Isabella Dellac 🇺🇦🇪🇺

PhD student in EU and International law. Mostly keen on EU integration, press, politics, liberal&democrat ideas. (She/her)

[Angelica Shalagina🇺🇦 @angelshalagina]

As someone living in Kyiv, I’m begging you:

Please help us stop this.

Almost every night, russia strikes Kyiv with ballistic missiles, hitting civilians, homes, and warehouses.

We can’t stop these missiles because we don’t have enough Patriot systems.

People are dying.

Please don’t look away. Share what’s happening in Ukraine. Help us save lives.

[Alicia GarciaHerrero 艾西亞 @Aligarciaherrer]

I am a Spaniard, and I am European by conviction, not by accident. So let me say plainly what these days have cost me.

When tens of thousands crossed into Ceuta and sixty-seven people died on our breakwaters, my Prime Minister called it an attack on Spain's territorial integrity. He was right. And what did much of Europe do? Italy suspended free movement with us. Finland and Denmark backed it. Others demanded Spain's suspension from Schengen — as if the victims of a border surge were its perpetrators.

I have watched Spain shelter those who came through Belarus, those who reached Lampedusa. Solidarity, when it was ours to give, we gave. To be answered now with suspicion rather than support is not policy. It is abandonment dressed as prudence.

I do not pretend to know Rabat's full calculus. But I see Washington's drumbeat — congressional language reclassifying our cities, think tanks urging recognition of them as "occupied." And I see Morocco, a neighbour whose people deserve growth and welfare, drawn into a contest over Ceuta and Melilla that serves palaces and strategists, not families.

Europe, this is the test. Integrity is not a favour. It is the promise we made each other.

[Damian Low @DamianLow3]

Seeing some of the embarrassingly hateful reactions to Starmer's resignation today, I thought it was worth resharing this.

The level of personal hostility directed at Keir Starmer deserves scrutiny in its own right. Not because he should be immune from criticism, but because the tone and intensity of the attacks tell us something unhealthy about the state of democratic politics.

Starmer is a conventional political figure. Cautious, legalistic, incremental. He frustrates people precisely because he is managerial rather than messianic. Yet the reaction to him often goes far beyond disagreement, tipping into visceral hatred more commonly reserved for authoritarians or demagogues.

Much of this hostility is disconnected from concrete policy. It is not about specific votes, proposals or outcomes, but about projection. A belief that Starmer embodies betrayal, bad faith or hidden malice. That kind of politics runs on suspicion rather than evidence.

This matters because democracy depends on the assumption of good faith among opponents. You can think a leader is wrong, timid, or misguided without believing they are fundamentally illegitimate. Once politics becomes moralised to the point of demonisation, compromise is reframed as treachery and pluralism as weakness.

The pattern is familiar. In fragmented, polarised systems, anger concentrates not on extremists, whose intentions are clear, but on moderates, who disappoint maximalists on all sides. The centre becomes the lightning rod precisely because it resists totalising narratives.

There is also a media and online dynamic at work. Incentives reward outrage, not proportionality. Algorithms favour contempt over analysis. Over time, this creates a political culture in which relentless personal attack feels normal, even virtuous, rather than disgusting.

None of this is a defence of Starmer’s decisions, instincts or record. Those should be argued over robustly as you do in a democracy. The problem is the substitution of critique with hostility and the quiet erosion of democratic norms that follows when political opponents are treated as enemies rather than rivals.

A democracy cannot function if every election is framed as an existential struggle against internal evil. At some point, the target may change, but the damage to trust, restraint and culture remains.

[Sam @SamCKx]

A democratically elected British Prime Minister has been driven from office by a relentless campaign of propaganda and misinformation; funded, amplified and perpetuated by foreign billionaires and elites whose interests bear zero resemblance to those of ordinary working people.

A noble gesture from an emotional Keir Starmer, entirely consistent with his conduct in office.

A truly sad day for British democracy.

His full resignation speech:

[Jonathan Targetti @targettopoli]

Con Schlein, Conte, Bonelli e Fratoianni seduti a cena ero sicuro di aver visto la foto più brutta di questo 2026. Poi è arriva questa ed è una bella lotta eh...

