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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 1h

Maybe Trump has a point or two as far as the supply chain legislation is concerned.

www.ft.com/content/678f...

US demands EU dismantle green regulations in threat to trade deal

Washington wants American companies to be exempted from rules such as having to draw up climate transition plans

www.ft.com

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Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya.bsky.social · 1d

You've probably seen a lot of angry posts today about how "Angela Merkel blamed Poland and the Baltics for the Ukraine war" in a recent interview.

They're far off the mark — she did no such thing! 👇

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 1d

The glorification of the slaughtering of civilians.

Brought to Berlin streets two years after 7 October by a supposed „Alliance of Queer-Feminists“.

Disgusting.

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 5d

Was für ein absurdes Theater.
Deutschland am Nationalfeiertag.

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 5d

„Huawei and ZTE have retained 30 to 35 per cent of the European mobile infrastructure market, down only 5 to 10 percentage points from 2020“.

Don‘t think it‘s blowback but execution of Xi‘s longstanding priorities.

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 5d

Blowback to what?

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 6d

Selbst eine Mehrheit der CDU/CSU-Anhänger ist für eine Anerkennung Palästinas als eigenständiger Staat.

Aktuell könnte Zeitpunkt falscher nicht sein, solange Hamas den von den maßgeblichen arabischen Staaten befürworteten Deal zum Ende der Kampfhandlungen nicht unterstützt.

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 6d

Nokia & Ericsson get squeezed out of the few crumbs they still had on Chinese market.

All the while, Huawei & ZTE have retained 30 to 35 per cent of the European mobile infrastructure market. Huawei 50%+ of German 5G access network.

Absolute economic security folly.

www.ft.com/content/7d08...

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 6d

Orbán's way to say thank you to Angela Merkel for first having shielded him from pushback against his illiberal state agenda within EPP & EU allowing him to entrench his rule & then having served as convenient bogeywoman for his cultural wars (& receiver of refugees from HUN).

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 7d

Absurd ir true

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 7d

“It’s easier to get a meeting in the White House with a senior official than to get a meeting with a commissioner."

A senior exec from Dutch tech giant ASML slammed the EU for being inaccessible to Europe’s companies during our #POLITICOCompetitiveSummit.

Dutch tech giant ASML: ‘Not always easy’ to meet with EU politicians

‘The political leaders should sit down with the companies that are investing money,’ says ASML executive.

www.politico.eu

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 7d

Mangelnde Resilienz zeigt sich auch darin, aus jeder Silvesterrakete „breaking news“ auf der Titelseite zu machen.

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 8d

Unhappy camper.
Smotrich is right to put his remaining hopes in the „obstinacy of the enemy“. Hamas may indeed yet again deliver for Israel‘s far right.

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 12d

www.zeit.de/zeit-magazin...

Geiseln im Gazastreifen: Sie fehlen. Seit 720 Tagen.

Sieben Deutsche sind noch als Geiseln im Gazastreifen, in der Gewalt der Hamas. Hier erzählen ihre Familien von den schlimmsten Momenten – und den schönsten.

www.zeit.de

Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 12d

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 12d

720 Tage.

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 12d

A clear message.

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

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Jonas Meckling @jonasmeckling.bsky.social · 12d

🌍 New in @nature.com: The geoeconomic turn in decarbonization, with data from Simon Evenett et al. and @industrialpolicy.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 12d

How do you call a political system in which a president encourages the justice system to prosecute the Open Society Foundations based on charges of support for terrorism?

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 12d

www.ft.com/content/3aac...

A new financial impetus for peace in Ukraine

We need the mobilisation of resources on a scale that will secure Kyiv’s military resilience

www.ft.com

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 12d

This is an excellent proposal by Friedrich Merz if EU members get it to work.
Rather than seizing the assets and fully transferring them to Ukraine in one go (what many have demanded) this scheme guarantees long-term availability of loans to Ukraine to be disbursed bit by bit.

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 13d

Happy 70th, German Council on Foreign Relations.

DGAP was my first Berlin think tank employer. Great to celebrate last night with the whole team & the person who shaped DGAP more than anyone else: Karl Kaiser, my then boss who remains an incredible force & inspiration at 90.

@dgap.org

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 13d

www.handelsblatt.com/meinung/kolu...

Handelsblatt

www.handelsblatt.com

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 13d

Willkommen in der Welt der Mehrfachausrichtung.

Saudi-Arabien zeigt, dass wir uns nicht auf neuen Kalten Krieg mit fein säuberlich geteilten Lagern zuordnen, in die sich alle einsortieren.

Trump beschleunigt die Hinwendung zu multi-alignment.

Meine neue Handelsblatt-Kolumne.

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