Anti-immigratie-demonstratie Den Haag escaleert, confrontatie met politie De actievoerders steken vuurwerk af en zwaaien met Nederlandse vlaggen maar ook met prinsenvlaggen.

Anti-immigration demonstration in the Netherlands escalates. This is exactly what happens when far-right ideas are tolerated and normalised over an extended period of time. The far right gains confidence and grows, both at the ballot box and in the streets.
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On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution.
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

EU fire data was updated this morning. Here's the total area burnt across the bloc this year so far. A record for this time of year. forest-fire.emergency.copernicus.eu/apps/effis.s...

Zweijähriger in Berliner Krankenhaus gestorben: Mutter und Kind auf Zebrastreifen von 84-Jährigem mit Auto angefahren Eine Mutter überquert mit ihrem Sohn im Kinderwagen auf einem Zebrastreifen in Berlin die Straße, als sie von einem Auto angefahren wird. Beide werden verletzt, das Kind überlebt den Unfall nicht.

Another dead kid in #Berlin, another car driver who killed it but will probably get away with a slap on the wrist.

www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/zweij...

How the Right Shaped the Debate Over the Sydney Sweeney Ads

Es gab gar keine „woke Empörung“ über die Sidney-Sweeney-Werbung, hat die @nytimes recherchiert – es gab nur eine Empörungskampagne rechter Accounts über eine angebliche woke Empörung, die aber gar nicht wirklich existierte. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/b...

How many people are buying Chinese EVs in your country?

Here are Chinese EVs "going out". BYD the new Global Fordism @benbraun.bsky.social

China’s investment into the “new three”—EVs, batteries, & solar—is expected to crush oil demand by 5 million barrels a day by 2030
www.ft.com/content/f867...

Grow the Economy? Not With These Immigration Restrictions The new budget law counts on better economic growth to help increase revenue, but a shrinking workforce will make that difficult.

The White House's agenda of sharply lower immigration and mass deportations is a risk to economic growth. The recent budget bill, which includes over $150 billion in immigration enforcement, bolsters those efforts. My new @opinion.bloomberg.com piece. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

a multi-panel line chart titled "Low adoption of air conditioning means Europe’s death rates climb far more steeply than America’s during periods of intense heat". The chart compares the relative increase in mortality risk at different outdoor temperatures between paired European and American cities. The general finding is that European cities (shown in red) experience a much steeper rise in death rates during high temperatures compared to American cities (shown in blue). Each mini-chart within the graphic compares a European city to a U.S. city with a similar climate profile (based on the number of days exceeding 28°C/82°F annually). The y-axis in each panel represents relative mortality risk (%), ranging from 0% to 150%. The x-axis represents temperature in degrees Celsius (with corresponding Fahrenheit values labeled in the first and last rows), ranging approximately from 0°C to 35°C. Here are some examples of each city pairing, displayed in a 3x4 grid: Athens vs Atlanta GA Athens (red) shows a sharp rise in mortality above 30°C Atlanta (blue) shows a slight rise Barcelona vs Los Angeles CA Barcelona (red) rises steeply above 30°C Los Angeles (blue) shows little change Frankfurt vs Boston MA Frankfurt (red) sharply increases above 25°C Boston (blue) stays mostly flat Lisbon vs San Jose CA Lisbon (red) increases above 25°C San Jose (blue) shows no steep rise London vs Portland OR London (red) has a strong upward curve above 25°C Portland (blue) remains steady etc. Red and blue shaded areas around the lines indicate uncertainty or confidence intervals. The red lines (Europe) almost always curve upwards more steeply than the blue lines (U.S.), especially past the 25–30°C mark. Sources: Adapted from Chen et al., 2004 Created by FT graphic designer John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) Notes that city pairings are based on similarity in days exceeding 28°C/82°F annually.

This figure from the article illustrates that the low adoption of air conditioning in European cities results in much higher heat-related mortality during extreme heatwaves compared to American cities, where air conditioning is more widespread.

Climate risks: no longer the tragedy of the horizon The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...

Influx of Chinese EVs along the lines of Japanese/Korean cars in the 80s: negligible overall GDP impact, acc to IMF calculations.

Climate change, natural disaster scenario, until 2030: -4.7% of GDP in the euro area.

Just to put that into perspective. www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/d...

"it is China that now leads the latest global technology revolution in electrification and renewable energy"

"Clean energy sectors accounted for a record 10 per cent of the country’s GDP and drove a quarter of its growth last year"

www.ft.com/content/f867...

