I was in Brussels yesterday for the Escape Forward conference and the mood is so different from before. Gone is the apathy and pessimism. Now that we are throwing off the shackles of our internalized American contempt for Europe, lots and lots can happen.

Mette Frederiksen på tysk fjernsyn i aften

Post war western Europe is simply the best society that this species has ever managed to create. Never forget it. Defend it for all we're worth.

Helpful explainer from an ex-Bundeswehr officer

Trump beware... 62% of Germans in favor of supporting Denmark's defense of Greenland militarily with other European NATO allies should US attack Greeland.

What to make of the EU decision on funding for Ukraine? It is a good outcome in my opinion. Here is why:

The Economist on the British government's proposal that the country with the comparatively best record on integration in one generation could emulate Denmark, which struggles in integration, and where the tough line on asylum presents further barriers

Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm sure Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman can tell us how tough on migration Danish Social Democrats losing Copenhagen to an alliance of Greens and Socialists proves that Blue Labour was right

Sentences that would have had you sectioned if you'd uttered them five years ago: two-thirds of Germans, including 46% of AfD and 41% of Die Linke voters, agree that the defence budget should increase to 5% of GDP.

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Fast spektakuläres ZDF-Politbarometer zur Stimmungslage in Deutschland: Dreiviertelmehrheiten für eine Stärkung der europ. Verteidigungspolitik, EU-Armee, Sondervermögen, auch für Unterstützung der Ukraine, Sorge vor Krieg und Bedrohung durch Russland www.zdf.de/nachrichten/...

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Expect to hear much more about that blocking minority in coming weeks. Will be major headache for Merz, but arguably he has himself to blame: - Didn't pass debt brake reform in outgoing parliament where 2/3 possible - His migration stunt was probably responsible for Left revival

The young vote in Germany, by gender. 😳

So in the end, and rather unsurprisingly, the CDU did not win any voters from the far-right AfD by aligning their positions on migration and voting with them in parliament. Instead, they lost almost a million voters to the AfD

80% of germans said no to afd. that’s one hell of a mandate against afd platform.

Volkswagen is now selling 4x as many EVs in Europe as Tesla is. Tesla is fifth in a sector it used to dominate

🇩🇪 Germany: one nation, two societies.

Non-🇩🇪 media on 🇩🇪 elections, be like : "AfD ! AfD! AfD! AfD ! AfD ! AfD !" Non-🇩🇪 media on 🇩🇪 elections tomorrow evening be like : "Shock ! Surprise ! How come not every single person in Germany votes for the AfD ? Who on earth are these other people now in power ?" 🤡

Wow, my (large, national) pension fund announced: no more investments in Tesla, Meta (Facebook, Instagram etc) or Alphabet (Google, YouTube). Irresponsible investments for future generations is the company line. fd.nl/bedrijfsleve...

The thought that a lot of people in Europe (and not just Anglos) are choking over right now: Macron was right

A little polling update. The untold story of the #Merz - AfD saga is ... the rise of The Left, which to the best of my knowledge nobody was predicting as a result.

Merz could have easily cruised to a 30%+ finish with a bland campaign on the economy, but his decision to blow up the civility pact and make a failed play to take over the migration debate from the far-right now has him trying to scrape up the last remnants of the FDP to get over the line.

A lot of datapoints indicate that being outwitted by Merkel for 20 years was such a psychological shock to Merz and those around him in the CDU who hanker after the patriarchy of Kohl and Adenauer that they'll take the wildest risks to reject her legacy in ways that risk crashing their party