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Douglas Busvine
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After more than five hours of talks, EU negotiators have agreed to implement a trade deal with the U.S.
The move will likely avert Donald Trump’s threat to punish further delay with oppressive tariffs.
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Peak Macron:
Emmanuel Macron is set to host a video call between G7 countries and China to address global trade imbalances
EU official: French outreach to China “a good initiative” within the “wrong format.”
"G7 is anything but neutral"
Joined Politicos podcast this morning, on the day the Commission College discusses its response to the second China shock.
With Grzegorz from MERICS.
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At least three problems with EU action on China:
1 - There aren't realistic industrial goals for Europe
2 - Big companies want to do business with China
3 - Government ability to change what companies do is limited
www.politico.eu/article/eu-g...
The European Union agreed early this morning to implement a trade deal with the United States, likely averting a threat by President Donald Trump to punish further delay with oppressive tariffs.
Inside the unraveling of U.S. diplomacy under Trump
Is the EU finally ready to get serious about China? That’s the question increasingly dominating conversations in Brussels as fears grow that Europe is being squeezed by Beijing’s industrial machine…
“Making a Career in Dictatorship,” a new book by two German political scientists, Adam Scharpf and Christian Glassel, reads like what you might get if you crossed Hannah Arendt’s ideas about the “banality of evil” with a business school guide on how to get the most out of low performers.
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Finbarr Bermingham
Sander Tordoir
David Henig
POLITICO Europe
China is killing Europe’s chemicals industry. Brussels wants to intervene.
By @carlomartu.bsky.social
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Brad and @sandertordoir.bsky.social are doing God’s work cutting through German political inertia with facts and figures.
Required reading - especially in Berlin, and especially given the debates coming this summer.
Douglas Busvine
Stephan Faris
Michael Derby
Nils Redeker
Germany is the epicentre of the China Shock 2.0 reverberating in global markets
In a new joint paper, CFR's Brad Setser and I show the shock is a key driver of Germany’s economic malaise. And it's accelerating
Berlin needs to stop admiring the problem, and join efforts to fight back
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Donald Trump’s threats, personal envoys and hollowed‑out embassies are reshaping U.S. diplomacy. Allies from Europe to Asia are rewriting the rules of engagement — ignoring the president’s rhetoric an...
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Sander Tordoir
Fears over flagging industries has created an opportunity for Brussels to get tough on Beijing, officials and diplomats say.
Negotiators said the compromise will give European manufacturers more certainty, even though Brussels can’t guarantee Washington will stick to the deal.
Depressing:
"Would-be authoritarians don’t need to staff their regimes with ideological true believers, offer enticements or draconian punishments to make power grabs. They just need to figure out how to target their ideal labor pool: the frustrated and mediocre."
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Manufacturers are closing plants and cutting jobs as the EU debates how hard to push back against China.
A deal between the EU institutions to put last year’s transatlantic trade deal is within reach — but will it be done?
Talks start at 9 p.m. tonight ... @camgijs.bsky.social previews for @politico.eu
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