In EU capitals, the UK, while important on defence, is not much thought about anymore. The EU has a lot of other headaches - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/europe-readi... @andyburnham.bsky.social #Brexit

Another EU-UK rehash, some might say. But come on, there’s about to be a new PM, making the same mistakes and some new ones… My latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

If you can’t trust your public broadcaster, who can you trust? My latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Nasty ultranationalism is kind of the default for much of Europe’s past - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Money problems - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

The leaders of Europe’s big countries will have to understand that hopes of Trump being restrained by the new Congress are very premature - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/us-midterms-... #G7 #Trump #Elections

Don’t get your hopes up for the US midterms - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Large tech corporations will not follow adequate safeguards if not forced to do so, either by regulation or a threat to their profits, preferably both - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/what-the-int... #AI #Regulation

Fear and loathing in AI - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Control over borders or leaning into anti-migration sentiment? - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

The EU’s problems with centralising its economic power closely mirror those with streamlining its geopolitical power - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/eu-budget-ba... #EU #Budget

The EU budget: You know it’s bad when there’s talk of doing more with less… - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

The EU and future US administrations will need to balance how to stabilise the region while managing its relations with an ever more divergent, erratic and increasingly uncomfortable ally - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/israels-divo... #Israel #EU #Trump

Israel and the West. If not a divorce yet, estrangement is looming- my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

All plug in for Europe’s very necessary energy transition (if your grid is not overloaded) my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Xi Jinping and Donald Trump met as recently as October last year and agreed a trade truce that’s still in place. Why mess with that? - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/europe-watch... #XiJinping #Trump

Trump meets Xi next week. What to do when two big bullies divide the spoils? My latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

With allies like these, who needs enemies? - my latest for Tomorrow’s Affairs

Some pacts might have a sell-by-date, but others form the pillar of a stable world order and should not so easily be messed with - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/shifting-all... #NATO #Trump #IranWar‌

Erdoğan’s heavy-handed policies give the bloc the excuse it needs to hold off on closer ties while still having enough leeway to cooperate where it counts for Brussels - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/for-the-eu-e... @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu #Erdogan #Imamoglu #Orban

Hungary was an irritant, but for the EU, Turkey poses more of a dilemma - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war, but it won’t bring stability to the Middle East- my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

The Iran war has not just shown the utter emptiness of Europe’s role on the world stage. It has made clear how helpless the continent, including Britain, is to defend its own interests - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/another-uk-e... #UKEU #Brexit #IranWar‌

Brexit, the gift that keeps on resetting- my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

For Ukraine the only choice seems ever greater self-reliance and extending its alliances further afield - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/ukraine-the-... #IranWar‌ #Gulf #Trump #Ukraine

Nobody likes to spend money on weapons but not having hard power also comes at a price - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Europe’s far-right is here to stay, is the message from recent election results across the continent. For those who were wishing them away, my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Enshittification everywhere, not just online - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Enshittification and Trump’s transactional way of dealing with the world are two sides of the same coin - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/an-online-ph... #Trump #AI

Israel and the US are deliberately misidentifying the core of many of the Middle East’s security problems as being Iran, while ignoring a root cause: the fate of the #Palestinians - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/iran-fog-of-... #IranWar‌ #Trump #Netanyahu

Israel and the US: let’s pretend all our problems go away if we deal with Iran - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

What #Europe needs desperately is a new bunch of leaders who will chart their own course, rather than being overly preoccupied with surveys and electoral extinction - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/europe-fades... #Starmer #Macron #IranWar

Europe’s reaction to the Iran crisis is all over the place. It’s just one symptom of a lack of leadership and political direction in major countries- my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

In Iraq, we saw both the perils of ill-thought-out interventions and the laws of unintended consequences. It should give pause to those rushing to war - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/on-iran-be-c... #Iran #Trump #Israel

Iran, Iraq, they’re all the same… well no, actually- my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

The EU is following the far-right, Trump and ICE script on migration, with all that follows for democracy and human rights - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

The EU must by now be leading internationally in ‘competitiveness’ meetings, what an achievement - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Money makes the world order go round - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

The EU should stop pussyfooting around on Ukraine - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Notwithstanding its newfound zeal to defend European sovereignty, France’s far-right Rassemblement National remains profoundly anti-EU and hence also a favourite of Trump’s MAGA project - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/greenland-an...

France’s RN trying very hard to be mainstream Gaullists - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

The impact of #Trump 's current policies need not be consequential or long-lasting, it just needs to be highly visible and dominate the news cycle - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/the-impact-o... #USIran #Greenland

Germany, new darkness at the heart of Europe? My take for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

A good rant at knobheaded mainstream politicians is all well and good but we should not forget that many alternatives are much, much worse - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

The failure to have a full inquiry into 7 October further signals Israel’s democratic decline - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Someone will have to do the job, and that someone could very well be an #AI . As the technology evolves, that could happen in as yet unforeseen ways - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/lets-hope-ai... #JobSecurity #unemployment

We’re all replaceable, but even AI 🤖 says it shouldn’t be trusted to write about itself, so here’s my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

The European Union has taken another step on the journey from being a rule maker to becoming a rule taker - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/eu-deregulat... #Regulation

Towards a Putinov-Ribbentrump pact? My latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Just as the need for European cooperation on defence and technological independence is becoming glaringly obvious, the EU is facing the implosion or ‘scaling back’ of several crucial projects - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/europes-defe... #Defense