Yesterday in Vienna I had the honor of receiving the Bruno Kreisky Prize for my complete works from the @renner-institut.at. Wonderful @johannes-gress.at & @jagodamarinic.com were awarded too - congrats!
I also delivered the keynote speech, stay tuned for the published version coming soon

Yesterday May 9th, Europe Day, I was invited by the European School @ Munich to give a speech to the students about "European values"
It's an expression I am very skeptical about, and I told them why

You can read the whole speech on my substack at this link:

open.substack.com/pub/francesc...

Per un'Europa libera e forte - leggete, firmate e fate girare questo appello

E ci vediamo il 15 marzo in piazza

www.liberaeforte.it

Bots are in full force these days, giving Europe the Enemy Nr 1 treatment until now reserved to Ukraine:
countless "EU meetings on meetings" jokes, the ubiquitous lie "EU didn't help Ukraine" (it gave more $ than the USA) etc

TrumPutin trolls must be seeing Europe's ReArm plan as real as it is,too

I wrote this before the Oval Office performance, but really, there is nothing to add. It's all still true.

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

Marie Claire Italia mi ha chiesto di scrivere una lettera alla Pace
Oggi in edicola il numero con ciò che ho scritto

On the Russians and Americans backing the German far right
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...

I had a wonderful, long conversation with @jagodamarinic.com for @artefr.bsky.social about the books that shaped my life

Here's the original interview in English (Spanish subtitles): www.arte.tv/es/videos/11...
and here it's with a German over-voice (French subtitles): www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...

🧵 Il piano di Trump per Gaza si chiama pulizia etnica | @invisiblearabs.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/piano-trump-... via @valigiablu.it

From @donmoyn.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Sometimes self-government just means elections. And sometimes it means recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…

Israeli Holocaust historian on Gaza: “That is genocide.”

Genocide studies professor Omer Bartov discusses Gaza, Israel's far right, antisemitism, and more with Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

Watch here:
zeteo.com/p/that-is-ge...

Censorship will begin - in the name of "anti-censorship"

What is preventing World War III? Ukrainians are containing the ongoing war in Europe to their own country; they are deterring war in the Pacific; and they are preventing spread of nuclear weapons. These scenarios have not played out because Ukrainians take risks
snyder.substack.com/p/a-third-wo...

More and more mainstream Jewish groups are demanding that the US stop sending weapons to Israel: