“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” - Garry Kasparov

The EU won't publicly tell the US to f*ck off. This might be frustrating, but it is the only sensible thing to do.

Bang on from Ed Luce and Martin Sandbu. Getting the Ukraine loan passed is now a key litmus test for Europe if it’s a herbivore in a carnivore world.

5 minutes after FIFA gives him a fake medal Trump wants to rename American football.

The mediocrity of Belgium's politicians - from all linguistic and ideological sides - seems to be infinite. The debate on the reparation loan for Ukraine is simply lunar.

🚨 Explosive report by Bloomberg: The US has lobbied “several” EU countries to derail the reparations loan for Ukraine, arguing the Russian assets are needed to achieve a peace deal and shouldn’t be used to “prolong the war”.

Europeans have pointlessly reassured themselves with Trump’s supposed unpredictability. When it comes to Europe, this admin is consistent and predictable. As the #NSS clarifies,it’s in the business of tearing Europe apart by supporting far right nationalists backed by Russia too

Eisenhower would be rolling in his grave. The idea that the US wants the "unapologetic celebration" of European nationalism is bonkers. Suppressing Euro nationalism is why we fought in WWII and in large part why we stayed in Europe forever after.

Des ennemis plus hostiles et actifs que jamais et un allié qui cesse de l’être officiellement. Mais le problème c’est les va-t-en guerre qui réclament un véritable et substantiel réarmement hein

Zaza in @demorgen.be

It's actually even worse than I first understood. But I agree with @alanderminna.bsky.social here: at least the ambiguity is gone.

And they get applause by the Marxist PTB party - the European left's most radical useful idiots on the topic. What a nightmare. www.lesoir.be/715025/artic...

Bart De Wever and GL Bouchez, Belgium's two most influential politicians, argue their resistance to the reparation loan with speaking points that Putin would love: - Ukraine is corrupt - Russia won't lose the war anyway - let's negotiate What a lack of backbone by these 2 bigmouths

Mystery solved: the remaining €25 billion in Russian sovereign assets located inside the EU are in... France, Belgium, Sweden, Germany and Cyprus. These assets are located in private banks, as opposed to central securities depositories like Euroclear, which has €185 billion.

Ukraine, pacifisme et propagande antidémocratique. www.instagram.com/reel/DRzO1CW...

Luxembourg's PM Luc Frieden - once a sceptic - “is confident” there will be an agreement on the reparation loan for Ukraine at the December EUCO. via @wort.lu www.wort.lu/politik/luc-...

Luxembourg's PM Luc Frieden - once a sceptic - “is confident” there will be an agreement on the reparation loan for Ukraine at the December EUCO. via @wort.lu www.wort.lu/politik/luc-...

Why must the college of Europe cheat its way into the EU's civil service? I always thought it was its official youngsters' provider anyways.

Italian socialist are a great asset for the EU's soft power.

Mais l'important c'est de faire des chroniques et des dessins antimilitaristes rigolos en crachant sur Macron et les va-t-en guerre* parce qu'on est de gôche voyez-vous... (En reprenant les mêmes bêtises que Ségolène Royal, les LR ou Zemmour par ex. mais bon ça c'est pas un problème semble-t-il...)

Pathetic. For seventeen years national governments have been blocking the European anti-discrimination directive. It tells you all you need to know about their commitment (none) to common European values (the ones they expect immigrants to embrace)

Punchy stuff from Sandbu "3 times Trump has tried to bounce Ukraine into conceding to Russian demands... 3 times Europeans have scrambled to change his mind... how many more lessons do they need to conclude that the transatlantic relationship is over?" www.ft.com/content/8...

For the Guardian, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social and I write about how building new homes is not enough to tackle the housing crisis. Housing is a redistributive issue and progressive policy solutions need to acknowledge that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

SciencePo ULB is hiring a full time associate professor in IR. Share widely!

"La Russie ne nous veut aucun mal", épisode 36598845212.

