🇳🇱🇺🇦 New Dutch Prime Minister Promises to Help Ukraine "The struggle in Ukraine concerns the security of all of Europe. That is why we continue to provide long-term financial and military support and will continue to advocate for the use of frozen Russian assets."

This is huge. And my guess is that this doesn't lead to a two speed Europe but a mass bandwagon effect. If the Six agree others will almost all follow.

Friedrich Merz just now: “In recent weeks, we’ve felt some of the happiness that comes with self-respect. Let us make something of this newly stirring self-confidence among Europeans.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvQQ...

Sweden’s finance minister, Elisabeth Svantesson, opens up a discussion of Euro membership for Sweden. www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

This is not confirmed, but would not be the first time France has put national interests above Ukraine. The Telegraph says Paris blocked EU cash being used to purchase Storm Shadow missiles from the UK, even though they are available now and France cannot supply.

When two major democracies act together, we build stronger shared security. It was a great pleasure to sign a new EU–India Security and Defence Partnership with Foreign Minister Jaishankar today. (1/3)

Europe and India are making history today. We have concluded the mother of all deals. We have created a free trade zone of two billion people, with both sides set to benefit. This is only the beginning. We will grow our strategic relationship to be even stronger.

INDIA TRADE SECY : INDIA-EU HAVE CONCLUDED TALKS OVER TRADE AGREEMENT, DEAL TO BE ANNOUNCED TOMORROW

Odds of a mining bonanza in Greenland are abysmally low • Getting mine running in Arctic can cost 2-3 times as much as equivalent project at lower latitudes • Island’s two big rare-earth projects have been plagued by difficulties and have yet to start operations www.economist.com/briefing/202...

Ursula von der Leyen and António Costa are guests of honor at India’s Republic Day celebrations today, as the two sides gear up to reach an agreement for a new EU-India trade deal. Brussels Playbook has more 👇

Nobody can accuse Carney of not exerting leadership. Calling out the emperor for having no clothes has created a cascade. And it plays well domestically in these countries. The age of pandering is mostly over.

Europe stood firm and united in full solidarity with Greenland & the Kingdom of Denmark. Work on Arctic security continues. We'll step up investments in Greenland and Arctic-ready equipment. And deepen security cooperation with partners in the region ↓ link.europa.eu/RtKdCV

”Flummoxed” indeed.

Agriculture is only a tiny part of EU-Mercosur free-trade agreement • EU tariff cuts on Mercosur-made meat will apply only to small share of European imports • Real economic rationale of deal could lie in industrial and services trade, as well as mineral products www.economist.com/europe/2026/...

Americans need to listen to some European news coverage today. Check out BBC World! 🌍

I would want to force all those who voted in favor of the motion to stall Mercosur from within the Green, Liberal & Social Democratic groups to listen to yesterday‘s Carney speech. They have understood exactly nothing about the world Europe finds itself in.

What a spectacular own goal by a majority in the European Parliament.

Trump threatened to impose new tariffs on several European countries unless Denmark sells Greenland to the United States. As a matter of domestic law, however, the US president has no authority to apply tariffs for this purpose.

European Commission: At a time when the territory of a member state is literally threatened with invasion, we must seize every opportunity to emphasise the EU's geopolitical ambition. European Parliament: those beef farmers tho.

Unbelievable.

Netherlands should join and offer to host the first meeting at the exclusive, famous, gilded and very luxurious palace called "The Hague".

Frankly: it is ridiculous that Russia (population circa 145 million, awful demographics, GDP of about the same size as Italy) is a security threat to Europe that requires US help to manage. But it currently is. Reversing that is the first aim. And very very achievable.

Great speech by Carney. All medium-sized powers should adopt the Carney doctrine. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...

Here is the full text of Carney's speech. Very much worth reading. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...

