The EU thread

[Josquius]

Trump pretending to be super anti China and all about containing them (less pronounced today than in the past it's true) is an interesting contest with his deciding to destroy US aid.
If combating China was your real goal you'd be vastly increasing the US aid budget.

Also going tariff crazy around the world - this will really help level the playing field and water down the tariffs on China.

China are no doubt very happy right now.

[Sheilbh]

Apologies for the X link but can't find this clip anywhere else (only the longer speech) - but Draghi is absolutely right giving the keynote address to the European Parliament. In this case it's on his report on competitiveness (which is right), but it goes for more than just the areas he was looking at in that report and is a more general critique:
https://x.com/JulienHoez/status/1891909381169488373

Key point after listing various things Europe has decided not to do like public debt, single market (I assume he's meaning in services and finance), creating a capital markets union etc, he finishes: "So when you ask me what is best to do now? I say I have no idea - but do something!"