Pas de Justice, pas de Paix. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

. @lsap-lu.bsky.social, @deigreng.bsky.social an @dei-lenk.bsky.social sinn am gang de Zuch ze verpassen, fir d'Alphabetiseierung op Lëtzebuergesch ze fuerderen an domadder: 1. eng sozial wuel mei gerecht Iddi ze lancéieren 2. d'ADR abseits ze spillen 3. sennvoll Oppositioun ze maachen

If Russia wanted peace, they would stop killing Ukrainians. If the US wanted peace, they would stop Russia.

No, Mr. Bart DeWever, this is nothing but a Russian narrative. What deal are you talking about? The Russian plan that amounts to Ukraine's capitulation and will herald a full-scale war on Europe? Did you forget the hundreds of thousands murdered by Russia? #MakeRussiaPay www.ft.com/content/320b...

“Speaking outside his chateau in France…” I kid you not. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨The Russian government has banned us as an “undesirable” foreign organization. Our work hasn’t changed. But what’s changed is Russia’s full-throttled embrace of dictatorial policies, its staggering rise in repression & the scope of the war crimes its forces are committing in Ukraine. bit.ly/48mvicJ

A chaque fois qu'il est question des constructions russes flambantes neuves à Marioupol, je ne peux m'empêcher de me demander si des corps ukrainiens sont enfouis en dessous, c'est comme ça. #effroi

Vraiment, les commentaires "on va me prendre mes enfants" en face des mots "service volontaire", c'est dramatique. Jouez à vous faire peur, continuez, histoire de refuser de voir les bouleversements actuels de notre continent.

He was already against it before there was any peace process. So this argument is quite silly.

While the timing of this raid may be unfortunate (it cd encourage Trump to think Zelenskyy is in a weak position & can be bullied into accepting a bad peace deal), if investigators are allowed to follow the evidence where it leads, that will be a sign of Ukraine's growing political maturity.

Bart De Wever is not the responsible leader he pretends to be On the use of Russian assets, he continues adding demands and inventing new excuses for not accepting While his point was legitimate in the beginning, he's now becoming a liability for Europe's security www.politico.eu/article/russ...

Polish cartoonist Andrzej Rysuje nails it.

...absolutely no one else has any interest in or record of invading Ukr but Ru, this opposition is nothing but a clear tell that Ru absolutely intends to invade Ukraine a third time. No one should be blind to this reality.

I wrote a short essay on the state of party membership in Europe for the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung www.kas.de/en/web/wisse...

« Certes on soutient l’Ukraine/la résistance ukrainienne mais gnagna la guerre c’est mal et les armes c’est très méchant ». En vrai vous faites quoi pour les Ukrainien/nes? Que dalle. Donc juste taisez-vous déjà. La base quoi.

Franchement vos takes petées sur l’Ukraine, j’ai l’impression de me retrouver en 2013 avec le débat sur l’intervenion en Syrie. Rien n’a changé à gauche, vous êtes toujours aussi nuls.

Une part (historienne) de moi est épuisée par le flot continu de débilités sorties par les pires réacs qui fantasment sur la Rome antique. Une part (hellénophile) se dit secrètement que c’est bien fait et qu’une civilisation aussi psychorigide et virilo-militariste a les fans qu’elle mérite 😉

C'est à ça qu'on sait qu'il l'a vraiment écrit. ChatGPT n'aurait pas fait aussi naze.

Excellent read: how EU taxpayers’ money is going to marketing funds promoting intensive meat and dairy production (often with bogus claims) The 2020 #FarmToFork strategy committed to making the EU promotion policy more sustainable but naturally, it was another victim of the agri industry lobbying….

Remember when the trump administration colluding with the Kremlin was a "democrat hoax"?

That too

Looks like confirmation of the destruction of one of Russia's two high-power laser A-60 aircraft (refitted Il-76)

MEP could also simply have listened to @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu's presser on Monday. She isn't saying anything beyond it in the plenary.

Oh what a surprise