🌐 Geopolitical shifts and their economic impacts on Europe How can Europe act to strengthen its position in a multipolar world? 🖊️ André Sapir, @jfkirkegaard.bsky.social & @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/IxYuSWs #EconSky @eu2025dk.bsky.social

Dutch officials and companies said lengthy waits for connections could force businesses to rethink their investment plans https://on.ft.com/3U7tjSH

Fear of border chaos has fuelled the rise of populism, from Brexit to Donald Trump, and poisoned the debate about legal migration. A better system would restore order

'Voorheen konden NAVO-landen nog makkelijk uit eigen voorraad leveren aan Oekraïne, zegt @bobdeen.bsky.social. Maar nu moet het voor de volle marktprijs worden gekocht voor Oekraïne. Zo krijgt Kyiv steeds minder materieel voor meer geld.'' nos.nl/collectie/13...

G7 countries have agreed to exempt the United States from applying a 15 percent minimum corporate tax rate, the Canadian G7 presidency said in a statement Saturday night.

🎧 Neue Folge EU to go! Was steckt hinter der „Flotte von Omnibussen“ mit der die EU Europas Wirtschaft entlasten will? @onethuthree.bsky.social spricht mit Julia Symon @financewatch.bsky.social & @sebastianmack.bsky.social über Bürokratieabbau, Deregulierung. open.spotify.com/episode/3vPX...

📊 Chart of the week: Average share of defence equipment expenditure of total defence expenditure for NATO countries 🪖 🖊️ Alexandr Burilkov, Katelyn Bushnell, @juanmejinoecon.bsky.social Thomas Morgan and @guntramwolff.bsky.social. Published jointly with @kiel.institute 🔗 buff.ly/ny6iPKv #EconSky

Although Xi Jinping has consolidated his authority as China’s paramount leader, he now appears to be delegating key aspects of governance—particularly in economic policymaking—to his deputy, Premier Li Qiang. Co-published with ChinaFile.

NATO’s defence spending obsession eclipses other strategic discussions. Negotiations over raising NATO spending targets and eagerness to avoid clashes with Trump have crowded out other debates at the alliance. http://dlvr.it/TLB02Y

Hundreds of investment funds immediately drop 'green' label to dodge EU rules

EXCLUSIVE: Sidelined EU Parliament to sue Council over €150bn defence push

Germany’s Merz tells EU to scrap supply chain due diligence law

The call by US antitrust enforcers to break up Google could encourage the EU as it looks to push forward its own investigation.

France’s Prime Minister François Bayrou said he is considering proposing a national referendum over the country's budget.

Did you say poor countries? They get a little forgotten in the ongoing trade war discussions. Many are among the hardest hit by #TrumpTariffs - which, remember, are merely suspended. 👓Colette van der Ven explains why the EU needs to support to these countries. borderlex.net/2025/04/23/e...

EXCLUSIVE: "The EU needs to think more strategically and show flexibility in finding political alliances through trade agreements," Bettina Rudloff from SWP tells Rob Francis in our latest interview 👇 Catch up on the full conversation - no paywall! 🔓 borderlex.net/2025/03/26/i...

Cool inflation and interest rates tracker by FT! www.ft.com/content/088d...

Von der Leyen has just announced the Commission's "Rearm Europe" plan. The most important parts target national fiscal space: The Commission will activate the national escape clauses in the fiscal rules and put a new loans-based instrument on the table. Here is what it means:

The US military will withdraw troops and equipment from a logistics hub in southeastern Poland that supplies most weapons being sent to Ukraine — a move it said would save "tens of millions of dollars."

The EU has offered the US a “zero-for-zero” tariff scheme, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said, seeking to avoid a tit-for-tat trade war.

🚨 BREAKING: Marine Le Pen’s plans to run for the French presidency in 2027 were dealt a likely fatal blow today after she was found guilty of embezzling European Parliament funds and deemed ineligible to stand in elections for the next five years. Full story: ow.ly/kpfi50VrpFa

Hundreds killed in clashes and revenge attacks in Syria https://www.ft.com/content/e702c71d-a56a-4eda-baad-3800c6ac2a76

The Bundestag’s top intelligence experts are calling for a European spy network, warning that Europe can’t rely on intelligence from the United States amid growing uncertainty.

