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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 9h

EU 'veggie burger' rule change will impact the following foods:

• Buffalo Wings
• Toad In The Hole
• Fish Fingers
• Deviled Eggs
• Caeser Salad (unless it contains at least 33% ancient Roman dictator)

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Henning Hoff @henninghoff.bsky.social · 9h

Apologies to non-German readers, this is about the end- and fruitless debate about the return to compulsory military service for 18-year olds. Won‘t bore with the details, but more here: ip-quarterly.com/en/germanys-...

Germany’s Government Lacks New Ideas, and It Shows

The Christian Democrats and Social Democrats of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’ coalition government have made an effort to get along better. So far, however, they have failed to come up with the new appro...

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Henning Hoff @henninghoff.bsky.social · 9h

Mein Eindruck: Für die Rückkehr zur Wehrpflicht gibt es aktuell und absehbar keine politische Mehrheit. Dennoch braucht Deutschland schnell eine schlagkräftige Reserve. Die ließe sich auch anders (und schneller!) aufbauen. Gefragt sind neue Ideen & Initiativen, keine sich im Kreis drehende Debatte.

Thomas Wiegold @wiegold.de · 9h

Jetzt im Internet, nachher im TV: phoenix-Runde zur Wehrpflicht
x.com/phoenix_de/s...

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Internationale Politik Quarterly @ipq.bsky.social · 1d

The parties in Germany’s coalition government have made an effort to get along better, but have so far failed to come up with the new security and economic policy approaches that the country needs, @henninghoff.bsky.social writes in the latest Berlin Cable.

ip-quarterly.com/en/germanys-...

Germany’s Government Lacks New Ideas, and It Shows

The Christian Democrats and Social Democrats of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’ coalition government have made an effort to get along better. So far, however, they have failed to come up with the new appro...

ip-quarterly.com

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Internationale Politik Quarterly @ipq.bsky.social · 2d

Piotr Buras in our new issue on how the Russian drones incident may well shift Poland’s foreign policy: ip-quarterly.com/en/drones-in...

The Drones Incident May Well Shift Poland’s Foreign Policy

The idea of a “special” US-Polish relationship has still much currency in Poland and was revived with President Nawrocki’s inaugural Washington visit. But the muted US reaction to Russia’s drones viol...

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Henning Hoff @henninghoff.bsky.social · 2d

About to defect to Reform, are we? Or straight to Robinson’s lot? Mind-boggling to see what is becoming of the Conservative Party which put Mosley in his place and threw Powell out after the “Rivers of Blood” speech…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 2d

Matt Pottinger on US China policy under Trump 2.0: “Beijing is in a sweet spot right now. The White House seems
unaware that its TikTok policy and its weakening restrictions on
chip exports are massive, unilateral concessions to the Chinese
Communist Party"

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

China Hawks Grow Queasy Over Trump’s Push for Deals With Beijing

President Donald Trump rewrote Washington’s rules for dealing with China in his first presidency, embracing confrontation, launching a trade war and upending decades of policy. In his second term, Chi...

www.bloomberg.com

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Henning Hoff @henninghoff.bsky.social · 2d

Is the excellent German speaker/connaisseur the last-ditch secret weapon to safe the deeply troubled FCAS as a Franco-German project?

Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 2d

Bruno Le Maire becomes defence minister in the new French government. For how long, no one knows.

www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

Le gouvernement Lecornu, à peine nommé et déjà menacé d’implosion

La nouvelle équipe, qui compte douze membres du gouvernement Bayrou sur dix-huit et consacre le retour de deux figures du macronisme, Bruno Le Maire et Roland Lescure, divise le socle commun et accent...

www.lemonde.fr

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 4d

"Von der Leyen has become the face of EU surrender, of a union powerless in the face of ever-growing global threats. It is an ironic position to be in for someone so obsessed with amassing power within the institution she controls"

My IPQ profile of VDL: ip-quarterly.com/en/ursula-vo...

Ursula von der Leyen: Queen in the Commission, Servant in the Council

A year into her second term, the European Commission’s notoriously controlling president is attracting criticism for neutering her college of commissioners while blindly following the EU’s 27 national...

