Johnny Ryan

Meanwhile in Ireland…

@tjmcintyre.com
@johnnyryan.bsky.social

Taoiseach urges caution on idea of standing up to Trump administration ‘No getting away from’ critical trading and economic relationship despite some EU views on confrontation

Meanwhile in Dublin, Ireland's Prime Minister shows his hand and says he opposes a tough European line against Trump. Ireland remains Trump's trojan horse in Europe.
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Another former PM has now signed
France’s Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Over 20 former Heads of State and Government from Club de Madrid are urging the European Commission to activate the EU Anti-Coercion Instrument to defend democratic sovereignty | Club de Madrid A group of Former democratic Heads of State and Government warn against foreign economic pressure on Europe’s legal order and call for decisive action to protect democracy and the rule of law.

clubmadrid.org/club-de-madr...

Former PMs to VDL
“This confrontation concerns…the right of nations to govern themselves without foreign interference; and their ability to protect their children in the digital age.
The question is not whether Europe can strike a deal, it is whether Europe and the rest of the world can remain free”

Former PMs to VDL
“This confrontation concerns…the right of nations to govern themselves without foreign interference; and their ability to protect their children in the digital age.
The question is not whether Europe can strike a deal, it is whether Europe and the rest of the world can remain free”

This morning, former Prime Ministers urge Ursula von der Leyen to use EU trade bazooka against Trump

www.ft.com/content/af70...

Analysis: The FTC clears our acquisition of DoubleClick Posted by David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer (Cross-posted to the Official Google Blog ) E...

Google's 2007 spiel about its Doubleclick acquisition makes for hilarious reading two decades later

publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2007/12/anal...

In addition to what the Commission could be doing, we have national powers agaibst the grok CSAM too bsky.app/profile/john...

Nicely done

Sorry, I type too soon - Commission decisions are appealed at CJEU. I was looking at the wrong row of that table I posted

An Irish Court would have to grant the blocking order, and appeal on points of law would probably go to CJEU.

@profpech.bsky.social the Commission has had many routes to act that it refuses.
My table here is an example of tools to shut down algorithmic boosting of extremism, from our submission to the Commission. VDL + DG Just + DG Connect are too cautious to use any of them.
www.iccl.ie/wp-content/u...

Yes. I urged this previously

Commission investigates Grok and X\'s recommender systems under the Digital Services Act The European Commission has launched a new formal investigation against X under the Digital Services Act (DSA).

A spark of action from the European Commission on social media recommender algorithms at long last ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

ICE Asks Companies About ‘Ad Tech and Big Data’ Tools It Could Use in Investigations A new federal filing from ICE demonstrates how commercial tools are increasingly being considered by the government for law enforcement and surveillance.

The latest evidence that broadcasting people’s movements and intimate data in the Real-Time Bidding online advertising system is truly dangerous.

www.wired.com/story/ice-as...

The EU and US may (we do not know) have arrived at a 1938 style Munich Declaration "agreement" over Greenland.
But this is no recipe for peace for our time. Nor was it then.

We still do not know whether there was a Greenland deal, or threats, or continued cowering, or who did and said what.

Vows response if Trump restarts the scrap:

"Any threat to acquire European territory by force would be unacceptable. Tariffs would also undermine the foundations of transatlantic relations, if they are put in place, Europe's answer would be united, calm, measured and firm."

Here at #EUCO, 🇪🇺PMs & presidents are discussing transatlantic relations.

Based on their comments as they entered, we can see that the leaders are divided into three camps. And Chancellor Merz seems to have joined the Meloni appeaser camp. davekeating.substack.com/p/meloni-was...

One more thing we do not know.

So far as I can tell this morning no one absent from the private meetings in Davos knows yet why Trump backed down.

We do not yet know
-what we said by who to Trump
-whether Rutte was pivotal
-what the deal was, or if there is any deal at all
-we don’t even know if any big EU threat was made

Bravo! And please record it

The moment for making nice “has ended” and “the time has come to stand up against Trump,” Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former NATO secretary-general and ex-Danish prime minister, told BBC radio.

Dude, use the teleprompter

Paul Krugman is asking the critical question: will Europe finally use its power?

This is truly terrifying

needs to be done Europe-wide.

and applied to US World Cup too - don't buy tickets

Apps, der kan frasortere amerikanske varer, stryger til tops Et stille oprør mod den amerikanske supermagt lurer i supermarkederne.

Danish consumers have started to boycott U.S. products. UdenUSA, an app to identify U.S. products is now 4th most popular in the App Store.

www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...