Saw this DW docu yesterday. According to invastigative reporters the 2 B euro project scam was due to a Chinese company ( project scammers) and German Carbon certificate authority officials being bought off, allegedly. The investigation isn't over.
They have AI power, we do not.
So we're economically and technically vulnerable. Usually because of insufficient EU integration and cooperation etc etc.
In many areas "the EU" is still like 27-40 little and bigger countries squabbling. This is part of our process too, but still it is prone to be (ab)used by major players ( Huge countries and Big Tech).
Some people are worried about this weakness and it's exploitation , and that's why they prefer to federailze Europe asap, though this bring it's own challenges ( like new systems of checks & balances). So imo, if we keep doing our euro squabble things, and keep doing it, step by step, we'll get there. Hopefully, we'll be ready in time, for whatever crises will come our way next.
Something modeled after the Swiss confederation will have my preference atm, for example ( though they do have lots and lots of referendums).
Can't be worse then it is already ;-)
Idk, but 8 billion Neanderthals would've needed a lot more meat, ceteris paribus.
Three weeks after one of Brazil’s worst-ever floods hit its southernmost state, killing 155 people and forcing 540,000 from their homes, experts have warned that water levels will take at least another two weeks to drop.
The death toll across Rio Grande do Sul is still increasing daily, and more than 77,000 displaced people remain in public shelters, prompting the state government to announce plans to build four temporary “tent cities” to accommodate them.
The Panama papers consisted of 11 millions documents, 214 000 offshore companies, 14.000 customers.. And now 27 are charged, and that's it.
The bot missed what Stoltenberg said:
"The Nato chief, Jens Stoltenberg, has said any attack on the western military alliance would be met with a “united and forceful response”, after Donald Trump invited Russia to attack member countries that he perceived as not meeting their financial obligations.
Stoltenberg said in a statement: “Any suggestion that allies will not defend each other undermines all of our security, including that of the US, and puts American and European soldiers at increased risk. I expect that regardless of who wins the presidential election, the US will remain a strong and committed Nato ally.”
We really should tax %% them all: their businesses, the Royal houses; no exceptions, or offshore bla bla. Then we can redistribute their wealth/power more socially.
EU corporate tax rules should only be a beginning.
How sad when being patriotic means you have to fight your own homeland. Sometimes there are no other options.
Here the original & complete NY times article, for those who want to read what they have written, and not what is speculated.
"If detonated, they would not damage the reactors but would create an image of shelling from the Ukrainian side,” the statement on Telegram said. It said the Ukrainian army stood “ready to act under any circumstances”.
In his nightly video message, Zelenskiy said Russia was planning to “simulate an attack” on the plant. “But in any case, the world sees – and cannot fail to see – that the only source of danger to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is Russia. And no one else.”
Zelenskiy and the Ukrainian military provided no evidence for their assertions"
Not very surprising, because their ideologies and methodology overlap. Also, most of these actors share a common enemy: democracies and maybe even just the "status quo".