New milestone in EU-Viet Nam relations. Today, the EU and Viet Nam upgraded their relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership. It reflects shared interests on regional and global challenges and will contribute to stability and prosperity. More info➡️ link.europa.eu/3TQnY9

25. Januar 1938 #Nationalsozialismus #NS #Faschismus #Schutzhaft #Gestapo #Willkür #KZ #Konzentrationlsager #Verhaftungen #Deportation #politischeHaft (See alt-text for English)

Smallbones was horrified. In Germany he witnessed increasing state violence against Jews. He wrote constant warnings to the Foreign Office. The Nazis officially complained, after Smallbones daughter horse-whipped a Gestapo officer to try and stop the abduction of a Jewish man on the street. /3

7️⃣ Political reality So legally, blocking measures at that stage requires an active negative QMV. At the same time, COM is committed to seeking the widest possible MS support. In short: hard to block legally, but politically designed to move with Member States sentiments.

4️⃣ Response measures If coercion persists, COM may adopt response measures. And here is where it gets interesting. In contrast to classical trade defense measures, the ACI can pull *a lot* of different levers from targeting services/IP protection to excluding firms from public procurement.

🧵 Trump’s Greenland brinkmanship puts the EU’s Anti-Coercion Instrument back on the table. Few cases fit economic coercion more cleanly. But the ACI is often misunderstood. It’s not a bazooka, but a slow-loading cannon, able to fire anything from heavy shells to hot air. Here’s how it works ⬇️

Chair of European Parliament’s trade committee Bernd Lange says MEPs should halt their discussions on lowering tariffs on US goods as part of the EU trade deal, following Trump’s Greenland tariff announcement. Adds it’s now time to launch the anti-coercion instrument

If you missed this question to Nigel Farage from The Critic's Rob Hutton – and it was over an hour into the press conference – then it was a particularly good one. The answer was... vague.

We've successfully relocated a full thermal power plant from Lithuania to Ukraine, completing our largest-ever coordinated logistical operation. This transfer restores critical energy capacity and directly reinforces Ukraine's national grid. Find out more ➡️ link.europa.eu/NmfTbc

“[I do not] commend the saying “nothing in excess” because one must hate evil men to the extreme” “οὐδὲ τὸ μηδὲν ἄγαν· δεῖ γὰρ τούς γε κακοὺς ἄγαν μισεῖν”. #Aristotle

"maybe even for the best that some of us will be unwelcome on basically any social platform" what are you, the fucking joker?? You think the point of journalism is to troll people or some shit? Sorry but people are yelling at you because they're sick of your shit & you're doing a bad job