Sander Tordoir
sandertordoir.bsky.social
Sander Tordoir
@sandertordoir.bsky.social
Chief economist @ Centre for European Reform. Eurozone macroeconomic policies | Role of 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 in EU. Formerly @ECB, @IMF, @Worldbank.
We will write a report on the conference - stay tuned!
November 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Afraid not we do it under Chatham House!
November 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
A bunch of US firms, including Microsoft, Apple, and Intel, act as Europe’s main intermediaries.

They buy from China and export transformed goods (like semiconductors, precision magnets, chemical inputs) to Europe.

The issue is the upstream I think and the Syndicate piece misses it.

2/2.
November 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
My hunch is that the trade data cited do not go deep enough to capture the dependencies.

The ECB showed nicely that the eurozone for example imports a lot of REE and REE magnets from US subsidiaries who in turn rely on China.

2/2
November 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Are you serious? I’ll report this offensive anti semitic slurring. Morally wrong on all levels.

Take a walk and clear your head.
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM