#  @DaveKeating Dave Keating Dave Keating posts on X about countries, ukraine, prime minister, eu the most. They currently have [------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::14704278/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] -18% - [--] Month [---------] +46% - [--] Months [----------] +347% - [--] Year [----------] +66% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::14704278/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] -43% - [--] Month [---] +132% - [--] Months [---] +213% - [--] Year [---] +0.81% ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::14704278/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.13% - [--] Month [------] +1.20% - [--] Months [------] +3% - [--] Year [------] +5.70% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::14704278/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [us election](/list/us-election) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [stocks](/list/stocks) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands) [nfl](/list/nfl) **Social topic influence** [countries](/topic/countries), [ukraine](/topic/ukraine), [prime minister](/topic/prime-minister), [eu](/topic/eu) #908, [russia](/topic/russia), [italy](/topic/italy), [france](/topic/france), [germany](/topic/germany), [donald trump](/topic/donald-trump), [belgium](/topic/belgium) **Top assets mentioned** [Dave Inc. (DAVE)](/topic/$dave) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "America Joins With Canada And Japan To Promote Nuclear Power Eager to counter the climate villain narrative the United States launched new nuclear and 'clean coal' initiatives at a summit in Copenhagen - and convinced some European Union countries to join them" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2018/05/28/america-joins-with-canada-and-japan-to-promote-nuclear-power/) 2018-06-13T03:03Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements "Heathrow Third Runway Rejected Over Incompatibility With Paris Climate Agreement The first court ruling in the world to reject a project based on the Paris agreement could have major implications worldwide" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2020/02/27/heathrow-third-runway-rejected-over-incompatibility-with-paris-climate-agreement/) 2020-02-27T12:41Z 55.7K followers, [--] engagements "Despite Brexit English Remains The EUs Most Spoken Language By Far England may have left the EU but even after Brexit almost half of EU citizens can speak English" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2020/02/06/despite-brexit-english-remains-the-eus-most-spoken-language-by-far/) 2020-02-07T12:15Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements "Covid Causing Shift From Public Transport To Cars New data from Germany shows that fears over Coronavirus are causing many people to shift from public transport to cars if they can prompting fears about the effects on the climate" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2020/09/29/covid-causing-shift-from-public-transport-to-cars/) 2020-10-02T17:06Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements "Nord Stream [--] Sues EU Using ISDS The lawsuit using Energy Charter Treaty obligations as its basis follows a similar one by Uniper against the Netherlands. Climate campaigners say the treaty is preventing European countries from tackling climate change" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2019/09/26/nord-stream-2-sues-eu-using-isds/) 2019-09-27T11:02Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements "Very interesting map of who dubs and who subtitles in Europe. You can see the direct correlation between this and English proficiency. For the blue countries film & TV serve as a constant English lesson throughout one's life. Lessons in school become practically unnecessary" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1138756897505517568) 2019-06-12T10:36Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements "I gotta say I find it irksome when President @VonDerLeyen keeps saying "Europe will be the world's first climate-neutral continent by 2050" The EU is not a continent Russia has no such pledge. Why not say the EU will be the first superpower to reach climate neutrality #WEF20" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1219941512768905217) 2020-01-22T11:14Z 55.7K followers, [--] engagements "@wblau @vonderleyen Yes fine to co-opt the name of a continent to be synonymous with the name of a political entity like the US did. I have no problem with that. But she *specifically* said continent - not 'Europe as EU'. And regarding the continent it's not true" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1220026292697030657) 2020-01-22T16:51Z 55.7K followers, [--] engagements "The EU Commission said today #Austrias plan to only allow travel this summer to/from similar countries could in theory be allowed. EU will eventually put out travel guidelines. But in the mean time a significant North-South divide has emerged in the EU on #ExitStrategies" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1252555141229809665) 2020-04-21T11:09Z 55.7K followers, [--] engagements "After #Brexit should English continue to be the main working language of Brussels and the EU In this debate with @ADrechsel I argued not only is that inevitable it's also a blessing for the European project. Watch here: https://youtu.be/LULk1wbPv64 https://youtu.be/LULk1wbPv64" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1332278587387473921) 2020-11-27T11:02Z 55.7K followers, [--] engagements "@wblau @adrechsel Yes unfortunately. Displacing English has been the personal crusade of many a Frenchman in Brussels and I've witnessed some pretty incredible efforts by them in my [--] years here. (Francophone Belgians by contrast don't care)" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1332288628727435265) 2020-11-27T11:42Z 55.7K followers, [--] engagements "@duncanrobinson @Arnold_Platon One way to fix that would be to end the party list system and have every EU country set up constituencies that an MEP is directly answerable to as some countries already do. There would still be national party control but less so. Another remedy is of course pan-European lists" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1358007837948071936) 2021-02-06T11:01Z 55.7K followers, [--] engagements "is currently sitting on over [---] million unused vaccine doses. An estimated 35-40m are #AstraZeneca which still hasn't authorised to use on Americans and probably never will. It is an absurd situation while half of all doses made in are exported (chart @jfkirkegaard)" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1385535841058140164) 2021-04-23T10:07Z 56.8K followers, [----] engagements "@wblau Mexico" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1387865783469027332) 2021-04-29T20:26Z 55.7K followers, [--] engagements "@wblau Canada too similar to the US for that analogy to work I think. US-Mexico relationship much more problematic. And misunderstandings between the two run deep" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1387872173038215180) 2021-04-29T20:51Z 55.7K followers, [--] engagements "Incredibly bizarre https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hgv-lorry-driver-shortage-germans-b1930558.htmlfbclid=IwAR0g4Khr_LFaaxMG9FRmPBvJblpMLeeIjvmasM-XonSCiFubDpZhxDm3qCg https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hgv-lorry-driver-shortage-germans-b1930558.htmlfbclid=IwAR0g4Khr_LFaaxMG9FRmPBvJblpMLeeIjvmasM-XonSCiFubDpZhxDm3qCg" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1443944981991989249) 2021-10-01T14:24Z 55.7K followers, [---] engagements "The UK has now fully (and quietly) joined the EU's #VaccinePassport system the Commission confirms today. That means EU countries will recognise a UK NHS vaccine QR code and the UK will recognise EU QR codes. UK joins other non-EU countries in system such as " [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1453692326732255236) 2021-10-28T11:57Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements "The decision facing EU prime ministers and presidents today is how explicit and how public should prepared sanctions to trigger in the event of a Russian invasion of Ukraine be There will be no formal list adopted today. But #EUCO leaders want to send a clear message to Moscow" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1471512440571510787) 2021-12-16T16:07Z 56.6K followers, [--] engagements "Two days ago had a Queen Elizabeth II and a Prime Minister Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. [--] hours later has a King Charles III and a Prime Minister Liz Truss. Head-spinning history in the making" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1567942230417063937) 2022-09-08T18:25Z 55.7K followers, [---] engagements "Political discourse in has become so policy-free the horse race sportification of politics so complete that journalists now discuss *impeaching the president* without even bothering to ask what would be the basis. Because its irrelevant. The point is whos up whos down" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1574760895934349315) 2022-09-27T14:00Z 55.7K followers, [--] engagements "*****6 *WEEKS***** It's such a crazy short amount of time my brain can't handle it" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1583076973068177408) 2022-10-20T12:45Z 55.7K followers, [---] engagements "The context: 🪜This would be an interim target between 55% by [----] and 100% (net zero) by [----]. 📞This isn't a legislative proposal. It's advice (by President von der Leyen) for the next Commission which starts at the end of this year (which VDL may or may not be in charge of)" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1754893146998075639) 2024-02-06T15:41Z 55.7K followers, [---] engagements "A 90% emissions reduction will require 670bn in investment between [----] and [----] Commissioner Simson says. It's a lot but bear in mind: in [----] alone Europe spent 380bn in fossil fuel subsidies and 640bn in fossil fuel purchases - she points out" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1754894721300803956) 2024-02-06T15:48Z 55.7K followers, [---] engagements "Breaking: The European Commission is opening an 'excessive deficit procedure' against France for the first time. This should have happened long ago but France's power in Brussels for years made the Commission look away. How will this impact the legislative election" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1803363087992402113) 2024-06-19T09:43Z 56.7K followers, 129.3K engagements "Noteworthy sidenote: (I know Europeans will say this is a very American thing to even point out but.) If former prime minister Antonio Costa is appointed as Council President at #EUCO tomorrow he will be the 1st person of color (Indian descent) to hold an EU top job" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1805892158399946954) 2024-06-26T09:13Z 55.7K followers, 58.4K engagements "Talking to my Canadian friends it has clearly not gone unnoticed over there that the EU seems to be showing more solidarity with Canada on Trump's trade threats than the UK with whom Canada shares a monarch" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1886695254289465461) 2025-02-04T08:36Z 57.1K followers, 394.2K engagements "It is amazing how Trump's right-wing defenders in Europe either downplay his trade war against Europeans or outright celebrate it. This is the level of their infatuation with America - that they would sell out their own country. British politicians Labour and Conservative have done far more damage to our heavy industry than Donald Trump could ever do in a lifetime of Sundays. Trumps aluminium and steel tariffs will hit the UK but only marginally says @AFNeil. @KateEMcCann @StigAbell https://t.co/w0FnoyAsV8 British politicians Labour and Conservative have done far more damage to our heavy" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1889010035797172326) 2025-02-10T17:54Z 54K followers, [----] engagements "An obvious disconnect here at this NATO summit: Hegseth tells defence ministers that Europe should take control of its own security. Then he tells Europe to step aside while Trump takes control of their security for them through bilateral negotiations with Putin" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1889974877756829747) 2025-02-13T09:48Z 57.1K followers, 503.6K engagements "@jorgosac Fine but that doesn't excuse the Trump administration pretending they're turning over control of Europe's security to Europeans. If they still intend to own Europe then own that" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1890004463848706546) 2025-02-13T11:45Z 54K followers, [----] engagements "Orban & Fico may not have been invited to Macron's emergency Paris summit to respond to Vance's Munich provocations - but it seems Meloni may be fulfilling their spoiler role. She's defending Vance's speech and meanwhile her foreign minister is calling Trump "Italy's main ally"" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1891463906138128788) 2025-02-17T12:25Z 54.5K followers, 26.9K engagements "The fundamental thing that Eastern EU countries failed to understand for so long was that it wasn't a question of *if* troops should leave . It was a question of when - and whether Europe would be prepared for when they do. Because they blocked action they're not prepared "European officials believe Trump is likely to agree to withdraw US troops from the Baltics and perhaps further west leaving the EU vulnerable to a Russian army that Nato governments warn is preparing for a larger conflict beyond Ukraine." @gideonrachman https://t.co/vcISLdzm4X "European officials believe Trump is likely to" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1891531645137588310) 2025-02-17T16:54Z 54.6K followers, 10.6K engagements "The European leaders crisis meeting taking place now in Paris after a week which has been called the end of the transatlantic alliance. Will they emerge with a plan to make Europe militarily sovereign and relevant" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1891576040486490470) 2025-02-17T19:50Z 54.9K followers, 55K engagements "Europeans would be very foolish to listen to comments like this. Europeans don't give up on America yet Trump does not represent us all. Most believe like I do that a strong NATO serves US security interests We need to limit the damage over the next [--] years so that we can rebuild our transatlantic partnership again in the future. Europeans don't give up on America yet Trump does not represent us all. Most believe like I do that a strong NATO serves US security interests We need to limit the damage over the next [--] years so that we can rebuild our transatlantic partnership again in the future" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1891584628399415491) 2025-02-17T20:24Z 55K followers, 17.5K engagements "The warning sirens were blaring. But European leaders chose to cover their ears. The United States has begun to move closer to Russia as populism cronyism and corruption have sapped the strength of American democracy wrote Fiona Hill in a [----] essay. https://t.co/3EYLuXruNy The United States has begun to move closer to Russia as populism cronyism and corruption have sapped the strength of American democracy wrote Fiona Hill in a [----] essay. https://t.co/3EYLuXruNy" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1891598409246654656) 2025-02-17T21:19Z 54.5K followers, [----] engagements "Several former EU political heavyweights have signed an open letter calling for the current EU leaders to drop the pretence that the US is an ally and adopt a defensive posture against American provocations. "We must now face the harsh reality: we must stop Trump." Europeans must mobilise a large part of the world that thinks like us but does not have the means to act decisively. And there must be a clear and precise posture towards those in the Union who do not want to follow the movement against Trump" The signatories include former Italian PM Enrico Letta former WTO chief Pascal Lamy and" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1891795364094595325) 2025-02-18T10:22Z 56.7K followers, 98.1K engagements "People always overuse the metaphor of the musicians on the Titanic. But they had accepted the reality of the sinking. I've always found the aristocrat mother's initial reaction to be far more interesting because she continues on as normal and is intent on ignoring the sinking. Her mind can't accept what her eyes can see. This is where most Europeans are this week. It's a continent of Ruth DeWitt Bukaters pretending life goes on as normal even while their eyes can see the transatlantic alliance on which their security depends is irreversibly and rapidly sinking and war is coming" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1891884544938152036) 2025-02-18T16:16Z 54K followers, [---] engagements "People always overuse the metaphor of the musicians on the Titanic. But they had accepted the reality of the sinking. I've always found the aristocrat mother's initial reaction to be far more interesting because she continues on as normal and is intent on ignoring the sinking. Her mind can't accept what her eyes can see. This is where most Europeans are this week. It's a continent of Ruth DeWitt Bukaters pretending life goes on as normal even while their eyes can see the transatlantic alliance on which their security depends is irreversibly and rapidly sinking" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1891891183623741755) 2025-02-18T16:43Z 54.7K followers, [----] engagements "Macron is holding another summit of European leaders in Paris today this one wider after their were complaints on Monday from countries not invited. Today will be the junior partners reportedly: . So the 'coalition of the willing' has been all members except (pro-Putin) (neutral) () https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-convenes-second-meeting-ukraine-with-other-europeans-canada-2025-02-18/ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-convenes-second-meeting-ukraine-with-other-europeans-canada-2025-02-18/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1892160650895331364) 2025-02-19T10:33Z 55.1K followers, 45.4K engagements "@Arnold_Platon Thanks I'll update if you make a new map I can link to it" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1892164587799146849) 2025-02-19T10:49Z 54.7K followers, [----] engagements "All of these are explainable by the countries being either pro-Putin or neutral except Portugal Iceland and Luxembourg. Anyone have an explanation for these" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1892184114238837105) 2025-02-19T12:07Z 55.1K followers, [----] engagements "@dmengerman No it's the state department subscriptions that are being cancelled" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1892238555029623242) 2025-02-19T15:43Z 55.1K followers, 33.7K engagements "Trump is now openly threatening Ukraine. He calls Zelenskyy "a Dictator without Elections Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left"" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1892245995443953671) 2025-02-19T16:12Z 55.1K followers, 11.7K engagements "If they faced a choice half of Britons says they would chose (Europe) over the United States. Only 20% say they would choose . Will Starmer bear in mind what citizens want when he inevitably has to make a choice I'm not so sure. hegemony over is extremely strong. Britons tend to say it is more important to support Ukraine than to maintain good relations with the US More important to support Ukraine: 48% More important to maintain good relations with the US: 20% Neither: 14% https://t.co/5GnPuEnbiH Britons tend to say it is more important to support Ukraine than to maintain good relations with" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1892958283712831881) 2025-02-21T15:23Z 55.1K followers, [----] engagements "Poland's right-wing president is still solidly pro-Trump and is excusing the US president's threats against Ukraine. Will be interesting to see how/if Poland's center-right prime minister Donald Tusk responds to this. A few minutes ago President @ZelenskyyUA called me. We had a candid conversation on the heels of the recent meetings with General Kellogg and other developments. I conveyed to him that we consistently believe there is no other way to stop the bloodshed and achieve lasting peace A few minutes ago President @ZelenskyyUA called me. We had a candid conversation on the heels of the" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1893021241709072418) 2025-02-21T19:33Z 55.1K followers, [----] engagements "@Frel_ It's like Italy. Tusk is head of government Duda is head of state. The only country in the EU with a presidential system of government is France (Romania & Lithuania half-half)" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1893025169033011493) 2025-02-21T19:49Z 55.1K followers, [---] engagements "They say only Nixon could go to China. Perhaps only the conservative Atlanticist Friedrich Merz could lead the European charge for independence from America. My post-election article on whether the new German chancellor could be Europe's unlikely saviour: https://davekeating.substack.com/p/merz-we-must-achieve-independence https://davekeating.substack.com/p/merz-we-must-achieve-independence" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1893995111760986298) 2025-02-24T12:03Z 55.1K followers, [----] engagements "Lots of wishful thinking at today's emergency summit on European security in London. "There was broad convergence on the importance of continuing to work closely with the US namely in the context of NATO" says an EU official. There were "strong agreement that future European contributions to additional security guarantees must be developed hand in hand with the US."" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1896284286019584144) 2025-03-02T19:39Z 56.8K followers, 64.4K engagements "The fundamental problem with Europe in a nutshell: for decades Europeans have trusted Americans more than their own European neighbours and that's hard to shake off. Witness the Italians blocking any action they think would lessen dependence on America. https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/brussels-playbook/trumps-gassy-gambit/ https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/brussels-playbook/trumps-gassy-gambit/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1909498311842942996) 2025-04-08T06:47Z 55.7K followers, 54.1K engagements "This was hard to watch. The President was barely able to speak at all. She looked like a hostage. What a humiliation for Europe - even before any surrender deal might be agreed to in the next hour" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1949509633581752828) 2025-07-27T16:38Z 57.1K followers, 296.9K engagements ""#Intervision2025 revealed the reality of Russian soft power : an overabundance of resources a carefully planned strategy but a complete lack of spontaneity & genuine popular support" A damning assessment of the Potemkin village from eyes on the ground: https://www.slate.fr/monde/intervision-eurovision-russe-poutine-gigantesque-flop-sud-vietnam-figurants-culture-soft-power https://www.slate.fr/monde/intervision-eurovision-russe-poutine-gigantesque-flop-sud-vietnam-figurants-culture-soft-power" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1972969475688501709) 2025-09-30T10:19Z 56.4K followers, [----] engagements "But remember this was the very first global #Intervision (a revivial of the old Warsaw Pact Eurovision). The very first #Eurovision also had very few viewers. Next year it will be in Saudi Arabia making it more global and not -focused. My thoughts: https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-eurovision-flails-russias-intervision https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-eurovision-flails-russias-intervision" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1972972540600734129) 2025-09-30T10:31Z 56.4K followers, [---] engagements "Unlike in doesn't issue ID cards. People don't carry around their papers (drivers licenses don't prove citizenship). The Supreme Court says ICE can abduct any citizen off the street who doesn't 'look American' and lock them up until they can prove they're citizens. A Supreme Court order in September allowed for racial profiling in immigration arrests when someone doesnt look American. Justice Brett Kavanaugh insisted apparent ethnicity can be a factor in arrest. The Kavanaugh Stop is real. It just happened in Chicago. Terrifying. https://t.co/cUZNV1Tye4 A Supreme Court order in September" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1979471416035627036) 2025-10-18T08:55Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "He's pointing out an uncomfortable truth. When Orban met with Putin last year our centrist European leaders accused him of appeasement. Now when Trump meets with Putin they're either silent or they welcome it. Our leaders in Europe are all still terrified of offending Trump. Say again 🤔 They called it war prolongation they called it appeasement. Now the road to peace runs through Budapest. https://t.co/cu9S8pDcEe Say again 🤔 They called it war prolongation they called it appeasement. Now the road to peace runs through Budapest. https://t.co/cu9S8pDcEe" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1979472744531030314) 2025-10-18T09:00Z 55.6K followers, [----] engagements "The White House is doubling down on their statement that "the Democrat Party's main constituency are made up of Hamas terrorists illegal aliens and violent criminals." But notice she's now gaslighting and pretending she said something more nuanced - "caters more". Leavitt: Hakeem Jeffries is lashing out because he knows that Im telling the truth about the Democrat Party. It is a fact the Democrat Party caters more to pro-Hamas terrorists illegal aliens and violent criminals. https://t.co/kvgZWOxz7Z Leavitt: Hakeem Jeffries is lashing out because he knows that Im telling the truth about the" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1979473542661001683) 2025-10-18T09:04Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "Now confirmed: Trump has ordered the military to fire missiles into California from warships at sea today as millions take to the streets for #NoKingsDay protests. Governor Newsom who is opposing the missiles launch is closing I5 for peoples' safety. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-10-18/california-to-close-parts-of-i-5-today-after-military-confirms-it-it-will-fire-artillery-over-freeway https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-10-18/california-to-close-parts-of-i-5-today-after-military-confirms-it-it-will-fire-artillery-over-freeway" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1979589663036752065) 2025-10-18T16:45Z 55.6K followers, [----] engagements ""The White House played with fire here and it got burned. In the process they have dragged Europe into the fire with them. And like with so many things right now Europe is just waiting to see what Trump decides to do." My take on the #RareEarths mess: https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-g7-has-lost-the-credibility-to https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-g7-has-lost-the-credibility-to" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1980529537621655590) 2025-10-21T07:00Z 55.6K followers, [---] engagements "Spain just announced 6.9bn in defence spending. The problem They're buying weapons from a Spanish provider. The US military-industrial complex doesn't like that. Sanchez wants an EU army instead of sending money to the US. For that he's being vilified https://davekeating.substack.com/p/pedro-sanchez-wants-eu-independence https://davekeating.substack.com/p/pedro-sanchez-wants-eu-independence" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1980885684765495465) 2025-10-22T06:35Z 57.1K followers, 333.7K engagements "PM Pedro Sanchez is cutting a lonely figure as he enters the #EUCO summit right now in Brussels. For his refusal to bend to the president's extortion he has been vilified by other European governments. Those anti-Sanchez briefings have grown more intense over the past week. Spain just announced 6.9bn in defence spending. The problem They're buying weapons from a Spanish provider. The US military-industrial complex doesn't like that. Sanchez wants an EU army instead of sending money to the US. For that he's being vilified https://t.co/83OSm7KcqV https://t.co/vkHrQCKpzn Spain just announced" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1981253870161428549) 2025-10-23T06:58Z 55.6K followers, 19.3K engagements "President @ZelenskyyUa is arriving now at the #EUCO summit in Brussels. He was first invited as a show of support after the telling off he got from President Trump last week. But news that Trump has cancelled his Putin meeting and sanctioned Russia has changed the context" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1981255080767607178) 2025-10-23T07:03Z 55.6K followers, [----] engagements "Speaking alongside @ZelenskyyUa Council chair Costa says Ukraine has the EU's full support. "Dear Volodymyr welcome to your house" he says referring to Ukraine as "a future member of the European Union. He says Ukraine will get the military funding it needs for '26 & '27" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1981260524500513135) 2025-10-23T07:24Z 55.6K followers, [---] engagements "@ZelenskyyUa Costa was referring to the disagreement over confiscating 140bn in Russian assets and giving it to Ukraine. Belgium is objecting because that money is based at Euroclear here in and they are worried they will be sued. PM @Bart_DeWever wants a guarantee will cover them" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1981262510733893872) 2025-10-23T07:32Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "@ZelenskyyUa @Bart_DeWever Entering #EUCO PM @Bart_DeWever lists [--] conditions for agreeing to the Russian asset confiscation today: shared risk joint guarantees & all EU countries do the same. If the coalition of the willing is not willing to be the coalition of the bill it has no sense to carry on"" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1981264041201848418) 2025-10-23T07:38Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "@ZelenskyyUa @Bart_DeWever Dutch PM @DickSchoof says entering #EUCO summit that he backs Belgium's call for sharing the reparations risk. "Europe and the G7 as a whole must stand behind this not Belgium alone" he says" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1981277096816062578) 2025-10-23T08:30Z 55.6K followers, [---] engagements "Entering #EUCO summitPM Sanchez says Spain is supporting Ukraine His @PES_PSE skipped their normal pre-Council meeting today ostensibly b/c they had their Congress last week in Amsterdam. But Sanchez was the only PM who showed up to it (shunned by Denmark's Frederiksen)" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1981293734231687666) 2025-10-23T09:36Z 55.6K followers, [----] engagements "At today's#EUCO summit national leaders are discussing ways to scrap EU climate legislation adopted in 2019-2024 term Merz wants to kill the [----] petrol car phase-out. And he's pushing to scrap corporate sustainability reporting as promised to Trump https://davekeating.substack.com/p/trump-is-unravelling-the-eus-climate https://davekeating.substack.com/p/trump-is-unravelling-the-eus-climate" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1981303493811150856) 2025-10-23T10:15Z 55.7K followers, 51.7K engagements "#EUCO latest: the pressure on Spain from other EU leaders apparently worked today. Just announced: Spain will pay to transfer US weapons to Ukraine through PURL. https://www.euractiv.com/news/spain-joins-nato-initiative-to-buy-us-weapons-for-ukraine/ https://www.euractiv.com/news/spain-joins-nato-initiative-to-buy-us-weapons-for-ukraine/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1981369414780964952) 2025-10-23T14:37Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "The Trump regime is continuing its nationalisation of private companies. https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/trump-administration-in-talks-to-take-equity-stakes-in-quantum-computing-firms-60ee5143 https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/trump-administration-in-talks-to-take-equity-stakes-in-quantum-computing-firms-60ee5143" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1981389390430818792) 2025-10-23T15:56Z 55.6K followers, [---] engagements "Many will question whether getting this [----] emissions reduction target agreed was worth Commission commitments to water down EU climate laws - especially when the new revision clause means it could be cancelled. How credible will be when it shows up to #COP30" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1981423504739483721) 2025-10-23T18:12Z 55.6K followers, [----] engagements "Donald Tusk PM of Poland (which has long resisted EU climate action) has come out of the summit to tell reporters tonight is a "turning point" in Europe's approach to climate policy Weve defused a threat to Polish families & drivers Europe is finally speaking our language"" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1981441442544267369) 2025-10-23T19:23Z 55.6K followers, [---] engagements "It is absolutely insane that in the times we live in Friedrich Merz and other national leaders think that businesses having to fill out too many forms is the most urgent problem we're facing. So urgent that they are trying to thwart democracy in order to achieve it. This week EU governments attacked the EU Parliament for voting against their proposal to water down climate legislation. It's the equivalent of a national leader demanding that a democratic vote be "corrected" because he didn't like the outcome. Instead of defending her This week EU governments attacked the EU Parliament for" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1981663146839511521) 2025-10-24T10:04Z 55.6K followers, [----] engagements "Here are the companies who paid to demolish the East Wing of the White House: https://www.thewrap.com/white-house-ballroom-donor-list-apple-amazon/ https://www.thewrap.com/white-house-ballroom-donor-list-apple-amazon/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1981676409874796607) 2025-10-24T10:57Z 55.6K followers, [----] engagements "So the trade bazooka can't be used against America but it can be used for America. https://www.euractiv.com/news/von-der-leyen-hints-at-trade-bazooka-against-chinas-rare-earth-chokehold https://www.euractiv.com/news/von-der-leyen-hints-at-trade-bazooka-against-chinas-rare-earth-chokehold" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1982062096608014579) 2025-10-25T12:30Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "Note to Europe: when you stand up to Trump instead of immediately surrendering he backs down. TACO. Learn it. https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-china-concessions-trade-war https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-china-concessions-trade-war" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1982064542558695545) 2025-10-25T12:39Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "Could the pro-EU D66 party be the surprise winner in todays Dutch election Its possible. Polls show voters may punish far-right PVV for their time in government (even if they come first again they are likely to lose seats). From Matinale Europenne: https://open.substack.com/pub/lamatinaleeuropeenne/p/et-si-les-pro-europeens-revenaient https://open.substack.com/pub/lamatinaleeuropeenne/p/et-si-les-pro-europeens-revenaient" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1983453496310669579) 2025-10-29T08:38Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "Here's a reminder of what happened in the last election in [----] when the far right came first in the Netherlands. PVV become the largest party in the Dutch governing coalition but the other parties did so on the condition that Wilders would not be PM. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/what-does-the-dutch-far-right-victory https://davekeating.substack.com/p/what-does-the-dutch-far-right-victory" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1983457235671158961) 2025-10-29T08:53Z 55.7K followers, [---] engagements "🚨Wow - this will be huge if it bears out. Exit polls show the pro-EU D66 party has WON the Dutch election. The far-right PVV party of Geeet Wildsrs has lost [--] seats according to exit polls. Huge if true" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1983627170380722623) 2025-10-29T20:09Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "Exit polls in the Netherlands show the far-right defeated by the pro-EU D66 party in today's national election. Will it bear out" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1983628059485016445) 2025-10-29T20:12Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "Rob Jetten set to be the next Dutch prime minister in January calling for Trump's inauguration to "go down in history as the day when Europe stood up.and regained our independence." Night and day difference from Rutte" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1983885388029817336) 2025-10-30T13:15Z 57.1K followers, 138.9K engagements ""It is up to us a new generation to carry our European flag with pride" said incoming Dutch PM Jetten in January. "We are a beacon of freedom and human dignity in a world on fire. Europe is the most beautiful place on earth" It's striking how unheard of that last sentence is" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1983886011084996712) 2025-10-30T13:17Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "Breaking: it's now official the pro-EU D66 party came first in the Dutch election. Their best result ever. The National Press Agency has just announced the final vote count. Its a narrow victory just [-----] votes ahead of far-right PVV of Geert Wilders. https://open.substack.com/pub/davekeating/p/the-most-pro-eu-party-just-won-bigr=wx462&utm_medium=ios https://open.substack.com/pub/davekeating/p/the-most-pro-eu-party-just-won-bigr=wx462&utm_medium=ios" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1984242150125850950) 2025-10-31T12:52Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "This was all foretold. It was spelled out clearly during the campaign by #Project2025 Whether the majority of American voters want fascism or they're indifferent to it they chose it. In Europe we should have our eyes open to that My piece from last https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-maga-military-purge [--] General Officers have been removed or have retired in nine months. I'm a former CIA officer if I saw this in a foreign military we would call that a purge. https://t.co/GLLctwSdcS https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-maga-military-purge [--] General Officers have been removed or have" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1985728280289259946) 2025-11-04T15:18Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "Brussels Airport shut down tonight due to drones. All flights in and out suspended incoming flights diverted to other airports. Drones also sighted over Kleine-Brogel military airbase. https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1825792/brussels-airport-shut-down-after-drone-sighting https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1825792/brussels-airport-shut-down-after-drone-sighting" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1985800077219111049) 2025-11-04T20:03Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "Rob Jetten set to be next Dutch PM is joining PM Sanchez in calling for sovereign defence. "We need a European pillar within NATO that can operate independently if and when needed." He notes 70% of Europeans say they want this" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1985811816165912616) 2025-11-04T20:50Z 57.1K followers, 112K engagements "The EU international journalists union @APIbrussels has condemned the firing of an Italian journalist for asking a question in the Commission midday press briefing perceived as critical of Israel. So far no indication that the Commission pressured Agenzia Nova to fire him" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1986757621580177849) 2025-11-07T11:28Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "More info about what happened here. Any journalist covering this topic knows the pressures we face and the attempts to cancel people. https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/journalist-israel-gaza-nova-gabriele-nunziati/ https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/journalist-israel-gaza-nova-gabriele-nunziati/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1986758735130460230) 2025-11-07T11:32Z 55.7K followers, [---] engagements "8 Democrats in the Senate have caved on the shutdown. Snatching defeat from the jaws of the November 4th victory. I got back to my office after the vote tonight and recorded this. There's no way to sugarcoat what happened tonight. And my fear is that Trump gets stronger not weaker because of this acquiescence. I'm angry - like you. But I choose to keep fighting. https://t.co/EsfvvDH3VD I got back to my office after the vote tonight and recorded this. There's no way to sugarcoat what happened tonight. And my fear is that Trump gets stronger not weaker because of this acquiescence. I'm angry -" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1987812725859221777) 2025-11-10T09:21Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "Bernie Sanders says these [--] Democrat senators have committed a "betrayal" of the American people: Catherine Cortez Masto (NV) Jacky Rosen (NV) Maggie Hassan (NH) Jeanne Shaheen (NH) Dick Durbin (IL) John Fetterman (PA) Tim Kaine of (VA) Angus King of (ME) https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/1987745526276563275s=20 Bernie Sanders just said it plain: Tonight Democrats voted with Republicans to raise healthcare premiums for [--] million Americans and pave the way to kick [--] million off Medicaid. [-----] will die every year so the rich can get a trillion-dollar tax cut. This was a betrayal" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1987813862008099237) 2025-11-10T09:25Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "This fusion of the US/UK media evident in the current BBC crisis is something I touch on in my book The Owned Continent out [--] December. BBC News made a choice in [----] to axe BBC World and switch to being based from both London & Washington. https://open.substack.com/pub/goodallandgoodluck/p/the-truth-about-impartiality-at-the https://open.substack.com/pub/goodallandgoodluck/p/the-truth-about-impartiality-at-the" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1988273138484875349) 2025-11-11T15:50Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "Diplomatically unprecedented. The White House has reportedly invited the far-right opposition in Germany for an official strategy visit in Washington. https://www.politico.eu/article/large-afd-delegation-set-travel-washington-us-congress-member-says https://www.politico.eu/article/large-afd-delegation-set-travel-washington-us-congress-member-says" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1989641022658560500) 2025-11-15T10:26Z 55.7K followers, [---] engagements "Diplomatically unprecedented. The German far-right opposition has reportedly been invited to Washington for an official strategy session with Republicans in the US Congress. https://www.politico.eu/article/large-afd-delegation-set-travel-washington-us-congress-member-says https://www.politico.eu/article/large-afd-delegation-set-travel-washington-us-congress-member-says" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1989648798780723531) 2025-11-15T10:56Z 55.7K followers, 100.3K engagements "Let's be clear-eyed. The US is pushing for regime change in Europe supporting the far right in their efforts to take power in the next elections. As a result they're polling in 1st place in . And our centrist leaders pretend it's not happening. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/america-is-pursuing-regime-change https://davekeating.substack.com/p/america-is-pursuing-regime-change" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1989649369906516453) 2025-11-15T10:59Z 55.7K followers, 46K engagements "The list of supposed British patriots who jump at the chance to slag off their own country in order to get on Fox News is long. These people are obsessed with America. They would probably support becoming the 51st state. Liz Truss on Fox News supporting Trump suing the BBC "There are lots of people in Britain who are cheering President Trump on and want him to sue the BBC" "Because they're a huge problem: they've lied they've cheated they've fiddled with footage" "Both in the case of https://t.co/1yknuVTGBT Liz Truss on Fox News supporting Trump suing the BBC "There are lots of people in" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1990088222379049314) 2025-11-16T16:03Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "The UK's Labour government is today announcing a new immigration & asylum policy they say is modelled on that of their centre-left sister party governing Denmark. But how is Denmark's asylum policy considered the harshest in viewed in Brussels" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1990448845814448318) 2025-11-17T15:56Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "Deputy PM Jan Jambon tells #IATAWOCE that Belgium is launching a National Airspace Security Centre in response to recent drone incursions at #BrusselsAirport. "We must make sure aviation does not become a pawn in geopolitical conflicts."" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1990715739141980221) 2025-11-18T09:36Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "Earlier this month drone sightings shut down [--] airports in Belgium as well as military sites. Russian involvement has not yet been definitively proven. It comes as other airports across Europe including in Copenhagen (home of rotating presidency) have been buzzed by drones" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1990716895943680377) 2025-11-18T09:41Z 55.7K followers, [---] engagements "Rare to hear European leaders speaking so honestly at the moment given that most of them are terrified of offending MAGA. Bravo @BuschEbba. Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely and we are choosing Canada So when we come to America we come to Canada now. https://t.co/hIl7kShdx2 Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely and we are choosing Canada So when we come to America we come to Canada now. https://t.co/hIl7kShdx2" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1991520502796677633) 2025-11-20T14:54Z 55.7K followers, 38.7K engagements "Who knows if this is serious or not (and if the US military-industrial complex would ever let it happen) but Europeans should welcome such an opportunity to de-Americanise NATO. Unfortunately our leaders are too scared to do it. This would be history's greatest ever irony. https://t.co/JwNlCziecY This would be history's greatest ever irony. https://t.co/JwNlCziecY" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1991521157439451553) 2025-11-20T14:56Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "TRUMP IS SHUTTING DOWN RADIO FREE EUROPE IN HUNGARY. President @VonDerLeyen must step in to fund it to keep it going. Or is she still too scared of Trump 💥Trump admin shuts down Radio Free Europes Hungary service as a gift to Viktor Orbn; it ends Friday with Kari Lake claiming the US shouldnt pay for divisive globalist propaganda that hurts allies like Hungary. But RFE reporters never did that its a disgusting smear. https://t.co/4Yd1jF5uY2 💥Trump admin shuts down Radio Free Europes Hungary service as a gift to Viktor Orbn; it ends Friday with Kari Lake claiming the US shouldnt pay for" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1991791522040426723) 2025-11-21T08:51Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "Point [--] shows just how much Trump considers himself to be the "President of Europe" right now (as he put it). According to the "peace plan" would give the 210bn frozen Russian assets (plus [---] extra) to the US which would invest it in and receive the profits. Doc circulating in Ukrainian media is said to be the 28-point plan. It's not as absurd and dire as has been reported -- it's even more so. Eng. translation follows. N.B. I absolutely love point 3: "it is expected" Russia won't invade anyone else. Cool. Plus America profits from Doc circulating in Ukrainian media is said to be the" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1991801959331119137) 2025-11-21T09:32Z 56.2K followers, [----] engagements "It was frankly inevitable that Trump was going to try again to make Ukraine unilaterally surrender to Russia regardless of his random utterances over the past four months. But Europeans just want to keep hearing what they want to hear in his ramblings. https://www.euronews.com/2025/11/20/ukraines-president-receives-draft-peace-plan-from-us-his-office-in-kyiv-confirms https://www.euronews.com/2025/11/20/ukraines-president-receives-draft-peace-plan-from-us-his-office-in-kyiv-confirms" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1991831532429025338) 2025-11-21T11:30Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "Many Europeans convinced themselves Trump's public statements about Putin meant he was committed to Ukraine. Today they got a rude awakening. Washington presented a peace plan to Kyiv viewed as a surrender with an ultimatum to accept it by Thursday or lose all support" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1991906393469636664) 2025-11-21T16:27Z 55.7K followers, 24.8K engagements "European leaders are scrambling today - afraid to publicly criticise the peace plan for fear of angering Trump but behind the scenes terrified of the implications of a US-ordered surrender. An emergency #EUCO summit may be called to figure out what to do" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1992154244301078631) 2025-11-22T08:52Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "Will this be enough to stop the [--] countries (including ) threatening to quit the contest this year Seems unlikely. People around the world will still be able vote multiple times (though the number has been reduced from [--] to 10). https://open.substack.com/pub/davekeating/p/on-israel-eurovision-close-to-critical https://open.substack.com/pub/davekeating/p/on-israel-eurovision-close-to-critical" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1992536949413081403) 2025-11-23T10:13Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "Decision whether to exclude from #Eurovision2026 delayed till next month. Host country Austria is fiercely resisting. FM called the position "dumb and pointless" and said #Eurovision has a "historical responsibility" to put on stage. https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/1118/1544627-host-austria-seeks-eurovision-compromise-on-israel/ https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/1118/1544627-host-austria-seeks-eurovision-compromise-on-israel/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1992542321343119650) 2025-11-23T10:34Z 55.7K followers, [---] engagements "President von der Leyen statement on 28-point peace plan for : "As a sovereign nation there cannot be limitations on armed forces that would leave the country and vulnerable to future attack." "Centrality of must be fully reflected" https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_25_2791 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_25_2791" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1992564972749304318) 2025-11-23T12:04Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "BREAKING: This is huge news the EU's equivalent of the Supreme Court's [----] Obergefell v Hodges ruling Court of Justice just ruled allcountries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other MS. This effectively legalises gay marriage across https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-court-says-same-sex-marriage-should-be-recognised-throughout-bloc-2025-11-25/ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-court-says-same-sex-marriage-should-be-recognised-throughout-bloc-2025-11-25/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1993260928687579588) 2025-11-25T10:10Z 55.7K followers, 606.3K engagements "After spending years declining to rule on this issue for fear of sparking an intense backlash from the EU's East the ECJ just ruled that EU countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-eu-just-de-facto-legalised-gay https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-eu-just-de-facto-legalised-gay" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1993286682762936567) 2025-11-25T11:52Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "As I have talked to everyday people across Europe this past year it's become clear there is very little comprehension of the extreme danger we are in Germany's foreign minister says Putin is preparing to invade by [----] "at the latest" So why don't most Europeans believe it Very clear warning from German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul at the Berlin Policy Forum: "Our intelligence services are telling us urgently: Russia is at least creating the option of a war against NATO. And that by [----] at the latest." Putin is recruiting "almost one more Very clear warning from German Foreign Minister" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1993400293766340867) 2025-11-25T19:24Z 55.7K followers, 66.9K engagements "We're on day [--] of a national strike here in #Belgium Unions are protesting #austerity measures of the new right-wing government in power since last year's election A new budget was agreed Monday - ending raises indexed at inflation & limiting pensions after long-term sick leave" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1993667709826207944) 2025-11-26T13:06Z 55.7K followers, 11.5K engagements "President @VonDerLeyen's VP has gone off script with a rare honest assessment of Trump's behaviour toward Europe. "It is blackmail." Will VDL 'breton' her Or is this a coordinated good cop/bad cop routine with Ribera able to say things VDL can't https://www.politico.eu/article/top-eu-official-teresa-ribera-accuses-us-of-blackmail-in-trade-talks/ https://www.politico.eu/article/top-eu-official-teresa-ribera-accuses-us-of-blackmail-in-trade-talks/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1993964999593603527) 2025-11-27T08:47Z 55.7K followers, 15.5K engagements ""What is happening here is severe it is a direct attack on civil society" says MEP @ThPellerin. "For months von der Leyens EPP has been aligning itself with far-right groups led by Viktor Orban." "The project is clear it is to turn Europe into Orbans Hungary." The EPP Group joined forces with the far-right in another shameful situational alliance to discredit NGOs and the way they get funds from the EU budget. We refuse to participate in silencing and discrediting civil society organisations and we are happy other pro-European forces https://t.co/Hrabh6VVs0 The EPP Group joined forces with" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1993984238245265552) 2025-11-27T10:04Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "The EU's ethics watchdog has found that President von der Leyen's use of 'omnibus' packages to implement President Trump's EU policy wishlist violates fundamental principles of good administration including transparent inclusive and evidence-based law making. Breaking : OMNIBUS I found in breach of EU (procedural) law as it departed from basic procedural guarantees such as public consultation. This @EUombudsman carry important implications for omnibuses to come and the whole simplification agenda https://t.co/wJqazYJ56y Breaking : OMNIBUS I found in breach of EU (procedural) law as it" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1993992656095961156) 2025-11-27T10:37Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "Our EU and UK leaders look incredibly foolish in hindsight for having surrendered so quickly to Trump's tariff threats. Brazil India and China stood firm (and maintained their dignity unlike Europeans) and Trump backed off. Will our leaders learn https://www.ft.com/content/05265c93-3ccd-45e4-8156-66712ce10897segmentId=114a04fe-353d-37db-f705-204c9a0a157b https://www.ft.com/content/05265c93-3ccd-45e4-8156-66712ce10897segmentId=114a04fe-353d-37db-f705-204c9a0a157b" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1994379853303574883) 2025-11-28T12:16Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "The 28-point plan was dead on arrival. Ukraine can't accept it Trump doesn't have the cards to force them since he's ended most US assistance to them and Russia won't accept adjustments. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/europe-plays-along-as-phony-peace https://davekeating.substack.com/p/europe-plays-along-as-phony-peace" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1995412074135183394) 2025-12-01T08:38Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "Dublin City Council has thankfully withdrawn the proposal to rename Herzog Park and that is the right decision. I hope that people can understand when they've crossed the line between legitimate criticism of Israel and outright anti-semitism. https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/12/01/chaim-herzog-yoni-wieder-chief-rabbi-park-dublin-city-council-name-removal/ https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/12/01/chaim-herzog-yoni-wieder-chief-rabbi-park-dublin-city-council-name-removal/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1995424415677603930) 2025-12-01T09:27Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "My article for FT @SustainViews on the risk of a complete unravelling of EU climate policy if the Commission doesn't protect the upcoming carbon border levy from US pressure: https://www.sustainableviews.com/the-us-wants-to-kill-europes-carbon-border-levy-will-the-eu-stay-the-course-cc28352a/ https://www.sustainableviews.com/the-us-wants-to-kill-europes-carbon-border-levy-will-the-eu-stay-the-course-cc28352a/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1995441619919622574) 2025-12-01T10:35Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "The Left in Parliament calls out EU leaders for staying silent as prepares to invade "& strongly oppose interventionism yet the European establishment seems not concerned at all" says @BotengaM. "Why does systematically accept violations of international law" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1995536822118605274) 2025-12-01T16:53Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "So for those keeping track that means Canada will join the EU's defence procurement scheme but the UK won't. It's really incredible how much British pride continues to inflict self-harm. https://www.politico.eu/article/canada-clinches-deal-to-join-europes-e150b-defense-scheme/ https://www.politico.eu/article/canada-clinches-deal-to-join-europes-e150b-defense-scheme/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1995554651618349546) 2025-12-01T18:04Z 55.7K followers, 28K engagements ""Europe is losing confidence sinking into fatalism and justifying its passivity with the soothing thought that it has no real choice as its cards are weak. Besides in the long run things will work out. Just wait for the U.S. midterms." https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-psychology-of-weakness-ukraine-war-trade-trump-putin/ https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-psychology-of-weakness-ukraine-war-trade-trump-putin/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1995607526235406470) 2025-12-01T21:34Z 55.7K followers, 11.3K engagements "Are there Belgian factories in Russia BTW worth pointing out that PM De Wever is a political ally of PM Meloni and his NVA party sits in her supposedly pro- @ECRgroup in the European Parliament. ❗Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever: Russia has threatened that Belgium will feel this until the end of eternity if it confiscates frozen Russian assets. De Wever: This could involve counter-seizures of Belgian factories in Russia lawsuits in Russian courts and similar https://t.co/UIqQ0Qorci ❗Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever: Russia has threatened that Belgium will feel this until the end of" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1996531648947802330) 2025-12-04T10:46Z 56K followers, 11.4K engagements "BREAKING: Following intense pressure from Germany & Austria the EBU has decided that Israel will be in #Eurovision2026. As a result of that decision [--] countries () have just announced they are quitting the contest. [--] more are likely to follow. https://f24.my/BbDN https://f24.my/BbDN" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1996647628034265188) 2025-12-04T18:27Z 56K followers, 13.6K engagements "My background explainer on what led up to today's explosive meeting in Geneva: https://davekeating.substack.com/p/eurovision-is-unravelling-tonight https://davekeating.substack.com/p/eurovision-is-unravelling-tonight" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1996717262921674790) 2025-12-04T23:04Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "Here's the backstory behind today's explosive #Eurovision meeting in Geneva which has resulted in four countries quitting the contest with four more possible following suit" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1996718645423051238) 2025-12-04T23:09Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "Important context to know about the #Eurovision implosion happening right now: This isn't just about Israel's actions in Gaza. This is about Israel's politicisation of the contest through get-out-the-vote campaigns. This escalated because broadcasters said EBU didn't take those concerns seriously. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/eurovision-is-unravelling-tonight https://davekeating.substack.com/p/eurovision-is-unravelling-tonight" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1996861421766771084) 2025-12-05T08:37Z 56.4K followers, 18.6K engagements "I am astonished and mystified by the PM's statements here. It was completely unnecessary and has only served to hurt Belgium's argument that they can't be the only one legally responsible for seizing Russian assets. Very disappointing from PM De Wever. I thought he was just concerned about Belgium being the only country financially liable for any fallout from seizure of Russian assets held abroad. The whole "dangerous precedent" argument is a red herring. If you repeatedly invade a Very disappointing from PM De Wever. I thought he was just concerned about Belgium being the only country" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1996864486213669373) 2025-12-05T08:49Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements "The US National Security Strategy released overnight has shocked Europeans. In truth its plans for Europe are just a reiteration of what the State Department already publicly posted back in May. But Europeans have not wanted to listen. My analysis: https://davekeating.substack.com/p/new-us-security-strategy-lays-bare https://davekeating.substack.com/p/new-us-security-strategy-lays-bare" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1996970495304986939) 2025-12-05T15:50Z 56K followers, 12.1K engagements "The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-us-has-declared-rhetorical-war https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-us-has-declared-rhetorical-war" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1997940790971302365) 2025-12-08T08:06Z 55.9K followers, 43.5K engagements ""The Long Con of the Trump administration came to an end yesterday as it was always going to do. We are back in the Oval Office with Trump and Vance ambushing Zelensky. The whole pivot to Ukraine was a sham to help Putin." https://open.substack.com/pub/phillipspobrien/p/the-long-con-comes-to-an-endr=wx462&utm_medium=ios https://open.substack.com/pub/phillipspobrien/p/the-long-con-comes-to-an-endr=wx462&utm_medium=ios" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1997985676021612942) 2025-12-08T11:04Z 55.8K followers, [----] engagements "Trump tells his cabinet he can get the EU to change its laws at his command. I wonder what would have given him that impression Oh right because that's literally what EU and UK leaders promised him this summer. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/europes-surrender-summer Scott: The EU is telling the American farmer that if their timber is cut and they are going to use that land for pastureland or production agriculture they will not take the timber or the byproducts of the sale of that timber. Trump: You give me a couple of paragraphs don't https://t.co/7PuITkHlsh" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1998141749018202288) 2025-12-08T21:24Z 55.9K followers, 10.1K engagements "I'm afraid I have to agree with Trump. The "daddy diplomacy" strategy of Rutte Starmer Merz & von der Leyen has failed. ❓: Are the leaders we have capable of a more assertive strategy that defends their citizens from If not do we need new ones https://politi.co/48POO1A https://politi.co/48POO1A" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1998370318537334886) 2025-12-09T12:33Z 55.9K followers, [----] engagements "The problem is: European leaders have been weak on the face of Trump because their citizens aren't demanding anything more of them Why have Europeans accepted the MAGA aggression with such passivity It's the central question of my new book published today: http://www.TheOwnedContinent.eu http://www.TheOwnedContinent.eu" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1998371869351702850) 2025-12-09T12:39Z 55.8K followers, [---] engagements "It appears Chancellor Merz is throwing the EU under the bus. "You also need partners in the world" is his message to Trump. "And one of those partners can be Europe. And if you can't work with Europe then at least make Germany your partner." https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/ihr-braucht-auf-der-welt-auch-partner-merz-kritisiert-teile-der-us-sicherheitsstrategie-als-inakzeptabel-15033836.html https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/ihr-braucht-auf-der-welt-auch-partner-merz-kritisiert-teile-der-us-sicherheitsstrategie-als-inakzeptabel-15033836.html" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1998462603329216741) 2025-12-09T18:39Z 56K followers, 194.8K engagements "It appears is stepping up their rejections of European tourists at the border following reports of tourists being turned away because they criticised Trump or Israel on social media. Now Europeans will have to submit [--] years of social media history. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/travel/social-media-tourists-visa-border-patrol.htmlsmid=nytcore-ios-share https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/travel/social-media-tourists-visa-border-patrol.htmlsmid=nytcore-ios-share" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1998676748859232690) 2025-12-10T08:50Z 56K followers, 1M engagements "As I explore in my new book published yesterday Europeans are going through a trauma with the US becoming so hostile toward them. This is a continent so dominated by American culture that it has been hard to accept what's happening. Read more here: http://www.TheOwnedContinent.eu http://www.TheOwnedContinent.eu" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1998757219811336220) 2025-12-10T14:10Z 56.3K followers, 31.8K engagements "Breaking: #Iceland has joined the countries pulling out of Eurovision in protest of Israel's participation and the politicisation of the public vote. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwy9n786n0o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwy9n786n0o" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1998849523276251393) 2025-12-10T20:17Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "@rvfabrice @Omgwtfimcow @staddann Yes it's a shame that most Americans don't know how parliamentary democracy works (or any system other than their own). The prime minister's name is never on the ballot - they are chosen by MPs after the election (just like in the EU by directly-elected MEPs)" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1999028459725795499) 2025-12-11T08:08Z 56K followers, [--] engagements "Fifth column indeed. ✍ 'Free speech warrior Elon Musk is right. Europes best hope is for the US to support independence movements across the continent' Writes @NileGardiner Read the column https://t.co/XHXJGGveWK https://t.co/0VTvHJqMC6 ✍ 'Free speech warrior Elon Musk is right. Europes best hope is for the US to support independence movements across the continent' Writes @NileGardiner Read the column https://t.co/XHXJGGveWK https://t.co/0VTvHJqMC6" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1999124202566094890) 2025-12-11T14:28Z 55.9K followers, [----] engagements "From Israeli newspaper Haaretz: "Israel will participate in the next Eurovision. Yet the entire contest has lost with a significant number of withdrawing countries and the departure of Spain one of Eurovision's major financial contributors. Israel has lost the ability to listen to try to understand why so many in Europe are furious and to consider whether the broadcasters' desire to boycott it might have merit as long as it continues to violate what they consider core values." "Most of all Israel has lost the ability to see itself as part of the wider world. Today Israel is a small isolated" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1999186043279429791) 2025-12-11T18:34Z 56K followers, 207.4K engagements ""Israel could have chosen a simpler easier path: announcing that while it is at war it has no time space or desire to take part in an international singing contest" writes Israeli newspaper Haaretz. "It could have stepped back regrouped and returned to Europe after the war. Even Israel's closest Eurovision allies would likely have appreciated such a gesture which would certainly have lowered the temperature." "Instead Israel poured significant funds into massive promotional campaigns to boost the visibility of its representatives investing large sums on Times Square billboards and YouTube" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1999189521171194296) 2025-12-11T18:48Z 56K followers, 31.8K engagements "A leaked longer version of the #NSS reportedly names countries which the Trump administration thinks can be removed from the EU and made into MAGA-loyal states. It also calls for to be kicked out of #G7. A new #G5 would be created. