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Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · 9h

The State is the cause of Europe’s crisis – It is also its solution

Today’s world is a harder place for Europe. Despite being the third largest economy and the largest trading bloc on the planet, the European Union has become a net importer of foreign…

Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · 6d

The EU-UK trade reset: how to move towards a higher ambition

After the successful Summit of 19 May, EU-UK trade relations have moved away from the political limelight. The Council has adopted negotiating directives on youth mobility and are…

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Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · 11d

The great Peter Schrank in the Encompass cartoon gallery (encompass-europe.com/cartoons)...

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Cleo Davies @cleodavies.bsky.social · 15d

📣👇my piece today on Starmer’s approach to bilateralism with 🇪🇺 member states. He is much better at it than his recent predecessors … BUT ‘Starmer may have proven himself a good diplomat, but so far, this is not a quality that has endeared him to the British public.’ 🙏 @padamson.bsky.social

Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · 15d

The good diplomat: Starmer’s bilateralism with EU member states

Barely two weeks go by without a bilateral meeting between Keir Starmer and a leader from a European capital. He hosted his Irish and Spanish counterparts in Downing Street on 12 September…

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Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · 14d

Trump's disdain for the UN...(encompass-europe.com)

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Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · 15d

The good diplomat: Starmer’s bilateralism with EU member states

Barely two weeks go by without a bilateral meeting between Keir Starmer and a leader from a European capital. He hosted his Irish and Spanish counterparts in Downing Street on 12 September…

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Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · 16d

Britain's misreading of the 'European project' | Encompass Podcasts url:https://encompass-europe.com/podcasts/britains-misreading-of-the-european-project @tommctague.bsky.social @newstatesman.com

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Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · 18d

Old man’s erection syndrome prevents Trump and Europe helping Ukraine

In 1938 as Britain’s ageing Tory Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, was in Munich preparing to hand over Czechoslovakia to the German dictator in Berlin, Jan Masaryk, the witty,…

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Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · 19d

The Draghi report and Europessimism

Scanning the European media, among the various messages of "euro-pessimism" to which we are exposed daily, one concerns the disappointing follow-up to the Draghi report on boosting the…

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Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · 20d

Special Compute Zones: Europe's recipe for boosting strategic autonomy In AI infrastructure

Europe’s AI infrastructure deficit poses a critical threat to the bloc’ strategic autonomy. Epoch AI research shows a mere 5% of the world's AI compute capacity is in the EU,…

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Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · 27d

How to rebuild Labour's winning coalition

Labour will lose the next general election. Of course, that’s not certain, though it looks fairly likely. My point is that this is the assumption that Keir Starmer and his new-look Cabinet…

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Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · 27d

What do Ursula von der Leyen and Nick Clegg agree on?

When Paul Adamson sat down with Nick Clegg for the Encompass’ podcast, the conversation ended with something of a cry for help. Clegg, the former British deputy prime minister and…

How reliable a partner is the UK for the EU?

Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · 28d

encompass-europe.com/comment/how-... by Denzil Davidson

There is a hesitation among some in EU capitals about a further deepening of ties with the United Kingdom. Is it wise, it is wondered, to expand co-dependencies with a country which is not reliably…

The dark art of the diplomatic deal

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Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · 29d

Peter Schrank's take on the new political crisis in France (and more in the Encompass cartoon gallery)... @politicalcartoon.bsky.social

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Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · 29d

New podcast chat - with Nick Clegg 'How to Save the Internet' | Encompass Podcasts url:https://encompass-europe.com/podcasts/how-to-save-the-internet

Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · Aug 26

encompass-europe.com/comment/the-... Nick Westcott @soasuni.bsky.social @soaspress.bsky.social

The Trump technique of striking a diplomatic deal is scarcely new. It is just that we’ve forgotten how to deal with it. The British diplomat Harold Nicolson was born in 1886,…

Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · Aug 25

The EU submits to Trump's tariffs but preserves both its access to sectors under national security and its regulatory sovereignty

The trade agreement concluded last week between the EU and the United States reveals no good or bad surprises. After more than three weeks of waiting, the trade agreement between the United…

Europe’s test of maturity

Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · Aug 21

encompass-europe.com/comment/euro... by Riccardo Perissich

Everything Trump does on the international stage moves unpredictably within a triangle of narcissism, cynicism, and incompetence that can at any moment turn into a Bermuda Triangle. Or,…

The default setting for anything to do with President Trump’s forays into geo-politics is to treat him as the global village idiot who…

Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · Aug 15

A provocative piece by the former UK Minister for Europe encompass-europe.com/comment/trum...

Trump diplomacy can work

Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · Aug 12

James Gillray's famous 1805 cartoon inpired this take by Andy Bunday in the encompass-europe.com cartoon gallery on the upcoming Trump-Putin encounter...

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Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · Aug 6

The trade deal between Donald Trump and Ursula von der Leyen, while being the least bad one, is a geopolitical disaster for the EU

Donald Trump has not treated the traditional allies of the US more favourably than China. This is his fundamental mistake. China is the main player responsible for the major world trade…

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Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · Aug 6

The trade deal between Donald Trump and Ursula von der Leyen, while being the least bad one, is a geopolitical disaster for the EU

Donald Trump has not treated the traditional allies of the US more favourably than China. This is his fundamental mistake. China is the main player responsible for the major world trade…

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Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · Aug 4

Recognising Palestine

Emmanuel Macron has announced that in September, France will officially recognize Palestine. France thus joins the company of 147 other countries, including several European ones. It may soon…