Associate Professor & Director of Education | EU external relations, global governance & the law | Leiden University College The Hague & Europa Institute, Leiden University
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Associate Professor & Director of Education | EU external relations, global governance & the law | Leiden University College The Hague & Europa Institute, Leiden University
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Amidst global shifts, Canada and the EU are strengthening ties when needed most.
Pleasure to sign w Minister McGuinty important agreement under the #SAFE instrument this morning! It will boost our industries & security, strengthen our defence cooperation & economic ties.
Plus I outline why this matters for Europe & what to do about it.
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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8 more national investment plans approved just now.
~€75B in #EUDefence funding, moving us closer to collective strength.
⏩ What’s next: Council decisions for fast disbursement.
And we continue working on the remaing plans.
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It will culminate tomorrow in the signature of our Security and Defence Partnership.
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Europese Raad
Motie van het lid Erkens c.s. over in de Raad steun uitspreken voor het voorlopig in werking laten treden van het EU-Mercosurakkoord
tweedekamer.nl
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Yesterday's speech by German Foreign Office State Secretary von Geyr expresses the horror at both Trump's Greenland threats and the "Board of Peace" by many in German foreign policy establishment. Both named alongside Russia's war against Ukraine as turning points.
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• EU tariff cuts on Mercosur-made meat will apply only to small share of European imports
• Real economic rationale of deal could lie in industrial and services trade, as well as mineral products
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
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"The problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100% but I'm not sure that they'd be there for us, if we gave them the call".
We did get the call on 9/11. 26 NATO members sent troops to defend the US. Hundreds died doing so. It was the only time Article 5 has been activated.
living within the lie. Laugh at what’s laughable.
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➡️ ...this does not delay the provisional application of the agreement (not subject to EP consent), which was going to be a longer interim situation anyway. CETA between the EU and Canada has been provisionally applied since 2017 and, and trade between the two sides has thrived in the meantime.
➡️ ...even if some violations of EU primary law are found, it may be possible to remedy them without fully unpacking the agreement and/or discontinuing provisional application.
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➡️ ...while having to study further the issues raised, I am not too worried that the Court will find the EU-Mercosur Agreement incompatible with the EU Treaties. It confirmed CETA's compatibility with the EU Treaties in 2019 in Opinion 1/17 (see also Opinion 2/15 on broad EU trade powers.)
➡️ ...this does not delay the provisional application of the agreement (not subject to EP consent), which was going to be a longer interim situation anyway. CETA between the EU and Canada has been provisionally applied since 2017 and, and trade between the two sides has thrived in the meantime.
➡️ ...waiting for the ruling will at least delay the possibility for the entry into force of the agreement.
HOWEVER, to quote Scott Bessent for once, I think we (including our Mercosur partners) can "sit back and let things play out", because...
If you support the agreement as a sign of strengthening ties with like-minded countries in geopolitically turbulent times, this is bad news, because...
➡️ ...the agreement cannot enter into force if the Court rules that it is incompatible with EU constitutional rules.
and...
www.politico.eu/article/eu-m...
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Seriously though: This was a tour de force. Uncomfortable, clear-eyed, but not at all hopeless; with lots to think about for policymakers, international lawyers, IR theorists, integration theorists, and many more.
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Good to see my colleagues Troels Lund Poulsen and Vivian Motzfeldt.
Arctic security is a shared transatlantic interest, and one we can discuss with our US allies.
But tariff threats are not the way to go about this. Sovereignty is not for trade. (1/2)
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Of a $968bn global defence budget, only $33bn is spent in Europe, mostly on US bases which are not NATO bases.
The actual US funding of NATO is approx $600m a year, the same as Germany.
The myth dies on contact with arithmetic.
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