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-four-leaders-maga-has-targeted https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-four-leaders-maga-has-targeted" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1999469286541394150) 2025-12-12T13:20Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "A taste of what X is force-feeding those of us in Belgium this week. My timeline is full of this stuff" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1999483968509677841) 2025-12-12T14:18Z 56K followers, 10.8K engagements "The grovelling of our European leaders over the course of [----] has led the US president to claim he is now the "President of Europe". How do Europeans feel about that Maybe they should let Starmer Merz Meloni Rutte Von der Leyen & the rest of the bunch know how they feel. Trump: "The European nations are reporting that your president might as well be the leader of the European nations also. They respect us like they've never respected us before." https://t.co/T2CR3ibvIE Trump: "The European nations are reporting that your president might as well be the leader of the European nations also." [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1999484452389683529) 2025-12-12T14:20Z 56K followers, 37.8K engagements "@Ellliee544 I agree. The problem is there really is still no alternative. BlueSky is so cringe. Nobody is on Mastodon or Threads. And LinkedIn is still a resume site with constant self-promotion. It is tragic for all of us that X has remained the public square in Europe I wish it weren't" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1999503746385031208) 2025-12-12T15:36Z 56K followers, [---] engagements "Apparently Washington now decides who is and isn't a member of the European Union. To get you up to speed: the Trump admin says Ukraine will be in but Italy Hungary Austria and Poland will be out. We await the next diktat from DC to tell us what to do https://www.ft.com/content/e50481a3-161c-4002-83e4-cae0be12799e https://www.ft.com/content/e50481a3-161c-4002-83e4-cae0be12799e" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1999524138768007396) 2025-12-12T16:57Z 55.9K followers, [---] engagements "In a surprise move Italy has tonight joined Belgium in its opposition to sending Russia's frozen assets to Ukraine - asking for alternative options at next week's summit. Meanwhile Brussels was informed that the new peace deal draft says Ukraine will joint the EU in a year" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1999553064697507947) 2025-12-12T18:52Z 56K followers, 228K engagements "Belgium's former prime minister calls for a European Awakening. "Trump's real objective is to weaken us. And he does so through condescending contemptuous even insulting rhetoric". http://www.TheOwnedContinent.eu Donald Trump lUkraine le climat les rseaux sociaux Un peu de politique belge aussi. @sudinfo_be lance son format Face aux lecteurs. Une heure sur lactualit avec @GasGrosjean et le public sans tabou. lire dans vos journaux ce week-end https://t.co/vjbv8kgmAk http://www.TheOwnedContinent.eu Donald Trump lUkraine le climat les rseaux sociaux Un peu de politique belge aussi. @sudinfo_be" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1999875689278062842) 2025-12-13T16:14Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "The Trump-Putin threat is so dire that Switzerland is reconsidering its neutrality. "In the event of an attack it should be prepared to defend itself if necessary in collaboration with its partners" In light of the deteriorating security situation the Swiss government is realigning Switzerland's security policy. It has launched a consultation procedure and instructed the relevant departments to start taking measures. https://t.co/iNqHL3XQZf @vbs_ddps In light of the deteriorating security situation the Swiss government is realigning Switzerland's security policy. It has launched a" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1999905867836301489) 2025-12-13T18:14Z 56K followers, 86.1K engagements "The power of the European far right has grown exponentially since Donald Trump was first elected a decade ago. The comparison is stark and reveals that the far right with US support could easily take power across Europe in the next few years. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-maga-sends-support-to-europes https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-maga-sends-support-to-europes" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2000192399931326711) 2025-12-14T13:13Z 56K followers, 94.4K engagements "@barteeckhout If the N-VA don't want to be labelled as hard right as they were also on this week's Politico map then maybe they shouldn't be a member of a hard right political group in the Parliament 🤔 https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-far-right-center-politics/ https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-far-right-center-politics/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2000212369490743750) 2025-12-14T14:32Z 56K followers, [---] engagements "@VaduzBewohner @barteeckhout They are in Meloni's hard right ECR group. It's pretty simple" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2000219274334400745) 2025-12-14T15:00Z 56K followers, [---] engagements "@kimsmithholmes Europeans spent the past decade listening to arguments like yours and where did it get them It would be lunacy for Europeans to continue convincing themselves that the situation in America is going to go back to how it was before. Trump is America whether you like it or not" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2000505622882820179) 2025-12-15T09:58Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "@bcnorange Europe has not seen this level of power for the far right since World War II (excluding ). If we're talking ebbs and flows then we are coming out of an 80-year ebb. I don't even want to think about what that means for the flow" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2000512426446610876) 2025-12-15T10:25Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "The president of the United States apparently believes that film director #RobReiner deserved to be murdered because he had criticised the president. this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted https://t.co/pX3p1WhQAa this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted https://t.co/pX3p1WhQAa" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2000591911183138896) 2025-12-15T15:40Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "Even when confronted with a Strategy planning their ouster our centrist leaders have been silent. Merz's much-lauded 'end of Pax Americana' speech only spoke of US isolationism not aggression. But the Defence Commissioner just spoke the truth: https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-eu-commissions-lone-truth-teller https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-eu-commissions-lone-truth-teller" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2000705633004265698) 2025-12-15T23:12Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "Ahead of the #Mercosur vote in Council (if it happens) you can play around with different scenarios using this tool. If all vote no & abstains even an Italian yes vote doesn't get it past the QMV threshold But if votes yes it does https://euvote.eu/ https://euvote.eu/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2000837854210011256) 2025-12-16T07:58Z 56K followers, 25K engagements "The #Mercosur FTA between & just passed its 1st hurdle of the week getting a green light from the Parliament with increased safeguards that may assuage critics. But now the big test comes in the other house of the legislature the Council https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/eu-lawmakers-seek-tighten-controls-120633852.html https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/eu-lawmakers-seek-tighten-controls-120633852.html" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2000902681117040945) 2025-12-16T12:15Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "@Arnold_Platon Interesting it's right on the cusp isn't it. Anyone know the definitive answer" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2000903691113508934) 2025-12-16T12:19Z 56K followers, [---] engagements "@Arnold_Platon Good question I know there were complaints years ago that Italy was giving out citizenships to far-flung people (ironically in Argentina Uruguay & Brazil) in order to inflate its Council voting numbers even though those people (like myself 🛂) never moved to Italy" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2000905816346665244) 2025-12-16T12:28Z 56K followers, [---] engagements "She's gone and done it President VDL has bowed topressure and will scrap [----] combustion engine phase-out "This will divert investment away from electrification at a time when European manufacturers urgently need to catch up with China"says @transenv https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_3051 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_3051" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2000975876297773352) 2025-12-16T17:06Z 56K followers, 16.4K engagements "@EPPGroup It's worth reminding that the [----] ICE phase-out which was designed to give European automakers a boost against Chinese companies in the EV race was proposed by President @VonDerLeyen herself and approved by the @EPPGroup in the parliament in [----]. What changed since then🤔" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2000981312925261903) 2025-12-16T17:28Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "& EPP-ECR have been crowing about their victory in getting President @VonDerLeyen to kill [----] combustion engine phase-out. Remarkable considering she enacted it just [--] years ago and there's been no change in control over institutions since then. https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-eu-climate-policy-epp-cars-climate-policy https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-eu-climate-policy-epp-cars-climate-policy" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2001288413018788305) 2025-12-17T13:48Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "Yes there was a Parliament election in between but it did not yield any major change in control. Centre-right EPP was the largest party before and it still is after that election. And they still hold the Commission presidency (for [--] years now) https://davekeating.substack.com/p/who-do-europeans-keep-voting-conservative https://davekeating.substack.com/p/who-do-europeans-keep-voting-conservative" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2001289597817332171) 2025-12-17T13:53Z 56K followers, [---] engagements "& have reached an agreement for Britain to re-enter the EU's #Erasmus foreign exchange program from [----]. This is different than Youth Mobility Scheme that would allow young people to actually *move* to an EU country (and vice versa) which is still being negotiated" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2001320597255528592) 2025-12-17T15:56Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "President Zelensky is about to enter the #EUCO summit here on the red carpet along with the [--] national leaders. But all eyes will be on the one who travelled the least far. PM Bart De Wever is in the hot seat as he continues to block sending Russian frozen assets to Kyiv" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2001558534828548151) 2025-12-18T07:41Z 56K followers, 26K engagements "@kajakallas @eucopresident But President Macron comes into #EUCO with a long diatribe against #Mercosur free trade maintaining his firm opposition. "European agriculture must be protected. Our farmers already face too many challenges we cannot sacrifice them" he says as farmers protest outside" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2001599341643899179) 2025-12-18T10:24Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "@kajakallas @eucopresident #EUCO summit now underway. There are [--] questions that must be answered in next [--] days that will determine Europe's future: 1Will get money from to continue resisting 2Will Mercosur pass signalling global free trade can continue Or will free trade die here today" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2001601274295259264) 2025-12-18T10:31Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "Now official: #Mercosur has been kicked into next year. That experts say likely means the FTA with South America will never happen because Brazil is losing patience. The protesting farmers in Brussels today are celebrating a victory. https://www.politico.eu/article/mercosur-signing-delayed-until-january-von-der-leyen-tells-leaders/ https://www.politico.eu/article/mercosur-signing-delayed-until-january-von-der-leyen-tells-leaders/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2001738573884649765) 2025-12-18T19:37Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "After all night negotiations EU leaders failed to reach agreement on using frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine. But they did agree on a Plan B: a 90bn loan to using joint borrowing. But only [--] of the EU27 will participate. De Wever leaving happy. Merz not so much" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2001869789032263890) 2025-12-19T04:18Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "@stuartmjohn Spoiler alert: only one of those countries seriously thinks Ukraine will ever actually join the EU" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2001885316966420886) 2025-12-19T05:20Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "Live in [--] minutes: I'll talk to Luke Johnson from Public Sphere about the #EUCO summit outcome early this morning and what it means for the future of Europe and Ukraine (spoiler alert: it's not good). 1pm noon 7am https://open.substack.com/live-stream/90281r=wx462&utm_medium=ios https://open.substack.com/live-stream/90281r=wx462&utm_medium=ios" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2001964806559895708) 2025-12-19T10:36Z 56K followers, [--] engagements "Since the European public is largely unaware of what #EUCO Council is (despite it being the most powerful EU institution) helpful to remind that it had an EPP majority for decades. But now with the entry of the far right that right-wing majority is shared with Meloni & Orban" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2001980308397433159) 2025-12-19T11:37Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "Last night's failure to agree on giving Russia's frozen assets to Ukraine was a bad look for the EU. But the Plan B that they came up with #EurobondsForUkraine could actually be better because: 1Money arrives faster 2It's legally unquestionable 3It can be done again" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2002086793676796297) 2025-12-19T18:41Z 56K followers, 23.3K engagements "It begins. The EU lawmaker who was in charge of digital affairs during President von der Leyen's 1st term has been banned from the US because the tech giants and government don't like the EU's tech laws. What will be the President's response https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/24/us-state-department-visa-ban-former-eu-commissioner-europe https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/24/us-state-department-visa-ban-former-eu-commissioner-europe" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2003648981998661824) 2025-12-24T02:08Z 56K followers, 54.8K engagements "A critical test. President VDL notoriously loathes her former digital commissioner. But if she and Macron let stand that the US can ban EU lawmakers simply because the government doesn't like EU laws that is a watershed moment in European servility. https://unherd.com/newsroom/von-der-leyen-stabs-thierry-breton-in-the-front/ https://unherd.com/newsroom/von-der-leyen-stabs-thierry-breton-in-the-front/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2003649567863242758) 2025-12-24T02:10Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "Between the new threat to annex Greenland and sanctions on EU officials over digital laws it's clear there's no Christmas truce in rhetorical war on. The Trump administration is escalating. Happy holidays. Let's all ask Santa for EU leaders who will defend this continent. It begins. The EU lawmaker who was in charge of digital affairs during President von der Leyen's 1st term has been banned from the US because the tech giants and government don't like the EU's tech laws. What will be the President's response https://t.co/91VBzQzlCz It begins. The EU lawmaker who was in charge of digital" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2003817563294433556) 2025-12-24T13:18Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "It's still unclear what she means by "sanctioned". But this shows just how much Europe is controlled economically by in addition to being controlled militarily. Our European Atlanticist leaders have built a system in which the government can destroy any European with the swipe of a pen" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2003834205755638101) 2025-12-24T14:24Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "The outrageous sanctioning of EU lawmakers and citizens in order to pressure democratically-elected European governments to change their laws shows just how intent the US government is on controlling Europeans' lives. We must go into [----] with eyes open. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-us-can-destroy-a-europeans-life https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-us-can-destroy-a-europeans-life" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2004600499899957479) 2025-12-26T17:09Z 56K followers, 14.8K engagements "It's the end of the year - an annus horribilis for Europe. It should be a moment of reflection on the root causes of the humiliation this continent had to endure at the hands of Donald Trump this year. And it's time to reimagine what Europe can be. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/europes-choice-in-2026-join-or-die https://davekeating.substack.com/p/europes-choice-in-2026-join-or-die" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2006253282721747182) 2025-12-31T06:37Z 56K followers, [----] engagements "A reminder that you don't have to be an EU member to join the EU's free mobile roaming area through an association agreement. Why isn't the UK in it Because of political cowardice. PMs have since [----] been afraid to do anything that looks like rejoining . Today Ukraine and Moldova officially join the EU Roaming area. What does this mean People from & can now call text and use their mobile data from their local phone numbers for communication to the [--] EU countries at no extra cost and vice versa. https://t.co/Jerhrs4la4 Today Ukraine and Moldova officially join the EU Roaming area. What does" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2006707794628530651) 2026-01-01T12:43Z 56.2K followers, 150K engagements "So Brits have to pay to use their phones in Europe (and vice versa) because of warped Brexit ideology and political cowardice. Same goes for incoming ETIAS & ETA travel pre-clearance. Most neighbours ( ) exempt each other. But not so they'll have to pay to visit)" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2006708835474616593) 2026-01-01T12:47Z 56.1K followers, [----] engagements "One of the 'big 3' US networks formerly the home of Walter Cronkite is transitioning into a government mouthpiece under its new MAGA leadership. This was achieved by abusing the government's power over merger approval. Which network is next to fall "On too many stories the press has missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites and not enough on you." That changes now. The new CBS Evening News https://t.co/NKdvRJjYCS "On too many stories the press has missed the" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2007053572723376494) 2026-01-02T11:37Z 56.3K followers, [----] engagements "Great piece by @pedersschaefer on outdated new world old world clichs. It is the United States the world's oldest democracy which is creaking under its archaic institutions. The comparatively younger nation-states of Europe and the EU are more agile https://pederschaefer.substack.com/p/is-america-the-new-old-world https://pederschaefer.substack.com/p/is-america-the-new-old-world" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2007139481858842628) 2026-01-02T17:18Z 56.2K followers, [----] engagements "@Number10cat It's scary how MAGA is so brainwashed that they don't even believe what their own eyes can see. How far gone does someone have to be to have convinced themselves that these two videos show the same gesture But a major part of the US population is that far gone" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2007177945874612313) 2026-01-02T19:51Z 56.2K followers, [----] engagements "Today it is Venezuela. Tomorrow it may be Greenland. Based on the behaviour of our current European leaders today and throughout [----] there is no reason to assume they would do anything other than immediately surrender and accept the annexation. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/a-day-that-will-live-in-infamy https://davekeating.substack.com/p/a-day-that-will-live-in-infamy" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2007493405840928808) 2026-01-03T16:45Z 56.2K followers, [----] engagements "Trump at his press conference on the #Venezuela invasion just now: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe proper and judicious transition. We don't want someone else to get in and we have the same situation."" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2007494819023859918) 2026-01-03T16:50Z 56.3K followers, [----] engagements "Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says the #Venezuela invasion puts other countries "on notice - America can project our will anywhere any time." "No other president has ever shown this kind of leadership courage and resolve - the most powerful combination the world has ever seen"" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2007498702248985042) 2026-01-03T17:06Z 56.2K followers, [---] engagements "Even after watching Trump's press conference openly admitting the US has invaded Venezuela in order to run it and take its oil President Macron has released a statement that appears to be an endorsement of the US actions (as opposed to Le Pen who condemned the US invasion). The Venezuelan people are today rid of Nicols Maduros dictatorship and can only rejoice. By seizing power and trampling on fundamental freedoms Nicols Maduro gravely undermined the dignity of his own people. The upcoming transition The Venezuelan people are today rid of Nicols Maduros dictatorship and can only rejoice. By" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2007530596655091747) 2026-01-03T19:12Z 56.3K followers, [----] engagements "Contrast the reaction to the Venezuela invasion of France's far-right opposition leader vs its sitting centrist president. It's really incredible. No sitting European leader dares to criticise Trump. Le Pen is being politically much smarter than Macron" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2007533748309336318) 2026-01-03T19:25Z 56.2K followers, [----] engagements "OK we can see the way this is going. Sanchez is out in the political wilderness again in his wilingness to criticise Trump. Germany's chancellor apparently watched that press conference and decided it's "complex and requires careful consideration". They're all falling into line The legal assessment of the U.S. intervention is complex and requires careful consideration. International law remains the guiding framework. At this stage political instability in Venezuela must be avoided. The objective is an orderly transition to an elected government. The legal assessment of the U.S. intervention" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2007534846973788478) 2026-01-03T19:29Z 56.2K followers, [----] engagements "@adamlong80 Seems to be in contradiction to this from the president: The Venezuelan people are today rid of Nicols Maduros dictatorship and can only rejoice. By seizing power and trampling on fundamental freedoms Nicols Maduro gravely undermined the dignity of his own people. The upcoming transition The Venezuelan people are today rid of Nicols Maduros dictatorship and can only rejoice. By seizing power and trampling on fundamental freedoms Nicols Maduro gravely undermined the dignity of his own people. The upcoming transition" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2007539338968732004) 2026-01-03T19:47Z 56.3K followers, [---] engagements "PM Meloni sounds same as Macron Starmer & Merz in giving stamp of approval to invasion of Venezuela (though she's going extra step of pretending she believes the absurd claim that this is about drug trafficking). Throughout Europe only opposition figures are criticising" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2007541725213216854) 2026-01-03T19:57Z 56.2K followers, [---] engagements "One by one European leaders are tossing their remaining credibility on Ukraine into the bonfire of Trump appeasement. Unbelievable hypocrisy. Venezuela ser libre. People in Venezuela deserve to live free after years of oppression. As the European Parliament has consistently affirmed we do not considerNicols Maduro to bethe legitimate elected leader of Venezuela. The coming hours and days will be critical. Venezuela ser libre. People in Venezuela deserve to live free after years of oppression. As the European Parliament has consistently affirmed we do not considerNicols Maduro to bethe" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2007543392956490006) 2026-01-03T20:03Z 56.2K followers, 26.5K engagements "And here it is. Starmer's post-press-conference statement manages to be even more cowardly than his initial response. Vague call for international law to be respected. Ignores that it has *already been violated* this morning. No mention of US. The UK has long supported a transition of power in Venezuela. We regarded Maduro as an illegitimate President and we shed no tears about the end of his regime. I reiterated my support for international law this morning. The UK government will discuss the evolving situation with The UK has long supported a transition of power in Venezuela. We regarded" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2007544122958348377) 2026-01-03T20:06Z 56.4K followers, [----] engagements "A reminder: it doesn't have to be this way. Mexico has a hell of a lot more to lose than Europe by angering Trump. Yet this is the response of its president just now. This isn't a global phenomenon. Why have Europeans proven to be so uniquely cowardly over the past year" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2007545270796452277) 2026-01-03T20:11Z 56.4K followers, [----] engagements "From the wife of the White House Deputy Chief of Staff. Europe don't say you weren't warned. SOON https://t.co/XU6VmZxph3 SOON https://t.co/XU6VmZxph3" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2007581532958142550) 2026-01-03T22:35Z 56.3K followers, 233K engagements "Senator Bernie Sanders calls on the democratic world (Europe) to condemn Trump's "rank imperialism". But his words have fallen on deaf ears here in Europe where our leaders have been too scared to criticise the US invasion of Venezuela" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2007637326995026193) 2026-01-04T02:16Z 56.4K followers, [----] engagements "Finland's president who has bragged about his close golfing relationship with Trump goes a *tiny* bit further in criticising the US invasion of Venezuela than others with the word "however". But notice that Trump and the US are not mentioned by name. This is heavily veiled. Nicols Maduros regime has long been illegitimate. The elections in [----] were grossly unfair. Finland has stated this before as a part of the EU. The Union has also imposed sanctions on Venezuela. However all states have a responsibility to respect and comply with Nicols Maduros regime has long been illegitimate. The" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2007796588484391376) 2026-01-04T12:49Z 56.2K followers, [----] engagements "It is incredibly embarrassing for this continent that Sanchez has to join a group of Latin American leaders in issuing a statement of condemnation for the US invasion because no other leader in Europe will join him in criticising . La situacin en Venezuela debe resolverse exclusivamente por vas pacficas mediante el dilogo la negociacin y el respeto a la voluntad del pueblo venezolano en todas sus expresiones sin injerencias externas y en apego al derecho internacional. El Gobierno de Espaa junto La situacin en Venezuela debe resolverse exclusivamente por vas pacficas mediante el dilogo la" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2007864806452416934) 2026-01-04T17:20Z 56.5K followers, 272.3K engagements "The 3rd of January [----] will go down in history as a seminal moment - the death of the international order that has held the world together for [--] years. And our European leaders were willing accomplices in its destruction. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/international-law-died-yesterday https://davekeating.substack.com/p/international-law-died-yesterday" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2007865910451949577) 2026-01-04T17:25Z 56.2K followers, [----] engagements "This is all could muster as a response to the invasion of. Two days later. Not one word of criticism of the violation of international law. You can see why Pedro Sanchez the only EU leader willing to criticise has instead had to join Latin American leaders in a different joint statement. My statement supported by [--] EU Member States on the aftermath of the U.S. intervention in Venezuela https://t.co/CsgKXvvjUw My statement supported by [--] EU Member States on the aftermath of the U.S. intervention in Venezuela https://t.co/CsgKXvvjUw" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2007911403827728710) 2026-01-04T20:25Z 56.2K followers, 79.1K engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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Social topic influence countries, ukraine, prime minister, eu #908, russia, italy, france, germany, donald trump, belgium
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"America Joins With Canada And Japan To Promote Nuclear Power Eager to counter the climate villain narrative the United States launched new nuclear and 'clean coal' initiatives at a summit in Copenhagen - and convinced some European Union countries to join them"
X Link 2018-06-13T03:03Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements
"Heathrow Third Runway Rejected Over Incompatibility With Paris Climate Agreement The first court ruling in the world to reject a project based on the Paris agreement could have major implications worldwide"
X Link 2020-02-27T12:41Z 55.7K followers, [--] engagements
"Despite Brexit English Remains The EUs Most Spoken Language By Far England may have left the EU but even after Brexit almost half of EU citizens can speak English"
X Link 2020-02-07T12:15Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements
"Covid Causing Shift From Public Transport To Cars New data from Germany shows that fears over Coronavirus are causing many people to shift from public transport to cars if they can prompting fears about the effects on the climate"
X Link 2020-10-02T17:06Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements
"Nord Stream [--] Sues EU Using ISDS The lawsuit using Energy Charter Treaty obligations as its basis follows a similar one by Uniper against the Netherlands. Climate campaigners say the treaty is preventing European countries from tackling climate change"
X Link 2019-09-27T11:02Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements
"Very interesting map of who dubs and who subtitles in Europe. You can see the direct correlation between this and English proficiency. For the blue countries film & TV serve as a constant English lesson throughout one's life. Lessons in school become practically unnecessary"
X Link 2019-06-12T10:36Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements
"I gotta say I find it irksome when President @VonDerLeyen keeps saying "Europe will be the world's first climate-neutral continent by 2050" The EU is not a continent Russia has no such pledge. Why not say the EU will be the first superpower to reach climate neutrality #WEF20"
X Link 2020-01-22T11:14Z 55.7K followers, [--] engagements
"@wblau @vonderleyen Yes fine to co-opt the name of a continent to be synonymous with the name of a political entity like the US did. I have no problem with that. But she specifically said continent - not 'Europe as EU'. And regarding the continent it's not true"
X Link 2020-01-22T16:51Z 55.7K followers, [--] engagements
"The EU Commission said today #Austrias plan to only allow travel this summer to/from similar countries could in theory be allowed. EU will eventually put out travel guidelines. But in the mean time a significant North-South divide has emerged in the EU on #ExitStrategies"
X Link 2020-04-21T11:09Z 55.7K followers, [--] engagements
"After #Brexit should English continue to be the main working language of Brussels and the EU In this debate with @ADrechsel I argued not only is that inevitable it's also a blessing for the European project. Watch here: https://youtu.be/LULk1wbPv64 https://youtu.be/LULk1wbPv64"
X Link 2020-11-27T11:02Z 55.7K followers, [--] engagements
"@wblau @adrechsel Yes unfortunately. Displacing English has been the personal crusade of many a Frenchman in Brussels and I've witnessed some pretty incredible efforts by them in my [--] years here. (Francophone Belgians by contrast don't care)"
X Link 2020-11-27T11:42Z 55.7K followers, [--] engagements
"@duncanrobinson @Arnold_Platon One way to fix that would be to end the party list system and have every EU country set up constituencies that an MEP is directly answerable to as some countries already do. There would still be national party control but less so. Another remedy is of course pan-European lists"
X Link 2021-02-06T11:01Z 55.7K followers, [--] engagements
"is currently sitting on over [---] million unused vaccine doses. An estimated 35-40m are #AstraZeneca which still hasn't authorised to use on Americans and probably never will. It is an absurd situation while half of all doses made in are exported (chart @jfkirkegaard)"
X Link 2021-04-23T10:07Z 56.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@wblau Mexico"
X Link 2021-04-29T20:26Z 55.7K followers, [--] engagements
"@wblau Canada too similar to the US for that analogy to work I think. US-Mexico relationship much more problematic. And misunderstandings between the two run deep"
X Link 2021-04-29T20:51Z 55.7K followers, [--] engagements
"Incredibly bizarre https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hgv-lorry-driver-shortage-germans-b1930558.htmlfbclid=IwAR0g4Khr_LFaaxMG9FRmPBvJblpMLeeIjvmasM-XonSCiFubDpZhxDm3qCg https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hgv-lorry-driver-shortage-germans-b1930558.htmlfbclid=IwAR0g4Khr_LFaaxMG9FRmPBvJblpMLeeIjvmasM-XonSCiFubDpZhxDm3qCg"
X Link 2021-10-01T14:24Z 55.7K followers, [---] engagements
"The UK has now fully (and quietly) joined the EU's #VaccinePassport system the Commission confirms today. That means EU countries will recognise a UK NHS vaccine QR code and the UK will recognise EU QR codes. UK joins other non-EU countries in system such as "
X Link 2021-10-28T11:57Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The decision facing EU prime ministers and presidents today is how explicit and how public should prepared sanctions to trigger in the event of a Russian invasion of Ukraine be There will be no formal list adopted today. But #EUCO leaders want to send a clear message to Moscow"
X Link 2021-12-16T16:07Z 56.6K followers, [--] engagements
"Two days ago had a Queen Elizabeth II and a Prime Minister Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. [--] hours later has a King Charles III and a Prime Minister Liz Truss. Head-spinning history in the making"
X Link 2022-09-08T18:25Z 55.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Political discourse in has become so policy-free the horse race sportification of politics so complete that journalists now discuss impeaching the president without even bothering to ask what would be the basis. Because its irrelevant. The point is whos up whos down"
X Link 2022-09-27T14:00Z 55.7K followers, [--] engagements
"*6 WEEKS It's such a crazy short amount of time my brain can't handle it"
X Link 2022-10-20T12:45Z 55.7K followers, [---] engagements
"The context: 🪜This would be an interim target between 55% by [----] and 100% (net zero) by [----]. 📞This isn't a legislative proposal. It's advice (by President von der Leyen) for the next Commission which starts at the end of this year (which VDL may or may not be in charge of)"
X Link 2024-02-06T15:41Z 55.7K followers, [---] engagements
"A 90% emissions reduction will require 670bn in investment between [----] and [----] Commissioner Simson says. It's a lot but bear in mind: in [----] alone Europe spent 380bn in fossil fuel subsidies and 640bn in fossil fuel purchases - she points out"
X Link 2024-02-06T15:48Z 55.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Breaking: The European Commission is opening an 'excessive deficit procedure' against France for the first time. This should have happened long ago but France's power in Brussels for years made the Commission look away. How will this impact the legislative election"
X Link 2024-06-19T09:43Z 56.7K followers, 129.3K engagements
"Noteworthy sidenote: (I know Europeans will say this is a very American thing to even point out but.) If former prime minister Antonio Costa is appointed as Council President at #EUCO tomorrow he will be the 1st person of color (Indian descent) to hold an EU top job"
X Link 2024-06-26T09:13Z 55.7K followers, 58.4K engagements
"Talking to my Canadian friends it has clearly not gone unnoticed over there that the EU seems to be showing more solidarity with Canada on Trump's trade threats than the UK with whom Canada shares a monarch"
X Link 2025-02-04T08:36Z 57.1K followers, 394.2K engagements
"It is amazing how Trump's right-wing defenders in Europe either downplay his trade war against Europeans or outright celebrate it. This is the level of their infatuation with America - that they would sell out their own country. British politicians Labour and Conservative have done far more damage to our heavy industry than Donald Trump could ever do in a lifetime of Sundays. Trumps aluminium and steel tariffs will hit the UK but only marginally says @AFNeil. @KateEMcCann @StigAbell https://t.co/w0FnoyAsV8 British politicians Labour and Conservative have done far more damage to our heavy"
X Link 2025-02-10T17:54Z 54K followers, [----] engagements
"An obvious disconnect here at this NATO summit: Hegseth tells defence ministers that Europe should take control of its own security. Then he tells Europe to step aside while Trump takes control of their security for them through bilateral negotiations with Putin"
X Link 2025-02-13T09:48Z 57.1K followers, 503.6K engagements
"@jorgosac Fine but that doesn't excuse the Trump administration pretending they're turning over control of Europe's security to Europeans. If they still intend to own Europe then own that"
X Link 2025-02-13T11:45Z 54K followers, [----] engagements
"Orban & Fico may not have been invited to Macron's emergency Paris summit to respond to Vance's Munich provocations - but it seems Meloni may be fulfilling their spoiler role. She's defending Vance's speech and meanwhile her foreign minister is calling Trump "Italy's main ally""
X Link 2025-02-17T12:25Z 54.5K followers, 26.9K engagements
"The fundamental thing that Eastern EU countries failed to understand for so long was that it wasn't a question of if troops should leave . It was a question of when - and whether Europe would be prepared for when they do. Because they blocked action they're not prepared "European officials believe Trump is likely to agree to withdraw US troops from the Baltics and perhaps further west leaving the EU vulnerable to a Russian army that Nato governments warn is preparing for a larger conflict beyond Ukraine." @gideonrachman https://t.co/vcISLdzm4X "European officials believe Trump is likely to"
X Link 2025-02-17T16:54Z 54.6K followers, 10.6K engagements
"The European leaders crisis meeting taking place now in Paris after a week which has been called the end of the transatlantic alliance. Will they emerge with a plan to make Europe militarily sovereign and relevant"
X Link 2025-02-17T19:50Z 54.9K followers, 55K engagements
"Europeans would be very foolish to listen to comments like this. Europeans don't give up on America yet Trump does not represent us all. Most believe like I do that a strong NATO serves US security interests We need to limit the damage over the next [--] years so that we can rebuild our transatlantic partnership again in the future. Europeans don't give up on America yet Trump does not represent us all. Most believe like I do that a strong NATO serves US security interests We need to limit the damage over the next [--] years so that we can rebuild our transatlantic partnership again in the future"
X Link 2025-02-17T20:24Z 55K followers, 17.5K engagements
"The warning sirens were blaring. But European leaders chose to cover their ears. The United States has begun to move closer to Russia as populism cronyism and corruption have sapped the strength of American democracy wrote Fiona Hill in a [----] essay. https://t.co/3EYLuXruNy The United States has begun to move closer to Russia as populism cronyism and corruption have sapped the strength of American democracy wrote Fiona Hill in a [----] essay. https://t.co/3EYLuXruNy"
X Link 2025-02-17T21:19Z 54.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Several former EU political heavyweights have signed an open letter calling for the current EU leaders to drop the pretence that the US is an ally and adopt a defensive posture against American provocations. "We must now face the harsh reality: we must stop Trump." Europeans must mobilise a large part of the world that thinks like us but does not have the means to act decisively. And there must be a clear and precise posture towards those in the Union who do not want to follow the movement against Trump" The signatories include former Italian PM Enrico Letta former WTO chief Pascal Lamy and"
X Link 2025-02-18T10:22Z 56.7K followers, 98.1K engagements
"People always overuse the metaphor of the musicians on the Titanic. But they had accepted the reality of the sinking. I've always found the aristocrat mother's initial reaction to be far more interesting because she continues on as normal and is intent on ignoring the sinking. Her mind can't accept what her eyes can see. This is where most Europeans are this week. It's a continent of Ruth DeWitt Bukaters pretending life goes on as normal even while their eyes can see the transatlantic alliance on which their security depends is irreversibly and rapidly sinking and war is coming"
X Link 2025-02-18T16:16Z 54K followers, [---] engagements
"People always overuse the metaphor of the musicians on the Titanic. But they had accepted the reality of the sinking. I've always found the aristocrat mother's initial reaction to be far more interesting because she continues on as normal and is intent on ignoring the sinking. Her mind can't accept what her eyes can see. This is where most Europeans are this week. It's a continent of Ruth DeWitt Bukaters pretending life goes on as normal even while their eyes can see the transatlantic alliance on which their security depends is irreversibly and rapidly sinking"
X Link 2025-02-18T16:43Z 54.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Macron is holding another summit of European leaders in Paris today this one wider after their were complaints on Monday from countries not invited. Today will be the junior partners reportedly: . So the 'coalition of the willing' has been all members except (pro-Putin) (neutral) () https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-convenes-second-meeting-ukraine-with-other-europeans-canada-2025-02-18/ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-convenes-second-meeting-ukraine-with-other-europeans-canada-2025-02-18/"
X Link 2025-02-19T10:33Z 55.1K followers, 45.4K engagements
"@Arnold_Platon Thanks I'll update if you make a new map I can link to it"
X Link 2025-02-19T10:49Z 54.7K followers, [----] engagements
"All of these are explainable by the countries being either pro-Putin or neutral except Portugal Iceland and Luxembourg. Anyone have an explanation for these"
X Link 2025-02-19T12:07Z 55.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@dmengerman No it's the state department subscriptions that are being cancelled"
X Link 2025-02-19T15:43Z 55.1K followers, 33.7K engagements
"Trump is now openly threatening Ukraine. He calls Zelenskyy "a Dictator without Elections Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left""
X Link 2025-02-19T16:12Z 55.1K followers, 11.7K engagements
"If they faced a choice half of Britons says they would chose (Europe) over the United States. Only 20% say they would choose . Will Starmer bear in mind what citizens want when he inevitably has to make a choice I'm not so sure. hegemony over is extremely strong. Britons tend to say it is more important to support Ukraine than to maintain good relations with the US More important to support Ukraine: 48% More important to maintain good relations with the US: 20% Neither: 14% https://t.co/5GnPuEnbiH Britons tend to say it is more important to support Ukraine than to maintain good relations with"
X Link 2025-02-21T15:23Z 55.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Poland's right-wing president is still solidly pro-Trump and is excusing the US president's threats against Ukraine. Will be interesting to see how/if Poland's center-right prime minister Donald Tusk responds to this. A few minutes ago President @ZelenskyyUA called me. We had a candid conversation on the heels of the recent meetings with General Kellogg and other developments. I conveyed to him that we consistently believe there is no other way to stop the bloodshed and achieve lasting peace A few minutes ago President @ZelenskyyUA called me. We had a candid conversation on the heels of the"
X Link 2025-02-21T19:33Z 55.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@Frel_ It's like Italy. Tusk is head of government Duda is head of state. The only country in the EU with a presidential system of government is France (Romania & Lithuania half-half)"
X Link 2025-02-21T19:49Z 55.1K followers, [---] engagements
"They say only Nixon could go to China. Perhaps only the conservative Atlanticist Friedrich Merz could lead the European charge for independence from America. My post-election article on whether the new German chancellor could be Europe's unlikely saviour: https://davekeating.substack.com/p/merz-we-must-achieve-independence https://davekeating.substack.com/p/merz-we-must-achieve-independence"
X Link 2025-02-24T12:03Z 55.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Lots of wishful thinking at today's emergency summit on European security in London. "There was broad convergence on the importance of continuing to work closely with the US namely in the context of NATO" says an EU official. There were "strong agreement that future European contributions to additional security guarantees must be developed hand in hand with the US.""
