Opinion: The EU must make itself minimally vulnerable to inevitable US pressure, writes Martin Sandbu on.ft.com/4itV7fz
30.11.2025 18:31 — 👍 113 🔁 27 💬 4 📌 7
Grim news for Ukraine and terrible timing. But also the sign of a pluralistic system with functional checks and balances.
28.11.2025 17:59 — 👍 58 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0
Economic giant*, political dwarf-struggle still going strong in German society:
Germans welcoming doubling of military spending in @koerber-ip.bsky.social #BerlinPulse, whilst not wanting Germany to assume military leadership in EU.
* though sadly this might also be up for debate, anyways
25.11.2025 09:37 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
Middle power dreaming: The geopolitics of Angola’s emergence | ECFR
Angola is increasingly active in the world. Here is how Europeans can cooperate with this rising middle power.
‼️📢 New @ecfr.eu brief
Our programme director, Alex Vines wrote a piece on #Angola, host of the current AU-EU Summit. The country is pursuing a strategy of purposeful non-alignment and is becoming an increasingly important “middle power” in the world.
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24.11.2025 15:04 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Imagine doing this not *even* because you're terrified of the autocrat in your own country, but because you're terrified of the autocrat an ocean away.
25.11.2025 18:55 — 👍 99 🔁 25 💬 3 📌 1
Trump’s AI thaw: How Europe and the Gulf can protect against American and Chinese tech pressure | ECFR
Recent changes in US policy have brought the US and Gulf states together again on AI—creating new openings for European decision-makers
✍️ The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act could offer a useful framework for Europeans and Gulf partners to work together, argue @cinziabianco.bsky.social & Herman Quarles for @ECFRPower ecfr.eu/article/trum...
24.11.2025 10:27 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
The U.S.-Russia Plan Gives Trump a $300 Billion Signing Bonus
If Europe moves fast to seize Russian assets, it may be able to sink this bad deal.
The US-Russia plan includes a $300bn signing bonus for the US in the form of Russia's central bank frozen assets - for @foreignpolicy.com I outline how the EU could curb Trump’s interest in the deal if the bloc rushes to seize these assets before America grabs them
foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/24/t...
24.11.2025 17:39 — 👍 110 🔁 68 💬 6 📌 11
The Moscow Times: „The very emergence of such a U.S. initiative signals, in Putin’s view, that Washington is capitulating. And capitulating not because it has suffered losses — it has lost neither tanks nor aircraft nor soldiers — but because it is tired,frightened and eager to avoid involvement.“
22.11.2025 05:28 — 👍 209 🔁 103 💬 16 📌 11
The radical right *is* rising across much of Europe. But the narrative that young people are leading the charge is overblown.
Gen Z is turning away from mainstream parties, but often the beneficiaries are left-insurgents like England's Greens, France's LFI, or Germany's Linke.
20.11.2025 18:49 — 👍 71 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 3
Averting West Bank collapse: How to revive Palestinian politics
Hollowed out by violent Israeli control and Mahmoud Abbas’s personal rule, the Palestinian Authority is losing its grip on the West Bank. European and Arab states must intervene to rebuild legitimate…
A fascinating, urgent new paper from @ecfr.eu: the West Bank is at risk of collapse, its government is sclerotic, and technocratic solutions are no answer.
@hlovatt.bsky.social and @tahanimustafa.bsky.social argue that the answer is a bold revival of Palestinian politics.
ecfr.eu/publication/...
20.11.2025 17:56 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Shield the fields: How Europe can support Ukraine through a dark winter
Volodymyr Zelensky has struck a deal to strengthen Ukraine’s winter energy reserves. Europe should now help Kyiv diversify its imports and guard its domestic gas fields with a robust air defence…
Volodymyr Zelensky has struck a deal to strengthen Ukraine’s winter energy reserves. Europe should now help Kyiv diversify its imports and guard its domestic gas fields with a robust air defence, writes @alberto-rizzi.bsky.social @ecfrpower.bsky.social
https://bit.ly/4pbu1vQ
19.11.2025 10:09 — 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
This is just such a stunning chart
17.11.2025 23:58 — 👍 44 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
This was clearly my favourite read of the week.
@ilketoygur.bsky.social and @catherinedevries.bsky.social paint a gloomy picture without being alarmist, and suggest clear yet bold steps without being too idealistic.
14.11.2025 08:14 — 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
Empires will come and go, mountains will become dust, great cities will rise from ruins… but British voters will always want Scandinavian public services for American tax rates.
11.11.2025 20:16 — 👍 81 🔁 16 💬 4 📌 0
Special relationship latest
11.11.2025 19:27 — 👍 27 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
An irony of our time is that Enoch Powell basically thought this too. Today's Britain seems to be gleefully disinterring every ghastly artefact of Powellism apart from the one significant thing he got right: that it would be folly to leave Britain craven to American power.
11.11.2025 18:05 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Rachel Reeves signals she will break manifesto pledge with Budget tax rises
Chancellor hopes to win support from Labour MPs by lifting two-child benefit cap
"Research released this month by economists at the Bank of England, the Bundesbank, King’s College London and the universities of Stanford and Nottingham underscored the economic hit from leaving the EU. Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6-8%"
on.ft.com/4p1NoHv
11.11.2025 07:08 — 👍 154 🔁 81 💬 7 📌 19
I’m with you there. But I don’t see European governments using that time well at all. Where is the EU-wide ambition? The joint initiatives? The defence answer to Airbus? Instead it’s the same old fragmentation, soothed by the belief that lip-service to 5% will keep the old American protector sweet.
10.11.2025 21:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This was Merkel’s defence of NordStream 2! Buying time to disengage from an unreliable partner, but too busy humouring said partner to actually actually use the time gained. (An analogy which, if I’m
not mistaken, makes Sanchez a latter-day Habeck).
10.11.2025 21:07 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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