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Badeendje , vor 27 Tagen an Europe in Turkey: Brics instead of EU?

Turkiye is the proper name btw. They formally requested people start using their name correctly.

Badeendje , vor 29 Tagen an Europe in Volvo is moving EV production from China to Belgium as the EU eyes tariffs on Beijing

One of the lessons we are learning the hardest way possible is that moving all your industrial base over seas to a country with autocratic tendencies makes you dependent on them, while also removing skill and knoedge from your country resulting in long term risk and damage.

Capital moves easily, supply lines do not. The 0 covid policy showed that this dependence on only china is dangerous for companies. And since companies are generally risk averse they will start spreading across more countries.

Badeendje , vor 29 Tagen an Europe in Where did AfD voters come from, and where did they go?

I'll bet. I'm not German but I saw the maps of where the afd vote was geographically. And have some knowledge of German history so I asked the question in Ernest.

Badeendje , vor 29 Tagen an Europe in Where did AfD voters come from, and where did they go?

For east Germany it also does not help that within an hours drive you cross an arbitrary meaningless line but on the other side of it people will work for cents on the euro. So companies will not go where the higher wages are to be paid.

This also does not help the us and them rhetoric.

And yes, the left seems so hyperfocussed on migrants and citizens with a migrant background in their rhetoric that they alienate a lot of people that feel like they are not represented by that left. And this translates to.. so they are spending all the money on the brown people and nothing is left for us... While in reality everyone is fucked... Except a very small group.

Badeendje , vor 29 Tagen an Europe in Where did AfD voters come from, and where did they go?

Massive difference in perception, or actual effects for the voters. Cause they seem to be mainly situated in east Germany.

Badeendje , vor einem Monat an Europe in In the New Cold War, Europe’s Approach to China Is Already Outdated, Researchers Say

Yeah.. no. Things like the nine dash line and invasions of neighboring countries can relatively easily be objectified.. either by seeing it happen or listening to the countries actually doing it yelling at the top of their lungs that they have the right to do that stuff.

Badeendje , vor einem Monat an Europe in In the New Cold War, Europe’s Approach to China Is Already Outdated, Researchers Say

What is? Clashes (all the way up to sinking fisher vessels) within international water that china considers theirs? (The whole 9 dash line hupla).

Or the annexation of south Ossetia, Crimea and the vassalization of Belarus by russia?

Badeendje , vor einem Monat an Europe in First projections of EU Parliament election results

Afd result is mind boggling

Badeendje , vor einem Monat an Europe in First projections of EU Parliament election results

And now the right will go and ignore the migration issue (as solving it will cost them votes) and go ahead and make other shit right wing policy.

Farmers that do not grow crops for direct human consumption should not get subsidies.

Badeendje , vor einem Monat an Europe in In the New Cold War, Europe’s Approach to China Is Already Outdated, Researchers Say

Follow the TRUTH(tm) as brought to you by the Ministry of truth.

If anything, China and Russia have shown themselves untrustworthy, belligerent and dangerous to their neighbors and above all geopolitical bullies.

Maybe you should venture a little outside of the ecosystem of news sites that are all smelling each other's farts.

Badeendje , vor einem Monat an Europe in In the New Cold War, Europe’s Approach to China Is Already Outdated, Researchers Say

☝️ this post is brought to you by the Russian Ministry of Defence.

The abhorrent and disgusting amount of misinformation in this post is just mind boggling.

I just hope that our lawmakers in the EU finally act and curb the dependence on countries governed by totalitarian regimes.

Badeendje , vor einem Monat an Europe in Europe@feddit.de

I'm not allowed to vote twice.

But get to the polls people and vote. Hope we can keep Europe from completely turning into a right-wing obstructionist shit show.

Badeendje , vor einem Monat an Europe in Russia-China gas pipeline deal stalls over what Moscow says Beijing's unreasonable price demands in major blow for Putin

LoL.. everyone saw this coming. And if the deal happens and the Chinese get to price gouge the Russians, they will build massive storage and suck Russia dry for pennies on the dollar.

Badeendje , vor einem Monat an Europe in One in fifteen European companies face restructuring pressure

Not enough profitability. This whole private equity infinite growth needs to slow the fuck down.

Badeendje , vor einem Monat an Europe in Southern Germany hit by catastrophic flooding

Extreme drought makes the issue worse, when the surface is too dry it does not absorb water quickly, meaning you get more runoff. If feels counter intuitive, but it's true.

You might have noticed this when watering a completely dried out plant. The water stays on the surface of the soil longer.