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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, at the #SupportUkraine summit in Kyiv, called on leaders to remove all red lines in Ukraine’s fight against Russian aggression. She also said that Europe has only a couple of months to make necessary decisions or it will be too late.

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On defence it’ll be tough, but on much else Europe can reap gains from Trump’s disruption.On trade, by implementing Mercosur.On aid, climate & global south, by filling hole left by US.On int. role of € given market jitters. If we don’t move, others will.Time to think & act big

Europeans,

I wrote a new piece in foreign policy. The US's postwar role as guarantor of Europe’s security is over – and may even turn adversarial. But Europe has an overlooked trump card: when it comes to manufacturing Europe blows the US out of the water. 1/x foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/07/eur…

According to our analysis, a single Chinese state-owned shipbuilder produced more commercial vessels by tonnage in 2024 than the entire U.S. industry has since World War II. Read our full CSIS report: csis.org/analysis/ship-…

Deres Majestæter, velkommen! Danmark og Frankrig, trofaste venner, går hånd i hånd. Sammen for at opbygge et stærkt, suverænt og konkurrencedygtigt Europa.

CSIS paper by Maria Snegovaya et al, which lays out Russia's successes & weaknesses: "underdeveloped military high-tech industry, corruption in...procurement, an overheating economy, and labor shortages due to war-induced migration and attrition" csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/20…

New commentary by @steinbergf breaks down a possible European response to President Trump’s “Reciprocal” Tariffs ⬇️ csis.org/analysis/possi…

"The crux of Europe’s rearmament problem remains that the European defense market is fragmented and riddled by technological gaps, empty order books, and parochial national procurement processes." ✍ ERE's Otto Svendsen on SAFE in War on the Rocks warontherocks.com/2025/04/in-bri…

New paper by me and Alexander Kolyandr at CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program. We do a deep dive on the impact of Western sanctions on the Russian economy, and discuss the lessons for policymakers trying to refine their sanctions strategy amidst negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. csis.org/analysis/down-…

The United States only accounts for 0.1% of global shipbuilding while China produces more than the rest of the world combined. For nearly three decades, China's targeting of the maritime, logistics, and shipbuilding sectors for dominance has marginalized America's shipbuilding

Great work by my CSIS colleague Nicholas Fenton! Worth a read to better understand the state of Russia's wartime economy

En route pour Kyiv. Pour l’Ukraine, pour l’Europe. On our way to Kyiv. For Ukraine, for Europe. Auf dem Weg nach Kyjiw. Für die Ukraine, für Europa. W drodze do Kijowa. Dla Ukrainy, dla Europy.

Met with Jesper Møller Sørensen 🇩🇰 Sørensen and Acting Greenland in USA&CDA🇬🇱 Lynge. America has been fortunate to have capable Danish allies in our corner when we’ve needed them most. The future of the US-Denmark relationship must be rooted in that same trust, mutual respect, and shared interests.

Denmark just rallied to knock Sidney Crosby and team Canada out of the IIHF World Championship 😲

Apart from reflecting a misguided view of America's economic and diplomatic interest, the threatened 50% tariffs on the EU are big -- imports from the EU are 2 pp of GDP, the just pay it cost is ~ 1 pp of GDP. That's well over 2x the term 1 trade action v China. 1/

Denmark has quit the so-called Frugal Four to focus on rearming Europe, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has announced. "Being a part of the Frugal Four is no longer the right place for us," she said. "For me, the most important thing is to rearm Europe."

🚨 Our own CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program report on Russia’s economic adaptation over the past three years is finally out! We trace Russia's economy energy-revenues driven sugarhigh in the early post-invasion period, as well as the current phase of post-sugar high hangover - and what it means for

I am very pleased that our European partners -- through the EU commission -- are leveling a new round of sanctions against Russia for their barbaric invasion of Ukraine. This round is different because it is going after Chinese companies that prop up Putin’s war machine. Without