Again? At this rate they’ll run of workers to investigate the work conditions./s

Your behaviour is stalking posts in this community for político. linking your post about its petition. But your petition got a balanced and nunaced response with pro and contras.Abolishing newssources is.just too weird.Its something autocrats might do. Stop this weird behavior already. A

In a statement, Pavel argued Babiš was trying to “exclude” him from the summit, and thus “limiting the role granted to him by the Constitution.”

Yeah, it’s a pretty particular situation when one has Czechian President Pavel trying to fight the PM Babis, and on the other hand, the Hungarian PM Magyar trying to oust his President, both because they fight for more democracy.

It really does captures the sentiments concerning Brexit’s 10th anniversary:

"For Britain, Brexit remains unfinished business. For Europe, it is history.

Ten years after the referendum, Brussels is no longer asking whether Brexit was a mistake. Most officials believe that question was answered long ago.

Instead, they are waiting for Britain to figure out what comes next.

Until then, the view from across the Channel is likely to remain unchanged: regret for what was lost, disbelief at what followed, and growing impatience with a country that still cannot decide what it wants to be."

Well that’s not only sad persé, it’s just plain bad. It’s these kind of corrupt politics/politicians ( he’s not the only one) which erode trust in parties & democracy. Like you, I really hope that this doesn’t empower Vox in Spain.

TL;DR; imo the article is all over the place. It has some good points, but fails to create a coherent analysis and conclusion.

This article has a very particular take, I checked the Journalist, Lucie ROBEQUAIN, who works for a libertanian LVMH owned newspaper Echo. Nothing too weird. But I guess it’s the way pro and contra arguments are presented which make it somewhat cringe. Some examples here;

1. Europe will have to make up for several years of lag behind America.

Lagging is imo a description out of context. EU had and has adopted USA services because that worked, and were safe and reliable. Since, geopolitics changed that, we now need to become more sovereign.

2. Can the digital euro reverse the trend? Scepticism prevails, at least for the time being: firstly, because it will not be introduced until 2029, and is therefore coming far too late to counter US hegemony. Secondly, because European consumers already have numerous payment methods at their disposal (cash, bank cards, bank transfers, cheques, Apple Pay, etc.) and do not necessarily feel the need to adopt a new one.

Again, a weird argument if payment becomes cheaper via the European method even if thats in 2029, and due to the current sentiment, I’m sure Europens will adopt any good non- USA payment product.

3. ‘Wero’, which enables instant money transfers between friends and will soon be extended to online shopping. According to them, the ECB, which is leading the digital euro project, is not necessarily best placed to develop disruptive technologies to compete

Wero is a separate payment method afaik, though commercially driven, it’s not competing with the digital euro, but can be used in parallel, conjunction or as an alternative.

4. “The role of the euro could grow:

This was about euro being used as a stable coins. Sure , the role will grow when it’s being used more and become more accessible to third countries.

Yes, It was this statement from your OP which made me curious :

“Spain and Norway increased military spending by roughly 50% in 2025, the fastest growth among the world’s top defense spenders.”

So now we have relative and absolute perc.✌🏻

And, instead of increase of decrease, this link shows the defense spending as % of GDP in 2025. Also note that EU classification of defense spending( (COFOG), is stricter than NATO’, so that’s why there are sometimes discrepancies.

The 150 -2000 km zone iiuc.

Note: check in this context also this" Justice for Prosperity Foundation" international far-right network and the pan European “Identitairian movement”. It also has adherents among white nationalists in North America, Australia, and New Zealand.

According to EC;

Existing EU consumer law already provides for important safeguards protecting the economic interests of consumers. Video game providers must inform consumers about the duration and the conditions for terminating the contract before the consumers signs up for the video game. The Directive on digital content and digital services provides consumers with remedies when the content or service provided does not conform with the contract and what consumers could reasonably expect. Consumers may be entitled to proportionate refund of their purchases.

Don’t change the title to reflect your opinion. Put your opinion in the comments, ty. Also this same info was posted here

that mean Ukraine needs longer time?

Nothing changes for the ascension of potential memberstates, like Moldova, Ukraine, Monte Negro. The requirements so far haven’t changed.

It’s only when new members " go Orbán" or rogue, after becoming full member that the EU could gain some power to fight the rogue member state, if this proposal or an ammendment of it is accepted

CONTEXT: In recent years, the EU has struggled to rein in democratic backsliding in several countries that joined the bloc in 2004, most notably Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.

The crisis has exposed the limited leverage Brussels retains once the accession process—already defined by exceptionally high admission standards—is completed.

PROPOSAL 1 ( leverage against backsliding by freezing funds) The paper aims to create leverage in the years immediately after accession by codifying a “non-regression clause” as a “binding norm” for new member states. Should regression happen, the EU would be empowered to take “protective measures” beyond the tools it has today, namely the infringement procedure and the freezing of funds.

PROPOSAL 2 ( no vetopower by a majority vote suspension) Additionally, the document proposes to simplify Article 7 of the EU treaties to deal with serious breaches of fundamental values.The document says the suspension of voting rights should be possible with just a 4/5th majority to enable faster action if a new member backslides.

Higher tariffs than in the EU might be one cause. Also especially the Swiss don’t like people showing off. Lastly, I haven’t checked the methodology of this study, but maybe statisical deviants etc.

Something like that, probaly. I tried to keep up with the whole debacle. Things that didn’t help was that it seems that they postponed the technical goals after the political intent was decided.So this divergence would later clash in the operational details and goals, another alleged issue was not sharing details (secrecy) , and lastly the clashing ego’s of CEOs.

Not all of the investment is necessarily lost of this 100B project (# supposedely so far 3.2 B was spend in development). There is speculation that the project could be restructured into two separate fighter jet programs, with France and Germany pursuing their own solutions. In this scenario, some of the joint research, technology, and industrial capacity developed so far could be divided or reused.

Also this project, while very important is one the many Franco-German projects.#add

The Iran situation probably didn’t help much. The important part is that employment rates keep growing overall.

Never tried Qwant, how does it compare to Ecosia or DDG?

It’s about the ratification of the ( ammended!) EU- US deal from last year. Nothing really new here, apart from the “Greenland clause” ofc.