@ec.europe.eu Can we cheer with Spain and with the many amazing Argentinians who work and live in the EU?

European Commission@ec.europa.eu · 3w ago

Spain plays. Europe cheers. 🙌 Good luck tonight, from every corner of the EU. Vamoooos 💪 🇪🇸

In 50 years there will be a beautiful piece by @99pi.org about the most narcissistic president in the history of the US and the countless bootlickers racing to receive his praise. Going to be incredibly funny. #stayAlive

So now we all root for the Red Devils tonight? #noFootballFan #notBelgian

Anybody surprised?

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last mo.

Breaking News: President Trump called the head of FIFA days before the suspension of Folarin Balogun, the U.S.’s top goal scorer in the World Cup, was reversed. trib.al/x9mGfAs

Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office. n.pr/4aWVKvt

Ex-NOAA employees re-create a valuable climate data site shut down by Trump

Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office.

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Interesting that financially strained museums can cough up the wages for (several) people checking free-of-charge entry tickets on a free for all entry day. Not speaking of printer toner, ticket paper, and wo-man power wasted for issuing 0 Euro paper tickets in the first place.

As of date, I don't think Trump's, Putin's, or Netanjahu's political projects are going particularly well. Nor did Orban's. A sliver of hope.

Big powers are losing their wars of aggression. Putin in Ukraine, Trump in Iran - and Xi in China has certainly taken note that a Taiwan adventure might end alike. New technologies are not just changing warfare but also the balance of power between the small and the big. A better order might emerge.

It's not just the signage. What an incredible waste of money and time, all for feeding the ego of one - instead of funding artists and giving space for great art to take shape. And all the enablers happily went along. www.politico.eu/article/trum...

Trump’s name purged from Kennedy Center

The removal marks the end of the president’s longtime effort to assert control over the institution, one of Washington’s most iconic landmarks.

politico.eu

The same people crying overpopulation in their countries support incentives to force-breed more of their own in-group. #textbookSupremacy

The easiest way to flip the finger on the fossil fuel industry is to boycott. It's in our hands. Have a roof? Go solar. Go EV or better car-free. Avoid plastics, save energy. Be vocal, with family, friends, and in public. Politicians are where their constituencies are. They want to win elections.

If they have to bring in potted trees, bushes, and flowers for election campaign events in paved public squares time and again, their colorful "greening" promises might not be very credible after all.

Interesting that both Trump and Putin want Orban to win and will do anything to "help". www.politico.eu/article/oper...

Operation Save Orbán: Trump deploys Vance to Hungary

U.S. President Donald Trump gives a final heave to try and keep under-pressure Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in power.

politico.eu

NATO might be dead already, as it is based on trust, on the credible threat that all members stand up for each other when attacked. While Europe pays lip service to buy time, a new values based alliance will take shape - and the security relationship with the US could turn purely transactional.

POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 4mo ago

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said Washington may need to reconsider its relationship with NATO once the war with Iran is over. It marks a sharp escalation of pressure on European allies that America accuses of withholding support.

If for whatever reason fossil fuel supply were to stop forever tomorrow humanity would'nt cease to exist but find a non-fossil workaround. Costly. Painful. A challenge of epic dimensions. But we would figure it out, because we'd have to. Sticking to fossil fuels and the pains attached is a choice.

Is The Hague still a thing? Anyone have their number?

Easter travel tip for all people less familiar with public transport. If everyone in the isle takes off their backpack/daypack/whatever pack, double as many people fit into the bus/tram/boat. Means less frustration for others who are left out otherwise. #beKind

It's the small fish big fish game. But if these British farmers wanted to join the club again, they could also benefit from this EU-Australia deal soon. We would all happily welcome GB back in, I guess, just at eye level this time, without the rebates and opt-outs they had before leaving.

POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 4mo ago

By a former minister’s own admission, Britain’s flagship post-Brexit trade deal with Australia was a failure. The announcement this week of a free trade agreement between the EU and Australia has twisted the knife.

Then, I guess, it is time for new categories other than "women" and "men" throughout all Olympic disciplines, to be inclusive and meet the realities of the 21st century. apnews.com/article/ioc-...

Transgender women athletes banned from female Olympic events by new IOC policy

Transgender women athletes are now excluded from the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy It aligns with U.S.

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In an ideal world we wouldn't have to turn to podcasters, substackers and social media posters for information - where the burden is on each of us to decide how much we want to believe in their capability (willingness) of adhering to a journalistic process. But we don't live in an ideal world.

I do actually like how the Trump administration is making the case for everybody to focus on renewables and get them to work as the main source of energy. www.ft.com/content/6bf1...

US warns EU to pass trade deal or risk losing ‘favourable’ access to LNG

European parliament set to vote this week on whether to ratify Turnberry agreement signed last year

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So God wants us to fight against each other in this world of his creation? I thought we'd be done with religious wars, holy wars. The US seem to be in a phase Europe and the rest of the world have gone through centuries ago (with enormous suffering). www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

Hegseth Invokes Divine Purpose to Justify Military Might

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This is what “regime change” means for Trump. No freedom for the Venezuelan, no democratic vote, just leave the old dictatorial system in place with most of the same people.

Sounds like a power-drunk guy not thinking through political consequences. Easy to blow things up. And then? How will the rest of the world react, be submissive or enter a weapons race making the globe an even scarier place? Terrorist attacks? Stronger anti-US alliances of former allies? #Trumpism

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 5mo ago

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. used a submarine-launched torpedo to sink an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean — the first time an American submarine has been used to fire a torpedo against an enemy ship in combat since World War II. Follow live updates.

Turns out alpha males are not the best as political leaders. Let them play with bricks and metal rods, give them a shovel or an excavator. Just don't vote them into office.

The same can be said for any other (European) brand refocusing on ICE cars. It's a dead end. Gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/b...

U.S. Automakers Risk Being Reduced to Niche Producers of Gas Vehicles

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I am glad that gas and oil are such reliable sources of energy in Europe. Just imagine we had listened to the woke lunatics urging a shift to renewables decades ago. I'd bet, even this crisis will pass without a decisive decisions because gas and oil are billions over billions of profit for a few.

Trump says Ali Khamenei is dead and I think, well, maybe and maybe not. There was a time when I would have trusted a US president going public with such news.

The problem with acting like a weather vane is that one day the wind might turn against you, or against one of your friends. Or against Greenland. (The trumpish national security thing, you know.) What then? What then is your argument against unilaterally bombing other countries into submission?

NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com · 5mo ago

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz spoke with PM Netanyahu and expressed strong support for Israel's security, stating the regime in Tehran "ignored all calls to stop the violence and chose regional destabilization." #Iran

I am glad we the EU were able to agree on this condemning statement. Important stuff. Great wording work.

European Parliament@europarl.europa.eu · 5mo ago

The European Parliament holds Russia and its allies entirely responsible for the war in Ukraine. Today, Parliament adopted a resolution describing this war of aggression as a blatant violation of international law and the UN charter. Learn more: link.europa.eu/94gjvc