@notanewbot.bsky.social
“We keep on hearing that the EU is not influential, that we count for less than nothing,” said an EU official. “But if Trump and Putin find common ground in identifying us as their enemy, it’s probably because at the end we actually count for something.”
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
Trump wants to destroy the EU — and rebuild it in his image
Donald Trump won’t deal with the EU. The EU can’t deal with Trump.
www.politico.eu
March 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
“We keep on hearing that the EU is not influential, that we count for less than nothing,” said an EU official. “But if Trump and Putin find common ground in identifying us as their enemy, it’s probably because at the end we actually count for something.”
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds: ‘I really made a mistake’
February 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds: ‘I really made a mistake’
Now is the time for Europe really to step up on Ukraine
February 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Now is the time for Europe really to step up on Ukraine
That’s exactly it - it’s besides the point if we like Trump and kin. Trump is a fact and we might as well use this crisis to get stuff done, like an EU defence union, which we should have done long ago.
"Europe is finally faced with the opportunity to build a real European Defence Union amid US President Donald Trump’s disruptive return," write Guy Verhofstadt and Domènec Ruiz Devesa.
Read the full opinion 👉 www.politico.eu/article/dona...
Read the full opinion 👉 www.politico.eu/article/dona...
February 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
That’s exactly it - it’s besides the point if we like Trump and kin. Trump is a fact and we might as well use this crisis to get stuff done, like an EU defence union, which we should have done long ago.
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"It is clear that the US can no longer be regarded as a reliable ally for Europeans... [who] need to start preparing fast for the day when the US security guarantee to Europe is definitively removed"
@gideonrachman.bsky.social's searing conclusion from a weekend in Munich
www.ft.com/content/11f1...
@gideonrachman.bsky.social's searing conclusion from a weekend in Munich
www.ft.com/content/11f1...
Vance’s real warning to Europe
Europeans need to reduce their dangerous dependence on an adversarial America
www.ft.com
February 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"It is clear that the US can no longer be regarded as a reliable ally for Europeans... [who] need to start preparing fast for the day when the US security guarantee to Europe is definitively removed"
@gideonrachman.bsky.social's searing conclusion from a weekend in Munich
www.ft.com/content/11f1...
@gideonrachman.bsky.social's searing conclusion from a weekend in Munich
www.ft.com/content/11f1...
Even Prince William doesn’t attend church – it’s time for a new Reformation
February 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Even Prince William doesn’t attend church – it’s time for a new Reformation
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Good morning here is your thread of Weekend FT highlights:
1. Nobel winning economist and author of "How Nations Fail" Daron Acemoglu shows how this weakening of institutions could lead to the end of the era of US prosperity on.ft.com/4hOXBU5
1. Nobel winning economist and author of "How Nations Fail" Daron Acemoglu shows how this weakening of institutions could lead to the end of the era of US prosperity on.ft.com/4hOXBU5
The real threat to American prosperity
[FREE TO READ] Nobel-winning economist Daron Acemoglu on trade wars, tech industry hubris — and how loss of faith in US institutions could spiral
on.ft.com
February 8, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Good morning here is your thread of Weekend FT highlights:
1. Nobel winning economist and author of "How Nations Fail" Daron Acemoglu shows how this weakening of institutions could lead to the end of the era of US prosperity on.ft.com/4hOXBU5
1. Nobel winning economist and author of "How Nations Fail" Daron Acemoglu shows how this weakening of institutions could lead to the end of the era of US prosperity on.ft.com/4hOXBU5
The loudest megaphone: how Trump mastered our new attention age
January 28, 2025 at 7:34 AM
The loudest megaphone: how Trump mastered our new attention age
Europe should stop panicking and seize the opportunities Trump offers on.ft.com/4hrTQ6U
Europe should stop panicking and seize the opportunities Trump offers
It is time for the EU to get down to business
on.ft.com
January 27, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Europe should stop panicking and seize the opportunities Trump offers on.ft.com/4hrTQ6U
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January 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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"The fundamental problem, as I see it, is not that social media misinforms individuals about what is true or untrue but that it creates publics with malformed collective understandings." www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti...
We're getting the social media crisis wrong
The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics
www.programmablemutter.com
January 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"The fundamental problem, as I see it, is not that social media misinforms individuals about what is true or untrue but that it creates publics with malformed collective understandings." www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti...