The kids are alright! 🇪🇺 #EUmustfederalise

That US tech companies spend 10x as much on lobbying in Brussels as the next big group (pharma - not even car), shows how big the gig for keeping EU dependent on US tech, infrastructure, datacenters, social media/online shops/online adds/AI/software is a gravy train run by in reality US monopolies >

🇪🇺🧵1/ "The EU is now “faced with protectionism and unilateral action” and the “return of hard military power,” Draghi said, arguing that the EU is not equipped to address these challenges. “A new pragmatic federalism is the only viable path” 🎯💯🇪🇺 #EUsky #EUdef

This is stil very relevant read: "They still don’t understand that the most important thing to do right now is not to spend more but to as quickly as possible give Europe the ability to defend itself without (or from) the United States." 🎯💯 🇪🇺 #EUsky #EUdef

1 year after his report, Draghi pushes for EU pragmatic federalism, as a response to EUs being slow to act, when the world has grown hostile in both trade, democracy & security, eg returned to global power competition. 🎯💯 This should be your reading today. 🫶🇪🇺⚔️ #EUsky #EUdef

Fedora is controlled by IBM, a US tech company bent on keeping its EUropean gig going, while moving its European profits back to US. Another argument for EU not to rely on US commercial & legal software, even when its FOSS. IBM is still in control, & designed to keep EU depdendent on US. 🇪🇺 >

Europe's spies are learning to trust each other - thanks to #Trump by Antoaneta Roussi Doubts over transatlantic intelligence sharing is bringing European intelligence agencies closer together. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Belgium & the others should not be left hanging for the assets for Ukraine. We need EU to take over the responsibility. Again EU is caught out & ends up with national interests & endless vetoes. Its current form is unfit to act. #EUreforms are needed. 🇪🇺 #EUsky

📸 There's a story behind this breathtaking shot of Hungary’s opposition rally marking the 1956 revolution: Orbán’s government banned drones to try conceal the crowd’s size. Yet a passenger on a landing plane caught the scene in Budapest from above — the photo hit Reddit and went viral instantly.

Germany’s Merz warns Europe risks becoming economic pawn of US, China. 🎯💯🇪🇺 #EUsku

It is a shame this heavily Washington-influenced Politico hit job doesn't mention the *reason* Sanchez opposes the spending He's the only 🇪🇺leader calling out Trump's extortion for what it is, and calling for independent European defence Obviously the 🇺🇸military-industrial complex doesn't like that

As expected, Georgian Dream is now moving to disconnect Georgia’s education from Europe and international standards. They change the systems for secondary and higher education so that there’s a mismatch with the “Bologna Process” for international recognition. www.interpressnews.ge/ka/article/8...

With Washington's behaviour over the past 8 months, it is laughably hypocritical for the Americans to be criticising China's rare earths move. Trump has unleashed a free-for-all. Europeans need to wake up and realise the old rules don't apply any more. We're in a new world.

While the West stood by and let Russia reassert its dominance by force over Chechnya, Georgia & others, pawing the way to the take-over of Crimea & Ukraine, because the West valued cheap Russian gas.

Protesters are now marching from the Heroes Square towards Rustaveli Avenue. #GeorgiaProtests, Day 304

WATCH: Here’s where Netanyahu says the purchase of TIKTOK is important so Israel can “battle” for public opinion 🤔 (Sure sounds like they plan to manipulate the algorithm, with the help of the Trump allies buying it — and sounds like Elon is helping them too)

Just sent out a piece that reveals another drastic weakness in how the analytical community and the US government understands war. For years now, we have been force fed the narrative that Ukraine must draft its young male population and send them to the front. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Moldova 🇦🇩 Meanwhile, a nationwide march in support of Maia Sandu’s party is underway Digital Minister Nistor announced a cyberattack on the Central Electoral Commission ! #Moldova #Russia

From my prison cell in Georgia, I implore Europe not to abandon us to Russia | Mzia Amaglobeli

Elbridge Colby strikes again. The intention is to make it harder for us Europeans to defend ourselves from actual and potential Russian aggression. The conclusion is simple. We need comprehensive military autonomy. We need the ability to deter and defeat Moscow by ourselves.

Ge should increase own consumption, instead of depending on exports. EU should complete the inner market, implement Draghis report & make common borrowing to make the € reserve currency. Again, national politicians & endless vetoes causes EUs economy to be in the doldrums for another year or two.

Germany (and EU) should build co2 neutral nuclear power plants, that also are the most area & materials efficient energy sources, beside providing energy security & decouple energy prices from fossil fuels & biomass. We should also make one type rating for all EUs nuclear. We need RE & nuclear.

yet another hit from the outlet owned by the conservative german publisher axel springer

EU should act to shore up Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, & the Western Balkans, but is cougt in national interests from its members & endless vetoes. It does not work.

Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani met with the European Union High Representative, Kaja Kallas, in New York, reiterating the necessity of lifting the unjust measures imposed by the bloc against Kosovo. Osmani and Kallas met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

These ultra-rich white right-wing dudes together with Rupert Murdoch, Alex Springer etc, controls a lot of the media & social media. This is unhealthy.

