The Conversation also published a piece about this: theconversation.com/european-glo...

Politico already published a piece in which a Commission official has admitted the EU can't actually give this money to Trump: www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...

It was basically just an informal pinky promise by VDL just get Trump to decrease the tariffs.

It's real. Here is the source: www.youtube.com/live/aEHbju3...

The article is not about which countries can use the money. The article talks about excluding manufacturers from those countries and only spending the money on EU made equipment. Also, UK equipment can get in, but they have to sign defense and security agreements with the EU, so it's up to the UK.

☢️ Merz, after Trump's threats to abandon Europe, called for negotiations with France and Great Britain on nuclear defense.

🇪🇪 France and Estonia will host a meeting of European defense ministers on Monday to discuss how to bolster support for Ukraine, - Bloomberg

🦅 The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has allocated an additional $190 million for the purchase of drones.

🇩🇪 Merz: This is the Russian narrative, this is how Putin has presented it for years, and I am, shocked that Trump has now apparently accepted it himself.

When I click on the "Europa Oriental" link their only source is the UN's geographic Regions. However, when I go to their source it contradicts the Europa Oriental Wikipedia page regarding Armenia: unstats.un.org/unsd/methodo...

This seems like an error on the part of the Wikipedia editors.

For all I know the Council could have the same opinion as you do, but for us to know Canada would have to apply first, which we don't even know it going to happen. I just wanted to point out what is considered a "European state" is not as cut and dry as many think.

I mentioned it because many people who look at the Copenhagen criteria and see European state mentioned there think it's only based on geography and nothing else. And whether they are too foreign to us culturally or politically that would be up to the Council to decide.

That says "geopolitically European", which means the same thing I said, that it is recognized culturally and politically as a European state. It doesn't mean it's geographically European.

Armenia is also geographically Asian, but has been recognized as a "European state" based on cultural and political reasons and managed to join the Council of Europe. And their parliament just adopted a bill to start EU accession.

A nation can be recognized as a "European state" based on either geographical, cultural, or political reasons. It is not as rigidly defined as one might think. It is how Cyprus, which is 100% geographically Asian, has managed to gain membership in the Council of Europe and then later the EU.

Over half a million people took to the streets across Germany in nationwide protests against the far-right. In Neu-Isenburg—a city of just 40,000—an incredible 9,000 demonstrators turned out to oppose a local AfD event, showing that resistance is everywhere!

And this is from Hamburg—thousands of voices united against fascism. In the video, protesters are chanting an anti-fascist song.