Think this is right. You don’t bring a knife to a gun fight. You don’t react with policy to emotional politics. Brexit is about pathos, not logos.

Die beste Meisterschaft überhaupt! Glückwunsch @eisbaeren.de #mitTobi #1Team1Dream

So the WTO can close up now?

Very sad to say, but I have no inclination whatsoever to travel to the US anytime soon.

Good to see the scale of interest upon the report’s presentation in Westminster on 5 March, and at a round table the day after, with @henningmeyer.bsky.social & @xauga.bsky.social, inter alia. The Zeitenwende as our very own Zeitgeist. Thanks to @mds49.bsky.social for the invitation.

FT economists’ poll: Germany can spend almost €2tn without harming growth - survey finds ‘large fiscal capacity’, but economists urge would-be chancellor Friedrich Merz to spend funds wisely www.ft.com/content/fd0c...

He is smashing up his countries own assets. Quite unbelievable.

Das ist sehr eindeutig!

Just now in Westminster…

Very good news out of Germany today!

yep...

Immer noch nichts kapiert.

We are finally getting the fiscal policy we - and Europe - need.

hmm...

A bit of commentary in the @financialtimes.com

"It’s craven. He’s basically fearful of Trump." Marty Baron, former executive editor of the Washington Post, interprets what Jeff Bazos announced this morning. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

Ohne eine Reform der Schuldenbremse wird die SPD Mitgliedschaft keinem Koalitionsvertrag zustimmen. So einfach ist das.

Die ARD wird wohl tagesschau24, das ZDF angeblich ZDFinfo behalten. Zur Zeit sieht es damit so aus, als wäre phoenix ab dem 12. März Geschichte. Hier kann man noch unterschreiben, wenn man das keine gute Idee findet 👇

Ohne eine Reform der Schuldenbremse wird die SPD Mitgliedschaft keinem Koalitionsvertrag zustimmen. So einfach ist das.

That‘s a good message. #streetart #Berlin

What truly shocks me: Across Europe – Germany included – so many people seem so disengaged from politics that they neither notice nor grasp the tectonic shifts reshaping the world around them. The naivety is simply breathtaking.

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Washington post’s top two stories 1. Trump wants to shift the US towards Russia 2. Trump admin to cut defence budget by 40% over next five years. Is this policy made in Moscow and Beijing or what?

Repeat after me: „Nobody restricts freedom of speech in Europe!“ Two days ago, I saw a man walking on Berlin‘s Unter den Linden with a picture around his neck showing Putin and saying „Putin means peace“.

Interesting piece by Jonathan White. It is indeed the marrying of narrative-based politics sustained by evidence based policies the centre-left has struggled with.

It’s coooooold in Berlin…

Hard to put it more succinctly than @gideonrachman.bsky.social

Europa beginnt wieder über eine eigene nukleare Abschreckung zu diskutieren. Wer sich schon mal über die Schwierigkeiten fit machen will, dies hier habe ich vor exakt 1 Jahr mit Matthias Krupa geschrieben, mit Aussagen von @hfayet.bsky.social und @drfranksauer.bsky.social www.zeit.de/2024/08/eu-a...

Just for some perspective on spending power on security…

It’s also a good time for Europe to build closer political ties with Canada and Mexico… www.socialeurope.eu/trumps-trade...

Sorry, aber diese Sendung ist echt schlecht. #Problembär #Quadrell

Hätte man nicht über das Dschungelcamp diskutiert, dannhätte man bei der wichtigen Krieg und Frieden Frage keine „Zäsur“ machen müssen. Das ist mir alles zu viel Boulevard. #Quadrell

Habeck hat vollkommen recht. Was sind das für Fragen? #Quadrell

Weidel war eindeutig auf der Baumschule #quadrell

Good that there is increasing understanding in BXL & MS that Trump 2.0 wants to fundamentally undermine #EU (finally). Consequently transactional logic not THE answer. More European efforts & cooperation required. Very difficult decisions ahead related to war & peace under immense (time) pressure.

Eine Frage zum Dschungelcamp? Echt jetzt? #Quadrell

Trump Geseier von Weidel. Am ersten Tag werden 4000 km Grenze geschützt. Personal? Fragen sie beim BKA. So billig versucht sie die Leute für dumm zu verkaufen. #Quadrell

Already in 2018, I warned in a piece for the @ecfr.eu that the EU needs to invest more in its defense as it was only a question of time that Trump would use the US' military protection of Europe to blackmail Europeans. Let's hope that our leaders now have learned the lesson. ecfr.eu/article/comm...

Bin mal gespannt, ob beim heutigen #Quadrell die wirklich wichtigen Fragen diskutiert werden. #wahlabend

Breakdown and disruption seems to be the recipe also for international/global politics. Looking forward to the conclusions from the European leaders summit in Paris tomorrow. No appeasement must be made with Trumps conservative counter-revolution

Remember my fellow Europeans: as fucked as Europe seems today, it is quite probably still less fucked than America.

I am all for US territorial expansion. They should fast-track a Mars colonisation mission and send Elon on the very first rocket out. He can become the governor of Mars.

This is probably the most accurate take.

Great to see our recent Social Europe work referenced in the @financialtimes.com Europe Express Weekend Newsletter.

👇🏻👇🏻

Europe can’t rely on the strength of the transatlantic relationship to help contain Russia’s threat – it must lead from the front and be the true force of support that Ukraine needs. Not just for Ukraine’s sake, but for a free and sovereign Europe.

Disgusting.

Excellent trolling. China senses that the role of Europe‘s best friend has been vacated…

@reckless.bsky.social any news what is going on with Mistral? Hasn’t been mentioned in the AI wars in quite a while…

One can only hope that Trump creates so much domestic chaos that he is distracted from tearing down the international order.