Henning Meyer

@henningmeyer.eurosky.social

Hon. Professor of Public Policy & Business at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen | Research Associate at Cambridge University’s Center for Business Research | CEO Social Europe Publishing & Consulting. https://henningmeyer.com

What truly shocks me: Across Europe – Germany included – so many people seem so disengaged from politics that they neither notice nor grasp the tectonic shifts reshaping the world around them. The naivety is simply breathtaking.

Repeat after me: „Nobody restricts freedom of speech in Europe!“ Two days ago, I saw a man walking on Berlin‘s Unter den Linden with a picture around his neck showing Putin and saying „Putin means peace“.

Europa beginnt wieder über eine eigene nukleare Abschreckung zu diskutieren. Wer sich schon mal über die Schwierigkeiten fit machen will, dies hier habe ich vor exakt 1 Jahr mit Matthias Krupa geschrieben, mit Aussagen von @hfayet.bsky.social und @drfranksauer.bsky.social www.zeit.de/2024/08/eu-a...

EU-Atombomben: Braucht Europa die Bombe?

Deutschland hat sich stets auf den Atomschirm der USA verlassen. Doch was passiert, wenn Donald Trump an die Macht zurückkehrt und das Schutzversprechen revidiert?

zeit.de

Good that there is increasing understanding in BXL & MS that Trump 2.0 wants to fundamentally undermine #EU (finally). Consequently transactional logic not THE answer. More European efforts & cooperation required. Very difficult decisions ahead related to war & peace under immense (time) pressure.

Already in 2018, I warned in a piece for the @ecfr.eu that the EU needs to invest more in its defense as it was only a question of time that Trump would use the US' military protection of Europe to blackmail Europeans. Let's hope that our leaders now have learned the lesson. ecfr.eu/article/comm...

No right without might

Europeans still indulge in the myth of economic influence without military strength. But their soft power approach will fail without hard weapons…

ecfr.eu

Breakdown and disruption seems to be the recipe also for international/global politics. Looking forward to the conclusions from the European leaders summit in Paris tomorrow. No appeasement must be made with Trumps conservative counter-revolution