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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
While Merz, Reiche et all blame European regulation and German laziness for the country's economic woes, the primary driver -- unfair competition from China -- is largely ignored. German paralysis/inertia/fear in relation to China has become a problem for all of Europe👇
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Germany is the epicentre of the China Shock 2.0 reverberating in global markets In a new joint paper, CFR's Brad Setser and I show the shock is a key driver of Germany’s economic malaise. And it's accelerating Berlin needs to stop admiring the problem, and join efforts to fight back 1/many
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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 29/04/2026
“Deregulating Better Regulation” Read my preliminary analysis of the 2026 Better Regulation Communication laying down how the EU intends to design, implement and enforce EU law from now onwards verfassungsblog.de/deregulating...
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Deregulating Better Regulation
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 17/12/2025
😂This is laughable considering it is the *entire* delegation of @ecrgroup.bsky.social in #EUCO (De Wever & Meloni) who are blocking the Russian asset loan to 🇺🇦(perhaps, many think, at 🇺🇸command). ECR is finding it hard to square their devotion to Trump with their anti-Russian rhetoric.
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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
💔How are the devastating floods in Asia linked to gold mines, hydropower plants and palm oil plantations invading Indonesian forests? Walhi/Friends of the Earth Indonesia explains: www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
rfi.fr
How deforestation turbocharged Indonesia's deadly floods
The deadly flooding that has killed hundreds in Indonesia was largely the result of monsoon rains and a rare tropical storm. But something else may have played a role: deforestation.
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 27/11/2025
The EU's ethics watchdog just ruled that 🇪🇺President von der Leyen's use of 'omnibus' packages to implement 🇺🇸President Trump's EU policy wishlist violates fundamental principles of good administration, including transparent, inclusive, and evidence-based law making.
ombudsman.europa.eu
Ombudsman finds maladministration in how Commission prepared urgent legislative proposals
The proposals concerned corporate sustainability due diligence (Omnibus I), the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and countering migrant smuggling.
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Anna Cavazzini @annacavazzini.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Ich lege das mal nebeneinander: - Trumps Minister Lutnick fordert in Brüssel weniger EU-Digitalregeln im Gegenzug für niedrigere US-Zölle auf Stahl - Katherina Reiche fordert nach dem Treffen mit US-Vertretern weniger EU-Regeln im Tech-Bereich Wieso macht sie Trumps Job? www.rnd.de/wirtschaft/n...
rnd.de
Nach US-Treffen: Reiche dringt auf weniger EU-Tech-Regeln
Bundeswirtschaftsministerin Reiche wirbt für weniger EU-Regeln im Tech-Bereich. Vor allem KI solle stärker in der deutschen Wirtschaft eingesetzt werden. In Brüssel will die Bundesregierung für Locker...
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Thu Nguyen @onethuthree.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
5/ Even more, history shows that normalizing far-right forces only strengthens them. In cooperating with them, the EPP is corroding the very values and principles – democracy, rule of law, climate responsibility – that have long underpinned the EU.
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 13/11/2025
Today, 🇪🇺President von der Leyen's centre-right EPP group will ally with the far right in order to pass the 1st of her deregulation packages in the EU parliament. A Commission official said these #Omnibus proposals are being sold as "concessions" to Trump.
open.substack.com
Von der Leyen prepares cooperation with far right to implement Trump's deregulation demands
The cordón sanitaire in the EU Parliament has been broken. Next week, the centre right may team up with the far right to rip up EU climate laws. Next on the chopping block: EU digital rules.
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Anna Cavazzini @annacavazzini.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
‼️ Spannende neue Umfrage aus Sachsen zeigt: 👉 61 % der Jugendlichen interessieren sich für Klima & Umwelt 👉 60 % wollen klimafreundlicher leben 👉 43 % finden: Die Landesregierung tut zu wenig.
Screenshot von einem Artikel auf Sächsische.de
Headline ist: Gespräch mit EU-Abgeordneter Anna Cavazzini - 
Privatjet-Verbot für Superreiche? Was Jugendliche in Sachsen über Klimaschutz denken
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Marianne Gros @mariannegros.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
"Ce n'est pas la fatalité mais le miroir d'une société qui a cessé de lui offrir un avenir." A Bruxelles, des jeunes de 18 à peine s'entretue pour quelques milliers d'€ Cet article de Julien Balboni, à lire absolument: www.lecho.be/economie-pol...
lecho.be
"Tout le monde met des primes sur tout le monde": à Bruxelles, le quotidien des gamins tireurs
Alors que, depuis le 1ᵉʳ janvier à Bruxelles, 80 fusillades ont fait sept morts et 38 blessés, dans les rues de la capitale, des jeunes de 18 ans sont payés quelques milliers d'euros pour aller tuer d...
