Wind power, as it turns out, is very useful www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Kahneman herlezen: “Why Hawks Win” Zelfoverschatting en nonchalence zijn het begin van alle conflicten.

It is extremely difficult to construct a practical case against this position. Net Zero is now as much about patriotism as it is about climate change.

Not one word about clearing strait of Hormuz from sea mines with European mine hunters (Europe has over 90, USA just 4). Not one word on being a backstop for insurance companies to get ships sailing. Not one word to deploy naval escorts. Tired and out of ideas

"Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, the government’s climate advisers have forecast." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

De angst voor uiterst rechts bij de EVP begint echt vreemde vormen aan te nemen. Waarom zou je zo extreem doorslaan en een vrij stevig compromis afschieten? Welke christendemocratische kiezers zijn er voor uitzichtloze kinderdetentie? Denk eens aan wat mensen willen en wat minder aan profilering.

Reporter seeking freedom of speech in the US arrested for exercising freedom of speech in the US

On 10 March 2025, the US announced that 83 percent of USAID's programs would be cancelled, involving over 5,000 contracts. The UK, Germany, France, Belgium and others quickly and sharply cut their aid budgets too. One year on, what are the effects?

I have a magical device in my driveway that protects me from oil price shocks, emasculates petrothugs, slows the rising seas, and powers my car. During times like these, worth considering!

Cor, sure would feel great right now if we were self-sufficient in renewable energy, and laughing at all the rubes reliant on global oil supplies. We'd have a bit of a swagger in our step today.

It's extremely clear that the US doesn't really have an objective here except to inflict maximum pain, and attacking water supply is going to end catastrophically for the entire region. It's not just a war crime, it's approaching a crime against humanity.

The question of which country is the best for working women is nuanced and complex. Our glass-ceiling index is our best stab at answering it. Find out where your country ranks econ.st/47tRj9C

Heel Vlaanderen nu: “Huh, sloten?”

🎵 Ice, ice, baby 🎶 Return “arrangements” basically mean: Whatever!

Official agenda of the European Parliament: not a war, a ‘military operation’. Putinism is really winning the military operation of words.

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

This is how to answer that toxic question (With slightly different wording if you’re not actually the governor of Minnesota)

‼️A group of MEPs has submitted an urgent question to the @ec.europa.eu asking whether pro-Orbán propaganda and disinformation boosted on Meta during the election campaign violates the EU's digital rulebook. Moreover, Meta has publicly claimed it banned political, electoral and... 2/1

Hey, remember how we let a nazi near-trillionaire annihilate the US state capacity? I know it was a whole year ago, but it turns out that this has consequences beyond "murdering 14 million people by ending USAID" (which apparently no one cared about).

Iedereen vind het blkb ok dat Trump het internationaal recht negeert om oorlog te voeren 😐 Als de EU frozen assets wil gebruiken om oorlog te weerstaan, roepen we internationaal recht in ☂️ Beetje Realpolitik zou helpen.

If France's European allies want to benefit from the protection of Paris' nuclear deterrent, they must buy French equipment, far-right leader Marine Le Pen has said.

The rise in murders, attacks, and harassment of journalists in Europe

Hungary's veto on the €90 billion loan to Ukraine proves the European Union needs less unanimity, says Rob Jetten, the new Dutch prime minister. "We cannot explain to our constituents that Europe is sometimes way too slow," Jetten said on his first trip to Brussels since taking office.

Strategen, altijd & overal: Een ruk naar rechts is een ‘signaal’. Een stem in het centrum of links is een accident.

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.

Our wars are the opposite of nation building. I guess it's honest...

International law: bypassed US federal law: bypassed Natural gas: up Stocks (pensions): down I don’t see why EU leaders don’t side fully with how people in both EU and US view this Trump mess. I repeat: Merz is delusional in almost all policy areas. If you find yourself aligned with him, then ✋🏻🛑

Good to see that there is *finally* some movement on this! “Neutral Ireland is seeking closer co-operation with the UK and other Nato countries to defend its vast maritime area as Russia intensifies its surveillance of vulnerable undersea cables that criss-cross Irish waters.”

