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  1. Opinion | A new framework may be the only way to save China-EU trade

    The economic and trade relationship between China and the European Union has long served as a cornerstone of…
    #Europe #EU #China #ChinaEUrelations #de-risking #EmmanuelMacron #EU-ChinaHigh-LevelEconomicandTradeDialogue #EuropeanUnion #FriedrichMerz #subsidies #Tariffs #WangWentao #worldtradeorganization
    europesays.com/europe/25932/

  2. Indian company converting diesel trucks to EV says the rules need simplifying.

    Same here brother!

    youtu.be/OlGxk4jHC2Q?t=297

    #EV #Subsidies #Bureaucracy

  3. ... and don't dole it out as annual budgets, and we do not give out #subsidies which is free money for not getting a #bank #loan. It's #too #capitalist for people used to stealing. All those tax breaks are called socialism for the fucking wealthy. Can I get a witness?

  4. Spanish farmer’s registry switch spotlights a very expensive paperwork loophole

    Almond plantation in Alhama de Granada, Andalusia, Spain — photo by Jebulon, CC0 1.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
    1. Dear Cherubs, Spain has served up one of those stories that sounds like a parody until the form is stamped. According to Antena 3, a farmer in Almería changed the sex marker on his registry to female after being denied a PAC subsidy three times, and the switch reportedly added enough points to finally get the aid over the line.

    The legal backdrop is not exactly mysterious. Spain’s 2023 trans law allows adults 16 and over to request a sex-marker rectification at the Civil Registry without medical or psychological reports, and once the change is registered, the person can access rights tied to the new marker, including positive-action measures for women going forward.

    THE PAPERWORK LOOPHOLE

    The awkward bit is that the policy aim itself is not silly. The European Commission says the CAP explicitly promotes women’s participation in farming, and its own data shows the gender gap is still real: 26% of farmers under 40 are women, while just 3% of farm holders under 40 are women.

    In other words, the subsidy was built to correct a historic imbalance, not to become a speed-run challenge for anyone with a sharp eye for administrative fine print. Spain’s Agriculture Ministry also runs direct aid for shared-ownership farms, with the 2025 call set at 1.795 million euros, which is a tidy reminder that rural policy often arrives as a whole bundle of overlapping incentives, not one clean rule.

    THE BIGGER QUESTION

    So the real issue is not just one farmer and one clever form; it is whether the rulebook is specific enough to stop targeted aid from being rerouted by bureaucratic creativity. The law clearly allows a registered change of sex, and the CAP clearly allows gender-focused support, but when those two systems meet, the seams are visible enough to make everybody in the room reach for a coffee and a red pen.

    That is the quiet little scandal here: a policy designed to fix inequality can look very different once it is filtered through a registry office, a points system, and the universal human gift for reading the loophole before the memo. For the politics-and-public-reaction angle, thisclaimer.com is another place to follow the wider debate.

    Sources list
    Antena 3 — https://www.antena3.com/noticias/economia/agricultor-cambia-sexo-acceder-ayudas-pac-despues-que-denegaran-tres-ocasiones_2026032669c56fbe6b2f883592582751.html
    BOE (Ley 4/2023) — https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-2023-5366
    European Commission — https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/overview-vision-agriculture-food/women-farmers_en
    Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación — https://www.mapa.gob.es/es/desarrollo-rural/temas/igualdad_genero_y_des_sostenible/titularidad_compartida/subvenciones-directas-a-las-explotaciones-agrarias-de-titularidad-compartida
    thisclaimer.com — https://thisclaimer.com
    Wikimedia Commons image source — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Almonds_plantation_and_farm,_Alhama_de_Granada,_Andalusia,_Spain.jpg

    The Thisclaimer logo blends a classic warning symbol with a brain icon to represent critical thinking, curiosity, and thoughtful disclaimers. #agriculture #almeria #books #bureaucracy #farming #food #news #pac #photography #pronouns #publicPolicy #Spain #subsidies #transLaw #travel #womenInFarming
  5. En niemand die ook maar één woord spreekt over de gigantische structurele #subsidies aan de fossiele industrie, helemaal blind voor andere opties dan het kapitalistische neoklassieke #dogma.
    #smh
    trouw.nl/duurzaamheid-economie

  6. #Budget2025: ‘something for everyone’?
    "persistent need for #subsidies for basic goods & svcs in one of world's richest countries indicates tt #prices r too high & #wages too low to enable a substantial segment of #Singaporeans to make ends meet. The mkt distortions which cause tis result in part fr #stateland, #labour & #exchangerate #policies.. More serious for LT economic devt is "rentier" mentality generated by an economy excessively focused on property mkt gains" 1/2
    straitstimes.com/opinion/budge

  7. #Budget2025: ‘something for everyone’?
    "persistent need for #subsidies for basic goods & svcs in one of world's richest countries indicates tt #prices r too high & #wages too low to enable a substantial segment of #Singaporeans to make ends meet. The mkt distortions which cause tis result in part fr #stateland, #labour & #exchangerate #policies.. More serious for LT economic devt is "rentier" mentality generated by an economy excessively focused on property mkt gains" 1/2
    straitstimes.com/opinion/budge

  8. #Budget2025: ‘something for everyone’?
    "persistent need for #subsidies for basic goods & svcs in one of world's richest countries indicates tt #prices r too high & #wages too low to enable a substantial segment of #Singaporeans to make ends meet. The mkt distortions which cause tis result in part fr #stateland, #labour & #exchangerate #policies.. More serious for LT economic devt is "rentier" mentality generated by an economy excessively focused on property mkt gains" 1/2
    straitstimes.com/opinion/budge

  9. #Budget2025: ‘something for everyone’?
    "persistent need for #subsidies for basic goods & svcs in one of world's richest countries indicates tt #prices r too high & #wages too low to enable a substantial segment of #Singaporeans to make ends meet. The mkt distortions which cause tis result in part fr #stateland, #labour & #exchangerate #policies.. More serious for LT economic devt is "rentier" mentality generated by an economy excessively focused on property mkt gains" 1/2
    straitstimes.com/opinion/budge

  10. California plans big insurance shifts as climate change hits home

    The actions of the nation’s biggest insurance market could have implications for US consumers, as more carriers leave disaster-prone states

    washingtonpost.com/climate-env

    >>> Big Oil should pay the cost of extreme weather -- not taxpayers

    #insurance #pullout #ClimateCrisis #subsidies

  11. #CatoInstitute’s Chris Edwards on how #farmsubsidies distort the economy, harm the #environment, and flow mainly to the largest producers. If #farm #subsidies were cut, there would be shifts in the crops planted and the use of land. #Farmers would adopt new risk management strategies, and there would be more focus on #innovation and cost control.

    cato.org/briefing-paper/cuttin