The headline makes it sound like this is a problem in all of Europe, while the article itself is writes about how Italian journalists are likely being targeted by the Italian government. Georgia Meloni often gets a pass because she works together with other European leaders, but she is (almost) as fascist as Orbán and Vučić. Le Pen, PiS, AfD the list of like-minded politicians is long and we cannot and should not allow them to target independent journalists or abuse publicly funded media to further their anti-democratic agenda.

Cristina Caffara, an economist and antitrust expert, says the hyperscalers have responded to this movement by deploying an “army of lobbyists” in Brussels.

At the press conference, Caffara said the lobbyists are “relentlessly” targeting senior figures in Brussels to derail digital sovereignty efforts in Europe. The panellists even speculated that the EU-backed digital sovereignty initiative, Gaia-X, had been “infiltrated” by tech companies seeking to sabotage the movement by overloading it with bureaucracy.

The hyperscalers are not deaf to Europeans’ concerns. Google and Microsoft, for instance, recently issued public statements designed to allay any worries about US hostilities; providers are building strictly EU-regulated data centres across Europe; and, earlier this year, Google launched its ‘cloud data boundary’, which gives customers more control over where data is stored and processed, and a ‘user data shelf’ for validating the security of apps built via that data boundary.

However, Frank Karlitschek, the CEO of Nextcloud, which supplies customers including France’s interior ministry and Amnesty International with open-source, self-hosted collaboration software, describes such moves from the hyperscalers as “sovereignty-washing”.

“[The hyperscalers] say they have hosting centres in Europe, so it’s all fine. But the Cloud Act states that if you’re a US organisation, you follow the US law, which means you need to give US agencies access to this data,” Karlitschek said at the press conference.

Is there such demand for/from Romania or is Bucharest a good hub?

They arent protesting the tourists, but the industry. There is a lot of things wrong with the tourism industry, but a big is them buying up houses to rent out to tourists, which increases the value of houses. Youre comment is like telling many people live in houses after a protest against abusive landlords.

The EU really needs to make a decision: act like you’re the good guys while fooling no one because you are buying weapons from the bad guys or actually be the good guys and not fund genocide.

No kidding, i’ve heard ozempic has like a 3000% mark up.

Would make sense if it is bought by a non-eu company, so you could switch to a eu product but as i understand the (potential) buyer is British as well.

I have one and can recommend, have seen them on displays in touristy areas (don’t mean gift shops) for what seems the same price. Might be worthwhile to search a bit more in Budapest. Understand you prefer to buy online, but can’t help you there unfortunately.

Necessary resources*

no, only ‘if necessary’ lol

Yet to date, there has been no explanation as to who is responsible for spying on these journalists. The attacks occurred in early 2025.

AP mentions the Italian government might be behind it, they don’t offer any proof but can’t imagine they’d make such aligation without reason.

ROME (AP) — Spyware from a U.S.-backed Israeli company was used to target the phones of at least three prominent journalists in Europe, two of whom are editors at an investigative news site in Italy, according to digital researchers at Citizen Lab, citing new forensic evidence of the attacks.

The findings come amid a growing questions about what role the government of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni may have played in spying on journalists and civil society activists critical of her leadership, and raised new concerns about the potential for abuse of commercial spyware, even in democratic countries.
https://apnews.com/article/spyware-italy-paragon-meloni-pegasus-f36dd32106f44398ee24001317ccf2bb

My point exactly, yet you wrote that this text is more honest so i am not following what you were trying to say.

In the republics of Sakha and Dagestan, sewage systems are absent from as many as 41% of all school buildings; in Tyva, that is true for more than half of all schools.

A good reminder of how little Russian rulers care about the dirt poor people in their ‘colonies’.

You say while you haven’t seen his teeth, his buckwheat, his sheep or his house.

Well nato soldiers do a lot of shit, sometimes with permission of or even ordered by their superiors, there are numerous war crimes that have not been put to justice. But that doesn’t mean that it would be willing to bomb civilians as a means when it comes to a war against russia. Nato and putin adhere to very different principles, not just moral ones.

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sounds promising!

Similar is scope, but a lot more voluntary though

Maybe next time read the article instead of just looking at a image.

Police are investigating the damaging of property in Ballymena as racially-motivated hate crimes.

He might not be dumb, but he has been badly informed before. We can’t know what he thinks is true and what he thinks is not. But i agree it would be a dumb move if he went on waging war somewhere else too.

We also shouldn’t forget Russian command will be willing to do things Nato won’t, like bombing civilians or forcing people to join the army. They might for example threaten to execute a pow or retaliate by using chemical weapons. If two parties are not fighting by the same rules, it won’t be all about who has the biggest military power. I think you’re right on their losses not being sustainable, although I think they’ll be more likely to choose more desperate measures than they’d consider retreating.