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Europe was promised a new golden age of the night train. Why are we still waiting? A dose of reality from Jon Worth. Key quote: “Time for the EU to provide financial guarantees for acquisitions of new night-train carriages.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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New Chinese trade data out today for May may deepen anxiety over trade diversion in Europe. China's exports to the US down 34.52% China's exports to the EU up 12% China's exports to Germany up 21.5% China's exports to France up 24.1% China's exports to Netherlands up 7.1%

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How will you know that you are living through a Solar revolution? There will be signs… "Solar panels have become so cheap that they are being used to build garden fences in the Netherlands" I talked geo-economics of Solar Hockey Stick of Hope will post slides in this thread bsky.app/profile/madi...

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Highly useful framework to stay focused while watching American political reality failing forward

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When governments turn to retribution politics, friendly oligarchs can quickly see their fortunes evaporate. New piece w/Nikhil Kalyanpur on how the Trump/Musk tie up could end badly for the likes of Musk. Other oligarchs should think twice. wp.me/p3I2YF-eN7

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Greece, Spain are the most promising locations to let Europes energy intensive industries migrate. Abundant energy, lower labour costs. A lot of their regions are already showing strong growth in intra-EU goods exports. Germany should let some of its steel and chemical industry go there.

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@yussefr.bsky.social and i have some things to say about this here: americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/11/will... But we were too optimistic about the politics!

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

That could really fly into Orban's face in the next elections in his own country.

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Une question importante - quelle sorte de croissance, de progrès technologique voulons-nous ? www.alternatives-economiques.fr/clara-leonar...

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Serious question: how can anyone credibly argue that re-converting the Seine riverbanks into roads for cars would benefit the city? I don’t know a single Parisian who’d argue that the pedestrian zones next to the Seine have not massively improved quality of life here.

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

open corruption, as opposed to the thinly disguised corruption of personal crypto coins.

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The CHIPS Act is alive... In South Korea. As a share of GDP, their package is 22 times larger than what even Biden pledged. South Korea unveils $23 billion support package for chips amid US tariff uncertainty. www.reuters.com/technology/s...

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„Wir müssen nicht die Wirtschaft fördern, wir müssen die Produkte fördern!“ Wilhelm Wagenfeld share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe...

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Finanzierungsvorbehalt, aber als leerer Signifikant der politischen Praxis.

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“One issue is that cars foul the air regardless of the fuel they use.”

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I'm so glad this is how our society makes investment decisions

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Why did France ever bother to invest in maintaining control over Niger when Canada has “world’s largest deposits of high-grade uranium”? They even speak French! www.ft.com/content/d481...

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Wow, why do I have so many new Turkish followers suddenly?

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Turkish media, who owns what? A very useful map showing the concentration of media ownership in #Turkey, where 90% of media outlets are owned by pro-government groups (Demirören, Doğuş, Kalyon, etc) which are themselves active in the construction and energy sectors. graphcommons.com/h/mulksuzles...

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

As the US-EU trade war escalates, UNI Europa urges European institutions to undertake a comprehensive reassessment of public procurement contracts awarded to American companies — including contracts awarded to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our full statement:

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EU cohesion policy 2021-2027: European Commission suggests incentives to focus support on military mobility and industry, innovation, energy transition et al. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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First official electric power data release of 2025 is out, and US solar production continues to grow rapidly. It's up 43% from this time last year, nearing summer-2022 levels in winter of 2025

submitted 75 days ago • 27 comments

Europe is such a tough place to do business. Here we see a French Court completely devaluing a previously valuable asset into which the Russian government invested millions.

submitted 72 days ago • 51 comments

For a new project with @tiagomramalho.bsky.social (🎉) on the European Commission's expertise, I've built a #rstats script to scrape ECFIN directorate's publications: economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/publications... Could be useful to others ▶️ github.com/agoutsmedt/c... #political_economy #OpenData

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

Das ist der Trumpismus wie er sich bereits mitten in Deutschland entfaltet: Ein ruhiges Gewissen für Verbrecher, Strafverfolgung für jene, die gegen die Gewissenlosigkeit aufbegehren.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Why not for every car by standard? If there is a speed limit it is no restriction on the driver‘s well-understood freedom if the car itself keeps him from driving faster. At the same time it will prevent deaths.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Resembling more and more the managed economy of a fascist regime. Managed not through professional planning procedures but through political targets and threats.