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Domestic trade barriers are just as stifling as tariffs:
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I can give you mates rates on 3 good tickets to Beyonce's tour launch on 28 March at SoFi stadium!

Journalism at its best! Great piece, Matina + team 👏

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I'm afraid I must inform you we are discussing Canadian membership of the EU again.

NEARLY HALF OF CANADIANS SAY THEY WOULD SUPPORT JOINING THE EU.

Thanks for all these excellent ideas! Keep them coming

Myths of Europe’s overregulation Remember the good as well as the bad and the ugly

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“In fact, those who measure such things find that the EU has more streamlined regulation than the US.”

2025 Commission work programme and annexes 2025 Commission work programme

🚨HUGE: The European Commission has withdrawn the AI Liability Directive. "No foreseeable agreement - the Commission will assess whether another proposal should be tabled or another type of approach should be chosen."
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Steelers to be home team for NFL’s first regular-season game in Ireland The Rooney family that owns the Steelers has a long and deep connection to Ireland.

The Steelers will be the home team for the NFL’s first regular-season game in Dublin, Ireland during the 2025 NFL season.

The game will be played at Croke Park, the largest sporting arena in the country.

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MLex is hiring a competition reporter in Brussels

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Not just any beer, but Jupiler - the king of lager - no less. (Last time I checked at least)

The soda vending machine in Gare De Luxembourg (requires a chip ID card)

Great line, from Elif Shafak's "There are Rivers in the Sky", in light of the times we live in

The mood about European tech is gloomy. We have lost many races, and now, we're losing the AI race, too. But we want to flip that upside down, and ask: where can we win? What's out there that is promising? Where are we winning vs. the U.S. and China?

Tell me, here or at phaeck@politico.eu

We are setting three goals:

First, closing the innovation gap with our competitors.

Second, a joint roadmap for decarbonisation and competitiveness.

And third, strengthening our economic resilience and security.

Read my speech at the @europarl.europa.eu
→ europa.eu/!Dxw4Mg

Homepage - Polarise Nordic Film Nights 2025 The Brussels Nordic Film Nights celebrate Nordic cinema in all its forms! Check us out Jan 20- Feb 1st 2024!

In need of some cultural sustenance? The #Brussels Nordic film festival Polarise at Cinema Galeries featuring what looks like a great lineup of works from Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden. polarise.be

A purple graphic with the European and the text "DIGITAL SERVICES ACT" in large white letters. Below that, it reads "Countering the spread of illegal hate speech online." There are seven yellow stars arranged in a circle around the text. Each star has a symbol inside it: a bell, a padlock, a document with a magnifying glass, a checkmark, a crossed-out face, a no symbol, and an ad symbol.

Offline or online, Europe acts steadfastly against hatred.

A revised Code of conduct on countering illegal hate speech online is being integrated into the Digital Services Act.

It’ll strengthen platforms' handling of illegal hate speech and ensure effective #DSA enforcement ↓

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Europe’s Biggest Problem Is Pessimism The headwinds are surmountable, but the continent is giving up on the idea of progress.

Europe’s Biggest Problem Is Pessimism
My latest for @foreignpolicy.com

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Commission calls on Member States to review outbound investments and assess risks to economic security The Commission has today published a Recommendation calling on EU Member States to review outbound investments of their companies into non-EU countries.

The Commission is calling on Member States to review outbound investments of their companies into non-EU countries applying to three technology areas of strategic importance as well as the highest risk, #semiconductors #AI and #Quantum technologies ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
#ElonMusk #China

Majority of new company cars are 100% electric, study finds "In the case of company cars, we are at cruising speed in greening: employers are adapting their fleets in line with stricter federal regulations,"

#Belgium - 80% of new company cars were fully electric by the end of 2024. Petrol cars and their hybrid variants are in steep decline, as are #diesel vehicles, which now make up only 2.5% of new company cars www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1384... #ElectricVehicles #EVs #ActOnClimate

Magnus Franklin on LinkedIn: Europe is not a business backwater And so 2025 begins in earnest! 🎉 I’m not one for New Year’s resolutions, but I do have hopes and wishes for the year ahead. Top of my (work-related)…

Happy new year! To kick things off with a positive vibe, I share my sincere hope that in 2025, we can turn the 'Europe is on the brink of calamity' story of last year into a more positive one where we can admit that not everything is terrible all the time. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

AI: CEOs are all-in and investors are pushing to see a return on investment. Are we seeing the EU’s insistence on oversight of AI pay off as we go into 2025? Teneo’s CEO survey is hot off the press! Read more --> www.linkedin.com/posts/magnus...

Europe’s beauty and personal care industry is a powerhouse of economic activity. The beauty and personal care industry is a vital pillar of Europe’s society and economy contributing €29bn in added economic value to Europe and employing almost three million people across its value chain.

Europe’s beauty and personal care industry is a powerhouse of economic activity.

My three main recipe following rules -

1. Do the onions for at least twice as long as it says
2. Double the garlic
3. Always needs more salt than you'd think

You're with fox news now?

The mind-bending new science of measuring time In windowless labs in Colorado sit the 20 atomic clocks the world sets its watch by. They’re barely keeping up

If you're going to read one thing today, make it this piece by Oliver Roeder on measuring time. Delicious writing! www.ft.com/content/625d...

Follow the link in the post to get a high res PDF of this - the PDF is machine readable

5) Struggling to understand this process from a user point of view? It is not altogether simple. But I have a diagram for you 😉

High res versions here: jonworth.eu/blueskyverif...

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Ursula von der Leyen - now officially on Bluesky (and some lessons so you can trust what you read on that network) - Jon Worth Euroblog Back in October 2023, when Bluesky was a fledgling invite-only network, I set up the account @vonderleyen.bsky.social for a few reasons (and I wrote about the experiment then). First, it seemed like a...

Right then, DNS issues resolved!

@vonderleyen.at.ec.europa.eu now seems to work!

Welcome to Bluesky in an official capacity, President of the European Commission

This explains the background
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