Rodrigo A. Sepúlveda Schulz 🇪🇺

Voilà ce que devraient être des rapports normaux entre tous les pays du monde. Ces images redonnent foi mais bien sûr ne feront pas la une des chaînes d’infos

People mock the EU as “bureaucracy”. But that bureaucracy turned a continent of borders, currencies and wars into a space where 450 million people can travel, pay, call, study and work almost as if it were domestic. That is not boring. That is civilization becoming usable.

Europe's biggest technology companies call for a United Europe. CEOs of Airbus, ASML, Ericsson, Mistral AI, Nokia, SAP, and Siemens: "Let's act as One Europe, Now"

A 14 year old in America quit his weekend shifts at Domino's after he realized he could make more money during one lunch break with a laptop than an entire weekend making pizzas for $8.50 an hour. He was sitting in a coffee shop googling roofing companies near his house for a school project about local businesses. Noticed something. JM Roofing 3rd Generation. 5.0 stars. 49 reviews. Family owned. Three generations. Located in LA. No website. A company with a perfect rating and 49 reviews and no website. He checked another roofing company. Same thing. Then a plumber. Same thing. Then a landscaper. Same. He opened Claude Code on his laptop and typed: write me a cold outreach script for local businesses that have great Google reviews but no website. Make it sound like I'm a professional web agency. Claude wrote it in 30 seconds. He called JM Roofing. The owner picked up. He said: I found your company on Google Maps, you have 49 five star reviews and no website. I built you one. Can I show you? The owner said: I've been meaning to do that for years but never had time. The kid shared his screen. A full website. Clean, modern, black and gold. Hero section. Services page. Reviews pulled directly from Google. Booking button. Built in 47 minutes using AI tools and Claude Code while sitting in a coffee shop. The owner said yes on the spot. Invoice: $1,000. 47 minutes from first Google search to a closed $1,000 deal. His pizza shop shifts paid $60 for 6 hours of work. Then he built a system. Claude Code scrapes Google Maps for businesses with high ratings and no website. Filters by category, location, review count. Pulls 200 results in 10 minutes. Then Claude writes a personalized email for each one using their real business data, their name, their rating, their review count, their address. 500 emails a day. 3% respond. That's 15 new leads every single day without him doing anything. Month one: $4,000. Month three: $11,000. Month six: $18,000. All from finding businesses on Google Maps that have great reputations and no website, building one with AI in under an hour and calling them before anyone else does. He recorded a 47 second video showing the entire process from Google Maps search to finished website to invoice sent. Caption: this is your sign to quit your job. He's 14. He doesn't have a job to quit. He has something better. A laptop, Claude Code and 5 million businesses on Google Maps still waiting for that call. His pizza shop manager asked why he quit. He said he found better work. The manager asked where. He said Google Maps. The manager didn't understand. The kid didn't explain. He was already in the coffee shop building the next website. $1,000 per site. One hour per site. 15 leads per day. The math doesn't need Claude to figure out. But Claude does the work.

Pour la première fois, un dirigeant occidental majeur a dit à voix haute ce que beaucoup en Europe pensaient en privé : l'article 5 de l'OTAN – la garantie qu'une attaque contre un est une attaque contre tous – ne peut plus être tenu pour acquis. Et ce n'est pas un ennemi qui l'a mis en doute. C'était Washington. Il y a désormais un doute sur l'article 5, non pas formulé par les Européens, mais par le président des États-Unis », a déclaré Macron à Athènes, aux côtés du Premier ministre grec. Macron pointe désormais du doigt quelque chose dont la plupart des gens n'ont jamais entendu parler : l'article 42.7, enfoui dans le traité de Lisbonne de l'UE et ignoré pendant des décennies. C'est la propre clause de défense mutuelle de l'UE : si un État membre est attaqué, tous les autres sont obligés d'aider par tous les moyens à leur disposition. Macron l'a qualifié de plus fort que l'article 5, avec « aucune place pour l'interprétation ou l'ambiguïté » et, de manière cruciale, il ne nécessite pas la bénédiction de Washington. Elle a déjà été utilisée. Lorsque Chypre a été menacée dans les premiers jours de la guerre en Iran, la France, la Grèce, l'Espagne, l'Italie, les Pays-Bas et le Portugal ont précipitamment déployé des moyens militaires sur l'île – le premier véritable test de l'article 42.7 dans une crise réelle. Le Premier ministre grec Mitsotakis l'a qualifié de « gamechanger ». Il a été honnête sur la raison pour laquelle on l'avait ignoré auparavant : « Nous n'en avons jamais parlé parce que nous pensions que l'OTAN s'en chargerait toujours. » Cette présomption a disparu. Les dirigeants de l'UE élaborent désormais un manuel formel sur le fonctionnement pratique de la clause. Le président du Conseil européen Costa l'a confirmé sans détour : « Nous concevons le manuel sur la manière d'utiliser cette clause d'assistance mutuelle. » Quelque chose que les politiciens européens ont évité pendant des décennies est désormais débattu ouvertement.