Maltas premierminister Robert Abela: “Jeg skammer mig ikke over at indrømme, at jeg græd efter mit sidste besøg hos de børn, vi bragte fra Gaza. De har mistet lemmer, familier og livets bedste ting, men vi vil ikke lade dem miste håbet om en bedre fremtid – vi vil beskytte dem.”

🎯💯 Agree. Of cause we can shoulder the burden of getting Ukraine to win, if we have to. The EU alone is 450m of the richest ppl globally & second in economic size only to the US. UK adds another 65m. 🇬🇧 Stop thinking like a small weak state without agency. ⚔️🇪🇺🪖 #EUsky

Once again, geopolitics was the main topic in Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the European Union address. But there were also many other things that she mentioned, and some that she omitted. A collection of short analyses on the key issues of the #SOTEU25:

vdL did mention the vetoes, but she has no plan of acting on it, and obviously nor the national governments, who all wield the veto, are against abandoning them. That includes Denmark. So we are still cougt in a new reality, but fail to adapt EU to it by abandoning the vetos. #EUsky >

The EU should leave its culture of consensus behind on.ft.com/4m1ehcJ

It should be clear by now that #Trump isn’t, and never will be, an ally Becoming a U.S. protectorate isn’t inevitable — especially given increasingly indignant public opinion over the series of concessions and humiliations we’re witnessing. www.politico.eu/article/dona...

🎯💯 This! EU is bogged down in endless vetos and unable to act in the new reality. We need to reform the EU and make it a hard power too, which also provide security & defence for its members. Enlargement & multitier. EU constitution, Eurobonds & allow EU to raise its own income. ⚔️🇪🇺🪖 #EUsky #EUdef

Fedora is Redhat. Redhat is IBM. IBM does what NSA ask. We cannot build true EU strategic independence, if we still let the US in, especially with Trump. We need an EU distro, that is not based on a US commercial distro, but true FOSS & provides true EU indepedence & privacy. No NSA backdoors. 🇪🇺

🚨 BREAKING: The EU Commission's Teresa Ribera has described Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide, the strongest condemnation yet to come out of Brussels. Read the story: ow.ly/4SJs50WRcuP

An argument of Tom de Waal against suspending visa free travel to EU for Georgians. The EU is contemplating this step as Georgia has been violating the political and democratic rule of law conditions surrounding the visa free programme. carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push

Very true, this: voters in Europe are ahead of most governing elites on European integration. The same goes for another once ‘sensitive’ dossier: support for Gaza/Palestine

Sitting on a panel about tech sovereignty and democracy, and hearing the Commission's absolute vacuum of a position, made me think very hard of @ecmemes.bsky.social.

🎯 Give Draghi emergency powers to reform the Union 🇪🇺 @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu @kajakallas.bsky.social @president.europarl.europa.eu @lykkefriis.bsky.social #EUsky

Remove Hungary’s voting rights. It should have been done a long time ago

🚨🚨Yes, we all knew that the poor trade deal with the US was a result of the EU being extremely frightened about the prospect of US dropping military and intelligence support to Ukraine. It, however, seems to drag out some inevitable choices for Europe in terms of collective defense and security. 🧵

European Socialists mobilize against Trump’s trade deal The second-largest group in the European Parliament says no, complicating Ursula von der Leyen’s effort to build a majority to back the deal. Lol, it's kinda like, up yours trump 🖕😆 www.politico.eu/article/euro...

France's political turmoil is unlikely to trigger an imminent euro crisis. But its inability to tackle its public debt does make it even less likely that Europe will do what is necessary to boost its economic and geopolitical power. In that way, France risks sowing the seeds of the next crisis

If true, this update is astonishing. The Commission climbed down from a planned break up of Google’s ad business to a mere fine, and then dropped even the fine for fear of offending Trump. This is for market violations that have been proven in U.S. court.

Professor Schabas: US, Germany, and Others Could Be Held Liable as Accomplices to Genocide in Gaza

Totally agree - part of U.S. power has come from being a consumer market that others wanted to access. The EU has more people and similar purchasing power. Focusing on strengthening EU demand can mitigate the risks that come with interdependence in a geopolitically volatile world.

Croatia’s PM Plenkovic again praises neo-Nazi crooner Thompson, whose recent Zagreb concert attracted half a million people, making it the largest pro-fascist gathering in Europe since Franco’s death. Plenkovic brags his kids adore Thompson too. www.slobodna-bosna.ba/vijest/43274...

"Left unchallenged, the EU risks losing a would-be ally in a continent increasingly divided between Kremlin-friendly and democratic, anti-authoritarian states. Serbia may become another Georgia." Andrii Vdovychenko

💥🇷🇺🇭🇺 Twenty-six EU member states signed the declaration condemning Russia. One did not: Hungary. According to several EU diplomats, Hungary objected to the language demanding that “Russia must stop the killing and show a genuine interest in peace”. @euractiv.com