Wolfgang Munchau
@EuroBriefing
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speaks with a German accent, writes with a British one. Director of Eurointelligence; Columnist for UnHerd and DL News
Oxford
Joined October 2009
@EuroBriefing Same view - here
Please, @grantshapps, let’s avoid spreading misinformation. Accuracy matters especially on issues of such importance. @FT
@Bart_DeWever message was clear: Belgium will not back the EU’s plan to seize and repurpose Russian assets unless the entire mechanism is fundamentally
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The important question to ask about yesterday’s failure by the EU to agree the sequestration of Russian assets for a loan to Ukraine is why did the EU member states not accept Bart De Wever’s demand for full risk-sharing? This was a totally reasonable request since Belgium, as
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In our latest podcast, our team discusses China's export controls and what to do about them. https://t.co/Mb711WwTS9
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@EuroBriefing The US pressured the Dutch to make the move on Nexperia, and we duly complied.
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@EuroBriefing Ha! Precisely as there is no new trade and investment consensus at the #EU level reflecting a new geopolitical reality, national governments take back control. It will happen more and more. Look on what France is doing with taxing small shipments from China!
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If you're going to run, Polly, run towards your true nature. Embrace it. Accept that you must fight, monsters seek to shred you, the fog will smother everything, and the past can never be escaped. SILLY POLLY BEAST launches on the 28th, for PC, PlayStation, and Xbox.
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The Dutch government's too-clever-by-half decision to seize control of Nexperia, a chip maker, away from its Chinese owners is having a massive effect on European supply chains. The German car industry is 10-20 days away from a total production stop. The problem came after
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the one big reason why the EU is failing is a failure to invest in 21st-century technologies, civilian and defence. They listened to the wrong economists, who told them that it is perfectly fine to leave tech leadership to others. The result is a total tech dependency on the US,
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I have been arguing for a while that there exists no realistic path to victory for Ukraine, even more so after Trump ended military and financial support. Trump will now try to enforce a peace based on the current military battlelines. And Europe will support it because it is not
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Friedrich Merz’ idea of creating a capital markets union by merging European stock exchanges is a very big step – in the wrong direction. Europe’s problem is one industrial-scale capital misallocation through an oligopolistic banking system. A CMU needs a deep financial market
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Once upon a time, people were cancelled for crimes. Now, it takes a single tweet. In CANCELLED, @toadmeister and @danwootton break down how the bar for cancellation keeps sinking, and what that means for free speech. Watch the full documentary on Tousi TV+
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Here is our latest podcast, in which our team discusses whether the political chaos in France unique, or whether it reflects a wider phenonemon. https://t.co/Mb711WwTS9
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The latest data from the Kiel Institute's Ukraine support tracker reveal the hypocrisy of Ukraine’s European supporters. The numbers have fallen sharply. The EU is not going to fill the vacuum left by the US. https://t.co/VKWTz4IeXi
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And now for something completely different. My Eurointelligence column in which I admit that I am an unashamed frequentist. https://t.co/gJabfDbPWT
eurointelligence.com
In a world of bias and beliefs, the old world of frequentist statistics has its place.
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Poland and Lithuania are making a huge mistake by trying to torpedo the German prosecutor’s investigation into Nord Stream. The sheer degree of independence of the German public prosecutor might not be fully appreciated abroad. These interventions will not stop the investigation.
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Join us on Wednesday, Oct. 29 at 5pm ET for our conversation on the challenges with Web3 UX with special guest @BSmokes_ of @PistachioFi and builders at STRATO Mercata @kjameslubin @vic4wong @BobSummerwill
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@EuroBriefing Loved your book Kaput. Definitely the leadership in the UK and the US act like they live in the 2000s. They fail to grasp that most of the decisions they've made over the past three decades were wrong and what is crazy is that they're doubling down on them instead of changing
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@EuroBriefing EU has been historically weak in IT hardware and especially software, also because US strangled and buried it The story of Italy's Olivetti is an example, top 3 guys dead in months after US embassy threatened them
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@EuroBriefing Absolutely. Creative destruction is essential, but Europeans can't even take mild risks most times and the few exceptions are dragged down by national interests and envy.
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My latest column about the once again deteriorating Polish-German relationship. https://t.co/06SIDUtZM9
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The work of yesterday’s economics Nobel Prize winners goes a long way to explain the EU’s economic decline. It is a lack of innovation story. And no, the EU won’t piggyback on other people’s innovations. The regulations that prevented Europe from developing an AI industry are the
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You can always count on Emmanuel Macron to do the wrong thing – after trying out the other bad options first. The reappointment of Sébastien Lecornu as PM cannot really be described as a gamble. it is an act of desperation. When this ends, Macron will have destroyed his own
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‘India and China have more to gain from cooperation than from conflict.’ Read @EuroBriefing on Modi’s shift away from America👇 https://t.co/NKH9Zwn8fZ
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