Required reading: Sophie Bessis's essay on why the idea of Europe's 'judeo-christian' roots is 'une imposture': www.editionslesliensquiliberent.fr/livre-La_civ... A brief interview with Bessis: youtu.be/dqNwCVNRCfM?...

'Europe’s overt submission to Trump is emblematic of a broader malaise...They also routinely placate far-right forces at home. In doing so, they corrode the very values and principles – democracy, rule of law [etc.] – that they claim to uphold.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'When America extorts European obeisance, America is no longer Europe’s friend.' Very lucidly, @martinsandbu.ft.com says EU should see public anger at Trump as an opportunity. After all, anger (at injustice) is the 1st word of our 1st book: Μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ www.ft.com/content/11b9...

'instead of a class-based society of the old capitalism, we now have an elite-ruled society', @brankomilan.bsky.social says. Here I argue that we must constrain the power of that elite, to enhance liberty (republican theory) and growth (Schumpeterian theory): www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

The richest capitalists & richest workers are increasingly the same people, writes @brankomilan.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social. Why should we care? Because this new elite is resistant to shocks in labour & capital markets & thus able to hold its position at the top.

Next to Dido Aeneas looks really bad. She is both heroic and human

Di fronte a Didone Enea davvero appare meschino. Che personaggio lei!

'Trump or no Trump, Europe’s relationship with the US will never recover' Very lucid, by @nathalietocci.bsky.social: current policy misreads the facts, and is ruinous www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... (I wrote similar things here legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...

'Nobody knows how to reinvent 20th-century liberalism.' Excellent, by @edwardluce.bsky.social If so, however, why not have a look at other progressive ideas lying about? Such as... www.ft.com/content/dfca... via @financialtimes.com

'For some senior UN figures, the only conclusion to be drawn from these attacks is that Israel is killing the world’s only available witnesses to the starvation it has visited on Gaza through its policies.' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

The threshold for a #famine according to the IPC is very high. To get there the human suffering must be immense. Only months of lies about humanitarian access to #Gaza & extreme cowardice in Western capitals made this possible.

Tell me about her truth-telling on Gaza and the west bank

Onorato di partecipare a questa conversazione il 30 agosto al Forte di Bard, con @alessandrasard1, @GillesGressani, Marc Lazar, @MarcSemo: legrandcontinent.eu/it/eventi/li...

Great. Liberals must explain their vision of the good life and how to realize it - or condemn themselves to lose. newrepublic.com/article/1992...

Onorato di partecipare a questa conversazione il 30 agosto al Forte di Bard, con @alessandrasard1, @GillesGressani, Marc Lazar, @MarcSemo: legrandcontinent.eu/it/eventi/li...

This @faznet.bsky.social critique of D. de Villepin's, P. Lamy's, and my own @grandcontinent.bsky.social piece is interesting, for the free-trade argument, but partial: silent on both Gaza and the $600+750bn pledges in the tariff deal www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...

This @faznet.bsky.social critique of D. de Villepin's, P. Lamy's, and my own @grandcontinent.bsky.social piece is interesting, for the free-trade argument, but partial: silent on both Gaza and the $600+750bn pledges in the tariff deal www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...

Great idea: let Europe be represented before Trump by the person who acted most slavishly before him! This former UK diplomat suggests Rutte (or leaf-picking Starmer; the argument is fluency in English) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

50 for 1: this poor man spoke his mind. One would have been profoundly shocked to hear this in October 2023, but can one be equally shocked now? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Too late www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Choosing the right words. Read the 2024 ICJ opinion, saying that occupation is radically illegal and must end now, and then this @theguardian.com title. Should a big new settlement be described as 'highly controversial', or simply as 'illegal'? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Designare l'avversario: «Per l’Unione, scrive Lamy, 'Trump potrebbe rappresentare una minaccia di una gravità comparabile a...Putin'. Sposterei sopra il condizionale: Washington, e non solo Trump, potrebbe rivelarsi una minaccia più insidiosa di Mosca» legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...

Désigner l'adversaire: «Pour l’Union, écrit Lamy, 'Trump pourrait représenter une menace d’une gravité comparable à...Poutine'. On pourrait supprimer le conditionnel: au-delà de Trump, Washington s’avère pour nous une menace plus insidieuse que Moscou.» legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...

En retraçant les événements d'un été de capitulations européennes, Andrea Capussela montre tout ce que nous sommes sur le point de perdre — et que nous pourrions encore chercher à relancer. legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...

EU autonomy vis-à-vis Washington: much convergence between @GillesGressani's very lucid @financialtimes.com piece yesterday, and my louder one for @grandcontinent.bsky.social: www.ft.com/content/0fa0... legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...

