Keine hat im AA seit 2015 so viel bewegt auf Weg zu einer realistischeren Chinapolitik & einem umfassenderen Fokus auf die Asien-Pazifik-Region wie Petra Sigmund. Die Arbeit geht jetzt im Herz der Region weiter. Herzlichen Glückwunsch zur Nominierung als Botschafterin in 🇯🇵.

'Es ist notwendig, über Wege zum Frieden nachzudenken. Die Ukraine muss durch militärische Stärke in eine solche Position kommen, dass Putin zu Verhandlungen bereit ist'.

Sehr lesenswertes Interview mit Nico Lange im stern

stern.de/politik/nico-l…

UK to 'charge a British man... with conducting hostile activity in the UK in order to benefit a foreign state – namely Russia. This is the first time the CPS has charged offences available under new legislation created by the National Security Act 2023.' cps.gov.uk/cps/news/cps-a…

Budapest right now: Péter Magyar is leading an anti-government protest in front of the interior ministry

Thank you U.S. European Command Gen. Cavoli and Assistant Secretary Jim O'Brien Asst Secretary O’Brien for gathering US military and diplomatic leaders in Europe to discuss security issues, including countering the biggest threat to European security since WWII — Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Europa ohne Reinhard Bütikofer 😳😭🥶

It's quite something to see how there has been no recent interview of Friedrich Merz by any major English-language media outlet even though he may well end up as Chancellor after the next election.

Meanwhile many English-language journos seem to have Weidel on speed-dial.

Life without Judy Dempsey … surely impossible?

Hola Madrid

This week the EU launched a dawn raid on Chinese state-backed security equipment company Nuctech.

But in recent years, Nuctech has won more than 160 public tenders from EU states worth €120mn+, despite national security warnings about its products

ft.com/content/b72069… @ft

For a comprehensive and clear-eyed update on Ukraine's prospects post-US aid package, listen to Christopher Miller talking to Gideon Rachman in this excellent (and non-paywalled) podcast out today ft.com/content/68ad12…

Catching up on last night's HK debate in EP.

Chair calls for order as MEPs give Reinhard Buetikofer rapturous applause after his last address to parliament before retiring.

Reinhard Bütikofer: 'I find it fitting my last debate in this parliament concerns human rights & China policy'

Also don’t ätt me aber „gute Impulse“ und WifflÖropp würde ich jetzt nicht als Begeisterung verstehen?
👇 #Macron

Tja.

Wow.

😂

👇👇👇

Has tea run out in Britain?

.Emmanuel Macron Sorbonne II speech today was dense & visionary, pessimistic but finally optimistic. It was much more far reaching than Sorbonne I. Key for Ursula von der Leyen re-election now will be her engagement with these ideas ahead, and at, the June European Council. Thread below

Supreme Court’s conservative majority seems poised to narrow the scope of the criminal case against Trump on charges that he plotted to subvert the 2020 election, endorsing at least part of his argument that he is immune from prosecution and sending the case back to the trial…