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Me too, there is a saying in Dutch for the not so bright which translates to ‘they got a wack from the mill’, even though that barely happens anymore. Don’t think that explains anything though.

I feel Germany and Austria are leading the momentum now. Scandinavian and Baltic countries are pushing as well, so is France. Hope EU will help the rest pick up pace too.

Those people voted on the party because of the guy who started it (Pieter Omtzigt). He was very good at being a politician, but not very good at being a leader. Long story short, they didn’t deliver and failed to make an impact, despite their honest intentions. Pieter Omtzigt burned out within a year and the voters basically flocked back to the party they voted for in the election(s) before NSC was there.

I know enough teens who get all their “news” from TikTok and YouTube without realizing that they are being influenced

I agree this is a problem and it would be good for online media to make a statement somewhere about their background.

a popular national newspaper in your country

Sure, i don’t want to disagree,

We have actual journalists and newspapers who cover this in depth and with journalistic experience, research and integrity

But there are YouTubers and online influencers who qualify as ‘actual journalist’. Sure this guy is pro-european and not unbiased, but to discard him as some random guy with a camera is really not fair.

If they want to have a coalition of 4 there is basically two flavours:

1. D66, CDA, VVD + GL-PvdA
2. D66, CDA, VVD + JA21

Option one is blocked by VVD because they consider GL-PvdA too left, mainly because of their policies on taxing the rich used to pay for measurements against climate change. If PvdA turns out to be willing to accept a more moderate apprach, this would lead to a sturdy majority.

D66 and CDA have a problem with JA21 because of what they see as immoral policies. They are strongly against migration and use the controversial term of remigration because they’d like to give money migrated people with dutch passports to leave the country/the eu and live somewhere else. They also want to continue drilling for gas, but that is probably less of an issue because they already said they want to do this after 2030 (long story). If JA21 accepts a more reasonable stance on migration they could become an acceptable partner but they would only have a small majority.

If these 2 options don’t work out they will have to look for a coalition with 5 parties which would be a first. Or they could have a minority cabinet, but since both D66 and CDA are big on there having to be a stable government i don’t think that will happen soon either.

It’s a great step in the right direction, though the headline didn’t make me immediately understand what it will mean. Here is the first and last paragraph for those who don’t want to visit the source:

The European Commission today adopted a decision establishing the Digital Commons European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (DC-EDIC), a new instrument enabling Member States to jointly develop, deploy and operate cross-border digital infrastructures with dedicated governance and legal personality.

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DC-EDIC opens a new chapter for Europe’s digital future - helping administrations, businesses and citizens benefit from trustworthy, interoperable and reusable digital building blocks developed in and for Europe.

Not just trying to, but slowly succeeding to :(

Please let that mean a UN mission monitoring the human rights abuses in U.S. cities.

Maybe the dutch partly learned from the vikings because we do it the other way around: “The thing is in fire!”

I’ve never heard anyone say newpipe is good

Google is a company multi-billion dollar corporation.

Companies Multi-billion dollar corporations do not care about you. You are not a person, you are a number.

(Well ok, there is plenty of small business who also don’t care about you, that’s not my point).

Someone loyal to a billionaire is found with money they can’t explain the source of? So unlikely.

They just don’t want to.

Obviously not and as a European that saddens me, I’d much rather see them take the side of Ukraine. It’s fair to call them out on standing with the agressor, and I’m glad we do - but the argument of ‘oh my god i can’t believe China is siding with another autocratic leader and not the countries that have been critical of how we treat minorities’-stance is a bit weird. We don’t have real friends on the global stage (anymore) and should accept that other players do things we don’t like / don’t do what we want them to do.

time off

This seems like the better position imo, not kicking them out entirely but keeping them out of the decision making proces. Problem is, a governments like that will not likely hold back or consider the broader consequences of it’s actions. Maybe even better would be to invest in institutions that prevent a member state’s democracy from slipping into dictatorships, so it will be made impossible for someone to become the next Orbán.

Is there someone out there with an estimate of how much of the wests critical electronic components used in drones comes from China? I’m not saying i like that China is on Russias side, but i don’t feel like the west is in a position to cry about parts being made in China.

What I read is that because they were training for a scenario not at the front, the person who shot the blanks believed the person shooting the real bullets was part of the scenario.

Let’s hope he for some understandable reason thought was ‘the enemy is using police uniforms’ and not ‘the police chose the side of the enemy’. Clearly the threat they practice for is a Russian invasion, not a civil uprising.

It’s not only a big chunck, what to me is even more worrying is that the US likely considers this a good way (read: profitable) to spend their money.

The prospect of U.S. giants like Apple and Amazon having more sway over Brussels’ policies is particularly troubling at a time when the Trump administration is pushing hard to weaken EU digital and privacy rules in favour of American tech interests.

Airbus, Leonardo and Thales announced Thursday that they will combine their satellite and space activities […].

Airbus will be the majority owner of the new joint venture with a 35% stake, and Leonardo and Thales will each hold a 32.5% stake in the new company.

The development of space launchers will be excluded from the new company’s operations.

Hey, don’t push back on this! The is are running out of scapegoats already! /s