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"By the spring of 2018, MBZ had also put roughly $1 billion for Kushner into a second account at Israel’s Central Bank—at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s urging. ... Kushner’s activity in this account indicated that it was for his personal use." newrepublic.com/post/216985/...

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Kushner Phone Hack Reveals How Middle East Dictators Bought Him Off

Middle East dictators created a massive slush fund for Jared Kushner.

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 22/10/2026

A violent and coordinated youth uprising? Listen to each country’s protesters, not the voices telling us Europe is ungovernable. That’s exactly the picture Europe’s enemies want to paint. Read my latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 21/10/2026

7/ I also briefly look at the deeper causes: the EU's failure to build a shared identity, Germany's changing relationship with WWII guilt, and the return of the country to "hard politics".

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 21/10/2026

6/ I sketch possible consequences for EU: ➡️ Germany’s strained relations with Poland and France (and Ukraine) ➡️ warmer relation with Russia ➡️ EU policymaking further gridlocked and EU weakened overall (budget, energy, defence and more)

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 21/10/2026

5/ Here is the catch. No far-right party leads the polls in the EU's largest economy, whose cadres also play with the idea of "lost territories". Will the cadres soften their stances? What does it mean for EU policymaking?

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 21/10/2026

4/ Some say not to worry. Anti-establishment parties usually tone down once they near power, (Meloni, Wielders and more). The AfD seems to be doing this about the EU: a new strategy paper reportedly drops the euro exit and seeks a looser union of sovereign states.

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 21/10/2026

3/ The post was deleted and its author resigned from the youth organisation's board. But it wasn’t an isolated case: Alsace-Lorraine memes, ambiguous talk of "Mitteldeutschland", and Höcke's Kaiserreich map all circulate in the same milieu. Not official party policy, but a pattern worth examining.

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 21/10/2026

2/ On 3rd October, German Unity Day, an AfD youth official posted a map of German-speaking populations in Europe. The caption called reunification a "milestone" toward uniting the entire German people in one state.

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 21/10/2026

1/ New on my Substack: Quo vadis, Germania? 🇩🇪 The AfD leads the polls in Europe's largest economy. At the same time, some of its representatives flirt with "lost territories" and the unity of German-speaking peoples. What does that mean for the EU? enricogiagnoli.substack.com/p/quo-vadis-...

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Quo vadis, Germania?

Germany’s far right and the fragile EU political order

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 19/10/2026

7/7 Un parti anti-système (RN ou LFI) au pouvoir affaiblirait aussi la voix de la France en Europe, et la « tolérance » dont elle a bénéficié sur ses déficits grâce au poids du couple franco-allemand. Cette indulgence n'a rien de garanti.

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 19/10/2026

6/7 Tout cela pourrait profiter à Le Pen et au RN. LFI était déjà perçue comme un danger pour la République par environ 70% des Français (Ipsos/Le Parisien). À voir après le 17 octobre. Si le RN arrive au pouvoir, vous obtiendrez l'inverse de ce pour quoi vous avez manifesté.

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 19/10/2026

5/7 Le déficit français dépasse 3% depuis 2019 ; déjà entre 2007 et 2017, d'où une décennie de procédure pour déficit excessif. Dernier budget excédentaire : 1974. Sans redressement, pas de hausse des dépenses sociales : tout simplement faute de moyens.

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 19/10/2026

4/7 Manifester contre le manque d'État social tout en soutenant un parti qui défend la retraite à 60 ans et juge le PIB une simple « évaluation monétaire », cela ne mène à rien de bon. Les manques sont réels et les demandes légitimes, mais certaines solutions sont plus dangereuses encore.

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 19/10/2026

3/7 Le coût public des violences se chiffrera sans doute en centaines de millions d'euros : nettoyage, infrastructures à réparer, reconstruction… Les assurances ne couvriront pas tout : les particuliers demanderont des indemnisations à l'État. Encore de l'argent public.

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 19/10/2026

2/7 « Détruire de la propriété n'est pas détruire une vie : ce n'est qu'une marchandise. » Sans doute. Mais une activité économique, ce sont aussi des identités, des récits, des mémoires : de la « richesse socio-émotionnelle ». Casser un commerce, c'est aussi blesser des personnes.

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 19/10/2026

1/7 Manifestations du 17 octobre : au-delà des images, je propose trois angles de lecture : émotionnel, pragmatique et politique.

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 18/10/2026

It's clearly not: they say we have to invest in defence, but buy their weapons; we have to invest in technology, but not develop our own; we have to reduce external energy dependencies, but buy more oil and gas from them... The list could clearly go on

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 18/10/2026

“Should be wary that it could happen”; so kind our “allies”…

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NATO Atlas @natoatlas.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Several #NATO vessels in the Mediterrean during Exercise Mare Aperto, hosted by the Italian Navy. SRC: NATO MARCOM

Aircraft carrier leading a naval task force in orderly formation across open ocean, with three carrier jets flying ahead and multiple escort warships fanning out on both sides.

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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Military leaders becoming amplifiers of obviously false politically-motivated messages is a norm breaking danger sign.

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 17/10/2026

6/6 #Mistral’s presence in the AI race and #W’s European-hosted, verified-human social network are very welcome steps. The test is whether Europe gains durable capabilities and credible alternatives in the long run, plus a unified strategy across Member States.

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 17/10/2026

5/6 Common thread? External leverage: over social media, access to technology, defence, and public debate. Arthur Mensch’s @arthurmensch.bsky.social argument is timely: we can’t hope to use what others create. Europe needs capabilities across the stack—compute, models, applications and deployment.

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 17/10/2026

4/6 Fourth, France’s Jean-Noël Barrot accused Musk of harassment aimed at influencing national debates ahead of France’s election. Barrot also alleged that an unnamed Israeli company had created fake French accounts on X to post about the #Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 17/10/2026

3/6 Third, At Dublin’s AI summit, Europe’s infrastructure gap was again in focus: Europe has 5% of the world’s data centre capacity, against US’s 75% and China’s 15% (although figures differ from other estimates).

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 17/10/2026

2/6 Second, China proposed export controls on certain technologies covering advanced AI, including certain 2-trillion-parameter models, as well as semiconductor, solar and biomedical technologies. Translated: access cannot be taken for granted.

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 17/10/2026

1/6 Let’s have a look at this week’s tech news about Europe’s dependency and how it is not just an economic issue. First, Ukraine faced restrictions on Starshield, disrupting military operations. The blame game among Elon Musk, the White House and the US military still carries one.

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 16/10/2026

Yet another reason why we need to build our own capacities

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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

CERN and Mistral join forces to accelerate AI for science 💫 CERN, and Mistral have signed a statement of intent to establish a long-term strategic partnership focused on developing foundation models for scientific discovery. Read more: home.cern/cern-and-mis...

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 16/10/2026

Build or surrender, let’s see if Europe learnt from past lessons… x.com/arthurmensch...

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Arthur Mensch (@arthurmensch) on X

Build or surrender

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A few weeks ago, Russia's defense ministry announced a "digital detox" was coming. Well, right now Moscow is paralyzed, Yandex's biggest services, Taxi, delivery, Alice, are all down, and the rest of the so-called Runet is glitching too. All according to plan.

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026

5/5 Mistral's new models may one day improve enough to sustain a big client like Ecosia, but not overnight, and not cheaply at first. Hopefully the Qwant partnership carries on. Still, preaching tech sovereignty while relying on Chinese AI models and US search engines signals a dissonance.

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026

4/5 I also hope Ecosia doesn't confuse autonomy with autarchy. The former means freedom to set one’s objectives and direction. The latter is utopian at best and suicidal at worst. Autonomy takes effort, long-term vision and short-term compromise.

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026

3/5 Shouldn't Ecosia's dependence on both US and Chinese technology make it question how European it really is?

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026

2/5 Ecosia argues Mistral isn't fully European because it relies heavily on US investors. True. But it's equally true that Ecosia: 1) relies on both Google and Bing for its searches 2) says it ditched a European AI company for Chinese models

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026

1/5 A few days after Mistral launched its new model #LeChonk, Ecosia ditched the French AI company. Ecosia's statement on nuclear energy doesn't even deserve a comment. Its view on how European Mistral really is, however, does.

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026

Indeed! In fact, Germany is also eyeing the GCAP (UK, Italy, Japan) and a possible collaboration with Saab (Sweden)

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026

Unfortunately, the Zeitgeist didn’t change diverging nationals interests and reciprocal suspicions

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026

I believe so, but what’s happening suggests the answers are negative, despite my pro-stance…

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026

3/3 This leaves us with two questions: 1) Can we have a common strategy and global posture without agreeing on common means? And, perhaps most importantly, 2) Can we invest time, effort, and money in common means without a shared endgame?

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026

2/3 The Franco-German couple's failure to cooperate is bad news for the EU as a whole. It undermines the Union's push for sovereignty and defence, especially since rearmament remains largely national, not EU-wide. The risks of duplication are already well documented and only expected to grow.

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026

1/3 The (anticipated) failure of the #MCGS (Main Combat Ground System) comes right after the #FCAS/#SCAF débacle. Same story both times: Paris and Berlin diverge on the weapons they want, on the degree of tech sovereignty, on who leads the initiative, and on who pays.

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 08/10/2026

Si un seul pay avec un PIB représentant 10 à 12% de celui des États-Unis peut y parvenir, imaginez cela à l’échelle européenne… x.com/larroumecj/s...

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EU Institute for Security Studies @euiss.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"The EU’s ailing economy requires both a domestic overhaul & a more aggressive foreign trade policy, especially with China". While it cannot disengage completely as it did with Russia, there is a strong momentum to reset trade relations with Beijing. @ruehlig.bsky.social apnews.com/article/chin...

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EU sends envoy to Beijing as rising exports from China raise economic anxiety

The European Union is bracing for a confrontation with China as a trade deficit exceeding $1 billion a day heightens anxiety over potential job losses and pushes the bloc’s political leaders to take a...

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 06/10/2026

Check out my first article on Substack: here I give my 2 cents on the U.S.-Denmark controversy over Greenland. enricogiagnoli.substack.com/p/from-monro...

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Enrico Giagnoli @enrico-giagnoli.wsocial.eu · 04/10/2026

An early morning pic suddenly brings back awesome memories… Félicitations à tous les lauréats de l’ULB @ulbruxelles.bsky.social !

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