Haha! Dutch partners: always there for you for a bit of constructive feedback. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
@rikwinkel.bsky.social
Amsterdammer atterri en Wallonie. Cretan in my dreams. European. 🇪🇺
Premium trolling. ~"If NATO wants to join an alliance with Ukraine, it must first carry out reforms"
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · yesterdayNATO's reliance on the "doctrines of World War II" and its slow adaptation to new forms of warfare make it unlikely Ukraine will ever join the alliance, said Kyiv's Ambassador to the U.K. and former Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi.
Too little too late, and also an entirely previsible case of spectacular deflation after the original mindless propagation of far-right talking points by 22 (mostly) supposedly centrist governments - incuding yours, @minister-president.bsky.social
Dave Keating@davekeating.substack.com · yesterdayEU home affairs ministers have released this statement following their video conference. I imagine that for most people in Spain, this will be considered too little too late. www.consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/...
Fraai overzicht van Franse politieke inschattingen die de mis in gingen
Le Canard enchaîné@lecanardenchaine.fr · yesterdayDe Mitterrand qui vire Rocard à Chirac et Macron qui dissolvent l'Assemblée, nos élus ont l’art de faire les mauvais choix au mauvais moment. Tour d’horizon de leurs pires décisions ⤵
Misschien dan ook in dat onderzoek meenemen hoe een land als Nederland, via een vice premier, zo snel kon reageren met zo'n opgefokte hitserige reactie.
NOS@nieuws.nos.nl · 2d agoKabinet: Europese Commissie moet onderzoeken hoe bestorming Ceuta kon gebeuren
A report from an alternative universe where Trump’s poll numbers haven’t cratered and he hasn’t lost the Iran war.
German economy minister Reiche's answer to Chinese EV competition is to weaken vehicle emissions rules. What decade does she live in? Reiche: "It is important that Brussels now delivers on making fleet regulation flexible enough to ensure that no fines are imposed"
There’s “off the charts” and there’s France’s absolutely bonkers June & July 2026 temperatures (see black line below). Bad things are happening. Fast.
Not just the far-right, but almost the entire institutional apparatus in the EU.
Alice Stollmeyer@stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 4d agoUkraine Foreign Affairs Minister: "We have detected intensive Russian propaganda campaign across Europe using pictures from Ceuta to sow destabilisation." Far-right from EU (& US!) falls with open eyes for hybrid threats from the weaponisation of migration, even fan the flames. #unity #solidarity
I call BS. Including link for reference, not because I want you to click. www.politico.eu/newsletter/b...
The Morning Post Europe is online with a Summer extra. My story: “European solidarity died at Ceuta”. Don’t forget to subscribe👇 europemorningpost.substack.com/p/ceuta-melo...
Ceuta: Meloni and von der Leyen put European solidarity to death
Good morning!
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Events of the past few days in Europe have been some of the most disturbing in many years - and not for the reasons given by much of the mainstream media. My latest open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p...
And yet...if you want the EU to become more state-like, political and powerful there is a strong likelihood that European policy and politics will experience the kind of bog standard party polarisation that always afflicts member states on a supra-national level
Alberto Alemanno@alemanno.bsky.social · 2d agoEU Ministers discuss Schengen this week over a crisis that never threatened Europe's free-movement area: no one leaves Ceuta without a border check. Instead, the EPP & far-right allies use this manufactured crisis whose price was paid by real lives to attack Spain's different stance to migration.
De (kleinere) noordelijke landen waren nooit het probleem bij de interne markt. Dus iets klopt niet in Letta's redenering.
Caroline de Gruyter@carolinedegruyter.bsky.social · 2d agoPlotseling is Enrico Letta optimistisch over hervormingen van de Europese interne markt en de toekomst van Europa. Het moment waarop hij het kwartje zag vallen? "Groenland." www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
You can talk about tech sovereignty and defence all you like, but it doesn't matter if you're caving in to hybrid attacks within five minutes. Might as well save the money on the weapons, frankly, if European leaders are just going to surrender to hybrid attacks like this.
John Springford@johnspringford.bsky.social · 2d agoTreating this as a pan-European crisis and closing borders disproportionately *encourages* other countries to use these tactics as political weapons. Sow division, isolate EU countries who are particular enemies.
EU Ministers discuss Schengen this week over a crisis that never threatened Europe's free-movement area: no one leaves Ceuta without a border check. Instead, the EPP & far-right allies use this manufactured crisis whose price was paid by real lives to attack Spain's different stance to migration.
How Europe lost the Battle of Ceuta; the four horsemen of the summer apocalypse; why Europe faces a climate sovereign doom loop; and why the Clacton by-election is not a joke - latest edition of Wealth of Nations just published open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p...
Europe's Defeat
How Europe lost the Battle of Ceuta; the four horsemen of the summer apocalypse; why Europe faces a climate sovereign doom loop; and why the Clacton by-election is not a joke
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Opinion: 'The world is walking a path toward a world war, and no one — including the president of the United States — seems to be in command of events.' www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o... 🎁
Opinion | World War Two-and-a-Half Is Breaking Out (Gift Article)
Whatever is happening in Iran, it isn’t working.
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Más de 25.000 migrantes han retornado ya a Marruecos de los aproximadamente 50.000 que han entrado de forma irregular a la ciudad autónoma de Ceuta desde la madrugada del viernes 30 de julio. efe.com/espana/2026-...
Retornados ya a Marruecos 25.000 migrantes de los 50.000 que han entrado a Ceuta - EFE
Centenares de migrantes que en las últimas horas habían accedido de forma irregular a Ceuta comenzaron este viernes a regresar a Marruecos
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Dat honderden Marokkanen naar Ceuta zwemmen is het gevolg van Europa's (en Spanje's) grensbeleid. En geen bestorming van Fort Europa door 'horden ' Afrikaanse migranten. @heindehaas.bsky.social legt het nog een keer uit.
In de USA is men ook bezorgd over de nachtelijke tweets van de president. Is hij wel OK? Toerekeningsvatbaar? Ondermijnt hij zijn eigen partij en beleid niet voortdurend met zulke erupties?
"Some 200bn to 300bn [postcards] were estimated to have been in circulation between 1895 and 1915." www.economist.com/britain/2026...
The world is entering a post-postcard age
This means fewer ghastly pictures of sunsets. More ghastly Instagram
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If everyone in the world lived like people in Belgium, humanity would need about 3.6 Earths, WWF said.
‘Overshoot day’: Today Earth has used up all resources it can sustainably generate in a year
'Overshoot day': Today Earth has used up all resources it can sustainably generate in a year
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