It is very difficult to watch the harrowing video analysis of how 12-year-old Ayman al-Hammouni was brutally killed in the West Bank on 21 February, shot by Israeli forces, with two cameras capturing the circumstances of his murder. www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

Taiwan catches Chinese-owned ship in act of cutting subsea cable https://www.ft.com/content/eb4af880-be13-4e1d-b7f1-4a55848b7acf

Europe and US clash over Ukraine in G7 and UN https://www.ft.com/content/6d78e821-1e53-492e-9018-b4e85410ccd1

Today’s election in Germany could have implications for Europe and beyond. Here’s a closer look at the key things to watch as the day unfolds👇 Follow our live updates here: politico.eu/article/germ... And get our insights and analysis here: ow.ly/QIQb50V4tuc

Der Spiegel cover 👀🇺🇦

Exclusive: Senior Trump officials are heading to Saudi Arabia to start peace talks with Russian and Ukrainian negotiators. ow.ly/kxaQ50V0Mhg #MSC2025 #MSCpolitico

EU trade boss Maroš Šefčovič will travel to Washington next week for high-level meetings as Europe braces for a potential trade war with the United States, three officials confirmed to POLITICO.

Marco Rubio speaks with Sergei Lavrov ahead of US-Russia talks next week https://www.ft.com/content/25c3bcf6-9da7-4c46-9054-d4a0778356c3

www.ft.com/content/13a8... Forget the US — Europe has successfully put tariffs on itself. High internal barriers and regulatory hurdles are far more damaging for growth than anything America might impose.

If you wargame a scenario where Trump cuts EU out of Ukraine/Russia peace talks (already has), you can easily envision Ukraine and EU collectively disregarding the "deal" Trump and Putin come up with, leading to an international crisis of unimaginable proportions. It's likely Macron sees this.

The US administration is officially endorsing a party in Germany that has never ruled anything higher than county level. That wants to leave the Euro and the European Union at some point in the future. That wants to put regulation back to national levels. Vance is endorsing EU weakness.

They are looking for 'reasons' why Europe doesn't deserve to be considered a partner. Hear the trumpets, as we can't overthrow US gov it's high time to get EU ready to expect a divorce from that very administration. Starting yesterday.

After JD Vance's tirade in Munich, Kallas fumbled an offer to respond - referring instead to Russia + China. German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius did not mince his words, taking on Vance directly Pistorius said it was "not acceptable" to compare Germany to an "authoritarian regime"

Oh wow, Pistorius is really going for it ‘I had a speech prepared on the topic of the conference. But I have to react to the VP’s speech’.

www.politico.com/news/2025/02...; www.politico.eu/article/sena... Sacrificing Ukraine and destroying NATO's deterrence: US position or clumsy remarks by an inexperienced politician (former FOX news commentator)?

En als u denkt: ja, het is maar Oekraïne. Dan heb ik slecht nieuws. In december 2021 legde Rusland ons een ultimatum op: de NAVO-troepen uit Oost-Europa (link in comments).

The @ec.europa.eu has moved so close to national governments, that it is no longer willing to enforce EU laws. Enforcement and controls must be placed in independent EU bodies. #EPPO @europol-eu.bsky.social #ECA #OLAF etc should get vastly more powers of oversight and enforcement.

www.politico.eu/article/eu-d... Talks on the multiannual financial framework (MFF) ... are even more difficult this time around because the Commission’s €300 billion joint debt program to rescue the EU economy after the Covid pandemic is up for repayment from 2028.

I have a new piece in @ForeignAffairs titled, "The Post-Neoliberal Delusion and the Tragedy of Bidenomics". They were generous about giving me a lot of words but were less generous with charts--so this long thread partially rectifies that. (And links to the piece at the end.)

The Biden administration’s desire to avoid repeating the economic mistakes of 2008—and its focus on supporting high demand to jump-start the economy—ultimately harmed both the U.S. economy and the Democrats’ chances in the 2024 election, argues @jasonfurman.bsky.social.

big-europe.eu/publications... It would be foolish to think that Europe can wait out Trump’s term of office; there are no guarantees that the MAGA agenda is not going to become the dominant mantra for US foreign policy long into the future.

Stability in Syria hinges on resolving the Kurdish issue. Turkey and Syria’s new leaders align in opposing Kurdish self-rule, but US troops on the ground complicate Ankara’s efforts to limit Kurdish autonomy. Read @asliaydintasbas.bsky.social 's commentary 👇

nationalinterest.org/feature/chin... "what Washington is really confronting is “China’s success in demonstrating that its illiberal political system is socially stable, economically productive, and militarily capable”

🚨🚨 "In today's please let us end this stupidity", EU relations minister Nick Thomas-Symonds has said the UK does not "currently have plans" to sign up to a pan-European trade agreement. Another depressing #brexit 🧵 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Wat ik heb begrepen is het vooral belangrijk om te kijken wat er achter CDU gebeurt; slagen SPD en de Grünen erin om redelijke verkiezingsresultaten te behalen ten koste van AFD? Zodat er een degelijke coalitie gesloten kan worden met bijvoorbeeld slechts twee partijen.