Jim Cloos

@fuecks It is not a failure of leadership it is respecting the EU rules. But do not worry. It will be sorted out.

Where is Plan B? It’s incredible that van der Leyen, Merz, and all the others make Ukraine's financial survival contingent on Orbán’s approval. What a failure of leadership. politico.eu/article/eu-no-…

@GerardAraud It is the story of a malicious tail wagging a very stupid dog!

Looking at Donald Trump pushing the world economy into the abyss and incoherently conducting a senseless war, it is impossible not to think of the well known Shakespeare quotation : “It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”. Macbeth.

@SariArhoHavren Thanks but no thanks!

Hmm. Sounds like the Trump administration is preparing to cut ties with Europe.

@spooked75 That’s the spirit!

As an American I have something I want to tell Europeans. Enough with your fucking defeatism. You once possessed some of the most powerful militaries in the world, act like it. Europe's enemy is solely Russia and that's it. Unlike the United States, Europe doesn't run around making worldwide enemies, and unlike the US, Europe isn't Israel's bitch. Some Europeans think the United States leaving NATO would be a bad thing. I think Europe should look to its own defense. Two to three years of peace in the last 51 years, that's the US Record. In those 51 Years, with the exception of the war here in Ukraine and the former Yugoslavia, Europe has been at peace during that time. As an American living in Europe, I can tell you, Americans don't think like Europeans. They only think about themselves and what's best for them. You as Europeans need to stop thinking less of yourselves, you're far better than you think you are.

@rugbyphilosophy That is beautifully put!

Dear 6 Nations fans, I want to give you an insight into the mindset of Southern Hemisphere (albeit New Zealand) rugby fans. For years, there’s been this sentiment down under that 6 Nations rugby is rubbish compared to the Rugby Championship. Admittedly, it turns out this rivalry is pretty one-sided. Apparently, you guys don’t really care much about the North vs South thing, while down here, we care deeply. Like a little brother making up a competition just so he can beat his older brother. But I want to give you some insight into where this perception has come from and why we think this way. 6 Nations fans love their rugby because it produces some of the most exceptional rivalries, and high pressure moments in the international rugby. Highly pressurised, back and forth, leave-nothing-on-the-field, pressure cauldrons. Each team duking it out with each other, landing blows, trading penalties, until one team finally wrestles momentum to score the match-winning penalty with seconds left on the clock. BUT... they were trading penalties. Every moment one team gave an inch, the other team would capitalise in the form of a penalty. To us New Zealanders, we’d wake up on a Sunday morning, pop on the highlights, and watch a 3-minute penalty compilation. "Boring!" we’d shout, and go back to drinking our milo and eating our marmite toast. What we missed were the stories. The moments, the pressure, the devastation of loss and heartbreak at a mere penalty changing the balance of an 80-minute encounter. "But we want tries," we’d say. Most Northern Hemisphere fans would think we meant try-fests, or defenceless muckabouts where it’s basically like watching 7s. No time building pressure, no moments of teams beating each other to try to force an inch of difference. But that was far from what we meant. It’s not just more tries because of poor defence. It’s tries because teams and players are so exceptional in their skillset that they are able to exploit the smallest error for a try, rather than focusing on the big giveaways that result in penalties. And that final game between England and France perfectly encapsulates what we’ve been saying all this time. Rather than a tit-for-tat of penalties building to massive moments, it’s a tit-for-tat of incredible tries. It was the same beautiful, powerful, pressured rivalry. The same storied history. The same never-say-die attitude, the same moments of pressure, the same giving everything on the field, but now the moments, the inches given, are capitalised on not by penalties, but by tries. Two powerhouse teams giving their all, exchanging blows and capitalising on each other's mistakes with TRIES. Beautiful, glorious, spectacular tries! Just look at this shift: France (2022): 17 tries and 12 penalty goals. France (2026): 30 tries and 3 penalty goals. England (2022): 8 tries and 17 penalty goals. England (2026): 21 tries and 6 penalty goals. This latest game is the exact opposite of what we’ve critiqued about 6 Nations rugby in years gone by. It's exactly what we've been talking about! It's the kind of rugby that keeps us awake at 3:00am. And if this is the new 6 Nations, then the old 'North vs South' grudge is officially moot. That was world-class rugby, and we can't get enough of it.

