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I can only add a pile of further reasons why we should get to read Von der Leyen's messagges www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So the crystal ball says oil demand is to remain stable www.ft.com/content/17a0... But what about offer in a post peak oil context? Retail sanity wholesale madness

I wondered what it meant to the get high on printed matter. No longer www.ft.com/content/7613... So Spain and Greece are to become supowers on the basis of serving piña colada and daikiris to the rest of the world and occassionally using forced migrants as a trump card against the rest of the EU

A perceptive synthesis of where we are elpais.com/opinion/2025...

This mediocre analysis makes a point www.elmundo.es/papel/histor... Probable Trump never read Machiavelli. But what kind of political vision underpins pressing catch? No need of having read the Prince to be a Machiavellian; after all Macchiavelli was theorising what was up in the air then (and now)

Poul Kjaer on Joerges in times of fragmented globalisation: from conflicts-law to transformative law.

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Mark Gilbert reviews Thomas's Limits of Europe and the volume Reinventing Europe, edited by Leucht, Seidel and
@laurentwarlouzet.bsky.social. Mostly, he has some seriously important things to say about 'doing history' of European integration.
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Tooze on Fressoz lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Staying within planetary limits requires that we go back to democratic politics, but also that we understand the (energy) science and history

After the doctrine of enumerated powers was left aside when it came to the ECB powers during the crisis, it comes back in AG Emilou opinion, transformed into a reason to quash the minimum wage directive curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
A great day for naïve Europeanists (black humour)

Not only it is a theological mystery (of course nobody, not even Seymour Hersh, can know who blew it) but it was a major ecological disaster elmundo.es/ciencia-y-sa... But it is very rude to talk about this, so let's talk about something else, such as UFOs

I guess there is no ethical or reputational problem with somebody formely working for the City now becoming the Labour City minister www.theguardian.com/politics/202... From victory to victory till the ultimate defeat

I guess it would be accurate to regard Rutte's statement as a case study in adaptive preferences theguardian.com/world/2025/j... Who is any more calling for winning the war?

Leaving aside intentions, the objective fact of the matter is that US actions and ommissions have played a part in bringing to power leaders close to, in the past and perhaps now, to Al Qaeda and ISIS wsj.com/politics/nat... We are back to 1979, adding to the equation millions of dead bodies

Meloni's "processing centre" in Albania now serves not only to shelter stray dogs, but also as a good reason to pamper the Italian policemen on mission there
www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024... Costly and inefficient propaganda