He wants Ukraine policy settled by a leadership primary. His party admits it’s internal pressure and a rival splitting votes. If the frontier falls, it won’t stop at Kyiv. Ukraine was never just about Ukraine. It’s also about us. #Ukraine #M5S

Ucraina, scontro Pd-M5s. Conte: armi? Decidono primarie. No di Schlein

Leggi su Sky TG24 l'articolo Scontro Pd-M5s su Ucraina. Conte: “Armi? Decidono primarie”, Schlein: “Non funziona così”

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Europeans have grown so used to Trump’s tariff threats they “no longer react,” per Euronews. That numbness isn’t strength. The most pragmatic fix: match every hit exactly, every time. Predictable costs remove any incentive to escalate. #EU #Turnberry

One year on, is the Turnberry deal already at risk?

As the EU-US trade deal marks its first anniversary, fresh threats from US President Donald Trump have put it under renewed pressure. How serious are they, and what can the EU do if they materialise? ...

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Vale NAFO 🇪🇺@vkspuntabau.nafoeverywhere.org · 3d ago

OK NOW YOU CAN PANIC

Agreed: the US shouldn’t have to police the planet forever. It would help if it stopped opening fronts: an active war in Iran, a toppled government in Venezuela, Greenland named an open option. Restraint starts with not starting more. #ForeignPolicy www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/0...

Rubio: "It Is Not The United States' Job To Protect Shipping For The Entire Planet, Forever"

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters before departing for the ASEAN conference in Manila, Philippines, on Sunday evening that "the U.S. remains open to a diplomatic solution" with Iran and "w...

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He promised transparency to get elected FIFA president in 2016. UEFA’s own statement, nine years later: a “shabby, back-room, opaque deal.” Now 55 federations are threatening the vote to remove him. The transparency was optional. #FIFA #UEFA

European soccer declares loss of confidence in FIFA chief over ’shabby’ private financing plan | CNN

European soccer’s governing body UEFA declared it has lost confidence in FIFA president Gianni Infantino, piling pressure on the beleaguered sporting chief despite the organization dropping a hugely c...

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The EU budget is about 1% of European income. Washington commands over 20% of GDP. Split across 27 national budgets, money funds 27 small projects. Pooled once, it built Airbus, Galileo, JUPITER. The opportunity isn't more rules. It's scale no country can buy alone. #EuropeLeads #FederalEurope

The European Parliament gets it wrong on the European Commission’s 2028-2034 budget

Rather than protecting outdated programmes, MEPs should push for a larger EU budget and safeguards to match strategic goals

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If Canada increasingly sees Europe as its key security and military procurement partner, Donald Trump has only himself to blame

Canada turns to Europe for its security

Donald Trump’s capriciousness has pushed Canada’s military spending towards Europe

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Wales is building real consequences for lying in a campaign — a defined standard, and a right of appeal to an independent panel. That’s accountability, not populism. Not law yet, but certainly inspiring.. #Wales #Accountabilit #inspiration

Welsh politicians caught lying could lose seats in Senedd

But calls for deception by Senedd members to be made a criminal offence are rejected.

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Post-crime facial recognition, authorized by a prosecutor, capped at 15 days, data held 7. That’s not a police state. It’s a warrant with a camera. Distrust who holds it? Fix that at the ballot, not by banning identification. #Privacy #RuleOfLaw

Riconoscimento facciale con l'IA e polizia, i nodi del decreto - Notizie - Ansa.it

Identificazione in tempo reale e a posteriori, banche dati e autorizzazioni (ANSA)

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Called it the “Nokia moment” out loud. Wrote it down as a bold prediction. Kept building the same cars anyway. VW doubles job cuts to 100k. Bosch cuts 22k. Audi’s China revenue drops to a quarter of last year’s. Nokia didn’t need a bigger wall. It needed to out-build the competition. So does this.

L’auto tedesca in crisi rischia l’effetto Nokia. La filiera italiana in tensione

Il tracollo del comparto avrebbe esiti pesanti su tutto il settore automotive a livello europeo

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He sued his own government for $10bn. His own government settled with him: audit immunity, plus a $1.8bn fund. Ultimately a judge ruled the two sides were never adversaries — because they were the same side. #IRS #RuleOfLaw

US judge voids Trump’s IRS settlement, alleges self-dealing

Judge rules that US president, Department of Justice misused courts in settlement that led to 'anti-weaponization' fund.

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The Plan: stronger “Made in Europe” rules for public contracts, in exchange for a weaker 2035 rule on combustion engines. This does not fix competitiveness. It protects old problems. We must become more competitive not more protectionist. #EuropeLeads #EUCompetitiveness

POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · last wk.

EXCLUSIVE: Paris and Berlin are seeking a deal to strengthen protections in the EU’s Industrial Accelerator Act and soften the combustion engine ban. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/fran...

Two weeks of “hard” strikes stopped over a missile shortage, not diplomacy. Iran met it with a real opening: Oman-brokered progress, offers to talk in Geneva, Doha, Islamabad. A ceasefire born of exhaustion could become a real one. #Iran #Hormuz

Live Updates: U.S. pauses Iran strikes for second straight day as diplomatic talks move in positive direction

Talks between Oman and Iran on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and their respective territorial waterways have made progress, two sources told CBS News.

