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Europe’s strategy for convincing the Belgians to support its plan to fund Ukraine? Warn them they could be treated like Hungary.

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-belgium-hungary-ukraine-loan-war-russia-funds-finances/

#Ukraine #Russia #EU #Belgium

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The US House has approved a sweeping defence bill
that bolsters Europe’s security,
in what appears to be sharp rebuke to Donald Trump’s mounting threats
to downgrade Washington’s ties to traditional allies and Nato.

The bipartisan vote came just days after the publication of a White House national security strategy
that said Europe faced “civilisational erasure”
and made explicit Washington’s support for Europe’s nationalist far-right parties
– rattling EU leaders and opening up a seismic shift in transatlantic relations.

By contrast, the House’s $900bn Pentagon bill is notable for its pro-Europe orientation
and its clampdown on Trump’s authority to reduce troop numbers, move equipment or downgrade Nato-linked missions.

It leans hard into European defence,
barring troop levels on the continent from falling below 76,000 for more than 45 days
and blocking the removal of major equipment.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/11/us-house-passes-bill-to-bolster-europes-defence-in-apparent-rebuke-to-trumps-foreign-policy-strategy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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The Danish government is using the upcoming Christmas break to slip through a public consultation for a draft law that would make it an OFFENCE to use a #VPN to access content that would otherwise not be available in Denmark, or to circumvent the blocking of "illegal" websites. https://hoeringsportalen.dk/Hearing/Details/70858

This is done under the guise of ensuring a technologically neutral implementation of Directive 98/84 on pay-TV decoders (hint: the IP address is NOT a conditional access device).

#Copyright

English translation of the highlighted part:

The term ‘other technical solution’ should be understood broadly. The broad wording is intended to ensure that the proposed amendment covers any technical solution used to provide unauthorised access to media content.
[..]
For example, it will also be prohibited to use VPN connections to access media content that would otherwise not be available in Denmark, or to circumvent the blocking of illegal websites.

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It’s not that the EU is perfect - it’s not. It’s not that governments of countries within the EU aren’t often underwhelming. They are.

But this union, like all unions, makes us strong. And both Russia and the US fear this. They can’t abide the existence of a bloc of countries where democracy still matters. It provides their own citizens with a comparison they continually have to answer for.

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"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.

https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI

@odoruhako
The larger the temperature difference between the inside of your house and the cold outside, the faster the heat transfer will be (towards equilibrium). Opening the oven will heat up the inside of your house more than keeping it closed will, leading to faster energy transfer (wasted energy heating the outside). Opening the oven is therefore the least energy efficinet option.

Of course it will be hard getting your pizza out without opening the oven 😅

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🇺🇦👀 Ukraine entered the top 4 countries in terms of Bitcoin reserves in 2025, — BiTBO

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There is so much censorship in the EU that 7 of the 8 countries with the most freedom of the press are EU member states.

#EUpol #Musk #Trump #Europe #pressfreedom

Ranking of countries with best press freedom:
1. Norway
2. Estonia
3. Netherlands
4. Sweden
5. Finland
6. Denmark
7. Ireland
8. Portugal

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European Twitter exploded following yesterday’s rants by US and Russian hardliners calling to “abolish EU”.

Lots of voices like “we need European social media!!”

And I said, “actually, you know what, we kind of have one for years…” 😆

Some people started complaining “but nobody uses Mastodon” and I once again had no choice but to explain that if “nobody uses” then how come I’ve got 3k+ followers here and engaging in truly interesting discussions not less often than there😁

There’s two data points where Fediverse can be indeed seen as less attractive than US cortisol aggregators:

• number of engagements, but granted that up to 60-70% of these on Twitter are generated by bots who cares? Maybe media advertising agencies do, but I don’t.
• presence of public persons - this is where Fediverse actually loses, because it’s a network that grows between them and can’t be “invited”

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Trump’s new National Security Strategy openly says the quiet part:

🇺🇸 Break the EU
🇺🇸 Weaken NATO
🇺🇸 Boost far-right parties like AfD
🇺🇸 Force Europe to bend to US economic interests

This isn’t an “ally”. It’s a hostile power trying to pull Europe apart from within.

#politics #EU #Europe #Trump

Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European. As such, it is an open question whether they will view their place in the world, or their alliance with the United States, in the same way as those who signed the NATO charter.

Our broad policy for Europe should prioritize:

⏺ Reestablishing conditions of stability within Europe and strategic stability with Russia;

⏺ Enabling Europe to stand on its own feet and operate as a group of aligned sovereign nations, including by taking primary responsibility for its own defense, without being dominated by any adversarial power;

⏺ Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations;

⏺ Opening European markets to U.S. goods and services and ensuring fair treatment of U.S. workers and businesses;

⏺ Building up the healthy nations of Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe through commercial ties, weapons sales, political collaboration, and cultural and educational exchanges;

⏺ Ending the perception, and preventing the reality, of NATO as a perpetually expanding alliance; and

⏺ Encouraging Europe to take action to combat mercantilist overcapacity, technological theft, cyber espionage, and other hostile economic practices.

American diplomacy should continue to stand up for genuine democracy, freedom of expression, and unapologetic celebrations of European nations” individual character and history. America encourages its political allies in Europe to promote this revival of spirit, and the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism.

Our goal should be to help Europe correct its current trajectory. We will need a strong Europe to help us successfully compete, and to work in concert with us to prevent any adversary from dominating Europe.

America is, understandably, sentimentally attached to the European continent — and, of course, to Britain and Ireland. The character of these countries is also strategically important because we count upon creative, capable, confident, democratic allies to establish conditions of stability and security. We want to work with aligned countries that want to restore their former greatness.

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What struck me most on Europe wasn’t the focus on value, freedom of speech etc - again, very similar to Vance’s Munich speech - but how activist it is. This is about directly trying to influence what is going on in Europe:

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Holy moly, do people still think the U.S. is an ally of Europe? It is now an officially stated foreign policy goal to undermine the EU and centrist European governments that don't ideologically align with MAGA.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lka6s5yl5gqw457eqyssmqqv/post/3m77pv3b5pk2v

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#EU agrees to permanently stop russian gas imports and phase out russian oil

Press release 📎 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_2860

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@kalisz79

https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1991352574390227129

"In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.

Le Monde has a long article (https://lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-juge-francais-de-la-cpi-sanctionne-par-les-etats-unis-face-aux-attaques-les-magistrats-de-la-cour-tiendront_6654016_3210.html) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.

Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.

He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.

That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund

and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.

Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations."

Arnaud Bertrand na platformie X:

"In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.

Le Monde has a long article (https://lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-juge-francais-de-la-cpi-sanctionne-par-les-etats-unis-face-aux-attaques-les-magistrats-de-la-cour-tiendront_6654016_3210.html) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.

Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.

He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.

That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund

[...]"

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@zatnosk Det tror jeg gerne 😄 held og lykke med det. Håber håndværkeren får fingeren ud før end senere.

@Nuhn @zatnosk Det er for ringe. Lugter af dårlig planlægning.

Jeg ville nok klage over det hvis det var mig.

@zatnosk Ok, de fuger kun på ydersiden. Indenfor afsluttes med vindueskarm og lister.

Afdækningsplast er også fint, bare det stopper luftstrømmen. Evt fyld op med sammenrullet avis el.lign., og så plast udenpå. Så er det i det mindste en smule isoleret.

Nodet a la det her:

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🇪🇺New EU Commission report dismantles voluntary #ChatControl 1.0, which they now want to make permanent:

"Insufficient data", high error rates & no proof of actual convictions. 🤯

Report: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52025DC0740

My comment: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-evaluation-report-eu-commission-again-fails-to-demonstrate-effectiveness-of-mass-surveillance-of-intimate-personal-photos-and-videos/

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