@Eberretta Renvoyez-le là d’où il vient.

Paris avait convoqué l’ambassadeur américain Kushner. A 19 h, personne. Il a fait faux bond. La France lui ferme en retour les portes du gouvernement. Une séquence inédite dans la relation franco-américaine. Source : Quai d’Orsay.

@USNATO @UnderSecE Coercition and blackmail come primarily now from across the Atlantic. That raises indeed questions about partnering, does it not?

“We want to make sure that Europe doesn’t partner with countries that will coerce it and blackmail Europe every single day of that partnership." - @UnderSecE

@NathalieLoiseau You are so unfair. Look they have one lady in the « core » group , from Kosovo, then there is Belarus, and of course Orban whose country is slowly descending towards the bottom of the league in the EU. I am curious to see what money they will provide for reconstruction in Gaza!

Madame Suica aurait dû rencontrer l’ancien ambassadeur américain en Israël, comme je l’ai fait, avant de se précipiter au Board of Peace. Il aurait eu deux ou trois choses à lui apprendre.👇🏻

@Simon_Nixon Interesting. Listening to you it is America first in America and America first in Europe. Some partnership!!

I do hope the EU will stand firm in the face of this latest Wolf Warrior assault. How can Europeans possibly allow their defence to remain dependent on a country that threatened to invade a NATO ally and which cut off intelligence sharing and weapons deliveries to Ukraine?

@21NewsBE Since you are such an expert on social matters, why not apply your great skills to help sort out the social and health problems in your country? And maybe get some advice from Europeans on how to improve your lamentable figures on crime rates, life expectancy, and health stats.

Bill White: « Votre système social est impayable, insoutenable et irréaliste. Combien de personnes sont, déjà, en incapacité de longue durée avec une allocation en Belgique ? Un demi-million ? Combien d'entre elles sont en train de skier en ce moment ?" 21news.be/bill-white-amb…

@BarryAndrewsMEP @realDonaldTrump @EurobarometerEU Can someone please transmit this to VP Vance who keeps ranting on about the Europeans trying to sabotage themselves! They clearly do not since they support the EU mr Vance hates so much.

Thank you @realDonaldTrump 🇪🇺 "...support for the EU is now higher than it has ever been in many places. Denmark, Sweden and Finland, countries that have previously been lukewarm, are experiencing soaring EU support. The latest @EurobarometerEU confirms: over 67% of Europeans wish for a stronger and more assertive EU." Source: @LuukvMiddelaar @BIGEurope

@FoxNews The problem that we have with the United States is not that we don’t like America, it is that they do seem to be hellbent on sabotaging their democracy and ours to boot!

VP VANCE: "We want Europe to thrive, and we want Europe to succeed." "The problem that we have with Europe is not that we don't like Europe, even though you hear that from the European press, it's not that we don't respect our allies, it's that they are doing a lot of things to sabotage themselves."

@StateDept @SecRubio We have a rather different reading of Culture and Civilisation I am afraid.

The core point of my speech yesterday remains that our relationship to Europe is not just a military, commercial, or trade alliance. It is built on something even more important: the cultural, historical, and religious ties that we share as people. @SecRubio

@MiRo_SPD Eben!

Vielleicht noch ein kleiner Tipp für alle Rubio-Versteher wie Jens Spahn und Co: der US-Außenminister fliegt nicht weiter nach Paris, Rom, Kyiv oder Warschau - sondern nach Budapest, um dort Wahlkampf für einen korrupten EU-Hasser und Putin-Freund zu machen.

@iamlouay Intéressant ce que vous écrivez et un tout petit peu rassurant. Mais alors que dire des organisateurs du happening? Incompétents, vendus, naïfs? Ou simplement de bons vieux transatlantistes qui veulent préserver leur fonds de commerce?

