Troels Halken 🇪🇺 🇬🇪🇷🇸🇬🇱🇺🇦 🇵🇸🇮🇷
@halken.eurosky.social
Antifa, -Zionist, -genocide, -racist, -autoritarian, -tech&media broligarchs.
Freedom & democracy. 🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉🇻🇪🇸🇩🇨🇩🇬🇪🇸🇰🇭🇺🇨🇿🇧🇾🇷🇸🇮🇷
We, the people.🇪🇺⚔️🇽🇰🇧🇦🇲🇰🇦🇱🇲🇪🇦🇲🇲🇩🏴🇮🇸🇳🇴🇬🇱🇨🇦🇹🇼
Red-green Woking DEI&HR ⚛️🚃♻️CC&nature🐳🐺
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Multispeed federal 🇪🇺army #DigitalSovereignty #EuroStack
Freedom & democracy. 🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉🇻🇪🇸🇩🇨🇩🇬🇪🇸🇰🇭🇺🇨🇿🇧🇾🇷🇸🇮🇷
We, the people.🇪🇺⚔️🇽🇰🇧🇦🇲🇰🇦🇱🇲🇪🇦🇲🇲🇩🏴🇮🇸🇳🇴🇬🇱🇨🇦🇹🇼
Red-green Woking DEI&HR ⚛️🚃♻️CC&nature🐳🐺
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Multispeed federal 🇪🇺army #DigitalSovereignty #EuroStack
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Free piece just released. Marco Rubio called on tolerant, democratic, liberal Europe to destroy itself and embrace a Trump-like future. He received a standing ovation and we are told some people are reassured. If so, Europe will deserve everything coming its way. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Rubio Calls For The End Of A Tolerant, Democratic Europe And The Crowd Goes Wild
Just over an hour ago, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called for the end of a tolerant, democratic Europe and its break-up into a disparate group of smaller, Trumpist states, and the Europeans in t...
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Talk in Europe now is a "two-speed EU" or Coalitions of the Willing.
My Charlemagne this week is on how to turn the European Union into the European Onion—a multi-layered construct with a core and outer tiers.
Unity still matters. Getting stuff done matters more.
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
My Charlemagne this week is on how to turn the European Union into the European Onion—a multi-layered construct with a core and outer tiers.
Unity still matters. Getting stuff done matters more.
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
The European Onion is a joke whose time has come
A new model of European integration, without the tears
www.economist.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Talk in Europe now is a "two-speed EU" or Coalitions of the Willing.
My Charlemagne this week is on how to turn the European Union into the European Onion—a multi-layered construct with a core and outer tiers.
Unity still matters. Getting stuff done matters more.
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
My Charlemagne this week is on how to turn the European Union into the European Onion—a multi-layered construct with a core and outer tiers.
Unity still matters. Getting stuff done matters more.
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
Now with new service provider on a EU server and under EUs jurisdiction. 👇🇪🇺 😁
halken.eurosky.social
#DigitalSovereignty #EUsky
halken.eurosky.social
#DigitalSovereignty #EUsky
February 17, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Now with new service provider on a EU server and under EUs jurisdiction. 👇🇪🇺 😁
halken.eurosky.social
#DigitalSovereignty #EUsky
halken.eurosky.social
#DigitalSovereignty #EUsky
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Petrochemical industry talking points are being echoed at the highest levels of EU decision-making.
So we asked: who’s really influencing EU policy?
We compared petrochemical lobby demands and @ec.europa.eu rhetoric—and the overlaps are striking.
Check out the matches ⬇️ [1/1]
So we asked: who’s really influencing EU policy?
We compared petrochemical lobby demands and @ec.europa.eu rhetoric—and the overlaps are striking.
Check out the matches ⬇️ [1/1]
February 14, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Petrochemical industry talking points are being echoed at the highest levels of EU decision-making.
So we asked: who’s really influencing EU policy?
We compared petrochemical lobby demands and @ec.europa.eu rhetoric—and the overlaps are striking.
Check out the matches ⬇️ [1/1]
So we asked: who’s really influencing EU policy?
We compared petrochemical lobby demands and @ec.europa.eu rhetoric—and the overlaps are striking.
Check out the matches ⬇️ [1/1]
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Silver Tambur: Why Europe must become a federal union #Opinion #EuropeanUnion
https://estonianworld.com/opinion/silver-tambur-why-europe-must-become-a-federal-union/
https://estonianworld.com/opinion/silver-tambur-why-europe-must-become-a-federal-union/
Silver Tambur: Why Europe must become a federal union
The assumptions underpinning Europe’s security no longer hold, and to defend itself and remain a serious global actor, the European Union must move beyond loose cooperation and towards federal unity, Silver Tambur, the publisher of Estonian World, writes.
estonianworld.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Ukraine is winning. This can shorten the war and make Ukraine independent of Trump's bad deals, which wants to give Russia, what it could not get on the battlefield, eg parts of Ukraine.
