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Edition Europe · June 2026

Edition Europe

What Brussels, The Hague, Berlin and Malta cumulatively do to the continent's households — mirrored against what Trump-II places opposite them. Seven pieces that together form one instrument.

June 2026 · By Jacobus van Merksteijn · Malta

In this edition

Seven pieces, grouped by what they measure. Read in order — or grab the piece you need.

Prelude — Netherlands

The five-part essay that began with one diagnosis and ended in a political landscape.

Steering article · June 2026

What Brussels really receives

Carbon-Alert at the scale of the European rapeseed area: for less than half a per cent of the CAP budget, Brussels gets a quarter to a third of EU agricultural climate emissions solved, full protein sovereignty and EUDR compliance. The political gift no one has yet placed on the table.

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Diagnosis · five-part

The Great Plunder

How the Netherlands is losing its prosperity — diagnosis, mechanics, outcome, political landscape.

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Manifesto — the instrument

What a consequence map is, how it is read, and why Europe needs one.

Manifesto

The Consequence Map

The manifesto of the series — first measure what policy does, then judge.

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Europe cumulative — Brussels, Malta, United States

Three calculations showing in sequence what happens to households and companies — and what the mirror from Washington reveals.

Consequence Map IV · European Union

The Brussels Consequence Map

Ten Brussels mechanisms × twenty households and companies — third-order end value 2030.

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Brussels Consequence Map · BiCRS (a product of Carbon-Alert Ltd) version

The Brussels Consequence Map — BiCRS version

Reform of the Brussels reckoning: Green Deal and CBAM replaced by 100% equatorial BiCRS at €40/tonne — net effect +23 to +106% per scenario.

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Consequence Map III · Malta

Mappa tal-Konsegwenzi

Maltese politics and EU pressure together — €11,400 loss per family by 2030.

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Consequence Map V · United States

Trump as Mirror

What Trump-II does to Europe — and what the mirror shows us about Brussels.

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Thought — tipping and reforming

How a line of thought from five thousand readers can reach five million — and what a European alternative to Trump's goals would look like.

Series part VI

The Tipping Mechanics

From 5,000 to 5 million readers — how a line of thought changes Europe.

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Manifesto · Series part VII

Nova Democratia

Taking over Trump's goals — without his means. Five concrete core points.

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THE TWO BRUSSELS ARTICLES

The anti-immune disease of Brussels

At the end of this edition — the diagnosis, not as an attack, but as a description of the clinical picture.

★★★ TOPICAL · LEAD BRUSSELS · 19 June 2026

The anti-immune disease of Brussels is making us poor

Malta · Lead Brussels · 19 June 2026

The anti-immune disease of Brussels is making us poor

CBAM, ETS and Pillar Two — three attacks at once. The BiCRS/Ethanol route is being ignored.

Since 1 January 2026: €75 per tonne CO₂ on European industry. €2.1 bn per quarter. Exporters get no rebate. 15% minimum tax dismantles national industrial policy. And the only working European carbon cycle — BiCRS / bio-ethanol — is ignored in favour of imported hydrogen. Three attacks, one leadership, one impoverished citizen.

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★★ Diagnosis Brussels · 19 June 2026 · underlying article

They kill their lifelines — Brussels

Diagnosis Brussels · underlying article

They kill their lifelines

Brussels has an anti-immune disease. The patient is called Europe.

Six European sectors — industry, SME, farmer, energy, capital, inventor — are being cut by the same leadership at the same time. Diagnosis, medical parallel, treatment — in cutting form.

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