🇺🇸👏 MUNICH, L'ÉPILOGUE : SCANNER D’UNE "STANDING OVATION" COMME À LA MAISON 🎪 🪞 Depuis hier, de nombreux médias sont en transe : "Oh mon Dieu, Rubio a été ovationné ! L’Europe est à PLAT VENTRE" Messieurs-dames, relevez tout de suite la tête de la cuvette, et arrêtez de vous fournir chez #RFKJr 💊 😵‍💫 On va partir ensemble en cure de désintox, moi inclus 😅 Alors, j’ai sorti mon petit boulier-compteur du tiroir, ainsi que mes jumelles made in Dresden (et oui, l'Europe sait encore fabriquer des optiques, MERCI 😁). Ce que certains laissaient supposer s'est avéré assez juste : cette salle bondée s'apparentait surtout à une réunion Tupperware organisée par l'Oncle Sam 🇺🇲 Dans la grande salle du Bayerischer Hof, capable d’accueillir plus de 1.000 personnes, la plus imposante délégation américaine de l’histoire de Munich occupait une large partie des sièges : comme vous pouvez l'imaginer, Rubio n’est pas venu seul, il a même presque déménagé le Congrès 🇺🇸 en Allemagne… avec une bonne douzaine de sénateurs (Graham, Wicker, Slotkin, Ernst, Murkowski, et toute la clique), incluant une armée de clones en costume gris du Département d’État et suffisamment d’agents du Secret Service pour envahir une partie du Liechtenstein ! Et vous allez comprendre pourquoi il est assez facile de faire une standing ovation quand tu ramènes ta propre team dans tes valises ! 🎰 Et qui chauffe la salle, la bave aux lèvres… Bingo, les VRP de l'apocalypse 🔥⚔️ Dans et autour de la conférence, il y avait le top du gratin : Alex Karp (Palantir), les gens de Lockheed Martin, RTX Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, et leurs copains allemands de Rheinmetall (Armin Papperger), Hensoldt, Diehl Defence, et Krauss-Maffei Wegmann qui sentent l’odeur du sang frais ! Eux, ils n’applaudissaient pas la "civilisation occidentale", mais le carnet de commandes. Et chaque mot de Rubio sonnait comme un bruit de caisse enregistreuse qui vibrait dans leur tête ! 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 Ajoutez à ça les think tanks habituels (Atlantic Council, German Marshall Fund, CEPA) payés pour hocher la tête comme les toutous à l’arrière des voitures… n'en jetez plus, vous l'avez votre triomphe ROMAIN 👏 🙌 L’Europe, elle, a été noyée sous la frénésie, le fric et la testostérone américaine. LES VRAIS EUROPÉENS, (ceux qui ne rampent pas), étaient coincés et parsemés dans la salle, avec un sourire crispé, priant pour que le calvaire s’arrête, comme des végétariens invités à un barbecue Texan 😬🍖🥦 ➡️ obligé, c’est mon ratio légumes du jour 😅 #Munich #Europe #Ukraine #Trump #MSC2026 #Rubio

@MarcelHVanHerpe Exactly!’ 👍

Rubio wanted Europe to be strong and left Munich to see his friends Fico and Orban, who want to destroy the EU!

@RussiasPivot Learn your geography! Belgium is 30,000 square km. Luxembourg is 2,500! It is so easy to check, why don’t you before spouting such nonsense?

@SkyNews So that Tony Blair can earn more millions? What a world.

Donald Trump wants countries to pay $1bn to be permanent members of the US-backed Board of Peace, according to reports 🔗 Read more trib.al/XfRracI

@PpollingNumbers Appalling that 40% support him!

New - Trump approval polls CBS - 1/16 🟤 Disapprove 59% (+18) 🟢 Approve 41 Marist - 1/13 🟤 Disapprove 57% (+18) 🟢 Approve 39% IPSOS - 1/13 🟤 Disapprove 58% (+17) 🟢 Approve 41%

@LucFrieden J’apprends cette nouvelle juste au moment où je m’apprêtais à écrire à Robert Goebbels avec qui je correspondais régulièrement ces dernières années. Nous nous envoyions mutuellement nos articles et échangions sur l’état de l’Europe et du monde. Je suis dévasté.

Avec Robert Goebbels, ancien ministre et député européen, le Luxembourg perd un homme politique engagé, ouvert et agréable. Je me rappelle avec plaisir nos discussions au Gouvernement Juncker. Son nom restera à jamais associé aux accords de Schengen.