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Tobias Gehrke @tobiasgehrke.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The irony is that Beijing does not allow any foreign inverter suppliers in its energy grid for cybersecurity reasons. But Chinese firms happily undercut European competitors and now supply and control some 80% of inverters in Europe. Disaster in the making... www.politico.eu/article/euro...
politico.eu
Huawei’s solar tech sparks fears of Europe’s next dependency crisis
Cyber officials fear the Chinese tech giant’s grip on energy networks.
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Anna Cavazzini @annacavazzini.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Merz findet, das EU-Lieferkettengesetz sei am Schwächeln der Wirtschaft schuld, obwohl es noch nicht in Kraft ist? 🧐 Schauen wir auf reale Probleme: ⚠️ 84% der Unternehmen sind durch Infrastrukturmängel beeinträchtigt. Wo bleibt Merz?
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Marode Infrastruktur bremst Wirtschaft stärker denn je - Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW)
84 Prozent der deutschen Unternehmen sehen in der schlechten Verkehrsinfrastruktur eine wirtschaftliche Belastung, zeigt eine neue Studie des Instituts der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW). Mittel aus dem So...
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Anna Cavazzini @annacavazzini.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Auf seiner #EUCO -Packliste hat Merz wohl die Diplomatie vergessen. Wer in Brüssel nur irritiert, blamiert nicht nur sich selbst, sondern schadet auch Deutschlands Ansehen auf der internationalen Bühne. 😔
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Anna Cavazzini @annacavazzini.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Gesetze wie das Lieferkettengesetz abzuschaffen, werden die strukturellen Probleme der deutschen Wirtschaft nicht lösen. Was hilft: - ein starker Binnenmarkt - niedrige Energiepreise - keine dummen Zollkriege - EU-Industriepolitik Guter Kommentar in der @szde.bsky.social ⬇️
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Der Bürokratieabbau allein wird Europas Wirtschaft nichts nützen
EU-Kommissionspräsidentin von der Leyen beginnt mit dem Bürokratieabbau, dem Bundeskanzler geht das nicht weit genug. Beide wecken falsche Erwartungen.
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Anna Cavazzini @annacavazzini.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🚨"Alle Bereiche blinken rot", alarmieren Wissenschaftler*innen vor der Weltklimakonferenz - die Welt hinkt beim Klimaschutz hinterher. Habe nur ich das Gefühl, dass die Kluft zwischen den immer neuen aufrüttelnden Studien und dem Verhalten von Merz, Reiche, Weber und Co. immer größer wird?
tagesschau.de
Studie: Welt hinkt beim Klimaschutz hinterher
Die Welt kommt beim Klimaschutz nicht genug voran - das ist das Fazit einer neuen Studie. Kein Bereich sei derzeit auf Kurs, um die Pariser Klimaziele zu erreichen. Unterdessen bereiten sich die Staat...
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
German auto summit tomorrow. The sole focus on the EU combustion engine phase-out, which is 10 years away, is baffling because German cars have a demand problem today Berlin worries a new EV subsidy scheme would be fiscally too expensive. But demand-side support is a fiscal no-brainer here. 1/
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 05/09/2025
Almost 3 years after its first public event, MCC Brussels has now FINALLY disclosed budget size & income sources in the EU Transparency Register With a 2024 budget of over 6,3 million euro, Orbán-linked MCC Brussels is one of the wealthiest thinktanks in Brussels 😟 www.politico.eu/article/vikt...
politico.eu
Orbán’s favorite Brussels think tank received millions from Budapest, new figures reveal
MCC Brussels has received more than €6 million in funding to influence debate on public policy.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people.
etsc.eu
ETSC: Mutual recognition deal with U.S. will cost lives on Europe’s roads
By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the United States, the European Union has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice…
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Luise Quaritsch @luisequaritsch.eurosky.social · 17/07/2025
The European Commission is postponing publishing its decision on whether X has breached the DSA until trade negotiations with the US are finalised, the Financial Times reports today. www.ft.com/content/8f38...
ft.com
Brussels stalls probe into Elon Musk’s X amid US trade talks
EU was expected to finalise its investigation before the bloc’s summer recess but will now miss this deadline
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Last I checked, the EU was highly regulated a decade ago too, when German automakers were dominant. Last I checked, Chinas car sector gained global prominence thanks to a web of tariffs, subsidies, forced tech transfer and gov innovation support. How’s EU regulation to blame?
