r/EUDecoded • • Sep 08 '26

Debate Welcome to r/EUDecoded — Understand Europe. Debate its future.

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Welcome to r/EUDecoded! This is a community for European Union news, analysis, history and open debate. Our aim is to make the EU easier to understand and examine both its achievements and failures.

Discuss institutions and laws, economics and competitiveness, defence and security, member states, European integration and the EU’s future. Pro-EU, Eurosceptic and reformist views are welcome when argued respectfully.

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r/EUDecoded • • 6h ago

EU News Burnham at the UN: "The Kremlin is feeding us despair." How much of what you see online is actually Russian-made?

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r/EUDecoded • • 12h ago

Economy Norway's sovereign wealth fund should invest in major defence groups, commission concludes

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r/EUDecoded • • 16h ago

EU News EU leaders to tackle China exports, energy prices, budget at summit

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r/EUDecoded • • 3d ago

NATO’s top commander outlines how the alliance would respond to an attack

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In this clip from Dutch broadcaster NOS, General Alexus Grynkewich outlines NATO’s response to an attack: stopping, weakening and breaking the enemy.

Asked what keeps him awake at night, he says nothing—his job is to keep others awake.

How convincing do you find this message about NATO’s readiness, and what does it mean for European security?

Source: NOS


r/EUDecoded • • 3d ago

Ukraine bombs three Russian data centres and immediately online mentions of AfD nose-dive by more than 50%.

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r/EUDecoded • • 4d ago

UK PM Andy Burnham reportedly confirms Russian interference in the 2016 Brexit referendum, a first for a sitting prime minister. 🇪🇺🇬🇧

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r/EUDecoded • • 3d ago

Defence & Security Burnham is first PM to publicly acknowledge Russia's role in Brexit

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r/EUDecoded • • 3d ago

EU News NATO Drafts Plan to Defeat a Russian Attack With Drones and AI

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r/EUDecoded • • 7d ago

A Question Regarding the EU Kids Act

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Won't this be absolutely catastrophic if this goes through? Not even just the end of the internet, but once even a single server holding however many people's sensitive information is breached by cyber criminals, isn't that just it, then? Mass ID theft potentially on the eight to nine digits?


r/EUDecoded • • 10d ago

Multi-Speed Europe Could “gradual membership” be the way forward for the UK and EU? 🇬🇧🇪🇺

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Recent polls show that there is quite a lot of support in the UK for closer ties with the EU, while full membership is still a bigger step.

At the same time, the EU is looking at ways countries could integrate more gradually instead of everything happening at once.

So could this also work for the UK?
The UK could start by joining more EU programmes again, improve cooperation on trade, security, research and mobility, and then see where the relationship goes from there.

It would not mean immediately rejoining the EU. It could simply be a way to move closer again without forcing the whole membership debate from day one.

Would you support a gradual membership model for the UK?


r/EUDecoded • • 11d ago

🇪🇺 Von der Leyen: €300 billion in European savings flown overseas every year, primarily to the US, will be invested in Europe from now on. All 27 EU states agreed to establish the S&I Union, a step toward the full Capital Market Union

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r/EUDecoded • • 14d ago

Opinion The way back to Europe 🇪🇺🇬🇧

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It's started: the UK will return, and they're preparing the public for a way back into Europe. People are free to disagree, but historically it's alien to think of the British as a nationalistic people.


r/EUDecoded • • 13d ago

EU News Copernicus: Western Europe had its hottest summer on record, with record heat stress and low river flows

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r/EUDecoded • • 14d ago

Multi-Speed Europe IT’S HAPPENING! A 3-Tier EU Is Taking Shape

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r/EUDecoded • • 14d ago

Defence & Security EU says Ukraine's 2026 budget and defence needs are fully covered

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r/EUDecoded • • 14d ago

Defence & Security Finnish police investigate suspected intrusions at MPs’ homes; foreign involvement not ruled out

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r/EUDecoded • • 14d ago

EU News Greece proposes suspending the EU right to asylum during mass-migration crises

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r/EUDecoded • • 14d ago

Economy Euro slides below $1.13 to 17-month low amid rate and inflation pressure

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r/EUDecoded • • 14d ago

EU News EU officials push to expand Frontex as activists sue over alleged migrant abuses

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r/EUDecoded • • 14d ago

EU News Russia expels Hungarian diplomats as Budapest breaks with Orbán era

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r/EUDecoded • • 15d ago

EU News Spain would welcome UK’s return to the EU with ‘open arms’ claims Spanish PM 🇪🇸🇪🇺

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r/EUDecoded • • 14d ago

Economy Portugal posts EU's fastest house-price growth, up 16.5% year-on-year in Q2

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r/EUDecoded • • 14d ago

Economy EU diesel price hits record €2.24 per litre as 12 member states reach new highs

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r/EUDecoded • • 14d ago

Economy Germany could supply the joints and hands for the global humanoid robot boom

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