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@kajakallas.bsky.social @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu
#EUdef
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@kajakallas.bsky.social @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu
#EUdef
Western arms production is ahead of political will. German giant Rheinmetall is already producing more ammo than it has contracts for Ukraine
CEO Armin Papperger said company is ready to supply more weapons immediately, if governments release funding
euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/17/g...
CEO Armin Papperger said company is ready to supply more weapons immediately, if governments release funding
euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/17/g...
Germany’s arms giant says it can flood Ukraine with ammo right now—if Western governments unlock funding
Europe’s biggest weapons maker is ready to arm Ukraine at bigger scale.
euromaidanpress.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Ukraine is winning. This can shorten the war and make Ukraine independent of Trump's bad deals, which wants to give Russia, what it could not get on the battlefield, eg parts of Ukraine.
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@kajakallas.bsky.social @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu
#EUdef
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@kajakallas.bsky.social @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu
#EUdef
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We're getting a high proportion of support requests for the migration to @eurosky.social accounts. We're working through them but it's taking time - my apologies for this. On the + side we understand failure modes and the range of issues folks encounter much better and have a plan to solve them 🧵
February 13, 2026 at 2:34 PM
We're getting a high proportion of support requests for the migration to @eurosky.social accounts. We're working through them but it's taking time - my apologies for this. On the + side we understand failure modes and the range of issues folks encounter much better and have a plan to solve them 🧵
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The most accurate analysis of the transatlantic dynamics at MSC I’ve seen so far:
February 16, 2026 at 8:29 PM
The most accurate analysis of the transatlantic dynamics at MSC I’ve seen so far:
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The Commission is also complaining that Member States are moving ahead with bans, which defeats the purpose of unified regulation.
But they're only doing that because the Commission has, to put this politely, both thumbs up its ass and acts as little more than a pan-European lobbyist for US tech.
But they're only doing that because the Commission has, to put this politely, both thumbs up its ass and acts as little more than a pan-European lobbyist for US tech.
On enforcing the DSA:
“Brussels will have to choose either to pull the trigger on potential enforcement actions against some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names or admit that, for now, its digital rulebook must run secondary to the bloc’s wider reliance on the US”
www.techpolicy.press/the-eus-onli...
“Brussels will have to choose either to pull the trigger on potential enforcement actions against some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names or admit that, for now, its digital rulebook must run secondary to the bloc’s wider reliance on the US”
www.techpolicy.press/the-eus-onli...
The EU’s Online Safety Moonshot Is Losing Altitude
European policymakers must acknowledge that current birthing pains linked to the Digital Services Act are borne from within the bloc, writes Mark Scott.
www.techpolicy.press
February 16, 2026 at 4:24 PM
The Commission is also complaining that Member States are moving ahead with bans, which defeats the purpose of unified regulation.
But they're only doing that because the Commission has, to put this politely, both thumbs up its ass and acts as little more than a pan-European lobbyist for US tech.
But they're only doing that because the Commission has, to put this politely, both thumbs up its ass and acts as little more than a pan-European lobbyist for US tech.
This monday morning, this is the most positive. I don't know about W, but if ID is required for a profile and its a EU commercial social media, I will likely go with Eurosky.
The reason is that Eurosky offers a true European alternative, that is not run by commercial interests, and can
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The reason is that Eurosky offers a true European alternative, that is not run by commercial interests, and can
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@eurosky.social is launching.
February 16, 2026 at 9:17 AM
This monday morning, this is the most positive. I don't know about W, but if ID is required for a profile and its a EU commercial social media, I will likely go with Eurosky.
The reason is that Eurosky offers a true European alternative, that is not run by commercial interests, and can
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The reason is that Eurosky offers a true European alternative, that is not run by commercial interests, and can
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Der findes nationalkonservative og xenofobiske socialdemokrater der kopierer højreekstremismens politik 1:1 og så findes der solidariske og humanistiske spanske socialdemokrater, der står på skulderne af arbejderbevægelsens historiske værdier #dkpol #Spain 🎁
politiken.dk/del/-IQ6fYAG...
politiken.dk/del/-IQ6fYAG...
Regeringschef: De siger måske, at vi ikke kan håndtere så mange migranter. Men Spanien blomstrer
I Spanien er det vores pligt at blive det imødekommende og tolerante samfund, som vores forfædre håbede at finde uden for vores grænser, skriver den spanske regeringschef, Pedro Sánchez.
politiken.dk
February 15, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Der findes nationalkonservative og xenofobiske socialdemokrater der kopierer højreekstremismens politik 1:1 og så findes der solidariske og humanistiske spanske socialdemokrater, der står på skulderne af arbejderbevægelsens historiske værdier #dkpol #Spain 🎁
politiken.dk/del/-IQ6fYAG...
politiken.dk/del/-IQ6fYAG...
