Johannes Högl
@johoegl.bsky.social
EUrope and beyond - mostly global affairs, some diplomacy, climate, technology, cycling and almost always humans. Once again back in Vienna after Oslo, Stockholm, Brussels, Damascus, Mexico City, Granada and LA 🌍
Wildfires force more than 200,000 people in France and Spain to flee www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
Wildfires force more than 200,000 people in France and Spain to flee
Massive wildfires burned out of control in southwestern France and central Spain on Friday, prompting authorities to evacuate more than 200,000 people. French President Emmanuel Macron ordered the mil...
france24.com
Renewables are now the world's largest source of electricity – and the main source of new supplies
Update: the EU natural gas price just hit €62, surpassing the high mark reached in the first month of Trump's war.
BREAKING: Electrification Action Plan dropped. The EU just committed to doubling electrification: 46% of final energy consumption by 2040, up from 23% today, where it has sat for a decade. My rapid response analysis of the Electrification Action Plan: open.substack.com/pub/janrosen...
Nine times faster: the EU wants to double electrification by 2040
The Commission has launched its Electrification Action Plan. A 46% target and some serious policy measures.
open.substack.com
Very good article in the NYT about the global trend toward EV’s, while the US goes in the opposite direction, primarily because of Trump’s actions. For example, in Norway, 98% of new car purchases are EV’s. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/m...
The American E.V. Has Been Crushed. Will It Take the U.S. Auto Industry With It? (Gift Article)
The largest U.S. automakers have backed away from electric vehicles, even as global sales are booming. The decision may make them obsolete.
nytimes.com
The EU and Austria now officially attribute the 2020 cyberattack against the Austrian MFA to Russia. The goal of the operation was to gather information related in particular to Ukraine and Russia. The Russian embassy in Vienna denies the allegations, just as it did in 2020.
The Houthis’ entry into the war renews the threat to another vital shipping lane: the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, at the entrance to the Red Sea and the Suez Canal.
The Houthis Have Joined the Chat
Iran’s break-the-glass plan to strangle another key waterway may now be active.
foreignpolicy.com
New York to impose the country’s first statewide moratorium on data centers.
New York to impose the country’s first statewide moratorium on data centers
The order will pause state permitting for new large data centers and direct state regulators to create standards that address environmental impacts, energy demand, water usage and other factors, the g...
nbcnews.com
Marco Rubio: "Using all the tools at our government’s disposal, working beside every ally with whom we can make common cause, we will dismantle the ICC — brick by brick, if necessary."
Trump Administration Announces New Attack on the International Criminal Court
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the United States will “dismantle” the international court that tries grave crimes “brick by brick, if necessary.”
nytimes.com
Football is now a global sport. Its governing body, FIFA, has more members than the United Nations. Where is its current home? Explore our charts and maps to find out bit.ly/4aK3Szr
“If we want to think in any kind of consequential way about the present and the future, we have no choice but to take Musk seriously—if not as a man, then as a manifestation of a cultural-political malaise.” —@mrkocnnll.bsky.social
Space Oddity | Mark O’Connell
Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism examines how Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, by selling a vision of the future that very few people would want to inhabit.
nybooks.com
Until the middle of the 20th century, few countries had political leaders that were women. These were monarchs, who rose to their positions because of their royal lineage.
“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com
Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war
economist.com
Excess deaths in the June heat wave in Germany: about 7.000 in one week. www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Ge...
The most talked-about member of Syria’s new parliament may be actress Rouzaina Lazkani. But her appointment is also a window into a deeper story: how Syria’s emerging political system is being built through overlapping patronage, business and social networks.
Syria’s New Parliament of Networks
The biographies of those sitting in the People’s Assembly show that it is neither monolithic nor strictly factional, but simply the revolution's memory, given a political afterlife
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The latest cases of Russian disinformation targeting German parties except the far right. Each individual attack could be dismissed as insignificant, but the combined and cumulative effects of this continuous political warfare on Western democracy should not be underestimated.
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4w agoRussia's latest batch of fake news posts targets parties in Germany from the far-left to centre-right, but stopping short of the far right, for obvious reasons. Note the very similar numbers of replies, views, and reposts, signs of bot networks boosting the post, but little to none real engagement.
Norwegian striker Erling Haaland isn’t just a footballer anymore. He’s become an internet character perpetuated by fans and AI. www.wired.com/story/erling...
Erling Haaland Is Everywhere at the World Cup. Most of It Is AI
Norwegian striker Erling Haaland isn’t just a footballer anymore. He’s become an internet character perpetuated by fans and AI.
wired.com
CHILD’S PLAY: I found the perfect way to make an iPhone child-friendly, one that completely blocks web browsing but allows tracking and navigation. It’s not a paid-for 3rd party app, it’s completely free. Why is Apple not highlighting this great feature more? @wired.com www.wired.com/story/this-b...
This Buried Apple Feature Turns an iPhone Into the Perfect Kids’ Dumb Phone
Apple built a tool for people with cognitive disabilities, but I accidentally discovered it’s also the best kids’ phone setup no one is talking about—not even Apple.
wired.com
They were actually serious with this picture, weren’t they? It said: England, we are coming for you.
‘Ukraine is striking Russian energy infrastructure at an unprecedented rate, according to an FT data analysis showing that Kyiv’s intensified drone campaign is spurring Russia’s worst fuel crisis in decades.’ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Ukraine striking Russian energy infrastructure at unprecedented rate
Kyiv’s intensified drone campaign is spurring Russia’s worst fuel crisis in decades
giftarticle.ft.com
I honour of @erlinghaaland let me reshare this reminder that the Norwegian flag is the Swiss Army knife of flags: It contains six other flags!
Latest in @theatlantic.com . Ukrainians are striking sites around Moscow. They are having strategic and economic impact, but their real target might be Putin. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Ukraine’s Plan to Unnerve Putin
Recent drone attacks in the Moscow area reveal a multifaceted strategy.
theatlantic.com
"Crazy Beautiful!" 5,234 images from 2 time-lapse sequences photographed by Sophie Adenot & Jessica Meir on ISS Expedition 74 are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this video of aurora australis with music by Andreas Vollenweider. 11m19s 4K youtu.be/22mTjdmpG1M
(1/3) CATL bringt mit dem Tener Sodium einen Natrium-Großspeicher, der auf einen Cent je Kilowattstunde zusteuert. Der Rohstoff: Kochsalz, praktisch unbegrenzt verfügbar. So fällt der Speicherpreis genau dann, wenn die Energiewende ihn am dringendsten braucht.
CATL Tener Sodium: Was der Natrium-Speicher verrät
Mit dem Tener Sodium bringt CATL einen Natrium-Großspeicher für rund einen Cent je Kilowattstunde. Das verschiebt den Markt.
cleanthinking.de