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Kadri Tastan
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Senior Fellow @gmfus.bsky.social Brussels | Former @CATS_Network - @SWPBerlin | Geopolitics, Geoeconomics, Climate and Energy (EU, Turkey, Mediterranean, Middle East and beyond).
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🇪🇺🇹🇷🇺🇸 The Trilateral Strategy Group convened in Ankara for its latest round of strategic dialogue among leaders from Türkiye, the EU, and the United States. GMF expert Özgür Ünlühisarcıklı, shared his key insights on Türkiye’s evolving strategic role:
October 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Europe’s climate refugees: The Greek communities wiped off the map
Villages in the country’s agricultural breadbasket lie half-abandoned two years after catastrophic floods.
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September 22, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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« L’Europe est en train de subir un triple choc : militaire, économique et idéologique » : deux experts débattent de l’avenir du modèle européen
Les tensions à l’Est, avec la Russie, comme à l’Ouest, avec l’Amérique, mettent à l’épreuve le modèle européen. Deux livres, l’un de Sylvain Kahn, l’autre de Guillaume Lagane, abordent cette situation...
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September 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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‘They should be ashamed’: Green backsliding is wrecking Europe, EU’s first climate chief warns
From wildfires to far-right gains, Connie Hedegaard says Europe can’t afford to go soft on climate while China races ahead and companies like BP backtrack.
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August 21, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Europe learned to love American gas. This is how Trump wrecks it.
Backroom deals, embassy contacts and brown liquor built a booming export trade. Now, the lobbyist who saw it all says the U.S. president’s dalliances with Vladimir Putin are an incoming “aste…
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July 31, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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The natural gas trap
Switching to gas reduces emissions in the short term but increases them in the long run
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July 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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‘She’s pretty much alone’: The EU’s greenest leader fights the tide
The European Commission’s second-most powerful politician is isolated, beleaguered and under attack — just like the green policy she has vowed to protect.
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July 3, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Le lent réveil des économistes devant l’urgence écologique
Pendant longtemps, la science économique a ignoré la crise du climat et de la biodiversité, malgré les alertes répétées des scientifiques. Si un changement s’amorce, notamment sous la pression des étu...
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July 1, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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‘Goodbye Trump, hello Asia’ is the EU’s new trade strategy. Will it work?
Ursula von der Leyen wants the EU to team up with a 12-nation Pacific trade group. That could serve as a new platform for fans of rules-based trade.
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June 30, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Ursula von der Leyen amputates the Green Deal to save its life
Last year’s European election reshaped EU politics. The Commission president must acknowledge a new alternative right-wing majority even as she fights to preserve her signature political achi…
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June 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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🕊️ "Peace is not a deal we make. It is a right we defend." #BrusselsForum

🇧🇪 Maxime Prévot, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs for European Affairs calls for a long-term peace plan for future generations.
June 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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🔴 Starting at 12:00 CEST:

Day 1 of #BrusselsForum 2025—tune in for 2 days of critical conversations on the theme: Partnership Disrupted: How Can Transatlantic Cooperation Endure?

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Brussels Forum | June 11
Day 1 of GMF's Brussels Forum.
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June 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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🇪🇺 🇹🇷 How can EU–Türkiye cooperation be embedded in a framework acceptable to both sides?

GMF experts @martinquencez.bsky.social‬, @kadritastan.bsky.social‬ and @georginaewright.bsky.social‬ explore the state of defense ties between the two actors in a new report.

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EU–Türkiye Defense Cooperation: Why Now—and How Far?
By Kadri Taştan
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May 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Sebastiao Salgado, photographe franco-brésilien, est mort à l’âge de 81 ans
Connu pour ses grandes photos en noir et blanc de conflits ou de la forêt amazonienne, le photographe, né à Aimorés, au Brésil, était arrivé à Paris à la fin des années 1960.
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May 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Three elections, one message: Europe’s Maga populists are on the rise
Being pro-Trump pays dividends as European politics swings sharply to the right
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May 20, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Welcome to the new age of geoeconomics
Tech, trade, finance and military policies are mingling in a manner not seen during the neoliberal era
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May 10, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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What is (and isn’t) actually in the UK-US trade deal
Like any deal, it comes at a cost, with compromises made on both sides — and some concessions may prove difficult to digest.
www.politico.eu
May 9, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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John Bolton: 'The term chaos is commonly used to describe the top of the Defense Department'
OP-ED. John Bolton, who served as US National Security Adviser during Donald Trump's first term before breaking with him, criticizes the US president's casual approach to foreign policy in an op-ed fo...
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May 7, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Le niveau élevé des inégalités de patrimoine et de la fortune héritée observé aujourd’hui rappelle celui de la France du XIXᵉ siècle. Un phénomène inquiétant, synonyme d’ascenseur social bloqué, et alimentant le ressentiment des classes moyennes.
Inégalités : comment la France est redevenue une société d’héritiers
Le niveau élevé des inégalités de patrimoine et de la fortune héritée observé aujourd’hui rappelle celui de la France du XIXᵉ siècle. Un phénomène inquiétant, synonyme d’ascenseur social bloqué, et al...
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May 6, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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EU eyes closer ties to transpacific bloc as Trump jolts trade order
Brussels revives plan to forge strategic partnership with CPTPP to defend rules-based global system
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May 5, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Trump’s efforts to split Europe and China on clean energy fall flat
The U.S. argument against the green transition felt “quiet and out of place,” said one official.
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April 29, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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The billionaire who wants to Make France Great Again
Pierre-Édouard Stérin is hoping to use his financial firepower to remold French politics in line with his conservative ideals.
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April 28, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Trump talks tariffs. The EU talks free trade with the rest of the world.
With the United States throwing up the highest trade barriers in a century, Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission is on a mission to do trade deals with everyone else.
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April 25, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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European wines face alarming ‘forever chemical’ contamination, new study finds
From Austria to Spain, not a single wine tested came back clean, exposing the reach of ultra-persistent chemicals in Europe’s food chain.
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April 24, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Comment la Chine domine l’industrie automobile, au point d’être copiée par les constructeurs occidentaux
« L’hyperpuissance automobile chinoise ». Le Salon de Shanghaï, qui ouvre ses portes mercredi, va consacrer la domination de l’industrie chinoise sur la planète auto, en particulier en matière de voit...
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April 23, 2025 at 6:42 AM