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We look at our neighboring worlds and we see a grim warning. Venus is a runaway greenhouse hellscape, its surface hot enough to melt lead. Mars is a frozen, bone-dry desert. Earth is the anomaly,a perfectly balanced, delicate jewel where the conditions for life are miraculously just right. Yet, we continue to treat our atmosphere as if it were an infinite dumping ground. A fragile canopy. A destabilized climate. A global crisis.

The pre-epstein Musk.

And that's the truth.

So, turns out racist, wealthy white men are a bigger existential threat to our democracy than immigrants, trans people, drag queens or empowered women ever were. Or ever will be.

The official White House, celebrating this, confirming this was a political action against freedom of speech. And the American reaction to this is weak.

The president cancelling tv shows he doesn’t like & memeing about it on social media is a dystopian nightmare. 10 years, the very thought of this occurring would have been uncontroversially anti-american. MAGA has destroyed our country.

They want you to own nothing. They want you to rent your car, your house, your entire life from them, from a billionaire class that owns everything around you. That's their ideal future, and we can't let them have it.

As a Danish and European politician, I am not accustomed to deliberate public falsehood as a political method. But it is probably something we will have to get used to. Take, for example, Jeff Landry’s blatant falsehood that Donald Trump was the first major politician to truly place Greenland on the world map. If we confine ourselves to this century alone, Colin Powell was co-signatory of the Igaliku Agreement in 2004 while serving as Secretary of State. John Negroponte, then Deputy Secretary of State, represented the United States when the Ilulissat Declaration was signed in 2008. John Kerry visited Greenland in 2016 while serving as Secretary of State. And Antony Blinken visited the island in 2021. Greenland was also visited by Angela Merkel in 2007, when the purpose was to study climate change. And the island has continuously received visits from American politicians who genuinely take an interest in Arctic affairs. The foremost among them is undoubtedly Lisa Murkowski. So Greenland has long been on the world map - partly because of climate change, and partly because of the question of Arctic security. And Greenland has continuously been integrated into Arctic cooperation, not least as a consequence of the Igaliku Agreement. There was a time when I read a great deal of Jürgen Habermas and believed that the norm of truth was an unbreakable norm among civilized people. I believed that, as Habermas put it, the better argument exercised a kind of “forceless force.” What we lack today is a new Habermas for the twenty-first century - someone capable of describing the performative role of the lie. Because the reality is this: to someone who knows nothing about Greenland, Jeff Landry’s statements sound perfectly plausible. But they are simply a fabrication. A good story. Something designed to generate support without any ambition toward truth. Harry Frankfurt argued that this is the very essence of what he called “bullshit.” We no longer merely disagree about values. Increasingly, we disagree about reality itself. Jeff Landry is part of the post-truth culture that permeates American politics. But it is also something we in Europe will increasingly have to adapt to, simply because of the influence the United States possesses. It is difficult to say where this post-truth strategy will lead the Western world. But I will be honest: I have reached an age where I preferred the world shaped by the ideals of the Enlightenment - by truth as a moral norm and obligation. That world is gone. Perhaps permanently. I understand that. But I cannot pretend to admire the replacement.

Europe will not become a serious power until every member state accepts one reality: Integration creates trade-offs. Connecting Iberia properly to the rest of Europe would strengthen Europe’s energy security — but it could also weaken France’s advantage The EU-Mercosur deal would cover 700M people and boost EU exports in cars, machinery, chemicals, wine and services — but it also pressures farmers in countries like Poland and Ireland. Capital Markets Union could mobilise part of Europe’s €10T in household bank deposits into companies, infrastructure and industry — but it would also pressure weaker national financial systems. Joint defence procurement could reduce waste in a Europe spending almost €400B on defence in 2025 — but it means less national control over contracts. Most common policies benefit the majority. Some benefit export-led economies. Others benefit agricultural economies, energy gateways, financial centres or industrial regions. That is normal. It happens in the United States. It happens in China. Large unions always distribute gains unevenly across regions. But the Union is what creates the scale. Europe cannot demand the benefits of continental power while refusing the costs of integration.

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2 years ago, Joost Klein with Europapa was disqualified from Eurovision. It was the EuroPatriot song, banned by incompetent leaders which are ruining Eurovision. The whole organisation needs a reset. Eurovision needs to become a European event again, promoting our unity!

Getting closer and closer to reality. We knew Trump and Putin agree, we knew Putin and Xi agree, and now we know Trump and Xi agree. They want to rule the world, without objections, absolutely. Is this too extreme? Or a potential reality we should not dismiss?

One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death. Gaza in 2023 and 2026!

I join Amnesty International in condemning #Eurovision and call everyone with a conscience not to watch it. BIG THANK YOU to the 5 countries who withdrew from the competition: Iceland! Ireland! Netherlands! Slovenia! Spain! Put Apartheid out of our lives.

I’m grateful to our warriors for their precision – today, Ukraine’s long-range sanctions have once again reached Perm, which is more than 1,500 kilometers from our border. Recently, there have also been important results in Chelyabinsk – up to 1,800 kilometers away, as well as in Yekaterinburg – nearly 2,000 kilometers away. The effects of Ukraine’s long-range capabilities have also been felt in Novorossiysk, Krymsk, Tuapse, and in the Samara and Nizhny Novgorod regions. We have repeatedly offered the Russian leadership the option of moving toward peace. In response, we have received only new Russian strikes. That is exactly why Ukraine’s long-range sanctions are extending to distant locations in Russia linked to its military-industrial complex, war infrastructure, and the financing of its aggression. Every day, Russia can make a choice and end its war. And not for a few hours in order to receive our permission to hold a parade in Moscow, but in a way that protects human lives. People must be valued, not parades. There is a need to establish peace, rather than running around the world’s capitals begging for a pause on May 9. We need peace. Thank you to everyone helping bring Russia to this realization.

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A lesson on social democracy that is not from a lying billionaire.