The Dutch government has objected to a proposed US law that would further restrict semiconductor equipment giant ASML from selling to China and servicing customers in the country

Op deze dag in 1940 werd Rotterdam gebombardeerd door de Duitse Luftwaffe. Het bombardement duurde nauwelijks een kwartier, maar de historische binnenstad werd verwoest. Ongeveer 650 tot 900 mensen kwamen om het leven en 80.000 mensen raakten dakloos

The Labour Party: “Once More, With Feeling”.

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China fields a military where 70-80% of soldiers are only children. Every battlefield death risks extinguishing a family line. This demographic reality shapes Xi's strategic calculus in ways Western analysis should pay more attention to. mickryan.substack.com/p/one-child-...

Chinese EV startup Xpeng in talks with Volkswagen to buy European factory, FT reports reut.rs/4ucpdJz

OTD in 1901 Witold Pilecki was born. He voluntarily entered Auschwitz to prove its existence and was later shot by Stalin's secret police for “working with foreign imperialism”.

“It is rare for the US public to agree on anything these days. Fear of AI is as close to a national consensus as it gets.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Why Americans dread AI

"Those batteries will charge during off-peak electricity times, when power is cheap. When energy demand increases and power prices go up, the batteries will discharge, keeping the freezers running and lights on while cutting the business’s utility costs." Things changing fast.

If true, a devastating failure by the US & Israel.

My Charlemagne this week is a report from inside the Brussels deep state. The EU is gaining power. But rank-and-file "eurocrats" who have spent their careers building the European project worry their influence is ebbing. www.economist.com/europe/2026/...

EU weighs get-out for gas leaks after US and fossil fuel industry pressure ft.trib.al/71Rlmnd

"MacIsaac claimed he had learned of the inaccurate information when the Sipekne’katik First Nation cancelled a concert appearance planned for 19 December, after members of the public complained, citing the misinformation they read on Google." www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

Ford Reportedly Selling A European Assembly Line To China’s Geely (owner of volvo) www.carscoops.com/2026/05/ford...

Welcome to the Great Hunkering Down ft.trib.al/ihsJEBp | opinion

On May 4th the Dutch remember their fallen. My tiny village has two memorials, one to the Jewish people taken away from here and murdered and to the Polish soldiers who died nearby. A short thread.

Make regulation better, simpler, less costly and integrate markets further: there is a case for optimism in Europe. My latest for The Economist. economist.com/finance-and-...

Bedrijf failliet ondanks SWOT-analyse - "Economen staan voor een raadsel."

Ontdekking van de dag: de Google street view auto is een Toyota Corolla

"Oekraïne is onontbeerlijk voor de Europese veiligheid nu de Amerikanen afhaken. Als het onderuit gaat, heeft Europa een levensgroot probleem." - @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social

Imagine spending your life getting worked up about tumble dryer regulations. Can't be good for your health. Go for a walk, breathe slowly, get some perspective, help reduce the blood pressure.

Inside the Swedish factory helping to re-arm Europe ft.trib.al/kND2XIB

1/ The EU-Mercosur deal entered into force last week. 25 years of negotiations, 700 million people, the largest trade agreement the EU has ever signed. Brazil's president framed it as a response to Trump's tariffs and a reaffirmation of multilateralism.

Unlike many cancers, colorectal cancer has become more lethal for people at younger ages. Doctors are sleuthing out why.

#brexit Anniversary is soon - 23 June 2016.

My dad is really enjoying his first week of retirement

It’s quite funny, when you consider that Brexiteers used to complain that the EU was too bureaucratic, to learn that the UK civil service has ballooned since 2016 from 385,000 to 516,000. That increase of 130,000 compares with an entire EU staff of just 60,000! open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p...

Trump auto tariff hike could cost Germany nearly $18 billion in output, institute says reut.rs/3PgGfXB

Very easy to see how loud voices take a society to self harm. Far harder to find practical ways of dealing with very difficult situations. The reason the EU can't easily retaliate against the US is it would harm the EU more. Even a bad deal is better than self harming.

Washington has warned European allies, including the UK, Poland, Lithuania and Estonia, to expect long delivery delays for US weapons — including Nasms and Himars — as it scrambles to replenish stockpiles depleted by the Iran war. Deliveries to Ukriane have already been delayed. w/ FT colleagues

Column uit Boedapest over een 'electorale revolutie' en hoe ongenaakbaar rechtspopulisten lijken. ‘Het is alsof ik toen een ander persoon was’, zegt een vriendin over het Orbán-tijdperk. Verbaasd: ‘Dat we onder dat systeem lééfden, dat het onze werkelijkheid was.’ www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achte...

RIP: The security dimension of the transatlantic relationship. 🪦

Absolutely fascinating translation of a senior Chinese diplomat in Kyiv's account of days leading up to & day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The most jarring thing: even the Chinese on the ground were trying to convince Kyiv that war was imminent but were brushed off

Having all the cards is, famously, not the goal in Uno.

2 May 1941 | A Yugoslavian Jewish girl, Eva Friedman, was born in Kanjiža (today in Serbia). In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

📊 Selon le baromètre mensuel d'@Ipsos, l'impact du conflit au Proche-Orient se fait sentir sur les opinions publiques, avec un net recul de la part de la population des grands pays développés qui estime que la situation économique de leur pays est bonne.

2 May 1876 | A German Sinti, Peter Böhmer, was born in Friedrichroda. In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 19 March 1943. No. Z-4851. He perished in the camp on 2 November 1943.

Kasteel en park van Beloeil. Zeer aan te raden. Picardisch Henegouwen is echt een verborgen parel, heel mooie streek.

Breaking news: The US president said he would begin to impose the tariffs next week, attacking the EU for not complying with the deal it struck with the US last year and escalating transatlantic trade tensions. ft.trib.al/abo3Ofv

“Mine the busiest shipping lane in the world” is quite the call.

30 April 1939 | A French Jewish girl, Henriette Michele Hacker, was born in Clichy. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 2 September 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

It's a very treatable form of cancer if caught early, yet younger adults rarely get screened. Patient advocates want more people to talk to their doctors about risk factors and number 2. n.pr/4tBeubc

The biggest ETS story ahead of the revision just dropped www.euractiv.com/news/brussel...

Artificial Intelligence in the Real Economy: A Visual Guide ft.trib.al/rBRc9F9

"[T]he Commission has preliminarily found Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA for failing to prevent minors under the age of 13 from accessing their services. [..] roughly 12 % of children under 13 are accessing Instagram or Facebook." ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Travel writer Temple Fielding explains Belgium for American readers in 1963.

This account of the collapse of domestic manufacturing in Russia due to state corruption is must-read material. It’s even more interesting in the context of a @zygaro.bsky.social essay on the trend toward deprivatizing Russian companies. open.substack.com/pub/zygaro/p...

When Romania’s Social Democrats teamed up with the far-right AUR yesterday to topple the PM, lawmakers in Brussels said the center left was doing exactly what it has long accused the center-right EPP of: Enabling the forces it has vowed to isolate. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/euro...

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Some news I’ve been waiting to share: Next week sees the opening of BRUSK in Bruges - one of the most ambitious new cultural centres in Europe. I’ve spent the last three years as lead curator of its inaugural exhibition 1/5