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The European Parliament has backed legislation to implement an EU-US trade deal, following months of uncertainty over President Donald Trump's tariff threats.

On Thursday, lawmakers moved to strengthen its safeguards, including a provision to suspend the agreement if the US imposes additional tariffs above 15% or introduces new duties on EU goods. Another would halt the deal if the US threatened the EU's territorial sovereignty.

MEPs also included a "sunrise clause" that means EU tariff reductions will only take effect if the US upholds its side of the bargain - including lowering tariffs to 15% on EU products that contain less than 50% steel and aluminium.

When the framework agreement was announced last summer, Trump said the 50% US tariff on global steel and aluminium would still apply to the EU.

[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Still hostages in Ruzzia unfortunately. Where they are exposed to Ruzz propaganda, brainwashing techniques etc . Even the few who somehow got home need deprogramming via intense therapy. They pay a heavy mental emotional toll, and it takes years.

[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Whats up with you having a new account, and so many deleted comments? I saw this question about Jury duty in ask USA and

Ar3 you posting & deleting your accounts? Has the same feel to some (clickbaity) questions previously posted. Username also has "similar" sounding name.

[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 15 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Don't fucking do it

No worries, Zelensky won't and he actually can't give up any territory. It would be unconstitutional unless there's referendum. But doing this during wartime with drones & rockets falling on your head is bit undoable.

 

KYIV, March 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. is making its offer of security guarantees for a peace deal in Ukraine conditional on Kyiv ceding all of the country's eastern region of ‌Donbas to Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Reuters in an interview. With the U.S. focused on its own conflict with Iran, President Donald Trump is applying pressure to Ukraine in an effort to bring a quick end to the four-year war triggered by Russia's 2022 invasion, Zelenskiy said.

[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 21 points 22 hours ago

Iirc, this condition was rumoured before, and was then backtracked. Seems the pressure is back or never left.

 

KYIV, March 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. is making its offer of security guarantees for a peace deal in Ukraine conditional on Kyiv ceding all of the country's eastern region of ‌Donbas to Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Reuters in an interview.

With the U.S. focused on its own conflict with Iran, President Donald Trump is applying pressure to Ukraine in an effort to bring a quick end to the four-year war triggered by Russia's 2022 invasion, Zelenskiy said.

[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Rutte cozies way too much up to Trumpler.

He does, that's actually his job. The SG is basically USA's lackey. So Rutte works for Trump. That's the problem.

 

More than 350 years after the death of legendary French musketeer d'Artagnan, his remains may well have been found under the floor of a Dutch church.

Jos Valke, who is deacon at St Peter and Paul Church in Maastricht, helped unearth the skeleton and is 99% certain that the remains belong to Charles de Batz de Castelmore, a close aide to France's Sun King Louis XIV who was known as Count d'Artagnan.

D'Artagnan was killed during the Siege of Maastricht in 1673, but later immortalised in the adventure stories of Alexandre Dumas as a friend of the Three Musketeers.

[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

Man, needed to read your comment a few times, because of my confusion with " US" and "us". Also, the French title reads funny in English too.

But yeah, got it. Hope you can get your country back one day.

[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This former SG of Nato can say what our current SG Rutte cannot.

 

(..) former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. According to NATO's ( former) Secretary General, Europe is entering a decisive strategic rupture, one that forces a long-delayed reckoning with its own dependency structures and security assumptions. The erosion of American commitment to European defence is not a hypothetical risk but an unfolding reality, exposing the fragility of a model built on external guarantees and internal complacency.

 

Russia has launched a huge wave of nearly 1,000 drones at Ukraine, killing at least seven people, as Moscow appears to be stepping up a spring offensive intended to break Ukrainian resistance along the front.

The geopolitical situation has become more complicated due to the war against Iran, and unfortunately, this is emboldening Russia.”

The well-sourced outlet Ukrainska Pravda reported that the US had put pressure on Ukraine to withdraw its troops from the Donetsk region during the Florida talks, saying Washington could step back from peace negotiations and shift its focus further to the military operation in Iran.

[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

thank the good work of the few.