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

Excellent news from the Council on the next MFF.

A provisional agreement has been found for the Council position on key building blocks for the EU budget.

I just congratulated President @Christodulides for his leadership and the hard work of @CY2026EU

There is still work to do but the direction is clear.

Member States support the Commission’s ambition for a simpler and modern EU budget.

One that invests in Europe’s priorities such as competitiveness, security, agriculture, cohesion and its global role.

[Fondazione Luigi Einaudi @fleinaudi]

Lo avete letto su tutti i giornali: @pinapic ha deciso di aderire alla grande famiglia di @RenewEurope.
Da dove partire se non da noi della @fleinaudi?

▶️ Le abbiamo fatto una piccola intervista per capire i motivi della sua scelta. Da non perdere

[Pina Picierno @pinapic]

Da oggi nasce Spazio Pubblico: un movimento aperto, europeista, democratico. Non una corrente, non un’etichetta, uno spazio per tutti quelli che credono ancora che libertà, diritti e giustizia sociale siano il futuro, non il passato.

Serve una proposta seria, riformista, pragmatica. Per chi produce, chi investe, chi innova, chi crea lavoro. Per chi vuole un’Europa libera, forte, giusta e un’Italia che non sia condannata alla perpetua irrilevanza.

Spazio Pubblico nasce per unire i liberi e i forti, per riunire coloro che lottano contro i populismi, le oligarchie e i profeti di sventura.

Adesso tocca davvero a noi.
Aderite e costruiamo insieme un’Italia e un’Europa protagonista.

👉 Aderisci a Spazio Pubblico: https://t.co/8ZBQrQX8PZ

Seguiti qui su X : @s_pubblico

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Today the EU made American AI illegal in 27 countries.

The reason is ONE sentence Microsoft's own lawyer said under oath:

This morning in Brussels, EU Tech Chief Henna Virkkunen unveiled the Cloud and AI Development Act. It's the most aggressive anti-American tech move from Europe since GDPR.

The law forces EU public sector procurement in banking, healthcare, defense, and energy to apply mandatory non-price factors favoring software and hardware built inside the EU. Microsoft Azure can be cheaper, AWS can be faster, Google Cloud can have the better model, and EU governments MUST legally prefer European alternatives.

AWS, Microsoft, and Google currently control roughly 70% of the European cloud market. Brussels is now openly targeting greater independence from US providers in cloud, AI, and semiconductors.

The largest regulatory market-share transfer in tech history is being written into law right now.

But the real story is how this happened...

On June 10, 2025, a man almost no one outside Brussels had heard of walked into the French Senate. His name is Anton Carniaux, Director of Public and Legal Affairs at Microsoft France.

Senator Dany Wattebled asked him under oath whether he could guarantee that data belonging to French citizens, stored on Microsoft European servers, would never be transmitted to US authorities without explicit consent from the French government.

Carniaux answered honestly. He admitted he could not guarantee it, because Microsoft must comply with the US CLOUD Act regardless of where European data physically sits. One sentence of sworn testimony from Microsoft's own counsel killed every sovereign cloud defense Big Tech had spent five years building.

It became the legal foundation for the law unveiled today.

Then Trump accelerated the divorce.

January 2025 brought executive orders expanding US surveillance authorities. Vance went to Munich and attacked European democracies on stage.

The tariffs followed and so did the Pentagon's $200 million AI contract war that ended with OpenAI replacing Anthropic after Hegseth labeled it a supply chain risk. So did OpenAI's Stargate and yesterday's Trump AI Executive Order, whose Section 3 lets the White House pick which AI companies get 30-day early access to frontier models. American AI was officially declared a US government strategic asset.

Europe heard every word of it.

On May 12, Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch told the French National Assembly that Europe had 24 months to build sovereign AI infrastructure or become a permanent US VASSAL state.

