@tobiasmaassen.bsky.social
Politics nerd w weakness for bad humour & love for Europe | Working on 🇪🇺and 🇩🇪 economics | Views my own.
this @adambonica.bsky.social piece deserves to be read beside the yeoman work that @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social have been doing. The dismantling of administrative expertise is one of those stories that is so big that pro journalists with beats find it hard to focus on or explain .
01.06.2025 13:36 — 👍 838 🔁 437 💬 14 📌 47
A hand holds a small European Union flag. Text reads: 'Trust in the European Union has reached its highest point in 18 years.' Source: Standard Eurobarometer, May 2025.
A hand holds a yellow pie chart with a red euro symbol. Text reads: 'Support for the euro is at a record high, with 74% in the EU and 83% in the eurozone.' Source: Standard Eurobarometer, May 2025.
Two hands frame a shield with the EU flag on it. Text reads: '81% of Europeans support a common defence and security policy, the highest rate in 20 years.' Source: Standard Eurobarometer, May 2025.
A graphic showing two hands cupped around a blue dove holding an olive branch, symbolising peace. Above the dove, text reads: "69% of Europeans agree the EU is a place of stability in a troubled world." In the top-right corner, the European Union and European Commission flags are shown. At the bottom, it says: "Source: Standard Eurobarometer, May 2025."
The results of our latest Eurobarometer are in.
Europe remains engaged, optimistic, and united! ⬇️
A visual showing a light-blue shield outline on the left. Text on the right reads: "€150 billion loan package to strengthen European Defence.'"In the bottom right corner is a small European Union flag icon.
Europe steps up and takes greater responsibility for its defence.
@consilium.europa.eu agreed on a defence loan package via our Security for Action for Europe.
SAFE will support EU countries' defence with up to €150 billion, enabling them to spend better, together, European ↓
europa.eu/!PPby8R
Die deutsche Wirtschaft, und vor allem die Industrie, sind extrem gut im europäischen Binnenmarkt vernetzt und können daher mehr sogar mehr von ARF-Investittionen in anderen Mitgliedstaaten profitieren (ca 45.6 Mrd Euro), als vom deutschen Aufbau- und Resilienzplan (22.5 Mrd Euro).
27.05.2025 11:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wenn wir volle Umsetzung der nationalen Pläne annehmen, würde die deutsche Wirtschaft mit bis zu 66 Mrd. Euro profitieren und wäre somit unter den drei größten Empfängern der Aufbau- und Resilienzfazilität.
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Wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen der Aufbau- und Resilienzfazilität #NextGenerationEU: eine neue Studie zeigt die Wachstumsimpulse, auch und gerade für 🇩🇪!
@ec.europa.eu
ECFIN-Kollegen zeigen außerdem auf, wie auch mit KI Daten noch transparenter aufbereitet werden können 👏🇪🇺
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europa.eu/!B9rwNC
9 May = Europe Day. But do you know why?
On 9 May 1950 75 years ago French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman delivered a historic speech that changed the course of European history.
Known as the Schuman Declaration, it proposed creating a European Coal and Steel Community
@press.consilium.europa.eu
A day after the European Parliament lifted the immunity of AfD MEP Peter Bystron due to accusations of money laundry and corruption, incl taking money for pro-Russian propaganda, he is the only German politician quoted in the story on Merz in Politico's Playbook.
Seriously, @politico.eu?
Agree, but this isn't any other Parliament and Germans/German media/German politics is not good at navigating htese sort of situations.
"This is not how we had meticulously planned it....😡"
Pardon, aber unsere Verfassung regelt doch, wie es nun weitergeht und die Chancen stehen gut, dass Merz noch in diese Woche ins Amt gewählt wird. Ein sehr schlechter Start für diese Regierung, aber längst keine Staatskrise. Medialer Alarmismus hilft den Falschen!
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Discussion about Savings and Investment Union at German Ministry of Finance reveals broad agreement about problems and goals for #EU but unfortunately little info about the how. Repeating ancient objections when sketching out response to recent “wake up call”.
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Reality check.
Thank you, Financial Times.
But he has a point. Ramming through a substantial policy reform with a "caretaker" Bundestag after Germany has just elected a new one is not a good move. I support a reform but that's sketchy.
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So in the end, and rather unsurprisingly, the CDU did not win any voters from the far-right AfD by aligning their positions on migration and voting with them in parliament. Instead, they lost almost a million voters to the AfD
23.02.2025 21:27 — 👍 242 🔁 105 💬 5 📌 11Es gibt in Deutschland einen eigenartigen Diskurs, demzufolge die Sozialdemokraten in #Dänemark durch eine harte #Asylpolitik erfolgreich Stimmen gewonnen und Rechtsaußenparteien zurückgedrängt hätten.
Das stimmt aber nicht mit den Wahlergebnissen/Umfragedaten überein.
Der Forschungsstand ist klar: Wenn demokratische Parteien rechtspopulistische Erzählungen/Politik übernehmen/nachzuahmen versuchen, hilft das nur rechtspopulistischen Parteien. Expert*innen warnen deswegen seit JAHREN. Niemand kann sagen, man hätte es ja nicht gewusst.
30.01.2025 17:02 — 👍 3518 🔁 925 💬 53 📌 29Great Thread if you want to get the gist of CDU's Friedrich Merz views on key foreign policy issues.
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A map of Europe highlighting countries with proposed AI factories. The countries with proposed AI factories are coloured in a dark shade of purple (Spain, Italy, Greece, Netherlands, Germany, Finland, and Sweden), and the countries without proposed AI factories are coloured in a light shade of purple. A stylised logo representing AI Factories is close to the city where they will be created, alongside the country's flag. The European Commission logo is displayed in the top left corner of the image.
Your talent, Europe's AI lead.
These are the first 7 AI Factories to be created across the EU:
🇬🇷 Athens
🇸🇪 Linköping
🇩🇪 Stuttgart
🇱🇺 Bissen
🇮🇹 Bologna
🇪🇸 Barcelona
🇫🇮 Kajaani
They will combine computing power, data, and talent to develop innovative AI solutions.
ℹ️ europa.eu/!hhNynn
The symbolism is strong here (see @economist.com title this week)
www.politico.eu/article/brus...
Our cover this week
04.12.2024 20:30 — 👍 660 🔁 267 💬 18 📌 23The city-state of #Berlin is cutting spending severely to plug a €3bn hole in its budget.
Untouchable: the parking permit for residents. It stays at an actually loss-making €10.20 per year.
Lost. Absolutely lost.
Das Herbstpaket im europäischen Semester 2024 ist raus: 20 nationale Pläne der einzelnen #EU Mitgliedstaaten zeigen Wege auf, Schulden abzubauen ohne dabei wichtige Reformen und Investitionen aus dem Auge zu verlieren.
Details unten.
Für Nerds: erstes Semesterpaket nach Stabipakt Reform, go nuts.
The image depicts a promotional graphic for the European Semester 2025 Autumn Package, created by the European Commission. It features a dark blue background with the text in bold orange and white, accompanied by a colorful circular design on the left, symbolizing the thematic areas of the package. The European Commission's logo is displayed in the bottom right corner, and the hashtag #EuropeanSemester appears in the lower-left corner.
We are presenting the 2024 #EuropeanSemester Autumn Package for first time under the new economic framework to support EU countries to:
📂 achieve macroeconomic stability
📂 strengthen fiscal sustainability
📂 encourage reforms and investments
Moin moin neue Platform,
hab jetzt n paar Tage zugeschaut und es gefällt mir hier.
Hoffe, das bleibt so angenehm im Umgang und wächst wie die US Staatsverschuldung bei zweiter Trump Präsidentschaft.
