Will artificial intelligence increase the size of the economic pie as dramatically as expected? Why should the tech owners invest massive profits if they achieve a dominant position? Why should the tech owners pay a basic income to the “losers”? insightview.eu/macro_articl...

Trump’s approval rating is falling and the midterm elections are approaching. Therefore, Trump’s sponsors, the tech companies, must now pay themselves for pushing up electricity prices — at least until after the election. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/15/n...

The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, delivers a conciliatory speech towards Europe in connection with the MSC conference. It only takes a single tweet from President Trump to undermine “reconciliation”. securityconference.org/en/msc-2026/...

Now the Trump administration must make up its mind: Are import tariffs paid by foreigners rather than by American households? If so, why remove them? www.ft.com/content/f2ef...

It is probably not the United States that should be lecturing others on how to behave. www.forbes.com/sites/duncan...

Beijing will not be pleased with the outcome of the Japanese Lower House election, which appears set to give Prime Minister Takaichi a “supermajority” (undermining the influence of the Upper House). www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

Decency still survives among the Republicans – when they have the courage to show it. thehill.com/homenews/adm... GOP breaks with Trump White House on Obama post as Tim Scott opens the floodgates

Donald Trump is terrified of the midterm elections, as a fair vote would deliver a victory to the Democrats and thereby create the risk of impeachment proceedings. Therefore, the Federal Bureau of Investigation should oversee the vote count at polling stations. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

It is late for an insider to acknowledge what most people could already see from the outside: “Marjorie Taylor Greene said President Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan was a ‘lie’, saying his first year back in office was focused on obliging wealthy supporters.” thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Corporate greed had its share in creating the Nazi-regime www.ft.com/content/89d0...

“People around the world can separate a nation’s leader from its citizenry. But it gets more difficult over time, especially because Trump was re-elected, and American institutions are struggling to limit the president’s power….” www.wsj.com/world/how-am...

Never in the course of modern history has so much harm been done to so many, in so brief a span, by one man alone, in America and beyond. www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

For decades, Nordic security rested on trust in distant guarantees. Does that trust still make sense?

“Fico seemed to be 'traumatized' by his encounter with Trump, one of the European diplomats said. Fico characterized Trump as being 'out of his mind,' a diplomat said, using the words briefed to them by their leader, who was directly involved in the conversation” www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Germany is slow, but once it makes a decision, things move quickly. Berlin wants autonomy in almost all areas, independent of the United States and the “weakest links in the EU”. Other Europeans can jump on the train – but with Berlin in the driver’s seat. A wise decision. www.ft.com/content/3e81...

Has a hypocritical Donald Trump crossed a line that causes even more irreparable damage to an American regime that now targets everything and everyone? Yes. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Even though Trump's climb down, the reaction from Europe is firm: “Our American Dream is dead…Donald Trump murdered it….I think we are past Munich [1938] now….We realize that appeasement is not the right policy anymore.” www.politico.eu/article/eu-l...

Trump steps back from the brink on Greenland. But the damage has been done.

Has Europe found a common cause across political divides? Jordan Bardella, president of Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party in France says that the EU should suspend last year's tariff deal with the U.S., describing Trump's threats as "commercial blackmail." www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

European Union lawmakers are poised to block approval of the EU’s trade deal with the US over President Donald Trump’s vow to impose tariffs on countries that supported Greenland in the face of American threats.

It is time for more Republicans to show courage and protest against an American president who may be the greatest threat to world peace since the 1930s. Sad, but unfortunately the truth thehill.com/homenews/hou...

LIVE: Canada's Mark Carney delivers opening remarks at Beijing banquet youtube.com/live/SrZ_in-...

Yesterday, a 'humble' President Trump, without hesitation and 'deservedly', accepted the Nobel Peace Prize from its original recipient, Maria Corina Machado, whom the White House, incidentally, does not consider suitable to succeed the ousted Nicolás Maduro. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Greenland does not want an “Anschluss” with the USA. It wants to remain part of DK, NATO & the EU. Moreover, neither under Trump 1 nor Trump 2 has the USA taken actions that indicate it feared Russian/Chinese military activity off Greenland’s coast. Politics today is based on lies rather than facts

What is beginning to resemble the contours of a neo-imperialist kleptofascism in the White House is receiving no sympathy from the far right in Europe either. Instead, anti-American sentiment is gaining momentum around the world. www.politico.eu/article/fran...

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

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The Germans' trust in the United States is non-existent. They want independence from NATO and the United States. The Germans are not alone in this assessment in Europe. Europeans want a geopolitical reorientation away from USA. www.tagesschau.de/inland/deuts...

Never before has an American president sold out so many American interests to China in such a short period of time. “Xi has profited simply by waiting for strategic gifts to come his way.” www.ft.com/content/a83c...

Food for thought for anyone who supports European democracy. It underlines that Europe must show resolve in dealing with the US tech elite — even if it comes at a cost. Tomorrow, it may be too late. www.authoritarian-stack.info

90% of German voters believe that the United States should stay out of European affairs. European politicians must step up in relation to our former ally, the United States. www.zdfheute.de/politik/deut...

Er det virkeligt i Danmarks interesse? For det første er datacentre en uendelig elsuger. For det andet har Microsoft før vist sig at være amerikanske myndigheders forlængede arm (e-mail-kontoen til ICC’s chefanklager blev lukket pga US myndigheder) jv.dk/esbjerg/fros...

China receives support from Russia, while Japan’s Takaichi is being stabbed in the back by her “ally”, Donald Trump. Surprised? Hardly. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Europe can learn a great deal from Japan when it comes to rare earth elements, which are not all that rare. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/b...

We need a long-term strategy to help them become strong, Jamie Dimon said. “A weak Europe is bad for us.” Unlike Trump, who seeks the EU’s collapse, the EU should heed JD's well-intentioned advice. Europe needs strong political leadership — but without “a moustache” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US national security strategy. Something sure is unrecognisable here, but it’s not Europe. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

There will be a massive security policy clean-up task after Trump 2.0 www.ft.com/content/6101...

How many more lessons do they need to conclude that the transatlantic relationship is over? www.ft.com/content/89f1...

Do not be surprised if the coalition government in Berlin collapses in 2026 www.ft.com/content/9c2f...

The WH has silenced many people in the US with public voices. Michael R. Bloomberg is not among them, as shown in his refreshing and accurate analysis of the peace negotiations between the US/Russia (the paper tiger) and Ukraine. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.

Although VW is making its decision based on facts on the ground, there is no doubt that, with that statement, VW will need a great many public relations managers to explain to the German public and politicians what is unavoidable. www.ft.com/content/b772...

Insightview talks with Jens Eskelund, President of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China, about the Chinese economy and Europe’s slow de-risking. Listen to the answer to “whether there are examples where the EU has managed to de-risk?" insightview.eu/macro_articl...

The White House (showing unusually low moral standards) is using the Ukraine plan as a classic “Donald Trump diversion” (“I never do anything wrong”), intended to draw attention away from the Epstein files. It is not working. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...

It is good to be the king www.economist.com/business/202...

Empty vessels make the most noise. Yet another defeat. Donald Trump is in marked retreat due to domestic cost-of-living problems. Brazil has made no concessions. www.ft.com/content/4e35...