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🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱Europe is our continent, our future is decided here, not there.

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Jessica Berlin @berlinbridge.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Instead, we aim to be the belligerent, chaotic kerosene poured onto the West’s self-made civilizational dumpster fire.
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Sara | Europe Tomorrow @sara-rey.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026
So the Ceuta situation is orchestrated. Morocco and Algeria have a conflict, Spain improves relations with Algeria and Morocco spoke about sovereignty claims over Ceuta. Add to that that Morocco has good relations with the US and Israel, and Spain doesn’t None of the migrants will cross to Spain
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 31/07/2026
Pedro Sánchez * @sanchezcastejon
• Translated from Spanish by Grok
Solidarity and empathy are optional.
Respect for European treaties and data is not.
X.com
Number of irregular entries between 2021 and 2026 according to Frontex:
Via Italy: 478,600
Via the Western Balkans: 340,600
Via Greece: 259,800
Via Spain: 234,760
Via the eastern border: 48,000
This is not the time to divide. It is the time to continue building a strong and united EU.
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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I got a question for you: If Europeans cannot count on one another when a Member State is under pressure at the Union’s external border, what confidence should they have that solidarity will prevail when the threat is military rather than migratory?
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
China’s foreign reserve agency quietly amassed stakes in European infrastructure, utilities and property through shell companies. This joint investigation maps the hidden holdings, warning that opaque ownership keeps the public in the dark. @occrp.org VSquare.org
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A Police HQ, Wind Farms, and Natural Gas: Mapping China's Investments in Europe - VSquare.org
Through an opaque network of shell companies in the British Virgin Islands and Luxembourg holding firms, an agency that manages China’s foreign reserves has discreetly scooped up stakes in Europe’s critical infrastructure, utilities, and real estate.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 31/07/2026
Interesting, though unsurprising
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PlusPlus @newsknot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We are making it very easy to our adversaries and foes. Instead of solidarity and providing help between EU states, we defaulted immediately to finger pointing, throwing accusations and threats between us. Italy and Denmark immediately wanting to suspend Spains Schengen status, France mobilizing
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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The European response to the #Ceuta crisis will go down in history as an own goal that emboldened Europe’s adversaries. Instead of showing solidarity, Italy & co sought to punish it. Now, with the vast majority of arrivals already returned, the failure wasn’t border control but European solidarity.
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Nerdic Defence @nerdicdefence.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
US oil company Greenland Energy has just disembarked heavy equipment on the east coast of Greenland, without a permit. danwatch.dk/uden-tillade...
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Uden tilladelse har amerikansk olieselskab netop sejlet udstyr til Jameson Land
Udstyret skal ifølge Permagreen, som har serviceret Greenland Energy Company, bruges til deres omstridte olieefterforskning i Jameson Land.
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PlusPlus @newsknot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Cue Trump defending Infantinos position. Maybe even a threat should he be forced to resign
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PlusPlus @newsknot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The US beginning drilling operations in Greenland even though no permits have been issued yet.
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PlusPlus @newsknot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
By uncritically and without trying to understand the underlying facts,usually serious newspapers and news outlets are doing Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s bidding and doing marketing for them for free/
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PlusPlus @newsknot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is absolutely a signal to the rest that ousting of Infantino is a go.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“The FBI has signaled that its new effort to brand political opponents of the president as terrorists has only just begun, and that soon the power of large language models will be brought to bear on the effort to flag and tag political dissidents en masse.”
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Minority report: FBI seeks AI for political watch list
Documents show the FBI seeking AI tools to flag Americans before they act, as the terror watchlist's focus moves toward domestic dissent.
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 30/07/2026
The case of Maxim Grigoryev illustrates how propaganda increasingly borrows the language of international law. Through a self-styled ‘tribunal’, books and international appearances, he promoted false narratives to justify Russia’s invasion while presenting propaganda as legal fact.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
U.S./Musk-aligned propaganda accounts continue their disinformation and disruption campaign targeting Europe. This time, they are focusing on Spain.
Musk amplified right-wing agitator account pushes "mass migration" narrativelocation of incident being amplified by right wing accounts, not even in Europe, at the tip of Africa.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 30/07/2026
A cryptocurrency associated with Russia's sprawling state defense corporation has quietly launched just as the European Union targets Russian crypto markets with further sanctions.
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Russia's defense giant quietly launches new cryptocurrency despite EU sanctions
A cryptocurrency associated with Russia's sprawling state defense corporation has quietly launched just as the European Union targets Russian crypto markets with further sanctions. Blockchain data re...
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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 30/07/2026
[Commentary] #Tech & #EUDefence: #NATO’s digital arsenal: How #Europe can avoid a new dependence on #America, by @gresselgustav.bsky.social | @ecfr.eu www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu/opinion-anal...
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NATO’s digital arsenal: How Europe can avoid a new dependence on America - PubAffairs Bruxelles
The NATO Summit in Ankara ended with a short but consequential declaration. Alongside commitments to develop a wide range of capabilities—such as drones, a warfighting cloud and AI models—the allies p...
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
yeah I think all of us need to be aware of this, I don't think this is false or a misrepresentation. I think this is true I know that lib-baiting trolls pretending to be marginalized voices that the left listens to, who then doompost or trojan horse conversative talking points are very common here
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 30/07/2026
"The Ukrainian campaign knocked out more than 30 and 45 per cent of Russia’s actual and nominal capacity, respectively," bruh? www.ft.com/content/3990...
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How Putin’s refinery dream became Ukraine’s target
Damage to Russian refineries still visible from space months after strikes
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L’Express @lexpress.fr · 29/07/2026
🕵️ L’Express publie le premier palmarès des agences d’espionnage en Europe, grâce à un jury de 60 professionnels du renseignement, issus de 25 pays. « MI6, DGSE, services ukrainiens… Le palmarès des meilleurs espions », à la Une de L’Express cette semaine.
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PlusPlus @newsknot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The theater is beginning 🎭
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
💥 INVESTIGATION: After 4 years of Russia's full-scale war, firms effectively controlled by Russian or Belarusian interests still operate across Europe. Russian millionaire Vasily Smetanin, tied to Sberbank, does business via Polish firms. VSquare.org
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Why Is Poland Hosting a Russian-Linked Logistics Network? - VSquare.org
After over four years of full-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine and numerous rounds of sanctions, companies effectively controlled by individuals and entities from Russia and Belarus continue to operate in Poland and across Europe.
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PlusPlus @newsknot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
If UEFA can do it, EU can do it.
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Kathy Love @kathylove.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Brilliant In a world awash with corruption, dishonesty and equivocation, this statement shines. Do read it.
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PlusPlus @newsknot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It just shouln't be possible for non state actors to have this power and ability to make decisions for the government. It is completely antithetical to democracy where the state's task is to execute the will of it's people; here a private person injects itself and circumventing the state's mandate.
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PlusPlus @newsknot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
If FIFA changes from its non-profit association status to the profit driven shareholder entity, does that mean that it will foot the bill for all world cup stadiums and the infrastructure needed for the event from now on? #fifa #football #worldcup2026
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 30/07/2026
The Commission has formally joined Pax Silica, the US-led semiconductor supply chain initiative. MARCO PERUGINI warns against the EU binding itself to one American architecture while remaining structurally exposed to another. verfassungsblog.de/binding-with...
No European Parliament debate preceded the authorization. No impact assessment was published.
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Damn. 🌵 www.bbc.com/news/article...
Golf course, only the greens are green. Cricket field, light brownGreenwich park, light brown Cliffs in Dorset. Golf course on top. Only greens are green.
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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Michel Barnier is no drama queen. Here he says that with Brexit UK voters were supporting an attack on European unity. Indeed, a direct attempt, supported by forces in the US and Russia, to ensure we cease to exist. Never again sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/615...
https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6155db9059a3fa00137f30a9/e/6a5e41f08327d8bdc74e1ad5/media.mp3
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PlusPlus @newsknot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
With Nikkei Asia's investigation uncovering that the five main US tech corps. have a hidden debt of $ 1.65 trillion (with T) and the plummeting of AI based investment vehicles in South Korea, this could mark the popping of the massive AI bubble. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
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Nico Lange @nicolange.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Europa muss nicht duckmäuserisch auf amerikanische Pläne warten. Europa kann selbst definieren, wie europäische Verteidigung und Abschreckung aussehen, mit europäischen Technologien und europäischer Industrie. www.handelsblatt.com/meinung/kolu...