X Link 2025-03-02T19:39Z 56.8K followers, 64.4K engagements
"The fundamental problem with Europe in a nutshell: for decades Europeans have trusted Americans more than their own European neighbours and that's hard to shake off. Witness the Italians blocking any action they think would lessen dependence on America. https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/brussels-playbook/trumps-gassy-gambit/ https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/brussels-playbook/trumps-gassy-gambit/"
X Link 2025-04-08T06:47Z 55.7K followers, 54.1K engagements
"This was hard to watch. The President was barely able to speak at all. She looked like a hostage. What a humiliation for Europe - even before any surrender deal might be agreed to in the next hour"
X Link 2025-07-27T16:38Z 57.1K followers, 296.9K engagements
""#Intervision2025 revealed the reality of Russian soft power : an overabundance of resources a carefully planned strategy but a complete lack of spontaneity & genuine popular support" A damning assessment of the Potemkin village from eyes on the ground: https://www.slate.fr/monde/intervision-eurovision-russe-poutine-gigantesque-flop-sud-vietnam-figurants-culture-soft-power https://www.slate.fr/monde/intervision-eurovision-russe-poutine-gigantesque-flop-sud-vietnam-figurants-culture-soft-power"
X Link 2025-09-30T10:19Z 56.4K followers, [----] engagements
"But remember this was the very first global #Intervision (a revivial of the old Warsaw Pact Eurovision). The very first #Eurovision also had very few viewers. Next year it will be in Saudi Arabia making it more global and not -focused. My thoughts: https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-eurovision-flails-russias-intervision https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-eurovision-flails-russias-intervision"
X Link 2025-09-30T10:31Z 56.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Unlike in doesn't issue ID cards. People don't carry around their papers (drivers licenses don't prove citizenship). The Supreme Court says ICE can abduct any citizen off the street who doesn't 'look American' and lock them up until they can prove they're citizens. A Supreme Court order in September allowed for racial profiling in immigration arrests when someone doesnt look American. Justice Brett Kavanaugh insisted apparent ethnicity can be a factor in arrest. The Kavanaugh Stop is real. It just happened in Chicago. Terrifying. https://t.co/cUZNV1Tye4 A Supreme Court order in September"
X Link 2025-10-18T08:55Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"He's pointing out an uncomfortable truth. When Orban met with Putin last year our centrist European leaders accused him of appeasement. Now when Trump meets with Putin they're either silent or they welcome it. Our leaders in Europe are all still terrified of offending Trump. Say again 🤔 They called it war prolongation they called it appeasement. Now the road to peace runs through Budapest. https://t.co/cu9S8pDcEe Say again 🤔 They called it war prolongation they called it appeasement. Now the road to peace runs through Budapest. https://t.co/cu9S8pDcEe"
X Link 2025-10-18T09:00Z 55.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The White House is doubling down on their statement that "the Democrat Party's main constituency are made up of Hamas terrorists illegal aliens and violent criminals." But notice she's now gaslighting and pretending she said something more nuanced - "caters more". Leavitt: Hakeem Jeffries is lashing out because he knows that Im telling the truth about the Democrat Party. It is a fact the Democrat Party caters more to pro-Hamas terrorists illegal aliens and violent criminals. https://t.co/kvgZWOxz7Z Leavitt: Hakeem Jeffries is lashing out because he knows that Im telling the truth about the"
X Link 2025-10-18T09:04Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"Now confirmed: Trump has ordered the military to fire missiles into California from warships at sea today as millions take to the streets for #NoKingsDay protests. Governor Newsom who is opposing the missiles launch is closing I5 for peoples' safety. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-10-18/california-to-close-parts-of-i-5-today-after-military-confirms-it-it-will-fire-artillery-over-freeway https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-10-18/california-to-close-parts-of-i-5-today-after-military-confirms-it-it-will-fire-artillery-over-freeway"
X Link 2025-10-18T16:45Z 55.6K followers, [----] engagements
""The White House played with fire here and it got burned. In the process they have dragged Europe into the fire with them. And like with so many things right now Europe is just waiting to see what Trump decides to do." My take on the #RareEarths mess: https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-g7-has-lost-the-credibility-to https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-g7-has-lost-the-credibility-to"
X Link 2025-10-21T07:00Z 55.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Spain just announced 6.9bn in defence spending. The problem They're buying weapons from a Spanish provider. The US military-industrial complex doesn't like that. Sanchez wants an EU army instead of sending money to the US. For that he's being vilified https://davekeating.substack.com/p/pedro-sanchez-wants-eu-independence https://davekeating.substack.com/p/pedro-sanchez-wants-eu-independence"
X Link 2025-10-22T06:35Z 57.1K followers, 333.7K engagements
"PM Pedro Sanchez is cutting a lonely figure as he enters the #EUCO summit right now in Brussels. For his refusal to bend to the president's extortion he has been vilified by other European governments. Those anti-Sanchez briefings have grown more intense over the past week. Spain just announced 6.9bn in defence spending. The problem They're buying weapons from a Spanish provider. The US military-industrial complex doesn't like that. Sanchez wants an EU army instead of sending money to the US. For that he's being vilified https://t.co/83OSm7KcqV https://t.co/vkHrQCKpzn Spain just announced"
X Link 2025-10-23T06:58Z 55.6K followers, 19.3K engagements
"President @ZelenskyyUa is arriving now at the #EUCO summit in Brussels. He was first invited as a show of support after the telling off he got from President Trump last week. But news that Trump has cancelled his Putin meeting and sanctioned Russia has changed the context"
X Link 2025-10-23T07:03Z 55.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Speaking alongside @ZelenskyyUa Council chair Costa says Ukraine has the EU's full support. "Dear Volodymyr welcome to your house" he says referring to Ukraine as "a future member of the European Union. He says Ukraine will get the military funding it needs for '26 & '27"
X Link 2025-10-23T07:24Z 55.6K followers, [---] engagements
"@ZelenskyyUa Costa was referring to the disagreement over confiscating 140bn in Russian assets and giving it to Ukraine. Belgium is objecting because that money is based at Euroclear here in and they are worried they will be sued. PM @Bart_DeWever wants a guarantee will cover them"
X Link 2025-10-23T07:32Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"@ZelenskyyUa @Bart_DeWever Entering #EUCO PM @Bart_DeWever lists [--] conditions for agreeing to the Russian asset confiscation today: shared risk joint guarantees & all EU countries do the same. If the coalition of the willing is not willing to be the coalition of the bill it has no sense to carry on""
X Link 2025-10-23T07:38Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"@ZelenskyyUa @Bart_DeWever Dutch PM @DickSchoof says entering #EUCO summit that he backs Belgium's call for sharing the reparations risk. "Europe and the G7 as a whole must stand behind this not Belgium alone" he says"
X Link 2025-10-23T08:30Z 55.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Entering #EUCO summitPM Sanchez says Spain is supporting Ukraine His @PES_PSE skipped their normal pre-Council meeting today ostensibly b/c they had their Congress last week in Amsterdam. But Sanchez was the only PM who showed up to it (shunned by Denmark's Frederiksen)"
X Link 2025-10-23T09:36Z 55.6K followers, [----] engagements
"At today's#EUCO summit national leaders are discussing ways to scrap EU climate legislation adopted in 2019-2024 term Merz wants to kill the [----] petrol car phase-out. And he's pushing to scrap corporate sustainability reporting as promised to Trump https://davekeating.substack.com/p/trump-is-unravelling-the-eus-climate https://davekeating.substack.com/p/trump-is-unravelling-the-eus-climate"
X Link 2025-10-23T10:15Z 55.7K followers, 51.7K engagements
"#EUCO latest: the pressure on Spain from other EU leaders apparently worked today. Just announced: Spain will pay to transfer US weapons to Ukraine through PURL. https://www.euractiv.com/news/spain-joins-nato-initiative-to-buy-us-weapons-for-ukraine/ https://www.euractiv.com/news/spain-joins-nato-initiative-to-buy-us-weapons-for-ukraine/"
X Link 2025-10-23T14:37Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The Trump regime is continuing its nationalisation of private companies. https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/trump-administration-in-talks-to-take-equity-stakes-in-quantum-computing-firms-60ee5143 https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/trump-administration-in-talks-to-take-equity-stakes-in-quantum-computing-firms-60ee5143"
X Link 2025-10-23T15:56Z 55.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Many will question whether getting this [----] emissions reduction target agreed was worth Commission commitments to water down EU climate laws - especially when the new revision clause means it could be cancelled. How credible will be when it shows up to #COP30"
X Link 2025-10-23T18:12Z 55.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Donald Tusk PM of Poland (which has long resisted EU climate action) has come out of the summit to tell reporters tonight is a "turning point" in Europe's approach to climate policy Weve defused a threat to Polish families & drivers Europe is finally speaking our language""
X Link 2025-10-23T19:23Z 55.6K followers, [---] engagements
"It is absolutely insane that in the times we live in Friedrich Merz and other national leaders think that businesses having to fill out too many forms is the most urgent problem we're facing. So urgent that they are trying to thwart democracy in order to achieve it. This week EU governments attacked the EU Parliament for voting against their proposal to water down climate legislation. It's the equivalent of a national leader demanding that a democratic vote be "corrected" because he didn't like the outcome. Instead of defending her This week EU governments attacked the EU Parliament for"
X Link 2025-10-24T10:04Z 55.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Here are the companies who paid to demolish the East Wing of the White House: https://www.thewrap.com/white-house-ballroom-donor-list-apple-amazon/ https://www.thewrap.com/white-house-ballroom-donor-list-apple-amazon/"
X Link 2025-10-24T10:57Z 55.6K followers, [----] engagements
"So the trade bazooka can't be used against America but it can be used for America. https://www.euractiv.com/news/von-der-leyen-hints-at-trade-bazooka-against-chinas-rare-earth-chokehold https://www.euractiv.com/news/von-der-leyen-hints-at-trade-bazooka-against-chinas-rare-earth-chokehold"
X Link 2025-10-25T12:30Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Note to Europe: when you stand up to Trump instead of immediately surrendering he backs down. TACO. Learn it. https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-china-concessions-trade-war https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-china-concessions-trade-war"
X Link 2025-10-25T12:39Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Could the pro-EU D66 party be the surprise winner in todays Dutch election Its possible. Polls show voters may punish far-right PVV for their time in government (even if they come first again they are likely to lose seats). From Matinale Europenne: https://open.substack.com/pub/lamatinaleeuropeenne/p/et-si-les-pro-europeens-revenaient https://open.substack.com/pub/lamatinaleeuropeenne/p/et-si-les-pro-europeens-revenaient"
X Link 2025-10-29T08:38Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Here's a reminder of what happened in the last election in [----] when the far right came first in the Netherlands. PVV become the largest party in the Dutch governing coalition but the other parties did so on the condition that Wilders would not be PM. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/what-does-the-dutch-far-right-victory https://davekeating.substack.com/p/what-does-the-dutch-far-right-victory"
X Link 2025-10-29T08:53Z 55.7K followers, [---] engagements
"🚨Wow - this will be huge if it bears out. Exit polls show the pro-EU D66 party has WON the Dutch election. The far-right PVV party of Geeet Wildsrs has lost [--] seats according to exit polls. Huge if true"
X Link 2025-10-29T20:09Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Exit polls in the Netherlands show the far-right defeated by the pro-EU D66 party in today's national election. Will it bear out"
X Link 2025-10-29T20:12Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Rob Jetten set to be the next Dutch prime minister in January calling for Trump's inauguration to "go down in history as the day when Europe stood up.and regained our independence." Night and day difference from Rutte"
X Link 2025-10-30T13:15Z 57.1K followers, 138.9K engagements
""It is up to us a new generation to carry our European flag with pride" said incoming Dutch PM Jetten in January. "We are a beacon of freedom and human dignity in a world on fire. Europe is the most beautiful place on earth" It's striking how unheard of that last sentence is"
X Link 2025-10-30T13:17Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Breaking: it's now official the pro-EU D66 party came first in the Dutch election. Their best result ever. The National Press Agency has just announced the final vote count. Its a narrow victory just [-----] votes ahead of far-right PVV of Geert Wilders. https://open.substack.com/pub/davekeating/p/the-most-pro-eu-party-just-won-bigr=wx462&utm_medium=ios https://open.substack.com/pub/davekeating/p/the-most-pro-eu-party-just-won-bigr=wx462&utm_medium=ios"
X Link 2025-10-31T12:52Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"This was all foretold. It was spelled out clearly during the campaign by #Project2025 Whether the majority of American voters want fascism or they're indifferent to it they chose it. In Europe we should have our eyes open to that My piece from last https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-maga-military-purge [--] General Officers have been removed or have retired in nine months. I'm a former CIA officer if I saw this in a foreign military we would call that a purge. https://t.co/GLLctwSdcS https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-maga-military-purge [--] General Officers have been removed or have"
X Link 2025-11-04T15:18Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Brussels Airport shut down tonight due to drones. All flights in and out suspended incoming flights diverted to other airports. Drones also sighted over Kleine-Brogel military airbase. https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1825792/brussels-airport-shut-down-after-drone-sighting https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1825792/brussels-airport-shut-down-after-drone-sighting"
X Link 2025-11-04T20:03Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Rob Jetten set to be next Dutch PM is joining PM Sanchez in calling for sovereign defence. "We need a European pillar within NATO that can operate independently if and when needed." He notes 70% of Europeans say they want this"
X Link 2025-11-04T20:50Z 57.1K followers, 112K engagements
"The EU international journalists union @APIbrussels has condemned the firing of an Italian journalist for asking a question in the Commission midday press briefing perceived as critical of Israel. So far no indication that the Commission pressured Agenzia Nova to fire him"
X Link 2025-11-07T11:28Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"More info about what happened here. Any journalist covering this topic knows the pressures we face and the attempts to cancel people. https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/journalist-israel-gaza-nova-gabriele-nunziati/ https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/journalist-israel-gaza-nova-gabriele-nunziati/"
X Link 2025-11-07T11:32Z 55.7K followers, [---] engagements
"8 Democrats in the Senate have caved on the shutdown. Snatching defeat from the jaws of the November 4th victory. I got back to my office after the vote tonight and recorded this. There's no way to sugarcoat what happened tonight. And my fear is that Trump gets stronger not weaker because of this acquiescence. I'm angry - like you. But I choose to keep fighting. https://t.co/EsfvvDH3VD I got back to my office after the vote tonight and recorded this. There's no way to sugarcoat what happened tonight. And my fear is that Trump gets stronger not weaker because of this acquiescence. I'm angry -"
X Link 2025-11-10T09:21Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Bernie Sanders says these [--] Democrat senators have committed a "betrayal" of the American people: Catherine Cortez Masto (NV) Jacky Rosen (NV) Maggie Hassan (NH) Jeanne Shaheen (NH) Dick Durbin (IL) John Fetterman (PA) Tim Kaine of (VA) Angus King of (ME) https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/1987745526276563275s=20 Bernie Sanders just said it plain: Tonight Democrats voted with Republicans to raise healthcare premiums for [--] million Americans and pave the way to kick [--] million off Medicaid. [-----] will die every year so the rich can get a trillion-dollar tax cut. This was a betrayal"
X Link 2025-11-10T09:25Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"This fusion of the US/UK media evident in the current BBC crisis is something I touch on in my book The Owned Continent out [--] December. BBC News made a choice in [----] to axe BBC World and switch to being based from both London & Washington. https://open.substack.com/pub/goodallandgoodluck/p/the-truth-about-impartiality-at-the https://open.substack.com/pub/goodallandgoodluck/p/the-truth-about-impartiality-at-the"
X Link 2025-11-11T15:50Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Diplomatically unprecedented. The White House has reportedly invited the far-right opposition in Germany for an official strategy visit in Washington. https://www.politico.eu/article/large-afd-delegation-set-travel-washington-us-congress-member-says https://www.politico.eu/article/large-afd-delegation-set-travel-washington-us-congress-member-says"
X Link 2025-11-15T10:26Z 55.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Diplomatically unprecedented. The German far-right opposition has reportedly been invited to Washington for an official strategy session with Republicans in the US Congress. https://www.politico.eu/article/large-afd-delegation-set-travel-washington-us-congress-member-says https://www.politico.eu/article/large-afd-delegation-set-travel-washington-us-congress-member-says"
X Link 2025-11-15T10:56Z 55.7K followers, 100.3K engagements
"Let's be clear-eyed. The US is pushing for regime change in Europe supporting the far right in their efforts to take power in the next elections. As a result they're polling in 1st place in . And our centrist leaders pretend it's not happening. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/america-is-pursuing-regime-change https://davekeating.substack.com/p/america-is-pursuing-regime-change"
X Link 2025-11-15T10:59Z 55.7K followers, 46K engagements
"The list of supposed British patriots who jump at the chance to slag off their own country in order to get on Fox News is long. These people are obsessed with America. They would probably support becoming the 51st state. Liz Truss on Fox News supporting Trump suing the BBC "There are lots of people in Britain who are cheering President Trump on and want him to sue the BBC" "Because they're a huge problem: they've lied they've cheated they've fiddled with footage" "Both in the case of https://t.co/1yknuVTGBT Liz Truss on Fox News supporting Trump suing the BBC "There are lots of people in"
X Link 2025-11-16T16:03Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The UK's Labour government is today announcing a new immigration & asylum policy they say is modelled on that of their centre-left sister party governing Denmark. But how is Denmark's asylum policy considered the harshest in viewed in Brussels"
X Link 2025-11-17T15:56Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Deputy PM Jan Jambon tells #IATAWOCE that Belgium is launching a National Airspace Security Centre in response to recent drone incursions at #BrusselsAirport. "We must make sure aviation does not become a pawn in geopolitical conflicts.""