Yes, the EU must evolve. From a bureaucracy to a democracy.

Après sa déclaration contre le #RN, Giorgia Meloni est contre la proposition américaine d’inviter Poutine au prochain sommet du G20. Elle dit que Trump a déjà fait trop de concessions à la Russie et qu’il est temps d’exiger que la Russie se retire d’Ukraine.

These 6 countries form Europe’s defensive line against Russia. 🇫🇮🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇵🇱🇺🇦

For those wondering why NATO exists and why countries want to join the defensive alliance.

Mark Cuban just described the largest wealth transfer of the AI era. Almost nobody understood what he said. Cuban: “There are 33 million companies in this country. Aren’t going to have AI budgets. Aren’t going to have AI experts.” Not tech startups. The shoe store. The regional trucking outfit. The accounting firm with 12 employees. The businesses that actually run the physical economy. They know AI is coming. They have no idea what to do with it. Cuban: “You’ve got the head of Microsoft saying software is dead because everything’s going to be customized to your unique utilization.” Software is dead. The SaaS era ran on one rule. Build a generic product. Force millions of companies to bend their workflows around it. Charge rent forever. AI ends the contract. The business stops bending to the software. The intelligence bends to the business. But customized by whom. The third-generation manufacturer cannot tell Claude from Gemini. The county hospital is staring at a reactor asking where the light switch is. Cuban: “Who’s going to do it for them?” That question is worth more than the frontier models themselves. Hundreds of billions are being burned to build the foundation. The smartest engineers alive are locked in a bloodbath over who owns the base layer. Let them fight. Let them burn the capital. Let them drive the cost of raw intelligence toward zero. Because the wealth does not collect where the brain is built. It collects where the brain meets the business. Every ambitious kid in college right now thinks survival means a seat at OpenAI or Anthropic. Cuban is staring at the other 99 percent of the economy. Learn the models. Then learn the messy, unglamorous reality of how a 50-person company actually operates. Walk through the door. Understand their problems. Wire the intelligence directly into their revenue. That is not a job title. That is an entire economic class being born. You do not need to build the brain. You need to build the nervous system. The biggest winners of the electricity era were not the engineers who built the generators. They were the ones who walked into dark factories and showed the owners where to plug in. 33 million companies are standing in the dark right now. Silicon Valley is racing to build the god. The fortunes will belong to whoever teaches him a trade.

Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com

Excellente nouvelle pour la souveraineté numérique européenne ! 👇 La Commission UE attribue un appel d’offre de 180M€ sur 6 ans à 4 acteurs européens du cloud (Post Telecom 🇱🇺, StackIT 🇩🇪, Scaleway 🇫🇷, Proximus 🇧🇪 & leurs partenaires CleverCloud, OVHcloud, S3NS, Clarence et Mistral) afin de faire passer son cloud (et celui de ses agences et autres entités) sous bannière européenne 🇪🇺 Avec ce nouveau cap, nous faisons le choix de notre indépendance, de notre sécurité et de l’innovation made in Europe. Plus d’infos 👉 ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…

Vance says the Pope "should be more careful when talking about theology" 👇NY Times What a time to be alive 🤡

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Former U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton: "It is shocking that Trump said no one informed him that Iran could close the Strait of Hormuz. I find it unbelievable that one of the fundamental pillars of geopolitical strategy in the Middle East was ignored. That was the first thing we assumed Iran would do. It is their main tool of global leverage. We are now seeing the consequences of a foreign policy driven by impulse rather than strategy.

This👇is quite extraordinary, showing how much Trump is uniting Europeans on all sides 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 him Elly Schlein, Leader of Italy's largest opposition party, (herself 50/50🇮🇹🇺🇸) furiously condemns Trump's attacks on her opponent Meloni. The whole Chamber stands up to applaud the whole time. My English s/t👇 "Italy is a free and sovereign country. Our Constitution is clear - Italy repudiates war. No foreign Head of State has the right to attack, threaten or disrespect our country or government. We are opponents in this Chamber, but we are all Italian citizens and Italian MPs. We are asking for unanimous condemnation of these attacks and threats"

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This is the European Union in 2050. The strongest country in the world.

🚨Meloni has just disavowed Trump 🇮🇹🇻🇦 "Trump's statement is unacceptable" “I wouldn’t feel comfortable in a society in which religious leaders do what political leaders say.” "I stand with Pope Leo.”

THIS IS ULTRA SAVAGE 🔥 Journalist –– Why do you think President Trump posted that photo depicting Jesus? 🇺🇸 Rep Nancy –– "You should ask a psychiatrist. It needs diagnosis, not conversation" 😂