In response to the possible US annexation of Greenland presidents Macron and Merz have decided to firmly respond by starting a Franco-German joint procurement program of white flags.

Good morning to everyone but especially to Hayli Gubbi.

Trump is a Russian asset. No need for sophisticated intelligence reports to prove this. Basic literacy is enough 👇

This! Just do the Eurobonds already. Do it now!

🇪🇺 ♥️ See, it isn’t that hard to be staunchly pro EU and win elections against nihilism and extremism.

“Climate change will not lead to humanity’s demise” - Bill Gates. Yes. But so are a regional nuclear war, airborne Ebola and a Tungaska event over a populated area. And all require major efforts to prevent major human suffering.

… and now there’s space to build massive AI datacenters on Jamaica.

As the EU (and the wider world) tears up its climate legislation, here's an interesting case study of how one MEP managed to get a new environmental law passed in the European Parliament this week against the odds.

Better late than never.

I'm not an economist. This has me concerned.

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Streisand effect

A qualified majority of member states must agree that the EU is being subjected to economic coercion. If China’s recent actions do not meet that threshold, it is hard to imagine what ever will, write @jankaoertel.bsky.social and @tobiasgehrke.bsky.social @ecfrasia.bsky.social https://bit.ly/475mPLG

On the macroeconomic dividend of public investment: 🙏 "Each euro of public investment generates approximately €1.30 in inflation-adjusted output within three years—a cumulative multiplier of 1.3." 👉 Great and necessary piece by @heimbergecon.bsky.social www.socialeurope.eu/europe-needs...

😎 First glimpses from space! The new #Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission has delivered its first preliminary images during commissioning. Sentinel-4’s spectrometer is hosted on @eumetsat.int's MTG-S1 satellite 🧪🌍 @josefaschbacher.esa.int @ec.europa.eu @esaearth.esa.int

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country

Good news: The awareness for industrial heat electrification is rising. More than 90% of industrial firms already consider heat electrification for their company according to a recent McKinsey survey presented by Godart van Gendt at Thermal Energy Day.

In parallel, Europe desperately needs to build its own REE capacity - mining and refining. It can’t rely only on a G7 pathway because the US can’t be trusted. But securing REE from China with some of the bargaining chips we have is useful to buy time.

Carbon offsets, though widely used, often fail to deliver real emission cuts. They undermine global climate goals by enabling polluters to avoid reducing fossil-fuel use.

I love how even the official global paragon of austere fiscal policy keeps begging Germany to spend some fucking money to start growing again

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating - CO2 in the air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening @wmo-global.bsky.social #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The rate at which the atmospheric concentration of CO2 is growing jumped to its highest level ever, in 2024 pretty bad shit!!!! wmo.int/sites/defaul...

It's tough to explain exactly how nutty this new report from fossil fuel industry consultant Wood Mackenzie is, but I'm going to try in a short thread. As you can guess: 1 trillion barrels of oil is...............................A LOT archive.ph/grTVe

Eight chemical plants were closed already this year in the Netherlands, driven by high energy prices and cutthroat competition from China - reports NRC. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

WORLD’S FIRST INDUSTRIAL ELECTRIFICATION AUCTION: EU Commission releases final T&Cs for a €1B Innovation Fund pilot to decarbonise industrial process heat — scaling electrification & direct renewable heat, paving the way for the Industrial Decarbonisation Bank. climate.ec.europa.eu/news-other-r...

Enemies, foreign and domestic.

Highly highly doubt that panic football industrial policy down the line will be cheaper than putting in place 3 or so billion in EV consumer subsidies today and then coordinating with other EU countries.

This is fundamentally necessary, and as a European, I am pleased that our policymakers are finally doing the bare minimum. This has been obvious for a decade (if not more, considering the number of industries we would have lost to China). 1/

European Putin Party

And on top of that the eurogroup/Commission forced Greece to sell off national assets (eg harbours) to CHINA at a discount.

Worstendraaiers

It is a pretty dire indictment on the quality of German policy-making if we blast billions on stay-at-home subsidies and gastronomy tax cuts. And do nothing for our most important industry bringing in 90bn in tax receipts, other than killing the ICE phaseout cuz we want to stay in the 20th century

Electricity grid upgrades are central to Europe's future energy security and competitiveness. To achieve this, it needs to: 1️⃣ Give national regulators a statutory mandate for the energy transition. 2️⃣ Create independent system operators and planners (ISOPs) to oversee grid planning in the public 🧵1/5

Chemistry #nobelprize for MOFs (metal organic frameworks)! Many applications incl. Efficient CO2, H2O separation.

Het linkse progressieve tijdschrift Mother Jones beschrijft Bouchez als extreem rechts. Je kunt niet zeggen dat ze ongelijk hebben.

Ook sinds vandaag te lezen op onze website: www.mo.be/opinie/het-s...

Why is there this cognitive dissonance between Europeans watching America slip toward authoritarianism or civil war but still dreaming of living there? It is a result of 7 decades of cultural imperialism - the subject of my upcoming book "The Owned Continent", coming out soon. Here's an excerpt:

It's so great that 🇪🇺President von der Leyen's surrender deal with Trump brought us all this stability.

The view from an ANTIFA landing craft June 6th 1944

What many don't realize, is that Ukrainian strikes from last 2 years on russian refineries are always aiming at specific part of refinery. Cracking Units. This basically stops Russia from ability to refine crude into useful fuels. This is why Russian issue of lack of fuels is snowballing.

Meanwhile, four decades ago.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErwS...

The SAFE instrument, whereby the EU level provides loans to member-states to ramp up defence, has been more of a success than I had anticipated. The uptake by member-states is huge. And, of course, profoundly driven by the threat perception of Russia (see Baltics!). Great chart from Daniel Kral.

Natuurkundig zou waterstofproductie uit elektriciteit met bijna 100% efficiëntie moeten kunnen. Het wachten is op de doorbraak. Deze? "Goedkope waterstof is eindelijk realiteit: Koreaanse doorbraak concurreert met aardgas en toont recordefficiëntie". tw.nl/goedkope-wat...

If this is NATO Secretary General Rutte's idea of a strong defense partnership, he can go to hell. I am sick and tired of lazy Western Europeans trying to wait out Russian fascism at the expense of Eastern European nations that have the misfortune of sharing a border with the barbarians.

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire.

Too old to enter BE military reserve. 😕 It’s DIY from now on. 😁 #Resilience #Boxing #Beprepared #EU