The Commission should deliver the promised deregulation VERY QUICKLY! We don't have a second to lose. The USA is pulling further and further ahead every day. If we don't want our children begging to clean toilets in the USA, we need to fix the economy NOW.

I cannot express how extremely severe for the UK this is. Even more severe for the EU. AI is the most powerful tool humans have ever created. Because European governments have regulated us all to death, we are now heading to a doom loop. That means businesses left behind unable to compete, always losing out. It’s means Governments at the mercy of superpowers. You can once again thank our utterly useless leaders for this. Their shortsightedness and hunger for power means we will all be vastly poorer in so many ways.

EU keeps lagging. It is the fact When I came to Brussels in 2010 as EU Commissioner, 🇪🇺had the same nominal GDP as 🇺🇸; now, it is significantly lower, while 🇨🇳 has caught up to it. EU income per person is 70% of America’s & the gap is widening @KGeorgieva

Was invited to speak about transport infrastructure and energy security in the @Europarl_EN earlier this week. Fantastic discussion hosted by MEP Musiou and ROMOTANA. The Romanian community was extremely welcoming to a random British guy representing a Japanese company.

Massively looking forward to joining the @EU_EESC in Sofia in July. I'll be making the case for a laser focus on Europe's struggling industries. That means ambitious and meaningful deregulation, and a business first mindset in Europe. Through free markets will Europe thrive!

I don't think it's a healthy dynamic that journalists across several outlets make themselves so readily available to serve in Commission power struggles. Europeans don't have the same institutional memory of Alastair Campbell style media management as Brits, which broke the UK.

Never mind the politics. Never mind what it means for the Labour leadership. Ponder the seriousness of the claim which John Healey and Al Carns are making. Britain can no longer defend itself adequately.

There is not a single problem facing the EU that cannot be explained in a single tweet by a non-premium user, which is expanded into a purely descriptive and self-congratulatory 350-page staff working document anyway.

A devastating blow to the Prime Minister. Britains inability to pay its agreed share of defence projects has stained its reputation amongst allies. The admirable Mr Healy is absolutely correct to criticise the cannibalisation of defence to fund budget shortfalls elsewhere.

And in any case, as things stand now, downsizing the EEAS would only result in an even greater power grab for Ursula von der Leyen—who already acts, without any mandate, as a de facto foreign policy chief. She, in terms of her destructive role, far exceeds Kallas.

Another CEO of a major European corporation warning about the EU's insatiable desire to regulate all in its sight. If EU is to compete effectively, its officials must acknowledge that they don't know everything, can't predict the future, and so can't control the economy.

It's not fashionable to be pro-American in Brussels anymore, but the United States remains an inspiration for all of us who love liberty and freedom. So it's amazing that @MCC_Brussels have packed out the beautiful Cercle Royale Gaulois for a day of celebration and debate.

INDLÆG I KONTRAST OM HENRY NOWAK: ""Jeg kan ikke trække vejret." Sådan lød de sidste ord fra den 18-årige britisk-polske Henry Nowak, som døde i det britiske politis varetægt, efter at han blev stukket med kniv flere gange af sikhen Vickrum Digwa i december 2025. Digwa hævdede, at Nowak kom med racistiske bemærkninger mod ham, så da betjentene ankom, troede de på Digwas forklaring og lagde den hårdt sårede Nowak i håndjern, selvom han gentagne gange fortalte, at han var blevet stukket med kniv. En betjent svarede: "I don’t think you have, mate." Betjentene brugte plastikhandsker, da de satte Nowak i håndjern. En videooptagelse viser, at hans hænder på det tidspunkt er hvide på grund af blodtabet. Ingen global protest Modsat sagen om George Floyd har denne sag ikke udløst protester verden over. Forskellen er blevet forklaret med race. Floyd var sort, Nowak var hvid. Men ideologien hævder jo at handle om universel menneskelig værdighed. Hvis det var sandt, ville Nowaks død have udløst den samme refleks. At den ikke gjorde, afslører noget, som ideologien helst ikke vil indrømme: dens empati er ikke universel. Den er organiseret omkring et bestemt narrativ om skyld og offer — og dem, der falder uden for det narrativ, tæller simpelthen ikke på samme måde. Det er ikke en tilfældighed. Det er et hierarki. Pyrrhussejr Når racisme er blevet det værste, man overhovedet kan være, skyldes det arven fra Anden Verdenskrig, hvor de vestlige allieredes sejr på flere områder har vist sig at være en pyrrhussejr. Efterkrigstidens frygt for nationalisme var forståelig. Verdenskrigene var de værste krige i Europas historie. Problemet er, at denne frygt med tiden udviklede sig til en mistænkeliggørelse af enhver form for legitim kollektiv identitet. Der er tydeligvis forskel på at mene, at majoriteten i Danmark bør bestå af etniske danskere, og på det, der skete i Auschwitz. Alligevel blev lektionen, at enhver form for etnisk kategorisering automatisk fører til folkemord. Hvad der burde have været en reaktion fra immunforsvaret mod sygdom, er nu blevet en auto-immun sygdom."

EU tech policy is so surreal, arcane, perplexing and self-defeating that people are having problems distinguishing parody from reality.

It’s not your job to “find” the UK’s first trilion-dollar firm. If you want businesses to succeed in Britain, perhaps start by taxing less and removing the red tape that makes the business environment so hostile.

Sharing footage is divisive. Asking why it's happening is divisive. Asking what we can do to stop it is divisive. You wouldn't want to be divisive, would you?

Extremely sad that @MKarnitschnig will be stepping down at Euractiv. Matt has done excellent work in pushing the EU journalistic bubble to challenge itself and be better. He walks away from Euractiv with that institution so much stronger than before. Best wishes, Matt!

Taxpayer money deaerves better. Europeans pay the highest taxes in the developed world, and suffer from the largest public debts in the developed world. So why is the Commission spending millions on cooking lessons with celebrity chefs and billions to produce one building?

As the news of FCAS' demise breaks, no one has ever felt more vindicated than I do right now. Huge France L

Probably for the best. The blame here lies fully with France, who really need to learn lessons if they have ambitions for European defence. France demanded naval capability, even though it's partners do not have aircraft carriers. Ten years of arguments later, here we are.

POV: You are a European Politician and an American has told you he doesn’t agree with one of your government’s policies