This is the only way to go. Six of the biggest EU states are probing how to deepen integration. Everyone agrees this is what is needed. Do it now. Others can join along the way.

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

Breaking WSJ: Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino will imminently leave Minnesota along with some of his agents, according to administration officials familiar with the matter. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

And here we go again... this time on 2 February in London: www.ft.com/content/2be6...

A new moderate centre-right Tory group launched today. Worth looking at the list of supporters including @davidgauke.bsky.social @davidlidington.bsky.social, Ruth Davidson, Malcolm Rifkind &many others known to 1) be quite pro-European 2) have no time for culture wars prosperuk.com/meet-the-team/

"We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

„So the United States, once the world’s exemplary liberal democracy, is now a hybrid state combining a fascist leader and a liberal Constitution; but no, it has not fallen to fascism. And it will not.“ www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“Die Gefahr für einen bewaffneten, bürgerkriegsähnlichen Konflikt wächst mit jedem tödlichen Zwischenfall.” Reportage aus Minneapolis @spiegel.de www.spiegel.de/ausland/minn...

We’ve placed the available videos of the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis today into the same synchronised timeline and are continuing to analyse further.

This is no accident but the predictable consequence of setting up armed far-right militias and promising them “absolute immunity.” As Europeans, we should hold to account those who cheered him on and still support him. We don‘t have to go down this route, we can hold up our values, our standards.

Victim Pretti (a nurse): - threatened no one - was pepper sprayed - helped someone up - struggled as ICE tackled & punched him in face - had (legal!) undrawn weapon removed by agent - shot @ close range on hand/knees - shot more @ distance while motionless on ground www.newsweek.com/new-video-sh...

So macht die NYTimes zur Stunde auf

Anscheinend doch: bsky.app/profile/muel...

Call me cynical, but I don’t think the public will ever see the video from the woman who was filming up close.

There are concentration camps, a large secret police, and they're performing extra-judicial killings in the open even when they know they're being recorded. I dont think it could be clearer where we are at this moment.

When an ICE agent confronts you is "when your due process ends," says the member of Congress from the largest border district. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

"Die Gewalt an den Grenzen wird uns noch einholen, sie greift nach innen aus." www.spiegel.de/ausland/migr...

The right is arguing that federal agents should be allowed to summarily execute you if you are carrying a firearm—after years of warning crazy people that federal agents would come and seize your guns.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

It has gotten so bad that the @nytimes.com has stopped using the passive voice to describe the violence.

Burnham's running (surprise!!)

This is not surprising at all. Also not to Stephen Miller and friends. It‘s exactly what anyone would expect.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

The UK‘s long march back towards or into the EU has begun. If Starmer would be a true leader, he would seize the moment, cite threats from Putin and Trump, lead the way, dwarf Greens and LibDems — and thus might stay in power. But he isn‘t, he is a fundamentally cautios person.

How Morgan McSweeney's '0% strategy' failed to win over Reform voters while haemorrhaging Labour's own support base to the Greens www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/morgan-mcs...

Hope you slept well, fellow Europeans. Because this bomb just landed: Greenland is key U.S. terrain - like “Gulf of America”. Russia is the neighbors’ problem. Europe is on its own - new force posture exp.

Nicht die stille Diplomatie von Nato-Chef Mark Rutte hat Donald Trump zum Einlenken bewegt, sondern die Entschlossenheit der Europäer. Es lohnt sich, dem Imperialisten im Weißen Haus entgegenzutreten. Kommentar @spiegel.de

Nicht die stille Diplomatie von Nato-Chef Mark Rutte hat Donald Trump zum Einlenken bewegt, sondern die Entschlossenheit der Europäer. Es lohnt sich, dem Imperialisten im Weißen Haus entgegenzutreten. Kommentar @spiegel.de

Nicht die stille Diplomatie von Nato-Chef Mark Rutte hat Donald Trump zum Einlenken bewegt, sondern die Entschlossenheit der Europäer. Die erfolgreiche Verteidigung Grönlands sollte zur Blaupause werden. Mein Kommentar @spiegel.de www.spiegel.de/ausland/groe...

Once you get into the details, this story raises more questions than it answers...

Well, at least noone is talking about Epstein anymore

Ich teile mal die zwei Screens mit, die @stluedke.bsky.social netterweise woanders gepostet hat.

Scoop: German government against joining Trump‘s „Board of Peace“ — @spiegel.de www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Trump now regretting end of European colonialism. That is the essence of his speech. The US as a new colonial empire. What‘s next? Slave trade?

Replace Greenland with Ukraine and parts of that speech could come out of Putin‘s mouth. „How stupid were we to give it back!“

🇫🇷‼️ France has “trolled”|Donald Trump by calling for an official Nato exercise in Greenland, with US participation. The intention is to expose the bad faith of Trump’s claim that the giant territory is vulnerable to Chinese and Russian aggression. 1/ www.lefigaro.fr/internationa...

Dark day for Europe. Incredibly damaging. Deeply irresponsible. #Mercosur

"Europa ist ein Projekt des Friedens, des Rechts und der Demokratie. Menschen auf der ganzen Welt erwarten von uns, dass wir diese Grundsätze verteidigen. Wir sind die Einzigen, die die Kraft dazu haben." Interview mit dem spanischen Außenminister @spiegel.de www.spiegel.de/ausland/groe...

Hear me out: Carney‘s speech — with Macron‘s glasses.

Not a projection. 450 Torches. Carried up the mountain and place correctly by 10 residents.

Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.

Farage — catastrophically wrong about Brexit, and Trump, both of which he is bound to. It’s almost as if he wants to help destroy the post-WWII ‘International Rules-Based Order”, like Putin.

Paging the UK

U.S. Stocks Post Biggest Drop in Months as Tensions Over Greenland Mount

Carney‘s speech lives up to the moment. Articulates clearly which choices Canada has now, which choices middle powers have. EU has even better chances, we got outselves, our single market, which we can choose to complete. A free Europe we can choose to unite and to grow.

"Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls..."

Obviously...

Öffentliche Meinung in Europa kurz vor Schulzzug. Womöglich ähnlicher Ausgang.

On the German government's thinking. 👇

Scoop at @spiegel.de - German position regarding the Anti-Coercion Instrument as of Sunday: „We must stay firm against the US threats. This will also include thinking about our trade policy instruments, i.e. (…) applying the first step of our Anti-Coercion-Instrument as ultima ratio.“