Niko Jaakkola

Associate Prof, Uni Bologna, Economics of climate, natural resources. Tweeting also as citizen, 🇫🇮/🇪🇺/🇮🇹. Views mine but TBH mostly borrowed. RT = RT.

[Niko Jaakkola @NikoEcon]

I wrote a policy piece for @EconPolEurope Forum, w/ Rick van der Ploeg and Tony Venables. We argue that decisive 'big push' green industrial policy is needed to convince firms & households that, without a doubt, the green transition is going to happen. 1/N https://t.co/fU2Uj2bQXK

[Sam Greene @samagreene]

Let’s not kid ourselves. Russia uses negotiations as a weapon of war. But that doesn’t mean Europe can’t turn the tables.

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[Sam Greene @samagreene]

Projection is also internal: the debate over whether and how to talk splits European opinion not just on talking, but about the war. And it means that when Europeans look for Europe on Ukraine, they can’t find it.

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[Sam Greene @samagreene]

Unfortunately, Europe is currently projecting the opposite: the navel-gazing over whether to talk and whom to send saps European morale and boost’s Moscow’s sense that time is on its side. That makes a Russian climb-down less likely.

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[Ruth Deyermond @ruth_deyermond]

How does NATO survive as a meaningful alliance when the leadership of its dominant member is compromised by relations with its primary adversary? European NATO has been deeply complacent about this issue, but that's a luxury we no longer have.

[Jessica Berlin @berlin_bridge]

Europe had over two years to defend Ukraine with Biden behind us. We wasted them, and now may have to defend Ukraine with Trump behind Russia. That’s not American voters’ fault, it’s European leaders’ fault.

[Luke Harding @lukeharding1968]

Some Ukrainians think Trump may bring resolution to Putin's bloody war. But it's clear any 'deal' imposed by US will be unacceptable to Kyiv, and result in loss of territory, and capitulation. Ukraine will carry on fighting. The question is whether Europe can or will step up ..

[Nathalie Tocci @NathalieTocci]

We’ve been talking about Trump proofing Europe for over a year now. the time has come to do something. Standing united, and protecting our economies, security and above all democracies is as existential as ever

[Luke Harding @lukeharding1968]

A grim moment for #Kyiv. A second Trump presidency means the probable end of US military assistance to Ukraine. The country's troops are already outgunned on the battlefield, with Russia advancing at the fastest rate since 2022. East - most of Donetsk oblast - may be lost in 2025

[Norbert Röttgen @n_roettgen]

Es ist unser Europa und wir haben nur dieses eine. Wenn die USA ausfallen, dann muss europäische Sicherheit europäisch werden. Das ist jetzt von allen Regierungen in Europa zu erwarten. Sie müssen in Zeiten des Krieges dieser historischen Aufgabe gerecht werde. #USAElection2024

[Moritz Schularick @MSchularick]

Vielleicht der schwierigste Moment in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik, zur inneren Strukturkrise kommen nun massive außenwirtschaftliche und sicherheitspolitische Herausforderungen, auf die wir nicht vorbereitet sind (trotz der vielen Mahnungen). Wir müssen jetzt umschalten.1/n

[Moritz Schularick @MSchularick]

Solange sie noch können: die demokratischen Parteien in Deutschland sollten zusammenkommen und Verteidungsinvestitionen von der Schuldenbremse ausnehmen, damit Deutschland and Europa geopolitisch handlungsfähig werden. 3/n

[Mike Martin MP 🔸 @ThreshedThought]

The UK immediately needs to:

- Increase defence spending rapidly (rather than shrinking its army)
- Focus its military strategy on deterring Russian aggression in Europe (rather than confronting ‘global threats’)
- Work with European allies to defend Europe under a NATO that doesn’t have US support (rather than assuming that America guarantees European security).

Anything less would be a government dereliction of duty.

[Ulrich Speck @ulrichspeck]

That would improve European security, set limits to Russian expansion and make Europeans much stronger in the transatlantic relationship which will be tested -- but remain crucial for both sides.

[Ulrich Speck @ulrichspeck]

Europeans shouldn't waist time again with fantasizing endlessly about strategic autonomy. They should go to work immediately and massively invest in Ukraine and in defense.

[Robin Brooks @robin_j_brooks]

If Trump wins the election on Tuesday, there is absolutely no room for moral superiority in Europe. Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Europe has covered itself in shame, choosing to do business with Russia over doing everything in its power to help Ukraine and confront Putin. Shame.

[Donald Tusk @donaldtusk]

Harris or Trump? Some claim that the future of Europe depends on the American elections, while it depends first and foremost on us. On condition Europe finally grows up and believes in its own strength. Whatever the outcome, the era of geopolitical outsourcing is over.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In 1996 Ukraine handed over nuclear weapons to Russia "in exchange for a guarantee never to be threatened or invaded".

[Norbert Röttgen @n_roettgen]

Russian imperialism is at the heart of what is threatening Europe. If #Trump is elected and strikes a deal with #Putin, that would be the worst-case scenario. Our existing security order, which is built in large parts around NATO, would be massively damaged.

[Friedrich Merz @_FriedrichMerz]

„Die #Ukraine wartet dringend auf weitere Hilfen, die Lage des Lande verschlechtert sich. Die abgesagte Konferenz wäre die Gelegenheit für den #Bundeskanzler gewesen, Führung zu übernehmen und zu zeigen, was ‚Zeitenwende‘ in #Europa bedeutet.“ (tm)
https://t.co/ToiCoKCGM6

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

I am back in Ukraine and the mood is pitch black. Ukraine feels betrayed.

"Failing that, the West will have years to repent the betrayal of the courageous Ukrainians, whose only crime was their wish to join the Western democratic order" 1/

https://t.co/BvXHXdfdWN