'Watson School of International and Public Affairs...said more journalists had been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia and the US war in Afghanistan combined' Combined. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Europe capitulated before Washington on both tariffs and Gaza: 'une soumission sans précédent depuis la fin de la Guerre froide, qui menace non seulement le projet européen ... mais aussi et surtout l’idée même de gouvernement républicain en Europe' legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...

l'Europe qui capitule devant Trump sur les droits de douane et Gaza: «une soumission sans précédent depuis la fin de la Guerre froide, qui menace non seulement le projet européen ... mais aussi et surtout l’idée même de gouvernement républicain en Europe» legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...

Direct language, very rare in the past 22 months

Israel has killed a prominent Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza and four other employees at the television network in an air strike targeting their tent in the besieged strip. on.ft.com/41vHpBl

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Occupare Gaza City? Liberare l'assassino ripreso da due video pubblici? Se a Tel Aviv sembrano matti, non sono (nota 9 del mio articolo): 'Visto il frequente uso dell’aggettivo ‘messianico’, ... legrandcontinent.eu/it/2025/08/0...

Gaza haunts also our dreams. The compassion and sorrow he felt, in @Martin_Heipertz's arresting account, 'were outweighed by a profound sense of inevitability — a mournful, yet inescapable necessity, the grim but fated outcome of a war of annihilation.' medium.com/@martin.heip...

'Why have those of us whose job it was to report the atrocities in Palestine been so spectacularly unable to stop them?' ... 'A year before Israeli forces killed him on 24 March, local journalist Hossam Shabat told his 175,000 X followers: “The biggest... www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Molto contento di vedere la consonanza tra quanto scrive @fsaraceno.bsky.social (www.editorialedomani.it/economia/il-...) e quanto l'altro ieri ho scritto sul @grandcontinent.bsky.social: legrandcontinent.eu/it/2025/08/0...

A decade ago, we hoped that Vladimir Vladimirovič would force a leap forward in European integration. Here I argue that Donald J. might, unless they and Europe's radical right strike first: legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/0...

Trump, Gaza et la bataille pour l’autonomie républicaine de l’Europe https://www.europesays.com/2314161/ Auteur Andrea Capussela Image Installation d’Anselm Kiefer…

Trump, Gaza et la bataille pour l’autonomie républicaine de l’Europe https://www.europesays.com/2314161/ Auteur Andrea Capussela Image Installation d’Anselm Kiefer…

Trump, Gaza et la bataille pour l’autonomie républicaine de l’Europe https://www.europesays.com/2314161/ Auteur Andrea Capussela Image Installation d’Anselm Kiefer…

Good. To state the obvious, however, if it's wrong to send arms tomorrow, how was it right to send them yesterday? Bad though it is, what does the new Gaza plan really change, from either a political, legal, or moral standpoint?

This is the way to use your privilege. 👏

Borrell: 'for all those who have ears to hear and eyes to see, there can be little doubt that the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza.' By refusing to act EU leaders are 'complicit' in genocide, and will 'probably' be called to account for it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'Israel’s government knows how much food Gaza’s people need to survive, and how much food goes into the territory ... They cannot pass responsibility for this human-made famine to anyone else, and nor can their allies.' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Excellent piece, by de Villepin: 'Rien n’est inéluctable : cette défaite politique peut au contraire devenir le ferment d’une renaissance stratégique.' It's also an opportunity to stimulate popular pressure, I'd add, and foster the rise of the EU demos legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/07/2...

I’m getting the feeling AI is going to be a bit like what happened to food when they invented instant versions of things. Yeah it made eating cheaper and less hassle, but in the end anyone with the resources now pays through the nose to avoid it

Correct headline today: EU endorses the drive-by killing of the postwar rules-based trading system and the most-favoured-nation principle.

In the fiasco of the EU joining Trump in killing the rules-based trading order, don't forget the other (admittedly smaller) EU miss this month. The good, the bad and the ugly of the new budget proposals. on.ft.com/4f72wj0

Ignoring its principles and interests, the Union's authorities bowed to Trump, yesterday, and Bibi, last week. The lowest point of the European project. This is so shameful, however, that it might perhaps spark a popular reaction (and, even more optimistically, the real beginning of an EU demos)

'all you need to see to know that what is happening is a crime that requires immediate action is the bones of a child sticking out of its thin skin, while the food it needs is being blocked by Israeli soldiers.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

l’UE viendra soutenir la croissance états-unienne, dépendra du pétrole et des armes d’outre-Atlantique et ne touchera pas aux rentes numériques des géants technologiques états-uniens. La victoire pour Washington est totale. Par @romaricgodin.bsky.social www.mediapart.fr/journal/econ...