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And this is nothing compared to what is being said behind the scenes where there are no microphones and journalists.
Chancellor Merz in Munich: "A divide has opened up between Europe and The US."
"US claim to leadership has been challenged and possibly lost."
Europe is no nonsense now, it's a warning from a Continent which is also the worlds second largest economy and military force.
Get your act together.
"US claim to leadership has been challenged and possibly lost."
Europe is no nonsense now, it's a warning from a Continent which is also the worlds second largest economy and military force.
Get your act together.
February 15, 2026 at 10:56 AM
And this is nothing compared to what is being said behind the scenes where there are no microphones and journalists.
The Finnish old-growth forest needs your signature. (See the first response for how.) 🇫🇮
Sadly, while one expects that countries with large forests would also have lots of nature in them, the reality is that the intensive logging industry means they have very little. As in DK.
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Sadly, while one expects that countries with large forests would also have lots of nature in them, the reality is that the intensive logging industry means they have very little. As in DK.
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#Finnish Old Growth #Forests need your love and help!
State owned #Metsähallitus is starting commercial loggings in valuable natural forests.
#ValentinesDay #SiberianJay #StopDestruction
www-greenpeace-org.translate.goog/finland/tied...
State owned #Metsähallitus is starting commercial loggings in valuable natural forests.
#ValentinesDay #SiberianJay #StopDestruction
www-greenpeace-org.translate.goog/finland/tied...
February 15, 2026 at 9:16 AM
The Finnish old-growth forest needs your signature. (See the first response for how.) 🇫🇮
Sadly, while one expects that countries with large forests would also have lots of nature in them, the reality is that the intensive logging industry means they have very little. As in DK.
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Sadly, while one expects that countries with large forests would also have lots of nature in them, the reality is that the intensive logging industry means they have very little. As in DK.
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The Rubio speech is incoherent and hypocritical. He denounces Soviet communism, the threat and division it sowed in Europe, yet has absolutely nothing to say about Ru's current attempt to restore restore the Soviet empire by re-invading and re-subordinating swaths of Europe. What's worse,...
February 15, 2026 at 2:27 AM
The Rubio speech is incoherent and hypocritical. He denounces Soviet communism, the threat and division it sowed in Europe, yet has absolutely nothing to say about Ru's current attempt to restore restore the Soviet empire by re-invading and re-subordinating swaths of Europe. What's worse,...
China is doing grand strategy, as support for the war now results in weakened EUrope & Russia.
China should not be on any EUropean leaders travel plans this year. Instead we should treat it as adversary.
China should not be on any EUropean leaders travel plans this year. Instead we should treat it as adversary.
China increased its support for Russia’s war in Ukraine in 2025 and is likely to deepen cooperation with Moscow further this year, casting doubt on EU efforts to improve relations with Beijing.
China expanding aid for Russia’s war, Western officials say
The war couldn't continue without ongoing Chinese support, particularly the export of dual-use components and critical minerals used in Russian drone production.
ebx.sh
February 15, 2026 at 8:39 AM
China is doing grand strategy, as support for the war now results in weakened EUrope & Russia.
China should not be on any EUropean leaders travel plans this year. Instead we should treat it as adversary.
China should not be on any EUropean leaders travel plans this year. Instead we should treat it as adversary.
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Venstre 2025
Vi har fået Regeringen til at føre Venstrepolitik
Det har blandt andet resulteret i omfattende skattelettelser
Venstre 2026
Vi mangler penge til velfærd, vi snupper lige udviklingsbistanden
#dkpol
Vi har fået Regeringen til at føre Venstrepolitik
Det har blandt andet resulteret i omfattende skattelettelser
Venstre 2026
Vi mangler penge til velfærd, vi snupper lige udviklingsbistanden
#dkpol
a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man with the words da skatteministeriet startede i den form
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man with the words da skatteministeriet startede i den form
media.tenor.com
February 15, 2026 at 6:08 AM
Venstre 2025
Vi har fået Regeringen til at føre Venstrepolitik
Det har blandt andet resulteret i omfattende skattelettelser
Venstre 2026
Vi mangler penge til velfærd, vi snupper lige udviklingsbistanden
#dkpol
Vi har fået Regeringen til at føre Venstrepolitik
Det har blandt andet resulteret i omfattende skattelettelser
Venstre 2026
Vi mangler penge til velfærd, vi snupper lige udviklingsbistanden
#dkpol
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The killings add to the death toll of 591 since October 10 'ceasefire' that Israel has violated more than 1,600 times https://aje.news/9jai4p
February 15, 2026 at 6:30 AM
The killings add to the death toll of 591 since October 10 'ceasefire' that Israel has violated more than 1,600 times https://aje.news/9jai4p
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🇪🇸 Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:
We need to stop Putin. We need to strengthen our deterrence capabilities. But let us do it in a coordinated and targeted way that we can control.