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Anna Cavazzini @annacavazzini.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
In Italien schmelzen die Straßen. In Tschechien sterben tonnenweise Fische. In der Türkei werden Städte evakuiert. Menschen kommen ums Leben. Hat die Union die Augen zu oder wie geht dieses "Klimaschutz mit Augenmaß"?
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
A coordinated raid by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Athens, Madrid, Paris and Sofia has uncovered a €700 million scheme of criminal networks flooding the EU with goods fraudulently imported from China, while evading custom duties and VAT www.eppo.europa.eu/en/media/new...
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Investigation ‘Calypso’: EPPO strikes criminal networks flooding EU with fraudulent Chinese imports | European Public Prosecutor’s Office
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lucilefalg.bsky.social @lucilefalg.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Meanwhile in France...
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Anna Cavazzini @annacavazzini.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
💪🏻 554 votes in favor! Yesterday, we finally took the last step in the EU's ECT journey. With the inter-se agreement, fossil fuel investors will lose a major tool in their arsenal to threaten the EU and Member States taking climate measures affecting their energy investments.
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Mepassistant (Quentin) @mepassistant.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Omnibus: Noun. Law that appears when legislators let their intrusive thoughts win. See "deregulation".
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Ben Barclay @benbarclay.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
As well as the title of the article, it says: “But mining for nickel - an ingredient in electric vehicle batteries and in stainless steel” You might think that EV batteries were the main source of demand. In fact, stainless steel is responsible for 2/3 of nickel demand. Batteries? Less than 5%.
bbc.com
How a race for electric vehicles threatens a marine paradise
Photographs appear to show how nickel mining damaged one the world's most diverse marine environments
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Nils Redeker @nilsredeker.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Not a helpful debate. If the EU is serious about clean industrial strategy, all tools need to be on the table. Instead of clutching its pearls over production aid or Buy EU rules, the EU needs a sector-by-sector discussion on where and how they could be useful. on.ft.com/4k7mefL
on.ft.com
Brussels split over state aid for clean tech production
Competition commissioner digs heels on allowing governments to subsidise green industry’s operating costs
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Anna Cavazzini @annacavazzini.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
"DE ist Europas Schlüsselstandort für grüne Technologien. Aktuelle Debatten verharren in antiökologischer Rhetorik & Forderungen nach Deregulierung. Eine Regierung, die verspricht Wettbewerbsfähigkeit zu stärken, riskiert so einen zentralen Sektor zu vernachlässigen." 👏🏻 @sandertordoir.bsky.social
zeit.de
Klimatechnologien: Deutschland muss grünes Wachstum schaffen
Deutschland ist führend bei grünen Technologien. Doch die schwarz-rote Regierung riskiert mit ihrer antiökologischen Rhetorik, diese Zukunft zu verspielen.
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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
One of the coolest features of the Agami Heron is its gorgeous, flowing crest that flutters as it poses and preens. But I've never seen it up close before with the details and textures. #CostaRica #herons #nature #birds
A tall, elegant bird with a long, pointed bill stands among lush green foliage. Its pale blue head feathers drape down its neck like streamers, and its chest displays a striking pattern of fine, dark lines over a white base.
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
"Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” has $185bn for ICE, which is more than the annual military budgets of the UK and France combined. Wherever ICE raids trigger protests, Trump can send in the troops." My column. www.ft.com/content/3d6c...
ft.com
Trump is coming for the ‘enemy within’
Sending the National Guard into LA is the administration’s clearest step yet towards authoritarianism
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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 06/06/2025
Why does Maga world hate Europe? ⁦‪Guy Chazan brilliantly unpacks the ideological war the current US administration is waging against the EU, but what drives that impulse is the EU being THE only counterpower that stands in the way of #MAGA www.ft.com/content/45d3...
ft.com
Why does Maga world hate Europe?