X Link 2025-11-18T09:36Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Earlier this month drone sightings shut down [--] airports in Belgium as well as military sites. Russian involvement has not yet been definitively proven. It comes as other airports across Europe including in Copenhagen (home of rotating presidency) have been buzzed by drones"
X Link 2025-11-18T09:41Z 55.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Rare to hear European leaders speaking so honestly at the moment given that most of them are terrified of offending MAGA. Bravo @BuschEbba. Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely and we are choosing Canada So when we come to America we come to Canada now. https://t.co/hIl7kShdx2 Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely and we are choosing Canada So when we come to America we come to Canada now. https://t.co/hIl7kShdx2"
X Link 2025-11-20T14:54Z 55.7K followers, 38.7K engagements
"Who knows if this is serious or not (and if the US military-industrial complex would ever let it happen) but Europeans should welcome such an opportunity to de-Americanise NATO. Unfortunately our leaders are too scared to do it. This would be history's greatest ever irony. https://t.co/JwNlCziecY This would be history's greatest ever irony. https://t.co/JwNlCziecY"
X Link 2025-11-20T14:56Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"TRUMP IS SHUTTING DOWN RADIO FREE EUROPE IN HUNGARY. President @VonDerLeyen must step in to fund it to keep it going. Or is she still too scared of Trump 💥Trump admin shuts down Radio Free Europes Hungary service as a gift to Viktor Orbn; it ends Friday with Kari Lake claiming the US shouldnt pay for divisive globalist propaganda that hurts allies like Hungary. But RFE reporters never did that its a disgusting smear. https://t.co/4Yd1jF5uY2 💥Trump admin shuts down Radio Free Europes Hungary service as a gift to Viktor Orbn; it ends Friday with Kari Lake claiming the US shouldnt pay for"
X Link 2025-11-21T08:51Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Point [--] shows just how much Trump considers himself to be the "President of Europe" right now (as he put it). According to the "peace plan" would give the 210bn frozen Russian assets (plus [---] extra) to the US which would invest it in and receive the profits. Doc circulating in Ukrainian media is said to be the 28-point plan. It's not as absurd and dire as has been reported -- it's even more so. Eng. translation follows. N.B. I absolutely love point 3: "it is expected" Russia won't invade anyone else. Cool. Plus America profits from Doc circulating in Ukrainian media is said to be the"
X Link 2025-11-21T09:32Z 56.2K followers, [----] engagements
"It was frankly inevitable that Trump was going to try again to make Ukraine unilaterally surrender to Russia regardless of his random utterances over the past four months. But Europeans just want to keep hearing what they want to hear in his ramblings. https://www.euronews.com/2025/11/20/ukraines-president-receives-draft-peace-plan-from-us-his-office-in-kyiv-confirms https://www.euronews.com/2025/11/20/ukraines-president-receives-draft-peace-plan-from-us-his-office-in-kyiv-confirms"
X Link 2025-11-21T11:30Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Many Europeans convinced themselves Trump's public statements about Putin meant he was committed to Ukraine. Today they got a rude awakening. Washington presented a peace plan to Kyiv viewed as a surrender with an ultimatum to accept it by Thursday or lose all support"
X Link 2025-11-21T16:27Z 55.7K followers, 24.8K engagements
"European leaders are scrambling today - afraid to publicly criticise the peace plan for fear of angering Trump but behind the scenes terrified of the implications of a US-ordered surrender. An emergency #EUCO summit may be called to figure out what to do"
X Link 2025-11-22T08:52Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Will this be enough to stop the [--] countries (including ) threatening to quit the contest this year Seems unlikely. People around the world will still be able vote multiple times (though the number has been reduced from [--] to 10). https://open.substack.com/pub/davekeating/p/on-israel-eurovision-close-to-critical https://open.substack.com/pub/davekeating/p/on-israel-eurovision-close-to-critical"
X Link 2025-11-23T10:13Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Decision whether to exclude from #Eurovision2026 delayed till next month. Host country Austria is fiercely resisting. FM called the position "dumb and pointless" and said #Eurovision has a "historical responsibility" to put on stage. https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/1118/1544627-host-austria-seeks-eurovision-compromise-on-israel/ https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/1118/1544627-host-austria-seeks-eurovision-compromise-on-israel/"
X Link 2025-11-23T10:34Z 55.7K followers, [---] engagements
"President von der Leyen statement on 28-point peace plan for : "As a sovereign nation there cannot be limitations on armed forces that would leave the country and vulnerable to future attack." "Centrality of must be fully reflected" https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_25_2791 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_25_2791"
X Link 2025-11-23T12:04Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING: This is huge news the EU's equivalent of the Supreme Court's [----] Obergefell v Hodges ruling Court of Justice just ruled allcountries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other MS. This effectively legalises gay marriage across https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-court-says-same-sex-marriage-should-be-recognised-throughout-bloc-2025-11-25/ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-court-says-same-sex-marriage-should-be-recognised-throughout-bloc-2025-11-25/"
X Link 2025-11-25T10:10Z 55.7K followers, 606.3K engagements
"After spending years declining to rule on this issue for fear of sparking an intense backlash from the EU's East the ECJ just ruled that EU countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-eu-just-de-facto-legalised-gay https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-eu-just-de-facto-legalised-gay"
X Link 2025-11-25T11:52Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"As I have talked to everyday people across Europe this past year it's become clear there is very little comprehension of the extreme danger we are in Germany's foreign minister says Putin is preparing to invade by [----] "at the latest" So why don't most Europeans believe it Very clear warning from German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul at the Berlin Policy Forum: "Our intelligence services are telling us urgently: Russia is at least creating the option of a war against NATO. And that by [----] at the latest." Putin is recruiting "almost one more Very clear warning from German Foreign Minister"
X Link 2025-11-25T19:24Z 55.7K followers, 66.9K engagements
"We're on day [--] of a national strike here in #Belgium Unions are protesting #austerity measures of the new right-wing government in power since last year's election A new budget was agreed Monday - ending raises indexed at inflation & limiting pensions after long-term sick leave"
X Link 2025-11-26T13:06Z 55.7K followers, 11.5K engagements
"President @VonDerLeyen's VP has gone off script with a rare honest assessment of Trump's behaviour toward Europe. "It is blackmail." Will VDL 'breton' her Or is this a coordinated good cop/bad cop routine with Ribera able to say things VDL can't https://www.politico.eu/article/top-eu-official-teresa-ribera-accuses-us-of-blackmail-in-trade-talks/ https://www.politico.eu/article/top-eu-official-teresa-ribera-accuses-us-of-blackmail-in-trade-talks/"
X Link 2025-11-27T08:47Z 55.7K followers, 15.5K engagements
""What is happening here is severe it is a direct attack on civil society" says MEP @ThPellerin. "For months von der Leyens EPP has been aligning itself with far-right groups led by Viktor Orban." "The project is clear it is to turn Europe into Orbans Hungary." The EPP Group joined forces with the far-right in another shameful situational alliance to discredit NGOs and the way they get funds from the EU budget. We refuse to participate in silencing and discrediting civil society organisations and we are happy other pro-European forces https://t.co/Hrabh6VVs0 The EPP Group joined forces with"
X Link 2025-11-27T10:04Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The EU's ethics watchdog has found that President von der Leyen's use of 'omnibus' packages to implement President Trump's EU policy wishlist violates fundamental principles of good administration including transparent inclusive and evidence-based law making. Breaking : OMNIBUS I found in breach of EU (procedural) law as it departed from basic procedural guarantees such as public consultation. This @EUombudsman carry important implications for omnibuses to come and the whole simplification agenda https://t.co/wJqazYJ56y Breaking : OMNIBUS I found in breach of EU (procedural) law as it"
X Link 2025-11-27T10:37Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Our EU and UK leaders look incredibly foolish in hindsight for having surrendered so quickly to Trump's tariff threats. Brazil India and China stood firm (and maintained their dignity unlike Europeans) and Trump backed off. Will our leaders learn https://www.ft.com/content/05265c93-3ccd-45e4-8156-66712ce10897segmentId=114a04fe-353d-37db-f705-204c9a0a157b https://www.ft.com/content/05265c93-3ccd-45e4-8156-66712ce10897segmentId=114a04fe-353d-37db-f705-204c9a0a157b"
X Link 2025-11-28T12:16Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The 28-point plan was dead on arrival. Ukraine can't accept it Trump doesn't have the cards to force them since he's ended most US assistance to them and Russia won't accept adjustments. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/europe-plays-along-as-phony-peace https://davekeating.substack.com/p/europe-plays-along-as-phony-peace"
X Link 2025-12-01T08:38Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Dublin City Council has thankfully withdrawn the proposal to rename Herzog Park and that is the right decision. I hope that people can understand when they've crossed the line between legitimate criticism of Israel and outright anti-semitism. https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/12/01/chaim-herzog-yoni-wieder-chief-rabbi-park-dublin-city-council-name-removal/ https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/12/01/chaim-herzog-yoni-wieder-chief-rabbi-park-dublin-city-council-name-removal/"
X Link 2025-12-01T09:27Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"My article for FT @SustainViews on the risk of a complete unravelling of EU climate policy if the Commission doesn't protect the upcoming carbon border levy from US pressure: https://www.sustainableviews.com/the-us-wants-to-kill-europes-carbon-border-levy-will-the-eu-stay-the-course-cc28352a/ https://www.sustainableviews.com/the-us-wants-to-kill-europes-carbon-border-levy-will-the-eu-stay-the-course-cc28352a/"
X Link 2025-12-01T10:35Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The Left in Parliament calls out EU leaders for staying silent as prepares to invade "& strongly oppose interventionism yet the European establishment seems not concerned at all" says @BotengaM. "Why does systematically accept violations of international law"
X Link 2025-12-01T16:53Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"So for those keeping track that means Canada will join the EU's defence procurement scheme but the UK won't. It's really incredible how much British pride continues to inflict self-harm. https://www.politico.eu/article/canada-clinches-deal-to-join-europes-e150b-defense-scheme/ https://www.politico.eu/article/canada-clinches-deal-to-join-europes-e150b-defense-scheme/"
X Link 2025-12-01T18:04Z 55.7K followers, 28K engagements
""Europe is losing confidence sinking into fatalism and justifying its passivity with the soothing thought that it has no real choice as its cards are weak. Besides in the long run things will work out. Just wait for the U.S. midterms." https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-psychology-of-weakness-ukraine-war-trade-trump-putin/ https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-psychology-of-weakness-ukraine-war-trade-trump-putin/"
X Link 2025-12-01T21:34Z 55.7K followers, 11.3K engagements
"Are there Belgian factories in Russia BTW worth pointing out that PM De Wever is a political ally of PM Meloni and his NVA party sits in her supposedly pro- @ECRgroup in the European Parliament. ❗Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever: Russia has threatened that Belgium will feel this until the end of eternity if it confiscates frozen Russian assets. De Wever: This could involve counter-seizures of Belgian factories in Russia lawsuits in Russian courts and similar https://t.co/UIqQ0Qorci ❗Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever: Russia has threatened that Belgium will feel this until the end of"
X Link 2025-12-04T10:46Z 56K followers, 11.4K engagements
"BREAKING: Following intense pressure from Germany & Austria the EBU has decided that Israel will be in #Eurovision2026. As a result of that decision [--] countries () have just announced they are quitting the contest. [--] more are likely to follow. https://f24.my/BbDN https://f24.my/BbDN"
X Link 2025-12-04T18:27Z 56K followers, 13.6K engagements
"My background explainer on what led up to today's explosive meeting in Geneva: https://davekeating.substack.com/p/eurovision-is-unravelling-tonight https://davekeating.substack.com/p/eurovision-is-unravelling-tonight"
X Link 2025-12-04T23:04Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Here's the backstory behind today's explosive #Eurovision meeting in Geneva which has resulted in four countries quitting the contest with four more possible following suit"
X Link 2025-12-04T23:09Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Important context to know about the #Eurovision implosion happening right now: This isn't just about Israel's actions in Gaza. This is about Israel's politicisation of the contest through get-out-the-vote campaigns. This escalated because broadcasters said EBU didn't take those concerns seriously. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/eurovision-is-unravelling-tonight https://davekeating.substack.com/p/eurovision-is-unravelling-tonight"
X Link 2025-12-05T08:37Z 56.4K followers, 18.6K engagements
"I am astonished and mystified by the PM's statements here. It was completely unnecessary and has only served to hurt Belgium's argument that they can't be the only one legally responsible for seizing Russian assets. Very disappointing from PM De Wever. I thought he was just concerned about Belgium being the only country financially liable for any fallout from seizure of Russian assets held abroad. The whole "dangerous precedent" argument is a red herring. If you repeatedly invade a Very disappointing from PM De Wever. I thought he was just concerned about Belgium being the only country"
X Link 2025-12-05T08:49Z 55.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The US National Security Strategy released overnight has shocked Europeans. In truth its plans for Europe are just a reiteration of what the State Department already publicly posted back in May. But Europeans have not wanted to listen. My analysis: https://davekeating.substack.com/p/new-us-security-strategy-lays-bare https://davekeating.substack.com/p/new-us-security-strategy-lays-bare"
X Link 2025-12-05T15:50Z 56K followers, 12.1K engagements
"The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-us-has-declared-rhetorical-war https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-us-has-declared-rhetorical-war"
X Link 2025-12-08T08:06Z 55.9K followers, 43.5K engagements
""The Long Con of the Trump administration came to an end yesterday as it was always going to do. We are back in the Oval Office with Trump and Vance ambushing Zelensky. The whole pivot to Ukraine was a sham to help Putin." https://open.substack.com/pub/phillipspobrien/p/the-long-con-comes-to-an-endr=wx462&utm_medium=ios https://open.substack.com/pub/phillipspobrien/p/the-long-con-comes-to-an-endr=wx462&utm_medium=ios"
X Link 2025-12-08T11:04Z 55.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Trump tells his cabinet he can get the EU to change its laws at his command. I wonder what would have given him that impression Oh right because that's literally what EU and UK leaders promised him this summer. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/europes-surrender-summer Scott: The EU is telling the American farmer that if their timber is cut and they are going to use that land for pastureland or production agriculture they will not take the timber or the byproducts of the sale of that timber. Trump: You give me a couple of paragraphs don't https://t.co/7PuITkHlsh"
X Link 2025-12-08T21:24Z 55.9K followers, 10.1K engagements
"I'm afraid I have to agree with Trump. The "daddy diplomacy" strategy of Rutte Starmer Merz & von der Leyen has failed. ❓: Are the leaders we have capable of a more assertive strategy that defends their citizens from If not do we need new ones https://politi.co/48POO1A https://politi.co/48POO1A"
X Link 2025-12-09T12:33Z 55.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The problem is: European leaders have been weak on the face of Trump because their citizens aren't demanding anything more of them Why have Europeans accepted the MAGA aggression with such passivity It's the central question of my new book published today: http://www.TheOwnedContinent.eu http://www.TheOwnedContinent.eu"
X Link 2025-12-09T12:39Z 55.8K followers, [---] engagements
"It appears Chancellor Merz is throwing the EU under the bus. "You also need partners in the world" is his message to Trump. "And one of those partners can be Europe. And if you can't work with Europe then at least make Germany your partner." https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/ihr-braucht-auf-der-welt-auch-partner-merz-kritisiert-teile-der-us-sicherheitsstrategie-als-inakzeptabel-15033836.html https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/ihr-braucht-auf-der-welt-auch-partner-merz-kritisiert-teile-der-us-sicherheitsstrategie-als-inakzeptabel-15033836.html"
X Link 2025-12-09T18:39Z 56K followers, 194.8K engagements
"It appears is stepping up their rejections of European tourists at the border following reports of tourists being turned away because they criticised Trump or Israel on social media. Now Europeans will have to submit [--] years of social media history. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/travel/social-media-tourists-visa-border-patrol.htmlsmid=nytcore-ios-share https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/travel/social-media-tourists-visa-border-patrol.htmlsmid=nytcore-ios-share"
X Link 2025-12-10T08:50Z 56K followers, 1M engagements
"As I explore in my new book published yesterday Europeans are going through a trauma with the US becoming so hostile toward them. This is a continent so dominated by American culture that it has been hard to accept what's happening. Read more here: http://www.TheOwnedContinent.eu http://www.TheOwnedContinent.eu"
X Link 2025-12-10T14:10Z 56.3K followers, 31.8K engagements
"Breaking: #Iceland has joined the countries pulling out of Eurovision in protest of Israel's participation and the politicisation of the public vote. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwy9n786n0o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwy9n786n0o"
X Link 2025-12-10T20:17Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"@rvfabrice @Omgwtfimcow @staddann Yes it's a shame that most Americans don't know how parliamentary democracy works (or any system other than their own). The prime minister's name is never on the ballot - they are chosen by MPs after the election (just like in the EU by directly-elected MEPs)"
X Link 2025-12-11T08:08Z 56K followers, [--] engagements
"Fifth column indeed. ✍ 'Free speech warrior Elon Musk is right. Europes best hope is for the US to support independence movements across the continent' Writes @NileGardiner Read the column https://t.co/XHXJGGveWK https://t.co/0VTvHJqMC6 ✍ 'Free speech warrior Elon Musk is right. Europes best hope is for the US to support independence movements across the continent' Writes @NileGardiner Read the column https://t.co/XHXJGGveWK https://t.co/0VTvHJqMC6"
X Link 2025-12-11T14:28Z 55.9K followers, [----] engagements
"From Israeli newspaper Haaretz: "Israel will participate in the next Eurovision. Yet the entire contest has lost with a significant number of withdrawing countries and the departure of Spain one of Eurovision's major financial contributors. Israel has lost the ability to listen to try to understand why so many in Europe are furious and to consider whether the broadcasters' desire to boycott it might have merit as long as it continues to violate what they consider core values." "Most of all Israel has lost the ability to see itself as part of the wider world. Today Israel is a small isolated"
X Link 2025-12-11T18:34Z 56K followers, 207.4K engagements
""Israel could have chosen a simpler easier path: announcing that while it is at war it has no time space or desire to take part in an international singing contest" writes Israeli newspaper Haaretz. "It could have stepped back regrouped and returned to Europe after the war. Even Israel's closest Eurovision allies would likely have appreciated such a gesture which would certainly have lowered the temperature." "Instead Israel poured significant funds into massive promotional campaigns to boost the visibility of its representatives investing large sums on Times Square billboards and YouTube"
X Link 2025-12-11T18:48Z 56K followers, 31.8K engagements
"A leaked longer version of the #NSS reportedly names countries which the Trump administration thinks can be removed from the EU and made into MAGA-loyal states. It also calls for to be kicked out of #G7. A new #G5 would be created. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-four-leaders-maga-has-targeted https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-four-leaders-maga-has-targeted"
X Link 2025-12-12T13:20Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"A taste of what X is force-feeding those of us in Belgium this week. My timeline is full of this stuff"
X Link 2025-12-12T14:18Z 56K followers, 10.8K engagements
"The grovelling of our European leaders over the course of [----] has led the US president to claim he is now the "President of Europe". How do Europeans feel about that Maybe they should let Starmer Merz Meloni Rutte Von der Leyen & the rest of the bunch know how they feel. Trump: "The European nations are reporting that your president might as well be the leader of the European nations also. They respect us like they've never respected us before." https://t.co/T2CR3ibvIE Trump: "The European nations are reporting that your president might as well be the leader of the European nations also."