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Henning Hoff @henninghoff.bsky.social · 5d

👀 I suggest to take a look at our new issue ip-quarterly.com/en/fall-2025...

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 4d

Japan could soon make history with its first-ever female prime minister.

Hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi has been elected the new leader of Japan's ruling party, putting her on track to lead the world's fourth-biggest economy: https://bloom.bg/4gRaKNc

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 5d

President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE

YouTube video by WION

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Henning Hoff @henninghoff.bsky.social · 6d

Close-Up is one of our new features, On the Ground by @lucyaash.bsky.social is another—do have a look! ip-quarterly.com/en/ukraines-...

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Henning Hoff @henninghoff.bsky.social · 5d

👀 I suggest to take a look at our new issue ip-quarterly.com/en/fall-2025...

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Internationale Politik Quarterly @ipq.bsky.social · 8d

In our new issue, @bigeurope.bsky.social’s Luuk van Middelaar & Hans Kribbe argue that the EU is ill-equipped to deal with emerging geoeconomic dilemmas and propose a solution: an economic security council.

ip-quarterly.com/en/eu-needs-...

The EU Needs an Economic Security Council

The European Union is ill-equipped to deal with the dilemmas emerging from the new age of geoeconomics. It requires a new body to decide on strategic questions and trade-offs in an accountable way.

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Henning Hoff @henninghoff.bsky.social · 6d

Close-Up is one of our new features, On the Ground by @lucyaash.bsky.social is another—do have a look! ip-quarterly.com/en/ukraines-...

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Internationale Politik Quarterly @ipq.bsky.social · 6d

As part of our five-year anniversary, today we launched Close-Up, a profile series.

Up first: @davekeating.substack.com on Ursula von der Leyen, the notoriously controlling European Commission president, a year into her second term.

ip-quarterly.com/en/ursula-vo...

Ursula von der Leyen: Queen in the Commission, Servant in the Council

A year into her second term, the European Commission’s notoriously controlling president is attracting criticism for neutering her college of commissioners while blindly following the EU’s 27 national...

ip-quarterly.com

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Luke Johnson @ljohnson.bsky.social · 7d

My column on Europe's economic security is here -> ip-quarterly.com/en/under-pre...

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Henning Hoff @henninghoff.bsky.social · 7d

An important and perfectly doable step EU leaders should consider as early as this week, convincingly argued for by Luuk van Middelaar and Hans Kribbe @bigeurope.bsky.social in our new issue

Internationale Politik Quarterly @ipq.bsky.social · 8d

In our new issue, @bigeurope.bsky.social’s Luuk van Middelaar & Hans Kribbe argue that the EU is ill-equipped to deal with emerging geoeconomic dilemmas and propose a solution: an economic security council.

ip-quarterly.com/en/eu-needs-...

The EU Needs an Economic Security Council

The European Union is ill-equipped to deal with the dilemmas emerging from the new age of geoeconomics. It requires a new body to decide on strategic questions and trade-offs in an accountable way.

ip-quarterly.com

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Internationale Politik Quarterly @ipq.bsky.social · 8d

Out today: Our fall issue, Defending Europe’s Economic Security, which also marks five years of IPQ.

We'll be sharing individual articles in the coming days & weeks and you can read the full issue here: ip-quarterly.com/en/fall-2025...

Fall 2025 Issue: Defending Europe’s Economic Security

The 21st issue of INTERNATIONALE POLITIK QUARTERLY focuses on the European Union in the new age of economic statecraft.

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Henning Hoff @henninghoff.bsky.social · 8d

That’s what he calls himself? The lunatics seem to have gained a good grip of the asylum…

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Henning Hoff @henninghoff.bsky.social · 8d

Defence secretary? Isn’t he the war secretary by now?

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Henning Hoff @henninghoff.bsky.social · 8d

And now it‘s out! ip-quarterly.com/en/fall-2025...

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Henning Hoff @henninghoff.bsky.social · 8d

New #BerlinCable as Merz’ spends two away-days wirh his cabinet.

ip-quarterly.com/en/germanys-...

Germany’s Government Lacks New Ideas, and It Shows

The Christian Democrats and Social Democrats of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’ coalition government have made an effort to get along better. So far, however, they have failed to come up with the new appro...

ip-quarterly.com