This sounds insane.
I would disagree vigorously if the minister said they wanted to build coal power plants, but at least you can make the case for it under the guise of domestic energy security. But methane gas power plants? It doesn’t help with climate goals, it’s not cheap to purchase LNG and it doesn’t help with energy security either.
Is she double dipping from US and Russian oil lobby?
Not in Memphis, because that’s predominantly Black Americans.
Usually the Southern Republican government grants permits for these types of polluting facilities in non-White communities.
Merz has also created a new Ministry for Digitalization, choosing physicist and tech executive Karsten Wildberger to push overdue digital reforms in government.
Germany needs to adopt an Euro Stack for digital sovereignty.
I’m curious what the final draft will look like.
I’m on the fence about this. UK is a good ally and partner to the EU (even with Brexit), but I’m scared about the UK Reform Party (the far right) winning the next election.
Unless the Brits are buying British made solar panels (and there aren’t any) or European manufactured solar panel (not very many), then they should just buy the cheapest and save themselves the tax dollar and lower the cost of energy.
Trade with China.
But handing your critical infrastructure to China is not the way to go.
I wonder why Ukraine doesn’t want to reward Russia for invading their country.
Why do you make it sound like showing up for half a day and casting a vote is some ultimate sacrifice. That is the minimum duty of a citizen.
It’s important to recognize an individual can not move a mountain, so it’s important not to get discouraged because you do not see tangible progress nationally. All politics is a grinding trench fight to wait for an opportunity to enact laws.
With that said, the very minimum thing any citizen should do is vote. Vote in local election, vote in federal election, vote in EU election.
Next is attend your local party meeting of your preference. Just showing up and listening shows that there is interest to the politicians. You have opportunity to meet like minded people which is important for networking.
Thank you American voters, who voted for Trump or sat out because the opposition wasn’t “good” enough.
Sincerely,
European resident
Just a wild guess, but he’s trying to have conservative government use this?
Because no self-respecting academia, money-hungry corporation, or nihilistic teenager is going to use Llama spewing out “both sides” garbage.
So there’s still a 10% tariff across the board. It’s not going to kill the economy like the previous tariff, but it will still increase inflation and slow growth. Let’s see what happens.
It’s a niche market, but if someone wants total control, then you get a mainframe even if it costs more and is an inferior service to the cloud providers.
Easier to do when you have a Chinese market as a captive to subsidize your product.
That being said, Chinese tech won’t be better, but they will certainly be cheaper and it will eat into US tech’s marketshare.
Also keep an eye out for RISC-V (open source) architecture. Chinese gov’t is pouring billions a year to get away from x86 and ARM.
Probably start with energy security for EU. I see that as the biggest vulnerability, and the greatest return on public investment.
Wind, solar, nuclear, energy storage, heat pumps, electric vehicles, etc. Anything to reduce import of foreign hydrocarbons that’s vulnerable to supply shock like what we witnessed after Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Might not be a bad idea to collaborate with China, while also not being dependent on them.
Go read what Russians have said about hybrid warfare stretching back 20 years. Anything to destabilize perceived enemies are seen as legitimate.
Apple is cooked. Not only are they going to get decimated in China, but they are going to see demand destruction in the US due to tariffs. And neither Trump nor Xi cares about Apple.
They’ve been spending tens of billions a year in their chip industry.
All electronics are made in Asia. So there will be no higher prices for consumers in the EU.
US consumers will get hammered with anywhere from 25% to 55% price increase in electronics.
The article talks about how French and German Universities have more sovereign tech stacks while the Netherlands has been offloading more to US tech giants like Microsoft. I’m assuming this is due to cost and economy of scale.
Maybe the Netherlands should join Germany or French tech stack for cost saving measures?