A radical re-focus of the EU on economic growth and innovation, including concrete steps forward. Well worth reading in full, even if technical at times. 👇 constitutionofinnovation.eu

Very interesting project by @bruegel.org here. Remarkable differences still in market value across Europe.

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

In nur 5 Jahren hat China den Automobilmarkt übernommen und ist uns parallel beim E-Auto davon gerast. Dass Kanzler Merz allen ernstes davon spricht, dass wir 2035 noch "hocheffiziente Verbrenner" verkaufen, macht es noch verrückter.

www.economist.com/leaders/2025... "That leads to Europe’s last and perhaps the greatest task. Awake to the threat, its leaders need to persuade their voters that change is coming one way or another. Either Europe grabs hold of its own destiny or China and America will force crushing change upon it."

2025 in a nutshell www.ft.com/content/307c...

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

For those who care about what caused the widespread Cloudflare outage yesterday: blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...

I am not a lawyer, just a historian, but one fundamental problem with the political debate about the EU, especially in English publications is that the whole principle of the acquis communnitaire is not understood or taken seriously. The EU is a framework of rules, not an alliance.

Continents xkcd.com/3159/

French police release image of the person wanted in association of the Louvre robbery: #Louvre #robbery #FeathersMcGraw

The perils of running large parts of the global economy on infrastructure controlled by a handful of big U.S. companies, part 3743

While European politicians are busy trading smears around green policy, Beijing has consistently viewed climate not as ideology, but as a lever of industrial power, writes @byfordt.bsky.social @ecfrasia.bsky.social https://bit.ly/42z4ofJ

Sometimes I think the real "peace dividend" since the end of the cold war was that a whole generation of analysts grew up underestimating the power of ideology, memory and emotion, and now they cannot recognize a huge cultural shift when it is staring them in the face. The "soft stuff"matters.

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

2021 haben wir die privatisierte E-ID gestoppt – nun haben wir das E-ID-Gesetz 2.0 mitgeprägt: privatsphäre-freundlich, datensparsam & sicher, basierend auf digitaler Selbstbestimmung. Warum wir überzeugt Ja sagen & trotzdem kritisch bleiben: www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/2025/08/27/d...

One of the best ways to cripple Russia’s ambitions longterm would be to moonshot renewables development then spread the tech everywhere super-cheap. Russia produces nothing of significance beyond oil and gas. The economy would tank. Plus a huge win in the fight against the climate crisis.

Während Trump und Putin ihr Meeting vor bereiten, gehen wir in den Bunker. Ballistische Raketen im Anflug.

@lewisbaston.bsky.social just came across the passage in Borderlines (awesome book!) introduction, that German would not have a word for crime, rooted in the „transgression“ sense of overstepping a line. „Gesetzesübertretung“ and „Regelüberschreitung“ very much have that root, though.

Insightful piece accessible to anglosphere friends and followers about the evolution of German-Polish relationships on the ground, over the past decades, and their links to our history and politics. www.katjahoyer.uk/p/a-german-i...

"Open the window, Janice, bit of a situation here"

So. In the spirit of being fair, I have now read Nick Clegg‘s Essay about the Future of Europe - and Britain‘s Part in it. I have also done my best to ignore who wrote it, and focus on the arguments in it. A few thoughts observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

International followers, a new German Word to learn! Strompreiszonenaufteilungsvorschlag

Wie de EU bekritiseert om een gebrek aan democratie, gaat volgens Marnix Amand voorbij aan de historische gedachte achter het Europese project. buff.ly/a7LTuMC

One consequence of being half addicted to The Rest is History is to gain the habit of thinking "poor form" is the most damning historical verdict on a person. A future episode will conclude that the President's assault on the global trading system is very poor form.

So @amifieldsmeyer.bsky.social and I began interviewing foreign dissidents, domestic activists, and scholars who study pro-democracy movements. We asked them what we needed to know about how to stay safe while opposing authoritarianism. Here’s what we found: buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin/...

The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now. Whatever problems Europe has - and it has plenty - it is looking pretty damn good by comparison these days. My Charlemagne this week www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

Wait for this turning into a „we made a mistake, folks. We‘re correcting it today as only great leaders do. I love you all. And you love me.“ - moment on camera any day now.

These articles across the world today all work themselves up off their disbelief in this being real. That the newly dropped tariffs on *our* country must be an oversight, since *we* are special. Folks, we were all just pranked by a 15 y/o bully person who was let into the room with the big buttons.

The analysis and questions asked in this piece are fundamental for progressives across the democratic spectrum to reign in the current political turmoils around right wing populism in the west. Who decides moving forward?To move forward. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

What were The Troubles and why did they lead to 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland? And why did the British government deploy troops on the streets of Belfast? Join @willdalrymple.bsky.social and the marvellous @praddenkeefe.bsky.social and me. Out now! @empirepoduk.bsky.social

And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”

Famous humorous computer security paper on top-tier threats to targeted individuals vs advice for what consumers actually encounter: "The Mossad/not-Mossad duality is just one of the truths that security researchers try to hide from you." www.usenix.org/system/files...

"I've seen group chats you people wouldn't believe, USN ships firing salvos on Houthi's off the shoulder of southern Arabia ... I've watched tomahawk plumes shimmer in the dark near the gulf of Aden ... All those moments, will be lost in time, like 👊🇺🇸🔥 in auto-deleting Signal messages."

Confidence, loyalty and chutzpah is all it takes to be member of this club of beatniks it appears.

Absolutely obsessed with this late 19th century illustration of the Orion Nebula by Otto Boeddicker.

Back to work after a week off and wanted to belatedly share thoughts on America's Middle East policy after a trip to DC this month. The first of which is that Trump has a skeleton crew: if personnel is policy, there's almost no policy because there are almost no personnel. 🧵

»Was Sie schon immer über französische Nuklearwaffen wissen wollten, aber bisher nicht zu fragen wagten« - von Alexander Sorg. Lesenswert - und geradezu perfekt in Kombination mit @sicherheitspod.de #93.

How remarkably well this has aged

We're seeing a lot of very rapid geopolitical and geo-economic thinking going on right now in Europe about what the end of the US alliance means for its security, economy & diplomacy. I haven't seen any parallel thinking among the US Atlanticist community about what it means for the US. (Brief) 🧵

Haben die Verfechter der "Stellvertreterkriegs"-These eigentlich mal innegehalten und sich gefragt, warum der Krieg trotz 180°-Wende im Weißen Haus unverändert weitergeht?

Die Fähigkeit und Sehnsucht solche Sachen wegzurationalisieren, ist enorm. Ich frage mich, ab wann bei Herr und Frau Mustermann Faschismus in Deutschland war, wenn man sie danach fragte? Nach '45 im Rückblick erst, oder bereits vorher?

The danger that everyone involved in this debt investment agreement and decision making only and just aiming to use it for their small minded party and clientele politics bickering, is real. After all, this now inappropriate skill washed them up the power ladder in party politics in the past.

According to this @zdfde.bsky.social Politbarometer poll, 76% of Germans are in favour of more defence spending with new debt. This includes 90% of CDU voters, 52% of Die Linke voters and even 70% of FDP voters. A fiscal public opinion revolution.

on.ft.com/41w8OSZ "US defence companies have long used the implicit security guarantee of Washington’s favour as a marketing tool for their bigger-ticket items such as fighter planes. But Tusa said the US showing its willingness to cut off support was “utterly fatal” for the sales pitch."

I‘d love to see other minds from the sector weigh in on this perspective and opine on how much they agree or look at the complex differently. If it holds up, this is certainly a story worth telling.