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Mika Horelli

@horelli.bsky.social
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Vapaa toimittaja Brysselissä🇪🇺Independent Correspondent in the heart of The European Union. Before Brussels🇧🇪, I lived in Copenhagen🇩🇰, New York🇺🇸, and Helsinki🇫🇮. He/Him.

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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Britannian nopeimmin kasvava alue on se, joka jäi EU:n sisämarkkinoille. Pohjois-Irlanti kasvoi vuoden toisella neljänneksellä 1,0 %, koko Britannia 0,4 %. Entinen EU:n tehokkain sääntöjen laatija joutuu nyt noudattamaan sääntöjä ilman oikeutta osallistua niiden tekemiseen. Uusi essee:
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Britannian nopeimmin kasvava alue on se, joka jäi EU:n sisämarkkinoille
Brexitin kaksi hankalinta poikkeusta tekevät kokeen, jota Westminster ei suostu tekemään itse
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Weimar democracy did not die because the Nazis won an election. A majority never voted for Hitler. It died because democrats governed around parliament, one decree at a time, each time for a good reason. New essay on Nordic Ledger. nordicledger.substack.com/p/the-emerge...
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The Emergency That Became a Habit
Weimar’s warning is not only about extremists. It is also about those who try to save democracy by working around it
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Weimarin demokratia ei kuollut siihen, että natsit voittivat vaalit. Enemmistö ei koskaan äänestänyt Hitleriä. Se kuoli, kun demokraatit hallitsivat parlamentin ohi, asetus kerrallaan ja joka kerta hyvästä syystä. Uusi essee Nordic Ledgerissä. nordicledger.substack.com/p/hatatila-j...
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Poikkeustila, josta tuli pysyvä tapa
Weimarin varoitus ei koske vain ääripuolueita. Se koskee myös niitä, jotka yrittävät pelastaa demokratian kiertämällä sitä
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Kiistelty EU:n jättibudjetti on kuin Rubikin kuutio | Nuukien kuusikko vastaan koheesion puolustajat @mustread.bsky.social www.mustread.fi/artikkelit/k...
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Kiistelty EU:n jättibudjetti on kuin Rubikin kuutio | Nuukien kuusikko vastaan koheesion puolustajat | MustRead
EU:n seuraavan seitsenvuotisbudjetin neuvottelut ovat jumissa, ja aikaa on entistä vähemmän: Ranskan syvenevä poliittinen kriisi uhkaa siirtää koko ratkaisun. Jäsenmaat ovat jakautuneet nuukien ja…
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For seventy years the West was a wheel with Washington as its hub. Now it is becoming a network. Autonomy is not the same as separation. New Nordic Ledger essay, by a child of the Cold War: nordicledger.substack.com/p/the-west-w...
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The West Without a Centre
A child of the Cold War looks at a world in which Washington is no longer the hub of everything
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Länsi oli seitsemänkymmentä vuotta pyörä, jonka napa oli Washington. Nyt se on muuttumassa verkoksi. Autonomia ei ole sama asia kuin ero. Uusi Nordic Ledger -essee kylmän sodan lapsen silmin: nordicledger.substack.com/p/lansi-ilma...
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Länsi ilman keskusta
Kylmän sodan lapsi katsoo maailmaa, jossa Washington ei enää ole kaiken napa
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Three writers, two continents, one summer, the same uncomfortable conclusion: the world hasn't given up on the energy transition. It's given up on making climate the top priority. New essay on Nordic Ledger. nordicledger.substack.com/p/when-clima...
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WHEN CLIMATE BECAME TOO EXPENSIVE
Why the world has not abandoned the energy transition, even as it has stopped treating climate as politics’ first priority
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sama kesä, kolme eri kirjoittajaa, sama synkkä havainto: maailma ei ole luopunut ilmastotransitiosta, mutta se on luopunut pitämästä sitä politiikan ykkösasiana.🧵https://nordicledger.substack.com/p/kun-ilmasto-muuttui-liian-kalliiksi?r=mwsn6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Trump nimesi Lake Ontarion uudelleen "Lake Americaksi" samalla viikolla, kun hänen tullinsa nostavat amerikkalaisten laskuja miljardeilla. Symbolinen voitto, todellinen tappio. Nollasummapolitiikan 400-vuotinen historia, Kanadasta Putinin Kiina-ansaan. 🔗 nordicledger.substack.com/p/raja-jolla...
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Raja, jolla ei ole vihollista
Kanadan tulleista Marshall-apuun ja Putinin Kiina-ansaan: nollasummapolitiikan lyhyt historia
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Ennakoiva tottelevaisuus ei synny käskyistä vaan niiden tarpeettomuudesta. Uusi esseeni käsittelee, miten sama pakottavan kontrollin mekanismi selittää sekä autoritaariset järjestelmät että sen, miksi jotkut kodit hiljalleen muuttuvat miinakentiksi. nordicledger.substack.com/p/hallitus-o...
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Hallitus oman pään sisällä
Mitä poliittinen valta voi opettaa meille pelon yksityisestä arkkitehtuurista
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Newt Gingrich oli historioitsija. Silti hän opetti puolueensa kutsumaan vastustajiaan sairaiksi ja maanpettureiksi vuonna 1990. Tästä yhdestä muistiosta alkaa essee, joka kulkee Suomen sisällissodasta Ruandaan ja nykyiseen Yhdysvaltoihin — ja päätyy kysymykseen, jota kukaan meistä ei halua kohdata.🧵
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Kun vastustajasta tulee vihollinen
Mitä historia kertoo hetkestä, jolloin poliittinen ideologia vaihtuu identiteetiksi
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Saksalainen vaaliehdokas ”murhasi isoäitinsä”. Berliinin pormestari ”yritti tappaa tennispelaajan”. Kumpikaan ei ollut totta. Venäjän vaikuttamiskampanja käy Saksassa täysillä – ja Saksa valmistautuu vastaamaan tavalla, joka rikkoo sodanjälkeisen tabun. ☢️ Unkarin Venäjä-ydinvoimasopimus rakoilee
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EU Mediaviikko 14.08.2026 🌍 Operaatio Matrjoška: väärennettyjä BBC-videoita Saksan vaalien alla
🔮 Uutisanalyysi: Pakolaisten ulkoistamisen vuosi alkaa, ja Eurooppa on unohtanut mitä edellisistä yrityksistä opittiin
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In 1987, my ad agency's biggest client was Nokia's mobile phone business. Twenty years later I sat in Nokia's American press conferences as the world's number one explained why it did not need to adapt. The confidence was justified. That was the problem. nordicledger.substack.com/p/when-succe...
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When Success Becomes a Disease
Russia had gas. Britain had finance. Finland had Nokia. The most dangerous moment comes when something works so well that you can no longer imagine a world without it.
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Vuonna 1987 mainostoimistoni suurin asiakas oli Nokian matkapuhelinliiketoiminta. Vuosia myöhemmin istuin Nokian amerikkalaisissa lehdistötilaisuuksissa kuuntelemassa, miksi maailman ykkösen ei tarvitse kuunnella amerikkalaisia operaattoreita. Itsevarmuus oli perusteltua. Juuri siinä oli ongelma.
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Kun menestyksestä tulee tauti
Venäjällä oli kaasua. Britannialla oli rahoitusala. Suomella oli Nokia. Vaarallisin hetki koittaa silloin, kun jokin toimii niin hyvin, ettei maailmaa ilman sitä enää osaa kuvitella.
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
We have built the most effective apparatus in history for measuring what interests us right now. Nobody has built one for what will matter later. A new Nordic Ledger essay on three cities and three lessons about news value.
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The Metric We Never Built
Journalism can measure what interests us right now with extraordinary precision. For what will matter later, there is no number at all.
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Olemme rakentaneet maailman tehokkaimman koneiston mittaamaan sitä, mikä kiinnostaa meitä juuri nyt. Mittaria sille, millä on merkitystä myöhemmin, ei ole keksinyt kukaan. Uusi essee Nordic Ledgerissä kolmesta kaupungista ja kolmesta eri läksystä koskien uutisarvoa.
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Mittari, jota meillä ei ole
Journalismi osaa mitata sitä, mikä kiinnostaa meitä juuri nyt. Sille, millä on merkitystä vasta myöhemmin, ei ole mittaria
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
1949: kuusi entistä kommunistia yritti selittää, miten he olivat uskoneet järjestelmään, jonka valheellisuudesta heillä oli koko ajan todisteita. Sama mekanismi selittää yllättävän paljon tämän päivän politiikasta. Uusi essee: open.substack.com/pub/nordicle...
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Kun politiikka muuttui uskonnoksi
Kognitiivisesta dissonanssista taistolaisiin ja MAGAan: mekanismi, joka selittää poliittisen uskon
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Ceuta's crisis lasted two days. The political theatre will last years. A fence stops a person who respects the fence. It does not stop a person who has nowhere to return to. New essay on what Europe's Schengen reaction means for every country on the EU's outer edge.
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The House Is on Fire, and the Neighbours Are Fighting on the Stairs
The Ceuta crisis revealed that Europe’s right-wing populism has no solution to migration; only scapegoats. And the doctrine it preaches would destroy the border states that need solidarity most.
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Ceutan kriisi paljasti Euroopan maahanmuuttopolitiikan rakenteellisen vian: "rajat kiinni" -oppia julistavat äänekkäimmin ne poliitikot, joiden omia maita se tuhoaisi. Uusi analyysi siitä, miksi rajavaltioiden solidaarisuus ei ole hyväntekeväisyyttä vaan oman edun puolustamista.
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Talo palaa, ja naapurit tappelevat portailla
Ceutan kriisi paljasti, ettei Euroopan oikeistopopulismilla ole ratkaisua maahanmuuttoon. Oppi, jota se julistaa, voi aiheuttaa katastrofin Suomen kaltaisille rajamaille.
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Jokaista kirjoittamisen teknologiaa on syytetty työn tekemisestä ihmisen puolesta. Platon sanoi sen kirjoitustaidosta. Uusi essee kirjoittamisen historian vanhimmasta syytöksestä. open.substack.com/pub/nordicle...
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Väline ei ole kirjoittaja
Jokainen uusi kirjoittamisen apuväline on vuorollaan tuomittu epäaidoksi. Tekoäly on tämän sarjan uusin jäsen.
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The last Europeans who personally remember continental war are leaving us. My father watched bombers approach Helsinki as a teenager; I inherited his stories, not his fear. And fear, it turns out, is what actually teaches. New essay on why memory expires in roughly 80 years:
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The Last People Who Remember
As Europe’s last witnesses to war disappear, history is becoming something humanity has always been surprisingly good at rewriting.
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A Persian king once ordered the sea flogged with 300 lashes because a storm broke his bridges. This week, a US president threatened tariffs over the direction of the wind. New essay on what happens when power puts reality itself on trial. From Xerxes to Trump: open.substack.com/pub/nordicle...
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When the King Whips the Sea
From Xerxes to Trump, history remembers rulers who tried to punish reality itself.
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Large cities possess a curious dual personality. During the day, they perform. Before dawn, they think. New essay: what 18 months of aimless morning walks through Brussels taught me about writing, cities, and why good ideas refuse to be summoned. open.substack.com/pub/nordicle...
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Eight Euros Well Spent
How a pair of second-hand walking poles taught me to think more slowly
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Apartheid used a pencil to decide who was white. Nuremberg used grandparents' religion. Today's far right uses "remigration." The categories keep changing because none of them is real. My new Nordic Ledger essay on Europe and America's shared fiction: open.substack.com/pub/nordicle...
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The Pencil Test Returns
How a South African pencil, a set of Nuremberg registries and a Bavarian expulsion order explain the far right’s newest export on both sides of the Atlantic
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The Crusades failed almost completely; two centuries of holy war ended in ruin at Acre. So why is this catastrophe the founding myth of the American right, and why does the US Secretary of War wear its battle cry on his bicep? New essay, on the crusade that never was.
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The Crusade That Never Was
Why America’s new holy warriors worship a medieval project that failed
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Populism wasn’t created by Russia, social media or AI. It grew where liberal democracies stopped listening. Globalisation’s winners and losers. Immigration. Stagnating wages. CEO pay. Housing. If democracies want to defeat populism, they first have to understand why it became persuasive. ↓
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The Blind Spots of Liberal Democracy
Why the backlash against liberal politics began long before populists learned how to exploit it
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Europe doesn’t run on unanimity but on the ability to manufacture unanimity. But what happens if France and Germany stop wanting the same Europe? My new Nordic Ledger essay, The Coffee-Break Theory of European Unity, looks at Marine Le Pen, the AfD, Reform UK—and the future of European integration.
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The Coffee-Break Theory of European Unity
Marine Le Pen is back in the race. If France, Germany and Britain all turn inward at the same moment, Europe’s greatest crisis may not begin with war, but with elections.
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Equal before the law. Terms and Conditions Apply. During 12 years in New York, I learned that justice doesn’t have to become corrupt to become unequal. It only has to become expensive. The latest Atlas of Impunity suggests this is no longer just an American story. open.substack.com/pub/nordicle...
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Equal Before the Law. Terms and Conditions Apply
Every democracy promises equality before the law. The differences usually begin in the small print.
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
America turns 250 tomorrow. I spent twelve years there as a correspondent, and a lifetime before that dreaming about it. My new essay is about two Americas: the one that exists, and the one Europeans invented. And about a letter to Pennsylvania that went unanswered. open.substack.com/pub/nordicle...
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The America I Dreamed Of Never Really Existed
How twelve years in the United States taught me that Europeans and Americans mean different things by freedom
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Advertising learned that beautiful nonsense is expensive to defend. Politics never did; a promise costs nothing to make and little to abandon. New column on trust, performance, and why audiences recognise insincerity before they hear the argument. open.substack.com/pub/nordicle...
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The Sound of Not Being Believed
What advertising learned about credibility four decades before politics did, and why the lesson still hasn't crossed over.
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
EU etsii uusia verotuloja historiallisen budjettinsa rahoittamiseksi, Saksa taistelee autoteollisuutensa puolesta ja Lähi-idän kriisi muistuttaa energian geopoliittisista riskeistä. 🇪🇺 EU Mediaviikko uudistuu — tämän numeron voi lukea ilman maksumuuria. 👇 eumediaviikko.substack.com/p/eu-mediavi...
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EU Mediaviikko 30.06.2026 🌍 Ranska etsii EU:lle uusia veroja kahden biljoonan budjetin rahoittamiseksi 💸 Trump uhkaa Eurooppaa 100 prosentin tulleilla digiveron vuoksi
💎 Yhdysvallat muistutti Eurooppaa sen tekoälyriippuvuudesta
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The debate about Putin's wealth asks the wrong question. Not: how much does he own? But: does he own anything at all — in any legally meaningful sense? Ownership without institutions is just possession. And possession is contingent on who comes next. ↓ open.substack.com/pub/nordicle...
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What You Own When You Own Nothing
Wealth is not a pile of assets. It is a promise made by institutions that outlast the people who built them.
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Book bans don't work. The Catholic Church tried. The Soviets tried. Every dictatorship has tried. The result is always the same: forbidden books become essential reading. American school boards are running the Western world's most effective book marketing campaign. open.substack.com/pub/nordicle...
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The Best Way to Sell a Book in America? Get It Banned
How a nation that lectures the world about free speech became its most energetic practitioner of literary censorship — and why it doesn’t matter
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Jacob Rees-Mogg told Parliament the fish were "better and happier for being British." They were rotting on the docks. New column: The Bill Comes Due → open.substack.com/pub/nordicle...
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The Bill Comes Due
Ten years ago, Britain voted to leave the European Union. The architects of Brexit promised a richer, freer, more sovereign country. The data is in. So is the verdict.
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Washington tried to restrict its most advanced AI models to American users only. Within hours, the models went dark for everyone — including Americans. 🧵https://open.substack.com/pub/nordicledger/p/the-genie-does-not-go-back?r=mwsn6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
EU:n teollisuus haluaa jäädyttää päästökaupan. Kuinka riippuvainen Eurooppa on yhdysvaltalaisesta tekoälystä? Ukraina voittaa droonisodan, mutta tarvitsee edelleen Trumpia. Premium: Onko Britannian paluu EU:hun enää vain ajan kysymys? Vapaa lukuoikeus. eumediaviikko.substack.com/p/eu-mediavi...
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EU Mediaviikko 16.06.2026 🌍 Outokumpu kuuluu häviäjiin, jos vihreää siirtymää vesitetään edelleen 🔮Britannian vaikea paluu EU:hun alkaa näyttää väistämättömältä
Sveitsiläiset torjuivat kansanäänestyksessä väestökaton |Anthropic-tapaus paljasti Euroopan tekoälyhaavoittuvuuden
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Washington locked Europeans out of Anthropic's most advanced AI models on 12 June. Access is still suspended. No timeline given. Europe has no alternative ready. This is what dependency looks like. New column: The Kill Switch. open.substack.com/pub/nordicle...
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The Kill Switch
Washington is not just an unreliable partner. It has become a structural threat to European sovereignty.
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Europe's immigration debate is stuck between two lies: that racism explains everything, or that immigrants explain everything. A new Nordic Ledger column tries to hold both uncomfortable truths at once. open.substack.com/pub/nordicle...
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The Wrong Word for the Right Problem
Europe lectures the world on human dignity. It is still learning what that means at home
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Yesterday in Brussels, Enrico Letta called Europe a potential colony — not because of geopolitics, but because of capital markets. Europe's annual investment gap: €1.4 trillion. Up from €800bn a year ago. The savings exist. They just flow outward. New column: → open.substack.com/pub/nordicle...
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The Polite Surrender
How Europe’s regulatory instinct became its most elegant self-inflicted wound
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Unkari avaa Orbánin korruptioepäilyjä, EU pohtii ukrainalaismiesten suojelun rajaamista, Britannia lähestyy jälleen EU:ta ja Nato harjoittelee tekoälyn vauhdittamaa informaatiosotaa. Armenia valitsi EU-suunnan. ABB varoittaa Eurooppaa joukkotyöttömyydestä. eumediaviikko.substack.com/p/eu-mediavi...
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EU Mediaviikko 09.06.2026 🌍 Orbánin lähipiiriä tutkitaan miljardihuijauksista 🔮 Talous sotana vai yhteistyönä?
Lentoyhtiöt panttaavat 3,2 miljardin maksamattomia asiakaskorvauksia, EU pohtii ukrainalaismiesten suojelun rajaamista ja Lontoo miettii eurooppalaisten opiskelijoiden lukukausimaksujen alentamista.
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Right-wing populists don't need censorship. They need citizens who no longer trust any source of information. That's the first target. Courts, universities and civil society follow. New Nordic Ledger column on what these movements actually build when they govern. open.substack.com/pub/nordicle...
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What Kind of Europe Are Right-Wing Populists Building?
They won their elections. Now they are governing. The question is no longer why they rose — it is what they do with power once they have it.
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Britain spent a decade on Brexit. Potentially £3 trillion, by some estimates. The politicians who sold it moved on. The voters are still paying. New column: open.substack.com/pub/nordicle...
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The Most Expensive Political Mistake in Modern European History
Brexit may ultimately cost Britain three trillion pounds. The money matters less than what it reveals about democratic accountability — or the lack of it.
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A British Treasury minister just called rejoining the EU "inevitable." My column asks the interesting question: how did a country that helped write 95% of EU legislation convince itself it was a rule-taker — and what does that tell us about democracy more broadly? open.substack.com/pub/nordicle...
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The Lie That Cost Britain a Decade
Repairing the Damage Will Take Another One
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
When every image can be faked, every voice cloned and every video fabricated, the rational response is to doubt everything. Including the truth. 🔗https://open.substack.com/pub/nordicledger/p/the-machine-we-cannot-uninvent?r=mwsn6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Tämän perjantain EU Mediaviikossa: ennätyshelteet, Big Techin vaikutus EU:n tekoälysääntelyyn, Saksa ja EU-finanssivalvonta, Faragen uusi haastaja sekä EU:n puolustusteollisuuden ongelmat. Miksi Trumpin Iran-politiikka paljastaa syvemmän lännen kriisin? eumediaviikko.substack.com/p/eu-mediavi...
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EU Mediaviikko 29.05.2026 🌍 Eurooppa kärventyy ennätyshelteissä | Tutkimus paljastaa Big Techin systemaattisen vaikuttamisen EU:n tekoälysääntelyyn
🔮Trumpin Iran-politiikka paljastaa lännen kriisin syvyyden
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The right thinks the left is hysteria. The left thinks the right is moral decay. Both call the other side stupid while marinating in feeds built to flatter them. Meanwhile, a quiet majority is still, against the odds, trying to think. open.substack.com/pub/nordicle...
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They Still Know How to Think
On the quiet majority that refuses to join a tribe
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Pope Leo XIV apologised for the Vatican's role in slavery — "a wound in Christian memory." But the deeper question is older. Why have empires and churches spent centuries trying to force belief? You can force a person to kneel. You cannot force them to believe.👇 open.substack.com/pub/nordicle...
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Faith Cannot Be Forced
On kneeling, believing, and the difference between the two
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
From Socrates to TikTok, the script barely changes: every information revolution arrives with the same warning label about the children. Usually, what we are really losing is the illusion that the old world can still be preserved. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/nordicle...
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The Adults Always Think the New Technology Will Ruin the Children
From Socrates to TikTok, the script barely changes
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Russia's elite condemns the West. Then sends the kids to Columbia, Sciences Po and Swiss boarding schools. Sanctions made Europe awkward, so Dubai filled the gap. The destination changes. The message stays: anywhere is better than the paradise they're selling you. open.substack.com/pub/nordicle...
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The West They Love to Hate
As Far From Russia as Money Can Buy
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Mika Horelli @horelli.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The world’s industrial centre of gravity has already shifted to China. My new Nordic Ledger column examines how China quietly became the central industrial power of the 21st century while Europe argues with itself and America performs political theatre. open.substack.com/pub/nordicle...
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The West Still Thinks China Is Cheap
While Europe argues with itself and America performs political theatre, China quietly became the central industrial power of the 21st century.
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