Punkt 9 i MOUn är denna ”Pending the final deal, [the US and Iran] agree to maintain the status quo. [Iran] Iran will maintain the current status quo of its nuclear program, and [the US] will not impose any new sanctions and will not deploy additional forces in the region” www.svt.se/nyheter/utri...

In a “multipolar” world, argue the leaders of Canada and Finland, middle powers “must form calibrated alliances, integrating deeply with those countries that share our values, and remain open-eyed with those that do not”

⚡️ Swedish activists launched a public campaign targeting global brands that continue to operate in Russia and support its war economy. united24media.com/world/swedis...

In February, it was already clear that the administration would make multiple attempts to manipulate the elections. From the Autocracy in America podcast: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

The war has come home and is everyone’s problem

For the most part an EU win.

Legendary reply

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

🚨 BREAKING: The US and Ukraine will discuss licensing local production of the Patriot air defense system to allow Ukraine to manufacture its own interceptor missiles. united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

More support is on the way, including for air defence and missile interception. The tide is turning.

Dear Volodymyr, it is good to see you in Ankara. Here, we are discussing the future of defence. And Ukraine has a great deal to contribute. This month, we have provided the first €4 billion of our drone package to further strengthen Ukraine's drone capabilities.

In this slightly longer summer read, I make the case for how Norway could change the game in Ukraine’s EU accession by joining the EU in the same enlargement round. If ever there was a win-win-win situation, this would be it ! (Worth reading to see a meme I made about Norway’s EU policy)

All as expected. #Fifa www.rbfa.be/en/news/upda...

Can we apply this logic to US steel and auto tariffs?

Posting a worker to another EU member state will become simpler and faster thanks to a new multilingual platform for companies. The e-declaration system for posted workers is a key deliverable of the ‘One Europe, One Market’ roadmap. More info → link.europa.eu/kkTRj3

Hungary has reportedly blocked a key EU procedural step needed to advance Ukraine and Moldova’s accession talks. The move follows the June 15 opening of the first accession cluster, but requires unanimous approval for the next steps, leaving the timeline for expansion talks uncertain.

Good that someone finally fills this entertainment niche. (Someone had to. It was ripe for exploitation)

Meloni now also ”taking down the sign” (along with Carney and Mertz).

Instämmer. När det gäller integration på arbetsmarknaden finns ett märkligt gap mellan verkligheten som den redovisas i officiell statistik och medierapportering. Många politiker har tyvärr intresse av att framställa invandring negativt men medierna borde kunna redovisa utvecklingen rättvisande.

The US-Iran agreement in full: edition.cnn.com/2026/06/17/m...

GENEVA (AP) - Swiss Foreign Ministry says signing ceremony for U.S.-Iran deal will take place Friday at Bürgenstock resort near Luzern. @apnews.com

The Brexit effect.

Handy.

Officials "took everything, demolished walls and ceilings, and killed our dogs" when they recently expropriated the home of Venezuelan opposition leader @leopoldolopez www.wsj.com/opinion/delc...

Shocking and offensive, also for the fact that FIFA doesn't protest www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

But then see Europe including the UK, applying sticking plasters to the idea of an old economy, where those who shout loudest (usually steel) are protected and their customers made worse-off. www.ft.com/content/d6f9...

🚨🚨 Huge breaking news from Brussels: Hungary has lifted its two-year-long veto on Ukraine's EU accession. Ukraine and Moldova will soon be able to open the first cluster of the accession process. The saga is over.

Spain’s center-left party has avoided the global populist backlash by engineering an economic boom—but the boom has created problems of its own, Rogé Karma argues:

arsenal of democracy…

"US Says $20.6 Billion of Tariff Refunds On the Way to Importers" Only $150B to go! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

OPCW inspectors visit Syria and find chemical warfare related materials the Assad regime claimed not to have. www.opcw.org/sites/defaul...

Friedrich Merz has proposed to grant "associate EU membership" to Ukraine. It would include: - Participation in EU institutions without voting rights - Step-by-step access to EU-funded programmes - Mutual assistance under Article 42.7 - Snap-back mechanism in case of backsliding Full story.

⚡️ Leaked documents show Russia's economy is hitting a wall with oil wells shutting down and banks facing collapse.

Trump approval rating below 40 percent for the first time this term in realclearpolitic’s poll of polls. www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approv...

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

India, Sweden seal strategic partnership deal

En ny dom i Europadomstolen ger Ali Sajjad och tusentals andra nytt hopp, skriver @kenanhabul.bsky.social

Long term, this is the Single most devastating effect for the US right now: losing its city-on-a-hill status

The European Commission is set to make cross-border rail travel easier, allowing passengers to book multiple legs of a journey across different rail operators in one ticket, according to proposals included in a broader mobility package published today.

The Council has authorised the signing of two agreements between the EU and Mexico: 🔹Modernised Global Agreement 🔹Interim trade agreement These deals mark a major step forward in modernising the EU-Mexico partnership. Facts & figures on EU-Mexico trade: link.europa.eu/FJtWpx

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 🇺🇦❗️Ukraine officially allows Russia to hold a parade on May 9, - Zelenskyy's decree

More savings than investment?

Trade court rules Trump’s replacement tariffs illegal

When Trump pulled out of the international nuclear agreement with Tehran in 2018, Iran lacked even a single bomb's worth of uranium. Since then, it accumulated 22,000 pounds of enriched uranium. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The arsenal of democracy.

Ukraine switches places with the US on this index

It has been a solid week of European natural gas filling. Daily rates are 0.26 pp / day, continuing at this pace would see storages reach 80% by 1 November (the EU agreed target).

With Section 301 investigations under way, the big question is not what this means for tariffs, but rather, what it means for the rule of law in trade. My latest for the FT: www.ft.com/content/2f56...

Big EU digital news: Commission has preliminarily found Meta's Instagram and Facebook in breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA) for failing to diligently identify, assess and mitigate the risks of minors under 13 years old accessing their services.

🇺🇦🇮🇱 Zelensky: In all normal countries, the acquisition of stolen goods is an act that entails legal liability. This applies, in particular, to grain stolen by Russia. Another ship with such grain has arrived at an Israeli port and is preparing to be unloaded.