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[Lema @Lemapal]

Someone in a closed room in Mexico City on 20–22 May chose to stay silent. For three weeks, a private remark by the EU’s foreign-policy chief — comparing Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to apartheid — went nowhere. Then, the exact week France & Germany circulate a paper to dismantle her diplomatic service and four days before foreign ministers convene in Luxembourg: it surfaces. Not as recognition of a legal reality. As a scandal about her. That is not a leak. That is a decision. And the framing that travels — “unacceptable, not EU policy” — tells you whose decision it was. 🧵
↳ Euractiv — apartheid remark in Mexico City, 20–22 May; office declines comment: https://t.co/nMT8KiPDFS
↳ Middle East Eye — confirms report; EU diplomat: “unacceptable and not EU policy”: https://t.co/SYr3fQjqkc
↳ FT via NV — French paper to dismantle EEAS circulates same week, 11 June: https://t.co/m1IGsgYS2U

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

Germany's problems are caused by Germany, not by Europe.

Merz's anti-Brussels crusade is a sadly typical act of deflection by a national leader.

And it's irresponsible at this moment given the perilous geopolitical times we are in.

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

This may sound like a boring technical measure, but the German chancellor's supposed 'anti-bureaucracy' crusade would be an act of European geopolitical suicide.

This is about a simple choice. Either Europeans want to make single market laws at the confederal level where they are most effective, or they dismantle what's been accomplished by sending powers back to national capitals where they are least effective.

Merz wants to move the EU backwards, making it less powerful and less relevant in the world at a time when Europe can least afford it.

What's worse: even after Orban exposed the self-harm caused by the EU's existing veto system on matters of foreign policy, Chancellor Merz wants to introduce *new* national vetos on standard legislation through his proposed "oversight body". Not only is this blatantly unconstitutional under the EU treaties, it would be cursing this continent to suffer the same fate that befell the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as a result of the Liberum Veto.

It is a tragedy that Europe is saddled with leaders like this at a time of such global peril.
https://t.co/PwlTSWIg19

[Marcos Agustín @marcosagusstinn]

Europe already has everything to be a superpower:

1. 22T economy
2. 450M people
3. Largest single market on Earth
4. Most educated, highly developed population globally

But it’s failing for one reason: Fragmentation.

No unified capital markets.
No energy sovereignty.
No defense integration.
Too slow to act.

Europe either integrates → or becomes strategically irrelevant.

Breakdown: https://t.co/nfjNKo8pzW

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

WOW: The US Ambassador just told Europe it needs more fossil fuels to join the AI economy.

That’s a TRAP designed to deepen Europe’s energy dependence on the US, with demands to weaken EU methane standards as the price of entry.

The real AI energy race is won by cheap, scalable, clean power
not premium-priced imported LNG.

Europe isn’t energy-poor but it’s been told to feel energy-poor so it buys American.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Poland is on the verge of "Polexit"—leaving the European Union, according to Prime Minister Tusk.

Years of disinformation and lies emanating from Russia, without resistance from the EU, are taking their toll.

The Prime Minister declared that Poland's exit from the EU is no longer hypothetical. This is due to the actions of internal Eurosceptic forces, which he believes are working for external actors, including Russia, the American MAGA movement, and the European right wing led by Orbán. In particular, the Confederation factions and the majority of the Law and Justice (PiS) party are effectively pushing Poland toward a break with Brussels.

The situation worsened after President Karol Nawrocki blocked a law on obtaining €43.7 billion in defense loans from the EU, jeopardizing the financing of the army, whose expenditures are supposed to reach 5% of GDP.

Experts note that despite widespread support for the EU, one in four Poles is already prepared to vote to leave, reminiscent of the dynamics in the UK before Brexit.

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

The most baffling thing about Europe’s support for regime change in Iran is that it contradicts its own interests.

American war leads to:

- higher energy price
- influx of refugees
- ensuing far-right surge
- further damage rule-based order

If the US may get the geopolitical prize, Europe foots the bill.

@GettyImages

[Frid 🇪🇺🦌 @Frid45]

We’ve normalized foreign interference for too long. Brexiters, MAGA, Russian bots constantly targeting the EU.

Criticism from EU citizens is democracy.
But external attempts to dismantle the Union are strategic attacks on us.

It’s not normal.
We need to react.

[Elisa Mosini 🇪🇺🇮🇹 @MosiniElisa]

European fellows, this is an attack.
A coordinated attempt to reshape Europe’s value landscape.
What is at stake is the survival of our democratic values.
We need unity beyond ideology and a long-term resistance, cultural, civic, political, sustained, organized, and relentless.

[Frid 🇪🇺🦌 @Frid45]

United we stand, divided we fall. 🇪🇺

[DF @dflikweert]

@JimFergusonUK @NileGardiner Wow, congratulations for postings a record number of lies in one single post. It is as if the US turned fully narcissistic and is projecting its own pathetic MAGA deficiencies towards perfectly functional, European democracies.