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Let’s make @volt_berlin’s words ours. 🏳️‍🌈💜

The trade deal excluded antitrust enforcement. The EU applied a law that targets no nationality, only market dominance — and is now threatened with “very steep” tariffs for enforcing it. This is not trade policy. It is coercion. #EU #Turnberry

Trump threatens EU will pay ‘big price’ after Brussels fines Google $1bn

EU accuses US tech giant of favouring its own services in search results, as Trump lashes out against bloc.

aljazeera.com

Nine years, a hundred billion euros, zero prototypes. FCAS died because one partner wouldn’t treat the other as an equal, and dressed it up as technical. Fragmentation lost to cooperation, again. GCAP now offers the stranded partners the seat FCAS never could. #EuropeLeads #EUDefence

GCAP advances as FCAS collapse reshapes European fighter race

GCAP gains momentum after the FCAS collapse, a major UK funding boost and growing interest from Canada, Germany and others.

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Washington rewrote its tariff law three times in a month, timed to the hour each time. It now calls Brussels fining Google under a 2022 law a “risk to trade stability.” One of these is actually unpredictable. #EU #DigitalMarketsAct

Google fine 'creates uncertainty' for EU-US trade deal, USTR says

Washington says the EU's €890m fine against Google under the Digital Markets Act jeopardises the EU-US trade deal, calling it "massive uncertainty" for US exporters. #EuropeNews

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Indiscriminate safety standards: identical rules for a city car and a full-size SUV. Add a reckless ecology transition: €22.3bn lost at Stellantis, VW profit down 54%, 100k+ jobs gone. An epochal failure of proportionality. Fix it before there’s no industry left. #EUAuto #EUCompetitiveness

Infantino as UN Secretary-General? Try Head of the Board of Peace instead. The prize should match the achievement: loyalty, not global governance. #UN #Infantino

Trump wants FIFA President Gianni Infantino to become the next UN secretary-general: report

Trump reportedly wants FIFA President Gianni Infantino to become the next UN secretary-general, citing his ability to bring people together.

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Studying abroad used to be for the wealthy. Erasmus made it fee-free, with credit recognized across 33 countries. The result: alumni have 23% lower unemployment and are 44% more likely to reach management — EU Commission data. Shared rules build careers. Build more. #EuropeLeads #FederalEurope

Can someone tell him that they don’t give Nobel prizes for War.. So he shouldn’t try too hard… #NobelPeacePrize #Iran #Hormuz

Live updates: US says it struck more Iranian targets after Trump warned of retaliation for deaths of service members | CNN

The US completed more strikes against Iran, US Central Command said late Monday, hours after President Donald Trump warned that Tehran would pay for the deaths of three service members over the past f...

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In 2017, the EU abolished roaming charges. One rule, 27 countries — within two years, mobile data use while traveling was up 17 times. Imagine applying that same logic to capital, energy, defense. One market. No more surcharge for being European. #EuropeLeads #FederalEurope

We have 2 indicted heads of state. One faces war crimes. The other faces war crimes, crimes against humanity, and a UN court’s “plausible” finding of genocide. The EU sanctioned the first in days. The second still has a trade agreement. Can we make things right, @kajakallas.bsky.social?

For a decade, Europe’s brightest built careers in Silicon Valley. Not anymore. A $100,000 US visa fee and layoffs are pushing global talent back our way — the flow has reversed for the first time in years. We didn’t win this. Time to build something worth staying for. #EuropeLeads #FederalEurope

From Silicon Valley to the Seine: Europe is gaining tech workers | Revelio Labs

In this week’s newsletter and in collaboration with The Economist, we examine labor market data to track the flow of tech talent between the United States and Europe. For decades, the United States ha...

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“Beijing did not have to fire a shot, spend vast sums or use up political capital. But it has gained more from this crisis than any in three decades,” Fareed Zakaria writes. https://wapo.st/44BmM89

State media calls a rival’s reshuffle a regime collapsing, officials “devouring each other.” Its own commentators, same week, say Russia should copy that ability to remove weak leadership. Even the propaganda disagrees with itself. #Russia

Sanctions on oligarchs failed. Four years on, they're more dependent on the Kremlin, not less. Approval fell from 71% to 66% in a week — sharpest drop since 2022 — over fuel queues. Pressure on people moved the number. What else could? #Russia

The document burden looks neutral on paper. Its enforcement isn’t — state officials decide how strictly to apply it, and Arizona shows the difference. It doesn’t need to swing an electorate. A close race needs 1-2%, in the right precinct. #SAVEAct

States Already Enacting Harmful SAVE Act Policies, Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Vote

Despite the antidemocratic federal bill stalling in the Senate, new state laws that mimic parts of it will restrict voting for millions of Americans.

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ASML, a Dutch firm, builds the only machines making the world's most advanced chips. Europe passed on using it — Intel's flagship fab was cancelled in 2025, for lack of demand. We don't need a bigger monopoly. We need an industry worth building it for. #EuropeLeads #StrategicAutonomy

ASML's roadmap for chipmaking lithography tools examined — from DUV to Low-NA, High-NA, Hyper-NA, and beyond

The machines that print every advanced chip are becoming larger, more expensive, and increasingly difficult to build.

tomshardware.com

He went way beyond the US territory… he successfully managed to export it world wide..

Outspoken™️@out5p0ken.bsky.social · 3w ago

Trump promised to end the inflation nightmare. Instead, he created one for the whole of the US, making our wallets smaller and our gas tanks more expensive to fill. @rweingarten.bsky.social ‼️