Let’s build a true European Army — not in 10 years, but now. Spain will join with all the resources that are needed.
We need to stop Putin. We need to strengthen our deterrence capabilities. But let us do it in a coordinated and targeted way that we can control.
Let’s build a true European Army — not in 10 years, but now. Spain will join with all the resources that are needed.
February 14, 2026 at 7:00 PM
🇪🇸 Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:
We need to stop Putin. We need to strengthen our deterrence capabilities. But let us do it in a coordinated and targeted way that we can control.
Let’s build a true European Army — not in 10 years, but now. Spain will join with all the resources that are needed.
We need to stop Putin. We need to strengthen our deterrence capabilities. But let us do it in a coordinated and targeted way that we can control.
Let’s build a true European Army — not in 10 years, but now. Spain will join with all the resources that are needed.
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No one in Europe believes anything the Trumpist Americans say anymore. We might pretend we do. But that's stalling for time whilst we get our shit together and 'decouple'. But we don't and cannot trust America. It's over.
US ambassador to NATO: America is 'not leaving' Europe
His comments are part of a more conciliatory tone American officials are taking during the Munich Security Conference.
www.politico.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:22 PM
No one in Europe believes anything the Trumpist Americans say anymore. We might pretend we do. But that's stalling for time whilst we get our shit together and 'decouple'. But we don't and cannot trust America. It's over.
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PM Frederiksen is spot on ..
PM Frederiksen:
We have to recognize,we have to learn that Russia will not change&they aren’t interested in peace, unfortunately
I mean,it's like minus 25 °C &then you attack the energy system.I mean,it's so crazy that only Russians would do such a thing.But this’s how Russia is&it will not change
We have to recognize,we have to learn that Russia will not change&they aren’t interested in peace, unfortunately
I mean,it's like minus 25 °C &then you attack the energy system.I mean,it's so crazy that only Russians would do such a thing.But this’s how Russia is&it will not change
February 14, 2026 at 11:36 PM
PM Frederiksen is spot on ..
Good to see the Serbians are still add it. Resist!
#Novisad
#Novisad
Thousands attend anti-government rally in Serbia town dtt-net.com/thousands-at...
Thousands attend anti-government rally in Serbia town
Thousands attend anti-government rally in Serbia town
dtt-net.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Good to see the Serbians are still add it. Resist!
#Novisad
#Novisad
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At last year's MSC, while Vance was hectoring Europe, other Americans were trying to persuade policymakers and commentators not to take it all too seriously. Many were eager to buy what these Europe-whisperers were selling. But it was, and is, an illusion.
February 14, 2026 at 12:56 PM
At last year's MSC, while Vance was hectoring Europe, other Americans were trying to persuade policymakers and commentators not to take it all too seriously. Many were eager to buy what these Europe-whisperers were selling. But it was, and is, an illusion.
Now is the Time of Monsters. Genocide in Ukraine & Palestine, & Africa while US protects Epsteins paedophile inside the US system.
Time for EU to #unify & #lead the world's remaining free & democratic nations, who share our values.
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EU needs to be reformed.
#EUsky
Time for EU to #unify & #lead the world's remaining free & democratic nations, who share our values.
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EU needs to be reformed.
#EUsky
Free piece just released. Marco Rubio called on tolerant, democratic, liberal Europe to destroy itself and embrace a Trump-like future. He received a standing ovation and we are told some people are reassured. If so, Europe will deserve everything coming its way. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Rubio Calls For The End Of A Tolerant, Democratic Europe And The Crowd Goes Wild
Just over an hour ago, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called for the end of a tolerant, democratic Europe and its break-up into a disparate group of smaller, Trumpist states, and the Europeans in t...
open.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."
February 13, 2026 at 5:50 PM
AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."
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He clumsily read his speech from the page without hardly looking up and told everyone in the room to follow the US's lead or suck it. He accused Europe of managed decline by not being racist enough, and if it doesn't fall in line then America won't be there for it. Not sure how reassuring that is.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a calm and reassuring message to America's allies in Munich, after more than a year of President Donald Trump's often-hostile rhetoric toward allies. n.pr/4qHYOAJ
Rubio reassures trans-Atlantic ties with Europe at Munich Security Conference
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a calm and reassuring message to America's allies in Munich, after more than a year of President Donald Trump's often-hostile rhetoric toward allies.
n.pr
February 14, 2026 at 11:14 AM
He clumsily read his speech from the page without hardly looking up and told everyone in the room to follow the US's lead or suck it. He accused Europe of managed decline by not being racist enough, and if it doesn't fall in line then America won't be there for it. Not sure how reassuring that is.