🇪🇺 Sensitive #EU topic : the S&D post beats its record (from memory, around 185 interactions, compared to an average of less than 10) 🇨🇵 Sujet sensible #UE, le post de S&D bat son record de likes et partages (de mémoire)

@EU_Commission proposes a standalone Regulation to crisis-proof @EUSPA 🛰️ The renamed European Union Space Services Agency (EUSPA) will continue core operations & take on new tasks supporting Europe’s strategic autonomy & competitiveness 🇪🇺 defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/european-com...

Consortium européen pour les communs numériques: l'EDIC sur les rails. Le Français Laurent Rojey a été choisi comme directeur 👉 www.zdnet.fr/blogs/l-espr...

[email protected] fait partie des voix les plus lucides sur les rapports entre pouvoir économique, concurrence & souveraineté numérique en Europe : sans maîtrise des infrastructures, des marchés & des capacités industrielles, l’autonomie restera un vœu pieux 👉 bit.ly/47LuZbS

Oh the irony

"Von der Leyen supports the same measures Spain championed 4 years ago to protect our citizens and our industry: an electricity price cap and taxes on energy firm profits" - Laura Ballarin, S&D MEP. Good to see lessons have been learnt - especially in the face of Big Energy lobbying.

Gabriel Zucman : "With the surge in oil prices, the profits of extractive companies are exploding and end up being recycled through tax havens. But it is not too late to effectively tax war profiteers." 🇨🇵 gabrielzucman.substack.com/p/ou-vont-le... #CrossroadsEU

Since you may not believe a Green politician, take it from the ECB: 'Meeting the continent’s clean‑energy targets would weaken the link between volatile global markets and domestic prices.' www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/d...

In other words - more dialogue & being careful not to overdo it with the rhetoric. Other responses include aligning standards and what seems like a focus on "divide & rule" or "precision diplomacy" - but little in the way of the structural concessions EU is actually asking for

Maybe there's more to it, but it seems to be a periodic pattern in EU-China ties European leaders flock to China due to world events try to patch things up. Beijing treats diplomacy itself as the win, doesn't offer meaningful outcomes. Europeans get frustrated. Rinse & repeat

Foreign interference online continues to be an issue for election integrity and it is not clear if social media platforms are better equipped now than they have been in the past. Happy to have contributed some comments for this article by @alexfanta.bsky.social on the upcoming Hungarian elections⬇️

🚨 In March 2026 alone, the European People's Party voted three times alongside far-right groups in the European Parliament. From migration to fundamental rights and digital policy, this pattern is no longer incidental - it’s structural. 🔗 Read our latest blog: thegoodlobby.eu/the-new-righ...

Defence Unreadiness Bill.

🇨🇵 #PPE3 à cause d'Hormuz → déblocage 10GW d'éolien offshore → 2GW actuels malgré grand littoral (🇬🇧+14GW/🇩🇪 8GW) Max 4 composants 🇨🇳, mais industrie #UE (Vestas 🇩🇰/Siemens Gamesa 🇩🇪🇪🇦/Nordex 🇩🇪) sous tension Délai 2034 "Contrainte & solution n'opèrent jamais sur le même calendrier" #AutonomieStratégique

Probably not surprising to anybody posting on bluesky but ChatGPT is a surveillance machine. Even queries made outside the US, in French, are getting sent to the FBI.

"Méfiez vous des groupes qui changent de nom à chaque scandale."

"La paix mondiale ne saurait être sauvegardée sans des efforts créateurs à la mesure des dangers qui la menacent." #CrossroadsEU

This whole thread can be read here skywriter.blue/@eliothiggin...

That architecture has now been replaced. Social media platforms curate what most people see. Their logic isn't verification, it's engagement. Whatever holds attention gets amplified, regardless of truth or consequence.

So if trust depends on this VDA infrastructure, the next question is: how does it degrade? I think of this as the Arc of Democracy, a pattern where democratic institutions move from substance, to performance, to simulation.

🇬🇧 S&D MEP's take on Wadephul's article (ending vetoes in foreign & security policy) 🇨🇵 Point de vue d'un eurodéputé (de gauche) sur l'📄 du ministre 🇩🇪 des Affaires étrangères (suppression des veto) #CrossroadsEU

🇳🇱 Een zeer interessante discussie tussen een Nederlandse burger en een voormalig federalistisch Europarlementslid 🇬🇧 A very interesting exchange between a #EU citizen and a federalist (former MEP) The Bluesky translator need improvements 😩 I’ll do it with another tool 🧵

Countries have no opinions. People do. We need to stop seeing the EU exclusively as a cooperation between governments. The EU belongs to all of us. 1/3

The US has directed every embassy and consulate worldwide to recruit local influencers, academics and community leaders to carry pro-American messaging designed, in the cable’s own words, to “feel locally organic rather than centrally directed.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

#EU 🤝 Canada 🇨🇦 New Abacus 📊 with Canadian analysis ▶️ youtu.be/aZYIyAFWRog?...