Some 200 + eu privacy watchdogs ( scientists, politicians & journalists) wrote an open critical letter in response to the first proposal. Others, like Patrick Breier cs. raised awareness.Then many citizens voiced their concerns to their Members of Parliament again and again. Thankfully, the EP listened and blocked the law, as it should be. It was thus the work of the many imo, and it was the voice of the people . Happy to see it worked out.

And indeed , I also don't get the Danish PM, advocating in favour of chatcontrol was such a miss and out of touch with the wishes of the people.

[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's really weird how she talks about the housing crisis. I don't see how this attitude can be constructive or how relevant her experience is in the military with showertokens and the shacks she was staying in. A house isn't a shack except when camping or whatever.

Also the main problem was always that the Netherlands has a very high population density. Then combine this with strict environmental legislation and now the energy crises , causing all costs to rise

Another huge issue no-one is talking about, is how the area is being used. Iirc, 65% of the usable area is used for agriculture ONLY. Remember that it's the top 3 largest foodmanufacturer/ exporter in the world.

And since foodprices have only gone up, and there is more famine due to wars and climate change, nobody would benefit from less food entering the markets. Also I think these farmers are very efficient and can make good money. So why should they change that too much?

I do hope innovative and durable solutions can be found for this issue in Europe.

[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

In face of this I just posted an update on the chat control issue here.

TL;DR ; Not happening for now.

" The extension of the voluntary monitoring of private communication on the internet by online platforms in the EU has failed. Negotiators from EU states and the parliament could not agree on a compromise, as a spokeswoman for the Cypriot Council Presidency announced on Monday."

Doesn't mean it won't come back on the agenda But MEPs and a couple of memberstates have never been on board. So democracy works fyi.

Lastly, chatcontrol 1.0 was the very first iniative from years ago . Then we had 2.0 and afterwards it was again ammended to chat control vs.2.5 or something. So the post by OP must be quite old.

 

17-03-2026

"The extension of the voluntary monitoring of private communication on the internet by online platforms in the EU has failed. Negotiators from EU states and the parliament could not agree on a compromise, as a spokeswoman for the Cypriot Council Presidency announced on Monday.

note# since it seems on the agenda again and most links don't share any updates on the complicated legislation. Here's a recent & imo reliable update.

[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

We should all be realizing the nations are just tools for criminals to abuse. Maybe they never actually were for the people.

Not ALL countries and also there's ONLY one country that uses this many red baseball caps.

 

Russian intelligence operatives proposed staging an assassination attempt on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to reshape the country’s election campaign, according to The Washington Post on March 21.

The newspaper reported that the proposal appeared in an internal document from Russia’s foreign intelligence service, the SVR, which was obtained and authenticated by a European intelligence service.

 

Justice minister David van Weel has said there are strong indications that the four teenagers arrested after an arson attack on a synagogue in Rotterdam were recruited to carry out the crime, and that a possible link with Iran is also being investigated.

Context:

"Drawing on the author’s dataset of Iranian external operations, which are depicted in the Iranian External Operations interactive map and timeline, of the 218 plots in the overall dataset covering 1979 to today, 102 plots occurred in Europe. "

#Note: Am not in agreement with the current relentless bombing by US & Israel, but I won't condone terrorism by Iran either.

 

Canada is pushing for a collective G7 and Middle East approach to de-escalating the Iran war, including off ramps that could bring an end to the conflict, the Canadian foreign minister, Anita Anand, has said.

In London to meet the UK foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, after talks with the her Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, Anand told the Guardian she hoped a G7 meeting chaired by France, this year’s president of the group, might start to build a broader collective approach to the crisis.

 

A small French town has won instant internet fame because its mayor – running for re-election in Sunday's municipal elections – goes by the name of Hittler.

Not just that. One of his two opponents is called Zielinski.

#note: reallife, but a bit eurotrash story.

 

BRUSSELS, March 17 (Reuters) - European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas called on the United States and Israel ​on Tuesday to end their war with Iran and said the EU was consulting with governments in the Middle East about how ‌to bring the conflict to a conclusion(...)

"We have been consulting with regional countries like ‌the Gulf ⁠countries, Jordan, Egypt, (about) whether we could also bring forward proposals for Iran, Israel and the U.S. to get out of this situation so that everybody saves face."

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