"The Europeans" is growing 🇪🇺 Today we launch our new website - together with our Mission Statement. Our premise is simple: Europeans do not lack shared interests or the means to act - they lack the habit of addressing their challenges as common ones. This platform exists to analyse and frame key issues at European scale, connect activists across Europe, and press for decisions that reflect our collective interests rather than national reflexes. Read more : the-europeans.eu/vision-for-…

The @EPP, the political family of 🇩🇪 Germany's CDU and 🇸🇪 Sweden's Moderates among others, wants to torpedo the new Made in Europe rules. They say the draft would break EU trade deals and WTO rules, and trigger trade wars with close partners. But what's the proposal? It's the Commission's "Made in Europe" law: 🔹️When public money is spent, through public contracts or subsidies, European-made products get priority in strategic sectors: steel, cement, aluminium, cars and clean tech. 🔹️Goods made outside the EU lose access to that money, unless their country has a trade or procurement deal with the EU. 🔹️Large foreign investments in these sectors also face tougher screening. After chat control and swallowing Trump's tariffs, the EPP never misses a chance to work against Europe's own interest. Beijing and Washington send their thanks.

Europe's trade deficit with China has run at €1 billion a day since 2025. For the first time, every one of the 27 EU countries buys more from China than it sells there, Germany included. Tomorrow the EU's trade chief lands in Beijing with one demand: rebalance. Sell us less of what you subsidise. Buy more of what we make. Open your market the way ours is open to you. And if nothing moves, member states finally seem ready to give Brussels the green light for sweeping tariffs and import caps on entire sectors flooded by subsidised Chinese overproduction. No more fighting it one product at a time. Years late, for something Europe should have been able to do from day one. But finally, a bit of spine. euronews.com/2026/09/17/brus…

The last 24 hours have been absolutely crazy for European AI: > @MistralAI announces Le Chonk "the best open weights model from US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks" > @Aleph__Alpha released Kolibri-1, a benchmark-beating open source model > @ElevenLabs' new v4 Turbo model topped the text to speed benchmarks > @bfl_ai FLUX 3 model named the strongest world model out there. DAMN This week has been a real turning point for European AI, and it is just GETTING STARTED

Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk. • 1T parameters, natively multimodal. 49B active. It is the best open weights model from US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks. • State-of-the-art on critical workloads, including cyber defense, manufacturing and finance and it surpasses closed frontier models on visual grounding. • Forged in Europe end-to-end and is deployable from Europe via our own Mistral Cloud infrastructure. • Available to all via API today. Working with cybersecurity partners privately. Open weights release end of October.

🇩🇪🇪🇺 The AfD paper being sold as a pro-European turn also proposes ending direct elections to the European Parliament. They claim to speak for the people. Step one is taking away our vote.

Does threatening invasion and trade war weekly alienate allies too?

Part 2 of our series is out: How is Europe doing in AI? 🇪🇺🤖 🔬 Every advanced chip in the world is printed on a machine made in the Netherlands. ASML holds a 100% monopoly on EUV lithography. Yet in the first half of 2026, it sold none of those machines in Europe. Why? And what does it mean for the EU Chips Act? 👇 the-europeans.eu/how-is-euro…

WE ARE LAUNCHING THE BIGGEST EUROEDIT COMPETITION TO DATE! 🇪🇺 We are looking for everyone with an inspiring story about Europe, in eurotech, euroculture or eurohype. The competition runs from today till 15.11.2026. Check out @euromaxxing_fr & our website euromaxxing.fr with all the details.

A fascinating story from 🇪🇪🇪🇺 Estonia. December 2023, Tallinn. Estonia's Interior Minister wakes up to find his car windows smashed. Nothing was stolen, and every other car on the street was untouched. It wasn't vandalism. It was a message. Estonian and European services determined the operation had been outsourced through layers of intermediaries, designed to keep Moscow’s fingerprints off it. Then, a few weeks later, something happened in Moscow. According to journalist @michaeldweiss, the GRU officer who had authorised the operation walked out of his home to his car. Its windows had been smashed. The message was simple: We know. This is the logic Europe needs to understand. Russia does not have a monopoly on force. Nor on intelligence. In Europe, we know who runs the networks: the companies, the intermediaries, the vessels, the accounts, the logistics chains. We can name the people behind them. So when Moscow, or anybody else, sabotages a railway, torches a warehouse, targets a power plant, or intimidates a defence company, it must know in advance that something will happen in their country. It will be proportionate, targeted, and aimed at the people and structures responsible. Not revenge, but true deterrence. The goal is to change the calculation in Moscow: every operation against Europe carries a price. Eventually, that price becomes too high. 🎙️ Source/story: thebulwark.com/p/inside-the-… news.err.ee/1609258853/iss-r…

Russia, in the last 24 hours: ✅ Drone strike near the 🇵🇱 border ✅ +27% military spending for 2027 ✅ Army expanded by another 15,500 troops The Russian peace effort continues. 🕊️

🇪🇺 A new trade "red button" for Brussels against China? New reporting shows that 🇫🇷 Paris and 🇩🇪 Berlin are about to send Brussels a joint paper urging the @EU_Commission to fast-track a new instrument to deter China. The aim would be to create a tool to "allow us [Europe] to cut China off from European market within 24 hours." Concretely: Brussels would get powers to shut China out of the single market almost overnight. That's far faster than today's Anti-Coercion Instrument, which takes months to trigger, and it reflects a willingness to think outside WTO rules. dossierbruselas.eu/db-diario…

🇪🇺A new credible warning puts southern Europe in the crosshairs. The CIA has reportedly warned European governments that Russia could launch drones against 🇪🇸 Spain, 🇫🇷 France or 🇮🇹 Italy - potentially from commercial ships in the Mediterranean. The reported weapon: the Gerbera, a cheap drone with a range of up to 600 km. The geography of Russia’s hybrid war is changing. What was once largely an eastern-flank threat is now reaching Europe’s Mediterranean states.

🇮🇹🇪🇺⚛️ Italy is officially back on the nuclear path. Today, the Senate gave final approval to legislation paving the way for a return to nuclear power after almost 40 years of ban. The government targets: 🔹️first reactors around 2033–34 🔹️ ~8 GW of advanced nuclear by 2050 🔹️potentially 16 GW, covering 20–22% of electricity demand Italy now joins a wider European shift towards nuclear: 🇫🇷 France is building a new generation of reactors, 🇧🇪 Belgium has reversed its nuclear phase-out, 🇵🇱 Poland is developing its first plants, while 🇪🇸 Spain has begun extending existing reactors amid the energy shock. The logic is increasingly clear: diversify the energy mix, reduce exposure to imported fossil fuels and strengthen Europe's energy security. it.euronews.com/2026/09/23/l…

🇵🇱🇪🇺 Another day, another Russian probe of NATO airspace. A Russian Mi-8 briefly entered Polish airspace north of Braniewo today, flying ~300m into Poland for 42 seconds. Polish radar tracked it and fighters were scrambled. Ground forces went on standby. Poland says the incident appears to be another test of its air-defence readiness. The escalation continues. Expect the usual forensic investigation into how Poland managed to move its border under a defenceless Russian helicopter.

No, the US did not "get" Greenland. We read the new 🇺🇸US–🇩🇰Denmark–🇬🇱Greenland defence agreement so you don't have to. 👇 Signed today in New York, it amends the 1951 agreement governing US military activity on Greenland. Washington will present it as a major win. But after months of US pressure over Greenland, what actually changed? 1/ 🔸 Two new US defence areas are designated at Narsarsuaq and Mestersvig. But this is less dramatic than it sounds: new bases were already possible under the 1951 agreement, subject to mutual agreement. 2/🔸Faster approval for unmanned installations such as sensors and radars outside the bases. 3/ 🔸 US aircraft may fly over and land in Greenland, and US submarines may operate submerged in its territorial waters. This is the most notable operational change. 4/🔸No non-NATO state may set up military installations in Greenland. 5/ 🔸 Investors from outside NATO, NATO partners and the EU face restrictions on control, significant influence or access to sensitive information in critical infrastructure and resource-extraction activities. 6/🔸If Greenland becomes independent, Denmark and Greenland commit to ensuring that it remains in NATO and takes over the agreement. That is politically significant. But a future Greenlandic state cannot legally be bound by a treaty it never signed. So what does NOT change? 🇩🇰 Danish sovereignty and territorial integrity are explicitly reaffirmed. 🇬🇱 Greenlanders' right to self-determination is recognised. 🇺🇸 There is no transfer of territory and no US jurisdiction. And almost every new measure remains subject to mutual agreement. The agreement will not enter into force until Denmark and Greenland complete the necessary parliamentary procedures. Bottom line: this is not "getting Greenland." It is an incremental update to a 75-year-old framework whose substance Washington already had. The real novelties are submarine access, investment screening and the independence clause. They matter, but none transfers sovereignty: they shape how Denmark and Greenland exercise it, and each rests on their consent. There is one final lesson: a defence treaty can create rights, restrictions and obligations on paper. But its practical value ultimately depends on the political relationship between the allies that implement it. An administration that has walked away from several international commitments knows better than anyone that paper alone guarantees nothing. Link to the treaty: um.dk/media/amjdsgal/aftale_…

🇬🇧🇪🇺 Rejoin is back on the table. Prime Minister Andy Burnham has refused to rule out a manifesto pledge to rejoin the EU. Days ago, a @YouGov poll found rejoining is now the most popular option in all but four constituencies in Great Britain. The costs of Brexit are harder to ignore every year - economic, political, strategic. And as Washington questions British sovereignty from the Falklands to Northern Ireland, the lesson is clear: in the difficult hour, Britain's natural partners are its fellow Europeans. Look at the threats Europe faces today. From Russia's war against Ukraine to the growing campaign of sabotage and hybrid attacks across our continent, Britain is standing shoulder to shoulder with its European neighbours, because European security is British security. Europeans are stronger together. The UK is Europe. Sooner or later, it will find its way home. politico.eu/article/andy-bur…

Europe is entering its most dangerous winter in decades. In recent days, warnings from 🇫🇷 France, 🇵🇱 Poland, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇱🇹 Lithuania, the 🇬🇧 UK and others have pointed unequivocally in one direction: Russia has decided to escalate its hybrid war against Europe. Over this summer, Russia has been testing European resilience. We have tried to report, faithfully and regularly, on an unprecedented wave of sabotage against defence factories, drone flights and explosions across Europe - dozens of events in these last months alone. A pattern impossible to ignore. The warnings now suggest that the coming months could bring an even more violent and reckless campaign, designed to make Europeans feel that our societies are no longer at peace. Sabotage of critical infrastructure, cyberattacks, disinformation, attempts to exploit social divisions, and even drone and missile incursions into European territory, covered by false-attribution tactics - all of it is on the table. Don't be fooled: the multiplication of these incidents is no coincidence. It is a deliberate strategy, and the objective is not necessarily to defeat Europe militarily - which Russia cannot do. It is to put us off balance: disrupt daily life, raise energy and economic costs, create fear, turn citizens against one another, and ultimately weaken our willingness to support Ukraine, and to fight. We should therefore expect to be tested and our answer must be resilience. Trust those who defend us every day, unseen - the people in our intelligence services, our police, and all the workers who protect our critical infrastructure. Refuse the confusion and the false attributions that will be deliberately seeded and manufactured by Russia's accomplices in Europe. This campaign has one author: Russia. There is no ambiguity about who is behind this wave of attacks. It is Russia. The months ahead will be hard for all Europeans: we will be shaken in our sense of safety at home, and we will feel it in our daily lives - in energy bills, in disruption, in the small frictions that wear a society down. One day, we will look back on these days as we now look back on the 1930s. We will recognise the extreme pressure placed on our democracies and our societies, from East and West, to break our unity and our ability to defend our interests against the challenges we face. And we will look back with pride on those Europeans who didn't bend to pressure, who weathered the storm, and defended our freedom.