Bernhard Blumenau

Trump has made it clear: Europe can no longer outsource its security.

'If Europeans...aspire to remain players rather than pawns... they have...to achieve strategic emancipation'

My new short paper on Europe’s future in a Trumpian world (open access): www.fondation-pierredubois.ch/wp-content/u...

23.01.2026 16:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@standrewsir.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @cstpv.bsky.social

09.01.2026 11:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why Europe must stop appeasing Donald Trump and prepare for the end of Nato In a Trumpian world where territorial ambition and coercive politics have returned to Europe’s doorstep, Britain cannot stand alone

From Venezuela to Greenland: the message is clear.
Trump's US is no longer a reliable partner, but a potential adversary. Europe and the UK must unite, end appeasement, and build real strategic autonomy—in tech, trade, and defence—while holding the line on Ukraine.

My op‑ed in @scotsman.com

09.01.2026 11:38 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

Is Germany back? In this short paper, I take a look at the first months of Merz’s foreign policy and reflect on what has changed — and what has not.
Spoiler: some differences, esp. in tone and the conduct of foreign policy compared to his predecessor.

www.fondation-pierredubois.ch/wp-content/u...

22.09.2025 09:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How Germany has gone from hated world war foe to indispensible ally Europe once feared a strong Germany, now it needs the continent’s biggest economy to rise to its defence

“Eighty years ago, Europe feared a strong Germany. Today, it can ill afford a weak one.”
My piece in today’s @scotsman.com

@cstpv.bsky.social @standrewsir.bsky.social

www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

13.05.2025 07:00 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

This is probably as much a slap in the face of Merz as it is in the face of SPD leader Klingbeil. Or maybe even more so.

06.05.2025 08:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@bblumenau.bsky.social and a great day it was too

28.03.2025 18:30 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The Futures of Europe Many longstanding policy strategies of the EU, its member states, and its close neighbours—not least the UK and its constituent nations—now require reassessment.

Happening today! Looking forward to insightful discussions at the workshop on the current situation in, and future of, Europe @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @scga.bsky.social @archisturrock.bsky.social
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28.03.2025 07:27 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Looking forward to having you join us in Edinburgh!

26.03.2025 17:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Excellent news—another #Zeitenwende in the making. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures (and investment). No time to lose now to swiftly form the new government.

04.03.2025 20:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Scotland knows Brexit is holding Britain back. Why won't Labour admit it? | John Swinney Five years after we left the EU, people are still paying the price. We’re ready to work with Westminster to forge closer bonds with Europe, says Scotland’s first minister John Swinney

Why indeed?

31.01.2025 20:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Welcome to Bluesky @cstpv.bsky.social !

27.01.2025 14:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy to see my recent short paper on 'When the Traffic Light Fails: Olaf Scholz, Germany’s Political Crisis, and the Road Ahead' published by the Pierre du Bois Foundation for Current History: www.fondation-pierredubois.ch/wp-content/u...

08.01.2025 13:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy to be back at the University of Padua already (albeit remotely) to talk about the history of state terror for their DSPGI’s Permanent Seminar on International Politics.

15.11.2023 11:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy to be back and representing CSTPV at the fourth edition of the University of Padua’s Fall School on “Memory & Oblivion: Political Violence and Organised Crime” to continue our cooperation on studying terrorism, international politics and security

07.11.2023 20:18 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0