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Professor of European Politics, Maynooth University, Ireland. Posts on EU, Balkans and International Politics. Author: The Eastern Enlargement of the EU. Director, Centre for European and Eurasian Studies: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/europe
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Amid tectonic shifts in geopolitics, what is at stake in today’s German federal election? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

A record-high 267❗️Russian drones attacked Ukraine last night. According to Air Force Command, 138 were shot down and 119 more were lost by radars. Kyiv, Dnipro, Odesa, Poltava, and Zaporizhzhia regions were hit. In Kyiv, drone fragments fell in the Hryshko National Botanical Garden.

submitted 15 hours ago • 10 comments

In just one month, the United States has turned on its friends, and incinerated 80 years of international leadership. All to make the sociopathic man-child look good before the buffoons who support him. @FT not holding back.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

What has 3 years of war done to the Ukrainian and Russian economies? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

As the third anniversary of the war approaches, a key question: will Europe step up and underwrite Ukraine’s defence? www.politico.eu/article/eu-w...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Long live the great state of Maine: just watch as the sociopathic ogre tries to bully the Governor, who’s having none of it.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Shameless beyond belief.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This would reduce US defense spending to ~2% of GDP. The irony, of course, is that this comes as the US is demanding that its European NATO allies increase their defense spending to 5% of GDP.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

“As Rym Momtaz, an analyst of European security at the Carnegie Endowment, eloquently put it, 80 years after the end of World War II, “Vance called on Germany to get rid of its firewall against neo-Nazis, the heirs to the very political movement 416,800 American soldiers died to defeat.””

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Imagine President Roosevelt saying in 1940 that Britain was finished, quoting made up numbers for US aid and then suggesting Churchill was stealing vast sums from the Lend Lease programme. Imagine him using lines - literally - written by Joseph Goebbels. This is the equivalent.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

It is increasingly clear that MAGA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kremlin fascism.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

The betrayal of the victim is worse than Munich, 1938. At least Neville Chamberlin was a sincere man, trying to do what he saw as the right thing. In contrast, this malevolent fraudster is acting as the handmaiden of Russian fascism. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Much discussion about how other European states can defend Ukraine against Russia in the future. Don't forget the reverse: Ukraine defending Europe against Russia.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Europe’s most perilous moment since the 1930s. From last night’s RTE Upfront programme. x.com/RTEOne/statu...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Coming up on RTE One TV at 1035pm: what does Trump’s Foreign policy mean for Europe?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Of course he does.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Lots of folks are in denial about this. It is happening. It is real. It isn’t just Trump abandoning Europe. It is Trump abandoning Europe AND allying with Russia.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Can you think of any other government in the world that would try to secure the release of two brothers accused of serious sexual assault, human trafficking and serial fraud? It is almost unbelievable. But a government led by a convicted felon who sexually assaults women? Entirely on brand.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

One of the most ironic things about the current dispensation is that Elon Musk has become a globalist - the biggest amplifier and foghorn of global extremism. @NBCNews lays out his global activism trajectory. www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing to worry about, just an administration official suggesting that the DOJ may prosecute a member of Congress for advising people about their rights. Happening right now. Right in front of us.

submitted 7 days ago • 79 comments

This is a time for straight talking. Bravo, Sir John Major. 👏 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

I will be on @RadioBrendanRTE show @RTERadio1 11-12 this morning to talk about the immense threats now facing Ukraine and Europe as a result of the Trump-Putin alliance. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Just as it did during the rise of the Nazis a century ago, the New York Times is twisting itself in knots to avoid calling fascists fascists. Germany’s AfD is not a “party that downplays Nazis.” It’s a neo-Nazi party.

submitted 8 days ago • 62 comments

Bankers really are the dumbest people on the planet.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

The idea that Europe would be excluded from peace talks by the US and Russia is for the birds. Ukraine’s future is Europe’s future. So EU actors need to tell the Americans where they can stick their plans. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

A true test of European democracy “Europe is threatened by a revisionist power that is willing to risk all-out war to achieve its aims of territorial expansion. And once again western democracies will be involved in countering that aggression, whether they like it or not,

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The rule of law is - literally- collapsing in the United States as it’s fascist regime really gets to work in democratic institutions.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

submitted 9 days ago • 678 comments

Just despicable and disgraceful. The US government is now indistinguishable from the mafia.

submitted 9 days ago • 1777 comments

Americans, we love you. But you elected a president who thinks the Russians are your friends and Canadians are your enemies. What did you think would happen? www.espn.com/olympics/hoc...

submitted 9 days ago • 95 comments

I'd say the biggest forces "undermining our nation from within" are the fake patriots loudly cheering on these attacks on our country by a hostile foreign government

submitted 9 days ago • 84 comments

The real nature of the Trump regime: just as predatory as Putin’s.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

MAGA is the handmaiden of Russian imperialism and American self-destruction.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Czechs know all too well—when Europe bows to dictators and betrays its values, whether in Munich or Yalta, the price is always suffering and destruction. @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @radek-sikorski.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The cheek of this utter fascist, when he serves in a lawless administration rapidly hurtling towards dictatorship. Europeans need to rapidly catch-up with reality: the United States is mutating into an adversary, one that supports Europe’s biggest enemy.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Talk about capturing the zeitgeist in Trump’s America.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

My word. The abject racism of it, in full view of the world. Just like the other day when it was a female Afghan reporter, speaking in perfectly comprehensible English.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Friday’s I newspaper is virtually the only one that really captures the gravity of the situation: the US security guarantee to Europe is over and Europeans have to - rapidly - start acting accordingly.

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

Admirably clear remarks about how Ukraine has continually been under-estimated since the beginning of the war, from Prof Donnacha O’Beachain @DCU on Prime Time.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Europe’s recurring failures to ‘Trump-proof’ itself are coming back to haunt it. No more time for appeasement or dreams of a revival of the rules-based international order. We are now in the hardest of Hobbesian terrain. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

How might Germany’s federal election be impacted by attacks of the kind we saw in Munich today? www.politico.eu/article/muni...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

OK. There will be a massive rearmament in Europe. And the simple choice is: as nation states, with the constant possibility of conflicts - or together. I hope that there are some politicians left who have understood the wisdom of a Jean Monnet.

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

The American Nazis are so emboldened they see themselves in Congress. As Republicans.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Our worst fears of what #Trump would do to #Ukraine are being realised… only Europe can save it now - and itself with it….ohttps://www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/politics/putin-trump-phone-call/index.html

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

All eyes on Austria’s president, as coalition formation talks hit the skids. www.politico.eu/article/aust...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

As much as I can understand the outrage over Hegseth's and Trump's statements: None of this really comes as a surprise, does it? To me, it is a scandal how unprepared we are in Europe for what‘s happening.

submitted 11 days ago • 34 comments

A dangerous moment, not just for Ukraine but also the Europe, as Trump will pretend to negotiate in good faith, while continually doing the bidding of the Kremlin. European support for Ukraine is especially important right now.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments