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European Policy Centre @epc-official.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🎙️🇪🇺 Can Europe widen its security options without weakening NATO? In the latest Language of Power, Paul Taylor, @almutm.bsky.social & @sbeverts.bsky.social discuss Europe’s ability to act in a more dangerous world. Listen here 👇 www.epc.eu/podcast/the-...

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

From SOTEU to Carney to UNGA. Speeches galore. But where does Europe stand now? Just fine words or also some action? Happy to have joined @almutm.bsky.social and Paul Taylor on the house podcast of @epc-official.bsky.social

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The Language of Power: Ursula and the crocodiles

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Enough with always responding to the bullies. Very good initiative of @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu. Lets go out and build an alliance for multilateral action. Watchwords are defend and reform. Need to do both. Joint push with 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇰🇪 and surely more to come. ↘️

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Multilateralism is not idealism, it is a necessity

We need to strengthen our system of co-operation, not replace it

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Watch this. My three conclusions: 1. The AI you and me use is very different from the frontier models. 2. Because of recursive self-improvement, we are very close to loss of control. 3. We need to control the frontier, not just pace it. The mother of all collective action problems…

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Opinion | This Is What I Fear Most About A.I.

Letting A.I. patrol its own frontier is like asking Jesse James to patrol the Wild West.

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ignore the AI slop at the end. Aaagh.

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wow.This is such an extraordinary god piece of speech writing. You have seen the clips on EU-Canada but this is section of the speech where Carney reaches a level very few do. And he’s not even European…

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EU Institute for Security Studies @euiss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today’s #SOTEU touched on several questions EUISS has been working on closely: Europe’s security architecture, how to sustain support for Ukraine & the strategic enablers Europe still lacks. Some of our proposals ↓

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We can retaliate with “kapsalon”. And remind them we have escalation dominance with German and Austrian options.

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fair enough. We have to see where we land. And yes politics on both sides will determine the shape and content of the package. But a genuine upgrade is perfectly feasible. I would prioritise CRM, Arctic, Ukraine and defence maybe even more than single market access and free movement.

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We are back to the Barnier stair case. Different options and trade offs. If we do throw in single market and free movement, as some report, than Canada closer than UK…

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My sense too. Of course, right now the ‘associate membership’ label is just that. We have to determine its content. But that can be done by a Council decision. No need for treaty change and referenda, I feel.

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Totally. Without money it’s just yet another gizmo. Am worried we put this into the category “let’s do under the next MFF”. We don’t time. Others moving ahead in a big way, throwing billions at this.

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Mats Engström @matsengstrom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

”we will establish a new European Corporation on Critical Raw Materials. It will help us obtain and stockpile what we need. For electric cars, chips and batteries, clean tech and defence. And so much more.” Ursula von der Leyen in #SOTEU

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A European Security Council is an old idea, which has taken many forms. President von der Leyen is expected to revive it today, Back in 2024 I called for the version of making leaders responsible for protecting Europeans. First day of every EUCO just on security. www.iss.europa.eu/sites/defaul...

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

EU and Canada are clearly willing to do a major upgrade of their partnership. For obvious reasons. Intriguing is the report here of free movement of people. If true, it could put Canada closer to EU than UK…. A suivre when Carney comes to Strasbourg for SOTEU and own speech.

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EU Institute for Security Studies @euiss.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Europe spends too much time reacting to other people’s plans. How can it regain the strategic initiative? Director @sbeverts.bsky.social briefed the PSC yesterday, drawing on EUISS research to explore how Europe can take back the lead and shape events rather than respond to them.

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Virginia Mucchi @virginiamucchi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

China talks development and does geopolitics. Europe does development and talks geopolitics. A new season of #Intercomms on the Chinese external narratives and why the EU borrowing the same words does not have the same impact. @ecdpm.org intercomms.substack.com/p/the-tale-o...

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The tale of the fellow struggler

China sells geopolitics as development. Europe tries to sell development as geopolitics.

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Dank je wel! Was doelbeweust eens iets meer persoonlijks te schrijven. Ja uiteindelijk zullen we allemaal hard aan de bak moeten en alles van waarde verdedigen - helaas met toenemende tegenwind. Maar niet vervallen in fatalisme. Want er zijn altijd keuzes - en die doen er toe.

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Thijs Reuten @thijsreuten.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Eens. Steun aan Oekraïne moet zelfs maximaal omhoog. Oekraïne in staat stellen zich te verdedigen en plekken te treffen vanwaar het bestookt wordt en waar ook de drones gemaakt worden die het EU luchtruim binnenvliegen, is het beste antwoord op Ruslands agressie. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

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Wat vindt NRC | Europese steun voor Oekraïne mag niet gaan wankelen door Russische sabotage en intimidatie

Hybride oorlogsvoering

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This particular defence advisory group was stillborn. But the issues it was meant to address have not gone away. At @euiss.bsky.social, we have done a lot of work on how Europe can strengthen its deterrence — and we will continue to do so. For example: www.iss.europa.eu/publications...

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EU diplomatic service scraps new high-level defence group

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has scrapped a new defence advisory group days after unveiling it, following pushback from member states. #EuropeNews

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Oekraïne Vandaag @oekrainevandaag.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Het allerbelangrijkste om te doen is de steun voor Oekraïne blijven opschroeven, want het laten afbrokkelen van die steun is waar het de Russen om te doen is." - @sbeverts.bsky.social

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"We moeten dit niet meer zien als een serie van incidenten", zegt Steven Everts, directeur van het EU-Instituut voor Veiligheidsstudies (EUISS) in Parijs. "Dit is een heel duidelijk patroon dat duidt op escalatie van Russische kant. Een door het Kremlin centraal aangestuurde campagne.”

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Rusland saboteert erop los, wat kan Europa doen? 'We moeten harder reageren'

Het aantal hybride aanvallen op Europese landen neemt zienderogen toe. Volgens de NAVO gaat bijna geen dag voorbij zonder een nieuw incident. Deskundigen wijzen met de beschuldigende vinger naar één e...

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 03/09/2026

Meanwhile in Ukraine

Katarina Mathernova • & @kmat... • 19h X Today, in broad daylight, my colleagues at the EU Delegation in Kyiv ran to the shelter upon hearing another of more that ten air alerts today. On the way they heard a loud explosion.
A russian jet-powered drone flew right over our building and exploded close to us. Smoke was everywhere. (I was in the meantime at a meeting which was taking place underground, in a shelter.)
These drones are incredibly fast. You have seconds to react. And that high-pitched whine of the drones cuts through you like a saw.
The russian drone hit a university building just some 300 metres from the • Delegation. 160 students were inside. They all survived because they were in the shelter.
The truth is simple: russia attacked a university building full of young students during daytime.

And I find what the Kremlin has been doing for years absolutely outrageous: pushing the grotesque propaganda narrative that Ukraine kills its own people.
We know the pattern.
Attack Ukraine. Kill Ukrainians. Then accuse Ukraine of killing Ukrainians.
The cynicism is breathtaking. And we will fight it with the truth.
Today, a russian drone exploded 300 metres from our Delegation. It hit the National University of Food Technologies, with 160 students inside.
And yes, my colleagues were frightened. Of course they were.
But they got up. They went back to work.
We are still here. And we will keep calling things by their names. And we will keep fighting russian propaganda.

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

First France, now the Netherlands. Low key announcements, dressed up in soothing terms. But people don’t tend to lie with their money. Dutch central bank moves gold bars out of New York over ‘geopolitical unrest’

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Dutch central bank moves gold bars out of New York over ‘geopolitical unrest’

DNB prefers London over the US city, pointing to better ‘tradeability’ of bullion

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Lots of writing advice is about procrastination or writer’s block. We worry & develop routines to tackle it. But what if our problem is the opposite? What if we write too much? Too many emails, posts, essays, papers. We have become very good at making ourselves write, perhaps too good. 🧵

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The debate on how the EU organises its foreign policy machinery is heating up. Important that the issue of how decisions are taken is included as that’s where the biggest issues are. EU accelerates plans to break up diplomatic service

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EU accelerates plans to break up diplomatic service

France and Germany drive push for reform as pressure mounts on Brussels to find budget savings

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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026

Vooruitgang is helaas niet langer zeker. 'Wat overblijft is.. "Pessimisme van het intellect, optimisme van de wil." De werkelijkheid zonder illusies onder ogen zien en toch handelen. Juist omdat het niet vanzelf goed komt.' Heel herkenbaar, door @sbeverts.bsky.social www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

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Opinie | ‘Nu weet ik: het is helemaal niet zeker dat de geschiedenis zich richting vooruitgang beweegt’

Geopolitiek: Als scholier demonstreerde Steven Everts tegen Amerikaanse kruisraketten. Veertig jaar later pleit hij voor een sterker bewapend Europa. Wat gebeurde er met het wereldbeeld waarmee zijn g...

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Bartelds @bartelds.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

𝑇𝑒𝑛 𝑧𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑎𝑛𝑏𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑛

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Dank je. Express deze keer een meer persoonlijk verhaal gemaakt. Hoor vaak het woord herkenbaar in de reacties.

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In 1983 stond ik met mijn vader op het Malieveld tegen Amerikaanse kruisraketten. Veertig jaar later pleit ik voor een Europa dat zich sneller moet bewapenen. Voor @nrc.nl schreef ik over die omslag. En over wat je je kinderen meegeeft als je weet dat het niet vanzelf goed komt.

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Opinie | Het verlies van een wereldbeeld

Geopolitiek:Als scholier demonstreerde Steven Everts tegen Amerikaanse kruisraketten. Veertig jaar later pleit hij voor een sterker bewapend Europa. Wat gebeurde er met het wereldbeeld waarmee zijn ge...

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Remember the US pivot to Asia? Now Trump moves last US carrier group to the Gulf and scales back exercises with South Korea because he has ‘a great relationship’ with Kim Jung Un…. Allies also nervous because of serious delays in deliveries of weapons they’ve already paid for. Sounds familiar.

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Trump orders Pentagon to scale back military drills with South Korea

President claims joint exercises send a ‘hostile’ message to North Korea

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EU Institute for Security Studies @euiss.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The Western Balkans hold many of the critical raw materials Europe needs. They could bolster the EU's economic security & accelerate enlargement. But Europe must show that it is not just interested in extracting raw commodities, argue @ditrych.bsky.social & Bojana Zorić. ➡️ shorturl.at/mzYdS

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Juurd Eijsvoogel @juurd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

De Europese tegenpool van de techbros: Arthur Mensch. De Franse wiskundige (34) werkte kort voor Google maar is nu ceo van AI-bedrijf Mistral, dat hij met 2 oud-studiegenoten oprichtte. "Als we de ontwikkeling van kunstmatige intelligentie overlaten aan de VS en China wordt Europa een vazalstaat."

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Arthur Mensch, Europese tegenpool van de techbros, gelooft niet in de god van superintelligentie

Kunstmatige intelligentie: Als ceo van het jonge Franse AI-bedrijf Mistral belichaamt Arthur Mensch (34) de hoop dat Europa nog kan meekomen bij de ontwikkeling van AI. Hij wil voorkomen dat Europa vo...

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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 29/07/2026

Six million Europeans have already voted on the design for the new Euro banknotes. Impressive numbers for the summer holidays: Al 6 miljoen Europeanen stemden over toekomstige eurobiljetten vrtnws.be/p.5wjNZ9pjJ (link to vote is at end of article, I can’t view it as I’ve already voted #teamCulture)

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Al 6 miljoen Europeanen stemden over toekomstige eurobiljetten | VRT NWS Nieuws

Al 6 miljoen Europeanen hebben gestemd over de ontwerpen van de nieuwe eurobiljetten. Dat meldt de Europese Centrale Bank (ECB).

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Well you can also vote for Eurovision etc. not just for political representation purposes. But it’s true that ECB says they don’t feel obliged to fully or necessarily respect the outcome of this exercise. Not what I want but still good to do the survey and vote for your preferred bank note.

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Now the people get a say. Choice between Beethoven, Da Vinci, von Suttner or birds with the Berlaymont at the back. I dare say it’s an easy choice.

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

They became real indeed! Life imitating art or some such 😉

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Finally you can votes to get some real Europeans on the euro notes! I always found the fictional bridges a cop out for a continent that’s so rich in real heritage.

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It’s 500 days since Ukraine was told it had ‘no cards’…. Now is the moment to go all in on Empowering Ukraine and unpowering Russia. What’s needed is more creativity, not more money. Here 10 concrete ideas to do just that. ↘️

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The shared EU threat assessment has come out. Should set the stage for the new European Security Strategy. This is where the 27 MS are right now in how they see the threat landscape. @fbermingham.bsky.social went through it and has some interesting bits on China. ↘️

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Great meeting. We agree on what needs to happen. But we all also know we need to act at speed and scale. And more success stories to get the political space and support from MS to hit the accelerator

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I agree. It doesn’t have to be the is way. I do think things are moving. But it’s like what Victor Hugo said of God, ie policy makers,“see the truth, but slowly”.

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Het was een opmerkelijk hoopgevend gesprek met @ajboekestijn.bsky.social en @robdewijk.bsky.social olv @hugoreitsma.bsky.social Europa moet nu investeren in eigen kracht - en doet dat ook. Met Oekraïne houden we Russen buiten de deur. Nu nog meer snelheid en lef…

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Hugo Reitsma @hugoreitsma.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Circus Trump dwingt Europa tot actie. @ajboekestijn.bsky.social en @robdewijk.bsky.social in gesprek met @sbeverts.bsky.social, directeur van het EU-Instituut voor Veiligheidsstudies: nu op de radio en daarna als podcast hier: plus.bnr.nl/boekestijn-e...

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BNR Nieuwsradio | Boekestijn & De Wijk

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EU Institute for Security Studies @euiss.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

🇨🇳 Europe must stop postponing the China debate. As Beijing increasingly uses trade, technology and critical raw materials as tools of power, reducing strategic dependencies is no longer just an economic imperative: it's a security one, writes @sbeverts.bsky.social. shorturl.at/Ss1mL

Quote from EUISS Commentary written by Steven Everts, 'Europe must really confront China now: Delay is no longer an option' | "The EU has a wide range of instruments to tackle Chinese malpractice. But those assets only count if they are played strategically. And that is precisely what Europe is failing to do."

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