Got a cab near the Department of Education. Hadn’t seen the Charlie Kirk banner before.

Hoezeer iedereen ook een hekel heeft aan een Khamenei of Maduro - in andere landen leiders gaan vermoorden of ontvoeren creëert nieuwe internationale ‘gedragsregels’ die wel eens op heel onverwachte manieren gevolgen zouden kunnen hebben.

“A pro-Russian aide to a far-right German legislator who attempted to scuttle Berlin’s shipment of main battle tanks to Ukraine is an agent of Russian intelligence, The Insider can now reveal. Vladimir Sergienko, 52, is the Ukrainian-born adviser to Eugen Schmidt, a Bundestag deputy with the AfD.“

EXCLUSIVE: The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has triggered security fears in Berlin after officially requesting information on vulnerabilities in NATO defenses — insight that would prove useful to the Kremlin.

Kostiantynivka This is not a movie scene. This is a Ukrainian city that Russia is systematically erasing. They want it to disappear — physically and from the world’s memory. Please, don’t stay SILENT 🎥 libkos, 28th Mechanized Brigade

great replacement except they want to import racists

Right-wing lawmakers told former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton that he deserved to be sanctioned by the United States during a fiery hearing in the European Parliament today.

"sport is an unfailing cause of ill-will" George Orwell was not a fan...

Trump announced last weekend he was bumping his global tariffs up to 15% but then never signed the order so it’s 10% today not 15. He also claimed a hospital ship was on the way to Greenland which never actually happened either. Everything is totally fine.

Why do some centre-right European People's Party MEPs, supported by the far-right, continue to centre the debate on funding for NGOs? The real end goal here is discrediting and defunding NGOs in order to sideline them even further in political decision-making.

🔍 An EU strategy in the wake of the United States Supreme Court tariffs ruling 🛑 The European Union should suspend last year’s trade deal with the US and plan for retaliation in response to new tariff uncertainty, argues Ignacio Garcia Bercero. 🔗 Read the First Glance: buff.ly/2CSJXn2 #EconSky

the lyndon b johnson campaign’s “in your guts you know he’s nuts” response to barry goldwater’s “in your heart you know he’s right” in the 1964 presidential election. all timer imo

The government's problems are not primarily about "comms" but lack of clarity of purpose. But it's quite striking that there's a direct correlation between how unpopular a policy is and how many have heard of it. What can they do about it?

These words by Supreme Justice Gorsuch should be printed, in full, on tomorrow’s front pages.

Yannis Stournaras was campaigning for joint EU debt long before it was trendy. But now the Bank of Greece governor is setting his sights on his toughest audience yet: The German government.

The picture says it all. International law, no to Trump's board of autocrats.

So it turns out Matt Goodwin's Reform campaign manager was a holocaust-denying Nazi who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman.” When do we start seeing all the coverage of the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK? www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-su...

This is the eighth death in ICE custody in the last seven weeks.

Bi-zar. Oplossing is simpel. Subsidies niet langer koppelen aan het aantal hectare, maar aan duurzaamheid. 🌱

Waarom confronteert niemand Doornaert en co dat ze jarenlang columns hebben geschreven over vermeende aanvallen vrije meningsuiting naar aanleiding van dingen die ze veelal uit hun duim hebben gezogen terwijl ze nu mordicus zwijgen op moment Amerikaanse staat voorhamer bovenhaalt tegen free speech?

Now the 🇺🇸 ambassador to 🇧🇪 is threatening to destroy the life of the leader of the main centre-left party in Belgium with 🇺🇸sanctions (could no longer use credit cards etc) because he criticised what ICE is doing. And yet these people have the nerve to say it is Europe threatening free speech.

It would be really great to read an article about young boys that didn't have Adolescence and "crisis" as its reference points. There is something badly wrong in our discourse about teenage boys and girls. Mostly, they are fine and far better adjusted than their parents and grandparents.