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What Europe should do about a bad Ukraine deal Donald Trump’s 28-point plan to end the fighting in Ukraine would be a dream outcome for the Kremlin. Here is how Europeans can ensure it does not become their continent’s nightmare.

Donald Trump’s 28-point plan to end the fighting in Ukraine would be a dream outcome for the Kremlin. @jkobzova.bsky.social outlines how Europeans can ensure it does not become their continent’s nightmare
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US-Ukraine-European leaders' mtg is still ongoing, so any outcomes TBC. But Kyiv & EU already sent a clear message to both Trump & Russia: #Ukraine is not alone and Europe is serious about own responsibility for how the war ends & how security in #Europe is ensured.

Its because their purchasing power has risen, while EU countries lag behind evidently

Here is why Albania needs a REAL political pluralism. 👇

These guys just called POTUS from their trip to Kyjiw.

Two days after VE-Day, one day after the revisionist cult of violence in Moscow.

An NEW EUROPE is taking shape, including UK and UA!

Very good. It is not all doom and gloom!

Leo XIV is apparently the ‘worst pick for MAGA Catholics,’ and that is just great!

Stumbling blocs: Why the EU’s future security depends on successful enlargement Europe needs to strengthen its collective security in the face of a more volatile US, Russia and China. The EU’s successful streamlining of its accession process would secure the wider…

In her latest commentary, @engjellushem.bsky.social notes why the EU’s future security depends on successful enlargement. Take a look 👇
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Stumbling blocs: Why the EU’s future security depends on successful enlargement Europe needs to strengthen its collective security in the face of a more volatile US, Russia and China. The EU’s successful streamlining of its accession process would secure the wider…

EU enlargement isn't just policy—it's security. Integrating candidate countries like Ukraine and Moldova is vital to bolster Europe's resilience against external threats, writes @engjellushem.bsky.social
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Meanwhile in other news, Macron’s new chief of staff, Emmanuel Moulin (ex Attal, Le Maire, Sarkozy) takes over from the all-powerful Alexis Kohler on April 15.

This means that the French president, his chief of staff and his top diplomatic adviser will all be called Emmanuel

🇫🇷‼️ Marine Le pen banned from seeking election with immediate effect but length of ban still to be announced

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:

Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

(S+) Bundesregierung und Verteidigung: Was bringt Friedrich Merz' wuchtiger Milliarden-Plan? Die schwarz-roten Sondierer haben sich geeinigt: nahezu unbegrenzter Spielraum für Verteidigung, 500 Milliarden für die Infrastruktur. Doch eine Unwägbarkeit gibt es noch.

Things are *really* moving in Germany

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Merz's clear and unambiguous in his support for Zelensky

The EU should provide extra support to Western Balkan countries to boost the green transition—and ease future integration into the bloc.

Read our new policy brief by @engjellushem.bsky.social and Lea Fanku. @ecfrwidereurope.bsky.social
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In Europe, to be able to properly explain why enlargement is important for the #EU, member states first need to be on the same page. But instead, there are disagreements.

We have to be on the same page — @engjellushem.bsky.social, Senior Research Fellow, @ecfr.eu

#EUECTallinn2025

Conference day has begun! #EUECTallinn2025

EU Enlargement Conference: Renewed Impetus

Check out the speakers and agenda: icds.ee/en/euec-2025/

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📣 THIS WEDNESDAY IN TALLINN:

European Union Enlargement Conference: Renewed Impetus #EUECTallinn2025

👥 Speakers and agenda: icds.ee/en/euec-2025/

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Trump’s senseless capitulation to Putin is a betrayal of Ukraine—and terrible dealmaking As the US and its European allies head to the Munich security conference, Europe must learn from its tragic history and oppose appeasement

Trump is not a strongman—he’s weak when facing hostile authoritarians. His latest call was sycophantic, offering major giveaways before negotiations even begin. #MC2025 must be the beginning of a European riposte to Trump’s Munich. @fromtga.bsky.social 📝

A double bind: How unrest and geopolitics could end Serbia’s government Mass protests are destabilising Aleksandar Vucic’s rule and his “à la carte” foreign policy positioning. As Serbia’s president faces his toughest challenge yet, the EU should seize the moment to…

Backing up protests in Serbia is the occasion to "demonstrate that the EU is much more than an institutional structure; it is the product of interconnected ideas that deeply resonate in the social and political life of European countries."

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Trump’s Anarchic European Agenda His choice of partners is deeply concerning.

How does one account for that contradiction? Is he ignorant? Is he getting back advice? Or is he rather driven by vandalism toward the European project? So many questions, some of them answered in most recent piece. www.persuasion.community/p/trumps-ana... /2

Baltic states sever last power links to Russia Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania switch to EU network after 80 years with former Soviet ruler

The big disconnect 🔌
Baltic states will sever the last power links to Russia on Sunday & become part of the EU’s electricity grid, as Moscow continues its aggression against Ukraine & its campaign of sabotage across Europe.

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Serbia’s Vucic has neither cultivated strong relations with the EU nor Russia, both of which questioned Serbia’s reliability as a partner long before the protests broke out.
Student-led protestors don’t even want to talk to Vucic as they see him not credible.
Something has to give!

A double bind: How unrest and geopolitics could end Serbia’s government Mass protests are destabilising Aleksandar Vucic’s rule and his “à la carte” foreign policy positioning. As Serbia’s president faces his toughest challenge yet, the EU should seize the moment to…

With mass protests in #Serbia destabilising Aleksandar Vucic’s rule, the #EU should seize the moment to support democratic change and regional stability, write @engjellushem.bsky.social & Angelica Vascotto.

For @cnn.com on the Serbia protests, @engjellushem.bsky.social commented: “The students are fed up with this rhetoric … where Vucic says one thing for internal consumption and another thing for international consumption.”
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How a train station tragedy is threatening to bring down a hardline European president | CNN On the first day of November, Aleksandar Matkovic was running late for a train. He was traveling from Novi Sad, in the north of Serbia, to its capital Belgrade, where he works as an economic historian...

Student protests have changed Serbia, but not its undemocratic government. Can Vucic change things so that everything stays the same?
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Is China being let off easily because of narrow financial interests? 👇

In this episode, producer Charles Cohen and @engjellushem.bsky.social from @ecfr.eu unpack the roots of Serbia's mass protests, after demands for accountability for 15 lives lost in a railway incident ultimately led to the Prime Minister's resignation.

🎧Listen here: eurac.tv/9XT4

No country is immune to the far right.

No country is immune to the normalization of the far right.

Just landed in Brussels for meetings and interviews. With this book in tow 👇

At least Kaja Kallas goes ahead and does her thing! Orban can block processes, until he can block no longer.