My views on the manufactured Ceuta migration crisis www.cnn.com/2026/08/04/t...

Migrant crisis in Spain was ‘a manufactured political crisis,’ says analyst | CNN

Bianna Golodryga speaks with Nathalie Tocci a former adviser to tje EU Foreign Policy Chief, about the recent influx of tens of thousands of migrants from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta las...

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Let it be clear: you are wanted here.

I'll go nation by nation now. In England, why did people not vote Labour? Interesting split here where non-Labour voters overall cite competence/cost of living/migration BUT Labour 2024 defectors talk about values - Lab as 'Tory lite', uncertainty over what they stand for. (sorry for small graph)

Britain "at the heart of Europe", 2026 edition:

This is truly important work by @hopenothate.org.uk.

HOPE not hate@hopenothate.org.uk · 3mo ago

Reform UK claimed to have the “best vetting in the country”. Their candidates told a different story. Here are some with records of racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, conspiracy theories and links to far-right groups. They are now in office and must be held to account. 🧵

Exclusive: Sadiq Khan calls for “very talented” Andy Burnham to be allowed to return as an MP and says the UK should rejoin the EU without a second referendum. www.arguably.uk/p/sadiq-khan...

Sadiq Khan on how to rejoin the EU

The mayor on why Andy Burnham should return and why we don’t need a second referendum

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On 7 May 2026, Britain ran a PR experiment: Scottish Parliament: a Mixed-Member Proportional system Welsh Senedd: a (new) Low-Magnitude Party List system Same day, same political context, different outcomes. Which version of PR would be better for Westminster? 🧵

Happy Europe Day! 🇪🇺❤️ Unity. Solidarity. Cooperation. Let’s celebrate what Europe has achieved. Looking back to 9 May 1950, when Europe turned a corner, shaping the EU we know today.

Labour has done a great deal of damage to itself and the country by making “win over a caricature of Reform voters” and “panicked stakeholder management” its only governing priority. Time to make “win over a caricature of Green voters” and “panicked stakeholder management” the aim instead.

From the outside, there are indeed funny aspects to Brexit. The fact that migration went heaps up is certainly the funniest bit.

In a recent interview, French political analyst Nicolas Tenzer explains why many political leaders avoid addressing Russia’s crimes despite overwhelming evidence. Here’s what he said 👇

Europeans have to step up and defend their own interests because the U.S., China and Russia are now all “dead against” them, French President Emmanuel Macron warned today.

Europeans must recognize US, China and Russia are ‘dead against’ us, says Macron

French president also said he expected tensions with the U.S. to outlast Trump

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The key question is why? Why is the EU a target for Trump and the US? The answer is neo-royalism. The EU is a rules based system that puts constraints on personalist leaders. This is not simply a beef or spat. It is a competition between orders. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Finbarr Bermingham@fbermingham.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Kaja Kallas: "What I think is actually important for everybody to understand is that the US has been very clear that they want to divide Europe. They don't like the European Union"

Exceptionally grim @financialtimes.com essay by Keir Giles of @chathamhouse.bsky.social: archive.ph/287LE

Perhaps a good time to bring up again our proposal with @dimitrispieker.bsky.social and Ulrich Karpenstein on how to suspend Hungary’s voting rights based on a breach of solidarity in CFSP: www.delorscentre.eu/en/publicati...

A Matter of Solidarity: A New Approach to Revive Article 7 TEU Against Hungary

Viktor Orbán increasingly undermines the EU’s collective interests. The Hungarian government systematically uses its veto powers to block Ukrainian military aid and accession negotiations and to dilu...

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This is what electoral interference in European elections looks like - per the USG NSS strategy last year

I never really sign stuff. But this was different. It's not about trying to facilitate or block a particular party's route to power. It's about an electoral system that's unsuited to the political realities we face today and risks giving us government after government with no convincing mandate.

Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics

Dozens of academics have written to the government to warn that the current voting system risks producing distorted results on an 'unprecedented' s...

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Lack of a common foe enfeebled Europe — but not any more, says Simon Kuper ft.trib.al/DSHzkRZ

On Brexit, are there “glimmers of hope that the UK may be preparing to turn the page of this costly national psychodrama” asks Martin Leng: big-europe.eu/publications...

Brexit Britain has one viable option left: Europe

Almost ten years since the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, the Brexiteers’ pilgrimage to ‘sunlit uplands’ has instead become a national Via Dolorosa – a painful procession of...

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One of the most depressing things about Carney’s brilliant speech is the certain knowledge that neither Keir Starmer nor any other senior British politician of any party could have given anything like it - even if they understood the arguments.

“Principled and pragmatic: Canada’s path” Prime Minister Carney addresses the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting

Thank you, Larry.It’s a pleasure – and a duty – to be with you at this turning point for Canada and for the world.Today, I’ll talk about the rupture in the world order, the end of a nice story, and th...

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European weakness on full display by these horribly contorted responses from Merz, Macron and Starmer - neither condoning nor condemning US actions in Venezuela Such weakness only risks making the Europeans more vulnerable (ie Greenland)

Reflections on the European Council decision to borrow €90 billion and lend it to Ukraine. Tl; dr: Ukraine benefits, but not enough; Putin & Trump will be encouraged; the EU & individual member-states have shown that it’s still too easy to intimidate them. 🧵1/13

If we can't even identify our enemies then how can we fight them? Trump's National Security Strategy is the longest suicide note in American history www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The Longest Suicide Note in American History

The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.

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The Berlin meeting.

Persuasive letter on populism as a cognitive short-cut in the @financialtimes.com

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

Read in full 👉

Commission President Von der Leyen’s 2025 State of the Union Address. A call to action, but is anybody listening? - UK in a changing Europe

Hussein Kassim reflects on Ursula von der Leyen's State of the Union address on Wednesday 10 September and her terms as President of the European Commission.

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This very much aligns with my view: eulogy for the transatlantic alliance has now to be written. Time for Europe to move on. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump or no Trump, Europe’s relationship with the US will never recover | Nathalie Tocci

Optimists cling to a faith in the old alliance, but the best we can achieve is an amicable divorce, says Guardian Europe columnist Nathalie Tocci

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Europe’s State of the Union address is becoming a political ritual, symbolizing the slow maturing of the EU as a political entity, writes columnist Caroline de Gruyter. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/09/e...

Europe Has Found Its True Language

The State of the Union has become a yearly ritual that breathes life into the EU.

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Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...