BREAKING: German foreign minister backs ditching EU's unanimity voting rules. This is really important. IF Orban loses today then MAYBE there is a way out of EU's policy paralysis. Explanation here: www.jandehn.com/post/how-to-... Thanks @h-a-n-a.eurosky.social nordot.app/141307671617...

🇮🇹 Meloni doing her things in the Middle (of) East(er) ℹ www.europesays.com/iran/50432/ Not #StrategicAutonomy

Accordingly, alliances with right-wing and far-right groups within the European Union must be terminated immediately. Recent months have shown that a major threat to the EU lies within the ranks of the Parliament! The Green Deal must be put back on No rotten lobbyist eggs, please!

Amiral Vandier (NATO SACT) about transformation. It's not an answer to Rheinmetall A.Papperger's recent statements, nevertheless it goes the opposite way (with a nice reference to a lesson the Gulf states ignored). In English. youtu.be/E-sCVKX8MHM?...

Il fixe une échéance politique : avant l’arrivée du nouveau Parlement #UE issu du scrutin de 2029, pour adopter le vote à la majorité qualifiée au sein du Conseil #EUCO (États membres) et ne plus être bloqué par un pays (ex : Hongrie) au niveau des affaires étrangères & de la sécurité #CrossroadsEU

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using with no explanation

230 000 signatures à cette heure et ça monte très vite !

It took a week before NYT could “break” what was public elsewhere - that an re-expansion of 🇺🇸US presence in 🇬🇱Greenland under the 🇩🇰🇺🇸1951 Treaty is being negotiated with two former bases abandoned by the US in 1958 and 1992 at the forefront.

More broadly, it's another reminder that you can't solve political obstacles with legal means. What's happening here, with political boxing leaving the rule of law whimpering on the floor, is a very important lesson for hopefully imminent use in Hungary and later on in the US. 8/

Meaning what exactly, as US has stopped all weapons aid to Ukraine and is threatening PURL deliveries US weapons funded by the Europeans

🇬🇧📊↓ "Germans most skeptical about replacing US tech; French most optimistic"

If someone has got the blue checkmark on LinkedIn - here is what that person gave away… thelocalstack.eu/posts/linked...

Atlantic Ocean secretly rebranded Ocean of America ?

French prosecutors open hate speech probe into polarising news channel CNews

Cette décision de la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme (CEDH) est une bien mauvaise nouvelle pour... CNews. Car la Cour juge que la multiplication des manquements d'une chaîne de TV peut justifier des sanctions de plus en plus lourdes. (Et ce, sans aucune atteinte à la liberté d'expression)

Yup.. slim zijn ze wel. Die Iraniërs.

Batteries pour les drones vs voitures. Considérations.

On invitation from Oren Cass, I wrote a reflection on the anniversary of Liberation Day for Commonplace. The tariffs have done little to alter bilateral EU-US goods trade, and much to damage transatlantic ties. And yet the US and EU are condemned to work together. substack.com/@commonplace...

A French container ship became the first vessel linked to Western Europe to leave the Strait of Hormuz after the start of the Iran war, Bloomberg reported. According to ship-tracking data, on April 2, CMA CGM Kribi sailed from waters off Dubai toward Iran, signaling that its owner was French.

Trump tente de troquer des droits de douane contre un recul européen sur la souveraineté numérique. Ce serait une faute stratégique. Casser cette dynamique maintenant, c’est risquer de perdre une occasion rare de reprendre la main 👉 souverain.ovh/souverainete...

'OVHcloud will compete with AWS and Azure for sensitive military data in Europe and launch a service tailored to defense organizations. Announced at InCyber_Europe, this offering targets military forces and government agencies' corporate.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/newsro... #EUdefence #DigitalSovereignty

🇨🇵 Ah ! Enfin du contenu accessible pour apprendre à connaître notre eurodéputée @aurasalla.bsky.social 🇫🇮 Vihdoin helposti saatavilla olevaa sisältöä, jonka avulla voi tutustua #DigitalOmnibus -asioista vastaavaan 🇪🇺parlamentaarikkoomme #DigitaalinenSuvereniteetti #SouverainetéNumérique

Il est pas magnifique ce croissant de Terre ?

Artemis II marks a historic moment for humanity’s quest of outer space, and for resuming lunar exploration this time to stay. All the best to the Orion crew and support teams!!! 1/4 ⬇️ www.esa.int/Science_Expl...