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EU lawmakers to vote on unpicking green business rules European lawmakers are expected on Thursday to back weakening a set of EU environmental and human rights rules, as part of a business-friendly push against red tape that has split parliament.

The centre-right – the EPP – in the EU Parliament is about to vote with the far-right to dismantle rules making businesses check and report their supply chains for human rights abuses or environmental destruction

They will side with deeply illiberal politicians to boost company profits

#Omnibus

Commission opens investigation into potential Digital Markets Act breach by Google in demoting media publishers\' content in search results Today, the European Commission has formally launched proceedings to assess whether Google applies fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory conditions of access to publishers\' websites on Google Search...

EU tech law - EU Commission starts investigation of Google under Digital Markets Act, for downgrading publishers in search results - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
Justice Louis Brandeis, born on this day in 1856

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In numbers: Renewables have turned Spain into one of Europe's cheapest electricity markets Wind and solar met almost half of Spain’s electricity demand in the first half of 2025 (46%), up from 27% in the same period in 2019.

Spain’s rapid deployment of wind and solar energy has slashed the influence of expensive gas and coal plants on electricity prices by 75% since 2019..... As a result, the country is now one of the cheapest electricity markets in Europe.
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Nur noch 10 min bis zur Abstimmung über das EU Klimaziel

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Can the EU's new Democracy Shield protect Europe from America? It appears MAGA has successfully intimidated the Commission into defanging its new anti-disinformation tool proposed today.

A Commission official has admitted to Euractiv that President von der Leyen's office "softened" the #DemocracyShield text published today "so as not to upset the US".

Our leaders only want to talk about Russia. When it comes to disinformation, the EU's biggest threat is the one who cannot be named.

COP30: It will take disaster in Global North to bring real climate action Extreme weather is already killing people across Global South, but fossil fuel lobby’s influence is preventing change

COP30: It will take disaster in Global North to bring real climate action

World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating The world is still on track for a catastrophic 2.6C increase in temperature as countries have not made sufficiently strong climate pledges, while emissions from fossil fuels have hit a record high, two major reports have found. Despite their promises, governments’ new emission-cutting plans submitted for the Cop30 climate talks taking place in Brazil have done little to avert dangerous global heating for the fourth consecutive year, according to the Climate Action Tracker update. Continue reading...

World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds

Lots of bad climate news these days, but hey, let us focus on the bright side!

‼️EXTRAORDINARY DAY: 30 DEGREES IN FRANCE
One of the most insane events Europe has ever lived

29.8 Trois Villes HOTTEST NOVEMBER DAY IN FRENCH HISTORY
29.3 Oloron
29.2 Lanne en Baretous
20 stations >27C !

SPAIN 29.4 Granada

Next days
THOUSANDS OF RECORDS allover Europe except Central Mediterranean

Secret EU plans to allow Big Tech to train AI with our personal data Secret EU plans to allow Big Tech to train AI with our personal data

According to leak documents, the EU is proposing changes which take aim at every element of GDPR that could limit AI usage.

‘A sigh of relief’: New malaria drug succeeds in large clinical trial As existing drugs falter because of resistance, the world gets a backup—but hard choices loom on how to use it

“This is a very important development,” says Dyann Wirth, a malaria researcher at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health who was not involved in the work. “We’ve been looking for this for a long time.”
🧪 #IDsky
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A BANKING CRISIS IN RUSSIA IS INEVITABLE

Putin prints the money and boosts inflation while the Central Bank keeps interest rates high at 16.5% to stop the inflation getting out of hand.
Yet that’s not stopping the banks increasing their interest rates for commercial loans to just a fraction under

F— disgusting

BOOM!

A huge win for people and planet.

The Danish Energy Board has revoked a permit to resume oil production, upholding a complaint by Greenpeace Nordic.

#ClimateCrisis #MakeOilHistory

Tune in 🎧 Our new limited podcast series, Burned: The Price Of Oil, pulls back the curtain on the true cost of fossil fuels & the villains blocking climate action - and how people-powered movements are forging the path for a just & equitable transition. oilchange.org/burned/

VIDEO: 🇧🇷 🌎 Indigenous protesters clash with security at COP30 summit in Brazil

Dozens of Indigenous protesters clashed with security guards at the COP30 summit in Belem, causing minor injuries in a rare incident of violence at the UN climate talks

12 November 1922 | A Pole, Tadeusz Borowski, was born. A poet, writer & journalist.

In #Auschwitz from 29 June 1943.
No. 119198
He was liberated in Dachau. A lot of his post-war literature described the horrors of the camp.

He passed away in 1951.

Given what I wrote abt what is going on in countries such as Pakistan, Iran and so on... fossil fuels are pretty much fucked and the #energytransition is very much alive and kicking.

And I am not even mentioning the behemoths that are China & India,both of which have understood the situation.

James Dyson owns more UK land than the actual KING. But he pays an effective tax rate of LESS THAN 1%* on his total wealth.

Here’s a novel idea @keirstarmer: to fund schools and hospitals, TAX THE BILLIONAIRES.

📍Station Lane, Bristol - near James Dyson’s £20m country estate Dodington Park

Python rejects $1.5M grant from U.S. govt. fearing ethical compromise The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has withdrawn its $1.5 million grant proposal to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) due to funding terms forcing a compromise on its commitment to diversit...

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Kudos to the Python Software Foundation for refusing a $1.5m NSF grant which would have forced it to compromise on its DEI commitments #wellintended #wellindented

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Timely reminders :

1. we are now closer to 2050 than we are to the year 2000. "The future is now old man !"

2. We have all the tech and all the money needed to avoid a dystopian future.

We just need politicians and business leaders to act accordingly...

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For our cover story, Mark Wilding from @libertyhq.bsky.social investigates how the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company Palantir: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...

Sorry kids, greens fantasy politics don't add up

And today it's the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all.

Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.

And every day we are growing.

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every attack is a confirmation that #greens have arrived...

Le train de nuit Paris-Berlin abandonné par la SNCF va être relancé par une coopérative belgo-néerlandaise European Sleeper compte ouvrir les réservations le 16 décembre et démarrer l’exploitation de la ligne entre les capitales française et allemande le 26 mars 2026.

Take that, SNCF! 🤣

European Sleeper to run Paris-Berlin night train from the spring of next year www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...

There are hurdles - doing it by then isn’t simple - but this can happen.

Deregulation plans break EU law, legal scholars warn Over one hundred legal experts have warned that the EU’s Omnibus I package, which cuts green and social reporting rules, breached EU law and was "likely to be annulled" if adopted.

🇪🇺 #Deregulation plans break #EU law and weaken social and environmental protections, legal scholars warn

“rolling back existing #humanrights and #environmental protections without proper justification.”

@euobserver.com @alemanno.bsky.social

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