Dave Keating

European leaders have been unable to explain why releasing oil reserves just before a risky winter with likely supply disruptions due to the Iran War will help their citizens. They should just be honest: they felt they had no choice but to surrender to 🇺🇸extortion.

🇬🇧PM Andy Burnham has opened the door to the UK rejoining the EU - something he points out is supported by 60% of the British public. But, as 🇫🇷President Macron suggested yesterday, Britain likely couldn't rejoin on the same opt-out terms it had before. How is Brussels reacting?

"Telling Europeans they should pool sovereignty without first being honest with them about how dependent they are on America is like telling someone to start chemotherapy before telling them they have cancer." My interview with The European Republic podcast:

My interview in @wyborcza.pl, Poland's largest daily newspaper, about my book The Owned Continent and why life is better in Europe than in the USA. The photo is from this summer when I visited my Italian great-grandfather's home village 🙂

On Tuesday evening I'll be speaking with the European Journalism Initiative at the Brussels Press Club about my book The Owned Continent and how we can create a robust pan-European journalism space. More info here: theownedcontinent.eu/events

Mark Carney shied away from talking about any "associate membership" today in the 🇪🇺Parliament, but he did get specific about what he wants: an alliance that goes beyond trade into military, cultural and technological issues. The main goal? Liberation from 🇺🇸 dependence.

Tomorrow, Canadian PM Mark Carney will take the unprecedented step of attending the #SOTEU State of the Union speech in the 🇪🇺Parliament. I spent the past two weeks in Canada asking what people think about joining the EU. Their answers might surprise you.

Meta having to fork out $18bn to US states: is that America being protectionist against its own firm, or is it only considered protectionism when Europeans enforce their laws? Good question to ask the White House.

While Canada takes decisions showing dignity and courage, Europe takes decisions showing insecurity and fear. While Canada’s citizens demand their leaders show self-respect, Europe’s citizens accept their leaders humiliating this continent with their grovelling to Trump. My latest on Substack:

In this Substack video from Barcelona, I dismantle the arguments of people who say the EU is not a democracy. It just works differently from your national system.

What the US unilateral euro dump tell us about American plans for the dollar. My take: open.substack.com/pub/davekeat...

🇮🇹Meloni likes to present herself as a political outsider in the EU. The reality is, these days she's the political centre of gravity. She has🇪🇺Commission wrapped around her finger, as I wrote in February. 🇪🇸Sanchez is the political outsider in the EU. He's the one standing up to our feckless🇪🇺leaders.

It has been an extraordinary 24 hours, with tit-for-tat border controls between Spain and Italy resulting in checks in both countries. The fault lies with a 🇪🇺President who has refused to do her job as the guarantor of the Schengen treaty. My take:

It appears that EU governments, including Spain, don't want to know what was behind the migrant invasion into #Ceuta last week - because they're afraid where such questions might lead. I discussed with @julienhoez.eu in a Substack Live.

Europe's centre-and-far-right leaders chose to use an attack on an EU member state as a chance for cheap political points rather than show solidarity. A stark contrast to how they reacted when migrants were used as weapons against Poland by Belarus/Russia.

Sunday long read: EU institutional names and job titles are long-winded and confusing by design - national leaders did not want anything that gives the appearance of a state. But this does a disservice to citizens because it masks what they really are.

🇪🇺President von der Leyen’s proposal to weaken the #EUETS, the bedrock of EU climate action, sends a signal to companies and foreign governments that the Commission will easily cave before EU law might inconvenience them. My piece: