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How to give a trade speech, 2025 ed.: - paraphrase Ronald Reagan - threaten retaliation, with details on tools - paraphrase Ronald Reagan again - conclude "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…

Keir Starmer calls this moment a "crossroads in history." "Europe must do the heavy lifting. But to support peace on our continent, and to succeed, this effort must have strong U.S. backing." Follow updates from Stephen Castle Mark Landler here: nytimes.com/live/2025/03/0…

“It doesn’t matter how good you are if there aren’t enough of you.” Europe is racing, but tis troop, military tech, and capability problems are real. Steven Erlanger's on it. nytimes.com/2025/03/07/wor…

"Producers of uranium, shrimp, T-shirts and steel highlighted the unfair trade treatment they faced, in hopes of bending the president’s trade agenda in their favor." A nice tariff update by Ana Swanson. nytimes.com/2025/03/24/bus…

May we all have the same main character energy as my neighborhood goose.

What does the unfolding US-EU trade war mean for Europe's economy? "We now forecast little growth for the rest of 2025," Goldman Sachs economists say in a note. A bad case-scenario would "push the Euro area into a technical recession in 2025, for a total GDP hit of 1.2%"

China can bring the charm. It might not work. nytimes.com/2025/04/04/wor…

This week redefined "life comes at you fast."

"We Poles will not live in a gray zone ever again." Great Steven Erlanger piece on Poland's push for a more self-reliant Europe. nytimes.com/2025/05/07/wor…

Including the walk-off quote: "We don’t need to be as good as the United States. We only need to be better than Russia.”

"She's so fantastic, she's so fantastic, I hope we're going to meet," President Trump says of Ursula von der Leyen during his Oval Office appearance Thursday. "The answer is yes." He adds that the E.U. is a "big thing" and that "they want to make a deal very badly."

Context here: The two haven't met formally since he's taken office, though they chatted briefly at Pope Francis' funeral in Rome. x.com/jeannasmialek/…