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Podcast | What’s keeping NATO together and what’s pulling it apart?
This week, Nato leaders met in Ankara on the occasion of the highly anticipated NATO summit. The event…
#NATO #OTAN #Europe #Europa #EU #News #Ankara #donaldtrump #DonnachaÓBeacháin #DublinCityUniversity #Europeancorrespondent #nato #StefanGrobe #transatlanticalliance
https://www.europesays.com/nato/7748/
Imagine all the streaming!
Why is the EU still allowing geoblocking for series, movies and football?
This quote is from @ilumium at @edri
He sees geoblocking as “purely a leftover from ancient copyright rules and an attempt for the companies to slice up and optimise revenues across different jurisdictions.”
Full article on #EuropeanCorrespondent (how long until they have a Mastodon account?)
https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/imagine-all-the-streaming
Old fishing nets converted into energy via "Green Plasma"
Last December, Italian scientists converted 200 kg of ghost nets recovered from the seabed into #syngas – a hydrogen-rich combustible gas that can generate electricity
Since spring 2025, Marche Polytechnic Univ. in Ancona has operated Green Plasma as Italy's first system for treating marine waste
Unsorted waste is shredded and heated to 1000°C, turning it into gas
#GreenPlasma #EuropeanCorrespondent
https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/when-ghost-nets-can-make-energy
"The Iran war is p̶u̶s̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶b̶i̶l̶l̶s̶ murdering people".
It isn't difficult to get the headlines right, and the #europeancorrespondent ought to know better.
Cheap air fares have allowed millions of Europeans to travel longer distances, boosting tourism and helping migrant workers keep close links to home.
They’ve also come with a heavy environmental toll.
"Thanks, Brussels, for that €9 flight" by #europeancorrespondent
https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/thanks-brussels-for-that-9-flight
<<We prioritise story selection because we respect your time. As our editor-in-chief, Julius Fintelmann, puts it: “If a story doesn’t change how you understand Europe or your place in it, it doesn’t belong in your inbox.”>>
The #EuropeanCorrespondent is doing a lot of things right. Starting with a supranational focus, so needed in Europe now.
"In Finland, tax records are considered public data, and every November, the tax authorities release a dataset to the media containing the incomes earned and taxes paid by Finland’s richest."
"At the top spot this year was Mikko ”Miki” Kuusi, founder of food delivery company Wolt and CEO of Deliveroo, whose income was €80.6 million, of which he paid €39.7 million in taxes."
STANDING OVATION
https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/finlands-annual-tax-reveal
Red card for Israel? — The European Correspondent
https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/red-card-for-israel
#europe #news #journalism #information #gaza #boycott #europeancorrespondent
Why is the far right becoming more succesful in Europe? A good long read primer and how to fight back; The season for wildfires is lengthening and why Canada and the EU should spend more time together. #EuropeanCorrespondent really on the nose this morning...
elaine.mayoris.com/go/ifm3kj8tc...
🗞️ Lessons from the far right
Why is the far right becoming more succesful in Europe? A good long read primer and how to fight back; The season for wildfires is lengthening and why Canada and the EU should spend more time together. #EuropeanCorrespondent really on the nose this morning...
elaine.mayoris.com/go/ifm3kj8tc...
🗞️ Lessons from the far right
Why is the far right becoming more succesful in Europe? A good long read primer and how to fight back; The season for wildfires is lengthening and why Canada and the EU should spend more time together. #EuropeanCorrespondent really on the nose this morning...
https://elaine.mayoris.com/go/ifm3kj8tcubzj7g16zx35kyh6gqo0s24tx28kgo8839k/2866
Si la Europa que te gusta es la suma de sus diferentes países, prueba "The European Correspondent"
#EuropeanCorrespondent une a 140 periodistas desde 2022 en 5 newsletters, una por cada zona de Europa.
Temas que han tocado recientemente:
- Aumento de osos, lobos y linces en los bosques de Suecia, Rumanía, Letonia y Eslovaquia.
- Cómo gestiona Finlandia
su larguísima frontera con Rusia
- El arresto político del alcalde de Estambul
Since the 1990s, the Polish capital of Warsaw has used clams as part of its water monitoring system
The concept is simple: clams react to toxins by closing their shells. Sensors glued to the shell measure how much the clams are closed. In total, the system monitors eight clams, if six of them close beyond a certain threshold...
EDITED: water supply IS NOT "automatically" shut down, but an early warning is raised (see fact-check in reply)
Students make history in Serbia's largest protest ever recorded
Independent reports suggest anywhere from 300–400,000 protesters filling the streets of Belgrade. While the exact numbers remain disputed, one fact is undeniable – Serbia is awake.
