1. 🇪🇺13 EU NATIONS DEMAND A RECKONING WITH BRUSSELS’ RED TAPE

A broad coalition of 13 EU member states, including Germany, Italy, Poland, and Denmark, are formally demanding a “deep cleaning“ of European law, calling on the Commission to conduct a sector-by-sector review of whether existing regulations are still needed or simply imposing burdens with no added value.

The coalition explicitly warned that “EU legislation cannot be an end in itself” and called for a full “Implementation and Consolidation Year”. A freeze on new rulemaking while Brussels cleans up the mess it already made. This is a direct rebuke of the regulatory legacy Ursula von der Leyen built her second term on, including the CSRD, the CSDDD, and a cascade of ESG and climate-related mandates that have strangled European competitiveness while American businesses operated freely under a deregulatory agenda

The signatories want every major new compliance obligation preceded by a review and elimination of existing ones in the same policy area, the opposite of how Brussels has operated for a decade. They’re also demanding mandatory review clauses every five years to determine whether regulations actually achieved their stated goals, a standard that many aspects of their signature Green Deal would almost certainly fail.

Von der Leyen spent two terms building a regulatory empire that European businesses, European governments, and European voters are now collectively demanding be torn down.

2. 🇺🇸🇩🇰 TRUMP SEALS GREENLAND DEAL; A WIN FOR TRANSATLANTIC SECURITY

President Trump signed a landmark agreement with Denmark and Greenland on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, securing expanded U.S. military access across the strategic Arctic island, including two new major military bases. The deal allows Washington to modernize its presence at Pituffik and establish new defense areas in the north, south, and east of the island.

Critically, no non-NATO country may establish a military foothold in Greenland under the accord, a direct check on Russian and Chinese ambitions in the Arctic. Danish PM Frederiksen called it “a deal that can last forever.”

The accord also carries significant economic weight. Greenland sits atop some of the world’s most critical mineral reserves, and the agreement prioritizes Greenlandic contractors for base construction and maintenance. A deliberate move to tie the island’s economic future to Washington rather than to Brussels or Beijing.

Trump’s resolve produced a binding, open-ended security agreement that strengthens NATO’s Arctic flank, keeps adversaries out, and ensures America sets the terms of engagement in one of the world’s most strategically vital regions.

💻 BRUSSELS’ SUMMER ASSAULT ON AMERICAN TECH

American technology companies endured a grueling summer at the hands of Brussels’ Digital Markets Act. European regulators have aggressively enforced the Digital Markets Act, handing down their trademark fines to American companies at an alarming rate, and have forced operational changes that hurt European users and weaken US competitiveness.

In July, Google was hit with a $1 billion fine, the largest in the DMA’s history. Brussels then gave the company just 60 days to overhaul its search results or face additional penalties of up to 5% of its global revenue. In response, Google recently rolled out what it described as the largest reduction in search quality in its 29-year history. Under the new rules, Europeans searching for a hotel or a flight are now routed to intermediary booking platforms like Expedia and Booking.com rather than directly to the businesses they are looking for.

Google, however, is far from the only company that has felt the wrath of the DMA this summer. Eager for more ways to extract money from American companies, the EU is also preparing to add AWS and Azure to the DMA’s list of gatekeepers, a move that will subject the companies to billions in fines, taxes, and endless compliance fees already imposed on other US firms. Apple was also forced to indefinitely delay the rollout of its new Siri for EU users, preventing tens of millions of Europeans from using the features.

President Trump has already authorized Section 301 trade investigations and placed tariff threats on the table to counter the EU’s predatory tactics. Should Brussels attempt to repeat the regulatory hostility seen this summer, the European Union is likely to face a severe trade fight that will ultimately inflict far greater damage on EU exporters than on American companies.