I think this is what OP meant. Regulation can also come from lobbying. (I.e., it is a tool, that can be used for good and for evil.)

Yes, and Blik also has a contactless option which you can use instead of a card for in-person purchases!

Do we want tech giants, though?

You can cross-post (https://lemmy.world/post/1067695)

If people would watch more Arte and Mubi the world would be a much better place, regardless of (or, in addition to) the changes money flows and personal data usage.

About Mistral:

Critically, Mistral Compute aims to provide a competitive edge to entire industries and countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the entire Southern Hemisphere that have been waiting for an alternative to US or China-based cloud and AI providers. This applies equally to the global entities of US or Chinese companies that want to serve international customers, particularly in Europe, with AI that is operating and running regionally.

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-compute

Nope. Your feddit is not. The EU cloud services are listed here (and others) are not. Tuta is not.

I don’t think any of the alternatives listed here use AWS/Azure/GCP. I did not check the search engines, music streaming, mubi.com, and Collabora.

The only thing I found is that OnlyOffice allows to connect to GCP and AWS (you need to enable it on your own): https://helpcenter.onlyoffice.com/workspace/administration/control-panel-storage.aspx

And Mistral is available on AWS, Azure, GCP, but that’s because it is an “open-source” LLM ¯_(ツ)_/¯

It seems to be complicated (surprise, EU law is complicated). I found this article about agreements with Mercosur and Canada. In the latter case, it seems ratification is peneding - it should be ratified by all EU states. But most of the deal with Canada is in place and working, as it has been “provisionally applied”.

https://www.blg.com/en/insights/2025/06/finding-a-ratification-solution-in-the-eu-mercosur-trade-deal

From European Comission’s website

Between signing and ratifying the deal, parts of the agreement can be ‘provisionally applied’ – put into effect before ratification – if the Council decides to do so.

Provisional application usually only takes effect once the European Parliament has given its consent.

https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/eu-trade-relationships-country-and-region/making-trade-policy_en

Sources are conflicting on this one, so i throw it up. EU Made Simple agrees with you, but BBC writes that specific countries need to accept the agreement. We need an expert in EU law (and this is a very high qualification…)

The political agreement of 27 July 2025 is not legally binding. Beyond taking the immediate actions committed, the EU and the US will further negotiate, in line with their relevant internal procedures, to fully implement the political agreement.

Let’s see what happens next. The member states need to agree, right?

Oh, that’s gonna be a shitshow. I blame the “EU Made Simple” channel for saying veto is not needed. But BBC also says the approval is needed, and it just makes more sense. My knowledge in law is insufficient to confirm.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2xylk3d07o

I don’t think they can veto a trade deal

Got it. But China did it one year before the end of the term, much smarter…

Though, honestly, the numbers are sick and it is probably a BS pledge. You can find a good breakdown of the infeasibility of the energy imports here: https://archive.ph/GBv9T

An idea for 600Bn€ investment in the US: Buy back the European subsidiaries of US companies. (At a lower price if we do not buy from them or invest in them in the meanwhile)

What happens when the inevitable failure is realised? Perhaps the EU is hoping for the same outcome as China did with the first trade war with Trump in 2019.

Can somebody brief me what happened in 2019, and what was the deal with China?

How will selling to China work now? I think we had decreasing exports to China for a while now, how will that change?

I got to know about this only from this article (I send Wikipedia’s take on the info, since it is more accurate):

Since 2009, Weidel has been in a lesbian relationship with Sarah Bossard, a Sri Lankan-born film producer who was adopted as a child by a Swiss couple. Since 2019 the pair have lived with their two adopted sons in Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Weidel works in Berlin and says her official residence is in her electoral district in Überlingen, on the German side of the German-Swiss border, allowing her to avoid Swiss taxation.[100][101][102][103]

In terms of religion, Weidel identifies herself as an agnostic.[104]

She represents so well many far-right voters who simply vote against themselves, thinking that they are “special” and even if they do the same things they despise, they will be spared from the prosecution.

Great comment. We can and should criticize the actions of the Irish government, and the German, Hungarian, Polish ones, etc. But boycotting Ireland is too far of a stretch.

There is a good point related to what OP is writing: Beware of “European” sidekicks of US companies. Many subsidiaries are a good European-washing examples, though might still be better than full-US companies when no alternative is available. But labeling the whole country of Ireland as a sidekick is too much.

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