Kristian Thyregod

Geopolitics, economics, climate adaptation. Investor, advisor. Opinions are my own. “You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn’t care”. (Clayton Christensen)

[Kristian Thyregod @KThyregod]

@IuliiaMendel …, just remember, everything is going according to plan for Ukraine’s handlers.

[Bronson @AdeDetective]

How many Ukranian men is the United States willing to sacrifice pushing its proxy war against Russia?

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Lindsay Graham: "All of them"

[Kristian Thyregod @KThyregod]

“Global imbalances” is increasingly EU speak for the distribution of industrial and commercial power changing in ways Europe finds uncomfortable.

The more important question is whether Europe is losing industrial ground because China is behaving unfairly, or because Brussels has spent years making it progressively more expensive for European industry to compete.

[Kristian Thyregod @KThyregod]

Brought to you by this lot!

[European Commission @EU_Commission]

We’re rewriting Europe’s business rules for the first time since 2004.

This once-in-a-generation moment will define the prices you pay, the tech you use, and how companies grow for the next 20 years.

Just one week left to have your say ↓

https://t.co/8StJNb1290

[Kristian Thyregod @KThyregod]

Oh, look how far the European Union has come in its quest for geopolitical relevance.

Ohh, wait!

“The European Union cannot indefinitely describe itself as a geopolitical actor while measuring success primarily through statements, summits, and declarations.”

https://t.co/sjTom6WVXY

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@MiriamMLex How to say you cannot compete without saying you cannot compete.

[Kristian Thyregod @KThyregod]

It is striking how often European politicians now seem more comfortable restricting dissenting voices than confronting them in open debate.

If an argument is genuinely false, misleading, or propagandistic, it should be possible to expose its weaknesses publicly rather than relying on administrative measures to suppress it.

[Kristian Thyregod @KThyregod]

@TheDuranReal @GeromanAT Well…

[Kristian Thyregod @KThyregod]

@the_irascible “The less one personally bears the consequences, the greater the obligation to explain why others should.”

https://t.co/ffNizxeb4r

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@ivan_8848 One wonders if the ordinary EU citizens lost interest during the first Von der Leyen term.

Or perhaps even sooner.

[Kristian Thyregod @KThyregod]

@ricwe123 “The less one personally bears the consequences, the greater the obligation to explain why others should.”

Someone should remind Mr. Ellwood.

[Kristian Thyregod @KThyregod]

Wonder how often the Brussels crowd ponder this:

https://t.co/nHZV4crD1g

Not often enough, one suspects.

@AndreaCepova @rochowanski @VanberghenEU

[Kristian Thyregod @KThyregod]

@EvaVlaar Sovereignty, once ceded, is rarely recovered.

https://t.co/DHuCtB7SL3

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@EP_President @JakovMilatovic https://t.co/jg47zbdgPA

[Kristian Thyregod @KThyregod]

The EU increasingly speaks of enlargement as though it were an administrative process rather than a consequential political choice.

Enlargement creates obligations that will last for decades: fiscal transfers, regulatory integration, institutional adaptation, and potentially new security commitments.

The curious part is that those who advocate enlargement most enthusiastically rarely ask Europe’s citizens whether they wish to assume those obligations.

In a functioning democracy, the larger the decision, the stronger the requirement for public consent.

The debate Europe needs is not whether enlargement sounds virtuous.

It is whether the Union can absorb it, finance it, govern it, and emerge stronger afterward.

[Kristian Thyregod @KThyregod]

@alemannoEU Well, they still want this but it now has to be: Made in Europe!

Alas.

https://t.co/Vh99X9tvXg

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@EldarMamedov4 One ponders, why are German politicians so consumed with the wellbeing of other nations and the particular security interest of a non-signee of the NPT while allocating precious little concern for their fellow countrymen.

Alas, the much vaunted EU values in plain sight.

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@OopsGuess @MalcJo Well …

[Kristian Thyregod @KThyregod]

The curious part is that the institutions now celebrating the simplification of the AI Act are largely the same institutions that created the complexity in the first place.

The strategic question is not whether regulation should be streamlined.

It is why Europe chose to regulate so extensively before establishing globally competitive AI champions.

In a sector moving at extraordinary speed, every year spent refining rules is a year competitors spend refining capabilities.

Technology leadership is usually achieved first and regulated second.

Europe often attempts the reverse.

@RnaudBertrand

[Roberta Metsola @EP_President]

Europe has what it takes to lead in Artificial Intelligence.

That is why @Europarl_EN has voted to simplify and streamline the EU AI Act.

Today’s decision will help unlock the potential of our economies - the researchers, the industry, and the SMEs that are making use of this technology.

Together, we are strengthening Europe’s tech competitiveness.

Thanks to Rapporteurs @ArbaKokalari and @McNamaraMEP for their work on this legislation.

[Kristian Thyregod @KThyregod]

@TheDuranReal @JohnStauber Well …

https://t.co/Sb5gV3UuAq

[Kristian Thyregod @KThyregod]

@STANISKRAPIVNIK It’s also known as the Metsola continuum:

Latch on to any opportunity for a self styled social media appearance and ignore the inconvenient fact that the EU merely speaks to itself, and its own policy-media bubble, and mistakes that loop for relevance.

[Kristian Thyregod @KThyregod]

One need not agree with an argument to engage it. Bypassing the substance in favor of name-calling merely advertises an unwillingness to address the argument itself.

The question is not simply whether Ukraine should join.

It is whether the EU can absorb new members within its current structure, or whether enlargement will require the transfer of additional authority from member states to supranational institutions.

The debate is therefore not only about enlargement. It is also about the future character of the Union itself.

And if further enlargement requires further centralization, then citizens are entitled to ask a simple question:

Has the Union’s performance in areas such as economic competitiveness, migration, energy, foreign policy, and security been sufficiently successful to justify transferring additional authority away from national governments?
@GeraldGrosz

[Kristian Thyregod @KThyregod]

The question is not simply whether Ukraine should join.

It is whether the EU can absorb new members within its current structure, or whether enlargement will require the transfer of additional authority from member states to supranational institutions.

The debate is therefore not only about enlargement.

It is also about the future character of the Union itself.

And if further enlargement requires further centralization, then citizens are entitled to ask a simple question:

Has the Union’s performance in areas such as economic competitiveness, migration, energy, foreign policy, and security been sufficiently successful to justify transferring additional authority away from national governments?