Excuse me, Sir? I understand the point being made: recognition cannot be a substitution for a strategy. But this is just complete nonsense. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

Turkey has also been occupying for half a century more than one-third of the EU member state where I've been working most of this summer, but I guess we're too polite to bring this up 🤷🏼

Top headline game from The Guardian

We all know von der Leyen is a control freak – no news there. But shame on these newspapers for playing along and in effect deceiving their readers. newsletter.euractiv.com/mail/3da3399...

Half a million dead because of a bunch of thin-skinned, childish racists.

Sunder (and James) is right. One of the remarkable things happening in the US, the UK, and elsewhere is that the boundaries of acceptable public speech and action – the shared norms that hold our societies together – have dramatically shifted.

This is a welcome move, even if it's a substitute for an actual strategy. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

So obvious even the Times caught on to it

Here's another one

I'm probably overly sensitive - but doesn't this sound borderline admiring?

Just days after the EPP decided to review the status of Vučić's SNS, the (EPP) President of the European Parliament receives one of Vučić's most aggressive associates, Ana Brnabić. Big mistake.

Anyone understand what Politico are trying to say here? Because I sure don't...

Tempted to pin this to the top of my feed

I have thoughts

What is it about migration that brings out the worst in people? Really worth reading this terrible column in @economist.com about the ten years since Merkel opened German borders to refugees. Come for the racist cartoon, stay for the factual errors and race- and class-baiting. Also worth...

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

In any normal conditions this inflammatory post personally attacking a senior member of the European Commission would trigger an immediate response and get the ambassador called into the Berlaymont But Israel gets away with genocide, and it will get away with insulting its closest allies

I wasn't aware poor translators had to work in booths... (It's just Politico not getting the difference between translators and interpreters, as usual)

The EU's main partner in the Balkans - the linchpin of its regional policy.

Belgium's center-right governing coalition agrees to recognize Palestine, sanction Israeli officials, tighten import ban for goods from the occupied territories

Weird, I distinctly remember a Labour victory in the last general election?

Who TF came up with this interface? Renders Europe by Satellite completely unusable

Time for the EU to stop funding Israel’s defense industry. (It won’t.)

Convicted, legally ousted, but recalcitrant & noncompliant former RS President Milorad Dodik has called #EUFOR Althea, the peace enforcing successor force to #NATO's IFOR/SFOR an "occupation army." He calls on #Russia to cast its veto on renewal in November. This demands a real response. 1/

I explained for @tvpworld.bsky.social that President Vučić of Serbia may soon have to decide whether to deepen repression or allow early, free and fair elections. On a side note, the European Commission's acquiescence in his crackdown is a disgrace that Serbs will not easily forget.

Mind-boggling that in late August 2025 this is somehow seen as a unique insight worth reporting. What happened to all those "wake-up calls” the Europeans had supposedly been getting? www.politico.eu/newsletter/b...

People who get more upset by a novelist's comments about an ongoing genocide than by the ongoing genocide don't deserve to be taken seriously.

Exactly this. A pretty binary moment, one would think. Unfortunately I can't be confident that this cohort of European leaders really understand this.

The latest from @dpcglobal.bsky.social colleague @valeryperry.bsky.social, on today's Putin-Trump meeting

What Adelina says.

Interpreters, dear @politico.com. Interpreters is the word you’re looking for.

Today’s must-read on Albania, from the indomitable @gresahasa.bsky.social via the plucky @euobserver.com

Excellent piece on the complicity of German media in Israel’s killing of Palestinian reporters

The timing of this couldn’t be worse. We’re weak and pathetic.

Good morning

The UK ditched its Rwanda plan. The EU is reviving it on.ft.com/4lhQm8u

The European Commission seems to be slowly waking up from its slumber But will these commissioners still talk tough once the boss is back and yanks their chain?

Kudos to the Politico Europe photo editor www.politico.eu/article/gree...

Why is Israel blocking access to Gaza for EU humanitarian aid officials if there's no famine there and aid gets delivered just fine? And why isn't the EU vocal about this?

Congratulations to Niall Ferguson for again winning the John J. Mearsheimer Award for Demonstrating To People Who You Really Are

I don't know if this is on Epstein or the Times but someone got Nabokov terribly wrong

So happy the Times is tackling the burning issues that preoccupy us all

I understand that in desperate moments, doing something ineffective might be better than not doing anything. However, I think the effort - financial and political - that goes into these air drops would be better spent on ending Israel's policy of starving Gazans. www.lesoir.be/691275/artic...

Shocker - Trump just made up a number and expects starving people to be grateful

Displaying my volatile side tonight

You know what's entirely unnecessary? Vučić's meddling in the affairs of a neighboring sovereign state (especially its judiciary). Someone should ask the European Commission how this chimes with the famous good neighborly relations?

not an expert but... what exactly is the point of the WTO if anyone can just go around imposing fantasy tariffs on everyone else?

Thank you to the Washington Post for showing us what Israel doesn't want us to see www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

This is why the Israeli government has banned foreign journalists from Gaza.

Even Trump admits there's "real starvation stuff." But according to Israel – there's no starvation, it's all fake news and blood libel to the extent there is starvation it's the UN's and Hamas' fault the starving kids had preexisting conditions so it's fake news even if they are starving