Protesters arrived from all corners of the country, many travelling hundreds of kilometres on foot, and were met with red carpets, cheers, home-made food, and tears by Belgrade locals
I didn't see this one coming...
"Last week, US president Donald Trump withdrew the US from the World Health Organisation (WHO)"
"President Xi Jinping recently announced that China would maintain its contributions to the WHO, signalling its intent to expand its influence over global health governance. But does Europe want China to dominate the WHO?"
Reading recommendation! The Literature Express by Lasha Bugadze, from #Georgia
A train takes a group of mediocre writers through European capitals, from Lisbon to Moscow, as they work on their literary projects. The main character, a young Georgian writer, falls in love with the wife of their Polish translator. Along the way, their journey assembles a complex puzzle of European cultures coming together on a single train.
Recommended by #EuropeanCorrespondent
Right-wing governing parties in Italy have proposed a law to forbid schools from rejecting traditional #Christmas images and symbols
The initiative comes as a reaction to some teachers' and principals' decision to avoid celebrating the holidays with typical religious representations of Jesus' birth.
They want to reinterpret the festivity more inclusively, to avoid alienating non-Christian families and promote cultural integration
https://www.europeancorrespondent.com/r/navigating-the-line-between-tradition-and-religion
Thessaloniki's subway has finally opened - driverless trains, high-tech automation. The idea for an underground transport system in #Thessaloniki first appeared in 1918, with the first tunnel completed in 1986.
Tunnelling ... revealed a Roman highway, ancient Greek burial sites, water and drainage systems, mosaics and inscriptions, and tens of thousands of artefacts dating back centuries to Byzantine and Ottoman domination.
https://www.europeancorrespondent.com/r/archeo-subway-a-quick-journey-through-the-past
"The Commission took Gaia-X under its wings and developed new laws to accelerate its adoption" (Data Act)
"But Gaia-X isn't without criticism. The non-profit association behind the project has invited major American tech companies like Amazon, Palantir, and Microsoft to join the initiative and participate in the working groups"
"The participation of American hyperscalers in Gaia-X has also disrupted its internal processes"
From #EuropeanCorrespondent
https://www.europeancorrespondent.com/article?s=Gaia-X:-Europe-fights-for-digital-independence
Did you know GAIA-X, the decentralised and collaborative network to share data in Europe?
"Organisations would store their data locally, control who can access it, and share it with other members of a data space (companies or institutions)"
"...the Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS), provides an open-source solution ... to build their own cloud systems without relying on American proprietary technology"
(cont.)
Source:
https://www.europeancorrespondent.com/article?s=Gaia-X:-Europe-fights-for-digital-independence
"Deutsche Bahn has to deploy so-called "ghost trains" to be ridden around Berlin during the night as the city doesn't provide enough sidings where the trains can be parked overnight"
From: The European Correspondent
https://www.europeancorrespondent.com/r/not-the-night-trains-the-country-was-waiting-for
#DeutscheBahn #trains #nighttrains (but not the ones you would expect) #EuropeanCorrespondent
1.2 M Europeans live on the streets. Hundreds of them freeze to death every year
A Czech couple started crafting "igloos" for them, simple capsules for one person, designed to accumulate the warmth of a human body
Pavla Klečková, founder: "A company in Zlín offered to take over the production of igloos with no profit"
This winter, igloos produced in Zlín will provide shelter for homeless people in several European countries
From #EuropeanCorrespondent #Czechia
https://www.europeancorrespondent.com/r/igloos-against-homelessness
Spain becomes Europe's number one producer of #cannabis
Spanish cannabis seems especially potent – % of THC reported can range from 20% to 50%. To put it in perspective, cannabis globally averages 17%
Albanian gangs have set up large-scale indoor plantations in rural regions of Catalonia. Serbian, Dutch, Lithuanian and Ukrainian gangs operate in Almeria and Granada, all heavily armed and violently competing for profit and market share.
https://www.europeancorrespondent.com/r/spain-becomes-europes-number-one-producer-of-cannabis
Apple owes the Irish government €2,700 per inhabitant.
Initially, the Irish government argued that Apple didn't owe them anything.
8 years ago, the country granted #Apple tax benefits violating its own state-aid laws. #Ireland hoped that the loss in tax would be compensated by economic gains: jobs, growth, more tech companies.
https://www.europeancorrespondent.com/r/time-for-apple-to-pay-its-dues
THANKS EUROPE. Thanks, Margrethe Vestager, for defending the citizens against #BigTech and rogue politicians.