And I couldn’t resist visiting one of my favorite DC 🇺🇸 bookstores on this trip as well, and ended up buying two of the books in this photo. Another of them I have already read,

It’s a convincing win for VRMNO opposition party in the 🇲🇰 election. I fear this to a large degree reflects profound disillusionment with an 🇪🇺 accession process that has been blocked by first 🇬🇷, then 🇫🇷 and then 🇧🇬. And now further problems are likely. balkaninsight.com/2024/05/08/liv…

It’s Trump trial day and night - day after day - on TV here in 🇺🇸 these days.

At ⁦Special Competitive Studies Project⁩ event ⁦Jake Sullivan⁩ calls for a 🇺🇸🇨🇳 dialogue on AI in order to mitigate potential risks. Shows the need to balance need for cooperation on global challenges with rising geopolitical competition. As tricky as it is necessary.

It was important for ⁦Johan Forssell⁩ 🇸🇪 to head off to Tbilisi 🇬🇪 to express the strong concern in 🇪🇺 over the increasingly anti-Western turn of its government and its policies. civil.ge/archives/604276

In a sign of mounting 🇺🇸 frustration over lack of any credible 🇮🇱 strategy for the Gaza conflict with Hamas shipment of 🇺🇸 bombs to 🇮🇱 have been halted. That’s a strong signal. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Starting the day with the ⁦Atlantic Council⁩ International Advisory Board. First for our discussions this morning is ⁦Jake Sullivan⁩. There is certainly much to discuss.

Technology and digital issues are now taking center stage also in 🇺🇸 foreign policy. It’s high time for 🇪🇺 and member states to take note.

Important election in 🇲🇰 today. The likely change of governing majority risks again complicated the already troubled process of 🇪🇺 accession. It’s all a question of lingering nationalist issues in a complicated corner of the Balkans. balkaninsight.com/2024/05/08/pol…

The fear of 🇨🇳 is obviously there, but to me it’s clear that 🇺🇸 rather has strengthen its position as the global superpower of innovation. As Alex Karp said, it’s like jazz in the 1950’s - there are some bands around the world, but basically it is about the 🇺🇸.

My DC 🇺🇸 day with the ⁦Special Competitive Studies Project⁩ and the world ahead. A future of growing dangers, but also immense new possibilities, with science and technology driving much of what will happen.

A new visit by the hidden camera of ⁦⁦The Anti-Corruption Foundation⁩ to the Putin 🇷🇺 palace by the Black Sea. It shows, among other things, his deep nostalgia for the 🇷🇺 empire of the past. youtube.com/watch?v=TL0dSa…

Is 🇫🇮 dreaming of going back into the 🇷🇺 empire? The Kremlin propaganda lunatics have lost every touch with reality. That’s dangerous - at the end of the day primarily for the future of 🇷🇺 itself.

Warmest congratulations to Vladimir Kara-Murza. A well deserved prize.

”Senior Israeli officials and foreign diplomats have evinced great skepticism in recent months about whether Netanyahu actually intends to reach a deal. They have had trouble deciphering what stands behind his statements and actions.” haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

The 🇩🇪 decision to station an armored brigade in 🇱🇹 is the most significant @nato ground force commitment to the security of the Baltic states.

Two key news stories to know, explained by Carl Bildt:

- Are the huge protests in Tbilisi a sign of the Georgian government moving closer to Russia?
- What are the implications of the resignation of the first minister of Scotland?

Europe #In60Seconds

I’m sorry not to be home in Stockholm 🇸🇪 with the 🇩🇰 State Visit taking place. It looks splendid.

Flying domestic in the 🇺🇸 you have to get used to delays, but in spite of all the mess I shortly hope to be off from Phoenix to Washington.

This certainly doesn’t look good. Voters in 🇺🇸 have inflation and the economy at the top of their concerns, and Trump as the most credible candidate on these issues. Can this be turned around by November? No one knows, but it looks difficult.