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Europe needs to protect key industries from China and avoid becoming dependent on the Asian nation for rare earths and other critical raw materials, according to a French Minister for European affairs Benjamin Haddad..

With Europe under pressure on multiple fronts, including US trade tariffs and Russia’s war on Ukraine, the continent’s leaders should “give themselves the ability to defend their interests,” he said.

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France has long advocated for a robust stance toward Beijing. During a summit last month, President Emmanuel Macron called on EU counterparts to consider using the bloc’s most powerful trade tool against China if they aren’t able to find a resolution to Beijing’s export controls on critical raw materials.

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Macron said governments need to weigh using all options available, including the so-called anti-coercion instrument ... The mechanism, which has never been used, was designed primarily as a deterrent, and if needed, to respond to deliberate coercive actions from third countries that use trade measures as a means to pressure the EU or its members.

Those measures could include tariffs, new taxes on tech companies or targeted curbs on investments in the EU. They could also involve limiting access to certain parts of the common market or restricting Chinese firms from bidding for public contracts in Europe.

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While Trumpian corruption is striking in frequency, scale, and just how routine it is starting to feel, this administration was the logical endpoint of the long-standing tradition of elite impunity. The second Trump administration is a striking monument to governmental misconduct, but the ground was broken long ago, with both parties laying the foundation. For the past half century, corporate and white-collar crime have gone largely unenforced. This was the result of both a widespread shift in views of governance (à la the Reagan Revolution) and a coordinated plan orchestrated to enable private wealth to hijack our democracy, as David Sirota and Jared Jacang Maher documented in their new book “Master Plan,” building on a podcast of the same name.

Trump himself is a byproduct of the wealthy being empowered to violate the law. Seemingly his entire pre-government career was predicated on getting away with gaming bankruptcy law, committing widespread financial fraud, and racial discrimination. Now, in government, he is employing the “blitzscaling” model pioneered by firms like Uber to break the law faster than anyone can keep up with.

The Great Recession was a turning point; the extent of corporate lawbreaking in the financial sector was laid bare. And, famously, hardly anyone ever went to jail. Obama-era regulators, in many ways the acme of our last half-century of the hands-off approach to ruling-class misconduct, earned rebuke and scorn as “the chickenshit club,” afraid to square up against the powerful, if not overtly committed to serve elite interests. Since 2008, it has only become more apparent that the wealthy play by an entirely different set of rules.

suicide bomber struck outside the gates of a district court in Islamabad on Tuesday, detonating his explosives next to a police car and killing 12 people, Pakistan’s interior minister said, the latest in an uptick in violence across the country.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the midday blast, which also wounded at least 27 people, but authorities have struggled over the past months with a resurgent Pakistani Taliban, border tensions and a fragile ceasefire with neighboring Afghanistan.

Witnesses described scenes of mayhem in the immediate aftermath of the attack. The explosion, heard for miles away, came at a busy time of day when the area outside the court is typically crowded with hundreds of visitors attending court hearings.

I need to do research, I'm writing theory.

The Israeli parliament (Knesset) on Monday evening approved, in its first reading, a bill allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners. The proposal was submitted by Knesset member Limor Son Har-Melech of the far-right Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party.

The bill passed with 39 votes in favour and 16 against, and was referred to the relevant parliamentary committee for preparation before the second and third readings.

The Knesset also passed a similar parallel bill proposed by opposition member Oded Forer from the Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home) party. This proposal received 37 votes in favour and 14 against, reflecting cooperation between members of the ruling coalition and the opposition in targeting the Palestinian prisoners’ movement in Israeli jails.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52843580

UK Science Minister Lord Vallance leads UK delegation of senior figures to China, opening up science opportunities that both countries can benefit from

China is a science and tech powerhouse, spending almost £380 billion on R&D annually

National security will continue to be prioritised as part of pragmatic co-operation with China, while also unlocking opportunities to drive efforts to tackle climate change, improve healthcare, and more

UK Science Minister Lord Vallance leads UK delegation of senior figures to China, opening up science opportunities that both countries can benefit from

China is a science and tech powerhouse, spending almost £380 billion on R&D annually

National security will continue to be prioritised as part of pragmatic co-operation with China, while also unlocking opportunities to drive efforts to tackle climate change, improve healthcare, and more

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52843227

EU member states and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on an overhaul of the EU's huge farming subsidies, weakening environmental standards as part of plans to cut back regulations and paperwork for farmers.

the EU Commission had already diluted some green conditions attached to farming subsidies, and it went further in its new plans for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52843124

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52843227

EU member states and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on an overhaul of the EU's huge farming subsidies, weakening environmental standards as part of plans to cut back regulations and paperwork for farmers.

the EU Commission had already diluted some green conditions attached to farming subsidies, and it went further in its new plans for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

https://archive.is/Zhzgn

The European Commission has begun setting up a new intelligence body under president Ursula von der Leyen, in an attempt to improve the use of information gathered by national spy agencies.

In Santa Clara, Calif., where the world’s biggest supplier of artificial-intelligence chips is based, Digital Realty Trust Inc. applied in 2019 to build a data center. Roughly six years later, the development remains an empty shell awaiting full energization. Stack Infrastructure, which was acquired earlier this year by Blue Owl Capital Inc., has a nearby 48-megawatt project that’s also vacant, while the city-owned utility, Silicon Valley Power, struggles to upgrade its capacity.

I had a comically bad day yesterday, like dropping things, almost lost my keys down the drain on the sidewalk, spilled soup at the store near a makeup section, almost tore my pants, got back from the store only to find out I was out of TP, etc.

It was more funny than anything else, like so much random trivial bad luck in one day is like something out of some 90s Tom Hanks comedy.

But there was one thing that actually annoyed me - on my way back from the store on my grocery trip, my phone suddenly went from a healthy 7% to 0% and died. I was stuck with no music for the remainder of the walk back.

Soooo I was forced to listen to the sound of well - nothing at all basically.

Just birds chirping, wind blowing, leaves rustling, all as I walked the same path I walk all the time and see the same things I've seen hundreds of times, just waiting to get home.

Don't get me wrong I love where I live and everything, it's a really cool city with good pedestrian infrastructure, I almost never even get close to a car and it's not some smelly euro village either, but seeing the same things I've already seen and having no stimuli at all, it wasn't that big a deal but it was unpleasant.

That got me thinking - I sometimes see folks not wearing earphones outside, and I've heard on more than one occasion from some acquaintances that they don't listen to music outside, and I wonder - why's that?

Why would you choose to do that?

And, what do y'all like, do, exactly? How do you deal with the monotony of your grocery trips or things like that when you don't even have music on? Do you just never get bored of walking the same roads/neighborhoods w/e day after day?

Congratulations to Canadians

Children catching measles are likely to develop:

• Pneumonia
• Meningitis
• Brain damage

https://theconversation.com/measles-can-ravage-the-immune-system-and-brain-causing-long-term-damage-a-virologist-explains-252354

Danielle Smith is one of the most powerful politicians in Canada.

This is what happens when you elect stupid morons:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/danielle-smith-adolf-hitler-netflix-rachel-notley-1.6836160

so apparently you can't chat/dm in reddit if it contains URLs to chinese companies. i am aware xi and the don arent best friends and scumbag hoffmann is inhumane, but geez, banning legit company urls? how small are US dicks?

"Message failed to send because it contains a banned URL."

maybe someone else want to give a try? i asked someone for the difference between https://jlcpcb.com/ and https://www.pcbway.com/

The Free Software Foundation Europe did an update post on the current status of the legal affair.

Good read, recommend!

Here is the previous one

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The Complaint (PDF)