I wonder why that might be, in an environment where politicians and the media go on about "small boats" endlessly?

I see the Times is rising to the moment

“I would like to make a deal the easy way, but if we don’t do it the easy way we’re going to do it the hard way.” Trump on Greenland

Hilarious detail from this article: Ric Grenell conducting the national anthem at the Kennedy Center These people really are amateurs at everything they touch

The latest from my DPC colleague @valeryperry.bsky.social, on where Trump's "sphere of influence" approach to international relations might lead the world

Masked unidentified gunmen in unmarked cars snatch people off the streets of peaceful American cities but as per Moyn et al. this isn't fascism because xyz

It's almost like ICE has something to hide

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

"Contradict" – to the New York Times this is still a "he said, she said" type of situation The only acceptable verb in this headline would be "disprove"

Looking forward to the next pearl-clutching think piece explaining why this is clearly not fascism

Today would be an excellent day for all EU institutions and officials to leave X Actually, the excellent day was about two years ago. But today is still better than tomorrow or the day after

If you're in Europe and just waking up, here are the 60+ bodies - around half of them under the UN umbrella - from which the US has withdrawn

These schemes are basically a scam invented by politicians to appear to be doing something, knowing full well they will either fail or turn out to be counterproductive

Fittingly, in a building that was burned to the ground in an anti-colonial uprising in the 1930s anavathmezo.eu/en/buildings...

Step one: The European Commission and all other EU institutions decide to close their accounts on X today. Today.

I can't believe this needs saying in January 2026 but any European official or institution that's still on X should get out of there pronto

I can't believe the EU thinks it's a good idea to start negotiations on sharing biometric data with the US at this particular point in time

Imperialism but do it on the cheap

"sunshine" but some of us live in Brussels

Unpopular opinion: former civil servants should not be allowed to cash in on their government service. And please don't come moaning about the allegedly "low" public sector salaries. If you're in it for the money you picked the wrong career.

Hear, hear www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...

For Balkan Insight on the US National Security Strategy, what it means for the EU/Europe +, & the #WB6. This is a front on which a recalibrated policy led by the EU & other democracies could get real popular traction. But who could catalyze that overdue shift? balkaninsight.com/2025/12/23/u...

Trying to remember - where did we hear the term enemy of the people before?

This is a good message and it was no doubt emotionally satisfying to post it - but seriously, the European Commission and other EU institutions need to get off X.

Given the billions in interest that will have to come out of the EU budget, this take is as misguided as only Politico can be.

As usual, it's all about business

Dangerously misguided op-ed in @euobserver.com suggesting Ukraine has lost the war and should concede, and the Europeans, instead of standing up to Russian imperialism, should engage in diplomacy. And why not throw in some Kremlin talking points while we're at it euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

Big deal: Ukraine gets the financing it needs to resist Russia's war of extermination Big deal: EU does foreign policy* through joint borrowing Big deal: EU sidesteps national vetoes to act decisively But thanks to Merz and VDL and their stubbornness it looks like a failure

Riiiiight Historical revisionism kicks in even before history is made Let me guess, the source is a senior European Commission official? www.ft.com/content/e569...

The unthinkable becomes reality overnight: EU joint borrowing to finance Ukraine, leaving out the three objecting member states. Or as the saying goes, where there's a will there's a way.

4 years of imperialist, genocidal warfare by Russia hasn't been enough to wipe that smugness off the face of certain Western European leaders (in this case, Bart de Wever) or diminished their propensity for condescension. www.politico.eu/newsletter/b...

Another white elephant taking shape in the heart of Brussels: an entire neighborhood has been gutted to make way for a subway line that may never get built. (And just for the record: I'm in favor of Metro 3, in principle...)

The older I get the more convinced I am that the one of the main home-made threats to our liberal democracies is the inexorable pull of the status quo, or to put it differently, our leaders' complacency. Every time the worst fails to happen they take it as evidence that the policy's working.

According to local health authorities in Vareš, near the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, all 44 blood samples from residents near a Western-backed mine tested positive for lead, with 17 people showing levels requiring an urgent medical response. The cantonal and entity authorities have been sitting...

He's right but I don't think that this message is going to be received even if it's sent - and that's a big if given the dire state of EU leadership these days

In an unusual move just a year into her tenure, European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos is replacing the head of her private office, Marko Makovec.

Serbia staying away from tonight's EU-Western Balkans summit in Brussels, which even before Vučić's move promised to be a non-event

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if these kids were conservative influencers, it would not have been "things can happen"

The other dog that didn’t bark: Greenland. I don’t think for a second that taking it from Denmark - arguably the US’s most steadfast ally in the whole world - is off the table at all.

Question: who exactly is doing the blocking? Anyone's got any ideas?

We’re betraying the very people who put their lives on the line for our agendas, just because the West is once again having a nervous breakdown over immigration.

The US wants to smash the EU to pieces but also promises Ukraine EU accession by 2027

Politico's idiocy on full display. Platforming – indeed, celebrating – someone whining about what an "awful time" it is for...Russia.

@valeryperry.bsky.social and myself on the need for liberal democracies to stand up to a bullying US, a propos of the new National Security Strategy On DPC's website: www.democratizationpolicy.org/europe-must-... LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/pulse/europe...

Reminder to the European Commission and all EU institutions and officials: now would be an excellent time to get off X.

"Uncontrolled mass immigration"

"I got a message from Moscow now," Vučić tells von der Leyen. Either the EU is using him as a back channel to Putin, or he would like to sell himself as a go-between to his Western backers. Either way, really dumb of him to say it out loud like this. audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/media/vid...

Politico Europe bragging about the White House bragging about Politico's choice of Trump as the most influential person for Europe is as tasteless as we've come to expect from that publication.

Question: how are people in need of international protection supposed to access it? Where exactly are those famous "regular pathways?" (The Starmer/Frederiksen op-ed in @theguardian.com is as bad as you'd expect, no need to read it.) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...