De volledige Nederlandse energie-intensieve industrie in haar huidige vorm en omvang klimaatneutraal maken is geen optie. Er is onvoldoende plek, publieke middelen, arbeid, elektriciteit en milieuruimte beschikbaar. www.wkr.nl/adviezen/eco...

Het is maar de vraag of de twee miljard euro groene subsidie die de Nederlandse Staat aan Tata Steel wil geven, daadwerkelijk leidt tot minder CO2-uitstoot nos.nl/artikel/2600...

Dat treft, mischien een groene partij nog eens goed naar dat akkoord van vrijdag laten kijken nos.nl/artikel/2600...

India heeft dus een Ministerie voor Samenwerking www.cooperation.gov.in/en/ministry-...

One Trump in Washington, one Dutch soldier in Nuuk and one Canadian PM shaking hands in China. US is getting isolated and this will make it small, not big

Overwegen we echt om 1 landgenoot te offeren en deze in zijn uppie in Nuuk te stationeren? Ongetwijfeld zonder wapen. nos.nl/artikel/2598...

die commerciële banken heb je maar half in de hand. En het nieuwe private systeem dat Trump en zijn vriendjes aan het optuigen zijn heb je helemaal niet in de hand www.bnr.nl/column/colum...

Allies here being (having been) Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia, India, Canada, Mexico and Taiwan

America’s best hope for matching China lies in alliances. That means no longer treating U.S. allies as dependents under our protection but as partners in building power jointly by pooling markets, technology, military capability and industrial capacity www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

China’s economy is 30 percent larger by purchasing power, its industrial base twice as large, its power generation twice as high, its navy is 50 percent larger by 2030. It leads in technologies like electric vehicles and next-generation nuclear reactors www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

the modern U.S. Army really does run on batteries, not push-ups www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Digital euro ‘only defence’ against deepening US control of money, economists warn - www.ft.com/content/b060... via @FT

Oops, would a second bombardment work?

If a nation with as enduring a bond with the United States as Denmark is treated this way, then what is the point of being America’s friend? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/o...

OK Nederlandse politiek, je moet kiezen: woningcrisis oplossen of geiten houden? nos.nl/artikel/2597...

Asked if there were any limits on his global powers, Mr. Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

It should be clear to the oil majors that any guarantee that Trump gives them lasts only as long as he is in office archive.is/zT2ej

🎊 WIN! Ook pensioenfonds PME breekt met vervuilende vermogensbeheerder BlackRock – dankzij de druk van onze beweging. ✍️ Nu is het tijd dat ABP gaat breken met BlackRock. Al 5.000 mensen hebben onze oproep getekend. Teken jij ook? www.breekmetblackrock.nl

🎊 WIN! Pension fund PME breaks with polluting asset giant BlackRock – thanks to the pressure of our movement. ✍️ Now it's time for ABP to break with BlackRock as well. Over 5.000 people have already signed our petition. Will you add your name? www.breekmetblackrock.nl

uit januari:

PME, a Dutch pension fund overseeing about $70 billion, has severed ties with BlackRock based on an assessment that the world’s largest money manager no longer acts in its best interests on issues such as climate risk.

If you do what you did, you get what you got. (Meme van Marten Mantel voor Vrij Nederland)

Only one of the world’s four most powerful monetary authorities is acting as though the climate transition is a problem for #CentralBanks: The People's Bank of #China. @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social @granthamlse.bsky.social & @james7jackson.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk for @lsebr.bsky.social.

De hypocrisie van extreem rechts over homo- en vrouwenrechten wordt inderdaad pijnlijk zichtbaar zodra ze met SGP in bed duiken www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...

Farmers need bailout from Trumps liberation day www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...

key principles for establishing a European Future of Defence Architecture and a framework for its financing cepr.org/voxeu/column...

The most important thing Europeans need is to panic. Europe is facing its own Deluge — a sudden pincer movement by hostile great powers that threatens to reduce it to a collection of small vassal states. www.noahpinion.blog/p/europe-is-...

Very happy to be publishing this new report on green refinancing operations. #ECB #GreenTLTROs

Tata deal kost niet 'slechts' eenmalig 2 miljard, maar tot 2040 jaarlijkse nog eens 375 tot 580 miljoen euro esb.nu/tata-deal-tr...

Just this past weekend, Mr. Trump posted a lengthy social media message : I AM THE AFFORDABILITY PRESIDENT. TALK LOUDLY AND PROUDLY!”

President Trump on the cost-of-living pains being felt by Americans, declaring that affordability “doesn’t mean anything to anybody” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

Mark Sanders: Het is dan ook niet het einde van de mensheid, maar het einde van onze menselijkheid die mij het meest zorgen baart www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Something tells me this will only help to get this message across

Angstaanjagende blik in hoofd van de tech bazen open.spotify.com/episode/6giB...

Energy independence and competitiveness increasingly drive the EU energy transition: In 2024, solar photovoltaics (PV) were, on average, 41% cheaper than the lowest-cost fossil fuel alternatives, while onshore wind projects were 53% cheaper www.irena.org/News/pressre...

In the history of modern capitalism, decaying world hegemons have always turned into 'junior partners' of their rising challengers - the Dutch to the English, the English to the US - and Xi now basically suggests to Trump 'You cannot beat us, why not join us?'

Oh jee, moeten we weer kiezen?

meanwhile in sudan www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieDx...

zeker een paadje, als @vvdonline.bsky.social inziet dat (radicale/veilige) groei niet kan zonder EU-aanpak

Een uitermate stabiel land...

stop subsidising energy-intensive production stages that actually should move to where cheaper clean energy sources are becoming available at scale www.bruegel.org/first-glance...

The main measure has been the so-called Clean Industry State Aid Framework (CISAF). However, this carries the risk of fostering a subsidy race among EU member states, leading to single market fragmentation – the opposite of what Europe needs www.bruegel.org/first-glance...

Great thread by Nils on our new paper. Joint work - Germany, France and the other member-states can either do a coordinated demand push for EU built cars or descent into a chaos of regulatory roll-backs and bailouts. It really is hang together or separately for European cars.

Agree that EU response should be to stimulate its own electric cars, rather than protect its fossil ones as theindustry seems to demand

Germany laid the foundation for a Franco-German bargain by putting its EV subsidies back on - 5 to 12. Berlin should copy Frances eco-bonus conditionality, filtering out Chinese cars from further subsidy Then extend the logic to corporate car directive so Europe steers demand into premium cars too

In the US investment is concentrated in a small number of large factories, ranging from $30 to $65 billion. In Europe, most spending occurs at the national level, projects are typically between €2 and €3 billion www.meetingrimini.org/en/turn-skep...

"It is hard to argue that a deadline 10 years away is the driving factor behind Germany losing half of its net car exports in the last four years, There's clearly something else going on here, and that's China. So there needs to be an industrial and trade policy response." www.cer.eu/in-the-press...

Volle bak bij presentatie boek van Thomas Bollen in Tivoli

Chinese officials have vigorously opposed European Union tariffs on electric vehicles from China, and some experts saw the export controls as a fresh expression of Beijing’s pique www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b...

Ik wacht op het CIDI dat gaat klagen over antisemitisme?