Verfassungsschutz stuft gesamte AfD als »gesichert rechtsextremistisch« ein Monatelang arbeitete das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz an einer Neubewertung der AfD. Nun steht fest: Die Behörde hält die gesamte Partei für rechtsextrem.

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Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.

now imagine the Canadian Presidency of the EU in 2034. Personally, I am looking forward to the conference on the future of in work in Calgary.

I can't stress enough that this is decades of mutual exchange and market integration throughout North America unilaterally reversed in one fell swoop. The economic damage is large, but even if the tariffs don't last long the damage to trust is enormous and difficult to repair

NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany:

Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left.

www.ft.com/content/29fd...

Marriage Markets, Labor Markets, and Inequality

Marriage Markets, Labor Markets, and Inequality:

economics.yale.edu/news/250124/...

"Not poor, just angry."

Diese Woche habe ich mal wieder mit @tomnuttall.bsky.social vom @economist.com gesprochen, diesmal über die #AfD -Wähler*innen.

Und da Zahlen manchmal mehr sagen als Worte ist die #Forschung der @pollytix.bsky.social, nicht meine Prosa im aktuellen Heft. #Thread

“What about China?” has been a throwaway comment for years to suggest that the west shouldn’t reduce it’s carbon emissions.

Meanwhile China has become the world leader in clean energy technologies.

S01E01: D'Schwësteren Am November 2023 kommen d'Khadija an d'Imen Salmi zeréck op Lëtzebuerg. Firwat goufe si 20 Joer virdrun als kleng Kanner an Tunesien expulséiert? Recherche: Pia Oppel Host: Jean-Claude Franck Froen a...

Am November 2023 kommen d'Khadija an d'Imen Salmi zeréck op Lëtzebuerg. Firwat goufe si 20 Joer virdrun als kleng Kanner an Tunesien expulséiert?
Dorëm geet et an der 1. Staffel vun « Zeenewiessel » - den neie journalistesche Recherche-Podcast vum radio 100,7.

www.100komma7.lu/shows/210350...

4 headlines sum up our current predicament.
Climate change - more than counter measures - has huge economic and human costs. But financial and political priorities are shifting away.

How the normalisation of the radical right has fuelled their electoral success Radical-right parties made significant gains at the ballot box during 2024. Vicente Valentim argues this success owes much to the normalisation of their views. Last year was a year full of election…

💥 New: How the normalisation of the radical right has fuelled their electoral success

✍️ @valentimvicente.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

How the mainstream abandoned universal economic principles (but forgot to mention it)

How the mainstream abandoned universal economic principles
(but forgot to mention it)
branko2f7.substack.com/p/how-the-ma...

The Palisades Fire from the beach

We now tend to listen or watch content alone,

This creates a more fragmented media landscape, in which influencers can cater to individuals' niche preferences.

As I've said before, this makes it harder to do mass ideological persuasion (since anyone can opt out).

a graph of EU net vehicle exports to China, showing a deficit in EVs opening up as the surplus in ICE vehicles and Hybrids contract.

In October, the EU ran the largest vehicle trade deficit with China in the bloc's history, importing €350M more vehicles than it exported. Provisional tariffs on Chinese EVs, which have been in place since July and were extended for up to 5 years, haven't yet been able to reverse this trend.

The gig economy has entered stealth mode, and it's coming to a high street near you. My column this week: www.ft.com/content/0998...

China’s oil consumption peaked in 2023, CNPC says China's refined oil consumption peaked in 2023 at 399 million metric tons (7.98 million barrels per day) and is expected to fall 1.3% to 394 million tons in 2024, CNPC Economics & Technology Research Institute said on Friday.

This is huge: China's refined oil consumption peaked in 2023, says the research arm of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). Will decline 1.3% in 2024, despite ~4.8% GDP growth projected this year. Why? EVs! (Mostly) www.reuters.com/world/china/... 🔌💡 🔌🚗

“Depending on how you measure it, clean energy is five to 10 times more sensitive to changes in interest rates [than fossil fuels],” notes Nick Stansbury, head of climate solutions at Legal & General Investment Management.”

That’s a lot of times more interest-rate sensitive.
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This place is too cozy, so let me be a little provocative:

In the last 5 years or so, the climate movement had the opportunity to pivot away from No No No (fighting/blocking things) to Yes Yes Yes (supporting abundance, more RE, more housing, more building).

But ...