn’t stand by how the data is used in the final report.👇

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Nicoletta enjoying her holidays:

Denmark and Italy push for debate on human rights court, echoing earlier reports - Euractiv The text almost mirrors the draft first reported by Euractiv earlier this month.

Write up with updates here👇. W/ @magnuslundnielsen.bsky.social
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The Brief – EU play geopolitics with Balkan dominoes - Euractiv If enlargement is a geopolitical game, the Balkans want to play ball.

Postcard! I tagged along when the DK EU minister Marie Bjerre visited Montenegro and Albania. Here's how it went 👇

EXCLUSIVE: EU to further roll back green rules for farmers - Euractiv The latest CAP simplification proposal, seen by Euractiv, is another nail in the coffin of the Green Deal.

We've seen a draft of the simplification package (agri omnibus) that will be unveiled next week. Wondering what's to come? Take a look 👇
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Well, this is insane

The Brief – Trump’s ineptitude might be a blessing in disguise Though it’s painful in the present, it's hard to imagine that the brazen Europe-bashing that Trump has so readily indulged will still be in vogue.

The Brief – Trump’s ineptitude might be a blessing in disguise

Golden passports no more!

Swedish journalist Joakim Medin, who was detained in Turkey on March 28, has been charged with membership of an armed terrorist group, terrorist propaganda, and speaking ill of Erdogan.

As seen here, the evidence presented by the prosecutor is ridiculously flimsy: www.mlsaturkey.com/en/two-separ...

#Apple and #Meta slapped with EU fines The fines are the first imposed under the EU's Digital Markets Act – but the two European commissioners in charge are abroad for the occasion.

#Apple and #Meta slapped with EU fines

The Brief – The Trump effect: Europe’s accidental brain gain As Washington alienates talent, Europe could see an opportunity – and maybe even a plan.

The Brief – The Trump effect: Europe’s accidental brain gain

To join or not to join? Norway is edging closer to the EU Trump’s trade war has brought Norway even closer to the EU and increased the urgency for it to make a decision about membership.

🚨🚨 Great and compelling piece by @alanderminna.bsky.social making the case for why it is time now, given the current geopolitical context, for Norway to take the leap and join the European Union. Via @chathamhouse.org www.chathamhouse.org/2025/04/join...

Not an expert, but US bond yields going up simultaneously with equities going down would seem like a very opportune moment.