Chris Powers
@chris.euractiv.com
Defence editor @euractiv.com - and keen follower of 🇪🇺-🇯🇵 & 🇪🇺-🇺🇦 relations.
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Assholery from China ✨
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Assholery from China ✨
But I haven’t yet wrapped my head around if there’s something like the British Territorial Army, that working-age people in Belgium can get on board with.
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
But I haven’t yet wrapped my head around if there’s something like the British Territorial Army, that working-age people in Belgium can get on board with.
It’s Brussels, it’s November, and I’ve still got tomatoes ripening on the vine 🍅
November 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It’s Brussels, it’s November, and I’ve still got tomatoes ripening on the vine 🍅
Last night Brussels disrupted by drones, this morning Liège, again.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Last night Brussels disrupted by drones, this morning Liège, again.
www.euractiv.com/news/drones-...
www.euractiv.com/news/drones-...
Zaventem airport closed again this evening – WTH
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November 6, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Zaventem airport closed again this evening – WTH
www.euractiv.com/news/drones-...
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Teenage history student me is very excited about the strong and historic redemptive arc Germany is on these days. :’)
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Teenage history student me is very excited about the strong and historic redemptive arc Germany is on these days. :’)
Who knew Jacques Delors had something in common with @schwarzenegger.bsky.social
Be Useful – a very good book!
Pictured: Some new ideas for Europe by Enrico Letta.
Be Useful – a very good book!
Pictured: Some new ideas for Europe by Enrico Letta.
November 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Who knew Jacques Delors had something in common with @schwarzenegger.bsky.social
Be Useful – a very good book!
Pictured: Some new ideas for Europe by Enrico Letta.
Be Useful – a very good book!
Pictured: Some new ideas for Europe by Enrico Letta.
A vision of the year 2000, from Clarice Lispector in 1969 – always cool to see what did and didn’t come true. Some things still in progress. Some we are beginning to worry about. And others, we would LOVE to have.
November 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
A vision of the year 2000, from Clarice Lispector in 1969 – always cool to see what did and didn’t come true. Some things still in progress. Some we are beginning to worry about. And others, we would LOVE to have.
I love that the president of the US is picking a fight with a comedian over whether an aircraft carrier catapult should be working with steam or electricity.
The EU simply doesn’t have these kinds of policy debates.
The EU simply doesn’t have these kinds of policy debates.
November 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I love that the president of the US is picking a fight with a comedian over whether an aircraft carrier catapult should be working with steam or electricity.
The EU simply doesn’t have these kinds of policy debates.
The EU simply doesn’t have these kinds of policy debates.
The EU & Japan risk getting spit-roasted by the US and China in this new world order...
October 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The EU & Japan risk getting spit-roasted by the US and China in this new world order...
🇯🇵 🇪🇺 My favourite story yet written for @euractiv.com
I’d been watching Commissioners go to Japan all through September. Could not leave that phenomenon unremarked!
With my colleague Tom, I think we made something you’ll like :-)
www.euractiv.com/news/tokyo-d...
I’d been watching Commissioners go to Japan all through September. Could not leave that phenomenon unremarked!
With my colleague Tom, I think we made something you’ll like :-)
www.euractiv.com/news/tokyo-d...
October 24, 2025 at 6:36 AM
🇯🇵 🇪🇺 My favourite story yet written for @euractiv.com
I’d been watching Commissioners go to Japan all through September. Could not leave that phenomenon unremarked!
With my colleague Tom, I think we made something you’ll like :-)
www.euractiv.com/news/tokyo-d...
I’d been watching Commissioners go to Japan all through September. Could not leave that phenomenon unremarked!
With my colleague Tom, I think we made something you’ll like :-)
www.euractiv.com/news/tokyo-d...
One big news out of today’s NATO meeting, perhaps unwittingly, an endorsement of our newsletter FIREPOWER.
Read today’s issue here / get a trial to read it for free:
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Read today’s issue here / get a trial to read it for free:
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October 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
One big news out of today’s NATO meeting, perhaps unwittingly, an endorsement of our newsletter FIREPOWER.
Read today’s issue here / get a trial to read it for free:
lnkd.in/eT8gHaKY
Read today’s issue here / get a trial to read it for free:
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Bit of a word salad that one
October 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Bit of a word salad that one
🇯🇵 Japan to get its first female prime minister, also, and ever more noticeably now, before the US
October 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🇯🇵 Japan to get its first female prime minister, also, and ever more noticeably now, before the US
Great primer on the madness of US trade policy right now - can recommend !
September 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Great primer on the madness of US trade policy right now - can recommend !
An episode of Chris Hemsworth’s docuseries Limitless says there’s health benefits to doing daunting things.
For me today that was doing my first triathlon!
I’ve no benchmark, but happy with the result!
Overall: 3:02:35
🏃♂️ 1:36:16 - 17.66 km
🏊♂️ 0:24:44 - 1km
🚲 1:01:35 - 20km & changeovers
For me today that was doing my first triathlon!
I’ve no benchmark, but happy with the result!
Overall: 3:02:35
🏃♂️ 1:36:16 - 17.66 km
🏊♂️ 0:24:44 - 1km
🚲 1:01:35 - 20km & changeovers
September 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
An episode of Chris Hemsworth’s docuseries Limitless says there’s health benefits to doing daunting things.
For me today that was doing my first triathlon!
I’ve no benchmark, but happy with the result!
Overall: 3:02:35
🏃♂️ 1:36:16 - 17.66 km
🏊♂️ 0:24:44 - 1km
🚲 1:01:35 - 20km & changeovers
For me today that was doing my first triathlon!
I’ve no benchmark, but happy with the result!
Overall: 3:02:35
🏃♂️ 1:36:16 - 17.66 km
🏊♂️ 0:24:44 - 1km
🚲 1:01:35 - 20km & changeovers
Trying to suss if the triathlete wearing this hat is genuine or trolling or both 🧐
September 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Trying to suss if the triathlete wearing this hat is genuine or trolling or both 🧐
Surely the Cinquantenaire is still part of the EU quarter @politico.eu ?!
September 19, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Surely the Cinquantenaire is still part of the EU quarter @politico.eu ?!
September 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The absolute best news I’ve read in a long time.
Such an improvement to the quality of life for everyone who isn’t a smoker.
Such an improvement to the quality of life for everyone who isn’t a smoker.
September 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The absolute best news I’ve read in a long time.
Such an improvement to the quality of life for everyone who isn’t a smoker.
Such an improvement to the quality of life for everyone who isn’t a smoker.
Great to see @euractiv.com’s Jobsite with a refresh.
The 2006 look was so old it risked ironically coming back into fashion!
See for yourself: jobs.euractiv.com
The 2006 look was so old it risked ironically coming back into fashion!
See for yourself: jobs.euractiv.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Great to see @euractiv.com’s Jobsite with a refresh.
The 2006 look was so old it risked ironically coming back into fashion!
See for yourself: jobs.euractiv.com
The 2006 look was so old it risked ironically coming back into fashion!
See for yourself: jobs.euractiv.com
Sparing a thought for my friends at Bloomberg today, as their evening edition couldn't even have a shelf life of 2 hours before the whirlwind of French politics upended things.
At least they called it right for Lecornu !
At least they called it right for Lecornu !
September 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Sparing a thought for my friends at Bloomberg today, as their evening edition couldn't even have a shelf life of 2 hours before the whirlwind of French politics upended things.
At least they called it right for Lecornu !
At least they called it right for Lecornu !