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Knowledge & lessons officer at the European External Action Service (EEAS). Crisis management, political geography, EU in the world. Occasional musings on dad stuff and serious/fun games.
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Elsa ja Helsingin Sanomat kysyivät vaikeita, kiitos siitä! Juhlistin vastaukseni lopussa vielä suomalaista laajan turvallisuuden yhteistyötä, mikä jäi pois näköjään.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Its not just Russia. The push to defund the BBC, the Finnish YLE, US NPR etc is all part of an international illiberal movement, whose leaders sit not just in the Kremlin, but also in the white house and even in the Finnish government.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent read two months before my own parental leave. States ❤️

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

European rearmament might be a lot easier if we had not scrapped the WEU as a defence alliance 14 years ago. Potential lesson there on terminating international governance structures that could instead be just suspended.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

We either pivot hard now for european sovereignty, and support Ukraine, or try to muddle through the Trump term and get pulled into the same decline the US is facing.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Simple steps for european digital sovereignty.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

This is starting to look like state capture.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

It is not Zelensky and Ukraine that should be thanking the West. It is the West that should be thanking Zelensky and Ukraine.

submitted 76 days ago • 77 comments

I said this half jokingly, but now with even Friedrich Mertz comparing interference from the US to that from Russia, we should see a broader defence against disinformation and cognitive warfare, even from the US. Right? Yeah not holding my breath.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Mood at work today:

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

1-4 On the Trump Admin's approach to Ukraine: Here are the elements of US pressure against Kyiv we've seen: - Time pressure - No NATO prospect - No troops - Proposal to grab UA's minerals with nothing in exchange - No clarity on weapons - USAID support stopped

submitted 88 days ago • 3 comments

With the redeployment of EUBAM Rafah after 17 years, the EU is using a civilian mission as a very focused crisis management tool with direct impact through the medical evacuations.

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

Topical conference, just 10 kilometers from the russian border. At 80 years, I wonder if is it new or old?

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

I would have maybe waited to hear Trumps inaugural speech before posting this…

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments