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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 6h

The signage right now outside the 🇪🇺EU's foreign office. Implied: unlike 🇺🇸

Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 6h

Tonight I'll be interviewing 🇪🇺Commission Vice President @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu at the @feps-europe.eu policy conference - asking her whether sustainability and sovereignty are compatible European goals. More info here: feps-europe.eu/event/toward...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 13h

Today at noon I'll be chairing a panel including former 🇧🇪PM Guy Verhofstadt talking about next steps for creating an independent European defence capable of resisting Russia without US help. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 29/09/2026

I'll be chairing a panel with (among others) former 🇧🇪PM @guyverhofstadt.bsky.social on the European command & control possibilities that Europe's Atlanticists are still blocking - tomorrow at noon in Brussels. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 24/09/2026

As predicted, talk of “associate membership” for Canada will already be dropped by the time of the EU-Canada summit in Montreal next month. europemorningpost.substack.com/p/canada-the...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 23/09/2026

A clip from my interview with The European Republic podcast this week. Listen to the full podcast here: open.spotify.com/episode/5F9d...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 21/09/2026

The EU is extending its Russian sanctions for three years - but with two key oligarchs removed at the request of France and Luxembourg. The reasons for the removals are nebulous, and Kyiv says the EU is playing into Russia's hands.

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 21/09/2026

Pascal is spot on here as usual. Talk of a “middle powers alliance” between 🇨🇦&🇪🇺 doesn’t make sense because the EU is not a middle power. An alliance between a confederation of 452 million and a confederation of 41 million people, on two different continents. pascallth.substack.com/p/what-carne...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 19/09/2026

🙄It wasn't Carney's offer, it was President von der Leyen's offer. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 18/09/2026

The final results from Sunday's Sweden election are finally in. The centre-left bloc has won - but only by a hair. But as I wrote on Monday, though the vote share for the far-right SD went slightly down, half of people voted for them to be in government: davekeating.substack.com/p/half-of-sw...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 18/09/2026

This morning I spoke to CNN's Ivan Watson about what the new EU-Canada alliance is – and what it isn't. Bottom line: this is happening because of Donald Trump's threats to both unions, who are both dangerously dependent on the United States.

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 17/09/2026

My take on 🇨🇦PM Carney's speech to the 🇪🇺Parliament today: davekeating.substack.com/p/with-carne...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 17/09/2026

Carney downplays von der Leyen's idea of an "associated membership" in the EU when asked about it at his press conference, and notes VDL also called it an alliance (his preferred term). "The precise nomenclature is a question for Europe." "What matters is the substance."

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 17/09/2026

Carney closes with a story of how Canadian soldiers returning from fighting in Europe in WW2 came back with acorns, planting trees that now grow in both Canada and France - proving what can survive even in the harshest winter. A standing ovation from MEPs.

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 17/09/2026

And he's used the words - a big question for today. "Yesterday President von der Leyen...opened the door to Canada becoming the EU’s first associate member. Canada welcomes this ambition, and polling shows an overwhelming number of Canadians support much closer ties with Europe."

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 17/09/2026

As Carney takes to the podium a (far right, judging by the side of the chamber) Member of the 🇪🇺Parliament chants "USA, USA". The room reacts with groans. Carney laughs. He begins his speech in French.

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 17/09/2026

🇨🇦PM Carney's speech to the 🇪🇺Parliament starting now, with an intro by speaker Metsola pointing out that both 🇨🇦&🇪🇺 are unions. "Our friendship is built on the same udnerstandig that united Canadians in 1867 and Europeans in 1951 – that we are always stronger when we work together" Two confederations

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 17/09/2026

Using the term "associate member" may be more about PR than real status, but that this has so rattled the White House shows exactly why these two unions are looking for a defensive partnership. They are both dependent on, and now threatened by, the US. But will the label become a distraction?

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 16/09/2026

Tonight on the France 24 Debate I talked about why President von der Leyen never named the United States in her #SOTEU state of the union speech this morning to the 🇪🇺Parliament, and why the contrast with Carney's rhetoric was stark. Full episode here: youtu.be/zS27sXJwkXY?...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 16/09/2026

"You hide behind a divided Europe but the problem is your inaction," says Aubry. "Basically you’ve been talking to yourself, so I’m going to talk to the people of Europe: Be resolved not to continue in servitude."

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 16/09/2026

A devastating rebuttal from far-left MEP leader @manonaubryfr.bsky.social on VDL claiming the EU "stood up for Greenland when it was threatened" (only some EU countries did) "Where were you when Trump was threatening Canada and Greenland? I guess you were signing a free trade agreement with Trump."

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 16/09/2026

🇪🇺President von der Leyen starts her #SOTEU state of the union speech to parliament saying the EU has defended Europeans - notably listing among the examples "we stood up for Greenland when it was threatened." (did the EU do that? 🤔)

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 15/09/2026

Or maybe you could try reading the whole article, where this is specifically addressed, before commenting? 🙂 EEA is much more than 'associate membership' - it's membership in all but name but without voting power. It's impossible to think that Canada would accept such an arrangement.

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 06/09/2026

I'm in 🇨🇦Canada this week, talking to people about how they feel about 🇺🇸&🇪🇺. Today I visited the Quebec City Citadelle, built in 1820 by the British to protect Canada from an American attack. For obvious reasons, it has renewed significance now. New Substack post coming tomorrow.

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 01/09/2026

Google Maps still has the name as Lake Ontario if you're accessing the app here in Toronto. But if you're accessing it 45 km away from across the border, Google has obeyed Trump and renamed it "Lake America" for people accessing the app in 🇺🇸.

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 01/09/2026

Farage said such ‘fax democracy’ taxation without representation would be unacceptable for the UK. Now that he’s praising Iceland’s “independence”, has he changed his tune? Is the symbolism of being technically out of the EU (while effectively in it for most things) enough for him now?

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 01/09/2026

The EEA is like the ‘civil union’ halfway house invented in the 2000s in countries which couldn’t bear gay marriage. It gives the benefits of EU membership, as well as the responsibilities and costs, without using a word which some find scary. europemorningpost.substack.com/p/iceland-a-...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 31/08/2026

It is quite bizarre for Nigel Farage to be cheering Iceland for "keeping their independence". Iceland is in the EU single market, which means it must follow most EU law and pay into the EU budget. Yet they have no vote. Taxation without representation. davekeating.substack.com/p/icelands-n...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 27/08/2026

BTW you may have noticed that this "frugal" grouping has a distinctly religious flavour. Frugality is a core tenant of Calvinism and Lutheranism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 25/08/2026

What a contrast between how Canadians have reacted to American extortion and how Europeans have reacted. When the EU and UK surrendered to Trump last July, most Europeans barely noticed. My latest on Substack: davekeating.substack.com/p/europeans-...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 24/08/2026

What’s happening in Canada shows that leaders are rewarded for standing up to Trump. So why haven’t our European leaders learned the lesson? Why are they still grovelling? My latest on Substack: davekeating.substack.com/p/europeans-...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 21/08/2026

In this Substack video from Barcelona, I dismantle the arguments of people who say the EU is not a democracy. It just works differently from your national system. And in some ways, I think it works better than in the US. Watch full video: davekeating.substack.com/p/the-eu-is-...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 17/08/2026

15 August has passed and still no word from Rome about whether the Italians will end their passport-checking theatre on flights from Spain (which has now resulted in retaliatory checks in the other direction) davekeating.substack.com/p/schengen-i... I'm flying 🇮🇹➡️🇪🇸 tonight. Let's see what happens...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 13/08/2026

Today I visited the house in Abruzzo where my Italian great-grandfather (the one I have citizenship through) grew up in the 1890s. The 2-room house is abandoned today. Wild to think that a family of 8 lived in here. He might be bemused to learn his great-grandson emigrated back the other way.

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 11/08/2026

What the US unilateral euro dump tell us about American plans for the dollar. My take: open.substack.com/pub/davekeat...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 10/08/2026

Simon Nixon on recent US moves to create a “Bretton Woods 2.0” that locks Europe into even more financial servitude: open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 09/08/2026

Stopped by to visit the Freedom Steps

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 08/08/2026

🇪🇺President von der Leyen has for years let national capitals impose political interstate Schengen checks for the flimsiest of reasons Then she took sides in the Ceuta dispute and joined in the Spain-bashing, escalating rather than diffusing this conflict albertoalemanno.substack.com/p/a-taste-of...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 08/08/2026

Spain knows what its doing - and this is about something much bigger than retaliation for Italy's temporary passport checks on Spaniards. My take: davekeating.substack.com/p/schengen-i...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 08/08/2026

Vous voulez savoir comment libérer l'Europe du joug américain ? « Le Continent Captif » est maintenant disponible chez Filigranes et dans d'autres bonnes librairies. theownedcontinent.eu/fr

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 08/08/2026

Last night I flew from 🇪🇸to🇮🇹. There was no passport check when we arrived, it arrived like any plane from Schengen. That's the absurdity of this - they're only doing a few spot checks. This is all theatre. But it's theatre they can't back down from now because they pretended it was so important.

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 06/08/2026

Why did 🇪🇺 immediately rally behind Poland when it was attacked using migrants as hybrid warfare, but not behind Spain despite it looking like Ceuta was the same thing? 3 reasons - in the thread 🧵 Watch the full Substack Live with @julienhoez.eu and I: davekeating.substack.com/p/live-from-...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 05/08/2026

Despite asking for European solidarity when their territorial integrity was threatened, Denmark co-instigated a letter blaming Spain when Spanish territorial integrity was attacked last week. The EU's enemies took notice of the disunity. Watch full video: davekeating.substack.com/p/live-from-...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 05/08/2026

Ceuta and Melilla are excluded from the scope of Article 5 because they are not in Europe or North America. If Morocco invades and Spain invokes Article 5, technically NATO does not need to come to Spain's defence. But they would if Morocco attacked the Spanish mainland.

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 05/08/2026

Von der Leyen's reply to Sanchez's complaint about a lack of solidarity "did not raise Rabat’s conduct at all. She instead proposed rewarding it." VDL, "who had called the crisis unacceptable on Friday spent Monday drafting a bigger cheque for the state she was too careful to name as its cause."

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 04/08/2026

EU home affairs ministers have released this statement following their video conference. I imagine that for most people in Spain, this will be considered too little too late. www.consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 24/07/2026

My piece on why the US State Department's "Political Terrorism" event for foreign diplomats last week actually had a domestic audience in mind. There is a reason it came on the same day as President Trump's primetime address alleging election interference. davekeating.substack.com/p/american-d...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 24/07/2026

I'll definitely be reading this book by Sylvain Kahn this summer. europemorningpost.substack.com/p/the-eu-a-s...

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