EU Indonesia trade agreement CEPA. The full tariff agreement is now available. Subscribers to Borderlex can find out what's in the ca 1500 pages of tariffs schedules by @ianadreyer.bsky.social  #EUIndonesia 🇮🇩 🇪🇺 

I would go along with that (not stop at it) www.politico.eu/article/time...

Provocative take by our editor @ianadreyer.bsky.social “The most realistic course for BXL in interest of long-term stability (…) w/US (…): do exactly nothing after the Supreme Court ruling on IEEPA tariffs”

Those headlines…. Inimaginable news until recently.

If CJEU were to follow this opinion, it would be a massive blow to the Commission's credibility on the rule of law front, and very bad news for Poland, as the Commission has been similarly "flexible" with signing off on rule of law milestones and then unlocking the entirety of PL funds in 2024. 2/

Trade Secrets today. Building a critical minerals network ex-China: good idea. But if you think the Trump admin will public-spiritedly run a rules-based international rare earths coalition, I’ve got prospecting rights for deposits of Imaginium in the mineral-rich territory of Delusionia to sell you.

A rare Uruguayan perspective on the EU Mercosur agreement with ex trade minister Nicolás Albertoni - interview with our managing editor @robfranciseu.bsky.social #EUMercosur

INTERVIEW Uruguay’s Albertoni on #EUMercosur “This is a historic agreement” borderlex.net/2026/02/10/i...

Today’s headlines… 😑

Today's news - EU Brazil data adequacy decision complements EU Mercosur trade agreement, writes  @ianadreyer.bsky.social 

When the terms « Squadrista » and « SS » need explaining in a FT article in 2026.

NATO dude here painstakingly demonstrating how right Macron was when he talked about "brainless NATO." www.ft.com/content/e2f6...

The big danger for Europe now is complacency - that having apparently seen Trump off for now, that political leaders retreat back to their comfort zone."

Confession: utterly bored by such a piece by a person in the position of the author. 1/ Why? Because it is in denial about what the Trump administration is creating, at home and abroad Trade patterns and policies need change as geopolitics shift. So what? www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

I wrote about Minnesotans putting their lives on the line to fight for their city, protect their neighbors, and defend the Republic against tyranny. Some thoughts from my new piece - angry and alarmed, but also hopeful and inspired: 🧵

German state failure - rather grandiose here. Scary Europeans are ruled like that - and not only in Germany.

In this 161st long-read on my blog, I seriously consider the hypothesis of the US becoming a hostile power. I show how everything contributes to this, establishing a link between the domestic scene & the international arena. The time to de-risk has come. tenzerstrategics.substack.com/p/when-the-u...

US trade policy: @nytimes.com 🇺🇸

It's been a day of 💥 trade policy news: 2/ EU too (!) calls into question the most-favoured nation principle @wto in new paper submitted in Geneva #multilateralism @chrishorseman.bsky.social 

We need more Carneys in Europe.

Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.

En somme, elle ne contrôle pas son organisation ni ses troupes. Alternativement c’est une grande lâche qui n’assume pas ses responsabilités et trahit ses subordonnés. Et ça prétend vouloir diriger un pays?

When current affairs surpass satirical science fiction. Been thinking of this movie for the last few days. Conquering the ice planet ❄️🧊… youtu.be/osYpGSz_0i4

Also more important is if the Council formally reverses its decision to approve the tariff eliminations. Seen no signs of that yet.

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This really is the article to read. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Ravie d'avoir pu contribuer à la conversation autour de la question des relations UE-US et du Mercosur. La Fondation Robert Schuman m'a demandé un petit papier là-dessus. Le voici: www.robert-schuman.eu/questions-d-...

It s great to see Sanchez moving up a scale here… wasn t always like that.

FFS.

Ouch. But basically: bingo! I contest that this is only men - many (White) women in the meantime in similar position. The impotence of Europe’s governing elite giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

It is a bit silly reporting but after the videos showing the Danish and Greenland FMs grabbing cigarettes after their meeting and now this, shows how very bad things are!

Must hve been bad and nerve-wracking judging from the Danish FM’s nervous cigarette-grabbing

Aliénation complète du pays.

Looking forward to more extensive coverage of the civil war about to break out in our hellhole cities.

Pleased to have been quoted in this The Economist article on the context for the EU Mercosur agreement.

Europa an undocumented Middle Eastern migrant brought in by some pimpy trafficker of women 😅😉

Nice @verfassungsblog.de verfassungsblog.de/laboratorium...

Magnifiques et audacieux commentaires de Jean Luc Demarty sur France Inter aujourd’hui Que cela choque le journaliste que Demarty parle de “naufrage français” en matière de #Mercosur montre à quel point la bulle informationnelle française est coupée du monde. www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Agreement on #Mercosur today is a positive step. Yes it has downsides, yes the price (bribes) is ridiculously high, yes it may still stumble further down the road. But at least it will help Europe to de-risk from the US. Let’s hope this will encourage Europe to take further steps

Exactement.

Il y a des gens qui réfléchissent dans ce pays. 👇

Uncomfortable but I think I agree with @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on Europe's Trump handling. I think its worth adding that his powers will diminish and successors will not be the same (though presenting other challenges) www.ft.com/content/1439...

Ah. Arguments solides.

La tolérance de la violence de certains groupes agricoles en France va trop loin. Cette tolérance est une vieille tradition, mais ce n’est plus acceptable. Ce sont des gens qui refusent toute responsabilité pour ce qu’ils font et semblent se croire au dessus de la loi.

This is also a field test. If the press lets them muddy the waters on executing a woman in Minneapolis despite multiple witnesses and video recordings clearly depicting what happened, the message they'll take away is that there's nothing they can't get away with. Nothing.

Brexit hasn’t helped at all as two more stringent passport control processes going on in a tiny space and the French having recently imposed to force passengers to take their laptops out for luggage security controls. Space inadequate and duplicative staff coz of that Brexit thing.

China has miscalculated its rare-earth policy. It has sparked a global renaissance in production that will erode its dominance

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English speaking newspapers don’t seem to have picked up on Trump administration threats of sanctions against judges in current appeals case involving Marine LePen’s indictment regarding European Parliament fund embezzling which could cost her the right to run for president next year.