1. ❌ EUROPE SAYS NO TO CENTRALIZED BUDGET

Brussels’ latest long-term budget idea has sparked a revolt. The European Commission wants to bundle major funding streams, including agriculture (CAP), cohesion, fisheries, migration, and border funds, into a single national pot for 2028–2034.

This move will give Brussels even more power. Regional leaders see this as a power grab that sidelines local priorities and breaks with cohesion’s core promise: reducing disparities through region-based policy, not top-down bargaining. The President of the European Committee of the Regions warned, “We know what centralized systems mean: committees making decisions from above without knowing the reality on the ground.”

Fourteen member states, including Italy, Poland, and Romania, signed a non-paper demanding a stand-alone cohesion policy with region-based allocation, after leaks showed Brussels weighing a single-pool model tied to national reform targets. The President of Lombardy, Attilio Fontana, is leading the protest against centralized funds and called it “illogical.”

All we see is the same old EU bureaucracy agenda: consolidate budgets, expand discretion, and shrink oversight.

For those in Europe who want accountability, this fight matters.

2. 🎧 BRUSSELS ISSUES ANOTHER HIT TO AMERICAN TECH

The EU interoperability push, despite masquerading as being pro-competition, is just the latest blow to American innovation in Europe’s wide-ranging regulatory campaign against US Tech companies.

Part of the EU’s much-criticized Digital Markets Act, these interoperability obligations mandate that American tech firms open-up their platforms to European rivals. While the impact was expected to be costly, this push has had even more devastating consequences than previously imagined, as detailed in a recent article.

By forcing American tech firms to open their platforms to competitors, Brussels has undermined security, invited fraud by decoupling from trusted payment safeguards, and stalled product rollouts. New features like Live Translation for Airpods, for instance, aren’t available for European Consumers on account of the DMA.

This kind of forced access not only dampens the incentive to introduce new features rapidly, it also opens the door for Chinese rivals exempt from the DMA’s stringent regulations to artificially close the technological gap.

If Brussels wants competitiveness and real benefits for consumers, it should work towards collaborative, security‑respecting frameworks rather than doubling down on heavy‑handed rules that stifle innovation, degrade privacy, and destabilize transatlantic relations.

🚨 BUREAUCRATS THREATEN PRESIDENT TRUMP’S GOLDEN AGE

A recent op-ed by EU‑US Forum’s Joe Grogan and Matt Mowers warns that the European Union’s far‑left regulatory agenda threatens to undercut America’s pro‑growth trajectory.

Brussels is attempting to export its rulebook to the United States through extraterritorial mandates and market leverage. A widening web of EU measures, like the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), are bogging down American businesses with extreme regulations and reporting requirements.

Grogan and Mowers emphasized, “these rules would require any U.S. company operating in the EU to track, report, and disclose every link in their supply chain for ESG madness. CS3D, for example, could make an American manufacturer legally responsible for the labor or environmental practices of suppliers halfway around the world. CSRD would force businesses to publish detailed sustainability reports under EU-defined standards, even if they never sell directly to European consumers.”

Brussels’ rules aren’t limited to big corporations. They drag small and mid‑size businesses into the same maze of paperwork and penalties, at steep cost and with impossible benchmarks. Grogan and Mowers laid out, “A small or mid-sized company might have hundreds of suppliers and subcontractors. Tracking each one to comply with European paperwork could take thousands of hours and millions of dollars.”

The EU seeks to regulate the rest of the world and destroy businesses with their out-of-touch environmental policies, but President Trump has been taking a strong stand against the EU to protect Americans and businesses alike. He has brought back American prosperity, and he won’t let the Brussels bureaucrats disrupt that. Grogan and Mowers said it best:

“Trump can protect the Golden Age he has worked so hard to launch. He can make clear that American companies will not be ruled from Brussels. He can stand firm in defense of our workers, our industries, and our economic future. With Trump’s strong leadership, America can continue down the path to lasting prosperity.”