X Link 2025-12-12T14:20Z 56K followers, 37.8K engagements
"@Ellliee544 I agree. The problem is there really is still no alternative. BlueSky is so cringe. Nobody is on Mastodon or Threads. And LinkedIn is still a resume site with constant self-promotion. It is tragic for all of us that X has remained the public square in Europe I wish it weren't"
X Link 2025-12-12T15:36Z 56K followers, [---] engagements
"Apparently Washington now decides who is and isn't a member of the European Union. To get you up to speed: the Trump admin says Ukraine will be in but Italy Hungary Austria and Poland will be out. We await the next diktat from DC to tell us what to do https://www.ft.com/content/e50481a3-161c-4002-83e4-cae0be12799e https://www.ft.com/content/e50481a3-161c-4002-83e4-cae0be12799e"
X Link 2025-12-12T16:57Z 55.9K followers, [---] engagements
"In a surprise move Italy has tonight joined Belgium in its opposition to sending Russia's frozen assets to Ukraine - asking for alternative options at next week's summit. Meanwhile Brussels was informed that the new peace deal draft says Ukraine will joint the EU in a year"
X Link 2025-12-12T18:52Z 56K followers, 228K engagements
"Belgium's former prime minister calls for a European Awakening. "Trump's real objective is to weaken us. And he does so through condescending contemptuous even insulting rhetoric". http://www.TheOwnedContinent.eu Donald Trump lUkraine le climat les rseaux sociaux Un peu de politique belge aussi. @sudinfo_be lance son format Face aux lecteurs. Une heure sur lactualit avec @GasGrosjean et le public sans tabou. lire dans vos journaux ce week-end https://t.co/vjbv8kgmAk http://www.TheOwnedContinent.eu Donald Trump lUkraine le climat les rseaux sociaux Un peu de politique belge aussi. @sudinfo_be"
X Link 2025-12-13T16:14Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"The Trump-Putin threat is so dire that Switzerland is reconsidering its neutrality. "In the event of an attack it should be prepared to defend itself if necessary in collaboration with its partners" In light of the deteriorating security situation the Swiss government is realigning Switzerland's security policy. It has launched a consultation procedure and instructed the relevant departments to start taking measures. https://t.co/iNqHL3XQZf @vbs_ddps In light of the deteriorating security situation the Swiss government is realigning Switzerland's security policy. It has launched a"
X Link 2025-12-13T18:14Z 56K followers, 86.1K engagements
"The power of the European far right has grown exponentially since Donald Trump was first elected a decade ago. The comparison is stark and reveals that the far right with US support could easily take power across Europe in the next few years. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-maga-sends-support-to-europes https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-maga-sends-support-to-europes"
X Link 2025-12-14T13:13Z 56K followers, 94.4K engagements
"@barteeckhout If the N-VA don't want to be labelled as hard right as they were also on this week's Politico map then maybe they shouldn't be a member of a hard right political group in the Parliament 🤔 https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-far-right-center-politics/ https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-far-right-center-politics/"
X Link 2025-12-14T14:32Z 56K followers, [---] engagements
"@VaduzBewohner @barteeckhout They are in Meloni's hard right ECR group. It's pretty simple"
X Link 2025-12-14T15:00Z 56K followers, [---] engagements
"@kimsmithholmes Europeans spent the past decade listening to arguments like yours and where did it get them It would be lunacy for Europeans to continue convincing themselves that the situation in America is going to go back to how it was before. Trump is America whether you like it or not"
X Link 2025-12-15T09:58Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"@bcnorange Europe has not seen this level of power for the far right since World War II (excluding ). If we're talking ebbs and flows then we are coming out of an 80-year ebb. I don't even want to think about what that means for the flow"
X Link 2025-12-15T10:25Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"The president of the United States apparently believes that film director #RobReiner deserved to be murdered because he had criticised the president. this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted https://t.co/pX3p1WhQAa this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted https://t.co/pX3p1WhQAa"
X Link 2025-12-15T15:40Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"Even when confronted with a Strategy planning their ouster our centrist leaders have been silent. Merz's much-lauded 'end of Pax Americana' speech only spoke of US isolationism not aggression. But the Defence Commissioner just spoke the truth: https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-eu-commissions-lone-truth-teller https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-eu-commissions-lone-truth-teller"
X Link 2025-12-15T23:12Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"Ahead of the #Mercosur vote in Council (if it happens) you can play around with different scenarios using this tool. If all vote no & abstains even an Italian yes vote doesn't get it past the QMV threshold But if votes yes it does https://euvote.eu/ https://euvote.eu/"
X Link 2025-12-16T07:58Z 56K followers, 25K engagements
"The #Mercosur FTA between & just passed its 1st hurdle of the week getting a green light from the Parliament with increased safeguards that may assuage critics. But now the big test comes in the other house of the legislature the Council https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/eu-lawmakers-seek-tighten-controls-120633852.html https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/eu-lawmakers-seek-tighten-controls-120633852.html"
X Link 2025-12-16T12:15Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"@Arnold_Platon Interesting it's right on the cusp isn't it. Anyone know the definitive answer"
X Link 2025-12-16T12:19Z 56K followers, [---] engagements
"@Arnold_Platon Good question I know there were complaints years ago that Italy was giving out citizenships to far-flung people (ironically in Argentina Uruguay & Brazil) in order to inflate its Council voting numbers even though those people (like myself 🛂) never moved to Italy"
X Link 2025-12-16T12:28Z 56K followers, [---] engagements
"She's gone and done it President VDL has bowed topressure and will scrap [----] combustion engine phase-out "This will divert investment away from electrification at a time when European manufacturers urgently need to catch up with China"says @transenv https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_3051 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_3051"
X Link 2025-12-16T17:06Z 56K followers, 16.4K engagements
"@EPPGroup It's worth reminding that the [----] ICE phase-out which was designed to give European automakers a boost against Chinese companies in the EV race was proposed by President @VonDerLeyen herself and approved by the @EPPGroup in the parliament in [----]. What changed since then🤔"
X Link 2025-12-16T17:28Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"& EPP-ECR have been crowing about their victory in getting President @VonDerLeyen to kill [----] combustion engine phase-out. Remarkable considering she enacted it just [--] years ago and there's been no change in control over institutions since then. https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-eu-climate-policy-epp-cars-climate-policy https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-eu-climate-policy-epp-cars-climate-policy"
X Link 2025-12-17T13:48Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"Yes there was a Parliament election in between but it did not yield any major change in control. Centre-right EPP was the largest party before and it still is after that election. And they still hold the Commission presidency (for [--] years now) https://davekeating.substack.com/p/who-do-europeans-keep-voting-conservative https://davekeating.substack.com/p/who-do-europeans-keep-voting-conservative"
X Link 2025-12-17T13:53Z 56K followers, [---] engagements
"& have reached an agreement for Britain to re-enter the EU's #Erasmus foreign exchange program from [----]. This is different than Youth Mobility Scheme that would allow young people to actually move to an EU country (and vice versa) which is still being negotiated"
X Link 2025-12-17T15:56Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"President Zelensky is about to enter the #EUCO summit here on the red carpet along with the [--] national leaders. But all eyes will be on the one who travelled the least far. PM Bart De Wever is in the hot seat as he continues to block sending Russian frozen assets to Kyiv"
X Link 2025-12-18T07:41Z 56K followers, 26K engagements
"@kajakallas @eucopresident But President Macron comes into #EUCO with a long diatribe against #Mercosur free trade maintaining his firm opposition. "European agriculture must be protected. Our farmers already face too many challenges we cannot sacrifice them" he says as farmers protest outside"
X Link 2025-12-18T10:24Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"@kajakallas @eucopresident #EUCO summit now underway. There are [--] questions that must be answered in next [--] days that will determine Europe's future: 1Will get money from to continue resisting 2Will Mercosur pass signalling global free trade can continue Or will free trade die here today"
X Link 2025-12-18T10:31Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"Now official: #Mercosur has been kicked into next year. That experts say likely means the FTA with South America will never happen because Brazil is losing patience. The protesting farmers in Brussels today are celebrating a victory. https://www.politico.eu/article/mercosur-signing-delayed-until-january-von-der-leyen-tells-leaders/ https://www.politico.eu/article/mercosur-signing-delayed-until-january-von-der-leyen-tells-leaders/"
X Link 2025-12-18T19:37Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"After all night negotiations EU leaders failed to reach agreement on using frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine. But they did agree on a Plan B: a 90bn loan to using joint borrowing. But only [--] of the EU27 will participate. De Wever leaving happy. Merz not so much"
X Link 2025-12-19T04:18Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"@stuartmjohn Spoiler alert: only one of those countries seriously thinks Ukraine will ever actually join the EU"
X Link 2025-12-19T05:20Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"Live in [--] minutes: I'll talk to Luke Johnson from Public Sphere about the #EUCO summit outcome early this morning and what it means for the future of Europe and Ukraine (spoiler alert: it's not good). 1pm noon 7am https://open.substack.com/live-stream/90281r=wx462&utm_medium=ios https://open.substack.com/live-stream/90281r=wx462&utm_medium=ios"
X Link 2025-12-19T10:36Z 56K followers, [--] engagements
"Since the European public is largely unaware of what #EUCO Council is (despite it being the most powerful EU institution) helpful to remind that it had an EPP majority for decades. But now with the entry of the far right that right-wing majority is shared with Meloni & Orban"
X Link 2025-12-19T11:37Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"Last night's failure to agree on giving Russia's frozen assets to Ukraine was a bad look for the EU. But the Plan B that they came up with #EurobondsForUkraine could actually be better because: 1Money arrives faster 2It's legally unquestionable 3It can be done again"
X Link 2025-12-19T18:41Z 56K followers, 23.3K engagements
"It begins. The EU lawmaker who was in charge of digital affairs during President von der Leyen's 1st term has been banned from the US because the tech giants and government don't like the EU's tech laws. What will be the President's response https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/24/us-state-department-visa-ban-former-eu-commissioner-europe https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/24/us-state-department-visa-ban-former-eu-commissioner-europe"
X Link 2025-12-24T02:08Z 56K followers, 54.8K engagements
"A critical test. President VDL notoriously loathes her former digital commissioner. But if she and Macron let stand that the US can ban EU lawmakers simply because the government doesn't like EU laws that is a watershed moment in European servility. https://unherd.com/newsroom/von-der-leyen-stabs-thierry-breton-in-the-front/ https://unherd.com/newsroom/von-der-leyen-stabs-thierry-breton-in-the-front/"
X Link 2025-12-24T02:10Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"Between the new threat to annex Greenland and sanctions on EU officials over digital laws it's clear there's no Christmas truce in rhetorical war on. The Trump administration is escalating. Happy holidays. Let's all ask Santa for EU leaders who will defend this continent. It begins. The EU lawmaker who was in charge of digital affairs during President von der Leyen's 1st term has been banned from the US because the tech giants and government don't like the EU's tech laws. What will be the President's response https://t.co/91VBzQzlCz It begins. The EU lawmaker who was in charge of digital"
X Link 2025-12-24T13:18Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"It's still unclear what she means by "sanctioned". But this shows just how much Europe is controlled economically by in addition to being controlled militarily. Our European Atlanticist leaders have built a system in which the government can destroy any European with the swipe of a pen"
X Link 2025-12-24T14:24Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"The outrageous sanctioning of EU lawmakers and citizens in order to pressure democratically-elected European governments to change their laws shows just how intent the US government is on controlling Europeans' lives. We must go into [----] with eyes open. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-us-can-destroy-a-europeans-life https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-us-can-destroy-a-europeans-life"
X Link 2025-12-26T17:09Z 56K followers, 14.8K engagements
"It's the end of the year - an annus horribilis for Europe. It should be a moment of reflection on the root causes of the humiliation this continent had to endure at the hands of Donald Trump this year. And it's time to reimagine what Europe can be. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/europes-choice-in-2026-join-or-die https://davekeating.substack.com/p/europes-choice-in-2026-join-or-die"
X Link 2025-12-31T06:37Z 56K followers, [----] engagements
"A reminder that you don't have to be an EU member to join the EU's free mobile roaming area through an association agreement. Why isn't the UK in it Because of political cowardice. PMs have since [----] been afraid to do anything that looks like rejoining . Today Ukraine and Moldova officially join the EU Roaming area. What does this mean People from & can now call text and use their mobile data from their local phone numbers for communication to the [--] EU countries at no extra cost and vice versa. https://t.co/Jerhrs4la4 Today Ukraine and Moldova officially join the EU Roaming area. What does"
X Link 2026-01-01T12:43Z 56.2K followers, 150K engagements
"So Brits have to pay to use their phones in Europe (and vice versa) because of warped Brexit ideology and political cowardice. Same goes for incoming ETIAS & ETA travel pre-clearance. Most neighbours ( ) exempt each other. But not so they'll have to pay to visit)"
X Link 2026-01-01T12:47Z 56.1K followers, [----] engagements
"One of the 'big 3' US networks formerly the home of Walter Cronkite is transitioning into a government mouthpiece under its new MAGA leadership. This was achieved by abusing the government's power over merger approval. Which network is next to fall "On too many stories the press has missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites and not enough on you." That changes now. The new CBS Evening News https://t.co/NKdvRJjYCS "On too many stories the press has missed the"
X Link 2026-01-02T11:37Z 56.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Great piece by @pedersschaefer on outdated new world old world clichs. It is the United States the world's oldest democracy which is creaking under its archaic institutions. The comparatively younger nation-states of Europe and the EU are more agile https://pederschaefer.substack.com/p/is-america-the-new-old-world https://pederschaefer.substack.com/p/is-america-the-new-old-world"
X Link 2026-01-02T17:18Z 56.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@Number10cat It's scary how MAGA is so brainwashed that they don't even believe what their own eyes can see. How far gone does someone have to be to have convinced themselves that these two videos show the same gesture But a major part of the US population is that far gone"
X Link 2026-01-02T19:51Z 56.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Today it is Venezuela. Tomorrow it may be Greenland. Based on the behaviour of our current European leaders today and throughout [----] there is no reason to assume they would do anything other than immediately surrender and accept the annexation. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/a-day-that-will-live-in-infamy https://davekeating.substack.com/p/a-day-that-will-live-in-infamy"
X Link 2026-01-03T16:45Z 56.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Trump at his press conference on the #Venezuela invasion just now: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe proper and judicious transition. We don't want someone else to get in and we have the same situation.""
X Link 2026-01-03T16:50Z 56.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says the #Venezuela invasion puts other countries "on notice - America can project our will anywhere any time." "No other president has ever shown this kind of leadership courage and resolve - the most powerful combination the world has ever seen""
X Link 2026-01-03T17:06Z 56.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Even after watching Trump's press conference openly admitting the US has invaded Venezuela in order to run it and take its oil President Macron has released a statement that appears to be an endorsement of the US actions (as opposed to Le Pen who condemned the US invasion). The Venezuelan people are today rid of Nicols Maduros dictatorship and can only rejoice. By seizing power and trampling on fundamental freedoms Nicols Maduro gravely undermined the dignity of his own people. The upcoming transition The Venezuelan people are today rid of Nicols Maduros dictatorship and can only rejoice. By"
X Link 2026-01-03T19:12Z 56.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Contrast the reaction to the Venezuela invasion of France's far-right opposition leader vs its sitting centrist president. It's really incredible. No sitting European leader dares to criticise Trump. Le Pen is being politically much smarter than Macron"
X Link 2026-01-03T19:25Z 56.2K followers, [----] engagements
"OK we can see the way this is going. Sanchez is out in the political wilderness again in his wilingness to criticise Trump. Germany's chancellor apparently watched that press conference and decided it's "complex and requires careful consideration". They're all falling into line The legal assessment of the U.S. intervention is complex and requires careful consideration. International law remains the guiding framework. At this stage political instability in Venezuela must be avoided. The objective is an orderly transition to an elected government. The legal assessment of the U.S. intervention"
X Link 2026-01-03T19:29Z 56.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@adamlong80 Seems to be in contradiction to this from the president: The Venezuelan people are today rid of Nicols Maduros dictatorship and can only rejoice. By seizing power and trampling on fundamental freedoms Nicols Maduro gravely undermined the dignity of his own people. The upcoming transition The Venezuelan people are today rid of Nicols Maduros dictatorship and can only rejoice. By seizing power and trampling on fundamental freedoms Nicols Maduro gravely undermined the dignity of his own people. The upcoming transition"
X Link 2026-01-03T19:47Z 56.3K followers, [---] engagements
"PM Meloni sounds same as Macron Starmer & Merz in giving stamp of approval to invasion of Venezuela (though she's going extra step of pretending she believes the absurd claim that this is about drug trafficking). Throughout Europe only opposition figures are criticising"
X Link 2026-01-03T19:57Z 56.2K followers, [---] engagements
"One by one European leaders are tossing their remaining credibility on Ukraine into the bonfire of Trump appeasement. Unbelievable hypocrisy. Venezuela ser libre. People in Venezuela deserve to live free after years of oppression. As the European Parliament has consistently affirmed we do not considerNicols Maduro to bethe legitimate elected leader of Venezuela. The coming hours and days will be critical. Venezuela ser libre. People in Venezuela deserve to live free after years of oppression. As the European Parliament has consistently affirmed we do not considerNicols Maduro to bethe"
X Link 2026-01-03T20:03Z 56.2K followers, 26.5K engagements
"And here it is. Starmer's post-press-conference statement manages to be even more cowardly than his initial response. Vague call for international law to be respected. Ignores that it has already been violated this morning. No mention of US. The UK has long supported a transition of power in Venezuela. We regarded Maduro as an illegitimate President and we shed no tears about the end of his regime. I reiterated my support for international law this morning. The UK government will discuss the evolving situation with The UK has long supported a transition of power in Venezuela. We regarded"
X Link 2026-01-03T20:06Z 56.4K followers, [----] engagements
"A reminder: it doesn't have to be this way. Mexico has a hell of a lot more to lose than Europe by angering Trump. Yet this is the response of its president just now. This isn't a global phenomenon. Why have Europeans proven to be so uniquely cowardly over the past year"
X Link 2026-01-03T20:11Z 56.4K followers, [----] engagements
"From the wife of the White House Deputy Chief of Staff. Europe don't say you weren't warned. SOON https://t.co/XU6VmZxph3 SOON https://t.co/XU6VmZxph3"
X Link 2026-01-03T22:35Z 56.3K followers, 233K engagements
"Senator Bernie Sanders calls on the democratic world (Europe) to condemn Trump's "rank imperialism". But his words have fallen on deaf ears here in Europe where our leaders have been too scared to criticise the US invasion of Venezuela"
X Link 2026-01-04T02:16Z 56.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Finland's president who has bragged about his close golfing relationship with Trump goes a tiny bit further in criticising the US invasion of Venezuela than others with the word "however". But notice that Trump and the US are not mentioned by name. This is heavily veiled. Nicols Maduros regime has long been illegitimate. The elections in [----] were grossly unfair. Finland has stated this before as a part of the EU. The Union has also imposed sanctions on Venezuela. However all states have a responsibility to respect and comply with Nicols Maduros regime has long been illegitimate. The"
X Link 2026-01-04T12:49Z 56.2K followers, [----] engagements
"It is incredibly embarrassing for this continent that Sanchez has to join a group of Latin American leaders in issuing a statement of condemnation for the US invasion because no other leader in Europe will join him in criticising . La situacin en Venezuela debe resolverse exclusivamente por vas pacficas mediante el dilogo la negociacin y el respeto a la voluntad del pueblo venezolano en todas sus expresiones sin injerencias externas y en apego al derecho internacional. El Gobierno de Espaa junto La situacin en Venezuela debe resolverse exclusivamente por vas pacficas mediante el dilogo la"
X Link 2026-01-04T17:20Z 56.5K followers, 272.3K engagements
"The 3rd of January [----] will go down in history as a seminal moment - the death of the international order that has held the world together for [--] years. And our European leaders were willing accomplices in its destruction. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/international-law-died-yesterday https://davekeating.substack.com/p/international-law-died-yesterday"
X Link 2026-01-04T17:25Z 56.2K followers, [----] engagements
"This is all could muster as a response to the invasion of. Two days later. Not one word of criticism of the violation of international law. You can see why Pedro Sanchez the only EU leader willing to criticise has instead had to join Latin American leaders in a different joint statement. My statement supported by [--] EU Member States on the aftermath of the U.S. intervention in Venezuela https://t.co/CsgKXvvjUw My statement supported by [--] EU Member States on the aftermath of the U.S. intervention in Venezuela https://t.co/CsgKXvvjUw"
X Link 2026-01-04T20:25Z 56.2K followers, 79.1K engagements
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