Donald Trump’s team is taking its US culture war across the Atlantic with implications for the western alliance
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Tom Phillips @tomphillips.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
“To mark the anniversary of the killings of Dom & Bruno, the Guardian – which is today launching a major investigative podcast series about the men called Missing in the Amazon – joined a gruelling week-long expedition in the rainforest” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
theguardian.com
‘This is my mission, my destiny’: a treacherous Amazon journey in the footsteps of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
Three years after the deaths of the British journalist and Brazilian activist, the Guardian joined the Indigenous peoples continuing their dangerous and often gruelling work to protect the rainforest
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lucilefalg.bsky.social @lucilefalg.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Do Patients Without a Terminal Illness Have the Right to Die? Long read www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/m...
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Do Patients Without a Terminal Illness Have the Right to Die?
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
“One of our very good friends – he now does not have the emotional courage to hang up a sheet to collect moths at night It is too devastating to see how few there are” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
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Dr. Serge Zaka @sergezaka.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Ce 30 mai 2025 a réécrit l'Histoire de l'a climatologie du sud-ouest de la France avec 137 records mensuel battus et 22 égalés. ➡️Jusqu'à 36.4°C dans les Landes et en Gironde. ➡️Près de 35°C à Toulouse, 40°C en Espagne. En 2025, des centaines de records de chaleur ont été battu. Presqu'aucun de froid.
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Anna Cavazzini @annacavazzini.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Für die einen ist es „Bürokratie“. Für die anderen ist das Gesetz für entwaldungsfreie Lieferketten der Hebel, um dieser Katastrophe etwas entgegen zu setzen. www.wri.org/news/release... @worldresources.bsky.social @tagesschau.bsky.social
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Fires drove record loss of world’s forests last year, ‘frightening’ data shows Burning, worsened by the #climatecrisis, overtook farming and logging as biggest cause of destruction of tropical forests Story by @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Fires drove record loss of world’s forests last year, ‘frightening’ data shows
Burning, worsened by global heating, overtook farming and logging as biggest cause of destruction of tropical forests
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I can’t help but scratch my head at the anti-green, deregulation rhetoric currently circulating in Germany. Rationalising regulations, like supply chain reporting, makes sense — but halting investments is self-defeating for the West’s key clean tech hub. Let's review a few facts. 1/4
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Anna Cavazzini @annacavazzini.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Trump hat es deshalb so stark auf die EU abgesehen, weil wir ihm im Weg stehen, bei seinem Ziel des globalen autoritären Umbaus. Die EU ist DIE Zielscheibe. Umso mehr müssen wir unsere Werte und Tech-Regulierung gegen seine Attacken verteidigen!
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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olivier_rbxl @olivier-rbxl.eurosky.social · 27/03/2025
So tired of this !!! Air quality is so shit in Brussels We need to step up our ambition and actual means drastically to achieve rapid progress !
Screenshot bad air quality in Brussels
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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
International social democracy is in systemic competition with oligarchic nationalism.
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
All eyes are on Tariff Man, but Germany’s China problem isn’t going away. China has built twice its domestic demand in car production capacity—50 million vehicles a year but sells only 25 million at home and exports just 6 million (imports stuck at 1M) The EU market? Only 10 million. 1/2
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Roderick Kefferpütz @rkefferputz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
🚨 Easing the German debt brake for defence and the €500bn infrastructure package is a major move for Berlin. It’s important and necessary. So why are the Greens playing hardball on this? Amidst the big spending euphoria, let’s check the details. The devil is in them. 🧵
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Marine Tondelier @marinetondelier.fr · 25/02/2025
Le pacifisme est notre ADN, mais quand la Russie envahit l'Ukraine et réclame 25% de son territoire, on ne peut pas dire "prenez ce que vous voulez, on gardera ce qui reste". Mais on ne fait pas la guerre qu'avec des armes. On doit arrêter d'acheter en masse le gaz naturel liquéfié de Poutine.
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SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations @somoamsterdam.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Companies say CSDDD is a financial burden... 

is it really? 🧐 We analysed 900+ CSDDD companies and found:

 📈 soaring profits 
📈 booming shareholder payouts 

Implementing CSDDD would only cost these companies 0.13% of what they paid shareholders in 2023.

 Read more ➡️ bitl.to/42Tt
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Alexandra Geese @alexandrageese.eurosky.social · 24/02/2025
The US blackmailing Europe: particularly revealing the section on „freedom of speech“. While X suppressed Green and socialdemocratic accounts in the German elections, the US claims that any attempt to create a level playing field for all political opinions will be countered with trade sanctions.
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