Not only the euro, but Schengen as well. The UK wouldn’t have any treatment of favour this time around.

That doesn’t sound like something Trump would be especially concerned about. The possible leverage is far bigger than that.

Ah, the war has ended meanwhile? I hadn’t noticed.

Voting for Milanović is seen as some sort of low-risk protest vote (because the president’s power is next to zero), but it’s beyond me what flies in the heads of those who keep on having this weird split ticket, which is arguably the worst of both worlds.

Croatian president backs Georgia’s territorial integrity during landmark visit

Every single time I begin to forget that Milanović exists, he comes out and shows what a tool he is.

It’s arguably the first chance they have since the beginning of the war, and they are certainly not missing it. The previous 3 winters were extremely mild so they didn’t have a chance to commit this sort of crimes.

American labour laws have always made no sense to me.

There’s no reason anybody should be able to be fired point blank, with zero advance notice, saved for cases of gross misdemeanour.

Agreed, but precise numbers matter. In 2025, excluding HU+SK (as they are obviously on the other side), the EU gave Ukraine about 40/50bn, depending on what we include, and paid Russia about 15bn for fossil fuels. Still suboptimal, of course, but a far cry from 2022.

China’s been consistently liquidating its US debt positions for quite a few years now.

In what cases would you see the anti-coercion tool fit for usage?

Interesting take on Montenegro, and one I agree with. I see a 2030/2032 entrance of Albania as far less controversial though, even if it is (and will be) far from ready because of corruption.

I’m not American so I don’t really know enough about the agency’s history, but I assume ICE has been full of these people for a long time. Why wasn’t it reformed under Biden?

Baby steps. 😄

How Student Protesters Spurned Serbia’s ‘Demonised’ Civil Society In Serbia, 2025 was the year when protesting students rejected collaboration with the country’s civil society NGOs - but at what cost?

“From the very beginning we see asymmetric distancing from liberal, civic and pro-European actors, while distancing from other ideological positions is very rare”

This is why these protests should never be compared to the ones taking place in Georgia. The aims might be similar, the players aren’t.

😂

Well, PiS was part of the new wave of politics well before the Republicans even dreamt of it…

Europe is under siege Menaced by Russia and China, abandoned by America.

Europe is under siege

I see it being a lot closer to the decisions which have been made regarding loans, but I appreciate that it can be seen as related to foreign policy as well.

I’m honestly not sure as to what the right move is here: we gotta get that money going, but the risk must certainly be shared on EU-level.

Common foreign policy, such as sanctions, indeed. Lots more had been voted on that didn’t require unanimity, for example all the votes of the Parliament establishing economic assistance, the Council decisions re loans, etc

We better scale our defences up asap, but that should not come to anybody’s surprise unless they spent the last 9 years in a cave.

Even when Trump dies and the Democrats win, the US remains only one election away from being dangerous.

Oil from Russia is far cheaper - since they struggle finding purchasers, hefty discounts are applied.

Lots of decisions (except for sanctions, where that’s not possible) were taken with majority - that’s how it was almost always possible to bypass Hungary and Slovakia.

It’s just a simplified procedure. Russia itself still enjoyed it until 2022, despite the invasion of Crimea and Donbass in 2014.

That’s bad, but there’s no reason the EU allows Lukoil stations to keep on operating either.

Tbf, Slovenia and Croatia have been a lot more disciplined than Slovakia and Hungary so far, despite especially Croatia having a rather messed up political scenario.

The reason is precisely that they get a lot of money from us (although some of the transfers are currently suspended), while being free to pursue their vile propaganda - and the EU is rather powerless against it, because of the lack of reforms before the 2004 wave of accession. Bad mistake.

Eh, you can indeed suspend voting rights as it happened with Haider’s Austria back in the day, but kicking them out altogether is a rather different matter.

The UN leadership is rather sympathetic to Russia, so I wouldn’t want them to lead either.

And how would you remove Hungary in the absence of a legal mechanism to do so?