And the response came fast:

April 24: Cohere acquired Germany's Aleph Alpha for $20 billion with both Germany's and Canada's digital ministers in the room at the Berlin announcement. May 30: SoftBank committed up to $87 BILLION for French nuclear-powered data centers, the largest AI infrastructure project in European history.
Yesterday: EU Parliament announced it's dropping Google for French search engine Qwant tomorrow. France ordered every government workstation off Windows and onto Linux.

Today the Cloud and AI Development Act made all of it law.

- Mistral is building a 1.4 gigawatt AI campus near Paris by 2028 with Nvidia, MGX, and Bpifrance
- SAP's EU AI Cloud, launched last November, runs on Cohere, Mistral, and SAP's own sovereign infrastructure
- McKinsey forecasts $600 billion in sovereign AI needs by 2030

None of that money is going to Silicon Valley.

The America First AI policy built a wall around the world's most regulated economy, and American companies are on the wrong side of it.

Microsoft's lawyer told the truth in a Senate hearing nobody watched. Trump turned that admission into a national security narrative while the EU turned that narrative into procurement law.

And one entire continent walked away from the American tech stack...

[Benjamin Haddad @benjaminhaddad]

Stop the doom and gloom about Europe.

The fact is: there are many more candidates to become the 28th member of the European Union than the 51st state of the United States.

Yes we need to reform and transform our union. Make it more competitive, simpler, more powerful.

But when you have countries going through extended reforms to join, when the UK 10 years after Brexit is debating to rejoin, it says something about the inspiration that Europe represents.

[Mario Seminerio @Phastidio]

Xi compra un po' di Boeing, soia, carne, stende su Trump il mantello di collega autocrate dell'anno, a patto che smetta di armare Taiwan, altrimenti gli stringe le terre rare al collo con dotta citazione su Tucidide.
Gli oligarchi americani fanno business consegnando ai cinesi le loro expertise, e vissero tutti felici e contenti.

Taiwan emerges as flash point in Trump-Xi talks https://t.co/v4t8LgZWEc

[MisterChiton @BastardChiton]

Niente di che, solo Putin che ammette candidamente di aver invaso l’Ucraina perché voleva aderire all'UE, e che farà lo stesso con l'Armenia.

Niente “NATO che abbaia” e “nazisti ucraini”, ma necessità del “cuscinetto culturale” tra la Russia e la libertà.

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

I welcome the political agreement on our Digital Omnibus on AI.

This provides a simple, innovation-friendly environment for our European AI ecosystem to grow.

At the same time, we are strengthening protections for our citizens.

For safe and simple AI governance in Europe.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Kaja Kallas, "Europe is not about geography, it's about values and principles"

"That's why we are super glad to welcome Canada today to discuss issues"

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Excellent speech by King Charles. So good to hear the clarion cry for Ukraine, for NATO, for nature and the environment, for democracy and the checks on power. JFK mentioned more than Trump. Starmer directly quoted. Europe mentioned several times. Vance looked ill. I loved it. Loved the confidence in British and European values

[David Carretta @davcarretta]

🚨 Il Canada entra (come ospite) nella Comunità Politica Europea: Mark Carney parteciperà al summit del 3 e 4 maggio in Armenia.

🇨🇦 🤝 🇪🇺

[C.A. Carnevale-Maffè @carloalberto]

La più cruda, lucida e terrificante rappresentazione della “Repubblica Tecnologica” teorizzata da Palantir.

Leggetela, se avete lo stomaco forte.
Temetela, se avete l’animo debole.
Sfidatela, se avete lo spirito necessario.

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

- Kaja Kallas:

"Washington is not trying to manage Europe. It is trying to dissolve it.
They do not like the European Union,..
The tactics,resemble those used by the EU's adversaries..

The answer is not bilateral deals with Trump. It is unity. Because when Europe stands together, it is an equal power. And that is exactly what Washington cannot stand."

[Donald Tusk @donaldtusk]

The threat of NATO’s break-up, easing sanctions on Russia, a massive energy crisis in Europe, halting aid for Ukraine and blocking the loan for Kyiv by Orbán - it all looks like Putin’s dream plan.

[Nick Cohen @NickCohen4]

The British right made a huge bet on the American alliance holding together when they took us out of the EU. Trump has blown up the American alliance and so we head back to Europe