Long live the single market!
17.11.2025 14:08 — 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
«Nous sommes un maillon essentiel qui doit rester infaillible pour la stabilité des marchés financiers.»
«Il faut être très vigilant. [Cela irait contre] le droit international de souveraineté des actifs appartenant à un Etat. La Russie pourrait ensuite engager des poursuites judiciaires.»
16.11.2025 13:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Hallelujah.
13.11.2025 23:23 — 👍 40 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Some shock waves all the way to Austria…!
13.11.2025 10:41 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Epstein is not going away
The issue is Trump’s Achilles heel — and the US president knows it
Epstein is not going away, "it's Trump's Achilles heel - and the president knows it".
Good timing for this column @edwardluce.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/0fd7...
12.11.2025 17:01 — 👍 26 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
This article is an antidote to the all too common trope in the UK among Brexiters and exceptionalists that Europe is somehow a "global bully" (while simultaneously being too weak and unable to rein in emotional France and vengeful Germany. Or something)
No. Europe is a port in a storm.
A 🧵
12.11.2025 09:07 — 👍 80 🔁 32 💬 7 📌 6
Lots of stuff here that you won't read in most of the legacy media which seems completely uninterested in the backgrounds, associations and possible motivations of those behind the BBC crisis.
Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?
11.11.2025 21:25 — 👍 400 🔁 194 💬 6 📌 3
"The lesson seems to be that in a larger club, you have at least some protection against tyrannical superpowers. Body mass counts more than it did 10 years ago.
Small countries in Europe seem to have gotten this message loud and clear."
11.11.2025 16:43 — 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
The Europeanization of Humiliation
It’s not only EU policies—from trade to defense—that are becoming more Gaullist. European voters’ feelings toward the EU are also becoming more French.
"Humiliation can catalyze the strengthening of collective identity. It can foster solidarity, binding people together to confront the perceived injustice. Perhaps Europe needs this wound in order to act."
@josephdeweck.bsky.social on Europe's súmmer of humiliation'
ip-quarterly.com/en/europeani...
11.11.2025 13:25 — 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Re-upping the dedication of Mahmood Mamdani's 2020 book, 'Neither Settler nor Native'.
05.11.2025 05:04 — 👍 504 🔁 101 💬 7 📌 7
Out of Nick Clegg’s shadow: Miriam González seeks to shake up Spain
Wife of former UK deputy prime minister plans to launch political party in her home country
“I am tired of people who believe in democracy and the rule of law just sitting there with an expression of horror thinking that just because we look horrified this is going to change.”
Miriam González wants to shake up politics in Spain
www.ft.com/content/a253...
05.11.2025 08:39 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Brussels Airport has been closed after 3 reported drone sighting, according to Belgium’s air traffic control service.
The incident began around 7-8 PM CET prompting Belgian air navigation service provider to halt all incoming and outgoing flights as a safety measure.
04.11.2025 19:50 — 👍 32 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 2
If so, Trump would be following the Orbán script with opposition cities like Budapest
04.11.2025 19:21 — 👍 24 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 1
Economics Is Europe’s Tool for Everything
Why the bloc always seeks economic solutions to its political problems.
The main problem facing Europe is security, writes columnist Caroline de Gruyter. But all it has are economic solutions.
03.11.2025 00:30 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
This from someone who insists on using private aircraft rather than commercial flights.....
03.11.2025 09:53 — 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
🇪🇺watching how the west was lost.
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