[Marvin Baumann @MarvinTBaumann]

This is why they want to divide us.

Always be distrustful when a Russian, a Chinese or an American calls for the abolition of the EU.

They want to make you weak so they can exploit you.

[Omne Europa @neolatyno]

Our Roman ancestors had two flags:
a blue one for peace
and a red one for war

[Pete @splendid_pete]

The EU is the world’s largest net exporter of high-tech goods. Germany alone exports more advanced manufacturing than the US and China combined in several categories, something even the WTO’s tech-trade data makes clear.

If your bar for “good regulation” is letting crypto bros burn pension funds, you’re not making a serious point.

He rants about “talent shortage,” while Europe produces more STEM graduates per capita than the US every single year according to Eurostat and OECD.

The actual problem isn’t talent, it’s founders like him who mistake Twitter engagement for economic literacy.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.

Le Monde has a long article (https://t.co/HsWFThQ5wF) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.

Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.

He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.

That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund

and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.

Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

If Europeans were paying attention (or being told the truth), they should be beyond appalled by this "deal": https://t.co/ighKahMnIJ

It's nothing more than one of the most expensive imperial tributes in history. Just a massive one-way transfer of wealth with no reciprocal benefits

The "deal" is:
- The EU now gets charged 15% tariffs on its exports to the US when they commit to charging zero tariffs on US imports in the EU
- The EU agrees to invest $600 billion in the US, for no other obvious reason than pleasing "daddy"
- The EU will "purchase hundreds of billions of dollars of American military equipment"
- The EU commits to buying 750 billion dollars worth of very expensive US LNG, specifically $250 billion for each of the next 3 years

In exchange for all these concessions and extraction of their wealth they get... nothing. I'm not even exaggerating, that IS the deal: the EU gets nothing.

This does not even remotely ressemble the type of agreements made by two equal sovereign powers. It rather looks like the type of unequal treaties that colonial powers used to impose in the 19th century - except this time, Europe is on the receiving end.

More worryingly, this sets a dynamic and a precedent: what do you think happens next from here? In the 19th century, were colonial powers content with their first unequal treaty? Of course not - one of the key rules of geopolitics is that weakness only encourages further exploitation.

Again, this is Europe's century of humiliation.

[The Rights Forum @TheRightsForum]

Israël probeert de publieke opinie en politieke besluitvorming in Nederland naar zijn hand te zetten, bijvoorbeeld via het verspreiden van desinformatie. Dat staat in een nieuw rapport van de NCTV. 

https://t.co/cModorlbpd

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

To my fellow Europeans, 450ml EU citizens :

The EU, which had already disgraced itself by entering the Association agreement with Apartheid Israel years ago, is now refusing to suspend it.

This is the final piece of evidence that the EU is consciously supporting Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians. This risks to be the end of EU values.

EU member states: I hope you will activate the CJEU. But meanwhile, please remember that regional agreements do not obliterate your obligations under intl law. Cut ties with Israel, starting with trade including of weapons. Do the right thing. Our European history commands it.

https://t.co/NbFmCKbVQS

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Let's make Europe stronger by buying European!

Here's a very Nordic-centric list of alternatives, but I also want to hear your favorite substitutes for American products.

[Alessandro Palombo @thealepalombo]

🚨 MARIO DRAGHI JUST TORCHED THE EUROPEAN STATUS QUO

“The EU economy is stagnating while the rest of the world grows. Time is not on our side.”

A brutal reality check from one of Europe’s most respected leaders.

Key takeaways from his speech 👇:

1️⃣ EUROPE IS FALLING BEHIND IN AI.
“8 out of the top 10 large language models come from the US. The other 2? China. Every day we delay, the technology frontier moves away from us.”

2️⃣ ENERGY PRICES ARE A DISASTER.
“European power prices are 2-3x higher than in the US. A severe winter event saw German electricity prices spike tenfold.”

3️⃣ A TRADE WAR IS COMING.
“The new US administration will impose tariffs on the EU—probably in weeks, not months. China’s overcapacity will flood our markets. European firms will suffer.”

4️⃣ EUROPE IS ITS OWN WORST ENEMY.
“Our internal barriers act as a 45 percent tariff on manufacturing and 110 percent on services. We are blocking our own growth.”

5️⃣ CAPITAL MARKETS ARE BROKEN.
“We sit on €300 billion a year in savings, yet our startups struggle for funding because we rely on bank lending instead of equity markets.”

6️⃣ ENERGY, AI, AND DEFENSE ARE EXISTENTIAL RISKS.
“We act as 27 different countries while the world moves as blocs. The EU is less than the sum of its parts. That must change.”

7️⃣ LEGISLATION IS TOO SLOW.
“If we take 20 months to legislate, we’re already outdated before implementation.”

8️⃣ FINAL WARNING:
“If we want to defend our interests, keep our industries, and offer hope to our people, we must act as one state. Or we will be left behind.”

Draghi did not hold back. Will Europe listen?

RT if you agree.