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

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...

Could you please explain why?

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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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"?

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...

Meanwhile in France...

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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.

Congrats <3

Omnibus: Noun. Law that appears when legislators let their intrusive thoughts win. See "deregulation".

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

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%.

Brussels split over state aid for clean tech production Competition commissioner digs heels on allowing governments to subsidise green industry’s operating costs

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

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.

"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." 👏🏻
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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.

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

Trump is coming for the ‘enemy within’ Sending the National Guard into LA is the administration’s clearest step yet towards authoritarianism

"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...

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

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...

‘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

“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...

Do Patients Without a Terminal Illness Have the Right to Die?

Do Patients Without a Terminal Illness Have the Right to Die? Long read www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/m...

‘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

“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/...

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.

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...
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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

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/...

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.

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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!

we do

Maybe stop destroying sustainability legislation with your "simplification" drive?

Do you have sources?