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Geoeconomics: Europäische Realitätsverweigerung in der Sicherheitspolitik
Eigentlich hat Europa alle Voraussetzungen für Souveränität. Doch es hofft fatalerweise immer noch auf die USA und leistet sich eine rüstungspolitische Kleinstaaterei. Ein Gastbeitrag.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🇵🇱 Russian missile (presumably an Kh-101) crashed in Poland near the village of Tarnawa-Kolonia overnight
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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
NATO Allies should come together to form a defence financing instrument that supplements national defence spending, improves companies’ access to affordable capital, and incentivises joint procurement. Read the RUSI Commentary by Rachel Ellehuus and Dr Linus Terhorst.
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Allies Should Unite on Defence Finance
NATO Allies should come together to form a defence financing instrument that supplements national defence spending, improves companies' access to affordable capital, and incentivises joint procurement.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
🇦🇲🇪🇺❗️"I told the Russian president that we have declared a path to European integration and we will follow this path, especially since the Armenian people voted in favor of it," Pashinyan said at a briefing with journalists.
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FairSquare @fairsqprojects.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
FIFA's plan to sell the game off to private equity is the result of serial misgovernance. Dissent. Sign here. rebootfifa.com/sign/
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Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. 
And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name now >>
Add your name to our mass complaint
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PlusPlus @newsknot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This can't be real...
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PlusPlus @newsknot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is most probably just a FSB Op to raise Durov's credibility in the West. Now just wait until he pops up at the airport of London, Paris, Madrid or Berlin with big media fanfare asking for European consideration and support to provide "protection" from russian authorities.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
We're heading to outcomes where a US military with stockpiles running low and a struggling American manufacturing base relies increasingly on supply from a European defence industrial sector that US policymakers have been sneering at for 30 years
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
UEFA statement.
“This crosses a line that football’s governing institutions should never cross. UEFA takes it extremely seriously. So should every National Football Association. So should every stakeholder: leagues, clubs, players, supporters, governments and everyone who cares about the future of the game. The soul and governance of football are not assets to trade - especially with zero transparency as to who gains financially. None of us are the owners of football. It is not FIFA’s to sell.”
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
No Europe, no World Cup. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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UEFA Considering Boycott of FIFA Tournaments in Brewing Feud
UEFA is considering a boycott of FIFA events, according to a person familiar with the matter, in a seismic rift between the most powerful governing bodies of football.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🇬🇧 Gen. Shirreff: Until Russia has been defeated, there’s not going to be lasting ceasefire. Nobody seems to be prepared to acknowledge that fact, and do what needs to be done, which is to think strategically about how Ukraine should be supported to achieve the defeat of Russia.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🇸🇪 Sweden will create its own foreign intelligence service UND, similar to British MI6 — The Economist Foreign Intelligence Service will work in parallel with military intelligence, but will take over some of its functions, leading a unit that conducts agent and other secret operations abroad.
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Joris Luyendijk @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Unthinkable in China. Unthinkable in Russia. Unthinkable in India. And yes, unthinkable in America. This is Europe.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 28/07/2026
US walks out on France at UN meeting
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US walks out on France at UN meeting
France's UN Mission in Geneva had criticized US opposition to a second term for UN human rights chief Volker Türk.
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Nico Lange @nicolange.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Während Deutschland noch teure Tomahawk kaufen will, startet das Pentagon eine Initiative für neue günstige Raketen: 250.000 Dollar pro Rakete, Tests in drei Monaten, Massenproduktion in 18 Monaten. Das brauchen wir auch statt jahrelanger Riesenprogramme. www.defensenews.com/news/2026/07...
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Pentagon calls for cheaper long-range strike weapons, with testing in just 3 months
The Pentagon is seeking long-range weapons that cost less than $250,000 each and can be ready for demonstration within three months.
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Rafael Mentges @mentges.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The EU has ordered a 24-hour delay in the release of some Copernicus imagery following a request from the US. I think this is a mistake and will only strengthen non-EU actors, especially Chinese EO companies.
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EU delays release of Copernicus imagery over Gulf of Oman
EU delays release of Copernicus imagery over Gulf of Oman
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
German officials are working behind the scenes to identify Chinese economic vulnerabilities that they could exploit if the EU finds itself in a trade war with Beijing Berlin is informally mapping China’s weaknesses by analysing trade flows, supply chains and company-level data
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27/07/2026
Tired of misleading cookie banners? The EU Commission has finally proposed a solution: set your privacy preferences in the browser once, and never see another banner. EFF joins a number of civil society organizations across Europe fighting to #KillTheCookieBanner killthecookiebanner.eu/
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