Geopolitical shocks can - and must - be an opportunity for Europe. The seismic shift underway makes it both possible & necessary to build a new European independence. From security to the economy. From defence to democracy. Europe is gathering speed. → link.europa.eu/6qt6hC

US consumers bore 96% of the cost of the 2025 Trump tariffs. Impeccable timing for this paper by @julianhi.nz and colleagues at @kiel.institute. www.kielinstitut.de/de/publikati...

Why was the prospect of a peace deal talked up by several Western leaders a couple of weeks ago? There was never any indication from Russia that it was seriously considering it. At least not at this point.

Swedish PM Ulf Kristersson responds to Trump's tariffs: "We will not let ourselves be blackmailed. Only Denmark and Greenland decide on issues concerning Denmark and Greenland. I will always stand up for my country, and for our allied neighbors."

USTR suggests EU could just ignore the fact that the US has reneged on the deal he helped negotiate.

Emmanuel Macron responds to Trump's tariffs: "France is committed to the sovereignty & independence of nations, in Europe and elsewhere... No intimidation or threat will influence us - neither in Ukraine, nor in Greenland, nor anywhere else in the world when we are confronted with such situations."

If I were on the Supreme Court, and thinking about the IEEPA tariff case on which I was about to rule, I might read this latest tariff threat from Trump and think, hmm, maybe there should be some limits on the power of the President to use tariffs.

Fullt på Rådhustorget i Köpenhamn #gronland #Greenland

Economically, agriculture is a tiny part of the EU-Mercosur agreement, which opens up markets in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. The real economic rationale lies in industrial and services trade

Trust and trade agreements. www.linkedin.com/posts/per-al...

True according to the new EU-Mercosur agreement.

US law explicitly bans immigration restrictions based on ethnicity, race, or national origin. That has been the law for 60 years. It hasn't been repealed or struck down. The central purpose of our 1965 law was to ban ethnicity-based immigration restrictions. dickinsonlaw.psu.edu/assets/uploa...

"From today, there will be an expanded military presence in and around Greenland – in close cooperation with NATO allies." naalakkersuisut.gl/Nyheder/2026...

Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen: "If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU." "Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.

Ja, alla visste. Främlingsfientlighet som politikerna använder för att sko sig drabbar i slutändan människor.

Greenland and Denmark show united front ahead of high-stakes US trip ft.trib.al/W4D6lFE

Remarkably, four years after that researcher-driven bias was revealed, Borjas published a book that ignored and repeated the mistake. Giovanni Peri and the Nobel laureate David Card then showed that essentially the same biased choice *flipped the sign* of Borjas's results. doi.org/10.1016/j.ju...

Third, it's true: some immigration researchers' choices do bias their results. A key example is Borjas (2006). Peri & Sparber (2011) show that Borjas chose a regression specification that generated spurious negative correlation between immigration & native employment. doi.org/10.1016/j.ju...

Hi All. A slight change of pace. A free piece (with many pictures) about a visit to Chernihiv Oblast. Chernihiv is beautiful, historic and should have a great future. It is also a war zone and has experienced terrible war crimes. Helping it is a test of our worth. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Främlingsfientlighet drabbar i slutändan alltid människor av kött och blod. special.aftonbladet.se/story/L40VBP

BERNANKE/YELLEN/GREENSPAN JOINT STATEMENT: “.. this is how monetary policy is made in emerging markets ..” (via @apnews.com)

The easiest way for Moldova to join the EU.

On BlueSky, I see people who want Americans to believe that because Biden, Obama, and others did not end racism in America, they are no different than Trump, who actively encourages racist rhetoric and racist policies. Don't fall for their lies. There is a difference, and it is worth fighting for.

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Ok, now let me put the griping aside. This is a big geopolitical move. It is great that the elected leaders of Europe made a democratic, collective decision to lower trade barriers with Mercosur countries. Interchange with Europe is a powerful attraction! (Reopen griping: but 25 years was too long.)

The EU really knows how to hide its light under a bushel. It has just passed the world's biggest trade deal (with Mercosur) - using a written procedure among ambassadors, making the public barely notices a huge strategic step forward for Europe. Contrast with Trump's made-for-TV signing ceremonies.