EU prime ministers and presidents are about to arrive at the emergency 🇪🇺 #EUCO summit on transatlantic relations.
Europe's three camps - the hawks, appeasers and collaborators - are each trying to claim victory for Trump's retreat. Only one camp is right.
My curtain-raiser:
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Seems we've forgotten how far-right we've gone.
Les industriels disent qu'ils ont surtout un problème d'insuffisance de la demande
FACT
Military Assistance from US to Ukraine: $117.95 billion
Non-Military Assistance from US to Ukraine: $82.4 million
🇺🇸 Total: $118 billion
EU Military Assistance: $52.417 billion
EU Non-Military Assistance: $98 billion
🇪🇺 Total: $151 billion
#Ukraine
A common response to the new geopolitical crises is clearly called for: dependencies need to be revisited: energy from Russia, military security and digital technologies from the US, industrial value-chains from China.
Now it time for Europeans to stand up. Caught between the rock and a hard place, either Europe will be federalist or it will not be
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Interesting to see Germany’s Gen X is apparently slightly less likely to vote AfD than Millennials are. I think that’s reversed in the Trump vote in the US. Not a substantial difference though
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The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Il n’y a pas que les mécanismes économiques: ma tribune avec @heathergrabbe.bsky.social sur les canaux politiques de contagion du trumpisme. Par exemple, Trump change brutalement les critères du bon comportement des États.
This is the shape of the crisis: to prevent cataclysmic climate breakdown, we have to RADICALLY cut carbon pollution at a completely unprecedented rate. All prior climate policy has failed.
Any university without a massive, cross-disciplinary program to inform this task is part of the problem.
We started 2025 with the most severe warning we could have: 9 years after the Paris agreement, we have reached the limit of 1.5°C.
The EU will not take a step backwards.
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#Hydrogen is fundamental to decarbonisation and industrial development.
Today, we convened with leading H2 EU associations to ensure the successful delivery of the hydrogen ecosystem
Update of 🇺🇸 clean/green hydrogen rules :
👉Start date for hourly certification (2030) is now aligned with the EU, a target for US clean hydrogen exports.
👉H2 produced using power from existing nuclear plants to qualify in its final rules, as long as the project averts a nuclear plant’s retirement.
First resolution of 2025 check ✅- delete X and create a 🦋 account
Le boutade del presidente eletto Trump sulla Groenlandia, Panama e Canada non sono solo parole oscene, ma colpi mortali inflitti all’ordine internazionale, che gli Stati Uniti stessi hanno contribuito a creare. Oggi su La Stampa
La Matinale Européenne est sortie.
Le grande angle du jour signée @cspillmann.bsky.social : « Donald Trump s’affirme en tyran et sème le désarroi dans l’UE »
Avec @idafe.bsky.social 👇
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🚨🚨 @ec.europa.eu urged to act over Elon Musk’s ‘interference’ in elections as MEPs say enforcement of DSA has been ‘too slow’ within the context that Musk plans livestream with German far-right politician. @jenniferrankin.bsky.social' latest report from Brussels.
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