@luukvmiddelaar.bsky.social
Really looking forward to Monday, 6pm! With @luukvmiddelaar.bsky.social of @bigeurope.bsky.social Oliver Rentschler @diplo.de Katharina Neckel @dihk.bsky.social & Filip Medunic @dgap.org
16.10.2025 15:02 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The Trump regime is seeking "regime change in Europe" former Chatham House director Robin Niblet tells the New York Times.
This American-led global far right movement is turning into the Comintern of our times, warns Dutch historian @luukvmiddelaar.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/w...
๐บ On Nieuwsuur, BIG director Luuk van Middelaar discusses the current turning point in US-European relations with Francis Fukuyama.
From the Normandy landings and the fall of the Berlin Wall to todayโs world of Trump 2.0
@luukvmiddelaar.bsky.social @frankfukuyama.bsky.social
youtu.be/iXgvZ9pYNIA
Face ร Poutine et Trump, Friedrich Merz change de cap โ une dรฉcision clรฉ pour lโEurope, explique @luukvmiddelaar.bsky.social, directeur du BIG sur @france24.com avec Caroline de Camaret.
www.france24.com/fr/%C3%A9mis...
โEurope has to get ready for a rougher world order where we have to be able to defend ourselvesโ
Director @luukvmiddelaar.bsky.social talks to @france24.com about Europeโs place in a world of increasing geopolitical rivalries.
www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...
The EU is issuing burner phones to US-bound staff over spying fears.
BIG's @luukvmiddelaar.bsky.social talking to @financialtimes.com, says โWashington is not Beijing or Moscow but an adversary prone to using extra-legal methods to further its interests & power.โ
www.ft.com/content/20d0...
The Trump supernova that Europe didnโt see coming. My editorial for @bigeurope.bsky.social on how Europe was blindsided to structural shifts in US domestic and foreign policy โ in the making since long before this MAGA-inspired conflagration.
big-europe.eu/publications...
Last week, I had the pleasure of moderating this excellent high-level exchange on energy and climate diplomacy.
Grateful to participants for having brought deep insights and a strategic mindset to the table.
I hope it will provide impetus ahead of COP30 in Belem, Brazil.
๐ฌ 'There is a consciousness that it's a new time for Europe'
๐ Listen to Bruno Maรงรฃes talking at our event โTech Sovereignty โ What does it mean?โ explaining that the time has come for Europe to pick a new path of independence.
๐ฌ 'Who thought that our stock markets would be doing better than the American stock market?โ
๐ Listen to Bruno Maรงรฃes talking at our event โTech Sovereignty โ What does it mean?โ reminding us that bold decisions made on Europeโs new path of independence can lead to rewards
@brunomacaes.bsky.social
Delighted to host a stellar panel on AI and geopolitics at the Brussels Institute for Geopolitics last week. Brimming with ideas, a real intellectual feast! Tks Bruno Maรงรฃes, Ophรฉlie Coelho and Daniel Mรผgge
@opheliecoelho.bsky.social
@dmugge.bsky.social
@bigeurope.bsky.social
Luuk van Middelaarโs editorial on finding Europeโs historical footing
@luukvmiddelaar.bsky.social
big-europe.eu/publications...
"In crisisdagen zoals deze werken verbijstering en angst verlammend.
Daarom dunkt me de kracht ons mentaal een pad naar de toekomst te banen zeker zo onmisbaar als het vermogen ons militair tegen nieuwe dreigingen te verdedigen."
Mijn afscheidsessay @nrcnl.bsky.social
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
โIn crisisdagen zoals deze werken verbijstering en angst verlammend.
Daarom lijkt mij de kracht ons mentaal een pad naar de toekomst te banen zeker zo onmisbaar als het vermogen ons militair tegen nieuwe dreigingen te verdedigenโ, stelt @luukvmiddelaar.bsky.social
France calls a second emergency Paris Summit on Ukraine today with EU leaders, Norway and Canada.
Can these spontaneous summits help Europe find its voice in a time of crisis? ๐ค
๐ Read our op-ed by @vestertborger.bsky.social & @luukvmiddelaar.bsky.social โคต๏ธ
big-europe.eu/publications...
Leaving Munich after an intense weekend at #MSC25, I was struck by Ukrainian President Zelenskyy being the only European leader without any illusions about Trump's America.
The others still have the luxury of hope.
"The Transatlantic era was a golden period for (Western) Europe. It was always going to end one day. [...] Europe needs to consider the transition to a new relationship not as an unwelcome change but as an opportunity to control its own destiny."
@luukvmiddelaar.bsky.social
#MSC2025
Lots to grapple with for Europeโs 27 leaders gathering in Brussels today.
big-europe.eu/publications...
3โฃ EuropeโUS relationship based on โforgivenessโ for promises unkept, as she explains, cannot be a healthy one. President Trump wants 5% GDP for defence and seems in no mood to grant a pardon.
03.02.2025 18:39 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 02โฃToday European leaders are discussing using the EU budget for defence. But national budgets vastly overshadow that of the EU: clearly governments will need to do the heavy lifting themselves.
03.02.2025 18:39 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 01โฃ Currently, Europeans do not have guaranteed access to a command centre fit for purpose if the US vetoes the use of NATOโs SHAPE. More clarity is needed.
03.02.2025 18:39 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Three key points from my insightful conversation with Claude-France Arnould, former head of @EUDefenceAgency, on EuropeโUS defence relations and the armaments industry.
03.02.2025 18:39 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Thanks Prague House for the invitation to bid farewell to Czech Amb. Edita Hrdรก, an early supporter of @bigeurope.bsky.social
Great too to meet her successor Vladimรญr Bรคrtl, Foreign Minister Jan Lipavskรฝ, and others for this occasion.
Looking forward to ongoing collaboration! ๐จ๐ฟ ๐ค
Delighted about the news below and very much looking forward to working with the Spanish authorities on a strategy for Europe in the age of Trump, Putin and Xi.
23.01.2025 16:21 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Are European leaders ready to follow tech CEOs and join the queue as supplicants at Mar-a-Lago? Should they have to?
In this op-ed, BIGโs Hans Kribbe explores Europeโs strategic options in Ukraine and beyond in an era of tough geopolitical choices.
big-europe.eu/publications...
"Nothing about Europeโs security should be decided without Europeans," writes @elieperot.bsky.social in this BIG op-ed on securing Ukraine after the war.
As Trumpโs enters the White House, Europe must act or risk exclusion from critical peace talks. ๐ก
big-europe.eu/publications...
20 January: as the Wheel of Fortune starts spinning faster, it's time to re-engage with history as a scholarly discipline.
My essay for @bigeurope.bsky.social
big-europe.eu/publications...
Bruegel's 20th anniversary an excellent opportunity to reexamine "new rules for a new world". Thanks for initiating this timely conversation.
@bruegel.bsky.social @pisaniferry.bsky.social @gpapak.bsky.social
Defence a priority for Europe and @eucopresident. Delighted to offer strategic recommendations with esteemed colleagues ahead of 3 Feb retreat of European leaders, plus the UK and NATO sec gen.
16.01.2025 17:49 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
What do we mean by the Return of History to the Present? ๐ค
Our Director, @luukvmiddelaar.bsky.social breaks it down in this fascinating piece looking at how Europe can regain its sense of history from three perspectives and anchor itself in this new geopolitical era.
big-europe.eu/publications...
