Germany debates surrogacy and hypocrisy – Former Health Minister Jens Spahn of the conservative CDU, who opposed legalizing surrogacy in Germany, has become a father with the help of a surrogate mother in the US.
The era of the nation state was a brief detour! The future is a unified Europe Posted by goldstarflag
goldstarflag on December 14, 2025 2:57 pm Petty nationalists have no real plan or vision. It’s just status quo bias. They will be crushed by the wheels of history.
goldstarflag on December 14, 2025 3:03 pm Chancellor Merz gave a [major speech](https://youtu.be/9ubrrSU0m-A) at the CSU convention yesterday declaring “Pax Americana” over. He echoed von der Leyen’s call for Pax Europaea; a completely new European security architecture that includes Ukraine. Andrius Kubilius, Europe’s first-ever Defence Commissioner 🇪🇺 articulated it like [this](https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FKubiliusA%2Fstatus%2F1928165743222243835): > *Pax Europaea in short:* > *What is coming: Europe – up (with defence capabilities); Russia – down (materially and politically); United States – out (preparing for withdrawal); Ukraine – in (preparing for urgent integration with Europe in defence).*
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Petty nationalists have no real plan or vision. It’s just status quo bias.
They will be crushed by the wheels of history.
Chancellor Merz gave a [major speech](https://youtu.be/9ubrrSU0m-A) at the CSU convention yesterday declaring “Pax Americana” over.
He echoed von der Leyen’s call for Pax Europaea; a completely new European security architecture that includes Ukraine.
Andrius Kubilius, Europe’s first-ever Defence Commissioner 🇪🇺 articulated it like [this](https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FKubiliusA%2Fstatus%2F1928165743222243835):
> *Pax Europaea in short:*
> *What is coming: Europe – up (with defence capabilities); Russia – down (materially and politically); United States – out (preparing for withdrawal); Ukraine – in (preparing for urgent integration with Europe in defence).*