CAVOK

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[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I mean, sure. No checks needed before.

 

Ursula von der Leyen had hoped to sign the agreement in Brazil this week.

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The will of the Russian people.

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Sadly there was no way...

 

Annual amount is almost twice that paid before Brexit.

Paywall? https://archive.is/w4WkC

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago (5 children)

They're going to use AI to identify and block ads for me, right? Or let me set a cookie preference and automatically apply that to every page I visit?

That would be rather useful things to have AI for IMHO.

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Not everything is unified sadly. I read somewhere that when it comes to services, the different rules within the EU is effectively a 40% tariff between EU countries.

There is much to be done, if only people could set aside national interests and understand that it's EU27 vs World and not Finland vs Italy or Greece vs Luxembourg.

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think it's the latter. Right now the EU doesn't have the capability to provide the level of intelligence that Ukraine needs to effectively fight back, so the EU is very careful not to upset the orange one right now. Most other things we can manage, but not that. Having the US help, even if it's a reluctant help, is good for both the EU and Ukraine.

 

Following the souring in EU-US relations, more and more European politicians have concluded that Europe needs to regain its independence from the US. In this video, we're giving von der Leyen a hand and suggest what the EU could do to decouple from the US.

If you want to avoid YouTube: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=alAP1rRgjYQ

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Very true on the outside pressure, especially now. On the point of tech giants I kind of agree but not quite, we should try to build our own, industry up, but regulate them to prevent the dominance of the big three US cloud providers for example. The problem here is that tech scales very well, so the bigger you are the better your services.

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (6 children)

The UK needs to realise that brexit really was a bad idea and they only can stand up to the US as part of the EU.

The UK is a big economy and is still being kicked around. My country would be absolutely curb-stomped if outside the EU.

 

Washington pushes for concessions from London on the broader trade relationship.

Paywall? https://archive.is/HlAbc

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Most, if not all, that I post have an archive link if there's a paywall.

Good that you got to read the article at least. 😀

 

Carmakers will be allowed to make a limited number of petrol and diesel-fuelled cars after deadline

Paywall? https://archive.is/xuuiW

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Not sure why this is so downvoted. It's not a bad article.

 

Once a model for the world, the EU’s rulemaking machine has faltered under the weight of its own ambition.

Paywall? https://archive.is/CmWdg

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

The economy adapts to the supply of workers, and as the UK found out after brexit, if you restrict the supply of workers the work generally goes away.

They had produce rotting in the fields because they couldn't find workers and the locals weren't interested in that kind of work. Raising salaries wasn't an option because consumers weren't interested in paying more. Economics is fun, isn't it?

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