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“Zusammenfassung: Die Europäer haben auf eine Bedrohung von außen nicht gemeinsam reagiert, sondern sind übereinander hergefallen. Der gestrige Tag war ein schwarzer Tag für Europa und ein Fest für seine Feinde.” www.zeit.de/politik/2026...

Ceuta: Ein Fest für die Feinde EuropasDie Reaktionen auf den Ausnahmezustand in Ceuta? Teils faktenfreies Spanien-Bashing. Man muss festhalten: Friedrich Merz fiel hier beinahe positiv auf.www.zeit.de

“DoorDash Air”. Let’s see. Super interesting how difficult delivery-by-drone has proven to be. techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/d...

DoorDash is building its own drone delivery business | TechCrunchDoorDash has received FAA approval to operate a commercial drone delivery service in the United States.techcrunch.com

Interesting, though unsurprising

Message from our main ally…

Recommended discussion with Radek Sikorski podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/t...

Can Europe Defend Itself Without America? Radek Sikorski on NATO & UkrainePodcast Episode · The Long Game with Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer · 30 July · 1hr 2minpodcasts.apple.com

That would be interesting

The German government is working on a plan on what to do if regions vote in extreme-right AFD governments which may not allow NATO troop movements or may otherwise want to impede defence policies and Russia deterrence. www.n-tv.de/politik/Sorg...

Sorge vor AfD-Wahlerfolgen - Bund arbeitet an Nato-NotfallplanIm September werden in Sachsen-Anhalt und Mecklenburg-Vorpommern neue Landtage gewählt. In Umfragen liegt die AfD klar vorn. Die Sorge vor einem Wahlerfolg führt in Berlin laut einem Bericht zu konkre...www.n-tv.de

Situation in Ceuta really concerning. “He added that ​facilities for unaccompanied minors were operating at 2,400 percent capacity.” www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

Spain deploys military as hundreds cross into Ceuta from MoroccoSpain will deploy military units to support police in Ceuta after hundreds of migrants breached the border fences from Morocco on Thursday, overwhelming local security forces. Nine bodies have been re...www.france24.com

Germany* 2026 *one part of Germany. Regional results are crazy diverse. Still.

In September, the 2 Million inhabitants of Sachsen-Anhalt, one of the 16 German Länder vote for their parliament. This is the current polling 👇

Investors cool on Europe’s old-style defence firms economist.com/business/202...

Investors cool on Europe’s old-style defence firmsBlame supply-chain snags, procurement obstacles and the rise of drone warfareeconomist.com

Reminder that it’s not only about drones www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

It was ‘most likely’ a Russian cruise missile that crashed in Poland, defence minister says – Europe liveInspector of the Polish Air Force says as part of Russia’s attack on Ukraine last night two missiles were identified as posing direct threat to Polandwww.theguardian.com

It’s raining 😍

You can now vote on the new Euro notes design and I think some of them look really cool! (But please: we’re not gonna do birds, but European personalities, right?!) surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknote...

Super interesting discussion (and paper) based on a huge dataset showing that peacetime rearmament is almost never financed by cuts in social spending cepr.org/multimedia/g...

Guns and ButterEurope's NATO members have pledged 3.5% of GDP to rearmament. The political argument is already about which social programmes will be sacrificed to pay for this, when the government chooses guns inste...cepr.org

This is the kind of research that just leaves me completely frustrated because like Marie writes, it really does feel like we can’t do anything right, you always do something wrong.