A page of Yannis Karamitsios dedicated to European and global federalism
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In 2024, the EU’s total fertility rate was 1.34 live births per woman.
During the last two decades, the median age of the EU population increased from 39.6 years to 44.9 years.
ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statis…
Three reasons why Lula’s 🇧🇷 victory matters positively for Europe:
🟢It will preserve the solid Mercosur - EU relationship
🟢It will help protect the Amazon rainforest
🟢It carries significant symbolic weight, as it checks the pro-Trump wave in Latin America
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Bulgaria is becoming the Battery of the Balkans.
Its battery storage capacity has doubled to around 6 GW in just one year.
Backed by €700 million in EU grants, the boom is helping Bulgaria supply electricity to its neighbours.
A new energy powerhouse is emerging in Eastern Europe.
Soil quality in Europe - and Ukraine🇺🇦 as its breadbasket.
Its productive soils can support high yields of grains and other crops, contributing significantly to regional and global food security when properly managed and accessed.
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🇪🇺🇬🇧 The road to European sovereignty.
British jets have joined a French nuclear exercise for the first time.
A European Security Council will organise an independent European defence.
Europe must coordinate military action, sanctions and foreign policy.
Europe needs its own nuclear doctrine and military independence from the US.
Europe is beginning to understand the need for independence.
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Parliament strongly condemned the latest deadly Russian strikes off the coasts of Bulgaria and Romania, criticised the Bulgarian government’s weak response and called for greater support to detect hostile drone threats in the Black Sea.
Learn more ➡️ link.europa.eu/prbkVH
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Between 2019 and 2024, the EU’s GDP grew by 5.6% overall in real terms. 📈
Highest GDP growth in:
🇮🇪Eastern and Midland (+38.0%)
🇮🇪Northern and Western (+36.4%)
Decreases in:
🇧🇬Yugoiztochen (-20.5%)
🇬🇷Dytiki Makedonia (-18.0%)
Read more 👉link.europa.eu/dWPMfN
#EurostatRYB
ALT Map showing Change in GDP, 2019-2024 (% in real terms, by NUTS 2 regions), among EU countries, EFTA and candidate countries with available data.
We stand with the International Criminal Court against Trump's attacks:
The European Parliament🇪🇺 awarded to the International Criminal Court and its officials the Sakharov Prize!
europarl.europa.eu/news/en/p…
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The Arctic is Europe's northern neighbourhood.
Today, we present our new Strategy for the Arctic to strengthen cooperation on:
🛡️ Security
🌍 Climate
🌱 Prosperity
🤝 Local communities
For a safer, more resilient Arctic.
ALT Snow-covered mountains rise behind a picturesque Arctic coastal village with red wooden houses on stilts beside blue water. The EU flag appears in the top-left corner, with the text “Europe has a new Arctic Strategy” in large white letters across the bottom.
Against all anti-EU stereotypes, the Union🇪🇺 is a net exporter of high-tech products, and especially to the U.S.
In 2025, the EU imported €534.1 billion worth of high-tech products and exported €566.5 billion. 💻 ↔️
Main trade partners:
Imports: 🇨🇳China (€150.4 billion)
Exports: 🇺🇸United States (€195.1 billion)
Read more 👉 link.europa.eu/GjNkpM
ALT Eurostat infographic showing Main EU partners for trade in high-tech products, 2025.
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
1 in 5 Europeans, including 1 in 4 children, are at risk of poverty or social exclusion.
Europe’s Tide of Citizen Assemblies:
Unsung Success or Anticlimax?
A notable degree of participative democracy has firmly arrived in Europe. But to have more far-reaching impact, democratic deliberation needs to move into a radically new phase.
carnegieendowment.org/europe…
Sad but true.
We must fight united against the Trump - Putin axis.
It is Time for a European Federation, with Ukraine🇺🇦 as part of it!
We stand with Zelensky. We stand with Ukraine. We stand with Europe.
And let the Trump - Putin axis f... off
channelstv.com/2026/10/11/tr…
We live in ugly times - the ugliest peacetime ever, if we can still call it peace.
Trump ordered from Putin millions of tons of diesel to help him reach his midterm elections.
Partners in international crime.
There is only one way out.
It is Time for a European Federation!
The Nobel Peace Prize 2026 has been practically awarded to International Law, against the MAGA-nationalist trends of our time.
It is awarded to "Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law".
nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/…
EU counter-drone investment grew sixfold in 2025, but only a third of programmes will deliver by 2030, a confidential EU report seen by Euronews says, citing fragmented procurement and industry struggling to keep pace with fast-moving drone technology
euronews.com/2026/10/08/only…
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British public opinion moves relentlessly in favour of rejoining the EU. Brexit has failed Britain.
Brazil🇧🇷 must remain a European🇪🇺 partner:
Lula is courting the 9 million-plus voters who backed minor candidates, but mainly targeting the record 33 million who abstained on Sunday, which it attributes to apathy rather than opposition to Lula
reuters.com/business/media-t…
