Oorlog is Vrede. Onwetendheid is kracht. Bouchez zegt een "industriële reactie" (of industrieel beleid) te willen, maar bepleit dan meteen het omgekeerde (nl. afbreken van onze handelsbescherming en fiscale cadeaus). Wereldvreemde kerel. www.standaard.be/politiek/geo...

Als de vos de passie preekt, boer let op uw ganzen

Ik mocht meedoen aan deze podcast over de stand van zaken van huren en vooral delen vandaag de dag. Verplichte kost voor wie in de praktijk timmert aan de weg naar een andere, menselijkere en leukere economie en samenleving 🙂

De Amerikaanse vice-president reist morgen naar Boedapest om er een pro-Kremlinregering te steunen die steevast de prijs wint voor meest corrupte land in de EU. Waarom de Trump-regering dat doet, vraagt u? 1/2 www.politico.eu/article/oper...

Crises precipitate change. That's no reason to induce a crisis, but you'd be a fool to let a crisis go to waste. Donald Trump is the greatest crisis of our young century, and the EU looks set to squander the opportunity, to its own terrible detriment. 1/

If so, Europe must abandon the omnibus deregulatory onslaught and instead resuscitate its ability to plan the damn green transition

Some hopeful news about #batteries. It won't come as a surprise that its costs are dropping faster than anything else ever before. More importantly, battery installation is now happening at warpspeed. And many new techs are in the pipeline (solid state etc). Sharp contrast with SMR pipedreams.

Ik zou lachen als het niet zo triest was om geregeerd te worden door een ronduit incompetente (en in mijn ogen ronduit gevaarlijke) vent.

Sensible suggestions for European diplomats. We should go beyond and pressure him economically though. Present him with other challenges so he retreats on the current one (Iran).

It’s the people that spend money. Not the cars. #UrbanTruth

There's a country in EU where the government spies on journalists, where government officials secretly support Putin, where Musk, Vance and Bannon tell government officials what to do, and where Russian oligarchs are welcome to launder their stolen money. It's not Hungary.

VERY GOOD 👍

De 'surrender deal' van Von der Leyen met Trump goedkeuren is niets minder dan een beschamende soumission van Europa aan een van de grootste gevaren voor onze veiligheid en die van de wereld. En en passant zouden we het internationaal handelsrecht onder de bus gooien 🤦

I've marinated on this... and I think Rutte is really putting NATO in danger. Going out of his way to align with Trump on the Iran war could leave NATO politically orphaned in the US. Both right and left, may view NATO as toxic.

The DPRK Politburo, except run by people in clown suits. bsky.app/profile/atru...

The emperor has no clothes. At one point even the orange manchild in the White House will find out that having a few friends is better and cheaper than having a 1 trillion dollar army fail yet another middle east war. Europeans should call his bluff. www.ft.com/content/6bf1...

Remember when his Sieg Heil was just a gesture of heartfelt joy?

This piece would be absolutely hilarious if reality weren’t so bleak

The "peace" president wants to blow another 200 billion for reckless and ill-conceived attacks by the US Department of "war". When is MAGA booting this con man out of office? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This whole situation is just a tragic farce

From epic fury to epic failure, nicely summarized here

I am emotionally bracing for when, based on no research or planning of any kind, Elon Musk tweets he's going to fix this problem with a Hyperloop and TSLA shares jump 27%.

Het is een raadsel waarom deze man in editos wordt bewierookt als een staatsman. Zijn Europese visie bevestigt dat hij een confederaal = zwak Europa wil. En hij haakt zijn karretje aan zijn extreemrechtse fractiegenoot (Meloni) terwijl hij zich op de borst klopt een ‘chinese muur’ op te trekken.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

A message for 🇪🇺President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu and 🇩🇪Chancellor Merz: "You can't support those who set the world on fire and then blame the smoke caused by the fire." In an era where most of Europe's leaders are so spineless, Pedro Sanchez really stands out.

Use this in every local election campaign ⚡️

It’s so blinding obvious, once again, that ditching the fossil (and linear) economy is the path to security, comfort and wellbeing. The likes of Meloni and De Wever want to keep us enslaved and dependent on the whims of foreign powers and autocrats/dictators.

So the US has further eased sanctions on Russian oil, now across the board. Should the US now be considered a NATO/EU ally or a Russian ally? No doubt this will be a high agenda item when Emmanuel Macron hosts Volodymyr Zelensky at the Elysee today.

No crisis for big oil apparently 🛢️

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

😂 we don’t need epic longreads when we have this stuff

Hawks and doves should stop arguing with one another. After all, it's in our interest to defend international law as @meyer-resende.bsky.social says. "Right without might is weak, but might without right is not tenable either." euobserver.com/205285/the-b...

Growth based capitalism, which pretends to prioritize 'efficiency', is in fact super inefficient. It creates inequality by design. Great to see @deschuttero.bsky.social with a roadmap for a redistributive and sustainable economy by design, instead. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A scathing and accurate rundown of the humiliating performance by Merz on Iran, showing that conservatives (and nationalists btw) prefer being Trump’s lapdogs rather than defend European solidarity, decency and international law. We live in a time of disgrace davekeating.substack.com/p/sanchez-as...

C’mon, people. Look at your Kremlin style guide. The phrase is “special military operation.” Not all of you are getting this right.

Rubio: “Let me tell you, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”

Excellent metaphor why growth for growth’s sake is an erroneous pursuit

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

This! The entire point of contemporary urban planning is to allocate more public space to other uses besides cars and car parking. Hence all that infrastructure to slow down speed and reduce car dependency Allowing autonomous vehicles in Europe would reverse that trend because form follows function

♻️ Is recycling batteries really cleaner than mining new raw materials? Absolutely. NEW T&E research compares the carbon footprint of recycled nickel from waste batteries with primary mined and processed nickel – and found that recovering nickel has a much lower impact. 🧵⤵️

Je zou verwachten dat de journos Francien hierop zouden aanpakken. Maar nee, hij mocht uitpakken met zijn promoreisje rond kritieke grondstoffen, een thema dat hij kennelijk recent heeft ontdekt maar weinig kaas van heeft gegeten, getuige de platitudes die hij daarover ten berde gaf.

Alright! Ruim anderhalf jaar trekken en sleuren aan dit dossier met @saramatthieu.bsky.social in het EU Parlement. Enkel nog een plenaire stemming in april. Het kan altijd beter, maar in deze moeilijke tijden zetten we toch stappen vooruit op vlak van milieubescherming, circulariteit en autonomie 🙏

Where should our money go? Should we patch up our aging fossil industries, or should we modernize and green EU manufacturing? Carbon capture boosters want the former, but electrification, circularity and efficiency simply deliver more bang for our buck, as @saramatthieu.bsky.social rightly says.

And to think those techbros and their boosters want to build nuclear to fuel all those data centers we don’t need 😒 it’s just not going to happen

Oh yeah 😊 Is this the moment when the house of cards comes tumbling down? If the Trump regime is to return the billions in tariff revenues, that's going to eat into his increased defense budget. The orange manchild may not want to push that Iran button after all. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Interesting analysis by @bcmerchant.bsky.social explaining how the US regime is not quite giving American AI companies free rein, but is regulating it to increase the power of the state, in this case, worryingly, a far right one. ttps://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/what-trump-really-wants-with-ai

Zoals wel vaker een stukje om duimen en vingers bij af te likken. Je kan lang proberen om een 'redelijk' debat te voeren, maar als je tegenstanders feitenvrije nonsens verkopen om hun eigen contradicties te verbergen, is de tijd aangebroken om man en paard te noemen.

This is who Chancellor Merz is allying Germany with.

Met 'bondgenoten' zoals Jim Ratcliffe van #Ineos heeft de Vlaamse regering, die nochtans dolgraag fossiele krakers in Antwerpen wil en er veel geld, tijd en middelen voor over heeft, geen vijanden nodig. www.tijd.be/ondernemen/c...