I’m not 100% sure about the economics of tariffs, but my interpretation is that the US are shooting themselves in the foot more than us. And if we can project an image of a stable level-headed trading partner and create good trade relations with India, China and countries in Africa and South America that might be more valuable in the long run than our US trade relations.

Basically, if US wants to hamper their own economy, let them. Meanwhile we’ll be Open For Business™ and picking up all the good stuff they left behind.

While I do think the EU is lacking the balls to do this, there’s also some strategy to consider here. It certainly would be lovely if the EU would be more defensive, but also more damaging to the EU economy (at least in the short run, probably for a long time).

China is being painted as enemy number one, and there’s long-standing beef between the countries. Trump lost or is losing the trade war, and needs to make himself not look weak. Meanwhile China wants to project strength internally. Whatever is happening between closed doors, China has everything to gain from humiliating the US at this point. Trumps incompetence is already evident, they just need to fuel the flames.

With the EU, the situation is wildly different. EU doesn’t really want to project power, they want to project exactly as much power as is necessary not to seem weak but no more. It wants to show that it’s a level-headed free trade partner ready to take the lead in the free world, the fairest and most stable market in the world.

…that’s my take on it anyway. USE! USE! USE! USE! 🇪🇺

So based. Any chance that they’ll win?

What does unofficial recognition mean? Can a country do anything unofficially?

I guess MAGA people will see this as a win? Since imports are down 2x much as imports. If the value of the goods in these containers are roughly equal, that should mean smaller trade deficits?

This OS isn’t made by the EU, but it’s goal is to become sponsored by them:

Is EU OS a project of the European Union?

Right now, EU OS is not a project of the European Union. Instead, EU OS is a community-led Proof-of-Concept. This means it is lead by a community of volunteers and enthusisasts.

The project goal is to become a project of the European Commission in the future and use https://code.europa.eu/. For this EU OS is in touch with the public administration on member state and EU level. So far, EU OS relies on https://gitlab.com/eu-os.

Personally I don’t see why EU wouldn’t just go with Suse. It has the corporate support that I guess these government institutions crave, it’s a good system as far as I know and it’s home-grown. Ubuntu is another option, Canonical is a British company (not EU anymore but it is European).

day before yesterday, 105. yesterday 125. today 145.

so I guess 165 tomorrow?

Maybe he’s doing it to displease someone…

I think this but it’s just the people seeing his tweet immediately before he lifted the restrictions.

Market doesn’t know if the tariffs are even coming back, and are taking the chance to buy back low.

Aight so, we have two huge economic powers in the world and one that’s lesser but still very big. The two huge powers are fighting each other to the death, destroying each others economies as well as their own. Lets go EU Century? 🙏

Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna accused Hungary of siding with Russia, saying it’s “on Putin’s team” and no longer aligned with European interests.

Literally everyone knows this. Even I know this.

Tsahkna urged forming a “coalition of the willing” to bypass Hungary’s veto power in EU decisions requiring unanimity.

Sorry, is this not already happening? I thought this was definitely already being very heavily discussed.

He warned that revoking Hungary’s voting rights under Article 7 is increasingly likely, citing Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s actions as threats to EU security and unity.

This too, aren’t we like 75% there already? Genuinely asking, I don’t know, but this was my impression.

Penicillin / antibiotics comes to mind. As well as vaccines. “Oh you’re body is being taken over by millions of microscopic organisms? Take this pill and it will go away. Maybe take this shot too so it won’t happen in the first place.”

And of course computers + the internet were a pretty big boom too.

Citizenship as a Service, finally!

And also RIP Ukrainian demographics. It’s great to see Russia hurting, and they deserve their scars, but it’s gonna take a very long time for Ukraine to recover too. They’ll have EU support, but EU’s economy probably isn’t gonna be in great shape either. And you can’t buy babies.

Ericsson did it, so can’t be that much against EU law. Though maybe they can sneak around it by being huge and multinational?

Not every other country! He’s on good terms with Russia.

Actually, the peace price is decided by a committee in Norway.

TFW you pour gasoline over the fire but it just won’t go out.

ok, but what about the selling point for recruitment firms that “you don’t need to pay $190 a month to unlock Sales Navigator Advanced for each of your recruiters”? or is that perhaps a feature, sorting out the weeds who can’t afford the monthly fee?

Doesn’t sound like the purpose is to please Russia. Especially this part:

China is assessing the possibility of participating in peacekeeping forces in Ukraine, asking the EU whether its European partners support such an initiative.

Asking the EU if it would support them participating in a peacekeeping mission which Russia has been very critical of kinda seems more like they’re trying to improve relations with Europe in the wake of strong anti-US sentiments.