Europe has no option but to try to make sure more of the continents’ vast savings are invested at home

Perhaps more emphasis and clarification should have been given to that detail before the deal was taken to court by over half of the European parliament.

'A Nato spokesperson later stated that Rutte did not propose any compromise on Greenland’s sovereignty' 𝑅𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑟; ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑤𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑖𝑟. 𝐼𝑛 𝐷𝑢𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 (𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙. 𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑃𝑀) 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡.

The general passivity of Americans watching their country slide into autocracy is a source of wonder to many of us. Yet, much of the answer lies in the social isolation, a car dependant culture, towns designed like military grids, and way too much land. The Atlantic did a great piece on that.

So, according to anonymous sources, the US has been loaned / given small areas of Greenland to build military bases, similar to the agreement the British have in Cyprus. Have the Greenlanders been consulted on this?

The violent abuse of power made by ICE in Minnesota with the abduction of children is making international news. Shameful and beyond comprehension.

The transition to a fully electric model cannot come soon enough.

China understood in the early 1990s at the latest that relying on fossil fuels was a dead end in terms of geopolitics for a country with limited domestic supplies. Going green was the only way. It took Europe until 2026. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

This is the other viable possibility.

Inaugural members of Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace”: Six monarchs, three ex-Soviet apparatchiks, two military-backed regimes and a leader sought by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes. www.ft.com/content/a500...

Iceland looks the size of Europe when set at the edge of the Mercator map. Apparently it belonged to the US before it was loaned to Viking explorers in exchange of furs, back in 874.

Mark Rutte has handed Donald Trump a piece of paper with ‘turn over to read our Greenland offer’ on both sides & that will occupy him for weeks

Wondering if Rutte has a copy of the Epstein files 😎

Turns out that all you need to do to make bad things go away is to call Trump "daddy".

The EU must respond decisively to any form of coercion against EU member states, say MEPs. Learn more ↓

It's -12 (10.4°F) in Kyiv tonight.

Trump's speech lasted 70 minutes. That's 3 minutes longer than the silent German expressionist masterpiece, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. And much like that film - he was weird and nightmarish while saying nothing at all.

Can't see negotiations for Greenland going well. Trump gave no indication he's open to anything other than acquiring it & ominously described it as core national interest. Likely that talks will collapse, he goes through with tariffs & Europeans respond. He's then liable to use Ukraine as leverage.

The far left and the far right will be Europe's undoing.

The European Parliament has confirmed it will not proceed with ratification of US tariff deal Bernd Lange, the chair of trade committee said, representatives of the political groups have just met and decided untii “the threats [on Greenland] are over there will be no possibility of compromise”.

Here's a cheerful thought: this dribbling incoherent ignorant prat could kill everyone on earth right now.

@president.ecb.europa.eu that's the spirit! 😎

The president of the United States is so brain-dead that he doesn't remember which country he's threatening to destroy the world's greatest military alliance over.

Waste of gold and a Rolex. Hope the Swiss will take note.

When you can't even remember the name of the country you want to invade, maybe it's time to sit down and shut up.

NEW | The Iranian regime has expanded its crackdown beyond protesters by targeting merchants and businesses that supported the protests. www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/ira...

Trump rewriting history here: The US was compelled to enterer WW2 because Denmark was unable to defend Greenland. 👍😆

"With this mad and erratic behavior, you have to ask: Is the president capable of running the United States?" That's a Danish pol. On the pod we discuss how international media is baffled at failure of our institutions to constrain Trump. This exchange is something: newrepublic.com/article/2054...

If Congressional Republicans want to preserve NATO in any form, they need to start speaking up against Trump's Greenland threats. And by that I mean more than Bacon, Tillis, Paul, and Murkowski. www.ft.com/content/2091...

".. Eutelsat has confirmed that these satellites will integrate into its low-Earth orbit constellation, which competes in the business-to-business market against SpaceX’s Starlink service.

The good news if you live in 🇪🇺

‪@nadiacalvino.eib.org is on Bluesky posting from Davos. Well worth a following.

🎙️'Europe is a superpower. We will be pragmatic when we can, and firm when we must.' President @nadiacalvino.eib.org at the #ECOFIN doorstep, ahead of the #WEF26 in Davos 💪

Iran’s central bank is using vast quantities of a cryptocurrency championed by Farage according to a report. One of the major shareholders is also Reform's biggest donor - but he seems somewhat tetchy about it even being mentioned.

"Five days later, the same doctor came back online long enough to describe a nightmare scenario: the first thing he told Qorashi was he could still see “blood in the streets”, during his journey to work at the hospital." How Iran's brutal crackdown unfolded, my piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social

Trump's "Peace Board", is a mafia racket.

As predicted, dictators wanting to be in Trump's good grace will join the Board of Peace - they have little stake in the current global order and the Board doesn't necessarily force you to do stuff. Democratic leaders - not so much.

Thought-provoking piece by @lewisgoodall.com. He argues that the US under Trump is no longer from the UK perspective a - military ally (Greenland) - strategic ally (Russia/Ukraine) - political ally (NSS calling for empowering far-right in Europe) - economic ally (tariffs)

I wrote about the planned revision to the EU's Cybersecurity Act, which would basically force China out of Europe's telecoms networks and possibly more www.databreachtoday.com/europe-readi...

So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu. Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.

Here is hoping that the Trump effect has taken the shine of voting fascists.

Donald Trump is not forgetting America’s old alliances – his goal is to destroy them | Rafael Behr

Amazed that Orban can find a spare billion to join the board considering the impoverished state Hungary is in. What a grotesque show of appeasement the board of peace is.

Canada starts preparing for guerilla warfare, just in case www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

If we needed another reason to go fully electric this is it.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Trump would be a nobody without his enablers. Target crypto, and the individuals and that gives him power and cash.

This looks very much the ATproto ecosystem with Bluesky and the soon to be @eurosky.social . Good to see that it's finally starting to resonate at EU level.

It's not debatable that a mentally disturbed person has the nuclear codes. The Republicans know they're endangering us all by leaving him in office. This is a betrayal of every person on Earth. It is a crime against humanity.

EU leaders have toughened their position and want the Commission to ready its most powerful trade weapon against the US if #DonaldTrump doesn't walk back his #Greenland threats. The Commission should unleash the Anti-Coercion Instrument at leader summit on Thursday www.politico.eu/article/eu-b...